2011 Mar 28
My favorite song by Capsule.
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Viewing Category: Creativity
2011 Mar 24
How is it I’ve never seen this? Two of my all-time favorite bands playing together. 2011 Mar 19
 I’m not a Billy Joel fan. But I do remember this album cover. The only problem was that I never really what was up with it. I didn’t realize he was holding a rock. I didn’t know that the album was named “Glass Houses”. Up until a couple days ago, I had always just assumed he was making a silly “Saturday Night Fever” pose. Cuz dang, it sure don’t look like a natural throwing position to me. 2011 Mar 18
 I never got into the whole papercraft thing which was popular a year ago. Mostly because there was nothing I was interested in making (except for a couple motorcycle models). But a few months ago, Bay discovered PaperPokés — the unofficial Pokémon papercraft site. If you’re not familiar with papercraft, it’s basically creating three-dimensional models from paper printouts. All you need is the printout, a scissors, and tape. Having small fingers seems to help as well. You download the .zip or .rar file, and inside there are PDFs that you print out. There’s usually a couple sizes, plus letter or A4 versions. If you need help, there’s also a cool program for the PC called Pepakura Viewer in which you can open a .pdo file (which is in the .zip file) and view a 3D model of the pokemon. You can rotate it and click on a certain piece to highlight, and it will show you the corresponding piece on the printed paper. It’s very cool. Bay has created several of these paper pokémon and they’ve turned out pretty nicely. I’m amazed that he has so much patience to keep at it, as these can take multiple hours to complete. I guess it helps that he is crazy about pokemon!  2011 Mar 17
 Cirque du Soleil’s Dralion show came to town and so we all went to go check it out. It was at the Cedar Park Center, which is about 10 minutes away from us (so convenient!). As usual the Cirque du Soleil production was great! The theme seemed to feature four different cultures: Indian, African, Southeast Asian, and European. The show starts out with the “clowns” who speak some kind of strange language that vaguely resembles a romance language. It was mostly gibberish but sometimes a “bellisimo” or “amigo” was thrown in. Throughout the show these clowns make funny appearances. I think it’s to give the stagehands time to change things up and maybe let the performers change costumes. This time, I didn’t think the clowns were as funny as usual and their skits weren’t that easy to follow. I was mostly just waiting for them to finish so that the next group of performers could wow us with their incredible performances. And there were plenty of incredible performances to be seen! Up early was a truly fantastic juggler. That to me is always so mind-boggling how he can keep track of so many flying objects. Other familiar performances were the group of gymnast/contortionists who do their incredible balancing act. These girls must not have any vertebrae because they can bend to impossible angles. Then there was the man and woman who fly around the stage from those long ribbons. This was the “artistic” portion of the show, and frankly, I was struggling to keep my attention focused. Could have done without this part… But some new things that I haven’t seen before really made this show memorable. There was a trampoline act where the performers would jump off a wall and then bounce back up to ledges on the wall. It was so cool because they looked like they were running up the side of a building. Then there was another act that involved acrobats jumping through rings. This was neat because the would do a tumbling run, then jump through the ring, do another roll, and then through yet another ring. You just have to see it to believe it. Towards the end there was a group jump-rope act. And by group, I mean about a dozen guys jumping over multiple ropes while forming a pyramid. It was some crazy stuff! Another cool thing about these shows is that the music is live. You can see the drummer and percussionist just behind the stage, and the singers can really belt out their new-agey tunes. Dralion was an incredible show and I’d easily recommend it for all ages. It’s definitely worthy of the Cirque du Soleil name. Make sure to click on the link above, then watch the preview video to get a taste of all the performances. 2011 Mar 16
One of my favorite songs by one of my favorite singers, Hajime Chitose. 2011 Mar 10
Do you love the Surf Coaster too? 2011 Mar 08
Several months ago I was talking with Bay and Koa about a funny song/video named “Eat It”. I told them it is the funny version of another song by Michael Jackson. They had never heard of Weird Al and didn’t know anything about Michael Jackson, but after watching all the Weird Al videos on YouTube and then the Michael Jackson originals, the kids were hooked — on Michael Jackson! I downloaded the album Number Ones Below is my favorite tune from Number Ones, “Rock With You”: 2010 Dec 24
Parker Posey in Waiting for Guffman. So funny. |
from Amazon.com and it has been in heavy rotation on my iPod whenever they are in the car. I think it’s funny the songs they chose as favorites. Of course they love “Thriller” and “Beat It”, but I was surprised that Koa loves “Man in the Mirror” and Bay really likes “Dirty Diana”. Just recently we watched 