I Know Things Now

Many things about various people in my life, were brought to light last night. And as my hair was growing with all the secrets it now contained, some Sondheim (I don't know if that's spelled right) lyrics came to my head. They are from a little show called "Into the Woods".

So we wait in the dark
Until someone sets us free,
And we're brought into the light,
And we're back at the start.

And I know things now,
Many valuable things,
That I hadn't known before:
Do not put your faith
In a cape and a hood,
They will not protect you
The way that they should.
And take extra care with starngers,
Even flowers have their dangers.
And though scary is exciting,
Nice is different than good.

I understand certain people a little better now. Which has allowed me to love them more.

Isn't it nice to know a lot!
And a little bit not...

Multiply Part Deux

My latest creation. Your thoughts?

Blood and Peanut Butter

Yesterday, we did our blocking for Block Party. Took 5 hours and years off my life. But in the last hour we did what is technically a full parade, which is doing the show twice in a row. So, after we finish "R.O.C.K.", the last number, Staging told us to pack everything up and we were free to go.

Being a tramp mover, I headed to put up that bouncy pain in my ass. One of the other guys in my group stopped me.

"What the hell is up with your ankle?"

I look down and sure enough the inside of my right ankle is covered in blood. And I still couldn't tell you for absolute sure how exactly that occured. It's a pretty deep cut and I didn't feel it. That's kinda weird to me. But now, I can honestly say I have put my blood and sweat into this parade.

Where Does the Good Go?

I am a good person. Here's why.

Today, as I was walking out from a cataclysmic Block Party rehersal (I don't really know what cataclysmic means, but it sounded bad so...) I strolled by a table full of baked goods.

Now, working at Disney you don't see many tables piled with various cookies, muffins, sweet rolls, rice krispie treats, and basically any other form of dessert snack a suburban house wife from Utah brings to the ward pot luck. I took pause. but I digress.

Then, the nice ladies informed me they were taking donations for a fellow cast member who had a stroke and a heart attack in the same week. And I thought I had it rough doing 1.5 Block Parties before noon. They went on to say that if I donated, I could take whatever looked particularly appetising. So I donated and was rewarded with some heavenly chocolate chip cookies. It pays to be good.

For Your Consderation: The House Bunny

I decided to start a little segment I'm going to call "For Your Condsideration". I will just be putting forth ideas or letting you in on things I enjoy.

Today, I push The House Bunny for your consideration.

Anna Ferris stars as a quickly axed Playboy Bunny. She frequently plays identical characters in her movies, but you gotta admit. The girl is funny. She can take any line and make me lol!

Hugh Hefner actually acts in the movie! hilarious.

It has a killer soundtrack. Amazing even. Every new song that plays with the film is so good. It sucks so bad that they didn't release the soundtrack because it's awesome.

You should see it. Well, something for you to consider.

Forever Part II

So my aunt and I opted for Day 2 of Mia: The Workshop. And, being the cunning sneak I am, I nabbed a picture of her royal brilliance as she taught a load of mediocre perfomers. She is coming over to me to say, "Ahh, Casey. Please come show this load of mediocre perfomers what I am trying to do."

To which I valiantly replied, "Mia, anything for my best friend."

Forever

Ok, so I had the amazing oportunity of seeing Mia Michaels a work today. She was doing a workshop in Longwood, FL and my aunt and I went to check it out. I don't know what it is but I find the woman completely intoxicating. She has this presence that I literally don't know how to explain. She is Mia. That's all I can say.

I was sitting on the side lines (It was $175 to take the class and $10 to observe. I opted for the cheaper) and just watched her create. It was sick. Then, as the class broke up into groups to do the combination (she taught the dance she choreographed for the top 16 performers on the most recent season of SYTYCD) she looked over at me and smiled! That basically means we are best friends. She's gonna find me and say "I talked with Nigel and Mary and we're sending you to Vegas for next season. You don't have to audition. That is how amazing you are." and I'll be like "Oh, Mia. Let's be friends forever!"

