turns out nyc does just fine on the 4th.
in Thoughts and Feelings
as apartme, apartment mate, apparent reason, bad move, broadway show, building, creeper, crowd, dancing, Eating, fact, few days, fireworks, friend, fun, funny part, gif, gift, girl, good reason, hand, hoda, holding hands, holiday, holidays, hudson river, music, New, new york times, NYC, office, onlookers, reason, Roda, salsa, shake, shake shack, suck, Times, work, Yay
I have to admit: this holiday didn’t suck. It didn’t suck at all, in fact.
Oh, non-sucking holidays are a gift. A GIFT, I tell you. And I have learned to appreciate them as such.
And as my friend and (once again! yay!) apartment-mate Betsy just said: “You have had a very New York few days.”
They included:
- Watching the fireworks over the Hudson River from an office in the New York Times Building. Great view. Great people. Great fun.
- Participating in my very first outdoor Roda (pronounced Hoda) in Columbus Circle. This is where we all sing and practice capoeira. I was nervous. But the crowd seemed to love watching it (with good reason–there are some amazing capoiestas in the group!)
- Salsa dancing to live music in Columbus Circle afterward. What? SO FUN. And then when a strange looking man tried to dance with me, one of my friends grabbed me and quickly told him that “we need to practice.” The funny part is that the friend is a girl. I am not sure what, exactly, we were practicing for, but whatever it is, I hope it calls for some pretty bad salsa dancing between girls. Cause we had that down. And then whenever the creeper would get close, she would just grab my hand, leaving us awkwardly holding hands for no apparent reason to onlookers. Hilarious.
- Eating dinner at the Shake Shack in Times Square. But I didn’t get a shake, which, upon reflection, was a bad move on my part.
So yes, it was a very New York Fourth of July and I have to say that I rather loved it.
I am smiling just thinking of it.
And tomorrow I get to go audition for a Broadway show–something else that is pretty New York, I guess.
to do list.
in Performance
as audition, figure, four hymns, Learn, Mee-nah-mee-nah-mee, melody, music, nevermind, Oops, order, rehearsal, spellcheck, taping, three minutes, vocal exercises, warmup, youtube
Things I need to do in the realm of SOON!: learn four hymns to sing at a memorial on Sunday. Hymns? I think, No problem–I’ll just listen to them on youtube. Except they aren’t on youtube. Which means I have to actually, like, read the notes. Painstakingly. And figure out which note is the melody. [...]
supermoon.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, Thoughts and Feelings
as baby, cape, earth, glow, hard time, kind, life, love, marriage, moon, music, perigee, place, sad today, spoiler, time, today
First things first: the moon. It’s a perigee. Or a supermoon. And though, this makes it sound like the moon should be wearing a cape, it actually just means that the moon is closer to the earth right now than it will be for maybe another twenty or so years. I went on a walk [...]
show!
in Funny Stuff, Performance
as blast, course, date, Definitely, drummer, heart, kind, landenberg, mojo, money, music, one of the guys, sentiment, show, stage, stranger, tonight, way, yellow pants
Tonight’s show. You guys. It was super fun. Like, I still feel it. All smiley and stuff. We played a full set at Mojo Main and there were four of us on stage making a pretty nice wall of music and then there were all these people listening. And the yellow pants club was in [...]
tenterhooks.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, Thoughts and Feelings
as balcony, basis, behavior, blank canvas, boston public library, byob, castles in the sand, date, everything, fad, fragile things, girl, grain of salt, hanging, human experience, kind, Library, life, long time, music, nineteen thirties, ocean, one of the lucky ones, reading, Ridiculous, self-help, shades, silence, something, stairs, subjective word, time, tiny grain, untoward, untoward behavior, variation, woman
I wrote this yesterday, while sitting in the grand and inspiring building known as the Boston Public Library. Rich, a lovely gentleman who works there, showed us some old hanging lightbulbs that date back to the nineteen thirties. He also showed us a balcony that is now closed, due to too many people falling off [...]
bits and pieces.
in Thoughts and Feelings
as bits and pieces, calais, car, colby, elp, everything, farm animals, Fearless, friend sarah, heat, home, lyrics, misnomer, music, news, Peace, pig, Shane, song
I have to wake up early, so I won’t write much. But I will say that one of the best things about friends going to far far away places is when they come back. Shane is home now and this is such lovely news. I drew him a pig playing a guitar as a welcome [...]
boy sets fire.
in Loved Ones, Performance, photography
as administrative assistant, band, bonus, boy sets fire, brother josh, church, church surf, course, crowd, epic, fire, hiatus, michele, music, point, show, stage, Yep
Tonight, I did this. I got to watch boy sets fire’s first show back. It has been a three year hiatus. And it was so good to see them on stage again. Of course my brother Josh was hilarious. And of course they sounded amazing. One of the definite highlights was watching Michele Poplo, the administrative [...]
and good night.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, Performance, Thoughts and Feelings
as but, deep breath, heart, heart and mind, kind, mind and spirit, music, open mic, way, whole heart
Deep breath. Okay, good. And now go! I’m just gonna write…and see what happens, maybe not even edit so much, though just saying that makes me feel all weak inside. And not in a sweet and swoony kind of way. More like in a but-I-want-it-to-be-perfect! kind of way. Okay, so I just got to sing [...]
lots.
in Funny Stuff, Loved Ones, Thoughts and Feelings
as beeline, FRUIT, fruit snack, fruit snacks, good manners, Guy, Jess, Jessica, just, kind, music, MY TOE, Ollie, SNACK, thingies, way
Every moment was mapped out for me between the hours of 2:30 and 9:00 tonight. And it was kind of nice, because everything that I was doing involved either people, music, or dance, and I happen to be in love with all three of those. And it was kind of tiring. And it made me [...]
