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^They have alot of similarities? *shrugs* They both like standing in the rain because their hair always sticks up.
Maybe Ikki doesn't like Ringo in the girlfriend way because she is so much smarter than him and doesn't seem compatible.
^They have alot of similarities? *shrugs* They both like standing in the rain because their hair always sticks up.
Maybe Ikki doesn't like Ringo in the girlfriend way because she is so much smarter than him and doesn't seem compatible.
Ringo isn't my favourite character but at least she knows Ikki longer then Kururu. I think it's weird when a new character appears and suddenly they love each other(at least it should take enough time too develop I don't like "love on the first sight"-stories). I think it's still possible that ringo and ikki get together, even if she goes crazy for a while. But the probability is much lower now.
I don't like ringo, Kururu is too new, simca is hot but I don't see a hint for a serious relationship, even if she teases him a bit(or more than a bit), so which couple is left? Right! Akito x Ikki. I think they are a cute couple, maybe we will find out soon, that Ikki is a homo. ^^
PS.:Simca(short hair)>Simca (long hair), I like short hair.
haha, i like kururu x ikki. kururu's cute. <3 ringo just..bleh. i dunno, but it doesn't seem as if ringo has that many fans here. :T her bewbiez shrink, too. ):
simca LOL no way, man. teasing's fun. <3
btw, i also like short-haired simca rather than long-haired simca. she looks more sexy with her new look. <3 makes me want to cut my hair, now. ):
anyway, even though i really like the kururu x ikki pairing, i don't think it'll actually happen in the manga. D: she's too new. ): i'm thinking that the ringo x ikki thing will probably happen, even if ikki currently only sees her as family.
Ringo x Ikki Nuhuuhu! Sorry no chance... about that if U read up to ch 144, U'll know the answer sooo...
Kazu asked Ikki who she really liked, and he said "its obviously Simca" and show her photo that he bought from Aeon Clock... but Onigiri kinda "hipnotized" him close his eyes and guess who appeared in his mind! He himself can't believe it either! (Two pages just for her face WoW!)
Dont believe me...? DL ch 143 raw here -> sai.voiea.net/AGr
the translation is separated here -> mangahelpers.com/forum/index.php?topic=9581.0
still I dont know how it will end...
^--- that's..very far ahead. o.o
ringo's not cute. ):
doesnt matter ringo's the best
yea but i dont think ikki likes ringo in that way...he only sees her as a sister...long time relationships dont always lead to love...he believed in her as a close person he could trust or that could understand his actions(as family)...if ikki was in love with ringo..he wouldnt have felt an urge to beat her to a bloody pulp during their battle...
i doubt it but anything can happen i guess
Hmm if i would choose it would be kurruru or the hmmm mariko or whatever her name was (the black haired girl from TTT)
you know
ringo: stalker type, she would always be in your shadow
simca: lewd type (XD) you would never know if she isnt doing anything with other guy atm to gain something from him ....
kururu: one of those quite normal yet special girls, clummsy which also gave a big + to her apearance


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hello all, we're planning our first build and have been struggling to find dark brown wide plank hardwood flooring (with a matte finish) that doesn't have a red tint or cast to it. we've found several that are close, but they all have a reddish color to them. i'm hoping someone out there can recommend a certain brand that we might have missed. i'll attach a picture to show the look/style we are trying to find. any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks in advance! |
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- Posted by weedyacres (My Page) on Thu, Jul 24, 14 at 13:48
What about walnut? It's golden, not reddish. |
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I use DuraSeal stains. Different brands carry different colors, names,etc. but i would try Antique Brown. Its dark and rich and no red. Water pop it and it becomes even stronger in color. Coffee Brown is darker. Thing about dark colors is they add red to combat the greenish undertones that appear. |
thank you for the replies! i will look into those options. we were hoping to find it pre-stained and ready for install but i'm thinking we'll have to stain it to get the color we want. it's so frustrating when you know exactly what you want but can't find it. :-/ |
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Have you found a professional yet? Best bet if you have not yet is to find someone and see what they can show you for prefinish. Most pros have certain brands that they can readily get easily and for a good price but they also have resources to find just about anything you can imagine. But of course they can also custom stain your floor but that would be finishing on site. |
We had the same goal and went with a site finished engineered white oak. It has a thicker veneer so we can change the color when we're tired of it. Apparently maple is a good choice too but lacked any graininess. |
thank you! we went to various flooring stores in our area and they all carried the same brands/types and really couldn't provide any good alternatives. we're in a pretty rural area and for the most part, every thing is (for lack of better term) cookie-cutter. we've been met with resistance when it comes to layout, materials, etc. because they weren't what is typically used in this area. i was lucky enough in one of my thousands of google searches to come across www.heidelbergflooring.com. imagine my surprise when i found out they are 30 minutes from my house! thank you gregmills for mentioning water popping. i just started looking into installing unfinished flooring and had never heard that term. after doing several searches on it and looking at some dark flooring that had been water popped, that's exactly what i'm going to request our builder to do. it may be something he does already, but thanks to you i know to ask for it. :) aprilh....i'm with you on the white oak. the more i've looked at the two, the more i like the graininess of the oak! i think that's what we're going to go with! |
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Written by Elizabeth Landau NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA – You may know opals as fiery gemstones, but something special called OPALS is floating above us in space. On the International Space Station, the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) is demonstrating how laser communications can speed up the flow of information between Earth and space, compared to radio signals.
"OPALS has shown that space-to-ground laser communications transmissions are practical and repeatable," said Matthew Abrahamson, OPALS mission manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "As a bonus, OPALS has collected an enormous amount of data to advance the science of sending lasers through the atmosphere. We look forward to continuing our testing of this technology, which sends information to and from space faster than with radio signals."
This artist's rendition shows OPALS operating from the International Space Station. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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Written by Dr. Tony Phillips Science at NASA
Washington, D.C. – The International Space Station has been called a stepping stone to other worlds.
NASA hasn't forgotten, however, that the behemoth space station is also on the doorstep of Earth.
"We're seeing the space station come into its own as an Earth-observing platform," says Julie Robinson, chief scientist for the International Space Station Program. "It has a different orbit than other Earth-observing satellites. It's closer to Earth, and it sees Earth at different times of day with a different schedule."
Written by Alan Buis NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA – A new NASA mission that will boost global monitoring of ocean winds for improved weather forecasting and climate studies is among about 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of NASA science investigations and cargo now on their way to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.
The cargo ship launched on the company's Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:52pm PDT Saturday, September 20th (1:52am EDT Sunday, September 21st).
At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40, the nine rocket engines roar to life on the Falcon launch vehicle. (NASA)
Pasadena, CA – The fourth SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract, carrying the ISS-RapidScat scatterometer instrument designed and built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, is scheduled to launch Saturday, September 20th, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The one-day adjustment in the launch date was made to accommodate preparations of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and was coordinated with the station's partners and managers.
Artist's rendering of NASA's ISS-RapidScat instrument (inset), which will launch to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean surface wind speed and direction and help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring. It will be installed on the end of the station's Columbus laboratory. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Johnson Space Center)
Pasadena, CA – NASA's ISS-RapidScat wind-watching scatterometer, which is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station no earlier than September 19th, will be the first science payload to be robotically assembled in space since the space station itself.
