Maureen Elphaba Menzel
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You Know You Obsessed With Rent When...I saw this post in the wicked forum and thought "I wonder that things obsessed Rent fans have done?". There i most likely a topic already on this, but I couldn't seem to find it. So i'm starting one!
You Know You Obsessed With Rent When...
You start loudly singing
"Follow the man -- follow the man. With his pockets full of the jam. Follow the man -- follow the man. Help me out, daddy If you can. Got any D man? Got any C man? Got any X? Any smack? Any horse? Any jugie boogie boy? Any blow?" extremly loudly on your school Aths Day and have all the teachers look at you and your friends thinking that your all druggies and need server help.
Your in a cowded shop and you phone rings. you relise that you still have you ring tone set on "On The Street". People look at you when it starts going "Who the F**k do you think you are". Woops!
Someone asks you if you want to rent the "Latest BMW" for as little as $99 a day. They then go on to say that it's the cheapest you'll be able to rent it. In your response you start singing "Rent". You then shout in his face "I'm not going to pay Rent!" and storm off. The sale man avoids you next time you walk past.
You and your friends are siting in the cafeteria. You then start huming La Via Bohem. Very quickly you and your Rent obsessed friends are standing on the table singing La Via Bohem. When it comes to Maureens "mooning" part you stand on the table and do the mooning part. You turn to see your school princaple standing behind you. You subsiquently got friday detention.
Well, I hope my experiences will spure the rest of our Lovly RENT obsessed fans to post here. I can confiently say all of these things happend to me and I am now scared for life!
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broadwayfreak67
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Re: You Know You Obsessed With Rent When... | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | | Your in a cowded shop and you phone rings. you relise that you still have you ring tone set on "Aother Day". People look at you when it starts going "Who the F**k do you think you are". Woops! |
That's not in 'Another Day.' They only say "Who do you think you are?"
"Who the f*ck do you think you are?" is from 'On the Street,' and the homeless woman sings/says it. :]
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ShadowInTheWings
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Re: You Know You Obsessed With Rent When... | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | server help.
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Sorry, I just had to quote this. Server help, really? Because, of course, the drugs were overloading the motherboard and messing with the RAM.
What amuses me more than anything is my best friend (the epitome of a good little Christian girl) singing along with La Vie Boheme, and she doesn't know what half of it means. Good times, especially since she starts singing as soon as I start humming it, and I like to do so in really awkward situations.
You also know that you're obsessed with Rent when you get a trip down to Seattle to see the National Tour for your 19th birthday...and you never even had to ask, or mention the tour to anyone- they just knew that's what I would want.
And there was that time that my cell phone went off in the middle of Christmas Eve service...the ringtone was Take Me or Leave Me, and of course, the thing repeats the line "and if you give a damn, take me baby or leave me" a million times before I manage to find it and turn it off. Talk about embarassing.
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Maureen Elphaba Menzel
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Re: You Know You Obsessed With Rent When... | broadwayfreak67 wrote: | | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | | Your in a cowded shop and you phone rings. you relise that you still have you ring tone set on "Aother Day". People look at you when it starts going "Who the F**k do you think you are". Woops! |
That's not in 'Another Day.' They only say "Who do you think you are?"
"Who the f*ck do you think you are?" is from 'On the Street,' and the homeless woman sings/says it. :] |
Woops, sorry. Let me fix that. Another Day goes "Who Do you think you are. Baring in on me and my car"
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broadwayfreak67
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It's fine. I understood you. :]
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wicked_boy
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- You remind your firends that here is no day but today.
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BoundBySound
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~You decide to sing Tango: Maureen for a weekly Friday mini talent show in chorus with your black gay friend, then you realize that Mark was straight in the show and white and Joanne is homosexual in the show and black but you sing it anyways and your partner forgets to censor out the eff word and you get in trouble. Fun times...
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Maureen Elphaba Menzel
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That would be fun!
Last night i was trying to teach my cat that there is so Day but Today! he just looked at me as if it was in need ot mental help. It was worth a try.
