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house!
I never blog on Tribe (I do regularly as keryx on Livejournal, if you're there). So you kids don't know that I BOUGHT A HOUSE last week.Technically it's only a contract & not fully bought yet, but "I put a contract on a house" [note UNDER CONTRACT sign in blurry phonecamera photo, though!] sounds uptight and like it might've involved the mafia. It's 92, beautifully restored with its original hardwood floors and pocket doors, has three porches and what I'd call a disturbingly large backyard & is in rather a sketchy neighborhood. I love sketchy neighborhoods! I love my house!
Cross your digits that the inspection this week goes well.
i'm in love
I just got this... painting (it's mixed media, really - part painting and part photo-transfer on canvas).I can't stop looking at it. I bought it, though I rarely buy non-wearable art, because I couldn't stop looking at it in the park, too. It's a Nepali woman whose name apparently is Pashmina, outlined by a Thai Buddha, captured by a woman from Maryland who radiated this wonderful sense of delight in her work.
Mostly? It's just transfixingly beautiful. I had to share. Maybe you'll like it, too.
little teaching breakthroughs
If you've been through any kind of intensive with Carolena, you've probably heard/seen her "how dance & drum came together on the street" story of the 3/4 shimmy. It sounds so easy, right? And yet tons of students struggle with the step, even as they advance beyond the basics in other areas.A few weeks ago, in our fundamentals class, instead of even mentioning the mechanics, I just told what I remember of that story and walked around with them. And lo! If you don't know anything about the whole right-neutral-right-weight-shift thing, and are just being bouncy and womanly... it IS easy. They all got it in roughly 90 seconds. Because? Carolena is a genius.
Also, our students are awesome. That might be a contributing factor! We've been having these tiny classes of committed people, and while that does make paying the studio rent a bit harder, it makes showing up to teach so much more exciting. Now, to figure out how to have big classes of committed people. Without leaving town. *grin*
Tribal Jam!!!!
Is this Saturday!Alright, so pretty much everyone knows this already, but I'm still excited.
technical advice, please?
I'm shopping for a digital camcorder that will mostly end up being used to shoot dance - some practice, some performance, some inside & some out. So pretty much the full spectrum of lighting & sound possibilities. Right now I'm thinking just of shooting more video to develop better dancing/music, but I can imagine also wanting promo video from this thing - both web and DVD.What camera features will I want most? It feels like i basically want EVERYTHING, and I'm not sure what camera would have that.
out!
I missed national Coming Out Day yesterday. And since, as someone else said much more eloquently, it's really not so much about you as it is about all the people who hear it & the interconnection of people in general -I? Am still queer.
what a swell party this is
It's officially my birthday! I now have an enormous photo of myself (the one in this post) framed on the wall as you walk into the door of my apartment. AND an artist's rendition of myself on the facing wall. That's right... even my birthday gifts are apparently self-absorbed. And some are gay. Also, no one listens when you tell them not to bring presents.My peeps are fantastic. They moved my living room into my bedroom. And back. In the time it took me to have a conversation and a couple of cigarettes outside. That's some motivation!
We also had a nice relaxed stage show at Gay Pride this morning. It was not, despite what everyone else in the tribe seems to feel, a bad set - it was just a contained set and on a stage, neither of which we do a lot [I'd also like to say our stage space rarely attacks us, as Garrity pointed out, but I'd be lying if I told you that. We get our fair share of kids, drinkers, heavy winds, the like.] Technically, it was much more controlled and well-executed than our usual performances; it was solid, one of the more consistent performances this iteration of the tribe has done. We've just done so many loud, limit-pushing, interacting with the audience things that a technically good set feels weird, less sexy. Lest you think it was completely dry, though, know that every musician wore sunglasses the entire show.
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