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DANNY TIDWELL IS AMAZING!

Did you get that?

I found this this morning in my YouTube subscriptions, and my immediate reaction was, "TONIA! GET OUT OF THE SHOWER NOW!" Mind you, before I'd even seen it. But it's been nearly a year since I've seen anything Danny has danced - longer since he's done a full routine. The choreography is by Lauren Adams, brilliant as always. The music would kill me even if not set to a performance. But it is, and it's Danny and it's so full of yearning and pain and frustration, it makes me well up. Still can't believe he didn't win Season 3 of So You Think You Can Dance.

Travis Wall

Not an instant fan. Initially, I thought he was a little cocky, saying that he thought he and Martha would do better than most couples...which ended up being true. But this changed all that. His first Bottom 3 solo to The Blower's Daughter choreographed by Lauren Adams. I'd never seen anything like his solo before, and his emotion afterward totally won me over. Not even Benjelle could compete after I saw that solo.



My Favorite Piece of Writing is...because...

I really, really love the Demons fic by pricelessone. It just has a truth to it all the way through, and it touches me. http://pricelessone.livejournal.com/472314.html

Also, I loooove The Most Important Thing...ALWAYS makes me tear up!

Kris Allen

Liked him from the beginning, but didn't think he was a finale contender until Heartless. Love who he is, but can't wrap my mind around the fact that he won the show. Will definitely support him, plan on buying his album. Not liking Kris Allen is like not liking puppies.

Family Vacations

Haha, always long car rides and too-close quarters. Mexico a few years ago was amazing and really bonded us as a family I think, weird as it seems.

Gymanstics Live vs Televised

Well, even though I don't know anything about gymanstics, I will do my best. ;) It looks so much more unreal, impressive and dangerous live. And you really get the sense that these are just ordinary guys and girls flinging themselves around in the air - craziness. TV picks and chooses what it shows you, but live, there's almost too much to take in and you have to choose. You find yourself cheering for absolutely everyone because everyone is out there doing crazy stuff.

pricelessone has given me these 5 topics to write about. Comment if you'd like me to give you 5 topics!

Danny Tidwell
I'd like to start by saying that I could probably do a whole write-up on Mr. Tidwell's thighs, so I will try to be brief. First exposure to him was during So You Think You Can Dance 3, and I drank the Kool-Aid the powers-that-be were pushing about him being arrogant and all that, until around Top 14 when Adam Shankman destroyed his soul after the Apologize contemporary. Then, he came back the next night with the most beautiful 30 second solo I have ever seen, and I became a fan.



I will say without hesitation that he is the most beautiful man I have ever seen with the most impeccable technique. This is not even getting into his incredibly compelling backstory - he has overcome tons just to be able to dance and excell at it. At the 2007 tour, I was able to meet him and he was nothing but sweetness. He is currently in the Broadway show Memphis which is opening soon. I hope to see a lot more from him in the future.

Addiction
I have really no words to explain addiction any better than this amazing dance by Kayla Radomski and Kupono Aweau. If anyone doesn't understand it, watch this:



Adam Lambert
I first saw Adam during the San Francisco auditions during AI8, and I was instantly a fan. Even moreso when I found out that he had understudied as Fiyero in one of my favorite musicals, Wicked. His vocals were unreal and his stage presence was unparalleled. I appreciate his candor, and his emotional connection to what he sings is unlike anything I've witnessed. Above all, I love his outlook on life and that he is who he is without shame.



Anti-Gay Christians
This just makes me angry. Using your religion to hide behind as an excuse to hate is what it is. And Christians are called to love not judge.

Nakotah LaRance in Into The West
I first watched Into The West during the summer of 2005. It was a series that changed my outlook on settlement and Native Americans. During the second-to-last episode, I was captivated by a young Lakota boy named Voices That Carry - played by Nakotah LaRance. He was an intense young man, strongly bonded to his heritage and forced to part with it when he was enrolled in an industrial school intent on Americanizing Lakota children. When the children were made to have their hair cut, Voices That Carry runs away and tries to fight against it. He prays for compassion, waits, and then cuts his own braids off with a knife. He made me feel that loss, as in Lakota tradition, hair is only cut when in mourning. It was perhaps the most moving scene in the entire 9-hour series. I would recommend everyone watching it.

