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- <h1>Dancing the Shag & Two Left Feet</h1>
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- Not all of my posts are huge, and they probably shouldn't be. Amy and I
- had a really great time yesterday at Two Left Feet Dance Studio,
- learning more about how to dance the Carolina Shag in preparation for
- our wedding (which is in less than 20 days)! An enormous swing band is
- going to play all of our favorites from the brass band/swing era, and
- one of the easiest dances to do to that music is the Shag. I wrote a
- paper on the Shag a few years ago for school but never actually learned
- how to do it. The steps are simple for us to remember and it's easy
- enough to add flair or mix it up so we look like we know what we're
- doing during our first dance.
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- We also got out to see the new Lion King remake and I can honestly say
- it was worth it. If anyone's a Lion King purist, it's Amy. It's easily
- been her favorite movie since she was a toddler, and to see it
- tastefully redone almost 25 years after it was first released was
- thoroughly enjoyable. There were minor alterations to literal sentences
- in the script that all added some context to things that were always
- kind of assumed in the original (clarification on Scar's backstory,
- etc.). I did however feel like they were trying to throw Beyonce lines
- the way a middle-schooler tries to turn a 500-word paper into a 700-word
- paper. Regardless, it's definitely re-living the classic, not re-hashing
- it.
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- Anyone who knows me even slightly well probably knows that I don't
- drink. And it's not out of moral obligation or anything like that. I
- just plain can't stand the taste of alcohol. So it's no surprise that my
- entire family has been trying to throw different alcoholic beverages in
- my direction to see what sticks.
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- But it finally happened! I finally found a drink with alcohol in it. And
- not only did I not gag, but I genuinely enjoy it, think it tastes great,
- and mix it myself.
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- It's called <em>Blackberry Cream Soda</em>. It's just blackberries,
- ginger ale, and spiced rum. It's darn good. And it's going to be the
- signature drink at our wedding, whatever that means. All I know is I can
- finally order something at a bar and that's cool by me.
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- my best friend. It was truly like a dream come true, so much so that it
- drove me to tears multiple times. Now that we're on our honeymoon, it
- feels simultaneously like everything and nothing has changed but I think
- that's a good thing.
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- We're alive! All three of us: Amy, Clementine, and myself. We're doing
- what we do best and that is being hermits with zero social contact.
- That's pretty okay by us though because it lets us slow down from all
- the fast-paced life changes we've made in the past few months.
- </p>
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- In January Amy and I bought a house! We couldn't have done it without
- the wonderful help of everyone who gave us wedding gifts. We got a nice
- little standalone place in Suffolk, much closer to where I work and
- centrally located for Amy's tutoring business. We spent all of January
- painting and prepping for the big move. Late January and early February
- were all moving and unpacking and trying to get back in the groove.
- Since the outbreak, we've been using the extra time at home to finish up
- all the move-in projects we wanted to: finishing painting, putting up
- shelves, hanging pictures, and rewiring electrical outlets.
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- Amy also finally got the chance to pursue her dream job: she started up
- her own private tutoring business. She's been working hard with clients
- all over Hampton Roads, from college students all the way to
- first-graders. Business was booming before schools closed but I know
- she'll bring it back once things have returned to normal again. No
- worries though, she's spending this time helping William and Mary handle
- remote operations and students in need. She's also [supposed to be]
- writing her master's thesis so she can graduate in May but you know how
- it is.
- </p>
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- We're also working through a family illness, which adds difficulty . We
- expect a speedy recovery though and we're really excited for that.
- All-in-all, we're really enjoying our lives as a happily married couple.
- It's been about eight months now and I've enjoyed every minute of it:
- the glad, the slightly stressed, and the overarching worry as the world
- took a strange turn. But we're looking forward to a good Summer now. The
- weather has turned nice -- really nice -- and Clementine is forcing us
- to get outside. She's in love with her nice, big fenced-in yard and
- refuses to come in after catching hoops most of the time.
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- At long last we have all of our wedding photos together! Unfortunately a
- large portion of the professional ones were lost during editing but
- we're extremely fortunate to everyone who took pictures throughout the
- festivities so we have more to share! We hope you enjoy flipping through
- them as much as we did! There is also a collection of the photos we took
- while we were on our honeymoon on Mackinac Island, MI. It was an
- absolutely magical place and truly the experience of a lifetime for us
- to run away there. We're in contact with our videographer, who's working
- on the final cut now.
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- Everything is available at the links down below. You can scroll through
- the photos, view them in fullscreen, and even download them or share
- them elsewhere. We hope you have as much fun flipping through them as we
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- Hammett, Dashiell. <em>The Maltese Falcon</em>
- <p>
- Excellent noir detective novel. Stolen treasure, murder, dames, all
- the good stuff.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- Chandler, Raymond. <em>The Big Sleep</em>
- <p>
- More good noir detective work. Cool cars, alcohol, mansions, hit
- men, also dames. Yet more good stuff.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- Lowry, Lois. <em>The Giver</em>
- <p>
- Second time I got to read this. Fantastic book just the same as
- before. Movie was totally carried by the fact that Jeff Bridges is
- the Giver. Super thought-provoking too.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- Rowling, J.K.
- <em
- >Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber
- of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter
- and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly
- Hallows</em
- >
- <p>
- Yep, all of them. I've read some of them multiple times but this was
- the first time I read them all to completion myself. My dad used to
- read them to me, so I only "listened" to the last couple. Always
- great, always better than the movies. And I pick up more and more
- forward- and backward-looking references when I read them in a row.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- Miller, Rand, Miller, Robyn, Miller, David.
