apology

i just wanted to make a slightly public apology to those fans who look at this blog.
i am coming back in full force by the end of this week! so tune in.
this year it is going to be a completely different blog *(meaning updated more frequently and more improved).

i appreciate those who have glanced at lizzie lane live in the past! and i will be coming back shortly!

johnny flynn 6th draft pick

so it looks as though johnny flynn is leaving cuse for a good reason. he was the 6th draft pick today for the minnesota timberwolves.

no sign of eric devendorf. he would have benefited from staying another year – at the very least from a maturity stand point. but, cuse fans are sad to see them go. especially flynn.
we’ll have to see how it goes for flynn as he was the timberwolves second draft pick after number 5, ricky rubio of spain, who played in the 2008 olympics which we all know won the silver medal to the u.s.
it will certainly be interesting!

city ballet SPRING season

It is the most wonderful time of the spring. City Ballet’s spring season has opened with a bang – or rather a Balanchine extravaganza. Tuesday night was a delightful mix of Balanchine’s masterpieces; Concerto Barocco, Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, La Valse, and Symphony in Three Movements. All to be followed by a weekend of the full-length ballet Coppélia.

But it ultimately was the following week when the injuries starting happening and the programs started to fill up with the little white slips showing the understudy(ies) name(s). Sarah Mearns was one to take a fall last week and is most likely going to be out for a little while. The up-and-coming Kaitlyn Gilliland was out on Friday for her debut in the Wheeldon ballet After the Rain. She had previously undergone knee surgery. However, I did see Savannah Lowery do a lovely job in place of her.

Among the others, we will have to wait and see how everything works out. Honestly, they looked somewhat out of shape, except for the always mentionable Wendy Whelan, who never seems to show age, and is acrobatically flawless, she also danced with a charming Craig Hall who I had not seen much of, but really enjoyed the two of them together in the pas de deux, Spiegel Im Spiegel (Arvo Pärt).

Maria Kowroski is always worth mentioning, especially on Friday she did a fantastic job in the Firebird role, she certainly worth seeing this season in that role, although she has a couple other good castings coming up. Kowroski never ceases to amaze me with her lines and extension. She is always a very convincing bird. (As I saw her in the Winter season as Odette in Swan Lake). Partnered by chivalrous Ask La Cour.

But the real recommendation from my opinions is to go to — well, I can’t actually decide very well — the spring season is just generally looking very good. But I would definitely hit the ballet up this weekend it is going to be good. The Saturday Matinee looks incredible: with 5 exceptional pieces: Scotch Symphony (Balanchine), Monumentum pro Gesualdo (Balanchine), Movements for Piano and Orchestra (Balanchine), Tarantella (Balanchine), and lastly Alexi Ratmansky’s piece (current resident choreographer at Ballet Theatre) Concerto DSCH. It will be very good, I highly recommend it!

poor syracuse

it has been a sad couple of weeks for men’s college basketball… draft hasn’t happened yet, but agent season is among us. – a time when all “good” basketball players get themselves agents who will hopefully get them a good draft pick.

we thought johnny flynn was staying after his announcements – we were wrong about that one = has an agent. no more best point guard in the country. but good luck with that one flynn. no one is rooting for you. you should have stayed and not shattered my dreams of syracuse being the ncaa champions!

another surprise was eric devendorf, the red-shirted senior (or would be a senior) has now gotten himself an agent as well. and this is quite a surprise. we were all questioning johnny flynn, but not eric devendorf. i feel like we are going to end up with a bunch of carmello anthony attituded players on nba teams. although what happened to donte greene? is he starting?

and while i am in the sarcastic mood and frustrated beyond belief at these players. (although it is understandable i suppose) i am thinking to myself paul harris? where is your agent? wouldn’t harris be one of the first people to do something kind of stupid like his classmates? or andy rautins? you feeling lucky?

well i wish flynn and devendorf the best at the draft. although quite honestly, this was one of the best senior classes that graduated from men’s college basketball. i don’t think many of the teams are going to be that mature this upcoming season. but i still am excited that something wonderful might happen to syracuse someday. (we do have a new point guard coming in from JD (rautins’s high school)). so hopefully this is our year cuse fans.