We Looked Like Giants

So having just been relieved of baby-sitting duty, I have come to a realization. Babies are hard. I love Buzz Cool Hatch, my baby cuz, but child needs to learn to be happy. I had to be holding him or he would belt his three-month old lungs out. By some miracle he feel asleep, allowing for about 45 minutes of Weeds. After his nap, he only got fussier and he didn't seem to respond to my repeated chorus of "London (his real full name) chillax please." I took him out side on the covered patio to get some air and he calmed right down. I wouldn't think that that whiny bitch "Hurricane" Fay would relax anyone. She must speak 3 month old.

Moral of the story: I'm really not ready for children. Like really.

Timebomb

Let me just paint ya a lil' picture. I'm sitting on a air matress in a constant state of deflation. Having just gotten back from a Cardio Hip Hop class at the YMCA by my aunt's in Dr. Phillips, my shirt is completely soaked through and I am to tired/lazy to change it. I have a neon green wrap around my right shin in an attempt to prevent further shin splintage. I'm slurping down my Big Gulp of Dr. Pepper cause after getting up at 4:15 am for the past three days, it seems to be the only thing to is keeping me coherant. I'm watching Season 3 of Weeds on a low volume setting hoping my little cousins won't come in an hear the intense profanities. Every once in a while I grab my chest to ease the pain that has now developed from certain someone(s) leaving last week. And yet, with all this going on I have sense of calm. It probably just means I'm going to pass out any second now.

Miniture Disasters

My very first natural disaster is upon me. Hurricane Fey (I like the name cause it reminds me of Tina Fey, who is brilliant) has set its course for Orlando. I'm absolutely terrified. But nothing will stop Panda night. Anyway, I really have no idea what to expect. All I've ever had to deal with is pounds of snow. I mean back in Elementary we had "earthquake drills" but we never actually had one. Hopefully, I can get to color code then to Panda and back to my aunts before I start seeing flying cows.

Hero

Oh dear children. I am here to give you my obsession of the week. It is called "Dr. Horrible's sing along blog". If you haven't seen it yet, you need to. It is absolutely amazing. It has comedy, drama, romance, and superheroes. So you really can't go wrong. You need to find it online and watch it like 20 mins ago. Here is a little taste.

Talk to me, dance with me

Oh my. I was watching my friends do the High School Musical show at Disney's Hollywood Studios and this little kid...ya know what just watch.

The Leaving Song

It's been kind of an out of control week. What, with Block Party training, trying (and failing and trying again) to get my car, moving out, and my best friends leaving Florida. I haven't really had a chance to breathe. But today, well, it's my day off so I can reflect. I have time for that. Anyway, I just wanted to vent for a second.



It sucks when you want to say something to people and then they leave. There are just things, good and bad, I wish I would have had the cahones to say to my peeps before they took off. Ah well, that's life I guess. I feel like Gandalf's words are very resonant to me at the moment. It only matters what you do with the time given to you. I hope I made and affect on my friends. I hope they will think differently after knowing me. I hope I made some impact.

Anyway, I will try to update a little more often.

Stop This Train

Kids, don't read anything into the lyrics that can be related to how i'm feeling. Just enjoy the amazing John-Mayer-ness

No I'm not color blind
I know the world is black and white
Try to keep an opened mind I just can't sleep on this tonight
Stop this train I want to get off and go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can
But honestly will someone stop this train

Don't know how else to say it, don't want to see my parents go
One generation's length away
From fighting life out on my own
Stop this train
I want to get off and go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can but honestly won't someone stop this train

So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find away to say that life has just begun
Had a talk with my old man
Said help me understand
He said turn 68 you'll renegotiate
Don't stop this train
Don't for a minute change the place you're in
I don't think I couldn't ever understand
I tried my hand
John, honestly we'll never stop this train

once in a while when it's good
It'll feel like it should
When you're all still around
And you're still safe and sound
And you don't miss a thing till you cry when you're driving away in the dark.

Singing stop this train I want to get off and go home again
I can't take this speed it's moving in
I know I can
Cause now I see I'll never stop this train

(think I got 'em now)

Dance of the day...

Wade came back. And an angel got it's wings.

Celebrate

So I'm online today and I am watching the dances from last night's So You Think You Can Dance?, Part 1 of the season finale. Mia choreographed the group dance for the top 4 to Hallelujah by Vitamin String Quartet. Here, just watch it. Watch it all please.


