Archive for November, 2008

Panel Discussion of Measure for Measure with some of New Paltz’s finest faculty.

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

I took a play by play, if you will, of the panel discussion here at SUNY New Paltz, regarding this current mainstage production of Measure for Measure.

Cyrus Mulready, an English professor at SUNY New Paltz, began the introductions of moderating a panel discussion of the play Measure for Measure going on from November 14 until November 23 2008. It features English department chair Tom Olsen, Katherine French from the History Department, the director Paul Kassel, and Daniel Lipson from the Political Science Department. They discuss some of the social, historical, and political issues associated with the play.

Professor Mulready properly introduces all the faculty members who will be speaking.

Daniel Lipson now speaks.

Katherine French now discusses marriage during that time.

Paul Kassel, the director, has a little to say.

ANY QUESTIONS?

I know I video taped Tom Olsen as well…but I don’t know WHY it didn’t download. Ok, well enjoy everyone!

Happy rainy Saturday night!

SpeedArts!

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Well it’s 1:11AM right now and I can’t sleep. Too much on the brain. Ergo, I thought I’d write a blog instead of tossing and turning in my bed.

This Thursday I went to the gym for a fitness class called SpeedArts. This is one of the first fitness classes I could fit into my schedule without having to wake up for a 7am Zumba or Cycling class (which sometimes is a little too early for me to do any extreme type of exercise.)

Let me explain what this class entails, because truthfully, I had to look at the back of the Group Fitness sheet to see for myself.

It says: “A unique blend of Martial Arts and strength training. This class uses light weight medicine balls and carefully crafted chorography to offer you a workout like none other.”

That last statement is definitely true, because I’m STILL SORE! It kicked my butt! And it can kick your butt too, if you’re willing. It’s one hour of “let’s-get-your-butt-into-shape” sort of deal. The instructor, Julia, was hardcore. My friend Liz and I walked into the dance studio totally unsure how this was going to turn out. I remember walking in and saying hello to Julia, an older woman probably around my mom’s age (not like you’re old or anything mom….uh…I love you and you’ll always be young in my eyes.)

*Side note: my mom looks so much younger for her age because she’s healthy, energetic, and active. Love ya ma!*

At any rate, Julia was wearing a sports bra, leggins shorts and martial art shoes which reminded me of ballet slippers. She was Buff! Buffity buff BUFF! I was like damnnn I’m impressed and I’m going to listen to everything she says because obviously she knows how to get RE-SULTS!

It ended up just being me and Liz in the class, apparently because it was a rainy rainy day and no one wanted to get on over to the gym. Luckily for us, Bliss Hall is RIGHT in front of the gym. So it’s a step out of our residence hall and PRESTO! We’re ready to work out. Just like that. Neato, right? Also, lucky for us that we were getting a private training session! However, I am being generous and opening up this information to you, which will probably cease my private training classes! ;-) Ah well, it will be nice to see other friendly, red-faced boys and gals feelin’ the burn.

Julia would like to see some guys next class, because she said, it will be easier for them and they’ll be able to handle it! HAHA BOYS! She honestly said though, that quick martial arts/kick boxing choreographic combinations are harder for guys to handle. They can do quick jabs well, but the leg movements and whatnot are harder for them. Hmmm… Anyway, she told us to “bring our boyfriends.” Oh I couldn’t help but laugh at that one.

Well apparently, Liz and I did the hardest version of Speed Arts that she had, which was Level 6 I believe. NO WONDER WE WERE DYING! I’m not going to try to sound like a champ here; we were red in the face and sweating up a storm! But ya know what? We FELT like champs when we were done! Ah the feeling of accomplishment!

Alright, well everyone it is on Thursdays at 5:30 PM if you are interested. Come check it out if you want to be challenged and would like to get those endorphins flowin’! I will hopefully be there if time permits like this week!

Ok maybe I can finally catch a Z or two. Nighty night all!

