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Name: Scott
Country: United States
State: California
Birthday: 1/12/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: Ballet, Modern Dance, Jazz Dance, Lyrical Jazz Dance, Music (Everything from African Drum Music to Bach to Stravsinky to Sarah Mclachlan to Evanescence to Queen), Sociology, The Apprentice, Survivor, Tennis.
Expertise: Dance, Dance History, Tennis, Literature, Music, Random Cultural and Artsy Stuff. Dance and Music are probably the two things that are probably the two things that have the most influence in my life. Music often says what it is I have to say and dance lets me express those feelings creatively and in many different ways. I also use music as a symbol. More often then not, the videos I post and the songs I put in the "Currently playing" sections of my entries are related to my personal feelings and will often provide further insight into that particular entry. Very rarely are the entry and the song unrelated to one another.
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Industry: Entertainment
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AIM:  LordCirque
Member Since:
10/27/2003
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| OMG, I can't believe Star 100.7 is gone. It's the end of an era. It's now 100.7 Jack FM. THey play the same star music plus a bunch of old stuff, basically their music ranges from the 60s all the way to today. I haven't really listened to it yet, so I'm not sure what I think yet. Granted 100.7 and 94.1 were basically the same station the past few years. Jack is apparently across the country, expanding playlists from 200 songs to over 1000. We'll see if I keep listening or not.
But wow, I can't believe Star is no more. I've listened to that station since I was 12. It was the radio station that brought me to popular and adult alternative music. Many of the bands and songs that have had major influences on me I heard on that station for the first time. I remember so many of the great DJs. The New Guy aka Michael Steele, his show was so funny, I remember when Jen was just Intern Jen on his show, Greg and Anita that eventually just went to Anita, the 80s at Noon with Anita. Jaeger and Kristi, now on 94.1. Greg and Jen with The Daily Dirt. And then there are all the events they have had going. I remember Whirl Till You Hurl and Whril Till You Hurl 2 that they did on The Coaster down at Belmont Park, the 2nd of which set records. Jingle Ball. The 4 people living in a PT Crusier. I really can't believe it. It's seriously the end of an era. Star has been around for so many years. It's really really sad. I feel like I just lost a good friend or a family member.
Please share your memories of Star.
Wow, I just can't get over how shocking this. I can't believe it.
Bye Star!  | | |
| So I was in rehearsal on Tuesday Night was improving the section of the music that I have a solo in and decided to do some turns. So I preped and started turning, was going to try for a triple but only expected a double, though I've done triples many times. Anyway, I get around twice and am like "Whoa I can do 3" well, as I approach the 3rd turn, I realize I have enough momentum to do 4! It was slower than the other 3 turns but it was also very controlled and I didn't fall out of it! WOOHOO I did a CLEAN QUAD!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO
Okay, I'm done bragging now. | | |
| Well, last Saturday and Sunday was the Renaissance Faire. One of my favorite things to do is go to Ren Faires and just relax and enjoy the atmosphere and escape from the real world for a weekend. This Faire marked something new for me. There was a legendary group called Tribe Fendren which everyone nicknamed The Elementals. Well, they disbanded last year so a group of us decided to create a group that was kind of a tribute to them and become The Four Seasons. Well, I was the Winter Fairy for this faire (this may change for next Faire but we'll see). Anyway, I had a lot of fun running around and playing with people. However, this was A LOT harder than I ever would have expected. It was very difficult and very draining having to stay in character for an entire day, it was even harder staying in character for two. We are talking about maybe changing it do only one day next Faire, so we'll see. It's one of the hardest things I've done.
