Here is a video of the cast filming the finale. I think it sounds great. I am just that more excited to hear the rest of the music. 229 Days!
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Yet Another Les Miserables Update
Here is a picture of Amanda Seyfried as Cosette. Not quite what I was expecting. I kind of like the fact they went for a more authentic, unglamorous look.
Here is a video of the cast filming the finale. I think it sounds great. I am just that more excited to hear the rest of the music. 229 Days!
Here is a video of the cast filming the finale. I think it sounds great. I am just that more excited to hear the rest of the music. 229 Days!
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Behind Enemy Lines at BYU
I was in the pit orchestra with a few of the productions at Lone Peak and Preston is so great. But don't take my word for it, here's some video proof.
Here is Preston singing Bring Him Home
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Titanic
1. The White Star Line was the company that built the Titanic, and was owned by J.P. Morgan, an American tycoon. It cost $7.5 million to build the Titanic. It was the most luxurious ocean liner of its time. The price of a first class ticket cost each passenger $4,700 which was a HUGE amount of money for the time. It would be about $57,000 today.
2. As the Titanic was leaving the port, the suction it caused actually snapped the ropes of a nearby docked ship, the S.S. New York. Tugboats had to race to the scene to prevent the New York from colliding with the Titanic. Some people felt this was a bad omen.
3. There were six iceberg warnings received by Titanic on the day of the collision. They were all ignored by the wireless operator. Unfortunately, that operator was preoccupied with transmitting passenger messages. The night the collision occurred was moonless and the water was still. Both of these facts made it very difficult to see into the dark night and black ocean. The iceberg that the Titanic struck was not very big. It did not even come up as high as the bridge of the ship.
4. The Titanic was traveling 22.5 knots. This was just .5 knot from her maximum speed capability. The ship was clearly traveling too fast for conditions. The collision occurred at 11:40 P.M. on Sunday, April 14, 1912.
5. The captain ordered the engines reversed which sealed the Titanic's fate. A ship as large as the Titanic turned more quickly the greater her forward motion. Had the Titanic proceeded ahead and turned, it is most likely that she would have avoided hitting the iceberg all together. The gash that the iceberg cut into the hull of the Titanic was between 220 to 245 feet long. The total length of the ship was approximately 882 feet. Recent evidence shows that an opening the size of a refrigerator is what allowed water to enter the ship. Also, the "watertight" compartments of the Titanic's hull were not actually watertight. They were open at the tops, which made the disaster worse. The ship could have stayed afloat if only four compartments flooded, but five actually flooded.
6. A total of 1,503 people died, including passengers and crew. Only 705 people survived. Only 1 child from first class died, while 49 children from steerage died. Many dogs were also aboard the Titanic. Two survived. Charles Joughin was the only person to survive the ice cold Atlantic water.
7. Law required a ship the size of the Titanic to have 962 lifeboat seats. The Titanic had 1,178 seats, but 2,208 lifeboat seats were needed to get everyone off the ship. Many of the lifeboats left the ship only half full. There were 472 lifeboat seats not used. Not many people went down with the ship. Most of the people went into the Atlantic Ocean with life jackets on. However, the water temperature was only 31 degrees, so most people froze to death in the water.
8. The Carpathian was the ship that responded to the Titanic's distress call, but she was 58 miles and 4 hours away.
9. Orders from the Captain were that, women and children were to board the lifeboats first. One man, Daniel Buckley, disguised himself as a woman to get aboard a lifeboat. The band played music up to the last few minutes before the ship went under. None of the band members survived.
10. The Titanic lies 12,600 feet at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The two pieces of the Titanic lay 1,970 feet apart from one another on the ocean floor. The Titanic was rediscovered on July 14th, 1986, seventy-four years after it sank. Since the death of Millvina Dean, May 31, 2009, there are no longer any living survivors of the Titanic tragedy. Millvina Dean was just nine weeks old at the time of the Titanic's sinking.
2. As the Titanic was leaving the port, the suction it caused actually snapped the ropes of a nearby docked ship, the S.S. New York. Tugboats had to race to the scene to prevent the New York from colliding with the Titanic. Some people felt this was a bad omen.