Dave Barry & Sunday…!

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Greetings!!

Last night was “An Evening with Dave Barry,” and the entire experience, from ushering to watching the show, was incredible! It all started when I arrived at the Athletic and Wellness Center at 6:00pm, and received a fantastic Welcome Center vest! Then, after an hour of usher training, the guests began to arrive. Now, let me tell you, everything was so much fun! I never really “ushered” any guests to their seats before, and truly, it was awesome! I felt ever so important with my name tag and flashlight! After their tickets were ripped at the door, I helped escort the guests to their seats. We spoke about Dave Barry and about New Paltz and it was just lovely! It was just such a wonderful opportunity to see students, faculty (including some of my past professors), community members, and Dave Barry fans all come together. I spoke to one couple who had never been to New Paltz before. I spoke to a man who graduated from New Paltz in 1974 who was meeting up with several of his college friends to see the show! Pretty neat! At approximately 8:00 the magnificent President Poskanzer welcomed Dave to the stage, and the show began. The show itself was so funny! It was full of bright intellectual comedy! It was delightful to listen to! The evening ended with a question and answer session. AWESOME JOB Rachel, Tara, and Russ..everything was perfect!

Ushers!

Dave Barry reppin a New Paltz hoodie!

Okay, so now to backtrack a litttttle bit, to tell you about Sunday evening. On Sunday night, NRHH held “Wings for Charity.” Pretty much, each NRHH member was asked to get sponsors for each wing that she/he ate and all of the proceeds would go to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. It was really nice to hang out with NRHH members in such an informal setting and to be able to make a difference in the lives of sick children as well.

After I was practically full, I met the Deyo RA’s, Hall Government, and Night Hosts to go to Red Robin in Poughkeepsie! It was fun hang out with everyone!


After our delicious meal, I came back to Deyo and was super productive and got so much done! It was a start to a great week!

Hope all is well! Enjoy! -Jessie

wallyWHAT?!?!

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Hello everyone, hopefully everything is going well with your semester! It’s almost over. To those non-college students, I hope everything is going smoothly with your application process, I know that gets rough sometimes, believe me I remember!

I just wanted to do a quick update about a game that I played last night called WALLYBALL! That’s right, wallyball. It’s basically the same thing as volleyball, except you play it inside a racquetball court, AND you’re allowed to play off the walls, hence the name WALLyball.

Mabel, one of my fellow RA’s in Scudder, put on this program along with Tony Bonilla, the director of EOP. All residents were invited to play. Only a few showed up but I think that was just because people didn’t really know what wallyball was. Hopefully, after seeing this post they come because I definitely want to do it again in the future.

This was actually my second time playing wallyball. I played it once before on my senior trip during high school, but I had no idea that it was actually a known game/sport.

It was so much fun, I was really bad at first because it takes some getting used to playing inside such a small, confined space but after a while I think I got the hang of it. I really can’t wait to play again. I kind of want to start a wallyball club on campus, but I don’t know if I have the time. Maybe someone else can start it and I can just join it or something. I don’t know?

I took a few pictures of us playing. I wanted to take more but it was kind of hard because it’s such a fast paced sport I was afraid my camera was going to get attacked. Here are a few shots I took during practice!

 

Also, here is a video I found on youtube of wallyball. It’s not us playing, it’s not even from New Paltz. I just wanted to put a video up so you can actually get glimpse of the game. It’s really short, but I figured that’d be better!

 

Hope you understand the game a little bit more now, GOTTA GO because work is calling my NAME!

-Kevin

Measure for Measure

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare opens tonight, November 13th @ 8pm and runs until the 23rd of November. The play is performed in Parker Theatre. I saw it tonight at the Gala performance and it was a wonderful performance! And the upstairs of Parker Theatre looks fabulous! They gutted it out to make a food service in the lobby, so they completely remodeled it! WHOA!