This image shows the instrument assembly on the left, shrouded in white. On the right is Rapid-Scat's nadir adapter, a very sophisticated bracket that points the scatterometer toward Earth so that it can record the direction and speed of ocean winds. The two pieces are stowed in the unpressurized trunk of a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
RapidScat's two-part payload is shown in the trunk of a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (NASA)
Pasadena, CA – June 19th marked the 15th anniversary of the launch of NASA's QuikScat, a satellite sent for a three-year mission in 1999 that continues collecting data. Built in less than 12 months, QuikScat has watched ocean wind patterns for 15 years and improved weather forecasting worldwide. Despite a partial instrument failure in 2009, it provides calibration data to international partners.
On this anniversary, the mission's team is calibrating ISS-RapidScat, the successor that will maintain QuikScat's unbroken data record. After its launch in a few months, RapidScat will watch ocean winds from the International Space Station (ISS) for a two-year mission.
Using data from NASA's QuikScat, weather forecasters were able to predict hazardous weather events over oceans 6 to 12 hours earlier than before these data were available. Orange areas show where winds are blowing the hardest and blue shows relatively light winds. (NASA)
Written by Stephanie L. Smith NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA – NASA successfully beamed a high-definition video 260 miles from the International Space Station to Earth Thursday using a new laser communications instrument.
Transmission of "Hello, World!" as a video message was the first 175-megabit communication for the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS), a technology demonstration that allows NASA to test methods for communication with future spacecraft using higher bandwidth than radio waves.
Washington, D.C. – It's spring, and all around the northern hemisphere gardeners are planting seeds, tilling soil, and watering crops. Imagine a gardener's surprise, however, if water from the hose, instead of hitting the soil and sinking in, floated up to the sky. Or if the soil itself rose up from the ground and fled the garden.
That's exactly the kind of dilemma astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have faced for years. Without gravity, how do you make your garden grow?
Written by Steven Siceloff NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center, FL – A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft full of NASA cargo, experiments and equipment blazed into orbit Friday, April 18th, aboard the company's Falcon 9 rocket. The astronauts aboard the International Space Station will unload the supplies after the Dragon arrives at the orbiting research laboratory.
The manifest for the uncrewed Dragon includes almost 5,000 pounds of material including a spacewalking suit for astronauts plus related hardware and supplies for more than 150 science investigations to be conducted by the space station crews.
The SpaceX-3 mission soars into the clouds over Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station. Liftoff was during an instantaneous window at 3:25pm EDT. (NASA/Dan Casper)
Washington, D.C. – International Space Station Program officials, the international partners and representatives of SpaceX agreed Sunday to proceed with Monday's scheduled launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and its Dragon cargo craft on the company's third commercial resupply mission to the orbital laboratory.
After a series of meetings and reviews of procedures, flight controllers, engineers and managers concluded that the SpaceX-3 mission could be conducted as planned without violating any launch commit criteria despite the loss Friday of a backup computer command relay box called a multiplexer/demultiplexer (MDM) that resides in the station's S0 truss.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon commercial cargo craft on top rests at its launch pad on March 1, 2013, at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)


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BUTTE — A Butte commissioner plans to hold a rally Friday afternoon in a protest against a Montana judge who gave a man a light sentence for raping a teenager.
Commissioner Bill Anderson will use the rally to call for the resignation of District Judge G. Todd Baugh. Baugh has come under national scrutiny recently for his decision to sentence a former Billings teacher to 30 days in jail for raping a 14-year-old girl.
Baugh, 71, sentenced Stacey Dean Rambold, 54, to 15 years with all but 31 days suspended from the sentence. The judge also credited Rambold for one day already spent in jai.
Anderson told the Montana Standard Thursday that it is "morally reprehensible" for the judge to give such a lenient sentence to a man who carried on a sexual relationship with the 14-old-girl in 2008. The victim ended up committing suicide when she was 16, while the rape cased was still pending.
Anderson said he wanted to hold this rally to show how appalled he is by the Baugh's decision.
"He isn't a local judge, but this reflects badly on all of us in Montana," Anderson said.
The rally will begin at noon on the front steps of the Butte Courthouse at 155 W. Granite St. The public is welcome to attend. Anderson said he was still trying to find people to speak at the rally Thursday afternoon.


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The Two Types of Yeatsians
Posted: June 17, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
This is a piece I wrote for Penguin Plays Rough about a year and a half ago, performed in the State Library of NSW in a room that was 100% haunted by things.
I was inspired to look at the story again because last week was William Butler Yeats's 149th birthday.
Happy birthday, Willie! Enjoy this story and please don't sue, I have good intentions, I promise.
(this is a photo owned by Penguin Plays Rough and is of me reading the story and also inhabiting a fashion phase called 'swiss cheese sleeve')
Hello! Are you a Yeatsian? If you know what a Yeatsian is; if it makes your eyes perk up all soft and gooey, then you are a Yeatsian!
And if you frown a bit at this, roll the word around your mouth for a familiar taste, and, nope, you do not taste anything you know – then you are not a Yeatsian.
But the main way to work out if you're a Yeatsian is – have you forked out 2100 bucks to fly to Sligo to attend a Yeats International Summer School, which is 2 weeks of YEATS YEATS YEATS ALL THE YEATS up in your throat?
Then you are definitely a Yeatsian. And you will meet other Yeatsians. And something odd and electric will happen when you first shake their pale sun-deprived hands – there'll be what we call a "Yeats buzz' – because 2 very unique obsessive souls will have clicked, in a way that is not opportunistic, but genuine.
And this is different from when you're met Irishmen in bars, and they've quoted Yeats at you in the same way you might unenthusiastically plop out a rote-learnt verse of "I Love A Sunburnt Country" – the sort of men who've learnt that a random Yeats quotation to an obsessive Yeatsian is mysterious bra-loosening catnip, while Dorothea McKellar just makes you a little misty-eyed AT BEST.
No, this is different. You are connecting because you share one big weird obsession. You are all the type of people who highlight unattributed Yeats references in Sydney Morning Herald News Review articles and say things like "do they even REALISE they are unknowingly quoting HIM", and so you will latch onto anyone who is like you.
You will join forces at Yeats Summer School, and you will attend lecture after lecture together on William Butler Yeats, and his family, and his homeland, and then all will be well and good, all 'fairies and goblins and clover and prancing' until something changes.
Two camps will suddenly form in this huddled mass of nerds – 2 types of Yeatsians.
There's Type 1 – fans of the idealistic youthful Yeats. Type 1 fans love Willie's early poems. The love for country, for rural life, for folklore and myth as the key to Ireland's cultural identity. And most of all, Type 1 fans love his crippling lack of sexual confidence.
We LOVE this shit. A Nobel Laureate who can't speak to a hottie without nervous-vomming down the front of his cravat? How approachable! How accessible! How come he never considered that the cravat might not be the pussy-magnet he always assumed it was? Never mind!
Young Yeats wrote poems about love and loss and longing that were the 1890s over-share equivalent of that girl on your facebook who's always 'liking' articles about the empowerment of late-life virginity.
A great example of this over-share is Yeats' poem The Wild Swans at Coole, where Yeats is literally bitching out a gaggle of swans for all the boning they're getting up to while he sits alone on the shore, watching his dreams of an heir evaporate into the bright Coole sky.
So that is Yeats Camp 1. I am Yeats Camp 1.
Yeats Camp 2 are the VISION peeps. What is a Vision peep? To tell you the truth, I only sort of know.
If you're an expert on this, then I'm really sorry, but I am about to talk about A Vision with the sort of blithe overconfidence that comes from knowing the low low odds of there being a Type 1 OR Type 2 Yeatsian who is blog-literate enough to be reading this. So, let's go.
