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We netflix'd Phantom of the Opera for amusement value, and watched it last night. Swooping cloaks! Melodrama! Candles lighting as they come out of the lake! More melodrama! Too much exposition! As you can imagine, it was ... pretty ridiculous.

Anyway, this means a) that I'm rereading Maskerade and b) that I've had ALW songs stuck in my head all day. Yeuch. Especially "Stranger Than You Dreamt It." But I've connected it mentally with one of the Tom Lehrer educational kids songs, so that in my head the dramatic revelation goes something like this:

Tenor, slow:

Stranger than you dreamt it,
can you even dare to look or bear to think of me?
This loathsome gargoyle, who
burns in hell, but secretly yearns for heaven,
secretly... secretly...

Tom Lehrer, uptempo with more fiddle and WAY more fun:

secret- L! Y!
You enter a very dark room
and sitting there in the gloom
is Dracula! Now how do you say goodbye?
Immediately... immediately ... immediate- L! Y!

You should sing along! It's great fun. Imagine poor Christine's reaction as you do. There she is, sitting by the underground lake with the Phantom's mask in her hand, and off he goes on the subject of ... adverbs.

Also, I was proud of myself, because I kept thinking that wosshername, the prima donna, La Carlotta, looked familiar, and finally I turned to

m_shell and said "doesn't she look like Minnie Driver?" And then it turned out she was Minnie Driver, with ridiculous wigs and someone else doing the singing, so go me. (

m_shell said "I was thinking she looked like a drag queen...")

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*falls over laughing*

Also, we should add each other as Netflix friends. Mmmhmm, mmmhmm. *nod*

I remember the L Y song from the Electric Company 30 years ago, and at times the teeniest fragments have run through my head, but I never had any inkling it was written by Tom Lehrer. And now I've Googled it and I can sing it and you've made my day. Thanks!

No problem! It's on the giant collection of All The Tom Lehrer Ever (which is called The Remains of Tom Lehrer) along with some other EC songs. It includes "Silent E," "O-U (The Hound Song)," and "S-N (Snore, Sniff, and Sneeze)."