Music...skating...and school that's my life for the next two years. I've played trombone for 7 years and skated for 6 (artistic roller skating, dontcha know?). I'm currently playing trombone with the Yuba College Symphonic Band and Jazz Band. I have a trombone/baritone quartet. I am part of a student led Jazz Band at LP (started by Jake and James--AMAZING GUYS!)
Hmmm...Christian Lindberg. --World's best solo trombonist. My idol and future husband...not really.Michael Crawford. Andrew Lloyd Webber. Everyone associated with the Brodway production of The Phantom of the Opera. It would be amazing to meet Gerard Butler, the Scottish POTO. He did realllllly well for that movie being his first musical. I'm so proud! Watch Dear Frankie.
I listen to just about everything...it really depends on what my mood is. Right now I'm in a ska/classical/The Used/Anti-Flag phase. My favorite trombone player of all time is Christian Lindberg (big surprise, eh?). Michael Jackson is amazing. He is. The best song he ever wrote is "Will You be There?" (Go to http://youtube.com/watch?v=QFbAlni-S9E&mode=related& search=michael%20Jackson to see it live)Weird Al Yanchovic is great fun. Norah Jones has a gorgeous, smoky voice. Talking Heads, the Butterfield Blues Band, Cream, Genesis, The Beatles, Crash Test Dummies, Devo, John Michael Montgomery, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Enya, and Sublime are some artists that I like.
Phantom of the Opera is my favorite movie. It was amazingly well done...Gerard Butler did a good job for never having sang before (he's the Phantom for all of you that don't know). I like Monty Python (anything that they do is great!). And The Quest for Camelot. Donnie Darko. Click. Mr. Deeds. Pretty much all Adam Sandler movies. Blades of Glory. Flushed Away ("Gentlemen! Take Action!!!" other frogs"WE SURRENDER!!!") Open Season. Hoodwinked. Yeah...I like kid movies....
He thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along, suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river. Never in his life had he seen a river before--this sleek, sinuous, bodied animal, chasing and chuckling, gripping things with a gurgle and leaving them with a laugh, to fling itself on fresh playmates that shook themselves free, and were caught and held again. All was a-shake and a-shiver--glints and gleams and sparkles, rustle and swirl, chatter and bubble. The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man, who holds one spellbound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the band, while the riverstill chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.
The Wind in the WillowsI don't really watch TV. The only things I watch are Scrubs and SNL.
Ayn Rand is absolutely amazing. One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest is a really good book and I'm glad we're reading it in English...The Taming of the Shrew is a good play...but don't read the play called "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"...it goes on for hours about flipping pennies and the author "paraphrases Hamlet and throws in a paraphrase of 'Waiting for Godot' for good measure." I am of the opinion that if one is to write, one should develop one's own style and not 'paraphrase' the style of other authors. In other words...make it new.
Howard Roark. Dagny Taggart. Bjork Faulkner. Henry Rearden. Dominique Francon. Prometheus.