3. There were six iceberg warnings received by Titanic on the day of the collision. They were all ignored by the wireless operator. Unfortunately, that operator was preoccupied with transmitting passenger messages. The night the collision occurred was moonless and the water was still. Both of these facts made it very difficult to see into the dark night and black ocean. The iceberg that the Titanic struck was not very big. It did not even come up as high as the bridge of the ship.
4. The Titanic was traveling 22.5 knots. This was just .5 knot from her maximum speed capability. The ship was clearly traveling too fast for conditions. The collision occurred at 11:40 P.M. on Sunday, April 14, 1912.
5. The captain ordered the engines reversed which sealed the Titanic's fate. A ship as large as the Titanic turned more quickly the greater her forward motion. Had the Titanic proceeded ahead and turned, it is most likely that she would have avoided hitting the iceberg all together. The gash that the iceberg cut into the hull of the Titanic was between 220 to 245 feet long. The total length of the ship was approximately 882 feet. Recent evidence shows that an opening the size of a refrigerator is what allowed water to enter the ship. Also, the "watertight" compartments of the Titanic's hull were not actually watertight. They were open at the tops, which made the disaster worse. The ship could have stayed afloat if only four compartments flooded, but five actually flooded.
6. A total of 1,503 people died, including passengers and crew. Only 705 people survived. Only 1 child from first class died, while 49 children from steerage died. Many dogs were also aboard the Titanic. Two survived. Charles Joughin was the only person to survive the ice cold Atlantic water.
7. Law required a ship the size of the Titanic to have 962 lifeboat seats. The Titanic had 1,178 seats, but 2,208 lifeboat seats were needed to get everyone off the ship. Many of the lifeboats left the ship only half full. There were 472 lifeboat seats not used. Not many people went down with the ship. Most of the people went into the Atlantic Ocean with life jackets on. However, the water temperature was only 31 degrees, so most people froze to death in the water.
8. The Carpathian was the ship that responded to the Titanic's distress call, but she was 58 miles and 4 hours away.
9. Orders from the Captain were that, women and children were to board the lifeboats first. One man, Daniel Buckley, disguised himself as a woman to get aboard a lifeboat. The band played music up to the last few minutes before the ship went under. None of the band members survived.
10. The Titanic lies 12,600 feet at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The two pieces of the Titanic lay 1,970 feet apart from one another on the ocean floor. The Titanic was rediscovered on July 14th, 1986, seventy-four years after it sank. Since the death of Millvina Dean, May 31, 2009, there are no longer any living survivors of the Titanic tragedy. Millvina Dean was just nine weeks old at the time of the Titanic's sinking.
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Les Miserables Update
I am so excited I can't even stand it. I am going to be giddy when I actually get to see a trailer for the Les Miserables. I think I'll be a full blown basket case when I finally get to see the movie. 255 days! Yes I am a little obsessed.
and yes, Anne Hathaway chopped her hair off for the movie. Fantine, Hathaway's character, sells her hair for money.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Vertically Challenged
Short shrift: Does high fashion look down on petite women?
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At 5 feet 3, the author's height limits her fashion choices. Here, she shows how shoes and tights of the same color add up to a continual lenthening line. Left, long earrings create the illusion of height. Illustrates FASHION-PETITE (category l), by Katie Knorovsky, special to The Washington Post. Moved Friday, March 9, 2012. (MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photos by Marge Ely)
Half-pint. Vertically challenged. Shorty. Ever the runt of the room, I’ve heard all the nicknames. At 5 feet 3, my height has never alienated me from society in any meaningful way (yes, I can ride all the roller coasters, no matter what the boys in junior high said). But with fashion, I’ve drawn the short straw.
“Choice is very limited in petite sizes,” agrees Kelly Tucker, the 4-foot-11 style siren/blogger behind Alterations Needed. “There aren’t many brands and designers producing petites. And even fewer are fashion-forward or sell lines with quality tailoring.” For those of us tormented by (not-so) petite shopping demons, a casual stroll through a mall can be enough to stir the ghosts of fashion failures past.
Flipping through a rack of skinny jeans, suddenly I’m in fifth grade, my well-meaning dad coaching me on pants fit — “Baggier is better!” “Leave a few inches to grow!” — while standing by in his “relaxed fit” faded Lees. That episode resulted in a mess of oversize denim that, in comparison, made the era’s grungesters look sleek. It also ushered me into my tween years wearing stirrup jeans leggings.