From the 1910s, Yeats had started dancing to a new groove. He had been hanging regularly with a Kabbalah expert called Madame Blatavsky, and he liked the shiz this woman had to say.
He'd found a new bunch of friends in an occult group called The Order of the Golden Dawn, friends who thought his cape/cravat combo was a COOL look and not a weird look, and together they hung out at nighttimes talking spirituality and babes.
Their kind of spirituality was based around a bunch of triangles and Stars of Davids doing a bunch of things that made these guys' brain and souls and gonads go WHOA, and so this was well and good.
Because: Yeats wasn't even that sexually frustrated anymore. He'd found a lady to take his flower – just a couple of times – and with that rose well-plucked, he was ready to – you know –
So while he continued to write love-sick poems to his unattainable muse Maud Gonne, these poems were more of the "LOOK WHAT YOU'RE MISSING OUT ON" ilk, and less of the "Please please please touch it" variety.
This left a lot of space in his mind to put sex-trauma in the bottom drawer, and instead work on his wider spiritual journey. Part of that journey entailed asking himself questions like:
- How is life structured? Do we live and then die, or does something spookier happen?
- Is life one straight line, or is a turning, wobbling gyre, a concept that I think means: does life look like one of those slinkys that go downstairs by themselves, connected to a whole bunch of other slinkies, all of them going downstairs at the same time, connected to different parts of their slinky torsos?
- If the end of the world involves a rough beast, its hour come at last, slouching towards Bethlehem to be born – does he mean a massive tan-coloured hybrid of lion + elephant, a Day of Retribution Liophant – some sort of apocalyptic creature with emerald eyes and a long striped trunk – because that would be AMAZING amirite?
Yeats got to a stage of life where he was contemplating all of these big questions –
Would it have eyelashes, this beast?
Can you look it in the eye and survive?
How do I even pronounce 'gyre'?
Yeats put all of these Qs and these As in a book called A Vision, to be forever cherished by the weirdo Type 2 Yeatsians out there.
And obviously, with questions like this taking over your waking and sleeping hours, there's not a lot of room anymore for "where dips the rocky highland of Sleuth Wood in the lake, there lies a leafy island, where flapping herons wake the drowsy water rats".
While that sort of poetry is pretty and dreamy and beautiful, it is quite easily trumped by "THINGS FALL APART. THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD. MERE ANARCHY IS LOOSED UPON THE WORLD".
And this is what brings us to this story's dilemma.
It's the 1917 wedding night of WB Yeats and Georgie Hyde Lees. Maybe their first time alone together. They've only been dating for a month. They're in their private marital chamber, and Georgie's got her copy of "The Celtic Twilight" clutched to her bosom.
"You are Diarmid and I am Grania! Let me free your love harp like Cathleen ni Houlihan freed the hills of Erin! We can roleplay Deirde and Naoise if you like, but I am not cool with blackface!"
And eyes brimming with hope – erotic hope – she waits for Willie's sexy, floaty, fairyland offer in return.
And what she gets is: TURNING AND TURNING IN THE WIDENING GYRE. THE FALCON CANNOT HEAR THE FALCONER.
Whaaaat? This might sound like a risky sex dare from Irish Cosmo, but it is nothing nearly as good as that.
This is not what Georgie wants. What happened to soft words, romance words? Why is the occult in her bridal chamber? Why have dudes gotta be so fucking complicated?
This is a test. This is about what Georgie can offer William, beyond his basic "human needs", aka "rogering".
Is Georgie his spiritual equal, or just a young girl who has been swept away into something bigger than she realised? And if so: what is she meant to do about it?
Think carefully Georgie. A lot rides on this. Think. Think.
And so she thinks. And she decides.
And she raises her eyes somewhere higher. Her mind and her body and her love are not enough for this union. Not enough to keep this old man and this young girl together, properly so, in the way that she wants.
A higher plane is needed, an avenue she had not considered open til now, until circumstance makes it essential.
So she picks up a pen.
She closes her eyes.
And says something like, "there's a voice speaking through me, and I need to write it down. I've always had this gift. I've never told anyone before."
And the poet's eyes prick up, like a tipsy Yeatsian noticing another tipsy Yeatsian in a bar called Shoot the Crows around closing time, on the final night of Yeats Summer School.
"Do you really, Mrs Yeats?"
"She's beyond the grave, and speaking to me. She wants to be heard. Shall I write down what she says?"
And she pours voices onto pages, for him.
Voices he connects to time and people before and after him, different narratives from different slinkies, knotted together on the great circular staircase of many, many lives.
And as she writes these findings, these dredgings, of past life, of the hope for new love, this is the vision we are left with.
For him, the life he wants.
For her, the concession she'll make.
For the rest of us: a mystery.
Christmas with the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
Posted: June 9, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Christmas, Gay Men's Chorus, San Francisco, San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus Leave a comment
The thing about Would Jess Like It that you may have noticed by now is that there's not a lot of rigour to my posting. Usually I update this blog when I'm between playwriting projects and looking for a creative outlet, because if I go for too long without writing I end up spending all day in bed watching Parks and Rec and crying solely at the happy bits.
Therefore, I save up little scraps of valuable and memorable past experiences for these exact moments, easy little starting points for a creative undertaking that will take me less than thirty minutes to do, and will then let me get back to important things like meal planning and dog analysis.
One such creative scrap I have saved up is my experience seeing the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus at Christmas time in 2013. But first, you need some context.
I was in San Francisco in December, and it was a little cold and lonely. I had just left some of my favourite people in the world behind in Singapore, and spent too little time with my childhood best friend in Los Angeles, only to find myself alone, without any of these people, in San Francisco.
I had also had my jacket stolen, because apparently people steal jackets. An ex-cop called Kevin tried to help me find it, and that was a fun story, but not the story I'm telling you today.
Lost in the pockets of my jacket were a significant heirloom beanie that had belonged to my grandmother, and a series of business cards that described me as "playwright and dog enthusiast". It was a low day, indeed.
I was also staying in a hotel way too posh for my liking, with all the requisite clinical robotic interaction from staff that I'm not so good at dealing with. I like my customer service to be robust, flawed, and verging on TMI. I don't want some smooth operator with straight hair, high heels and prowess with credit card swiping. It just doesn't work for me.
The other thing about this hotel is that the walls were paper-thin and the rotating bevvy of neighbours during my stay were all there for one thing: 6am morning sex.
I don't know if this is some niche San Francisco tourist bucket-list item, but these people were punctual, and they were loud. I would shiver in my coatless loneliness, turn up MTV to drown out their sounds, and try to work out my itinerary for the day.
One of my days in town had been earmarked for a hipster walking tour of San Francisco. This had been recommended to me by my sister Roz, who actually researches trips ahead of time, instead of waiting til she's in a hotel room buffered on all sides by moaning Gen Xers. She told me about a tour called Wild SF Tours and I decided: why not give it a go.
I left my hotel in my new coat (thanks for trying, Kevin), made significant eye contact with the neighbours, also leaving their room for probably some gatorade and carb-loading, and joined the tour.
It was a great tour, but that's also not the story I'm telling today, so go on the tour yourself and write your own blog about it. I'm mentioning the tour because the guy leading it walked us past the Castro Theatre and said "hey, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus is playing a Christmas show tonight. It's going to be amazing. You guys should go."
I got chatting with a very nice and extremely well-travelled woman named Jennifer and we decided that as people with no one to hang out with on Christmas, we would go see the show together.
And WHAT. A. SHOW.
The first moment I realised how amazing it was going to be was when two men came to sit down at the end of my row with a big white fluffy scarf on their lap, except, WHAT?