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Angel-of-Music*
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When i walked in to my singing group thing i saw a rent music book. i sat and stared at it until she annouced that we would be singing seasons of love.. at which put i get up dance and scream " oh my god, i love you so much!" at the singing tracher for picking such an awesome song.. she now thinks im odd.
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wicked_boy
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Oh my god! ^ That happened to me on Monday!
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Idinafan
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My friends, (a lesbien couple) just suggested that i watch Rent. I have never seen the musical or the movie, but i love the soundtrack. I started singing "Take me or Leave Me" in physics class, and my very homophobic classmates informed me that this song was between a lesbian couple. I blushed for a second, then decided to just keep on singing. Then, my prinicpal walks in just as i sing "Cause evey night who's in your bed?"
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christinadaae
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| Idinafan wrote: |
the soundtrack.
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Schmar.
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Sky'sTheLimit
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in response | wicked_boy wrote: | | - You remind your firends that here is no day but today. |
i do that all the time.
ok so my friend and i are always singing take me or leave me. people are constantly staring at us and asking if we are together. we tell them no that we just love rent.
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Radames's_Angel
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((my bff is the Rent obsessed one, more or less, so I have been involved with these, but anything that just talks about one person is her))
you and your friends sing La Vie Boheme at lunch, Will I in English class, and people start thinking you're gay because you talked your best friend into singing Take me Baby or Leave Me, and I'll cover you on the walk durring gym class
Imagine Mark is your Boyfriend, and won't go out with anyone because it would be untrue to him
Hit your bff any time she says anything even slightly negative about Rent (my bff hits hard)
make your name on any website Mark Loving Hobbit (she's on Gaia, for anyone who is on there)
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musikal_geek
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| christinadaae wrote: | | Idinafan wrote: |
the soundtrack.
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Schmar. |
Hey, the person could be talking about the movie. You never know! 
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LittleMissCenterStage
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At my friend's Sweet 16, we all dressed up like we were in Rent and danced/sung to the entire CD. The DJ said it was one of the weirdest requests he'd had.
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Radames's_Angel
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Re: You Know You Obsessed With Rent When... | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | | broadwayfreak67 wrote: | | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | | Your in a cowded shop and you phone rings. you relise that you still have you ring tone set on "Aother Day". People look at you when it starts going "Who the F**k do you think you are". Woops! |
That's not in 'Another Day.' They only say "Who do you think you are?"
"Who the f*ck do you think you are?" is from 'On the Street,' and the homeless woman sings/says it. :] |
Woops, sorry. Let me fix that. Another Day goes "Who Do you think you are. Baring in on me and my car" |
me and my guitar, not car, do they even have a car?
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Radames's_Angel
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| Angel-of-Music* wrote: | | When i walked in to my singing group thing i saw a rent music book. i sat and stared at it until she annouced that we would be singing seasons of love.. at which put i get up dance and scream " oh my god, i love you so much!" at the singing tracher for picking such an awesome song.. she now thinks im odd. |
our teacher had us sing Seasons of Love last year which is actually what got us interested in Rent
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Maureen Elphaba Menzel
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Re: You Know You Obsessed With Rent When... | Radames's_Angel wrote: | | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | | broadwayfreak67 wrote: | | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | | Your in a cowded shop and you phone rings. you relise that you still have you ring tone set on "Aother Day". People look at you when it starts going "Who the F**k do you think you are". Woops! |
That's not in 'Another Day.' They only say "Who do you think you are?"
"Who the f*ck do you think you are?" is from 'On the Street,' and the homeless woman sings/says it. :] |
Woops, sorry. Let me fix that. Another Day goes "Who Do you think you are. Baring in on me and my car" |
me and my guitar, not car, do they even have a car? |
I have prdiction text. I say what I want through a mic and it types them for me.I can also play songs and it types the lyrics. It doesn't always get it right. and i often forget to check them.
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wicked_boy
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Re: You Know You Obsessed With Rent When... | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | | Radames's_Angel wrote: | | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | | broadwayfreak67 wrote: | | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | | Your in a cowded shop and you phone rings. you relise that you still have you ring tone set on "Aother Day". People look at you when it starts going "Who the F**k do you think you are". Woops! |
That's not in 'Another Day.' They only say "Who do you think you are?"