Even the ghosts of other petites’ fashion foibles haunt me. I pause at a display of floor-length frocks or a rack of flowing maxi dresses, and I’m wormholed back to a Chicago dressing room, my similarly proportion-shrunk mom desperately searching the paltry petite options for a gown to wear to my wedding. (Finally her criteria became less picky: any dress within reach of a tailor’s magic.)
Mom isn’t alone in her woes, says Washington stylist Kaarin Moore. “Petite sizing isn’t just about getting a size small. Just because something is smaller doesn’t mean the cut will be correct.”
My fashion flashbacks still hold a grip on my wardrobe. Ever since my nightmare with Dad, my dalliances with denim have been fraught with poor decisions. I flirted with flares, cutting my losses far too late (alas, you just can’t hem a bell-bottom). Skinnies fare better, but the slim-cut styles always seem extra-long, as if they were simply yanked like a rubber band on the assembly line.
I try not to seem bitter, but it’s hard when I hear about the trousers-shopping plight of Gisele-like gazelles with legs that start higher than my shoulders.
(Maybe Gisele and I both struggle with hems, but at the end of the day, she’s a model raking in millions. I’m just a girl without proper pants, trying to learn to sew to save money on tailoring.)
I’ve picked up a few tricks, both obvious (heels, heels, more heels) and a bit more clever (nude pumps with bare legs). V-necks are short gals’ best friend; cropped pants are our foes. Shoes and tights of the same color add up to a continual lenthening line. Dresses that hit at or just above the knee seem to best flatter my frame. Long earrings create the illusion of height.
On her Alterations Needed blog, Tucker has her own suggestions: Push up the too-long sleeves of a blazer, get to know your tailor, and keep statement jewelry smallish in size.
But one of the tallest hurdles facing petite women is, simply, being taken seriously. “Because short height is often related to being young, I love petite women in ‘power clothing,’ ” Tucker says.
“People are surprised by the strong attitude given off by a short woman in sharp clothing. It’s not what they expect.”
Read more: http://www.heraldextra.com/momclick/health-and-beauty/short-shrift-does-high-fashion-look-down-on-petite-women/article_20d5381a-6fd3-11e1-bc49-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz1rzAmQrw4
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Spring Break Road Trip
So We had Spring Break March 12-16. So my parents and I took a road trip. We drove to Kirksville to see Erin, Karl, Bianca and Henry. Not only do I not have to go to class, but i got almost the entire week off of work. So Nice.
The car ride was nice. I slept most of the way. Sitting in the car really takes it out of you ha ha. I also listened to music, watched a couple of movies, and finished my book for my Children's Lit. Class.
An additional bonus of the trip was spending Monday with Uncle Ted. He was nice enough to drive down from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
We had a great time laughing and chatting, and admiring Brandon Flowers new CD. I got a tour of Kirksville and AT Still University where Karl goes to school. The school has these incredibly awesome dummies that simulate health problems such as heart failure, lung problems. Some of the dummies can even deliver babies! Crazy!
Here are my cute munchkins. Bianca and Henry
outside of their house. We're going on a walk
The car ride was nice. I slept most of the way. Sitting in the car really takes it out of you ha ha. I also listened to music, watched a couple of movies, and finished my book for my Children's Lit. Class.
An additional bonus of the trip was spending Monday with Uncle Ted. He was nice enough to drive down from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
We had a great time laughing and chatting, and admiring Brandon Flowers new CD. I got a tour of Kirksville and AT Still University where Karl goes to school. The school has these incredibly awesome dummies that simulate health problems such as heart failure, lung problems. Some of the dummies can even deliver babies! Crazy!
Here are my cute munchkins. Bianca and Henry
outside of their house. We're going on a walk
During our stay we got a tour of Kirksville. There's this amazing abandoned old red brick school house.
This is a view of the side entrance. (Nobody accused me of being a talented photographer ha ha. I thought this was pretty good considering I took from inside the car.
There are lots of cute neighborhoods and houses around Kirksville I told my sister that Kirksville is kind of perfect for her and her family right now. It reminds me of a mix between Logan and Bicknell.
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