That's not a big white fluffy scarf! That's a motherfucking BICHON FRISE and that bichon frise is HERE FOR THE SHOW.
It's important to note that this was a one-hour show. There were shows scheduled for 5pm, 7pm, and 9pm. So we knew we wouldn't be in the theatre for long. But that owner of the bichon frise pretty much decided that this was some important shit to experience as a FAMILY.
We were at the 7pm show, which the choir master called "the hump show". Imagine someone saying that to a whole room of gay men and their hags. The hoots were at a frequency that could shatter glass.
Anyway. The bichon loved the show, and I loved the show.
Highlights included:
- The sassy conductor who would not even PAUSE between hilarious jokes, all of which I have forgotten, because of high-tenor excitement and glee.
- The guest singer Marina Harris coming onstage and admitting she had never been to the Castro before. The choir-master responded, "of course you've been to the Castro before; you're either a lesbian or a fag-hag. Normal straight women don't have dresses like that."
- The moment where another guest singer, Matt Alber, spoke about his church background and childhood. He said, "my church kicked me out, but I moved to San Francisco and found a new one." And the whole room erupted with whoops and cheers and cries of support and the waterworks were happening freer and faster than the episode of Parks and Rec where Lesley gets married.
- The chorus sung a bunch of Russian harmonies for solidarity with LGBT people in Russia and it was incredible.
- The whole show had sign language interpreting going on and it was ANIMATED.
- There was one song where the guys all dressed like flowers.
- And this advertisement was in the program.
So, that's my experience with the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. For one hour, I felt like I was part of the warmest, most inclusive community possible. I don't know much about Christmas traditions (I used to think that an official Christmas food was macaroni), but whatever sort of alchemy trailed through the air that night still lives on in my memory, my soul and my spine.
Would Jess Like the Gay Men's Chorus? Oh yes.
American Ice Hockey
Posted: April 27, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 CommentWould Jess Like American Ice Hockey.
Welcome to a slightly belated edition of Would Jess Like It, where I analyse a very interesting activity I participated in during my time in the United States of America.
It all began when my friend Miles told me to keep Saturday night free, because something was happening. This wasn't difficult because I only had three friends in New York at that stage and Miles was easily the most dominant of all of them. (And still is).
So, after a day exploring the bagels of Park Slope, I followed Miles to the intentional living house where his wife Roz and her friend Katie were hanging out. This small glimpse into intentional living taught me that it involves many root vegetables and nice notes about things that are meaningful on the fridge. I liked it.
We then walked to a Zip Car pickup point where I learnt how car-sharing works in New York. You go in, and the dude working in a garage gets the car for you, and then it's all yours for however many hours you book it. Pretty cool! Roz's other friend Heather joined us, and it was GO GO GO. To Long Island!
It had snowed fairly recently and the roads were a bit unpleasant, but Roz got us there without any problems. "There" being a giant "coliseum" out in some part of Long Island. I knew Long Island only from The Great Gatsby, so I expected mainly billowing warm breezes, white linen, and rich jerks. Instead, it was a car park packed with excited people in jerseys who gave me much more of a Myrtle Wilson than Daisy Buchanan vibe.
So we get into the stadium and we're bang on starting time. Except: there's no freaking way I'm entering the stadium until I have purchased American Sport Food. Miles was all "don't miss the American anthem, Jess" and I was all "DON'T MISS THE CHEESE SAUCE THAT COMES IN A VAT, MILES".
I ended up with a $9 six-inch subway sandwich and a $5 bottle of water, and scurried upstairs for the match to take place.
The full name of the place was the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, and you know what that meant? This place had an agenda beyond just subway sandwiches and ice hockey: they were there to HONOUR THE TROOPS.
This meant that every now and then, the roving crowd camera would seek out an Army veteran in the crowd, show them on screen, and we would all have to stand up and honour them. The crowd took this in their stride: they were all very used to the process. Beer drinking and yelling would quickly abort, they would struggle to their feet, and the honouring would begin.
(The camera would also seek out other less venerated members of the crowd, such as kids having their birthdays, couples having anniversaries, and the cleavages of the Ice Babes whose job it was to shovel away ice between quarters wearing a tiny tiny outfit and grinning like it was the most fun they had ever had in their lives. This was the only part of ice hockey that made me feel moral discomfort).
But anyway: the game. Ice hockey is quite a frenetic, exciting game. There is heaps of sliding and smacking and whacking, but all in a fairly respectful matter. Everyone in our party was angling so damn hard for a fight to break out, but no dice. Sad face.
Instead, Miles tried to start a disturbance in our own neck of the woods, all proud home-team supporters, by appropriating the New York Islanders chant into one for the rival team, the Hurricanes, and bellowing it out every single chance he got. I guess Miles' linguistic acuity allowed him to make the judgement call about how well the 3 syllables of the rival team names could work in the same chant. It worked DAMN well.
Imagine a full bleacher of Islander fans being serenaded by Miles's booming voice bellowing "HU-RIC-ANES! HU-RIC-ANES!" Kids were staring, faces crumbled in confusion. Teenagers were mortified on his behalf. Parents didn't know what to do. I had to pretend I was there chaperoning the 16 year olds wearing promise rings next to me, and no friend of this buffoon. No offence Miles.
Miles's behaviour raised a few eyebrows, but no one took the bait and punched him in the face. I think this is a symbol of the way New York has changed into a safer and less violent place in the last few years, because, I know you should never say this, but Miles was SERIOUSLY ASKING FOR IT. If he hadn't given me a free ticket, I probably would have punched him myself.
Anyway, I guess in any sport game there's a winner and a loser (unlike Would Jess Like It where the only contest is "how much fun are you having" ("a little")), so I just had to google who the winners were, and it turns out it was the visiting team. Therefore, a whole bunch of dejected Islanders hot-footed it out of the stadium like it was on fire, returned to their cars and steamed off home, and that was the end of ice hockey.
I had a great night. I tried a new type of processed cheese, I got to meet Roz's friends, it was a nice chance to remember I shouldn't miss Miles THAT much now that he lives in America, and I thought the entertaining brackets between quarters were just delightful, barring the need for gender equality in skimpily-clad ice-babes.
Ice Hockey gets a thumbs up from Would Jess Like It. Would go again.
Band practice in a regional town
Posted: March 31, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 CommentYES.
Those of you who know me fairly well might know I have something of a musical inclination. I was in school band from Year 3 until Year 12. While at University, I played in a local brass band that would occasionally march around churches and play at ANZAC Days. It was a great way to hang out with a group of many sweet old men and maybe 2 very lovely women, and they were some good days.
This week I have been working in an outback Riverina town called Deniliquin. Deniliquin boasts many friendly locals, and a lot of sweet senior citizens. One of these was a poet called David, who I met at the Deniliquin Writer's Group on Monday.
David thought I played the ukulele due to some deceptive publicity in the local paper, and I corrected him. I actually play the euphonium.
"The euphonium?" bellowed David. "Our euphonium player just died! Heart attack walking down the street! Just like that! Come and play the euphonium at our band practice tonight!"
I don't know if any of you have seen the many-laughs-and-feels Jim Carrey vehicle Yes Man, but basically, this was an invitation I would be crazy to reject. So, at 7pm last night I set off to the Deniliquin Municipal Band practice.