Squidoo

Personally? I like Squidoo much better, it is much more organized for me.
Check out the Balanchine Trust article. It’s not that great, but the pictures are nice!

Squidoo Article: George Balanchine And The Trust

writing about writer’s block

 

i have decided my lack of blogging is called “writer’s anxiety” and you don’t believe that it’s real. well wait and see…

writer’s block is a phenomenon involving temporary inability to begin or continue writing. (usually due to lack of creativity or inspiration). and one case, lasted for over 60 years! that is pretty not-so-temporary.

 

it was henry roth’s writers block and yes, it really lasted 60 years, and it was due to a series of problems that i am not even close to facing today, but for some reason there is absolutely nothing interesting enough that i can blog about.

 

i feel badly just putting up an article  about writer’s block, so i decided to research it a bit further and report back on my findings.

journalism majors, (i only interviewed 3) but all 3 of them had said that at more than one point this year they had been faced with severe writer’s block or anxiety. on average, they say it lasts no longer than an hour, and a few times it has lasted a couple days.

they say that there are sometimes a lot of factors that play a role in their writer’s block and it is usually their inability to think clearly. i found that very interesting. but they also said, that especially being a journalism major in purchase, leaves them pretty straightforward assignments, meaning that they can’t deviate very much, and therefore not know what to write about.

 there are proposed solutions, to meditate and take a break; those kinds of things. but nothing that would really inspire you to write about anything other than meditation or writer’s block itself!

I wish you all happy blogging and that writer’s block never plagues you as it does me!

Drake at SUNY Purchase blog number 9,238

he goes by the name of DRAKE, but is known as much more than that -  jimmy brooks, aubrey graham, lil wayne’s protégé possibly? he says the one thing he wants you to remember is that his name is drake. he performed the 17th of may at suny purchase’s annual culture shock festival.

well “drake” which is aubrey’s middle name, has officially gotten purchase college on the map. talk about marketing, the day after he performed (his first u.s. performance) everyone was blogging about it, writing about it, wondering about it, everything. it was buzzing all over the place. and what else came with this miraculous buzz? but purchase college.

you search into google, drake live performances; the first 5 pages at least all mention SUNY purchase. you go to youtube, search drake performances – all suny purchase. drake and purchase are practically synonymous! that might be taking it a bit to extremes. but this was his united states premier, and it was all done at purchase.

hopefully he will one day remember his small beginnings.

i love wordpress, but…

i love wordpress, i really do. i have looked at blogspot and blogger, etc. and i think that wordpress is one of the better ones in terms of its formatting and setup. however, i have been starting to notice that my pictures are disappearing.

the reason most likely being that i deleted them from my media library because they were taking up all of my space. so how am i supposed to upload pictures from my camera? without having to upgrade to a larger space option? is there a way to do that?

i would appreciate any feedback, because i am a photo person, i like to add in my own photographs, not that they really are nice photographs, but i would love to figure out a way to upload my own pictures that are my own from my computer. any comments would be great! thanks!

the glamour of french film

lastly, i forgot to mention day 2 of the festival. the morning after the gala, where all the directors and actors joined many for breakfast. it was a delightful morning, there were more american cuisine contents like stop&shop food, which was perfectly tasty, but not as french as the evening before.

many people gathered at 10 am, quite an early hour, to ask questions to the glamourous actress sophie marceau, insightful director jean michel ribes, christopher lambert, and many more prevalent french film figures.

the panel started off the morning, and there was a lot of interesting things said. miss. marceau spoke about her acting experiences, and jean michel ribes spoke about his film that also premiered at the festival, musée haut, musée bas (day at the museum).

french film part deux: la table de vin.

gala night of the french film festival, which was a tremendous success, i worked at the wine table. which was quite an experience. since champaign was served elsewhere, we didn’t get many visitors until the night was coming to a close. we served cape west, a french made sauvignon, and a  le chasse du pape cotes du rhône. i served with 5 other students from suny purchase, below are some pics i took of them!

because of our lack of traffic initially, we had a lot of time on our hands, we were served some delicious french food from the french chefs outside, and i also took quite a few pictures, just messing around with my camera.

we ended up having a lot of the white left at the end of the night, i am not sure why, but apparently the red was quite a hit. and once you went red, there was no going back. but it made for an interesting evening, to say the least.