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Halloween is just around the corner, and I have no idea what to be! Lena’s post about our Freshman year Halloween adventures made me laugh, but didn’t dissuade me from wanting to dress up and do something epic this year! I really wanted to get a few friends together and be the characters from the Wizard of Oz.  I, of course, wanted to be the Cowardly Lion, with my hair acting as my mane.  We’ll see….

Anyway, I just discovered the above video/series, which involves animated bunnies acting out popular movies in thirty seconds. Above is the Wizard of Oz-too funny. Check out the rest of the videos here!

Watching the It’s A Wonderful Life one made me wish it was Christmastime and that I was sipping on eggnog watching the classic film…and I’m Jewish! I guess watching a Woody Allen flick around the time of Channukah would work too, though none of them directly involve the holidays.

I love NYC in the fall-I forgot how amazing it is.

I can’t believe it’s already towards the end of October. I think time can pass so quickly because I have been mentally blocking my time into units, .  So, the summer involved me blocking time into units based on location (Ithaca, Toronto, Prague, Israel, NYC, etc), then came working on the New York Musical Theatre Festival (just finished that!) and now it’s the unit of Assistant Directing an upcoming show (http://lastcastrato.com) and continuing to interview for other jobs (I’ve had a lot of them recently so fingers crossed, but it’s a rough environment out there!)

I finally am feeling a lot more adjusted and happy to be back in the city.  I think it was rough at first without a job and with the impending departure of Paul, one of my dearest friends, to Austin.  I miss him tons but I think that the anxiety of him leaving was the worst!!

Love to all of my friends around the country and the globe! I think of you each day.

Sorry this post was a little discursive, I’m all over the place lately!

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Wow-I’ve been AWFUL at blogging, though to my credit I didn’t have consistent internet while I was travelling.  I’ll have to write about all that soon…. Anyway, today I went to see the Metropolitan Opera HD Broadcast with my dear friends Carami and Ben.  We went to see Doctor Atomic, a contemporary opera by John Adams, with a libretto by Peter Sellers about the testing of the first atomic bomb. Overall, I really enjoyed the music and the intensity of the opera, but, Ben, Carami and I all agreed that the opera was unnecessarily long. Some of the more comedic/entertaining moments included the many instances in which the opera singers would fake smoking fake cigarettes (each and every one of them was AWFUL at it, which is completely understandable…) as well as the impatience of the unnecessarily long opera driving the three of us to wish that the bloody bomb would just go off already! And we call ourselves Pacifists. -Tam

Wow-I’ve been AWFUL at blogging, though to my credit I didn’t have consistent internet while I was travelling.  I’ll have to write about all that soon….

Anyway, today I went to see the Metropolitan Opera HD Broadcast with my dear friends Carami and Ben.  We went to see Doctor Atomic, a contemporary opera by John Adams, with a libretto by Peter Sellers about the testing of the first atomic bomb.

Overall, I really enjoyed the music and the intensity of the opera, but, Ben, Carami and I all agreed that the opera was unnecessarily long.

Some of the more comedic/entertaining moments included the many instances in which the opera singers would fake smoking fake cigarettes (each and every one of them was AWFUL at it, which is completely understandable…) as well as the impatience of the unnecessarily long opera driving the three of us to wish that the bloody bomb would just go off already!

And we call ourselves Pacifists.

-Tam

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World Cup

I always love the World Cup-always an excuse to hang out with good friends and drink beer, though that seems to be my life since senior week/graduation; i guess i don’t really need an excuse to do that lately!

North Korea just scored-I was on a World Cup chat/streaming site earlier, and people kept making jokes about how the North Koreans’ lives depended on this game….

The camera always shows World Cup viewing parties and celebrations around the world.  Here is a certain viewing party in Ithaca, NY.

Charlie and I watched the game online, but the channels kept randomly changing on Ustream, where people stream videos online.  While watching the game, the channels randomly switched to a Spanish-language folk video and a Spanish version of the Lion King.

Good stuff.