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Ruth
05 February 2009 @ 05:23 pm
Still in my new home on Wordpress. Just stumbling over for a quick visit. Hullo.

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A forgotten favorite that just popped into my head...

Vertical Horizon
Best I ever had (Grey Sky Morning)


So you sailed away
Into a grey sky morning
Now I'm here to stay
Love can be so boring

Nothing's quite the same now
I just say your name now

[Chorus]
But it's not so bad
You're only the best I ever had
You don't want me back
You're just the best I ever had

So you stole my world
Now I'm just a phony
Remembering the girl
Leaves me down and lonely

Send it in a letter
Make yourself feel better

[Chorus]
But it's not so bad
You're only the best I ever had
You don't need me back
You're just the best I ever had

And it may take some time to
Patch me up inside
But I can't take it so I
Run away and hide
And I may find in time that
You were always right
You're always right

So you sailed away
Into a grey sky morning
Now I'm here to stay
Love can be so boring

What was it you wanted
Could it be I'm haunted

[Chorus]
But it's not so bad
You're only the best I ever had
I don't want you back
You're just the best I ever had
The best I ever had

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"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
- John Stuart Mill

 
 
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Ruth
07 December 2008 @ 06:25 pm
Grabbed from [info]rustyangel ...

The "Year in Review" meme:

Go to your LJ calendar. Find the first entry for each month. Copy-paste the first line from the entries next to the corresponding month. That's the year in review, in a nutshell.

January: Started out the evening at Sunset.

February: Rehearsals are going really well. (re: rehearsals for "Butterflies are Free")

March: So is this a job posting or a personals ad?

April: Your favourite type of art is Japanese ukiyo-e. (re: a BBC personality quiz)

May: I'm flying back to Dallas this Monday morning at 6 am.

June: Aside from the fact that my yellow tank had small, darker yellow flowers on it, my shoes also had brown and a zipper on them, and my jacket is fur-lined, this was *exactly* my night last night: ----------> (re: an outfit I made on Polyvore.)

July: WHAT?! (re: "extinction" of raw materials necessary for making flat panel monitors.)

August: Got an email the other day from a fellow Spiraler with a link to a blog review by Russ Bickerstaff of "Wait Until Dark."

September: I'm really enjoying the set up over at my new WordPress blog.

October: I fell behind on my video blogging, and then I got tagged by Tia D and made three videos.

November: I'm in a show that Previews tonight; "The Philadelphia Story" at Waukesha Civic Theatre on Main St. in downtown Waukesha.

December: As many times as I've heard this song, as many videos as I've seen of it being performed, it's never made me cry until now. (re: k.d. lang singing "Hallelujah."
Yeah. That pretty much covers it...

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Ruth
05 December 2008 @ 09:36 pm
As many times as I've heard this song, as many videos as I've seen of it being performed, it's never made me cry until now.



So beautiful. I love it.

I'm trying to get myself to write a blog tonight at WordPress but I'm just so... not in the mood. Ugh. I need to learn to *get* in the mood, because ooh have I been slacking...

Back to the attempt, I guess.
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Ruth
29 November 2008 @ 12:21 am
Posted a new blog on WP.

Dedicated to my bro.

Peace out, foo's.
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Ruth
12 November 2008 @ 09:32 pm
A video of my favorite atheist libertarian ever talking political parties:

Wait... Jake: Are you a libertarian? Maybe it can be a tie...

 
 
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Ruth
Hi all.

I'm in a show that Previews tonight; "The Philadelphia Story" at Waukesha Civic Theatre on Main St. in downtown Waukesha. It's been loads of fun to work on so it's almost a shame to reach opening weekend because it means the experience is nearly over! Though I'm sure we're all looking forward to the prospect of having our evenings back to ourselves, so I imagine we'll get over it. ;)


Synopsis, etc. of the show from the WCT website:

Tracy Lord, the privileged, spoiled, divorced, and uninhibited daughter of the Philadelphia Lords, is engaged to be married, but that doesn't stop her from beginning a whirlwind adventure. Her fiancé, her ex-husband, a reporter, a scheming brother, a Broadway dancer, and her father all contribute to the mayhem, culminating in a hilarious turn of events and an unexpected ending you won't forget.

