$156.01 of iTunes (and more!)

I recently finished a large freelance project, and one of the things I did with the money was buy everything on my iTunes wish list. That's $156.01. For that, I got 172 songs--including 7 albums and a lot of songs from Glee. (By "a lot," I mean 47.) (Yes, 47. God help me.) (Interestingly, some are categorized as "pop" and others as "soundtrack." And that's not by songs from shows vs. songs not from shows.) And then I got a bunch of songs that either I ran across randomly or, more likely, I saw when I was looking at my tapes and was like, "OMG I HAVE TO HAVE THAT SONG RIGHT NOW!!!" (I'm also using some of my earnings to get a bunch of tapes converted to CD.)

Want the breakdown?

Albums
Newclear - Euan Morton
So Close - Daniel Boys
Barnum
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Blood Brothers
1776
The Fantasticks

Glee
Nowadays / Hot Honey Rag [feat. Gwyneth Paltrow]
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Lucky
Rolling In the Deep [feat. Jonathan Groff]
Like a Prayer (feat. Jonathan Groff)
Happy Days Are Here Again / Get Happy
Jar of Hearts
Marry You
Whatever Happened to Saturday Night?
Sing
I Feel Pretty / Unpretty
The Only Exception
Telephone
Fat Bottomed Girls
Dog Days Are Over
Born This Way
Damn It, Janet
Just the Way You Are
She's Not There
Animal
Silly Love Songs
What I Did for Love
Sway
Don't You Want Me
Friday
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One
Like a Virgin (feat. Jonathan Groff)
Need You Now
Bills, Bills, Bills
Marry You
Start Me Up / Livin' On a Prayer
Forget You [feat. Gwyneth Paltrow]
I've Gotta Be Me
Go Your Own Way
I Know What Boys Like
Empire State of Mind
Dancing Queen
Touch a Touch a Touch a Touch Me
Take Me or Leave Me
One Love
Make 'Em Laugh
Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Just the Way You Are
Tik Tok
When I Get You Alone
Firework
Blame It (On the Alcohol)

Random Songs
Two Princes - Spin Doctors (Mmm, it's high school all over again!)
Let's Go to the Mall (From How I Met Your Mother) - Robin Sparkles (YES!!!!)
The Glory of Love - Bette Midler
Zoot Suit Riot - Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant
Shut Up and Dance - Aerosmith
Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
Rock the Casbah - The Clash
Come Out and Play - The Offspring
Fuck You - Cee Lo Green
The Gambler - Kenny Rogers (How did I not already have this song?)
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers (Ditto!)
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps - Mari Wilson (Theme to the British Coupling. This Wish List has been a long time in the making)
I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
C'est La Vie - Bewitched (I had forgotten this song existed, then stumbled across it in the iTunes store and just about flipped out.)
Mutha (Don't Wanna Go to School Today) - Extreme
Pocketful of Sunshine - Natasha Bedingfield (Thanks, Easy A!)
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners (No idea how I didn't already have this one.)
88 Lines About 44 Women - The Nails
Be My Yoko Ono - Barenaked Ladies
Soon We'll Be Found - Sia
The Lovers That Never Were - Paul McCartney
Oh My God - P!nk (I first heard this in a YouTube fanvid about David Tennant. Yum.)
How Bout Dem O's - Warning Track Power (A year or two old, but I don't care.)

AND I got Everclear's Songs From an American Movie, Vol. One: Learning How to Smile and No Doubt's "Just a Girl" from Amazon.

Brings a tear to the eye

I was chatting with another usher last night at Side by Side by Sondheim, discussing various shows. He mentioned seeing Signature's Les Mis and being surprised at the people crying. He was all, "But I guess I remember seeing it for the first time and crying." I told him that even though the number of times I've seen it has reached double digits, I still cry. I didn't mention that sometimes I tear up just listening to a recording of it. Or how I bawled numerous times when watching the 25th anniversary concert.

Some things just have that effect on me. For example, Apollo 13. I watch it every time I run across it on tv. And pretty much every single time, I wind up at least tearing up. It's always the moment when they're waiting for them to emerge after reentry. It's the moment with Lovell's kids, when they think the module burned up. The daughter has tears in her eyes, and looks down a bit, clearly thinking, "My dad is dead--it's real." The son, at school, looks up at the clock, to remember the time it happened. And me? I cry. It's like a switch.

And I can't resist it.