City of Margaritas, Neon and Giants

So much for once every few days, eh? Well, its not entirely my fault. My internet was down for a few days, plus exams, then I went to Las Vegas. This will mostly comprise of that vacation, the good things anyways. I’m in a happy mood and don’t feel about ranting about the many disturbing qualities of the place.

Sin City was an experience, to say the least. My first time out of Canada, I didn’t quite know what to expect besides the horrors of US Customs (which really aren’t bad). The trip started off as many do, with me sleeping through my alarm clock, getting up late and rushing around. We flew WestJet, which is the best airline ever - and I’ll tell you why: TLC & mediocre cookies.

Anyways, Vegas. Massive. Go there, but only for a few days, you’ll either get so mad, so drunk or so dizzy that you’ll be begging for home within that time. Its insane, really, the SIZE of the place. Hotels the size of major shopping malls stacked upon each other, double-decker busses, advertising everywhere, for anything, plastic, meter long, neon margarita bottles with shoulder straps…

My favourite hotel that I visited would have to be Caesars Palace. It was obscenely huge but perfectly themed. The whole place just reminded me of a movie set. And, with my theatre techie-geek side going crazy, plus the general interest in Roman mythology – I was happy.

We went to see two shows. The first, Ice. This was absolutely mind-blowing, a mini-Ciruqe-du-Soliel on ice. They skated on STILTS and flipped each other off of teeter-totter-like contraptions and rode unicycles and spun each other around by the neck… It was like watching Olympic skating combined, gymnasts on crack with a little bit of Broadway. Not to mention the side story was pretty hilarious. Second was Mamma Mia!, which I would recommend to everyone and anyone (plus! the movie is coming out soon!).

I admit it. I am a 16-year-old ABBA fan. And proud.

The actors were fantastic, the humour perfect and the audience was great to boot. We had great sets and, yet again, I had a theatre-provoked techie-gasm. The one downside: the woman beside me was probably 50+, a die-hard ABBA fan and wouldn’t stop singing-along the entire time.

I also went to the Bodies exhibit, which was freakily disturbing, yet very cool and, again, provoked a techie-gasm due to some seriously cool lighting effects.

So, now, I leave you with an image preview of what I will bitch about later. iPod vending machines.

Feeling Creative

So, I had a big, long, nicely worded post here but - being a dope - I accidentally pressed "publish post" instead of "save now" and, my luck, the site crashed and bye bye pretty post.

Today's lesson: Always save first!!

Anyways, the basic gist of what I was saying was that I felt ambitious and productive. In such a mind set, I enjoy looking at some of my favorite design/craft blogs. One being Design*Sponge and the other, Thread Bangers.

Both are pretty sweet and if you ever feel in the creative mood, check them out because they're definitely inspiring that way.

That's all for now, exams are coming up and my productivity is wearing thin.
So, I am off to play flash games :)

Greene.

Introduction

First post on a first blog - kindof pathetic, but oh well. I am unsure of how to go about this introduction (facebook profiles and those idiotic email quizzes that I do so many of come to mind). But I suppose simply the basics.

I was going to list of your actual basics, hair, eye colour, age, name - but what would that tell anyone about my character? Not much.

Instead, here's a list of what I spend my time on, some "why"s and various other nonsense.

Theatre is one of my passions, the newest and most prominent at the moment. Acting is not one. Being a techy in theatre is something that was never considered because I deplore acting, even though I am a drama queen. Make sense? Hope not. My favorite fields include set design, costuming and especially stage management/production management. Need me to do lighting or sound? Shoot me. Musicals, in particular, jump out at me. Some of my favorites include Hello, Dolly!, Lion King, Sweet Charity, Fiddler on the Roof, Urinetown, Spring Awakening, Wicked and The Producers.

Music is next. No, I don't own a record player or 4000 CDs or spend all my time on Limewire, but I do love my music. My mp3 player (an e280 Sansa) is always with me. I enjoy every genre of music from rock, American pop and country to Japanese acid/punk, revival swing and reggae. Certain artists that I detest: Girlicious, Souja Boy, Green Day, Lindsay Lohan/Paris Hilton. 'Nuff said.

Books. Good/bad, old/new. Fiction/non-fiction. I was the kid that sat under the slide, alone, at recess reading the newest Magic Tree House. Ones I recommend: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Uglies Series, The Da Vinci Code, Othello, JPod, Shattering Glass, Of Mice and Men, Stone Carvers and The Stranger.

Another is Activism (most humanitarian) and Volunteerism.

A blog. Something I never thought I'd get, much less plan to keep up. I could go on about every thing, anything, and that is - I suppose - the purpose of a blog anyways. Its rambling. But, I enjoy it anyways. I have committed to one post every 2 days as long as I keep up my other commitments too.

To an interesting endeavour.
Greene.