The cast includes Ruth Arnell (Tracy Lord), Ramon Campos (Mac & Doctor Parsons), Ruth Caves (May), Jeff Davis (Willie Tracy), Eric Eggers (Sandy Lord), Will Elwood (CK Dexter Haven), Haley Gray-Hoehn (Dinah Lord), Beth Keller (Elsie), Jenny Kosek (Liz Imbrie), Ann Morrow (Margaret Lord), Mark Neufang (Mike Connor), Jeff Porter (George Kittredge), Jim Volden (Seth Lord), and Scott Wendelberger (Thomas).

Reva Fox is the Director. The production staff and crew includes: Costume Designer Aleta Bernard, Co-Properties Designer Kris Kingstad, Wig Master Anthony Mackie, Stage Manager Debi Mumford, Sound Designer John Santroch, Co-Properties Designer Monica Santroch, and Scenic Designer, Master Carpenter and Set Decorator Michael Talaska.

Two people I *must* make special mention of from that list: Michael Talaska and Haley Gray-Hoehn. Michael, the set designer, has once again accomplished weird and amazing things. When we all first saw this set finally pulled together we literally "Oooooh"ed and then broke out into applause. And that Haley girl playing Dinah Lord is an absolute doll. If you're receiving this email and you ever find yourself needing to cast teens (Donna: She sings!), the show is worth checking out if only to pre-audition her. Talented little pistol, this one, and takes direction like a dream.
Performances are Fridays - Sundays and run as follows:
Friday Saturday Sunday
Nov. 7-9

8:00 PM

8:00 PM

2:00 PM

Nov. 14-16

8:00 PM

4:00 / 8:00 pm

7:00 PM

Nov. 21-23

8:00 PM

2:00 / 8:00 pm

2:00 PM

Ticket info from the WCT website:

Individual tickets are regularly $19.00 ($17.00 for students and seniors.) Tickets may be purchased over the telephone with VISA, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express during Box Office hours or Mail orders are accepted any time. Mail orders are processed in the order in which they are received. Specify show date and time, and mail order to WCT, P.O. Box 221, Waukesha, WI 53187. Please enclose $2 handling fee per order.

BOX OFFICE CONTACT INFORMATION
Box Office: 262.547.0708
Fax: 262.547.8454
E-Mail: boxoffice@waukeshacivictheatre.org

A side note on tickets:
I believe there are cheaper rush ticket options available, but I couldn't tell you the first thing about when they're available or how much they are. I would strongly recommend that you contact the box office by phone when purchasing your tickets to confirm the rush time/cost, and to confirm ticket availability before waiting to show up to get in. There is also a Pay-What-You-Can option during the final Saturday matinee (2 pm, Saturday November 22nd).

This is one of the friendliest, most amiable casts I've ever worked with. I'm proud of what we've all worked together to accomplish, excited about the opportunity to work with Reva (audition for her if you can!), and looking forward to sharing the fun with you. And if you should come out to the show, let me know you're there so I can be sure to pop out and say hi. :D
 
 
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Ruth
31 October 2008 @ 08:03 pm
He went as a guido for Halloween



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Current Music: traffic
 
 
 
 
Ruth
16 October 2008 @ 01:16 pm
I love engineers.

There. I said it.

Super smart guys who understand the ins and outs of words I've never heard of and can barely spell, all to keep machines running and bridges from collapsing? Dreamy!

These guys are my current favorite engineers. I first saw this top video a while ago and was just telling a friend of mine (an engineer!) to check it out, when I saw their new one (below) listed in my Subscription updates. Wahoo!

And now for your viewing pleasure...

