Everyone was so interesting (and so helpful!) in choosing which color we should paint our kitchen, so I've decided to keep the choices coming with the rest of the painting. Next up: The bedroom!
Our bedroom, bathroom and closet area sit up in a lofted space above the living room and kitchen. The ceilings are vaulted and there is a massive skylight above the desk. The computer desk is a lime green color and will stay in the room for good, so the wall color should accent. Bed spread is a dark gray with small white lines sketched on it. Here are the front runners so far:
Every Friday between Memorial Day and Labor Day I'm going to be featuring guest bloggers as a part of my "Summer Fridays" series. This week's post comes from everyone's favorite music master Ru B. who shares an intro on all things Bollywood.
India has one of the largest film industries in the world, producing over 1,000 films a year. Bollywood (As the Hindi Film Industry is affectionately called) produces about 200 films a year. Over the past decade Americans have seen Bollywood influence many aspects of pop culture including our soap operas, music, Broadway and even our reality programming. However these are mere glimpses of what Bollywood has to offer.
The Bollywood audience reaches far and wide, from Mumbai to Moscow to Michigan and every rural village and city in between. Going to the movie theater is a family event. Therefore almost every Bollywood film has something for everyone: the romantic storyline is usually the main story, but action is provided for the boys, cultural "festive" events for the older generations, as well as comedy for the children. Naturally, to include all of that in one film and the musical numbers, the average running time of a Bollywood movie is over 2.5 hrs! This can easily test the patience of your average American viewer but my hope is after reading this intro you'll be excited to dive right in and experience it for yourself. (Note: Slumdog Millionaire is not a Bollywood movie.)
Tonight the top 7 dancers performed on season 7 of So You Think You Can Dance and each contestant performed two numbers; One with an all-star and one with another contestant.
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Another dancer was injured this week. Ashley hurt her rib cage and had to sit out this week. She will automatically be in the bottom three, and if she can't dance next week she'll be out of the competition.
Check out the vlog for a recap of the night's performances.
Here are the details on all of the night's routines, in the order they appeared:
Lauren and Mark's Tahitian routine Choreographer: Tiana Liufau Song: "Jungle" by Last Voices
AdeChicke and Anya's salsa routine Choreographer: Liz Lira and Danny Davalos Song: "Oyelo Que Te Conviene" by Eddie Palmieri
Jose and Courtney's Broadway routine Choreographer: Joey Dowling Song: "Mister Cellopane" from Chicago
Robert and Allison's contemporary routine Choreographer: Travis Wall Song: "Fix You" by Coldplay
Billy and Anya's jive routine Choreographer: Louis van Amstel Song: "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" by Meal Loaf
Kent and Neil's Broadway routine Choreographer: Tyce Diorio Song: "Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, MO" from Damn Yankees
Lauren and Billy's jazz routine Choreographer: Mandy Moore Song: "Boogie Shoes" by JC and the Sunshine Band
Jose and Dominic's B-boy routine Choreographer: Tabitha and Napoleon Song: "Battle for the Beat" by District 78
Kent and AdeChicke's contemporary routine Choreographer: Dee Caspary Song: "You Only Disappear" by Tom McRae
Robert and Kathryn's disco routine Choreographer: Dorianna Sanchez Song: "Instant Replay" by Dan Hartman
What did you think of tonight's performances? Who do you think did the best? Who's going home tomorrow night?
Attention, designers! The new cast of Project Runway has been revealed and it looks like the theme of season 8 will be "more more more!"
Beyond having the most number of designers ever (17 in total) each episode will now be 90 minutes long! Runway will now air Thursday nights at 9pm on Lifetime. Check out this beautiful promo for the new season:
Everyone's been buzzing about director Christopher Nolan's latest film Inception. The film's dizzying and confusing promo spots left little to be understood about the actual plot, so I was excited to check out a screening to see if the movie lived up to the hype. It did.
The cast is amazing (Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, and Marion Cotillard,) the special effects are exhilarating and the actual premise is so mind-bending that there were several points where I had to stop and collect my thoughts.
Think of this movie like a white collar espionage film combined with The Matrix trilogy. Unique individuals are trained to go into the minds of important people and extract information from them. The individuals are able to create and mold their own unique worlds in the minds of the dreaming, but things go awry when they are asked to not only pull out info from people's heads (extraction,) but plant ideas deep in their subconscious (inception.) How can a world be controlled that's being shared my multiple dreamers, and how can they be sure that their minds won't betray them?
Everyone's been buzzing about director Christopher Nolan's latest film Inception. The film's dizzying and confusing promo spots left little to be understood about the actual plot, so I was excited to check out a screening to see if the movie lived up to the hype. It did.