Here’s the information:

Tickets are $16. To get tickets call 845-257-3880 or go the McKenna Box Office from 11:30-4:30 (I believe those times are pretty accurate. If you’re unsure, you can just call them up.)

I know the price seems a little steep, but listen up students: tickets are $8 ON THURSDAYS! And $14 bucks any other day if you let em know you’re a student! So take advantage of that I say. You have 2 Thursday’s to see it for cheap! (General admission is $16).

Break a leg for ALL INVOLVED!


Alright, talk to ya later gator. :-)

Dave Barry!

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

“An Evening with Dave Barry” tomorrow night.. be there!

http://www.newpaltz.edu/speakerseries/

On Wings of Love.

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Sunday….Sunday, the day to relax.

Yeah, more like, the day to do massive amounts of homework and fight off the intensive urge to nap the day away. However, this Sunday, although there was homework and napping involved, was different from most Sundays. This Sunday I attended On Wings of Love. Actually I was apart of On Wings of Love, which is even cooler!

On Wings of Love was a concert to benefit Angel Food East. Angel Food East has been providing and delivering free, individual, nutritious hot meals for people living with HIV/AIDS in Ulster County for the past 15 years. Meals are provided to those regardless of age, gender, race, religious affiliation, economic situation or sexual preference. This independent, non-denominational program is run from a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Kingston (where the benefit concert took place.) The program costs approximately $40,000 a year to run and is funded solely by grants and donations. This concert was the 6th On Wings of Love Benefit Concert, and through these shows, over $14,000 has been raised.

The night had many amazing (as well as impressive I might add) performers who donated their time and talents for this cause. I would like to start off with our emcee being Ron Nyswaner. If that name sounds familiar to you, it may be because he wrote the screenplay for Philadelphia, a 1993 film revolving around HIV/AIDS, homosexuality, and widespread attitudes concerning gays and homophobia. This movie starred actors such as Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, and Antonio Banderas.

Let me talk about the OWOL 2008 chorus! I sang in the On Wings of Love chorus, because I was asked to by the show director, Liz Toleno. Liz is busily enjoying her life by being a musical director, accompanist, vocal coach, and flut/piano teacher in The Hudson Valley and then some. Also, Liz works here at SUNY New Paltz as well, working as an accompanist in my Voice 1 class as well as working in the pit for the musicals. At any rate, I received an e-mail from her a while back, describing this benefit concert and what it entailed. I was free so I accepted full-heartily! I feel like I never have time to do events outside of campus, so now that time allowed, I really wanted to get involved!

The OWOL chorus opened up with the choral arrangement of “Everlasting Melody.” The soloist in the beginning was by an eleven-year-old boy named Thomas Netter, who had a smiley disposition on his face and the gift of song in his heart. He was phenomenal! He hit these high notes like no other! He was singing in my section with the altos. Darn tootin’ impressive! Here’s a video on YouTube of ANOTHER chorus singing “Everlasting Melody,” because, well, I couldn’t tape myself doing it now could I? ;-) I just want you to get a feel for what it sounds like! It’s quite catchy and I feel this chorus does a nice job with it

The next performer I’d like to talk about is Kevin Archambault, who sang “I’m Not Afraid of Anything.” He has several Off Broadway credits, such as Love Letters, Young & Beautiful or Hello I’m Old. National Tours include: West Side Story, Bye Bye, Birdie. Here’s actually a video of his song.

Sorry I’m so far back, and the zoom isn’t at its best. The reason I’m sitting all the way back there is because after the On Wings of Love chorus sang the opening number, we all dispersed for any seats available in the back.

There were other famous performers, such as James Dybas, who was featured in eight original Broadway shows, in regional theatres and cabaret throughout the country, on TV & in films. He’s a 6 time recipient of the Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award, and is a longstanding member of Actors Equity. He sang a Medley of “At Long Last Love,” “Give Me the Simple Life,” and “Feeling Good.” It was full of emotion and the crowd loved him.

