So You Think You Can Choreograph

Something I wrote today…

A little known fact of the show So You Think You Can Dance is the sub competition in where the choreographers audition new talent for assistants during the entire season. This is the highly coveted, yet poorly marketed and under documented portion of the show. The winner receives a chance to work as Mia Michael’s assistant during the next Celine Dion World Tour.

The final four contestants were as follows; Shaniqua, a late teens loose cannon straight from Mississippi. Even with her checkered past, there was no denying that all her life the choreographed steps in “The Thong Song” fostered her incredible talent. Raoule, an obviously gay early 20’s art student hailing from Croatia. Roule’s unique talents in contemporary dance made him the obvious front runner as Mia’s future assistant. The third contestant has been in the bottom three on several occasions, yet maintains that he was born to choreograph. Davis Cullender (prefers to be addressed by first AND last name) has brought his quirky style to the show with his assistance in dances such as “bleeding love” and “Hometown Glory”. Lastly, is the true coming of age tale with the forth contestant Sherri. Sherri had auditioned for the dance competition only to be told she was too over excitable and thus not suitable for the shows headlining acts. She then vowed to return in a big way with a fervor yet subtlety that Nigel had never seen before.

This show, So You Think You Can Choreograph is their story. Stay tuned for episode nine to find out who made elimination.

drastic times, desperate measures

I shit you not, Foldgers really is that bad…

If you’re framiliar with the idea of knowledge work and GTD you know that work patterns fluctuate significantly. For the last year I’ve had the kind of freedom most would dream of, which is to say, as long as I get my shit done, I can generally work wherever I want. This translates into being so tied to work from home that I can fix or work on just about anything from the comfort of my bed… this is not as ideal as most would think. No one should be spending that much time at home… certainly not a person with self-diagnosed borderline ADD like myself. Enter the french press.

What I needed was a compelling reason to take that shower, to use that gas, to walk in with a smile, and to interact with human beings on a personal level. Putting my access to coffee at work meant that if I wanted that legal addictive stimulant I’d have to get ready as soon as humanly possible… it meant getting ready for work in 15 minutes rather than 4 hours.

So far it’s had marginal success. Out of the 3 days I’ve consistently used the technique, 2 of those days I’ve gotten to work before 10AM. Today, however, I realized I was out of Beans! I had a couple of options… go to the local coffee shop in the strip mall, go get some beans all the way across town, or finally settle for whatever scraps I can find at work…

I settled for the foldgers-at-work route, I mean, can it really be that bad? It’s even got a “flavor seal” ..can it be that bad? Yes, it can be. After the 4 minute steep I poured my cup and was presented with a beverage that had a taste more in-line with plastic and sterilized rubber, than it did coffee. I will never make that mistake EVER again…. ever.

miss her so much…

I posted this almost exactly one year ago, and with the utahpets.org Super Adoption I’m going to go look for a new friend…

BSS

I went to Broken Social Scene like the rest of Salt Lake… It’s incredible to see a band for free even though you would gladly pay over $30. Given their reception of the crowd and their reaction, it looks like they’ll be coming back…

High Noon

I’m a fan of well written, and highly functional software. As I slowly massage my way into my once comfortable life, I’m reminded of how many things I’m truly in love with.

A new pleasure has been Windows Live Writer. A blogging tool made by Microsoft and compatible with most blogging engines. It’s compact, functional, customizable, and oddly enough, totally free. The one problem, is that it doesn’t run on anything but Windows. That means my holy grail of blogging form and function can only be done at work, or via remote desktop from home…. LAME. There are blogging clients for the Mac but they all have rubbed me the wrong way over the years and they cost money… LAME.