Video #1: An Engineer's Guide To Cats


Video #2: An Engineer's Guide to Voting (Ginger for President)


*swoons*

God bless Amurica!
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Ruth
15 October 2008 @ 04:25 pm
[info]rustyangel : Any insight into why I think of you every time I hear, read, see, or think of a palindrome?

Saw this and especially thought of you:
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Ruth
08 October 2008 @ 02:01 am
I fell behind on my video blogging, and then I got tagged by Tia D and made three videos. See, Tia D? You're all it takes to get me on a(n obnoxious) vlogging roll!

Video #1: My response to Tia D.

The deal is you have to make a video response sharing 5 things about yourself. I s'ppose ideally you'll also tag other people to make response videos of their own, but I don't really know that many folks on YouTube likely to make a response video to one of mine so I guess you can consider this me tagging you if you like.


Video #2: WordPress Search Terms

If you have a WordPress blog you're probably familiar with the Blog Stats tracking features. If you're not yet familiar with them then you should be because they're awesome. One of the things WP allows you to track are what search terms people plug into Google that bring them to your blog.

I decided I wanted to make a Wordle image of the search terms that bring people to my blog so I've been pasting them into an Excel document so I can more easily alphabetize them and see just how frequently some of them come up because some of them reappear a LOT.

The following is just a quick listing of some of the more common, or more unusual, things people have looked up that have brought them here.

 

 

Video #3: "The Philadelphia Story"

I'm in a show that opens in November at a theatre here in town. Good times. The last time I was in a show I made a video I could post in different places to give people info on it. Figured I'd just keep that tradition alive...

 

 

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In other news: The job search continues and I'm still painfully under or over qualified for every job I'm finding. People keep saying how there aren't that many job openings out there, but that doesn't seem to be the case where I'm looking. The problem for me so far is just that the jobs are all a poor match for my skill set. Not that I'd particularly mind being overqualified for a position if it was something I could just relax and enjoy, but 1) I know I'd go bonkers after two days of bagging groceries, and 2) those jobs don't pay enough to cover my bills. :S

Where's a good sugar daddy when you need one?

I've got until mid-December to find work, at which point my unemployment insurance runs out and I'm up a particularly dense creek without adequate means of propulsion.

And now, a message to my politically minded friends (of which I have many) who keep sending me emails (by the terabyte) about the November elections:

Don't assume we're voting the same way when sending me politically themed emails, or that the praise you're forwarding for your candidate of choice sounds any less like the brainwashed silliness you complain about from "the other side." For every "My Party's Candidate Is A God Among Men!" link you send me that glows over your candidate of choice I have one that glows in an equally flashy and abrasive manner over mine while debunking everything your videos and links just plugged. Let's just leave it at "we're even" and assume nothing we say to each other will change the other's mind. Because let's face it: It won't.

I could really use some Easy Mac...
 
 
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Current Music: "Animal Farm"
 
 
Ruth
17 September 2008 @ 03:48 pm
Yay yay yay! Guess what?!

I got the part of Tracy Lord in "The Philadelphia Story"!

*dances around the living room*

I auditioned Monday night and would've been happy with either of the two female roles in my age range- just getting in is a treat as I've literally got NOTHING else to do :P- but after I read with the girl who ended up being cast as Dinah, Tracy's younger sister, I knew I wanted to play Tracy so I could work opposite her. I was so glad to find out this afternoon that that's how it had worked out. :)

I don't know who all has been cast and in which parts, but I guess it'll all become known soon enough. In the meantime: Wahooey! =D
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Ruth
12 September 2008 @ 01:04 am
I was going to do some writing tonight, but then I kept getting overwhelmed by all that I want to understand but that I can't quite put into words. And I can't quite understand things until I put them into words, so all that to say: I got nothing done writing-wise.

*sigh*

But all was not lost.