(This band used to be a brass band, but due to dwindling numbers, has opened up to allow in saxophone, clarinet, flute and drums. It makes a big difference to the marches, and the couple of woodwind players add essential melodies to the Mozart medley in their practice folder. )
I walked in and met the conductor and my band neighbour, John. John is a sweet man who has patented his own tuba seat for band – it has a clever base on it to hold the tuba in place so it's not too heavy on your legs. I won't give you any more details in case you try to steal John's idea. I would not be cool with that.
John is a bloke who loves music. He told me that he found it really easy to play the band's version of "Climb Every Mountain" until the wife eventually sat him down to watch The Sound of Music. Now, he can't play the song without choking up a little.
This became a glorious joke between John and I for the rest of practice. Any time he made an idle comment along the lines of "this is a beautiful song," I'd turn to him sternly and say "keep it together, John!"
Oh it was great.
I also met my other neighbour Les, who had some useful wordplay to remember his name: "call me Hope-Less! Heh heh heh!"
I sat down awaiting the arrival of my Dead Man's Eupho and received a rude shock. They didn't have his eupho. Wherever it went, it wasn't in the practice hall.
The only spare brass instrument available was the biggest effing tuba I've ever seen in my life.
Important facts: I've never played the tuba. It requires an entirely different use of mouth muscles, and perhaps a lesson or two. And I read bass clef, while all the band's music was treble clef.
You know what, though? It was ok. The conductor gave me an excellent strategy to "ADD THREE FLATS! FLATTEN THE ACCIDENTALS! YOU'LL BE RIGHT!"
He was an great conductor. He was okay with the saxophonist's kids running around in their onesies and with the fact I spent most of rehearsal playing the wrong key signature.
At one stage of the rehearsal, he said something a little bit profound: "There's a lot of different rhythms and sounds going on, but you know what? You're all thinking the same thing."
At the end of rehearsal, I spent a few minutes checking out historic photos of the band. It has been around since at least 1907. A trombonist named Ron ("SOLDIER ON!") showed me a photo from 1957 and pointed himself out in the front row. He was 23.
Thank you, Deniliquin Municipal Band for a night I will treasure. If anyone's interested, we have a gig in a fortnight.
Old buildings with old stories and old flowers
Posted: March 23, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
"I come from a long line of Rotarians. We've always believed that service is the rent you pay on earth."
And with this, Tertia Butcher, Journalist from the Riverina Grazier and descendent of Rotarians, welcomes us to Bishop's Lodge, Hay, on a sunny Saturday.
There's a roomful of people here for an enrichment program run by the volunteers who manage this heritage venue with an enthusiasm and energy that is inspiring to witness.
I think I might be the youngest person in the room – and am already loving the requisite entitlement to be as cheeky as possible – when some of my Year 7 students come in. They've volunteered to film some of the day. They beat me in age and in community spirit. I should be deflated, but I'm inspired.
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On frosty days, we would slide all the way along the wooden slats of the bridge.
If there's one thing I like better than old people with stories, it's interviewers who know just the right questions to ask these old people with stories so that we get the juiciest memories of time gone by.
Luckily, local historian and school teacher Lou Gardam was in charge of running an interview with John and Wal, two men in their 80s who had both lived at Bishop's Lodge when it was a hostel for boys in the 1940s. They had amazing memories of the hierarchies in place: the Bishop was obviously highest up, made clear by his allocation of marmalade on his toast every day.
In order for rural boys to attend the local high school, the Bishop enclosed some of his veranda and made dorm rooms for boys to live in during school term. The dorms only barely insulated from harsh Hay winters, and the showers remained cold throughout the 1940s, but overall it seemed a pretty good life. On weekends, the boys would get free reign to fish in the nearby Murrumbidgee, and would only be harshly disciplined if they stole a noticeable amount of fruit from the neighbours' trees.
The boys were of course required to attend church services at the in-house chapel, sometimes as altar boys. Luckily, Wal dealt with that unwanted responsibility by "knocking off some of the plonk" and getting caught. They also used to eat communion wafer, which I'm sure was delicious.
There's something quite magical about trailing behind a couple of Old Boys in a quiet and subtle enough way that they don't notice me doing so. I followed John and Wal into the Chapel, where one of the local volunteers, David, happened to be playing Danny Boy on the organ.
I've had many surreal moments in my life, but not much beats the following. Imagine a small room with very intense acoustics, a stained glass mural bathing the room in red and green light, two 80 year old men rifling through the pages of a 104 year old Bible, with Danny Boy piping through the air, and perhaps you've got an idea of what it was like.
Having just attended my 10 year high school reunion, I had already noticed how odd it feels to go to your old stomping ground and find that it has changed, and so have you. I remember feeling that parts of the grounds were recognisable, but the paths and the familiar ambling to get to those spots had changed. I'd feel little moments of familiarity, only to have that safety wrenched away. Imagine a 70 year reunion?
No wonder, when asked to re-enter the Chapel for our afternoon amble, Wal said bluntly, "I'm not going in there again."
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"Six months is such a pretty age"
As if we weren't excited enough by the first hand memories of Wal and John, we were then allowed some one-on-one time with the extensive archive collection of Bishop's Lodge.
I was particularly drawn to the story of a Bishop who had come out from Australia with his large family, only to have his six month old son die unexpectedly. His letters to his sister back home call the baby "it". I might only be a wannabe psychologist, but if I can't recognise "distancing to avoid the inevitable descent into traumatic shock, the sort that's hard to extricate oneself from" then I'd better hand back my playwright cap.
This Bishop was a particularly artistic man. He would draw little sketches for his daughter Mary when he was called away from home to minister further outback. He'd sign letters "your silly old Daddy". He seemed a sweet man, even to weathered old femo-atheists like myself.
Special credit goes to one line he wrote in a letter to Mary: "I hope you are not making yourself bilious with too many oranges."
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Rodents can't live in a bulk material. It's like a human in a silo.
At one stage, one of the volunteers from Bishop's Lodge brought up something she had found in the roof of the place. She walked down the aisle between our seats, dangling quite loosely over our heads a heavy-looking wooden contraption.
The old boys had no idea what it was, but luckily a very nice and clearly very competent gentleman named Mr Tuckett had time to ruminate over morning tea, and gave us an extremely comprehensive rundown of the device.
It was a 19th century insulation tool, used to smooth down sawdust into a dense mass and prevent insect life within the roof. Some of you might wonder how that works? Thanks to Mr Tuckett, I can tell you. Rodents can't live in a bulk material. It's like a human in a silo. You get in, and you get stuck. You think, "oh well, I'm stuck, it's ok. I'll wait for someone to rescue me." Wrong. The dense material surrounds you. You start to disperse carbon dioxide amongst the dense material. YOU SUFFOCATE.
No possums for Bishop's Lodge.
(Mr Tuckett also intervened a little later to explain to us the use of acid-free plastics for archiving, but by then I was in prime 'it's nearly time for my fifth cake serving of the morning, so I'd better stare forward and will it so' mode, and so I didn't get to write it down.)
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Oh, forget about the hyrid teas.
Do you know what a tea rose is? I sort of do. It's a form of rose.
Did you know it's controversial? Neither did I. Until I met Coleen.
Coleen is a rose expert. She even wears earrings with roses on them and a ring with roses on it and a hat that has an embroidered rose on it.
Coleen gave us the history of the very important rose varieties in the Bishop's Lodge Garden. She mentioned that "there's a bit of discussion over whether this is a heritage rose or not. Some people say that heritage roses were phased out in 1865 with the introduction of hybrid teas."
Coleen's friend Brendas stopped her abruptly with a firm outstretched hand and said "Oh, Colleen. Forget about the hybrid teas."
So we did.