"Who the f*ck do you think you are?" is from 'On the Street,' and the homeless woman sings/says it. :] |
Woops, sorry. Let me fix that. Another Day goes "Who Do you think you are. Baring in on me and my car" |
me and my guitar, not car, do they even have a car? |
I have prdiction text. I say what I want through a mic and it types them for me.I can also play songs and it types the lyrics. It doesn't always get it right. and i often forget to check them. |
That's cool. What is it that does it? Where did you get it from?
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Radames's_Angel
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Re: You Know You Obsessed With Rent When... | wicked_boy wrote: | | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | | Radames's_Angel wrote: | | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | | broadwayfreak67 wrote: | | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | | Your in a cowded shop and you phone rings. you relise that you still have you ring tone set on "Aother Day". People look at you when it starts going "Who the F**k do you think you are". Woops! |
That's not in 'Another Day.' They only say "Who do you think you are?"
"Who the f*ck do you think you are?" is from 'On the Street,' and the homeless woman sings/says it. :] |
Woops, sorry. Let me fix that. Another Day goes "Who Do you think you are. Baring in on me and my car" |
me and my guitar, not car, do they even have a car? |
I have prdiction text. I say what I want through a mic and it types them for me.I can also play songs and it types the lyrics. It doesn't always get it right. and i often forget to check them. |
That's cool. What is it that does it? Where did you get it from? |
that is wicked cool!
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Maureen Elphaba Menzel
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Re: You Know You Obsessed With Rent When... | Radames's_Angel wrote: | | wicked_boy wrote: | | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | | Radames's_Angel wrote: | | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | | broadwayfreak67 wrote: | | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: | | Your in a cowded shop and you phone rings. you relise that you still have you ring tone set on "Aother Day". People look at you when it starts going "Who the F**k do you think you are". Woops! |
That's not in 'Another Day.' They only say "Who do you think you are?"
"Who the f*ck do you think you are?" is from 'On the Street,' and the homeless woman sings/says it. :] |
Woops, sorry. Let me fix that. Another Day goes "Who Do you think you are. Baring in on me and my car" |
me and my guitar, not car, do they even have a car? |
I have prdiction text. I say what I want through a mic and it types them for me.I can also play songs and it types the lyrics. It doesn't always get it right. and i often forget to check them. |
That's cool. What is it that does it? Where did you get it from? |
that is wicked cool! |
I was given it for a present when I was in hospital. I have had about 7 or 8 operations on my eyes and when i have 3 of them with in 4 weeks they kept me in hospital fo all of that time. I couldn't see during that time, so my perants gave it to me as somthing to spent my time doing. I love to wrtie and so i wrote alot this way. I also partialy lernt how to read brail. but yer, that was about two years ago and I still use the mic not. It means i can lie in bed and just tell it what i want. Often i have it running while i'm sleping and if i have an idea for a story, or need to remember somgthing i just say ait and it records it for me. Tho i do have the problem now thgat i slee ptalk. At friends houses i am aften told that i was talking a lot in my sleep.
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wicked_boy
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Re: You Know You Obsessed With Rent When... | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: |
I was given it for a present when I was in hospital. I have had about 7 or 8 operations on my eyes and when i have 3 of them with in 4 weeks they kept me in hospital fo all of that time. I couldn't see during that time, so my perants gave it to me as somthing to spent my time doing. I love to wrtie and so i wrote alot this way. I also partialy lernt how to read brail. but yer, that was about two years ago and I still use the mic not. It means i can lie in bed and just tell it what i want. Often i have it running while i'm sleping and if i have an idea for a story, or need to remember somgthing i just say ait and it records it for me. Tho i do have the problem now thgat i slee ptalk. At friends houses i am aften told that i was talking a lot in my sleep. |
Are you using it now by any chance, it has loads of spelling mistakes.
