More on Gilmore Girls

Many of the co-stars, or guest stars, from Gilmore Girls have gone on to other television shows, or Broadway. I think that the producers, writers, or what-have-yous have done a neat job of paying tribute to the budding actors or actresses departure.

In Season Two, episode nine (Run Away, Little Boy), bad boy Tristan Dugray (Chad Micheal Murray) left the show to become a constant on the show Dawson's Creek, play Charlie Todd. Dawson's Creek took place in North Carolina (or so I've been told, I've never seen the show to be honest, I read about this.), and Tristan's character supposedly left for a boarding school in North Carolina.

In Season Three Lane's boyfriend, Dave Rygalski (Adam Brody) leaves the show because he got the role of Seth Cohen on the OC (again, a show I have never seen), and in the show they explain his disappearance as going away to college in California.

And now, saving the best for last, (I would also like to point out that this correlates with my blog title) Adam Wylie's character, Brad Langford, was introduced in Season's one and two, however, there was a gap in between his appearances. In Season three, when he returns, a teacher says that Brad was returning from a Broadway show, Into the Woods. In real life, Adam left the show to perform Into the Woods.

It's not what I promised, but it's a step in the right direction...

OK, so, this is nothing on what I promised, but who are you to judge!


Last night I was watching Gilmore Girls, and I guess I was in a dorky mood, but I caught on to a lot of their more subtle references. (which happens to be the reason why I enjoy the show.)

In the Episode where Sheila has the baby and Lorelai (wow, my spelling is atrocious!) reminisces about Rory's birth. When Lorelai goes to the hospital to have Rory, after she turns in her paper work, she listens to "99 Luft Balloons" by Nena Hagen.

This both shows the time period, "99 Luft Balloons" was popular in the early to mid 80's, or around the time when Rory was born.

However, the song is about a third world war that is brought upon by a child's toy. When Lorelai became pregnant, her family and Christopher's started this huge battle, which is still yet to be solved, 22 plus years later.

Lorelai is also wearing red, the English version of the song is "99 Red Balloons."

And finally, at the end of the song, Nena sings,

99 dreams I have had In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standing pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you, and let it go
Lorelai's life before Rory was her dream, after she gives birth to Rory,
she knows that her dreams are over. So she thinks of "you"
(or Christopher) and lets go of her dreams.

More to come. It's a different episode and a complex, maybe reoccuring
is a better word, in the series.

Update?

This semester has been brutial, to say the least.

I was just looking at all my old posts (yes, at most, all 7 of them...I am such an avid blogger) and I realized how pathetic my reading life has become lately. Since I created this blog I have had little to no time for personal private readings, it's a shame.
I worked all summer, and have been beyond loaded with school work all semester.
Fret not, I will post silly pointless reviews of books in the not too distant future, I promise that I will write at least one review over my Thanksgiving break.

And I will also post some papers that I have worked on this semester, granted I will wait until I get them back from my teachers and extensively edit them (because I am evil like that :D)
Anyway, the point to this longwinded pointless entry, is that I have not forgotten about my book list I made at the beggining of the summer.

Stay tuned for:
"Scar Tissue" by Anthony Kiedis
"Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk
and, a special edition entry,
A comparison of "Less Than Zero" to "Catcher in the Rye," the back says "'Catcher in the Rye
for the MTV generation - USA Today," [that was hard to quote, sorry if I did it incorrectly] and I hope that I have some interesting opinions on the two books, and mainly on that quote.

Punk Cabaret will rock your soul.

If you are looking for ordinary pop dance moves, than Katie Kay and Erin “Dusty” Maxick, are not the two to look for. However, if you are looking for an undeniably energetic combination of talent, charisma, and impressive dance moves, than Ladybird is a must see.

Katie began dancing at 3 years old, when her mom put her in dance classes. “I continued with many different forms; tap, jazz, and lyrical,” said Katie, “until I was 14 and discovered hockey and soccer, and after that the punk scene took up all my energy.”

Katie reentered the dance scene in 2001, when she met a tribal belly dancer of the duet, Raqs Al Ard. Katie became the first serious student and they formed the troupe Sundara Varna.

Since 2001, Katie has joined two new dance groups, ladybird, who tours with the Brechtian punk cabaret band, the Dresden Dolls, and Lucent Dossier, who tours with the popular alternative band, Panic! at the Disco.

How did you start working for both the Dolls and Panic!?

I met a girl through a friend in San Francisco in 1999. She took all kinds of incriminating pictures of me, drunken on the streets of SF. We never talked again, and then thanks to the magic of the Internet she found me online in late 2004.

She saw that I was belly dancing and asked if I wanted to dance at the Troubadour in Los Angeles before her friends’ band from Boston [the Dolls]. I performed as a brigadier three times year, and casually hung out with Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione.

Meanwhile I was performing with Lucent Vaudeville Cirque, an amazing performance troupe here in Los Angeles. In May of this year, Dream, the director for Lucent, asked me if I’d like to do tour with Panic! for two months.

So, it turns out the Dolls were the support act on the second half of the Panic! Tour. Amanda asked if I’d like to create a show for the Dolls fall tour. I love Erin so much as both a person and a performer, I couldn’t imagine working with anyone else, and so we created the ladybird cabaret!

The world is small and works in mysterious ways—should you be open to it--being nice helps, too.

How do you adjust to a different stage each night?

Sound check! Most of them are pretty similar, but running songs though in rehearsal is important, for sure. Toronto was really slippery, that was bad, or maybe it was Montreal. That was probably the hardest thing to acclimate to thus far….

If I remember correctly, at the October 26^th concert at the 9:30 club, Amanda mentioned that both yours and Dusty's luggage got lost (I think Amanda said something about the luggage just “disappearing”), how do you adjust to unpredictable occurrences like that?

That happened to us twice this month! When Lucent performed with Panic! a couple weeks ago in London all of our costumes got lost in transit. We did the first of four nights in what we [Lucent Dossier] consider street clothes. People said they couldn’t tell, since Panic! was in new, more simple clothing, but we [Lucent Dossier] knew. And we were stressed. But the costumes showed up before the second night.

Then Erin’s personal luggage was lost on the way back to North Carolina to rejoin the Dolls. Thankfully, when we finally got back to Los Angeles the other night, her luggage was at her house. Still, it sucked for her to have nothing for over a week, and be overseas.

For your sets with the Dresden Dolls, how much planning goes into them? And who is the main choreographer?

I credit the Dolls show to Erin. She’s such a strong dancer--really disciplined and creative. She makes me want to work harder.

It took us probably two weeks to create and costume the three numbers that had choreography.

Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and have no idea where you are (even if you are staying in a hotel)? And what is it like for that to happen?

That has only begun to happen lately and it’s scary. A week or two ago it took me a good 20 seconds to figure out where I was—Erin and I were walking down some cute, in descriptive street and I had moment where I really had no idea. It’s unnatural feeling, turns out we were in DC, uh, I think!

What tips would you give to a beginner dancer?

Take classes! Be nice! Work your butt off! and I can’t stress how important it is to not burn bridges.