So the day after Faire, I went to an audition for Disney. Traffic sucked and it took 3 hours to get there and I got there just in enough time to grab paper work and then learn the combination. I barely had enough time to strech. So I fill everything out and go to do a few stretches before going in. There were a lot of people at the audition and it was really cramped learning the combination in the studio. It was a large studio and I'd been there for an audition before but it was still difficult finding space to do it. The combination wasn't that hard and was in a style very very similar to my jazz teacher at school. But nerves and my lack of food got to me and I wasn't able to dance very well. I have an extremely sensitive stomach when I'm nervous and any little thing can set it off and I'll be really sick, so before auditions I really don't eat, which has proven a bad idea but I have no idea what else to do. I really liked the combo and I think I should have been able to do very well with it but whatever, I didn't feel very good doing it. I screwed up the easiest things in the combo and I kept opening up my shoulders too soon on the Double Turn to go directly into a Grand Battement. I auditioned in a group of 6 guys and they told two of us to stay after (I unfortunately wanst' one of them) and said thank you very much to the rest of us. I'm hoping that even though I didn't get called for this one, that I'll get some work from them for the summer, they are casting for a ton of stuff they said. We'll see what happens, I'm not too worried about it because I still have a lot to learn before I go into the professional ranks of dance.
So I'm on my way home from the audition and see the exit for CSU Long Beach. I decide to stop off and see what their campus is like, check out their dance studio (they have a great program) and see Elaine, one of my best friends. So I'm wondering around campus trying to find the dance studio and I'm told the studio is near their pyramid. So I had down there and when I get to the pyramid, I stop and look around to see if there is an entrance or something that says "Dance Studio." Well, this woman asks me "Are you an extra?" and I'm like "No" and She asks "Do you want to be an extra?" So I'm like "SURE!" So I go and check in a get seated. Turns out it was a pilot for a TV show about a tennis player or something. I just had to watch a fake basketball game. To add to the randomness, it was directed by the same guy that is dating Serena Williams and I'm a HUGE tennis fan. Anyway, the randomness continues. I look down a few rows in front of me and there is a girl that was in the percussion section in my high school marching band. Then, when they are shoting scenes with the star of the show, I look down in that same row and seated next to her was this red haired guy with curly hair. I think he looks familiar and that I might know him. So we have a break and I go up to him and sure enough, he is one of the perfomers, a jugglar and stilt walker, from the Renaissance Faire I was at for the two previous days.
So that was that weekend. I was exhausted come Tuesday and had a LONG day of dance classes and rehearsals. I found out I'm going to have an even larger solo in one of the pieces than I thought I was going to. I'm really excited about this. There are several times in the piece where I'm the only person on stage, which I'm looking forward to but I'm also really nervous and borderline scared about it, it is going to be my first big solo part really. I've had several feature parts in two other pieces before but nothing like this. It is going to be very good experience for me to have and I hope to have many more experiences in the future like it.
So on the whole, I've had a very long week and I'm exhausted. I didn't even go to ballet this morning. I have to go to work tonight and the rest of the weekend, UGH. Oh well. I need money to pay for my classes.
So yeah, that was my week.
Please comment, you know you want to. Let me know someone actually reads this. | | |
| This is really weird, a few days ago I was subscribed to 15 people, but I come in today and see that I'm only subscribed to 14 people. Now the strange parts are:
- I can't figure out who is gone
- I don't remember deleting anyone
- I don't think I've pissed anyone off that would block me
Strange, if anyone can figure it out any of the above things, let me know. Thank You. | | |
| Well, I'm taking this beginning Jazz class at school just to work on my turns. I'm trying to get a consistent double on my right side and work up to a triple there (which I'm slowly doing every now and then). Well, today the teacher picked 4 of us to create 16 counts of movement, I was the person who ended it. She ended up picking a hip hop song, UGH, one of the guys did Hip Hop, the two girls did musical theatre type stuff, and I just did a jazz full of jumps and turns, thats literally all it was pretty much. Mine was probably too hard for the class and it realy wasn't well thought out but I had about 5 minutes to do so. I didn't know the song and had to come up with stuff the level I class could do (Not easy for me since I like to do outside the box weird stuff). My Combo was:
Start facing upstage- Jump 1/2 to split leap (righ leg in front) land in coupe, step left to prep, Double Outside Turn to the right, lunge to the side, step across kick left arms in opposition L, 1/4 turn to parallel fourth (right for front), Double stag arms in second land in 4th, Double compass turn to the left, Drag to the right, Saut de Basque, pick a pose.
Yeah, it was crap and somewhat ackward, I wish I had a style I was more comfortable with and I was too afraid to get really crazy, Sue even yelled at me and was like "Remember this is Jazz I." My philsophy, it was good for them. HAHAHAHAHA. | | |
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