Theme/Interest

Current Research:
Marginalization, Identity (Gender Non-conforming, Queerness, Ancestry), Personal Narrative
further topics: whiteness, language, storytelling, cultural assimilation

non-Research interests include:
photography, sculpture, philosophy, poetry, writing, painting, bird watching, microfarming, Classical Tibetan Buddhism and Language, etc.

Allison & Cole - SYTYCD Season 9

Dancers: Cole Horibe and all-star Allison Holker
Choreographer: Sonya Tayeh (Contemporary)
Music: "Possibly Maybe" - Björk

Amy & Robert - SYTYCD Season 10

Dancers: Amy Yakima and all-star Robert Roldan
Choreographer: Stacey Tookey (Contemporary)
Music: "Say Something" - A Great Big World

Tucker & Robert - SYTYCD Season 10

Dancers: Tucker Knox and all-star Robert Roldan
Choreographer: Travis Wall (Contemporary)
Music: "Medicine" - Daughter

Chehon & Kathryn - SYTYCD Season 9

Dancers: Chehon Wespi-Tschopp and all-star Kathryn McCormick
Choreographer: Tyce Diorio (Contemporary)
Music: "Eli, Eli (A Walk To Caesarea)" - Sophie Milman

threnoidia (2012)

Adele - "Someone Like You" (Live)

"I heard that you're settled down
That you found a girl and you're married now
I heard that your dreams came true
Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you

Old friend, why are you so shy?
Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light

I hate to turn up out of the blue, uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it
I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
That for me, it isn't over

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you, too
Don't forget me, I beg, I remember you said
Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead
Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead

You know how the time flies
Only yesterday was the time of our lives
We were born and raised in a summer haze
Bound by the surprise of our glory days

I hate to turn up out of the blue, uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it
I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
That for me, it isn't over

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you, too
Don't forget me, I beg, I remember you said
Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead, yeah

Nothing compares, no worries or cares
Regrets and mistakes, they're memories made
Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you
Don't forget me, I beg, I remember you said
Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you, too
Don't forget me, I beg, I remember you said
Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead
Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead"


Songwriters
ADKINS, ADELE LAURIE BLUE | WILSON, DANIEL D.

Published by
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
source

Radiohead - "Creep" (Live)

"When you were here before
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so fuckin' special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here

I don't care if it hurts
I wanna have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
When I'm not around
You're so fuckin' special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here

She's running out the door
She's running out
She run run run run...
Run...

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so fuckin' special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
I don't belong here"



Songwriters
HAMMOND, ALBERT | HAZLEWOOD, MIKE | YORKE, THOMAS EDWARD

Published by
Lyrics © [1992] Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
source

Bob Dylan - "Blowing In The Wind" (Live, March 1963)

"How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, how many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind."

Songwriters: SHERRILL, BILLY | RICH, CHARLIE
Blowin' In The Wind lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC 
source

Half Japanese - Greatest Hits (audio only)

Half Japanese: (brothers) Jad and David Fair

Tracks:

Иванова ночь на лысой горе - Модест Петрович Мусоргский

 

Ivanov's [St. John's Eve] on Bald Mountain (1867) by Modest Pyotrovich Mussorgsky

(tone poem)

(source link)

Clue Cards

Alanis Morissette - "Ironic"

"An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn't it ironic, don't you think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought, it figures

Mr. Play-It-Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
'Well, isn't this nice.'
And isn't it ironic, l don't you think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought, it figures

Well, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face

A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic, don't you think
A little too ironic, and yeah I really do think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought, it figures

Well, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
And life has a funny way of helping you out
Helping you out."


Songwriters: MORISSETTE, ALANIS NADINE | BALLARD, GLEN
Ironic lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY

Pearl Jam - "Release" (Live, 1992)

"I see the world
Feel the chill
Which way to go
Windowsill
I see the words

On a rocking horse of time
I see the birds in the rain
Oh dear dad
Can you see me now
I am myself

Like you somehow
I'll ride the wave
Where it takes me
I'll hold the pain
Release me

Oh dear dad
Can you see me now
I am myself
Like you somehow

I'll wait up in the dark
For you to speak to me
I'll open up
Release me
Release me
Release me
Release me"


Songwriters: GOSSARD, STONE C. | AMENT, JEFFREY ALLEN | VEDDER, EDDIE JEROME | MCCREADY, MIKE | KRUSEN, DAVE
Release lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Telling Stories

from Alice in Wonderland (1951)

     (to Alice)

Mad Hatter: "And now my dear, something, ehh, seems to be troubling you ...
             [slurps tea]
             ... won't you tell us all about it?"

March Hare: "Start at the beginning."

Mad Hatter: "Yes, Yes. And when you come to the end ... [chuckles] ... Stop! See?"

Thinking

from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1866); pp 109-110

"Really, now if you ask me," said Alice very much confused, "I don't think-----"
"Then you shouldn't talk," said the Hatter.