Friday, October 26, 2012

Life Lately: One of those Weeks...

You know there are some weeks that just take forever and you feel like you'll never keep it together 'til the end? Yeah. This was one of those weeks. On top of regular school work, I've been interning at the WAM two days a week (which I love), and I've spent 8 extra hours dancing. I'm sure it will all pay off. We've been dancing our socks off trying to prepare for this huge event we are co-presenting tomorrow (10/26) at the Hanover Theater here in Worcester. So excuse me while I place a shameless plug here.


This Friday Clark University and WPI are helping to present An Evening of Swing Dance and music at the Hanover. It's going to be full of big band music, swing dancing (including Lindy Bop and Charleston) and some ballroom styles  for a night of tons of fun. Clark and WPI will also be doing some demonstrations and showcases. I'll be dancing in our Footloose number talked about here which will be awesome. We're also doing this pretty kickin' number involving a whole bunch of different dances. I'm sure WPI will impress too. There's going to be a ton of people there just having a good time. So if you're in the Worcester area tomorrow and aren't going to one of many pre-Halloween parties and like swing music, you should come check it out. Even if you don't know how to dance and just want to come to party with some pretty cool cats that would be coolio daddio (because I am that sad aren't ya glad). All proceeds from the night go to charity so you get to have fun and support a cause! If you want more info you can check out the Hanover's website.

So that's the major thing going on this week. Oh wait, no it's not. So Friday night I'll be swingin' on a star and Saturday I'm going down to New York City for a field trip with the rest of my art history peeps. We'll be hitting up the Met and talking to a bunch of art people so it should prove useful for future careers (at least answer some questions about that scary unknown). So it's going to be a fun, yet exhausting, weekend. I just hope that I live to tell the tale. On Sunday will be pretty chill for me so I'll try to get some research done for a paper. The rest of the ballroom gang is heading to a competition at UCONN so good luck to them! Let the weekend commence!
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Facelift

I was getting bored with my old blog layout so I thought I would switch it up a bit. Please bear with me as I still try to figure this whole html thing out on my own. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. It's good to change.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Over the Weekend: Harvest Fest in Maine

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This weekend was a bit of a change for me. Instead of the usual weekend fun of catching up on whatever sleep I missed over the week, Amanda and I headed up to Maine/New Hampshire to partake in some Autumn activities. This weekend York, ME held their annual Harvest Fest and on Saturday, we road tripped up to check it out. One of my bestest friends Katie is from York and she took me and a few friends last year and I had such a good time that I just had to go back. Here's a little flashback of those fun times:

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Look at all of that love on a beach in the fall! Anyway, we left Saturday morning and returned later that night. Some of the highlights were the local crowds, the beautiful weather, the questionable animal park, and THE FOOD! Here are a bunch of pics I was able to capture (with my new camera!!!!!!!!).

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Obligatory road trip self-portrait.

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Mirror shot in the super sad (and fairly racist) Fun Haus.


I bought a two tier wire fruit basket and had to carry it around. Definitely felt like a crazy person.

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Kickin' pick guard

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Def Leppard and Disney LPs in the same area? Yes please.

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Delicious lobster roll and fried clam bellies. I love New England.

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Amanda cheesing it up while eating apple crisp.

After we were fested out, we headed down to Portsmouth, NH which is only about 15 minutes away and walked around downtown and grabbed a bite for dinner. It is such an odd city that feels like if a college town had a baby with the Twilight Zone. It also looks like you can't live there if you don't own at least three dogs. I really dig its vibe though. 

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We of course stopped in at Bull Moose to check out all of the movies/music they had to offer. Amanda picked out some great DVDs while I picked up two more records. One of them was my first 45 and I completely forgot that you need to add something to my player for them to work. Bummer. It was quite an exhausting day but so much fun. How was your weekend?

What I'm Listening To: Mika

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In case you didn't know, I am a massive Mika maniac (yeah for alliterations!!!). He is just a bundle of fun wrapped up in an attractive Brittish shell. Well his new album (The Origin of Love) was just released and so far I am loving it. I'm pretty sure my favorite song of his is still "Grace Kelly," but let me tell you "Elle me dit" (or "Emily" for the English version) is quickly rising to the top of the list. Seriously, how can you be sad when listening to him? His voice sounds like what an angel at a disco would sound like. You can just tell he's having fun and wants to share his experience with the rest of the world. That's not saying that he doesn't have a more subdued sound, and those add a nice respite to a kickin' album ("Underwater" is quite nice). Maybe it's because he brings back such great memories of my sister and I driving around and blaring/singing off key to both Life in Cartoon Motion and The Boy Who Knew Too Much. Such good times, and I'm kinda bummed that she won't be here to experience this new album with me. She'll be up in about a month for a visit so we'll probably have to have our Mika dance time then. I guess I'll wait, but until then, I wanted to share the love that is Mika. Check it out. If you haven't heard of him before, here are a few of my all time favorites. Let me know what you think.


Monday, October 15, 2012

I'm Obsessed: The League


This is one of those posts where I think there might be too many things that I'm obsessing about to put them all into words. I started watching The League last year on Netflix just because it looked fun, and I'm never on top of things enough to catch it on the actual TV. Let's be frank shall we. I like football which might not be a big deal, but I feel like I'm a slight anomaly because I prefer college football to the NFL. I'll watch a pro  game if I'm with people, but I really don't have a team that I really support. I also have no idea how fantasy football works. I think this combination initially turned me off The League since it is really all about a group of friends and how they deal with their fantasy league. It's not necessarily the football that intrigues me (although there are a ton of cameos made by actual players), it's the one liners and characters. Every single person shines.Taco, Andre, Ruxin, Kevin, Jenny, and Pete instantly pull you in to their little screwed up world where the only thing that matters, is winning. Whether or not you like football, you have got to check this out. Way to go FX for making another hilarious comedy. The third seasons was just put up on Netflix and well worth a looksie. Let me know what you think. Have you experienced The League?


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