Some of them get the catchiest tunes stuck in my brain!
Current faves:
"Love" by Matt White
Janelle Monáe's "Tightrope"
Nov 21, 2010
Aug 15, 2010
Abso-frickin-lutely
I am too positive to be doubtful. Too optimistic to be fearful. And too determined to be defeated.
- Unknown
- Unknown
Aug 12, 2010
La Musique
"Crabbuckit by K-Os
"So Beautiful" and "Lovers Kiss" - Jarvis Church
"Club Can't handle me" - Flo Rida
"Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum
"Glitter in the Air" - Pink
"Beautiful World (We're All Here)" - Jim Brickman
"Touch" - Natasha Bedingfield
"So Beautiful" and "Lovers Kiss" - Jarvis Church
"Club Can't handle me" - Flo Rida
"Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum
"Glitter in the Air" - Pink
"Beautiful World (We're All Here)" - Jim Brickman
"Touch" - Natasha Bedingfield
May 31, 2010
FENCES
From an article on the revival of August Wilson's FENCES on Broadway:
Kenny Leon says his actors need flexibility and truthfulness. "They have to be able to stand in the truth, not beside it, not next to it, but in it. A great production has three things: faith and trust in the director, faith and trust in the performer, and faith and trust in the words. Say the words specifically as written to hear the poetry. August has a song. I want actors who can honor that specificity."
Denzel Washington says his biggest challenge is that, "The language and rhythms are familiar. But the line structure and the sentence structure are specific." Once you think you know Wilson, you're in danger of missing the subtleties, he adds, commenting that Shakespeare is in many ways easier than Wilson.
Viola Davis says her challenge is "to leave myself alone and just speak the lines and try to be open to what others give me. Audiences come to the theater for a slice of life, to have the kind of experience they wish they had in church, an experience that's divine. And you can only have a divine experience if you're moved, and you can only be moved if something familiar and honest is happening." She feels an added responsibility because "Wilson, like Arthur Miller, created the everyday tragic hero in those simple lives that we often dismiss," she says. "And he's elevated them and given their lives grandeur."
Mykelti Williamson adds it's easy to "get lost in the words and rhythms and think it's so cool to speak his language and forget to tell the truth. We can lose sight of the fact that the characters are real and you have to identify with these characters and find them in yourself."
McKinley Henderson says playing a character in a Wilson play is not all that different from any other character. "It's like cooking greens," he says. "You cut them up into smaller pieces. But first you read the story and understand that your character is there to serve the story. You ask yourself what's his purpose in the story. The character will be there if you give yourself to the story. And then something else takes over, and if I could explain it all, I don't think it would be art."
Kenny Leon says his actors need flexibility and truthfulness. "They have to be able to stand in the truth, not beside it, not next to it, but in it. A great production has three things: faith and trust in the director, faith and trust in the performer, and faith and trust in the words. Say the words specifically as written to hear the poetry. August has a song. I want actors who can honor that specificity."
Denzel Washington says his biggest challenge is that, "The language and rhythms are familiar. But the line structure and the sentence structure are specific." Once you think you know Wilson, you're in danger of missing the subtleties, he adds, commenting that Shakespeare is in many ways easier than Wilson.Viola Davis says her challenge is "to leave myself alone and just speak the lines and try to be open to what others give me. Audiences come to the theater for a slice of life, to have the kind of experience they wish they had in church, an experience that's divine. And you can only have a divine experience if you're moved, and you can only be moved if something familiar and honest is happening." She feels an added responsibility because "Wilson, like Arthur Miller, created the everyday tragic hero in those simple lives that we often dismiss," she says. "And he's elevated them and given their lives grandeur."
Mykelti Williamson adds it's easy to "get lost in the words and rhythms and think it's so cool to speak his language and forget to tell the truth. We can lose sight of the fact that the characters are real and you have to identify with these characters and find them in yourself."
McKinley Henderson says playing a character in a Wilson play is not all that different from any other character. "It's like cooking greens," he says. "You cut them up into smaller pieces. But first you read the story and understand that your character is there to serve the story. You ask yourself what's his purpose in the story. The character will be there if you give yourself to the story. And then something else takes over, and if I could explain it all, I don't think it would be art."
Apr 19, 2010
Encore, la musique!
