This list was started on Jimbo's Bennyboard and includes entrees from about 15 different people .......feel free to E mail me with your own ideas :)
1.) You know the harmonies to every song in the show.
2.) You live in a small hick town and your biggest kick is to
down the main street playing "Contact" full blast.
3.) On car trips, you hand out parts so as to maintain an even
balance of harmony and melody
4.) You can successfully identify blazers, suburbans, and tahoes.
5.) Someone you are close to has only one hand with nail polish
on it.
6.) You enjoy hanging out at Jamba Juice in La Jolla.
7.) When you go to a highschool play you have to avoid the
urge to rush the stage door after the performance
8.) When you want to go to a highschool play instead of just
flashing your asb card and paying 5 bucks, you try to
second act it.
9.) Your idea of a fun friday night is to get together and
watch old episodes of Doogie Howser, Ally McBeal, and
the UPN special.
10.) You wake up chanting "Cafe Luna, cafe luna...."
11.) You arrange your college schedule to allow you enough
time to get home and tape Doogie Howser..
(in san diego- 1:30pm Channel 6)
12. You have to fight the urge to hump a bar at the
supermarket.
13. When you ask for a pic with a stranger just because he
resembles a cast member.
14. You get a P.O. box just for bootlegs
15. Parking garages bring back fond memories
16. Every time a bepper goes off you yell "AZT break" out
of habit.
17. You always have collins and Angel around because that
is what u named your dogs!
18. You have so many RENT programs that u use them to
line your birds cages.
19. Everywhere u go u meet someone u did the line with.
20. You have actually acted out "La Vie Boheme" in a
resteraunt.
21. When you suddenly sing out "Sodomy, its between
God and me and S&M" during class when discussing
gay rights in ethics...
22. When someone says "What d'ya forget?" You say
"Got a light?"
23. When you get an akita and name it Evita.
24. Someone asks "who died?" and you start laughing
25. when you utter the word "rent" your friends go into fake
comas(does anyone else have friends that do this?)
26. when asked what you want in life you say "one song,
glory, one song to leave behind"
27. in restaurants you compulsively yell "wine and beer!"
28. when asked where you are you say "me?
i'm here..nowhere."
29. you find yourself buying a lot of tight vinyl outfits
30. and you own more than one leather/vinyl catsuit
31. you feel the need to sing out the day and time
(even if it isn't always december 24, 9pm)
32. You actually miss a cast members car more than the
cast member themself
33. When you listen to the whole CD at least once a day.
34. When all your friends know all about Rent even though
they have never seen it.
35. When you have the urge to hop in your car and go to
the Ahmanson for rush tickets.
35. The lottery comes on tv and u feel a knot forming in your
stomache.
36. You pray that an understudy will go on so you can
successfully achieve seeing every swing in every part
37. When the "cafe on the plaza" was destroyed you cryed.
38. The Adam Pascal posters around the theatre have your
lip prints on them.
39. On Jan. 18th the last L.A. show you came home from
closing day and sat in your room crying, listening to the
whole Rent CD pausing in between songs to recite the
lines.
40. When some one recites poetry in English say "That's
Poetic! That's Pathetic!"
41. If some one says "I'll do it tommorow" You in an angry
passonite rage break out into "No day but today"
42. If your parents come home late one night and sit
down at the dinner table you say "Where were you?
I know you lost your keys.No,u went for a walk, you had
to help your mother" to your mom say "hows benny?"
then storm off to your room. As yourparents discuss a
RENT Rehab 4 u.
43. You have a 'For Rent' sign hung in your room
44. When someone asks for the time you automatically reply
"Well, it's gotta be close to midnight"
45. You're not satisfied with seats for any show, unless
you're close enough to see the actors spit
46. You know how to play all of Roger's songs on the
gituar better than the swings
47. Your friends, who have never seen the show, know
all the words to 'La Vie Boheime' and the rythmic clapping
48. You have all the codes to your credit cards, atm, and
computer as A-N-G-E-L
48. In your acting class, you choose "Over The Moon"
as your monolog
49. You decide to name your kids after the characters
50. You reaction everytime you pass by a theater "RENT"
played at is to look for everyone in it
51. You brag about your "Happy New Year"
52. When you go into a TGIF you look around for a
giant rooster
53. When you leave a phone message to any of your
friends and sing "(insert friends name), this is your
(friend, lover, roomate, etc)"........
54. When you see "Titanic" and as Leonardo DiCaprio
is talking about "make it happen" - you yell
"no day but today" back at the screen and get bitter
hisses from the people sitting near you
55. When you go to a liquor store and the guy says they only
have "WINE AND BEER" and you can't contain your
laughter.
56. When your friend Justin only signs his e-mails with the
last name of "Harris"
57. You actually stayed up to watch the "Later show" (yuck!)
58. You know you're a renthead when you know all of
Alexi's phone numbers.