Another wonderful WONDERFUL duo, who I wished I taped, was Aysa and Ron Morehead. I actually searched them on google, to see if they had a resume of their work, but I found Ron’s myspace? It’s actually pretty informative of what he’s been involved in, his family, and well, his life. So if you wanna check it out, here it is.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=121763337

An act that I DID tape was the Cast of Anything Goes from Coleman High School singing a choral arrangement of “Blow, Gabriel, Blow.” So here, you can see it and hear it.

Well, the OWOL ended the concert by us singing “Make Them Hear You.” It’s a really beautiful song with touching lyrics, that can definitely pertain to this cause. Here’s a version of it on Youtube, that I felt did it justice. This is from Wayzata Choirs in MN. They don’t have visual, but the music is BEATIFUL! JUST LISTEN!

I just want to mention, that because this event did take place in Kingston, I did have to drive to it. Luckily I have a car. It’s approximately a 28 minute drive. However, I could have carpooled with people if I didn’t have an auto-mobile. I did drive a freshman in the Theatre Department here named Annette Storckman, who takes singing lessons with Liz Toleno. I’m really glad I was able to get to know her via transportation. We also sang the same part together in the concert. It’s always nice meeting new people and learning from them. For example, she was writing in a personalized, decked-out, marble notebook about ideas for screen plays, and I couldn’t help but be inspired. Even though college can be so busy, the work load didn’t crush her creativity. It makes me just want to sit down and write in my journal for hours with music blasting. Ya know? Plus, she worked at The Renaissance Fair, so I was asking about the audition process and how she liked the experience. I hope to talk with her more in the future.

On that note, On Wings of Love was a giant success and a wonderful benefit to be apart of. I was honored I could make it and be involved.

(If you would like to volunteer please contact Angel Food East @ 845-331-6538. Drivers, cooks, and helpers are always needed.)

Do a little dance, have a little fun, girl’s night tonight! Woo! Girl’s Night Tonight!

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Saturday night was GIRL’S NIGHT! So it was just me and my best friend Renee Levine. We’ve both been “hella” busy, as Renee, the Californian native would say. Therefore, we wanted to hang out and get a chance to talk. We haven’t seen each other in a dog’s age. Since we were both finished with our obligations at 5pm, we planned to meet up and then decided we wanted to go to this event called Dance Evolution 2008, The Joker’s Revenge.

Dance Evolution was an event of all sorts that took place at the New Paltz high school, which was a 3 minute drive to get there! So close! Even if you didn’t have a car, they had shuttles leaving from the Haggerty Administration Building circle on campus, so you could make it to the event on time and without paying a cent! However the event was 4 bucks if you lived on campus and 8 bucks if you lived off…so not ENTIRELY free. I drove Renee, my friend Akeem, who lives in the same suite as my brother at UAlbany, Angie, and Lisa, Angie’s roommate. Dance Evolution was SUPPOSED to start at 6pm “sharp,” but there were major technical difficulties and it almost started an hour later than anticipated! To be honest, that was a little frustrating. This is no fault to anyone, especially the performers. Heck, I’m sure it was frustrating for them too, but it was a while to sit in the audience and wait for the show to start. At any rate, everything turned out alright. The event had several entertaining acts, as well as an enthused audience. Let me show you!

Below are several videos! The first one is the National Anthem sung by Paula (I didn’t get her last name) and the black National Anthem.


Video of M’Powered! 9-17 year olds dancing hip hop and African dance! This dance group is A-MA-ZING!

Video of Culture Shock 1st part

Video of Culture Shock 2nd part

This guy rapped a song called “Bubble Butt.” Obviously he could have sang, “Mary had a Little Lamb,” and the lady audience members would have still loved him.

