PRANCERCISE

This is my favorite video of the moment.  Props to this woman for hitting it hard.

I'm pretty sure this isn't just exercise, it's older people go-to dance repertory for weddings, checking out a concert, maybe the occasional community center mixer...

Here is a decent Prancercise article.

Then again, while I giggle at this poor entrepreneurial woman and her exercise strategy, I did invent 'mouncing time' as a child... like pouncing, just with an M.  Go figure.

What we do to stay fit... sigh.

mollusks for all of us

This is awesome... although I guess they can chew through cement and might carry meningitis, two things that are debatably not awesome.  Not sure why i have such a serious love of mollusks.

poetry schmoetry

I was on a recent kid poem kick for a random reason, and I've been filtering through a lot of Shel Silverstein. Obviously every kid is exposed to his poems through grade school, but I was never really interested in spending a lot of time reading his writings.  Anyways, found the selection below in my word wanderings, and I'm just not sure how I feel about it.  For kids, sure, but it seems overly obvious and 'life-advice-y' in a sense that if anyone questioned it, I don't think the questions could be answered. I don't like wasted words, I often question my choices and I value others' opinions as someone who often questions their choices/decisions.  

Dear Mr. Shel Silverstein,

Speaking from current and historic self-experience, what if your voice is really indecisive?  What if it has good intuition, but is vague beyond that?  I need directions to back up instincts sometimes, where do those come from, careful guesswork?  What if I like running my trickier thoughts by friends and people that every now and then just know better?  What if I am too cautious to follow these inner clues and I miss out?

This is either a waste of time or a needed procrastination device.  You decide.

All it Takes... a mental spring bloom

One callback audition with several fantastic dancers, one night full of thought post-audition, and my mind that was full of tentative half formed ideas is working like a beehive full of the world's happiest and buzziest bees.

My brain (probably other people's brains too, but who knows) is a funny place.  I am SO excited to embark on new work, my first 'real' new work since Mythos:Pathos, and my brain is literally chiseling away at four separate ideas all at the same time right now.  Yes, even as I write this blog entry.  My silly head is even trying to spark brand new ideas, outside of the four I am committing to at the start of this project.  I have never said this before, but slow down, thoughts!  I feel very grateful for my never-ending stream of inspiration... if it ever dries up, that'll be the end of me.

I am excited to start sharing some of the specifics and process behind these pieces, but I am going to wait until we have finalized casting and a rehearsal schedule.  Stay tuned, it won't be long ;)

To the gentleman in the Camaro that sounds like a landing spaceship outside my house...

...I am not impressed.  Go overcompensate elsewhere.