I really cannot resist!!

::~: La Vie Boheme A & B :~::
OST : RENT

BENNY:
You make fun, yet I am the one
Attempting to do some good
Or do you really want a neighborhood
Where people piss on your stoop every night?

Bohemia
Bohemia's a fallacy in your head
This is Calcutta
Bohemia is dead

MARK :
Dearly beloved, we gather here to say our goodbyes

COLLINS & ROGER :
Dies Ira, Dies Illa
Kyrie Eleison Yitgadal V' Yitkadash
(etc.)

MARK :
Here she lies
No one knew her worth
The late great daughter of Mother Earth
On these nights when we celebrate the birth

In that little town of Bethlehem
We raise our glass
You bet your ass to...
La Vie Boheme

ALL :
La Vie Boheme
La Vie Boheme
La Vie Boheme
La Vie Boheme

MARK :
To days of inspiration
Playing hooky
Making something out of nothing
The need to express
To communicate
To going against the grain
Going insane
Going mad

To loving tension
No pension
To more than one dimension
To starving for attention
Hating convention, hating pretension
Not to mention of course
Hating dear old mom and dad

To riding your bike
Midday past the three piece suits
To fruits, to no absolutes
To Absolut, to choice
To the Village Voice
To any passing fad

To being an us for once
Instead of a them

ALL :
La Vie Boheme
La Vie Boheme

MR. GREY :
Ahemm

MAUREEN :
Hey Mister... She's my sister

WAITER :
So that's five miso soup
Four seaweed salad
Three soy burger dinner
Two tofu dark platter
And one pasta with meatless balls

ROGER :
Eww

COLLINS :
It tastes the same

MIMI :
If you close your eyes

WAITER :
And thirteen orders of fries
Is that it here?

ALL :
Wine and beer!

MIMI & ANGEL :
To hand-crafted beers made in local breweries
To yoga, to yogurt
To rice and beans and cheese
To leather, to dildos
To Curry Vindaloo
To Huevos Rancheros
And Maya Angelou

MAUREEN & COLLINS :
Emotion, devotion
To causing a commotion
Creation, Vacation

MARK :
Mucho masturbation

MAUREEN & COLLINS :
Compassion, to fashion
To passion
When it's new

COLLINS :
To Sontag

ANGEL :
To Sondheim

FOUR PEOPLE :
To anything taboo

COLLINS & ROGER :
Ginsberg, Dylan, Cunningham and Cage

COLLINS :
Lenny Bruce

ROGER :
Langston Hughes

MAUREEN :
To the stage!

PERSON #1 :
To Uta

PERSON #2 :
To Buddha

PERSON #3 :
Pablo Neruda, too!!

MARK & MIMI :
Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow
To blow off Auntie Em

ALL :
La Vie Boheme

MR. GREY :
Sisters?

MAUREEN :
We're close

ANGEL & COLLINS :
Brothers!

MARK, ANGEL, MIMI & 3 OTHERS :
Bisexuals, trisexuals
Homo Sapiens, Carcinogens
Hallucinogens, men
Pee Wee Herman
German wine, turpentine
Gertrude Stein
Antonioni, Bertolucci
Kurosawa
Carmina Burana

ALL :
To apathy, to entropy, to empathy, ecstasy
Vaclav Havel
The Sex Pistols
8BC
To no shame, never playing the fame game

COLLINS :
To marijuana

ALL :
To sodomy
It's between God and me
To S & M

BENNY :
Waiter, Waiter, Waiter!!

ALL :
La Vie Boheme

COLLINS :
In honor of the death of Bohemia an impromptu salon will commence immediately following dinner...
Maureen Johnson, just back from her spectacular one-night engagement at the eleventh street lot, will preform Native American tribal chants backwards through her vocoder, while accompanying herself on the electric cello-
Which she ain't never studied.

ROGER :
And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary about his inability to hold an erection on high holy days.

MARK :
and Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap, will perform her famous lawn chair/handcuff dance to the sounds of iced tea being stirred

And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song

(Roger picks up a guiter and plays)

That doesn't remind us of 'Musetta's Waltz'

COLLINS :
Angel Dumott Schunard will model her latest fall fashions from Paris while accompanying herself on the 10-gallon plastic pickle tub.

ANGEL :
And Collins will recount his exploits as Anarchist...
Including the tale of his successful reprogramming of the MIT virtual reality equipment to self-destruct as it broadcasts the words:

ALL :
'Actual Reality - ACT UP - Fight AIDS!'

PERSON :
Check!

MIMI :
Excuse me, did I do something wrong?
I get invited, then ignored all night long

ROGER :
I've been trying, I'm not lying
No one's perfect, I've got baggage

MIMI :
Life's too short babe, time is flying
I'm looking for baggage that goes with mine

ROGER :
I should tell you-

MIMI :
I've got baggage, too

ROGER :
I should tell you--

BOTH :
Baggage-

OTHERS :
Wine And Beer!

MIMI :
AZT break

ROGER :
You?

MIMI :
Me. You?

ROGER :
Mimi


*And in case some ppl don't understand, AZT is what ppl who are HIV Positive take...its like medication*

ALL :
Yeah!!!

To Dance

MIMI :
No Way To Make A Living
Masochism, Pain, Perfection, Muscle Spasm
Chiropractors, Short- Careers, Eating Disorders

ALL :
Film

MARK :
Adventure, Tedium, No Family
Boring Locations, Dark Rooms, Perfect Faces
Egos, Money, Hollywood And Sleaze

ALL :
Music

ANGEL :
Food Of Love, Emotion, Mathematics
Isolation, Rhythm, Feeling, Power
Harmony, And Heavy Competition

ALL :
Anarchy

COLLINS & MAUREEN :
Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions
Forcing Changes, Risk, And Danger
Making Noise And Making Pleas

ALL :
To Faggots, Lezzies, Dykes, Cross Dressers Too

MAUREEN :
To Me

MARK :
To Me

ALL :
To You
And You
And You
You And You

To People living With
Living With, Living With
Not Dying From Disease

Let He Among Us Without Sin
Be The First To Condemn

La Vie Boheme
La Vie Boheme
La Vie Boheme

MARK :
Anyone Out Of The Mainstream

ALL :
La Vie Boheme

MARK :
Is Anyone In The Mainstream?

ALL :
La Vie Boheme

MARK :
Anyone Alive -
With A Sex Drive

ALL :
La Vie Boheme

MARK :
Tear Down The Wall
Aren't We All
The Opposite Of War Isn't Peace...

JOANNE :
What is?

MARK :
It's Creation

ALL :
Woooooooo!
Viva La Vie Boheme!!