- <em>Myst: The Book of Atrus, Myst: The Book of Ti'ana</em>
- <p>
- The great first two books in the Myst novel series. My favorite is
- the second, it gives all of the meat-and-potatoes lore behind the
- D'ni, The Art, and The Fall that I always wanted. The first is good
- too, and I recommend book-and-game nerds read
- <em>Myst: The Book of Atrus</em> after playing Myst: Masterpiece
- Edition and before playing Riven: The Sequel to Myst.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- Miller, Rand. <em>Myst: The Book of D'ni</em>
- <p>
- Probably my least favorite of the three Myst novels. It's
- fascinating and has lots of dark themes like enslavement. I
- recommend reading this one after Riven and before Myst III: Exile.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- Paulsen, Gary. <em>Hatchet</em>
- <p>
- The last time I read this was probably in the sixth grade, and it
- was one of the few books I was really glued to then. It's still a
- great story about survival, nature, getting mauled by moose, etc.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- Grisham, John. <em>Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer</em>
- <p>
- Also a re-read for me. I kind of sort of wanted to be a lawyer
- growing up and this book was the "I can do it too!" book. It's still
- a good crime, evidence, trial style lawyer book. I need to read the
- sequels.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- Wells, H.G.
- <em>The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man</em>
- <p>
- These are three of my favorite H.G. Wells novels.
- <em>The Time Machine</em> is super weird though and now that I'm
- re-reading it I'm picking up on a ton of Communist undertones.
- <em>Dr. Moreau</em> is fantastic. I love all books that take place
- on a desert island and this one really creeps me out with the
- doctor's surgically-humanized animals. <em>Invisible Man</em> is so
- short it's worth reading on a weekend just to know what it's about
- (spoiler: a man who is invisible).
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- Stevenson, Robert Louis. <em>Treasure Island</em>
- <p>
- Dude, I watched Treasure Planet when I was a kid and I was really
- into it for like a month. Now I finally got to read the real thing
- and there's a reason why this is one of those perfect examples of
- literature. It's the
- <em>absolute perfect, truly American story</em>
- about pirates, treasure, and sailing ships.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- Dick, Harold G.
- <em
- >The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships: Graf Zeppelin and
- Hindenburg</em
- >
- <p>
- I'm a huge rigid airship junkie. They're freaking awesome, I wish
- they were still around. I hate flying, and not because of the act of
- being in the air but because airships make it seem more comfortable,
- luxurious, and adventurous than a half a bag of peanuts, motion
- sickness, and recycled oxygen. If you're at all interested in
- Zeppelins and you can only read one book, this is the
- <em>only</em> book worth reading. It chronicles the author's
- experiences actually flying on and operating Graf Zeppelin and
- Hindenburg, their flight logs, how they worked, how they were flown,
- and the history behind their creation and demise. It's awesome.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- Brown, Dan. <em>Digital Fortress</em>
- <p>
- Great story, I actually listened to this audiobook while painting
- our house right around the start of 2020. It's an awesome story with
- an intelligent, sleuthy programmer and her globe-trotting professor
- significant other tracking down clues. It's got supercomputers and
- hackers and espionage and murder and viruses and it would be perfect
- if I knew nothing about cryptography or computing in general.
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- <h1>Louis Vierne Is a BAMF (and Proof That Organists Are Metal)</h1>
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- Louis Vierne is a certifiable badass organist from the end of the 19th
- and early 20th centuries. He was born blind and had to have surgery to
- be able to distinguish shapes and objects. Did that stop him from
- playing the one instrument that literally requires you to distinguish
- hundreds and hundreds of small objects from each other? Nope, he just
- did it (and he learned from Cesar Franck, another great organist).
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- In 1906 he got hit by a car and the doctors said they might have to
- amputate his leg. Did you know you play an organ with both your hands
- <em>and</em> both your feet? Well you do, and Vierne just re-learned how
- to play with his feet after the accident. Because nobody tells Louis
- Vierne no.
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- And because he's a badass, Vierne went on to become the official
- organist at the Notre Dame in Paris, a position he won by competitively
- dunking on numerous other musicians. He considered this his greatest
- achievement, and what Louis Vierne says goes.
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- In one final act of badassery, he carried out his lifelong dream: to die
- while playing at Notre Dame. In 1937, to a full recital hall in Notre
- Dame, he was giving his 1,750th performance and actually
- <em
- >had a heart-attack while playing and died at the console, and keeled
- over so that the low "E" played until they removed his body</em
- >. To this day, no rock band has ever been so metal.
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- Alright, so without the decoration, Louis Vierne is my favorite Organist
- and composer from the period. The organ is, in my opinion, the coolest
- instrument on the planet. It's the biggest, the loudest, and the most
- impressive. It's also got the most wide and interesting array of sounds,
- like having an orchestra at your fingertips. Vierne made some of my
- favorite music for the organ (music that my lowly organ skills will
- never let me play). He's also, obviously, pretty badass.
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- In truth, I think all organists are pretty cool. They play a cool,
- complicated instrument that really sounds like no other. They also play
- with their hands and their feet. Someone once said when a musician mates
- with an octopus, an organist is born. Come to think of it, Davy Jones
- plays the Organ and he's pretty cool. Coincidence? I think not.
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- If you get the chance, give Vierne a listen, you can look up his work on
- YouTube or a Pandora Radio station in his name. Look especially for
- Symphony No. 1 for Organ in D Minor, Op. 14. That's the first song I
- heard of his live (and in my understanding is the one he was playing
- when he died).
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