525,600 minutes

I've always been a bit of a math geek. One of my high school cheers was "secant, tangent, cosine, sine, 3.14159." Seriously. I kid you not. It probably doesn't surprise anyone reading this that we really sucked at sports except for tennis and cross-country. It was a boarding school for geeks, what can I say?

How could I not fall in love with a song I like to call 525, 600 minutes (but the real name is Seasons of Love)? I used to train call center agents and managers who had to think in terms of minutes in a day. I'd drill them on obscure settings in the system.

Quick...how many minutes in a day? 1440. Two days? 2880. One year? See why I'm unemployed? That's where the fabulous number 525,600 comes into play.

That song gets stuck in my head on an incredibly regular basis. In fact, I'm singing it right now. Off-key as usual.

You know I love musicals or I wouldn't be calling myself Millie here. That is one of my fave musicals of all times but probably not my all time tops. That's got to go to Rent (it maybe t tie with Chicago but that's for another post).

I love the music, the story, the fact it's based on La Boheme, the backstory about the writer/director, the whole package. I didn't get to see the original cast on Broadway and that's one of my big regrets but I'll be able to see most of them on 11.11.05 when the movie opens.

Check out the trailer at http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/rent/index.html. It looks awesome. You can even hear my signature song if you watch the trailer.

I'm so glad that most of the original cast are reprising their roles. It doesn't hurt that a few of them have big names now. (Can you say Jesse Martin and Taye Digs?) They're filming now in my town and I'm hoping to see a tiny part of it.

They even have their own blog and a counter to count down the minutes.

C'mon, sing along with me (and Idina, Jesse and Taye):

525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In 525,600 minutes - how do you
measure a year in the life? How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love. Seasons of love.

525,600 minutes! 525,000 journeys to plan. 525,600 minutes - how can you measure the life of a woman or man?

In truths that she learned, or in times that he cried. In bridges he burned, or
the way that she died.

It’s time now to sing out, tho the story never ends let's celebrate remember a year in the life of friends. Remember the love! Remember the love! Remember
the love! Measure in love. Seasons of love! Seasons of love.

Comments

[susie]

I love RENT too! I'm looking forward to the movie!

[InSpring]

Ugh math, yuck. Numbers, double yuck, but very glad that there exists a wonderful woman aka Millie who defies the sterotypical woman and loves both math and numbers and I hope you enjoy many seasons of love.

[chris]

This reminds me of the Seinfeld episode I saw last night on TBS where George can't get a showtune out of his head.

At least you weren't singing "Rock Me Amadeus" all day long. That's what I get for telling people I'm the president of the Falco can club.

And Millie? I thought that was your name.

I'm seem to be babbling. Must get some sleep . . .

Take care.

[elana]

that song gets stuck in my head all the time and i sing it so terribly that my husband asks me to stop. and by ask i mean beg!

i was lucky enough to see most of the original cast...amazing.

[Katie]

I too am looking forward to the movie, I haven't seen the trailer yet, so I'm gonna check it out.

I do love that song, although with IF, thinking about time in seconds is dangerous for me.

[alicea]

i love the movie rent i memorized alll the songs and i cant get enogh of it i wanted 2 c it in play form but they dont give it any more i hope that they can start again any way I LOVE RENT