K, so as soon as I saw this I bought the song on iTunes. It just has a feel, ya know. A feel of celebration. Celebrating anything and everything. Getting a job, finding true love, excitement to see old friends, or even just that we're still breathing. I'm gonna go ahead and dedicate this song to this last week I have with my cousins and my best friend.

Alysse, Andrea, Chasten. This college program experience has been one of the most amazing things. I don't know that it would've been the same if you three had not been involved. We have gotten to spend so much time together and (to Alysse and Andrea) I am so glad that I know you as more than my cousins. You are friends, which to me, means so much more. I celebrate for that.

Chasten, you have been the most amazing friend to me. You'll be a groomsman at my wedding if not the best man. There aren't any words to accuratly describe how much you have taught me and how much I value our friendship. So I'm not gonna try. I celebrate for that.

Other people who have given me reason to celebrate:

Phil-One of the most unique, extraordinary people I have met. I feel bleesed to call you friend.

Allen- roommate extrodinaire.

Brock-insanity, awesome, coolest kid in town.

Kool and the gang know what they're talking about. Celebrate good times. I am doing just that. So thank you guys. WHHHHHHAAAAAAAA-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The Call

Guess what? Casey's getting trained in Block Party Bash. I'm so freaking excited. I've wanted to do this freakin' parade/show stop/whateverthehellitis for seven solid months. So, YAY!
Oh, all this means that I'm staying in Florida at least for the forseeable future. I have to find an apartment and a car. Heaps of responsibility to shoulder. I always thought I had pretty strong shoulders though, so I think I'll be ok.

Ode to Divorce

Dear Couples in love,

The world does not relvove around you and your partner.

I understand you feel like you got butterflies emerging from the cucoons in your stomach lining and it makes you feel crazy and sane at the same time. It might've been unexpected. You might have worked really hard for it. and even though it may seem to give you the right to turn into complete ass-wholes, it does NOT. There are other people around you who need a little slice of attention pie you think is baked solely for your Sugar Honey Babe. Sometimes the atmospheric characters in your life may not want to do something that you and Lover want to do, but guess what? That is normal. The desires, or undesires, as the case may be, of a friend should not be tossed away like excess Fried Rice from Panda Express. Just like a secret, it should be listened to without mockery. Then decided like adults. Not like the sickly nerd and the bully in sixth grade. Being in love doesn't not give you power. You can't treat others like characters in your novel that you can kill off.

Be kind, be caring, DON'T be self involved.

Forever and ever amen.

No Good

Warning! This blog might get profane so if you have some aversion to curse words.

Is it just me or does Kathrine Heigl need to calm down. She is so eager to run away from the show that made her some one that I don't think she realizes what could happen when she is no longer on Grey's every week. Once she is only seen evrey 8 months or so she could easily wash into this group I like to call "the hilary duffs" of the world. She'll be famous for like a year longer, maybe two, then she'll completely fall off the radar. Kathrine is a jerk and I think she deserves to dissolve into obscurity. She never should've won an emmy last year and she ESPSCIALLY shouldn't have been considered for a nomination this year. She is a bitch for blasting the writers and saying she wasn't "given the material to merrit a nomination". She was given material with which greater actresses can and have reaked amazing performances. Don't blame Shonda Rimes and her team of writers for you shitty acting skills.

Wow, that wasn't profane as I thought.

Foundations

Kids, my friend Bry showed me this video by Kate Nash. It's a fantastic song and there is a fantastic video to go along with it. I had to share.

More than a Feeling

I know, it's August now, holy crap, where did the time go, it seems like i just got here, etc, etc,etc.

Now to the important issue. Am I the only person who is sad Chelsie Hightower isn't in the top 4 on this season of So You Think You Can Dance? ? She is such an amazing performer. I am completely in love with her. I am so sad that America doesn't feel the same! I mean, Courtney is a perfectly fine contestant, but she isn't like Chelsie. Chels, if you are out there, somewhere and you happen to come across this, whew, ok here we go.

Will you marry me?

Seriously, she is just hot awesomeness. Check it out!