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Momma Mia! Damn Alex I'm sorry you had to undergo that kind of torture.

I'd rather have a root canal than listen to Abba, let alone a musical based on their cloying formula pop. Did they make you stand on your seat and sing along? :)

Yup, it was quite the chore to sit through.

But put that comment away from Abba! Okay, i'm not too big into their music and I still need to see the next brilliant song that isn't Waterloo, but trite they were never.

Oh and no, it was encougared but I didn't sing and dance and it was done at the encore by the rest of the public either way.

Sorry Alex, I've hated them all my life. It's the kind of music my parents listened to and ranks right up there with tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree and pretty much anything by Boney M. Too late to change me now. :P

Of course my dad introduced me to Jazz so it wasn't all bad.

oh jeez, mamma mia.  You're in one of the biggest cities of the world when it comes to stage plays and you see that.  Wow.  

Glad u had a good time on your trip.  I would love to go to europe for a trip sometime.  

I know, there were much more interesting options, but of course since Mamma Mia! is one of the well known ones, the staff of our group had to pick it. Really wanted to see The Book of Mormon so badly instead.

Thanks Matt.

I really want to see Boyhood.  I'm a big Linklater fan already, and this movie just sounds really neat in concept.  As for this being your first Linklater movie, you need to watch more!  He had so many great movies of all types.  Dazed and Confused is one of my favorite comedies.  It's one of the movies that makes you feel nostalgic even if you didn't grow up during the time (or in your case even the same country). The "Before..." trilogy of movies is a great love story.  A Scanner Darkly (which like Minority Report is based on a Philip K. Dick story) is a really cool paranoid sci-fi movie.  Tape is good also, and the entire movie takes place in a hotel room in "real-time."

I've never seen Momma Mia and don't really ever plan too.  My wife loves it, but she's also a life-long Abba fan.  Luckily she's never forced me to go watch it with her.

I know I should watch more of Linklater. I should do that soon enough, maybe continue with the first movie of the Before trilogy. I guess that if you love Linklater, you'll definitely enjoy Boyhood.

Yeah, don't bother with Mamma Mia!

Glad you're doing well and that your travels went safely, Alex 

Thanks Michael 

I really want to see Book of Mormon. 

So do I, it would be better than that lousy musical licking the boots of Abba for succes.

I just read 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. After reading it I looked at the wiki page and learned it's all about the history of Columbia. Ever read it?  

First, *Colombia, not with an U.

Yes i've read it and loved it, and dude, it's one of the most popular books in all over Colombia and everyone atleast knows the name. Same with Garcia Marquez as one of the most important Colombian icons. Though on the history part, it might be better to describe as based around 19th and early 20th century Colombia, and though there's some events on the book based on things that happened in Colombia, they are not mentioned by name. Besides, remember the magic stuff that happens in the book...

Yea, I read the book knowing nothing about it and didn't even see the connections to the history of Colombia (sorry for the misspelling) while reading it. It just seemed like the tale of a family told through its various members across several generations. The magic element didn't seem that obvious to me except in just a few parts, so I mostly read it as a real life drama. Later, I read on the wiki that all the characters are stand-ins for different aspects of Colombian history and that added a whole new dimension to the book for me. I guess it would be obvious to those like yourself who are familiar with your own history, but I know almost nothing about it.

Also it was published on the year of my birth 1967.

I think it's safe to consider the book as both real-life Drama and light fantasy, as both aspects are present throughout the book and interfere with each other on certain events, or more exactly, the book being Magic Realism.

The thing about it being real-life drama is that though strongly implied, I remember that they never mentioned that the story is in Colombia, so it could be another republic based on it, though with events that mirror those that also happened in Colombia (the banana plantation massacre for example, sadly did happened in real-life around the early 20th century).

In general, the book is a mindscrew in many respects, so your interpretation on events is as good as mine.

Yea, I seem to remember a place name, but it wasn't Colombia. . . Oh yeah, Macondo was the fictional name.

Well, Macondo is the town, not the country and like I said, the country may or may not be Colombia.

Wiki says, "José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia."

Hmmmm..... You know, I think I should read again the book. It's been around two years since I ended it, so maybe I don't remember all the details that well.

Wow has it been a year already? or almost a year already? the time sure does fly. Perhaps it's a good time to do a "year in review" of your overseas activities. I can relate about needed to head back home early after being overseas for awhile. I think interpol is still looking for me after that incident back in Dubai.

Actually more like 8 months abroad, but close enough. Too lazy for a year in review though.