I made brownies. *grin*

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Ruth
03 September 2008 @ 02:10 pm
I'm really enjoying the set up over at my new WordPress blog. I've imported my LJ entries for the past several months over there, so it already feels like home. The only real trick with that for me is that I can only import so many entries at a time because I have to quickly go back through them all to make sure I'm not posting any that are locked for only certain folks or for only myself. Whoops!

I'm having fun reading what search tearms people use on Google that direct them to my blog. Unfortunately I don't always get to see the entire phrase (there's one spot where I can see it all but I have to know to bother looking and usually it's too late and it's too boring to talk about any further...), but some of them are doozies.

Below is a list of the things people have Googled so far that has brought them to my WP blog:

3rd shift the sitcom
choose loss rather than shameful gains.
bloody ducks
heart attacks and third shift
lord stay my hand before i sin again
third shift and college
uwm freshman orientation
cynical idealist matthew patten
the darjeeling limited, quotations   
crew on the third shift on fox sports ra
mustela putorius furo
tea can do many things jane
"i do it best when i'm alone in my bed"
youtube michael buckley salary
qld police powers neighbor dispute
i'm feelin so hot hot hot
feelin hot hot hot bass tab
how do people switch their body to 3rd s
youtube pictures of tobacco stained teet
black pet ferret
i know i am hot hot
yay yeah
"skinny actresses"
the darjeeling limited, quotations
isaac hayes third blog
waukesha flooding
youtube michael buckley salary
mustela a new life, a new you set
mencken quote consumerism
i had to have it
high cost of asphalt shingles
randall t anderson milwaukee
show free clips of women wearing jeans so tight guy can hardly put his hand inside them
"slap yo baby"
tea can do many things jane but it can't
carlos santa ana s quotes if you don't l
polyvore damaging to kids
oceandoot
choose loss rather than shameful gains
describe her
cad monkey resume
grammar: ya' or ya

I'm not making this up, folks...
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Ruth
12 August 2008 @ 12:46 am
I can't not talk about this. It was a "related video" to a thing I was watching on Paul Hamm dropping out of the Olympics and after seeing the opening 2 seconds I just knew I-- I had to talk about this!

You know how summer teen comedies are so obnoxiously overtly (hetero)sexual that it's just like "Ugh! Please! Overkill! You're drowning me in a flood of overpowering teen hormones!"

Okay, well this video is so obnoxiously gay in much the same manner than I just can't take it seriously.



Is what they're doing amazing? Er... Yes.

Does it feature great feats of strength, balance, artistry, choreography, blah blah blah? Yes.

Is it the gayest thing since Gay? OHMYGODYES. Especially around 3:50. Holy crap, dude.

That trick around 2:24, though... man... I mean- it really should be a trick it just sounds so impossible. But then you see them do it and... I'll be gol' durned. It's for real.

So straight girls: Be prepared to watch something that will in no way titillate you. (I never knew it was possible to find clean, muscular men so wholly unappealing in 100% of every aspect imaginable gag gag spew I'm a lesbian now.)

And gay dudes: Be prepared to question if you're really gay enough to be gay because I guarantee you that however gay you are, you are not as gay as these guys.

And is it just me or does bottom dude look like he's gonna lose it around 5:30?
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Ruth
10 August 2008 @ 03:52 pm
First of all: RIP Isaac Hayes

"(CNN) -- Soul singer and arranger Isaac Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar for the theme from the 1971 action film "Shaft," has died, sheriff's officials in Memphis, Tennessee, reported Sunday.

Relatives found Hayes, 65, unconscious in his home next to a still-running treadmill, said Steve Shular, a spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff's Department.

Paramedics attempted to revive him and took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 2 p.m., the sheriff's department said.

No foul play is suspected, the agency said in a written statement."

Second of all: I'm moving. Sort of.

In an effort to condense my web presence I am moving over to WordPress and will begin the process of locking up entries here on LJ and elsewhere so I have more control over what's visible.