The garden at Bishop's Lodge is spectacular. There is a ginormous range of roses, some of which are so incredibly perfumed that I forgot all modesty and ego and spent most of our garden tour with head down, bum up, nose inserted into every rose I could find.
Coleen mentioned that the rose garden is a special sanctuary for people who have lost those dear to them, or who are experiencing illness. There are benches throughout to sit and think. There is some wild asparagus too.
The ladies who run the garden have a phrase they like to say: "lives end, but plants go on and on."
This spectacular garden is one way that a little bit of local history can live on. The plants that the Bishop brought over from England are still alive – still passing on moments of beauty, wonder and solace.
That's pretty special, if you ask me.
Turtle Rehabilitation
Posted: February 7, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentYes.
Welcome to an international edition of Would Jess Like It.
Jess is currently on holidays, which usually signals a bit of a respite from the normal breakneck pace at which she updates this blog. However, today something so wonderful happened that it was impossible to leave it unblogged.
Today, Jess witnessed Turtle Rehabilitation.
Here's the deal: I've never really seen a Coast Guard doing anything impressive. Last month in New York, all I could ascertain that coast guards did was escort the Staten Island Ferry to and fro, brandishing a big-ass gun and waving at tourists.
Today I got to see a different sort of Coast Guard, performing a very different sort of responsibility.
Let me set the scene: it's 5.45pm on a stunning beach vista in Mirissa, Sri Lanka. The waves are rough, the leathery tourists are buff, and life was there for the living. I'm happy as a clam, sitting on the sand, reading my personally autographed Colm Toibin novel as the sun sets, when my sister sprints up to me with NEWS.
"There is a turtle rehabilitation centre around the corner. ARE YOU READY FOR THE BEST MOMENT OF YOUR LIFE?!"
I follow Roz, and I see something wonderful. Five tubs of different sorts of turtle, all recovering from various maladies, requiring official Sri Lankan governmental intervention.
And here's where the Coast Guard enters the picture.
At 6.05, they stride up to the tubs looking ready for action. Their uniforms are very impressive: a classy olive green pant and shirt combo, topped with a snazzy beret. They carry a bucket of pilchards and a large silver knife.
One Coast Guard keeps watch while the other Coast Guard wets the knife for better cutting power in some of the turtle bathwater. He lifts pilchards out of the water and chops them firmly into little slices of dead fish – a tail slice, an abdomen slice, a head slice. Each knife slice makes a firm squelch as it slices through fish spine, and I don't want to hurl even a little bit. Because something wonderful is about to happen.
We know it, and the turtles know it: these motherfuckers are getting EXCITED, splashing water through their nostrils and waggling their soft sweet flippers at our gawking mouths.
Each tub is given a feeding deposit; a little pile of fish pieces, and the Coast Guard gestures firmly at the fish. It isn't clear at first what we are meant to do. It becomes clearer when he picks up a piece of fish, waves it above a turtle's head, and then places it back down on the tub.
This is an interactive exercise.
And then it is on. Kids and adults, men and women, all nationalities coming together in their fervent desire to feed the shit out of these turtles.
In each tub, something unique and wonderful is happening. These include: little turtles snapping at each other over fish pieces and splashing us in the process; hand-feeding a large turtle who had lost one of his flippers; the bottom feeding that one particularly shrewd turtle is doing, once he realises that valuable pilchard heads had fallen to the bottom of his rehab tub.
I was flinging fish in there like it was going out of style, wiping errant scales off my fingers with gay abandon. I have never experienced anything quite like it, and perhaps never will again.
Except when I return today at 9am.
Make Your Move: a movie review
Posted: November 18, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentYes.
As you would know, a major mandate of Would Jess Like It is the need to introduce my readers to new experiences, and some of those experiences are GLOBAL.
What I mean by that is that I'm overseas at the moment and so this blog won't be focused on the same old boring topics you've grown accustomed like "dog parks" and "snacking". Instead, today's post is about INTERNATIONAL CINEMATHEQUES, specifically Singaporean ones, and specifically to see a movie called Make Your Move.
This is a movie that is so clearly up my alley that I don't know why I didn't see it YESTERDAY. It ticks every box known to me:
Dance film?
Romeo and Juliet-style doomed romance?
But still a happy ending because dance film?
Saccharin hip hop anthems?
Oh yes sirree bob.
As you can see, this is going to be a wild ride, so you'd best put on your seatbelt.
Make Your Move, the movie.
Do you know who Derek Hough is?
Of course you don't; that's a stupid question.
Derek Hough is a dancer on Dancing With the Stars and his sister is Juliette Hough, who is also a dancer, who dated Ryan Seacrest, and I think we're good on the basics now.
Do you know who Bo A is?
Well you should. I didn't know who she was before this but now I know that she is a TALENTED LADY, who is also a TRIPLE THREAT, or more like OCTUPLE THREAT because she knows about 5 different dance genres really really well.
BoA is a massive star in Korea and Japan, and therefore it was time to introduce her to an American audience, and what better meal ticket to drag her in on than DEREK FUCKIN' HOUGH?
Oh. Many other meal tickets. Ah well.
This film is well produced. There's a shitload of Korean backers making it an indie film on a respectable budget, and the writer is a little known guy called WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE but I'm happy to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Oh alright, I guess it's BASED on Shakespeare; the real writer is just as good though – he wrote Save the Last Dance and Step Up 35 so I know I am going to feel things in the next 2 hours.
First though, a little introduction to Singaporean cinemas. I visited Golden Village Tiong Bahru, which stocks candy bar items including popcorn, nachos and pasta. I bought none: I had notes to write.
Another thing about cinemas here is that they don't let you waltz in any old time; there is a schedule that Lee Kuan Yew himself would be proud of. It goes like this:
- Before the show: buy the ticket and book your seat on a laminated seating map.
- Ten minutes before the show AND NOT EARLIER: the cinema is open for admission, and you know this because in the scrolling header above the entry it tells you which cinemas are open for admission. If your cinema is not on that list, then don't try and enter it yet, you fool, or a teenager will laugh at you!
- Five minutes before the show: other audience members filter in after you, so you're no longer the only person in the cinema. They look at your notebook and they wonder if you're a famous choreographer here on a "research trip" and you don't let them know otherwise.
- The previews start, and they are very loud, and the cinema is very cold, but I am in this for the long haul, so I deal with it. The warning to turn off our mobile phones is in the form of a Walking With Dinosaurs promo where a ringing phone pisses off a T-Rex so severely that it punches its nose through some glass and roars threateningly into the cinema. This T-Rex will now be my internal image of Singapore's many draconian punishments and rules. Don't eat on the MRT or a T-Rex will kill you! Is that a durian? Do you want a stegosaurus to rape you? And so on.
So the movie starts and all we see is a buff dude with swagger wearing boots. Or wait a minute – are those TAP SHOES?
This man is a dancer with a capital DANCER, and he shows us just how DANCER over the next 3 minutes where he taps the hell out of his shoes before getting interrupted by Office Buzzkill, his Parole Officer.
This guy has a Parole Officer? Meaning he went to jail? But he seems so nice! This movie already has depth. The Parole Officer warns Blonde Donny that he can't dance out the front of that bar. His parole conditions don't let him near no bar. But New Orleans has a bar every corner, pleads Donny! It falls on deaf ears. Justice sucks balls sometimes.
Donny hates the parole officer and I hate the parole officer. As the buzzkill skulks off, Donny says "if that PO keeps busting my chops I'm gonna swing him one day" and I don't blame you Donny.