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Maureen Elphaba Menzel
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Re: You Know You Obsessed With Rent When... | wicked_boy wrote: | | Maureen Elphaba Menzel wrote: |
I was given it for a present when I was in hospital. I have had about 7 or 8 operations on my eyes and when i have 3 of them with in 4 weeks they kept me in hospital fo all of that time. I couldn't see during that time, so my perants gave it to me as somthing to spent my time doing. I love to wrtie and so i wrote alot this way. I also partialy lernt how to read brail. but yer, that was about two years ago and I still use the mic not. It means i can lie in bed and just tell it what i want. Often i have it running while i'm sleping and if i have an idea for a story, or need to remember somgthing i just say ait and it records it for me. Tho i do have the problem now thgat i slee ptalk. At friends houses i am aften told that i was talking a lot in my sleep. |
Are you using it now by any chance, it has loads of spelling mistakes. |
Yes I am
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Kaaatrina
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| LittleMissCenterStage wrote: | | At my friend's Sweet 16, we all dressed up like we were in Rent and danced/sung to the entire CD. The DJ said it was one of the weirdest requests he'd had. |
I so want to do that.
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musicalmaniac396
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I'm sorry if I'm breaking that conversation, but I wanted to add another moment.(not sarcasticaly)
You are told to shut up by your non-RENThead friends because you
keep singing RENT songs!
When your best friend (who is not gay, nothing against gay people) suggests we do Take Me or Leave Me for a talent show because of your love of the song and RENT!
When your mom and TEACHER both know you love RENT!
When your friend goes on a table and pretends to push stuff away like what Idina does in Take Me or Leave Me! (It was really funny!) 
When the word RENT is everywhere you look! This is true!
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wishicouldsing
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...when you finally realize that every single time someone asks you what you're listening to, you reply with (what else?) Rent...[/i]
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bwayobsessed
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Everytime someone says "Meow!" you automatically add "Ha!" to it & continue to sing the rest, getting all your friends who know it to join in.
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Philphaba
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- You put the words no day but today at the end of all your slide shows in ICT.
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Asha
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You doodle Rent Lyrics on the back of your test papers.
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lilmissbroadway
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~At school you're like a Rent eveangelist, trying to convert everyone to it
~you and your friend could spend forever talking about different Mimis
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Philphaba
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| bwayobsessed wrote: | | Everytime someone says "Meow!" you automatically add "Ha!" to it & continue to sing the rest, getting all your friends who know it to join in. |
haha! yes good times, Then everyone who was in this convosatiov with me kept saying "Ha!" after "Meow!" 
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Brock07
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If your awnsering machine says "speeeeeeeak!" . . . . . . .
lol mine does.
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Philphaba
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| Brock07 wrote: | If your awnsering machine says "speeeeeeeak!" . . . . . . .
lol mine does. |
ha! yeah i told my friends we have to do that if we ever live together. Might make my ringtone that now
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pennypingleton1994
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When you perform Over the Moon in your English class and freak out your classmates.
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Philphaba
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| pennypingleton1994 wrote: | | When you perform Over the Moon in your English class and freak out your classmates. |
Ha! i did that outside home room, its was pretty funny.
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pennypingleton1994
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| Philphaba wrote: | | pennypingleton1994 wrote: | | When you perform Over the Moon in your English class and freak out your classmates. |
Ha! i did that outside home room, its was pretty funny. |
Yeah, I did that in English class, and they were just like "ummmmmmmmmmm.....................ok."
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lilmissbroadway
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Yeah my friend Chase said something about how he wished he could do that for variety show at school, but I said," Yeah, but everyone will think you're on crack or something...."
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liza_minelli
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when you subtly play the OCR/soundtrack/whatever whenever your friends are over in an attempt to help them learn all the words.
when in your music classes you raise your hand and ask if you can show the class something using the piano. you then walk over to it and play the piano part at the start of la vie boheme to see if you can start off one of those fantastic everyone-is-singing-yay! moments.
yep, I got some strange looks for that one. only two people in my entire music class have even seen rent!
when you spend your entire life saying "i know the music's really quite pop-rock and everything but..."
...wow, I haven't been on here in about a year, crazy xxx
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Philphaba
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- Rent is all over your myspace/website.
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lost in the darkness 101
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when you freak out because you finally found out how to play "your eyes" on your gutair.
or when you freak out even more when you realise that your cousins new gutair looks identical(sp?) to the one Roger had in the movie.