I realize I could do that from here on out and just stay with LiveJournal, but it's nice being able to be at a new place and just always keep in mind of the fact that where I'm posting is, in theory, the one place to see me online aside from profiles I have up (MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.).

I'll probably just keep my LJ as a place to post slighlty more private posts and then I'll lock them so they're friends-only. And there's so much I love about LJ that I don't much relish the idea of leaving it behind completely anyway, even if I do begin to limit how often I post here. Might be I'll keep this for private posts and for short blurb posts.

I've begun the process of importing LJ entries to my new WordPress account. So far I've only gotten as far back as April or May of this year. As I import each month I have to go through to see if any of the entries I brought over are ones that need to be private, or if theyr'e ones I can delete altogether, or if there's a video that needs to be inserted since the XML save doesn't pick up the video embed codes for some reason.

You don't need to be on WordPress yourself to leave comments there, and I intend to add my LJ friends to a blogroll there so I can check updates from that page, though for now I have a link to my LJ friends page listed to check so that'll do for now I s'ppose.

Happy Sunday everyone. :)
 
 
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Ruth
09 August 2008 @ 10:05 am
How sad...

Comedian, South Sider Bernie Mac dies at 50
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Ruth
07 August 2008 @ 11:25 am
My sister's freshman orientation was Tuesday. Bekah is officially on board the "I am never attending another freshman orientation, even if it's for my own kids" train. Yay Bek!

(And don't be swayed by that stupid camera icon in the video window if it's still there!! The video's up, it's just... pretending to be down...)


So while Bekah was off touring the campus and doing all that... stuff... my mom and I had some *grand adventures* (read: played Sudoku and napped on a bench in the Union) of our own. Actually- we were able to go out and enjoy a nice, longish walk through the neighborhood, which was fun. Hot, though. Man...

So good for you for attending all of the sessions, my Rose. Sorry your mom and sister had to counter you with a li'l hooky. For whatever it's worth, I have no doubt we were just as bored, if not more so, than you were.

See? Doesn't that just make it all better?!
 
 
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Current Music: Poe - Hello - Hey Pretty (M. Danielewski cut)
 
 
Ruth
06 August 2008 @ 08:45 am
Today's Vlog:

A project that could've been, and a possible upcoming audition.

Should I go for it? Do the audition? I have until mid-September to decide... Help!


Well??

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I'm at home watching "Enchanted," drinking a Wild Berry wine cooler, and eating Easy Mac.

...

i would rather be... um... I can't think of any place... I know I'd rather be somehow else, if not somewhere else. :S

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Yes, she looks tired and ill, but give Madonna a break. That's what happens when we women hit 50.

(I tested that link a few times and sometimes it just doesn't work. No idea why. The article is by Liz Jones and is on the Daily Mail website.)

"And do you know what? This rampant ageism really hurts. I was in the hairdresser the other day (the demented, feverish need of all women past the age of 35 to have our roots retouched every 14 days is as oppressive as foot binding) when the young colourist dared to say: 'The white regrowth is really obvious, I wonder you didn't wear a hat!'

I would have been quite within my rights to opine: 'Well, at least I'm not fat and wearing a ridiculous mini skirt and prone to varicose veins because I'm on my feet all day.'

I could have said all this, but I am sure if I had jaws would have dropped noiselessly around me.

When I challenged the young woman, wondering whether, as I was a paying client, she might have been a bit more tactful, she said, affronted and surprised: 'Would you prefer it if I wasn't honest?'

Well, yes, I would, actually, you dim cow. And I would be very grateful if designers and stylists and photographers and magazine editors would stop holding up 16-year-old children as some sort of ideal we should all aspire to.

Yes, teenage girls don't have deep grooves running from nose to mouth, or thinning eyebrows and really stubborn white whiskers, but neither do they have wit, or conversation, or mystery, or opinions, or experience, or memories, or money."
 
 
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Current Music: dad on the phone
 
 
 
 

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