Anyway, suddenly Donny skips town. He's got 6 months left on parole but he tells his friend to tell Officer Buzzkill he's "working the pipeline" somewhere, and he's off to Brooklyn to meet his brother Nick who runs THE BEST CLUB IN TOWN in Brooklyn.
Cue New York montage with excellent K-Pop song to accompany it. Donny arrives and gets picked up by Nick, who is actually African American!
YA-WHAAAAAA says every script writer in the room who worked on this movie? Better explain this freak occurrence at least 3 more times over the course of this film! Turns out Donny got fostered by Nick's parents when his own folks skipped town. They're just like brothers though. How sweet.
But here's something Donny sure didn't bet on: entering Brooklyn in the midst of a FIERY BOUT OF WARFARE between two previous friends who are now sworn enemies.
These two households are both alike in dignity, in that both patriarchs of both households just wanted to run successful watering holes where people can watch hotties breakdance. Something went really wrong a little while ago though, and now Kaz Capulet and Nick Montague hate each other, hard.
What went wrong is that a wormy businessman who is meant to be the "Paris" character here got between them, formed wedges between two BFFs and now he runs Kaz's new club. We get a few insights into how to run a successful club. They include courting the bloggers, as I learn when Nick hugs a bespectacled lady and says "HEY, how's my favourite blogger?" and then leaves her by herself again.
A bunch of boring things happen that lead to us meeting Kaz's sister, Aya, played by superstar Bo A. Her and Donny meet at a club and it is just as powerful as the Baz Luhrman fishtank meeting scene, but imagine tap-dancing courtship thrown in as well, and Juliet in jewel-encrusted streetwear.
The tap dance battle is commentated for us so we know what's going on. And what's going on is that "she's met her match, ladies and gentlemen!"
It's so beautiful.
Things start to escalate in this turf war – both families yell at each other at some empty crossroads in Brooklyn – this is not a Lena Dunham sort of Brooklyn – and there are shootings of each club's turf so that the shooting can be filmed and uploaded onto YouTube later with a flashing red caption underneath going "DON'T GO TO THIS CLUB, THERE'S SHOOTING THERE, COME TO NICK'S CLUB INSTEAD!"
In fact, social media plays a much bigger role here than it did it ancient Verona. Whenever something important happens, we hear that it exploded on YouTube, Facebook, FourSquare and Yelp.
Talk about uncanny valley: as if anyone would believe that anyone uses Yelp.
The gang war continues despite the fact that it's all just a very easily untangled misunderstanding, but it does allow for lines like "I know you've gained a lot…but how much of yourself have you given up?" and I love that line SO MUCH and I want to know if anyone has ever actually said that line in real life. If so, please let me know, so I can start doing whatever you're doing right.
Meanwhile, Donny and Aya are falling for each other, hard. They've shared a few dance numbers, some powerful lyrical contemporary choreographed by Tabitha and Napoleon, so you know it's real.
Donny's so pissed at his brother's war with Kaz that he's sleeping on the floor of a huge and beautiful abandoned church and doesn't have any of his things with him, not even a mobile charger, and yet he can still text Aya all the time, and am I the only one who finds this irksome? If this was MY film, he'd be going "soz babes, I'm on 5%, if you're that serious about this thing we got going, buy me a charger."
They finally have sex; or at least I think so. It's very symbolical. What I mean by this is they do a dance with some very suggestive moves, and then each move starts to entail peeling pieces of clothes off each other, and this career-specific seduction made me laugh, which the other 2 people in the audience did not like.
The next morning Donny's brother Nick learns that Donny and Aya are getting jiggy with it, and he says crudely to Donny, "now I know why you danced like you had a hard-on" and I bellow one big hearty foghorn laugh and the others do not join me.
This is a complicated film and a lot more things happen, and some are good and some are bad, but finally Donny organises a gig for Aya's taiko-drumming-cum-dance troupe to get the exposure they so desperately need, and they get an agent, and she gets a Visa, and he returns to New Orleans to finish his parole, but you know that these guys are going to stay together forever, distance don't mean a thing, you don't doubt it for a minute.
What makes it an even happier ending is that when they're all joy-dancing in the final number, Donny goes to his brother Nick, all "hey man, bring out the saxophone" and Nick's like "aw man, not the saxophone" and I'm all like "YES the SAXOPHONE!" and the next thing we see is Nick ROCKING THE SAX like he's the reincarnation of Coltrane, and everybody DANCES.
Anyway the music wraps up and yay happy ending, and the credits roll for 20 seconds and then BAM, the floodlights roar on in the cinema and everyone hightails it the fuck out of there, until it's just me and the teenager who has already once laughed at me today, and he's cleaning the aisles and prepping the cinema for the next show, so even though I want to know how many Assistants Derek Hough required for the shoot, I leave.
This was a wonderful experience that I would not repeat in a hurry. Both thumbs up.


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WINDBER, Pa. -- Thousands of schools across the country, including several in the Johnstown region, took part in a national initiative this morning called the Great Shakeout. It's an earthquake preparedness drill that's now required by the federal government.
What should a person do if there is an earthquake? Well, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, drop, take cover and hold on until the shaking stops. And that's what millions of kids across the country were practicing in school Thursday morning, including students in Windber.
"It's been different than the other drills that we've done," said Lisa James, principal of the public middle and high schools there. "This time, students were told to drop down, cover their heads and hold on, take cover under your desk, do something if they can find a place where there's protection."
Most students are accustomed to the monthly fire drill, the yearly tornado drill and now, unfortunately, active shooter scenarios. But earthquake preparedness isn't something Pennsylvanians typically worried about until a 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit Virginia in 2011. The effects were felt in Pennsylvania, too.
"I have learned, unfortunately, that we have to be prepared for everything," said James. "And most importantly, we want to keep our kids safe, so it's just another precaution."
And it's not just schools that are taking part in the drill. Emergency management agencies were also standing by to show students the importance of being prepared.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Four members of the same family, who owned and operated a series of Miami Durable Medicare Equipment (DME) companies and Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facilities have each been sentenced to 57 months in prison for Medicare fraud, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District of Florida announced today.
Carlos Berenguer, 61, Ivan Aguera, 34, Aristides Berenguer, 64, and Robert Berenguer, 58, were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jose Martinez in Miami. Judge Martinez also ordered each of the four defendants to pay over $1.4 million in restitution for the money they received in false claims. All four defendants pleaded guilty to all charged counts in March 2007.
Brothers Carlos and Aristides Berenguer owned and operated Select Medical Equipment Inc., while another brother, Robert Berenguer, owned and operated Professional Medical Equipment, Inc. Carlos Berenguer's step-son, Ivan Aguera, owned and operated Palm Medical Equipment. Through these companies, the four defendants recruited and paid cash to Medicare patients to participate in schemes to defraud Medicare. These schemes involved the submission of false claims to Medicare for unnecessary oxygen concentrators and "compounded" aerosol medications. Compounding refers to the process of a pharmacist making medication as opposed to it being made by a pharmaceutical manufacturer.
