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Yesterday my brother and crematia13  got married, in a truly wonderful and heartfelt ceremony.  Those two crazy kids are just right for each other :-)  Crematia13's dress was gorgeous, seriously one of the most beautiful dresses I've ever seen, and she looked stunning; my brother proved that he cleans up good and looked very dashing in his tux.  The wedding party, parents, etc walked in to the song "Somebody's Getting Married" from The Muppets Take Manhattan (proof that this muppety thing must be genetic!) and the bride and groom walked in to the song "Love" by John Lennon, and then exited to "She's the One" by the Ramones (the wedding cake also featured bears dressed as the Ramones).  It was all so touching and really reflected their personalities and was just the perfect ceremony for them, officiated over by brigid.   Everybody had a great time and I could see my parents were so very proud :-)

This wasn't quite as exciting, but cool nonetheless:  as we got close to home after the wedding, M and I saw a wild turkey on our street.  Actually, M had to stop the car because it was in our street, and with admirable confidence they have faith in their ability to stop traffic and do not give way to cars.  The turkey was pretty soggy but stalked around unconcerned about the people stopping to gawk at it.  They look so prehistoric, big dinosaur birds on the hunt.

Debating whether to go to yoga class or not, but I think the rain is deciding it for me.  Plus I want to get some dancing in, as I won't have much prep time for my show next Sunday.  So I'll just do dancing and yoga at home for a couple of hours.  I bought a thera-band upper body set up this week so I can start strengthening my teres minor and all those other little back and arm muscles that have been sqwaking lately, so I'll get that going too.  I slept a blessedly peaceful 12 hours last night, so I need to tire myself out so that I can get to bed at some rational hour tonight.  Gosh that sleep was good though.  Maybe I'll also check out the samba DVD that just came in from Netflix...

VHS camera?

Does anybody out there have a camera that records onto videotape, or some other kind of camera that produces a format that is easy to transfer to videotape, that I could borrow or you could film me with?  I want to submit an audition tape for an event in NYC in September, and the format has to be VHS (a pain, but I suppose it makes sense given how many different digital formats there are). The deadline for submission is June 1.  I have a dual VHS/DVD-R deck, so a camera that produces DVD-Rs would be fine too.

I'd like to do the taping on either May 24 or 25 at BU's College of Fine Arts around 9pm (or possibly a little before 7pm).  The piece that I'm doing is only about 6 minutes long (the Qntal song that some of you have seen me dance to before, with the wings).  I will happily cook you dinner, ply you with liquor, dance at your next party, whatever in exchange!