Pandora is stalking my life.

My roommate Callie and I use the occasional morning before work to pretend we're Broadway starlets-- singing (and sometimes acting out?) various show tunes. Her VERY favorite to perform is "I'll Cover You" from RENT (definitely my least favorite from the entire RENT offertory, however, I've agreed to indulge her in this song as long as I get to play Mark during "La Vie Boheme"-- TO ABSOLUT, TO CHOICE, TO THE VILLAGE VOICE -- I digress).

I spend a considerable time at work creating and crafting the perfect Pandora stations, and my latest masterpiece is a little something I like to call "Theatricality" (taken from the title of a Glee episode), which is a wonderful mixture of Broadway tunes, Glee songs, and classic Disney music. Pandora has this new nifty pop-up that tells you when your friends like the same stuff you're listening to. FIRST element in this unsolved mystery: I haven't linked my Facebook and Pandora, so HOW do they know who I'm friends with?

Yesterday, a pop-up appears telling me that Callie Porter "likes" "I'll Cover You" - I'm thinking "Crazy! Callie DOES love that song!" When I casually mentioned this to her later, she is baffled. She doesn't have Pandora. She doesn't have Hype Machine (not that she would be downloading show tunes from hypem anyways!). She doesn't have ANYTHING about RENT written on Facebook. Hasn't downloaded the songs on iTunes. Never mentioned on Twitter. (Side note: I'm officially a media SLUT.) WHAT THE DEALIO?!!

(I apologize for the quality of this image, as my work computer is a PC so no screen caps-- how archaic!)

I refuse to believe this is a random coincidence. Pandora is stalking my life. I'm sending out an SOS to the cyber world: Does ANYONE know how they get this info?? Am I overlooking some simple element? Help a girl out!

The Show So Nice I Saw it Twice

My latest out-of-hand obsession is the Broadway show 'Spring Awakening.' The tour was in Austin the week before last, and when a friend told me she had an extra ticket, I jumped at the chance to get in on the action! I didn't know much about the show except that Rachel from Glee (Lea Michelle) originated the female lead.

Needless to say, the show blew me out of the water. First of all, I had a nice high-school throwback with Craig from Degrassi* (Jake Epstein) as Melchior, the male lead. The music, lyrics, songs, acting, costumes, set: EVERYTHING was amazing. The musical tells the story of a group of teenagers living in a culturally-repressive 19th c. Germany, as they discover sex, life, love and death. All of the cast-members were about my age, which made me feel like a WORTHLESS turd, but was also TOTALLY AWESOME... and that Hanschen, what a babe!

After I saw it on Friday, I couldn't help but pick up some last minute tickets for the final Austin show on Sunday night. Hallie and I sat THIRD ROW CENTER (and for only $65!). Loved it even more the second time around, and can't stop listening to the soundtrack.

The tour ends in May 2010 and the show left Broadway last year, so if you haven't seen it yet, I would try to catch it: Spring Awakening Tour.

* The best Canadian teen soap opera of ALL TIME (Kanye said so)