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deGREENIFYme
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-your non-RENTers friends calculated how many minutes there are in 1 year because you keep on singing 'seasons of love' and when they got the answer and told you that it wasn't 525600 minutes (exactly or rounded off), you burst into explaining why it wasn't exact and argued in the end. 
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mastachen
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I don't know what calculations your friends did, but it comes out to exactly 525,600 minutes in a year.
Jon Larson didn't just randomly pick that number out of the air b/c it fit the tune.
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wicked_boy
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I just calculated it and didn't get excacly 525, 600. Probably wrong though.
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musikal_geek
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There are definitely 525 600 minutes in a year... unless it's a leap year. But that wouldn't really fit the tune...
525 600 minutes...
or 527 040 if it's a leap year...
I just don't see it working. 
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Theaterfan101
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...you search for a Collins on an internet fourm
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wicked_boy
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| Theaterfan101 wrote: | | ...you search for a Collins on an internet fourm |
Haha
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CurlyWurly
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- You get everyone 'mooing' with you in your class
- You write 'Anarchy' across the toilet walls, in form of protest
- A long table with people sitting round it is just asking to be stood on and have you sing "La Vie Boheme" on
- You can't resist, when standing ontop of a desk, singing/saying "This Diva Needs Her Stage"
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mastachen
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| wicked_boy wrote: | | I just calculated it and didn't get excacly 525, 600. Probably wrong though. |
It's very simple.
60 minutes in an hour x 24 hours in a day x 365 days a year = 525,600 minutes
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wicked_boy
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| mastachen wrote: | | wicked_boy wrote: | | I just calculated it and didn't get excacly 525, 600. Probably wrong though. |
It's very simple.
60 minutes in an hour x 24 hours in a day x 365 days a year = 525,600 minutes |
I did it on my cell phone and probably pressed a couple wrong buttons.
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Philphaba
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| CurlyWurly wrote: | - You get everyone 'mooing' with you in your class
- You write 'Anarchy' across the toilet walls, in form of protest
- A long table with people sitting round it is just asking to be stood on and have you sing "La Vie Boheme" on
- You can't resist, when standing ontop of a desk, singing/saying "This Diva Needs Her Stage" |
haha! i did get everyone mooing aswell, i felt proud
- You scream when you find out your friend has a friend called Angel (i was shocked)
- You shout at your High School Musical loving friends 'cuz they think they have seen something amazing & clearly need to see Rent.
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mastachen
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| Philphaba wrote: |
- You shout at your High School Musical loving friends 'cuz they think they have seen something amazing & clearly need to see Rent. |
....
The exact same could be said for Rentheads.
i do like the show though.
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Philphaba
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| mastachen wrote: | | Philphaba wrote: |
- You shout at your High School Musical loving friends 'cuz they think they have seen something amazing & clearly need to see Rent. |
....
The exact same could be said for Rentheads.
i do like the show though. |
haha! true
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MunkustrapQC
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When in an English Class (I'm going to a French school), your friend said : Last Night, I had a deam, and you start singing Over The moon from that point.
I did that today!!
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jetblack_diva
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| Asha wrote: | | You doodle Rent Lyrics on the back of your test papers. |
Guilty as charged!
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Philphaba
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- When your rarely found practicing the songs your teacher asked you to on your guitar 'cuz all you want to play all weekend it "Musseta's Waltz", "One Song Glory" & "Tune Up #1" (I did this, i did practice the others though )
- When you randomly burst out singing "La Vie boheme" everyday your friends now expect it too happen.
- You can act the whole musical through no matter where you are or who you are with.
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emmy05
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| lilmissbroadway wrote: | ~At school you're like a Rent eveangelist, trying to convert everyone to it
~you and your friend could spend forever talking about different Mimis |
Rent and Evangelist in the same sentance, now there's something I never thought I'd see.
My addition: When the movie came out in the movie theaters, telling everyone you sold a ticket to "don't be afraid to moo along." May have gotten some strange looks, but i found out later the group I tried that experiment on actually mooed! Go me!
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