New York - Alicia Keys
Hey Soul Sister - Train
So Beautiful - Jarvis Church
Just Breathe- Pearl Jam
Hey Soul Sister - Train
So Beautiful - Jarvis Church
Just Breathe- Pearl Jam
Apr 12, 2010
Keep quoting
When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.
-- Cecil Selig
There is no passion to be found playing small- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
-- Nelson Mandela
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow... Perhaps it all will.
-- Albert Einstein
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
-- Helen Keller
-- Cecil Selig
The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
-- Oliver Wendell HolmesThere is no passion to be found playing small- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
-- Nelson Mandela
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow... Perhaps it all will.
-- Albert Einstein
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
-- Helen Keller
Poetry quotes?
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men & women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
-- Conrad Hilton
Let your light shine.
Be a source of strength and courage.
Share your wisdom.
Radiate love.
-- Wilferd Peterson
Successful men & women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
-- Conrad Hilton
Let your light shine.
Be a source of strength and courage.
Share your wisdom.
Radiate love.
-- Wilferd Peterson
Quotes and quotes and quotes...
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
- Robert Schuller
If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything.
- Richard Branson
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
- Stevie Wonder
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
- William James
Life is great. Don't let circumstances and society fool you into believing it's not.
- Adabella Radici
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
- J.D. Rockefeller
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George W. Carver
A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't.
- Jack Dempsey
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.
-- Shmuley Boteach
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Extend your heart and your hand and your soul will be satisfied.
-- Unknown
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
-- Dr. Seuss
Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.
-- Lawrence M. Miller
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
-- Ambrose Redmoon
One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
-- Steve Allen
The reality of life is that your perceptions--right or wrong--influence everything else you do.
-- Roger Birkman
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
-- Anonymous
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
-- William Shakespeare
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the confrontation between the stream & the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance.
-- H.Jackson Brown
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
-- Barbara De Angelis
The past is lost to you forever, and the future isn't yet yours. Now is the only time you own. Use it well.
-- Unknown
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you’ll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
-- Goethe
Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.
-- Carl Bard
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
-- William Arthur Ward
If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, don't drag your feet.
-- Arnot L. Sheppard
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
-- Anais Nin
- Robert Schuller
If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything.
- Richard Branson
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
- Stevie Wonder
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
- William James
Life is great. Don't let circumstances and society fool you into believing it's not.
- Adabella Radici
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
- J.D. Rockefeller
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George W. Carver
A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't.
- Jack Dempsey
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.
-- Shmuley Boteach
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Extend your heart and your hand and your soul will be satisfied.
-- Unknown
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
-- Dr. Seuss
Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.
-- Lawrence M. Miller
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
-- Ambrose Redmoon
One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
-- Steve Allen
The reality of life is that your perceptions--right or wrong--influence everything else you do.
-- Roger Birkman
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
-- Anonymous
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
-- William Shakespeare
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the confrontation between the stream & the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance.
-- H.Jackson Brown
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
-- Barbara De Angelis
The past is lost to you forever, and the future isn't yet yours. Now is the only time you own. Use it well.
-- Unknown
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you’ll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
-- Goethe
Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.
-- Carl Bard
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
-- William Arthur Ward
If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, don't drag your feet.
-- Arnot L. Sheppard
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
-- Anais Nin
Mar 8, 2010
More quotes abound!
Thank you ChangeJourney on Twitter!
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
--St. Francis of Assisi
If you're interested, you'll do what's convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes. -- --John Assaraf
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have 1 less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely. --Jim Rohn
There are no failures--just experiences and your reactions to them. --Tom Krause
Our life is frittered away by detail.... Simplify, simplify. --Henry David Thoreau
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. --William Ward
Life is like riding a bike; to keep your balance, you have to keep moving forward. --Albert Einstein
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase. --Martin Luther King, Jr
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. --Unknown
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. --André Gide
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. --Abraham Lincoln
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
--St. Francis of Assisi
If you're interested, you'll do what's convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes. -- --John Assaraf
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have 1 less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely. --Jim Rohn
There are no failures--just experiences and your reactions to them. --Tom Krause
Our life is frittered away by detail.... Simplify, simplify. --Henry David Thoreau
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. --William Ward
Life is like riding a bike; to keep your balance, you have to keep moving forward. --Albert Einstein
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase. --Martin Luther King, Jr
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. --Unknown
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. --André Gide
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. --Abraham Lincoln
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