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I live in Florida and have a 2465 sq. ft. home. The home is cooled by a 5 ton system and a 3 ton system which are both 10 year old builder models. The HVAC salesman says that instead of buying two units, the J Manual says that I need 58,000 BTU's to heat and cool, and that it can be done with one 5 ton HP using barametric dampers, a 3 zone control board, 3 thermostats, and a variable speed AH. The old 3 ton controlled the temp. in two rooms: one 225 sq. ft. and the other 550 sq. ft. The other 1700 sq. ft. 12 foot ceiling is controlled by the 5 ton. He says that by installing barametic dampers that would limit the amount of air sent through the ducts and channel the excess to the return, I could eliminate a short cycle problem if I install a HP with a 2 stage scroll compressor instead of a one stage compressor. In that way he says the full power of the HP would not be utilized unless it was needed, and my short cycle problem would not exist. Does this make any sense? I am so confused. For 10 years I lived with a two unit system, and now I am told that it could all be done with one until. I will be going from 8 tons down to 5 tons, but if 8 tons were unnecessary, than maybe the original system was flawed? Thanks for your help. Lenore |
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The entire Koko Head Shooting Complex remains closed for remediation work. Not withstanding a KITV News report, the opening is planned Wednesday for noon, Jan 29, 2014, per Rangemaster Mike Muramoto. The work is progressing nicely. As of 1:30 pm this afternoon, it appears that the Rifle Range eyebrow is framed and 1/3 roofed, the large sandpiles have been distributed from the 50 yard target line to the backstop, and there are large piles of clean dirt at the 100 yard target line ready to resurface the backstop. Mahalo to Mayor Caldwell, Parks Director Toni Robinson, Rangemaster Mike Muramoto, and all the County employees who are working so expeditiously to re-open the ranges. Max Cooper |
Koko Head Complex Closed
Sign on the Rifle Range as of yesterday, confirmed by R.O.'s on site today:
Koko Head Complex is closed completely Jan 13-29 for remediation work. Mahalo for your patience.
Presumably the work on the backstop and the eyebrows begins.
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5 '90s Pop Stars Who Took Up Acting as a Second Job
Cinematic Listology By Samantha Wilson on April 15, 2014 | Be the First To CommentWe've all probably contemplated a career change at some points in our lives. But at the same time, we also probably didn't (most of us, I don't know about you) start out as multi-award winning pop stars beloved by millions for our singing and dancing. Proving that even the richest and most famous get bored or at least hear from an agent or two that they're something special, many a pop sensation get the itch sometime down the road to give acting a shot. Whether or not they're successful, well, that's up for us to sit through and ultimately decide. For every On The Line, there's an Oscar-winning performance in Moonstruck that somehow happens. Some people just have all the luck.
The Morning Read: 2013's Winners, an Indie Icon Quits and 'Anchorman' Throws a Trident
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New 'Great Gatsby' Trailer: Boogie to Beyoncé
Movie News By Nathan Adams on April 4, 2013 | Be the First To CommentThe Great Gatsby may tell a story that was set in the Roaring Twenties, but it's also a Baz Luhrmann film, so there should never have been any doubt that it was going to be packed to the brim with music from some of today's most famous artists. Want to get a taste of what it has in store, sonically? Well, you're in luck, because this new trailer for the film shows some of the music off. It features a track that teams up Beyoncé and Andre 3000, new stuff from Lana Del Rey, and a contribution from Florence and the Machine, all packed into a little over two and a half minutes. The music that Luhrmann hired producer Jay Z to put together for the film isn't the only thing this new trailer shows off either. The ads we've seen up to this point have hinted at what F. Scott Fitzgerald's legendary story is all about, but mostly they've focused on showing off the visual style of Luhrmann. This new trailer digs much deeper into the Gatsby's pursuit of married woman Daisy Buchanan, and it does a great job of selling how passionate their indiscretions are, and how dangerous the consequences their infidelities are likely to become.
Celebrities: Please Don't Make Movies About Yourselves
Features By Christopher Campbell on December 8, 2012 | Comments (1)"When Danny asked me to make the film, I knew right away I had the opportunity to pay tribute to a skateboarder I admired and tell a human story that fed my filmmaking soul. When Danny calls and asks, you don't say no." – Jacob Rosenberg, director of Waiting for Lightning There is no real way of knowing, just by watching it, that the new documentary Waiting for Lightning is a work commissioned by its own subject. The above quote comes from an interview in the press notes, and after reading it, I decided that the film is even worse than I already thought. Something just rubs me the wrong way about a prominent person having a movie made about himself. It reminds me of Triumph of the Will, especially the opening. This isn't to say that I think legendary pro skateboarder Danny Way is comparable to Hitler in the worst of aspects, just in the narcissism sense.
Beyonce Directs New Documentary About Beyonce That Was Also Shot on Beyonce's Laptop
Movie News By Kate Erbland on November 26, 2012 | Be the First To CommentHBO has today announced their acquisition of a star-studded new feature-length documentary that they will debut early next year. In this case, "star-studded" applies only if you're willing to "stud" things with just one "star" (a huge one, though), because this new doc is a film about performer Beyonce, directed by Beyonce, executive produced by Beyonce, that has been partially filmed on the laptop computer of, you guessed it, Beyonce. Yes, this is the doc equivalent of "write what you know." The film is described as an "intimate" look at the Grammy Award winner, that is a "fusion of video that provides raw, unprecedented access to the private entertainment icon and high-voltage performances." That "fusion of video" will include first-person footage (including that laptop stuff), interviews, performances, and even home videos. No word yet on the title of the film, but we're going with Beyonce. You can check out the full press release after the break, if you need more Beyonce in your life.
Will Tom Cruise Star in 'A Star Is Born'? Oh, Who Knows
Casting Couch By Kate Erbland on March 9, 2012 | Be the First To CommentWhile we certainly all hope that Tom Cruise will return for more of the newly-revitalized Mission: Impossible franchise, he might also be looking to ramp up the musical portion of his career. No, Cruise isn't following in the steps of his son to become a DJ (that's real), but he might just take on the lead role in Clint Eastwood's A Star Is Born remake. We'll next see Cruise rocking out as Stacee Jaxx in Adam Shankman's Rock of Ages, so sure, he could totally be into this project, too. Deadline Rochester reports that "Cruise is talking to Clint Eastwood about joining Beyonce in A Star Is Born" and because he just "morphed into an Axl Rose-like 80s rock icon in Rock of Ages…he'd be able to handle the singing part of that comes with playing an over the hill musician who helps launch the star of an ingenue he falls in love with and who watches him slide while her star soars." But despite this completely rock-solid logic, even Deadline says that they "have no idea if Cruise will say yes." Journalism!
Low Notes: Ryan Murphy to Helm 'One Hit Wonders' With Paltrow, Witherspoon, Diaz, and Beyonce
Casting Couch By Kate Erbland on February 28, 2012 | Comments (1)I am fully aware that I after I reveal what I am about to reveal, I may very well have my Official Lady Card revoked – but I'm willing to accept that. Deadline Harriman reveals that Ryan Murphy has signed a "preemptive deal" in the seven-figures with Sony Pictures to make a film titled One Hit Wonders, a musical comedy that will center on three washed-up pop singers from the '90s who join together to make a super group. The film has yet to be penned, but it will be written specifically for Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, and Cameron Diaz, who will play the singers, along with Beyonce, Andy Samberg, and the rest of the Lonely Island boys in unspecified (but obviously musical) roles. Here comes the part where I throw myself onto the fire – I think this sounds eighteen shades of awful, almost unspeakably terrible. The real kicker for me is this tidbit – "The project came out of a dinner that Murphy had at the Soho House, with Paltrow, Diaz and Witherspoon. They wanted to do something fun together, and kicked around ideas until they settled on One Hit Wonders." How I wish this had just stayed a funny jag between friends and not something that the rest of us have to be subjected to. While musical comedies are usually delightful, something about a pack of Hollywood A-list friends getting together just for the sake of getting together turns my tummy, and the attachment of Ryan Murphy, […]
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