TAHOE/SNOWBOARD

Pics from this past weekend!!!! ENJOY!

Two life goals completed: Snowboard on real snow & See falling snow. SCORE!!!

Merry christmas

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Happy christmas from squaw valley usa.

real snow!

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REAL SNOW SUCKAS!

JC Superstar

Randy and I went to see the Ted Neely's farewell tour of Jesus Christ Superstar. Here's a review...

First of all, a little bit about Ted Neely. He is the original Jesus from the film of this musical. That was 30 years ago... he is... get this.. 63 years old.... 63! And this guy can still bust those rock star notes.
The show was definitely toned down compared to prior productions I've seen. I don't know if that's to reflect Ted's age, but he definitely showed signs of slowing down. Judas was to be played by Corey Glover but last night we had an understudy. Usually I'm very weary about understudies but as the show went on this guy totally won me over. When I think of Judas, I think of Carl Anderson's portrayal in the movie, which was intense and really emotional. This guy didn't really have that, but man he could sing.
The first act was a bit iffy and flew by quick but the second act came along and things got really intense.
The venue was awesome. The Orpheum has beautiful spanish style interiors and old historic charm. We were four rows away from the stage so our views were amazing. I can't believe I was THAT close to Ted Neely.
Some interesting things the producers of the show put in. During the prelude, two actors come out and draw an ichtus (symbol used to identify Christians) on the ground to identify each other. Also, after the crucifixion Jesus literally rises to heaven. After he is done ascending, a huge picture of the shroud of Turin appears then drops to reveal Jesus alive and well... interesting...

Even though it had a slow start, Ted Neely pushes the show through the second act and beyond. He can definitely still rock.

christmas in the city.

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A little bit of east coast flava on the west coast.

sabotage!

Apple's power went out around 6 tonight. Here's why. I blame the zune people.

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Here's a video, soundtrack is complementary :) ...

50 works of art you should see before you die...

The Guardian has posted a list of 50 works of art you should see before you die: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2006/12/the_50_artworks_you_rate_highe.html

The Angel of the North, UK

Here's the list, I checked the ones I've seen...
√ Piero della Francesca The Baptism of Christ (1450s), National Gallery, London
√ Antony Gormley The Angel of the North (1998), Gateshead
Masjid-i Shah (now Masjid-i Imam) Mosque (largely 1612-1630) Isfahan, Iran
√ JMW Turner Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway (exhibited 1844), National Gallery, London
Claude Monet Nymphéas (1914-1926), Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty (1970), Great Salt Lake, Utah
Tikal (AD300-AD869), Late Classic Maya site, Guatemala
Jackson Pollock One: Number 31, 1950, Museum of Modern Art, New York
√ John Constable The Hay Wain (1821), National Gallery, London
The Alhambra (mostly 14th century), Granada
Mark Rothko The Rothko Chapel (paintings 1965-66; chapel opened 1971), Houston, Texas
Matthias Grünewald The Isenheim Altarpiece (1509-1515), Musée Unterlinden, Colmar
Masaccio The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (c. 1427), Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
Edvard Munch The Scream (1893), National Gallery, Oslo
Giotto Fresco cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel (1305-1306), Padua
Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night (1889), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Terracotta Army of the First Qin Emperor (c. 210BC), Shaanxi province, China
√ Sandro Botticelli Primavera (1481-1482), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
√ Stonehenge (2950BC-1600BC), Salisbury Plain, UK
Limbourg brothers Les Très Riches Heurs du Duc de Berry (1413-1416), Musée Condé, Chantilly
√ The Book of Kells (c. AD800), Trinity College Library, Dublin
Ishtar Gate (c. 575BC), Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Pieter Pauwel Rubens Descent from the Cross (1611-1614), Antwerp Cathedral
Hieronymous Bosch The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1510), Prado, Madrid
√ Jan van Eyck The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (c. 1435), Musée du Louvre, Paris
Jan Vermeer View of Delft (c. 1660-1661), Mauritshuis, the Hague
Caravaggio The Burial of St Lucy (1608), Museo di Palazzo Bellomo, Syracuse, Sicily
Rembrandt Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (1654), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Francisco Goya The Third of May 1808 (1814), Prado, Madrid
Edouard Manet The Dead Torero (1864), National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Paul Cézanne Mont Sainte-Victoire from Les Lauves (1904-1906), Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
√ Michelangelo Sistine Chapel ceiling and altar wall frescoes (1508-1541), Rome
√ Leonardo da Vinci The Adoration of the Magi (c. 1481), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Pablo Picasso, Guernica (1937), Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
Titian Danaë (1544-1546), Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
√ Raphael The School of Athens (1510-1511), Stanza della Signatura, Vatican Palace, Rome
√ Parthenon Sculptures (Elgin Marbles) (c. 444BC), British Museum, London
Henri Matisse The Dance (1910), Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
√ Théodore Géricault The Raft of the Medusa (1819), Louvre, Paris
Katsushika Hokusai Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (1829-1833), series of woodblock prints, copies in major museums worldwide
Pieter Bruegel the Elder Hunters in the Snow (1565), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Ice Age paintings (about 30,000 years old) in the Chauvet Cave, Ardèche
Richard Serra Torqued Ellipses (1996), includes works on permanent view at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Jasper Johns Flag (1954-1955), Museum of Modern Art, New York
√ Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi The Annunciation (1335), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
√ Jean-Antoine Watteau Gilles (1718-1719), Louvre, Paris
Hans Holbein, The Dead Christ (1521-1522), Kunstmuseum, Basel
Diego Velázquez Las Meninas (1656), Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun (1333BC-1323BC), Egyptian Museum, Cairo
San Rock Art, South African National Museum, Cape Town, and at open air sites.

15 out of 50... phew.. only 35 more to go! travelling adventure anyone?