Welcome to Gaia! ::

"To people living with/ living with/ living with/ not dieing from diease!"

^ my fave line!^

OBC: the best cause its longer & its all in song. its fast pace, fun to sing, & makes a statement all in one. LOVE IT!!! that's why its my absolute favorite song! heart

Movie: its ok. too computerized. part A is too short gonk & Mimi wasn't suppose to be the one singing "No way to make a living/ masochism, pain, perfection/ muscle spasms, chairopractors, short careers, eating disoders!". it was suppose to be just one of the girls in the group that they were all with. anyway, its good, just not the best song on the CD(s). the OBC is WAAAAAY better

i sooooo love this song so much! when i saw rent in nyc, this song was my fave...and now three years later it is still my fave!!!! heart

I keep messing up with the movie and the brodway. Even when I went to see it in theaters i sang the brodway lines ^__^

wow that toom me forever to figure out what IMO ment.

but yeshyesh i agree.

And I loooooove the NYTW version

I kinda like the AZT Break part too

But I'm glad it became more of like the last true joy between friends

Than the transition into blechyness

Here are the NYTW lyricssss

Waiter:
No please no, not tonight, please no, mister can't you go, not tonight, can't
have a scene!

Roger:
What?

Waiter:
Go please, go- you, hello sir, I said no, important customer!

Mark:
What am I? Just a blur?

Waiter:
You sit all night, you never buy!

Roger:
That's a lie! That's a lie! I had a tea the other day.

Waiter:
You couldn't pay!

Roger:
Oh yeah.

Collins:
Benjamin Coffin III - here?

Waiter:
Oh no!

All:
Wine and beer!!

Maureen:
The enemy of Avenue A - will stay

Waiter:
Oy Vey!

Collins:
What brings our distinguished slum lord to the Life Cafe?

Benny:
Hold on boys, gotta do a little business. So you're off the hook for now.

Collins:
The video franchise?

Benny:
Who said you're not smart?

Roger:
Blockbuster.

Girls:
Blockbuster?

Person:
Blockbuster!

Maureen:
Wow!

Benny:
Mimi! I'm surprised. A bright and charming girl like you hangs out with these
slackers. They make fun yet I'm 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 good-byes.

Collins & Roger:
Dires irae, dires illa....

Mark:
Here she lies. No one knew her worth. The late, great daughter of mother Earth.
On this night when we celebrate the birth, in that little town of Bethlehem, we
raise our glass, you bet your a** to - la vie boheme!

All:
La Vie Boheme, La Vie Boheme, La Vie Boheme, La Vie Boheme....

Mark:
To days of inspiration playin' 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.

Maureen:
Is the equipment in a pyramid?

Joanne:
It is, Maureen.

Maureen:
The mixer doesn't have a case. Don't give me that face!

...Maureen slaps her behind...

Lady:
Ahem!

Maureen:
Hey sister, she's my sister

Waiter:
So that's five miso soup, four seaweed salad, three soy burger dinner, two tofu
dog platter, and one pasta with meatless balls?

Girl:
Ew!

Collins:
It tastes the same.

Mimi:
If you close your eyes.

Waiter:
And seven 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!

Collins & Maureen:
Emotion devotion, to causing a commotion, creation, vacation.

Mark:
Mucho masturbation!

Collins & Maureen:
Compassion, to fashion, to passion when it's new!

Collins:
To Sontag!

Angel:
To Sondheim!

Collins & Maureen:
To anything taboo!

Collins & Roger:
Ginsburg, Dylan, Cunningham and Cage!

Collins:
Lenny Bruce!

Roger:
Langston Hughes!

Maureen:
To the stage!

Person:
To Uta!

Person:
To Buddha!

Person:
Pablo Neruda, too!

Mark & Mimi:
Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow - to blow off Auntie Em!

All:
La Vie Boheme!

Maureen:
And wipe the speakers off before you pack.

Joanne:
Yes, Maureen.

Maureen:
Well, hurry back!

...Maureen kisses her...

Lady:
Sisters?!?

Maureen:
We're close!

Angel, Collins, Mark, & Maureen:
Brothers!

Mark, Collins, Mimi, & half ensemble
Bisexuals, trisexuals, homosapiens, carcinogens, hallucinogens, men- Pee Wee
Herman. German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein, Antonioni, Burtolucci,
Kurosawa, Carmina Burana!

Roger, Maureen, Angel, and other half of ensemble: CBGBs, De Lasso, tabouli,
body fluids, KS lesions, funny looks, transfusions, silence equals death.
?dairy? Bertol Brecht, foods including Cannabis santiva, Camel lights, Carmen
Miranda, Nirvana!

All:
To apathy- to entropy- to empathy, ecstasy! Vaclav Havel, the Sex Pistols, 8BC-
to no shame, never playin' 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. Mimi Marquez, clad in bubble wrap, will perform her famous
lawn chair handcuff dance to the sounds of ice tea being stirred!

Roger:
Mark Cohen will preview the documentary he'll never finish, "The Parting of the
Red Sea" about his inability to hold an erection on high holy days, starring his
former lover's current female lover as himself!

Mark:
And Maureen Johnson, back from her spectacular one-night engagement at the 11th
street lot, will sing Native American tribal chants backward through her
vocoder, while accompanying herself on the electric cello - which she has never
studied!

...aside to Maureen...

Meet you in the bathroom.

Maureen:
You're not serious?!

Mark:
I am.

Maureen:
How was the show?

Mark:
You know you're good. I'll bring the dental dam!

Maureen:
Don't take it the wrong way, but Mark, honey, take a hike!

Mark:
Some auld lang syne between friends!?

Maureen:
Hello!! I'm a dyke!

Lady:
Another brother?

Maureen:
Ex-lover.

Person:
Roger will attempt to commit to an ending for his bittersweet evocative guitar
solo symbolizing the death of Kenickie!

...Roger plays a few notes..

Mark:
Not now, Roger.

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

Angel:
And Collins will recount to us his exploits as anarchist, including the tale of
his successful reprogramming of the MIT virtual reality equipment to
self-destruct as it broadcast the words:

All:
Actual reality! Act up! Fight AIDS!

Benny:
Check!

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

Roger:
I've been tryin', I'm not lying. No one's perfect, I've got baggage!

Mimi:
Life's too short, babe, time is flyin'. I'm looking for baggage that goes with
mine!

Roger:
I should tell you.

Mimi:
I've got baggage, too, should tell you!

Both:
Baggage, wine!

All:
And beer!

Women:
Rest in peace...

Men:
Bon Voyage, goodbye!

Women:
Bohemia!

Men:
You're much to young to die!

All:
Here's one last toast, for you our heart still throbs. Send back your ghost, or
else we'll have to get real jobs!
To Dance!

Mimi & person:
No way to make a living. Masochism, pain, perfection, muscle spasms,
chiropractors, short careers, eating disorders! Film!

Mark:
Adventure, tedium, no family, boring locations, darkrooms, perfect faces, egos,
money, Hollywood and sleaze!

Collins, Maureen, and Mimi:
Music!

Angel & Roger:
Food of love, emotion, mathematics, isolation, rhythm, power, feeling, harmony
and heavy competition!

All:
Anarchy!

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 & person:
To me!

Person:
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? Is anyone in the mainstream? Anyone alive with a
sex drive? Tear down the wall, aren't we all?
The opposite of war isn't peace-
it's creation!

Pretty much the same, but pretty cool nonetheless :3

Video of the original cast performing La Vie Boheme.

i love it,i love it ,i love it!!!!!