Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ever since Anne Marie gave me the book Wicked by Gregory Maguire a few Christmases ago I have had a soft spot for the Wicked Witch of the West. Especially since her younger sister was born without arms. However, I have never seen the musical because, silly me, I figured that once you read the book you knew what it was about and how could a musical possibly be better than the book when the book came first? Then I heard a song from the musical and I can't get it out of my head and I really want to see the musical. This particular blog post is in honor of Jaime, since she sent me an e-mail full of handy tips and tricks for doing all the things I have been very un-subtly hinting at needing help on over the past several months (and she hit every item, so she must have been keeping a list or something!). I am about to use one of those tips and actually paste a real live YouTube thingy on here. It is of my favorite song, called "What is This Feeling". If it doesn't work, then you know who to blame (I learned this after years of being a teacher...it is never the student's fault, but always the fault of the teacher and I might add that this rule still remains in effect in spite of any technical issues the student may have with just about any website she has ever visited):




If you want to listen to a really good recording of the music (which I do, because I don't necessarily like the way this particular YouTube version acts it out nor do I care for the sound quality but I couldn't get the other one I know of to work properly), then you have to go to this guy's blog I found who somehow posted the audio track directly to his blog. He also posted the lyrics, which is very helpful. His story is interesting, since he is ex-LDS (Mormon) and he ties the entire musical into his journey into adulthood and out of the Latter-Day Saints. Anyway, don't watch his YouTube version, it's British and the singing isn't as good (not that one is a cause of the other, mind you, I just don't prefer it). Just listen to his incredibly good audio track (I really need to buy this CD for myself.)

N.B. The above testimony is a good example of how YouTube and the ability to post tracks to blogs actually encourages the sale of music legitimately--that was a plug for any economic gurus that happen to drop by my blog anytime soon while policy is still being debated