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About
GOOD STUFF: art (don't ya forget zee dancing!), horseback riding, reading, sight/festival/museum seeing, being with BrOcK, rainy days--we need the rain!--and fun for indoor cuddling!, clear sky-windy-sunny days--okay, maybe a cloud or two is fine--great for trompsing around, science stuffs, muzak-live music is lovely
I've been seeing so much amazing dance lately: Pilobolus, Paul Taylor Dance Co., Texas Ballet Theater, Univ. No. TX dance faculty choreo...some great things! Seeing Savion Glover tap dance with live accompaniment onstage behind him---(Happy Feet penguin dancer)--really neat. The NYC Rockettes put on a fun Xmas show--great for kiddies--really funny watching the fat mice on point shoes! So adorable!
..Great live music performances put on by Ruthie Foster, Nanci Griffith, Army of Anyone, Dropping Daylight, Hurt, Kelly Willis and her husband Bruce Robison, The Dixie Chicks, Fiona Apple....and I can't wait to see The Killers and Muse play at EdgeFest this year!!!!
I feel really blessed to experience such great entertainment! What a great world we live in! (Improvements are always needed, of course.)
KICK ARSE QUOTES:
"Do what you can with what you have where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt (American 26th US President (1901-09), 1858-1919)
“I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)
“May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like no-one is watching, screw like it's being filmed, and drink like a true Irishman”
Anonymous Toast
“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Angela Monet
“When the music changes, so does the dance”
African Proverb quotes
“Great dancers aren't great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.”
(Some dancers ARE great because of their technique, obviously.--side note--)
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”
Mikhail Baryshnikov
'"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others"'
from The Life and Work of Martha Graham
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
Jane Austen
“While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance.”
Hans Bos
“You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.”
Robert Alton Harris
“Those who can't dance say the music is no good”
Jamaican Proverb
“If I can't dance - I don't want to be part of your revolution”
Emma Goldman (Lithuanian born American International anarchist who conducted leftist activities in the United States from about 1890 to 1917. 1869-1940)
“It's hard to dance if you just lost your wallet. Whoa! Where's my wallet? But, hey this song is funky...”
Mitch Hedberg :-)-comedian-saw him live&loved him(R.I.P.)
“No sane man will dance.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”
John Dryden (British Poet, Dramatist and Critic of Literacy, 1631-1700)
Movies
Dukes of Hazard (2006), Flannel Pajamas (2006), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Babel (2006), Little Children (2006), Lady in the Water (2006), Step Up (2006), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), Superman Returns(2006), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Drive Me Crazy (1999), Rushmore (1998), Meet Joe Black (1998), Jerry Maguire (1996), Circle of Friends (1995), Swing Kids (1993), Scent of a Woman (1992), How I Got Into College (1988)
Music
Dixie Chicks, Kelly Willis, Bruce Robison, Bob Schneider, The Killers, Muse, The Judds, Keb'Mo, Eric Claptin, Eagles, Billie Holiday, classical, drumming (African, etc.), Celtic, The Big Bopper, Bleu Edmondson, Robert Earl Keen, Jack Johnson, Martina McBride, Trish Murphy, Fiona, Madonna, Janet, Britney, Christina, Shakira, Justin, Beyonce, Lynard Skynyrd, Alicia, Sheryl, Alanis, Lyle, Wolfgang, Johann, Wilhelm. Gaetano, Gioachino
Television
Who needs tee vee?!? I sometimes watch Heroes, Desp. Hswvs., or Grey's Anatomy. I think those shows are kick arSe.
Books
The Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey by alex grey, ken wilber, carlo mccormick, Freakonomics by steven levitt and stephen dubner, Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho by jon katz, The Stranger Beside Me by ann rule, K-PAX by gene brewer, Women and Other Animals by bonnie jo campbell, Angels and Demons by dan brown, The Hot Zone by richard preston, Sunrise Island: a Story of Japan and its Arts by carella alden, With Billie by julia blackburn, The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by thomas j. stanley, ph.d and william d. danko, ph.d
Interests
old friends, current buds, star-watching, sailing, SCUBAing folk, art seekers