I don't know how perfectly this video answers that question or not, but: Jakob from So You Think You Can Dance. Melts me in a puddle in this dance. Aah, make it stop! This number is so twisted and yet not a moment of it is funny, as even the slightest bit of incompetence would make it. I don't know. But this is brilliance, brilliance.

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Epideictic.

Reification

Atavistic

Prolegomenon

Aporetic

Melic

Deictics

Epideictic: designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic orations"

Refication: to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.

Atavistic: reverting to or suggesting the characteristics of a remote ancestor or primitive ( Read more... )

Just five minutes ago, I was listening to one of my roommates crying across the hall. She had taken a long shower earlier - I assume to muffle her tears, but still they weren't spent. Now the girl she shares a room with is making her laugh, and I don't hear sobs anymore.

Two nights ago I attempted something I've never done before, comforting an ( Read more... )

Notes:

1. Billy Crystal is not a conventionally handsome man. That said, there were at least 5 meltingly good moments where he was incredibly sexy, compared to, say, Twilight in which I'm being hit over the head by Robert Pattinson (sp?)'s cheekbones and yet remain totally unaffected.

2. That said, knowing his voice first from Monster's Inc. is very ( Read more... )

Okay, so all my friends are getting engaged and married! Well, not really; mainly people whom I measure my aging by. I've already been to three weddings in that many months; have two more to go (one in which I'm a bridesmaid).

My best friend from junior high is engaged. We don't hang out anymore; the most I've seen her recently was on her way out of ( Read more... )

This weekend I was thrilled when the opening notes began for the processional of a friend's wedding. I recognized it immediately as my favorite track from the post-rock group Explosions in the Sky's album, The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place. The song in question, "Your Hand in Mine," is the final track of the album, and one of my favorite songs. I' ( Read more... )

I won't be living at home this fall. *Score!* We've talked about it and as long as I have a job, it's financially feasible for me to move in this house with five other girlfriends. The two jobs I'm going to apply for both fit my major, English, so that's awesome. And I get to sing some more with a songwriter I know - she's heading up this night of ( Read more... )

(A piece from last semester I found in one of my notebooks. Enjoy!)

People's faces here are like books. A little weather-battered, too many flapping pages. A bit of a breeze will knock us over privately, and then we return to our pages with the gravity of a monk, checking and re-checking to see if all the old words are there.

In this quiet space, we ( Read more... )

Photos from yesterday.


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I went exploring in a back pasture the other day, taking pictures, and happened upon this really tough, intimidating-looking bush.


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