Nakotah is also a world champion hoop dancer. This is definitely worth a watch. I'd never seen anything like it:

After 7 years of waiting, I finally got to see RENT live! I've seen both the 2005 movie and the 2008 DVD, RENT Filmed Live On Broadway, but nothing compares to live theater, especially with Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal themselves, who originated the roles of Mark and Roger back in 1996.

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AI:

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LOST:

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So, I just got through watching this show, and it was absolutely precious. Kristi was MCing and her little girl was there, and Scott was MCing too and his little boy Aidan was there - apparently their kids were born 2 weeks apart. Scott looks a little sick, still. I don't know what's up with his health since the whole benign brain tumor thing, but he looks a little puffy, like he's on steroids. :( Loved the little blurb with his son, though:

Scott: Do you want to tell them your favorite horse?
Aidan: No.
Scott: Do you want to tell them different kinds of horses?
Aidan: No.
Scott: Do you want to say no?
Aidan: Yeah.

So cute! And Aidan looks freakishly similar to what Scott looked like as a child.

Then, there was Jozef Sabovcik and his kids, Blade, who's big now, and Jozef, who looked to be about 2 and not very impressed with anything.

Kurt's programs were adorable. His son, Gabriel, has his eyes.

Jeni Meno and Todd Sand did a program to the Wiggles for their little red-headed baby, Jack. It was so cute.

But really, the show was all about Ekaterina Gordeeva and Ilia Kulik, and Daria (who is now 13!) and little 4-year-old Elizaveta (Liza). Katia and Ilia did awesome singles programs - Liza stole the spotlight, though! During Ilia's number, he was doing some variation of the Robot, and the camera cut to Dasha and Liza - and Dasha was grooving away and Liza was on her lap doing the Robot! It was the funniest thing I've ever seen! So cute!

Then, Daria and Katia skated together. It was awesome! Daria has improved so much since the Mother's Day Special in 2003. There's always something special about seeing Katia skate pairs, but with Daria, it's almost magical - like seeing Gordeeva & Grinkov again. Especially since Dasha looks so much like Sergei... It was really beautiful. And then, at the end, there was Liza... She jumped right off the lap of the person who was holding her, and started clapping with her hands above her head - "Woo! Woooooo!" the whole time, too! It was adorable! She looks exactly like Ilia, too, so it's kind of weird to see her and Dasha together - both feminine clones of their fathers. Kind of cool...

It was a really cute show. Can't wait til next week for the Hilton Figure Skating and Gymnastics special. (On NBC January 15th at 4/3c.) All my favorite things in one show...

7:30 a.m. and I'm all ready for the day. That hasn't happened for awhile. Work starts at 8. Will also be going to the bank and going shopping for the essentials today - the LOST Season 1 DVD, the new Casting Crowns CD, and more Ice Java syrup.

So You Think You Can Dance and a LOST rerun is on tonight. Wednesdays are my TV days.

Gakked from bluegarnet

A child in charge of `6 babies'


By Ellen Barry Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
Tue Sep 6, 9:40 AM ET


In the chaos that was Causeway Boulevard, this group of refugees stood out: a 6-year-old boy walking down the road, holding a 5-month-old, surrounded by five toddlers who followed him around as if he were their leader.

They were holding hands. Three of the children were about 2, and one was wearing only diapers. A 3-year-old girl, who wore colorful barrettes on the ends of her braids, had her 14-month-old brother in tow. The 6-year-old spoke for all of them, and he told rescuers his name was Deamonte Love.

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I don't care if you're a fan or not. The concert sarahsun7 went to, she talked about the "wee girl"--about the age of Brian's son, Baylee--the Backstreet Boys invited up onstage to sing Drowning to, but I really had no. idea. what an amazing story little Evie has, and that the song Drowning literally saved her life.

Go to erilyn's most-recent entry for footage of the story, and Brian and Nick visiting Evie.

I still haven't stopped crying. How amazing. I really needed something this uplifting, and you can't get more uplifting than this.

Stolen from maybethistime

1. Go to http://musicoutfitters.com.
2. Enter the year you graduated from high school* in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year
3. Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline your favorite. Do nothing to the ones you don't remember (or don't care about).

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