Taking a little break on Day 22 of NaBloPoMo with one of my favorite YouTube videos from AVByte.

Taking a little break on Day 22 of NaBloPoMo with one of my favorite YouTube videos from AVByte.
Nicki Minaj is butthurt because her alma mater, which is also my alma mater, declined her invitation to speak there. Too bad for her that’s not the whole story.
A recent TMZ video of Weird Al makes me think, perhaps, that even though he’s a big star, that he’s actually a lot like me.
A Burbank animator uses the crowdfunding giant for a commemorative Disney-style animation.
The film Austenland makes me nostalgic for my days of dance reenacting, while I reflect on dance, fantasy, and romance.
Experimental cellist Zoë Keating is performing at the Largo in Los Angeles tonight. I first saw her perform on JoCo Cruise Crazy in March 2013, and it completely blew my mind. The fact that her music is heard on the Sherlock Holmes-inspired show Elementary is fitting because Keating is never satisfied with just playing the cello. Instead, she fully investigates her sound, technique, and ability, detecting new ways to create not songs, but symphonic poems, with just her instrument and a computer. I was so completely overwhelmed and inspired by her performance that I wrote this review.
After some time away, I’m making a return to blogging.