Then after the concert, Renee and I were starving so we drove into town and decided to try this new sushi place. It was called Hokkaido. The restaurant was a cute little place and we were excited to get a nice meal, but uh, we couldn’t find the door. There were stairs on the side of the restaurant, but no doorway. So we actually walked around the building a couple of times until we finally found the entrance around the corner. AH. So we sat down, ordered some endamame, and some rolls. For those who don’t know endamame is a healthy appetizer. Here, I’ll copy and paste what Wikipedia says about them: “endamame is a preparation of baby soybeans in the pod commonly found in Japan, China and Korea. The pods are boiled in water together with condiments such as salt, and served whole.” I ordered the common California Roll and the Shitaki Avocado Roll: both hit the spot!

Then after we had some “us” time to talk and catch up on each other’s lives and thoughts, we went back to Renee’s apartment on Main Street, which she shares with three other people. I changed into my pj’s which I brought from my room and jumped on the couch with Renee to watch Thirteen going on Thirty. I bought that movie over the summer and haven’t really had a chance to watch it yet. It was an uplifting chick flick, but there were parts of it that were SO SAD! However, it ends nicely, thank the lord. It stars Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo and Judy Greer. I really love Jennifer Garner. I find her acting to be so genuine. Anyway, it was a nice ending to a nice night. Our girl’s night, sleepover was a success! :-)

Here’s the trailer for this movie!

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2209546521/

In the morn we got up at 8am since Renee had work at 10:00AM and the Bistro, right down the street, was calling our names for a hot meal. So we got all freshened up and ready for some breakfast. The Bistro is always SUPER CROWDED so we wanted to get there early. Never have I ever walked into Bistro and sat down right away. There is ALWAYS a wait, because it is just that well known. However, today, we made history, by being seated right away. We were right by the door, but we were sitting! We both ordered the Breakfast Special, which is 2 eggs any way you like, homefries and 2 pieces of wheat toast, all for a little under $2!! Isn’t that amazing? It’s handy for all us poor college students, that’s for sure. Anyway, as soon as we were delivered our meal, the power went out….I’m not kidding here. The power just went, Ka-poot. So I saw another historical moment: The Bistro had to actually TURN DOWN customers, because they wouldn’t seat people until the power went back on. Crazy! And it wasn’t just The Bistro that lost power- it was all along Main Street! Starbucks had a sign on the door saying it was closed due to the power outage, and I know my friend who lived on Main Street didn’t have power…insane! While we were eating Renee looked at me and asked, “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” I wasn’t sure, but she said, “I’m thankful we got our food before the power went out!” Wow were we on the same wavelength with that one!

I took a picture of some of these robots that were on the wall of the Bistro. They were called Junk Bots and they were on display for purchase. Interesting. Renee’s favorite was the robot that had a body similar to the shape of a piece of bread. Do you see it?

So I went out to eat a lot, at least one meal each day of this weekend, but it was fun and worth it! Plus I got to spend it with good company.

Alright, mucho sleepy. Must go to bedy bye! Night all! <3

Student Ambassadors Rock Da Campus!

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Hi Weekenders!

It was only Friday and Saturday, but boy how they were Jam-packed with events (mostly Student Ambassador related- hence my choice of title.) ;-) Alrighty, well, if you don’t know what this foreign, yet official sounding position is, lemme show you a website that can explain most efficiently!

–> http://www.newpaltz.edu/admissions/ambassadors_become.html

Also check out our cool biographies of all the Student Ambassadors! There’s pics up of us, so you can see how purdy we are (haha.) Also, we have fun facts! Cooooooool dude.

–>http://www.newpaltz.edu/admissions/ambassadors0708/ambassadors_all.ht

At any rate, Friday night, all us Student Ambassadors had a nice, bonding dinner at Rock ‘da Pasta! I just blogged about that place, I know…so it’s been my second trip there in a rather short period of time (for me at least.) I don’t normally go out to eat TOO much I feel, but this weekend, I went out to eat a truck-load!

I just want to give a ginomrous thanks to Jamie Michelman, for being the coordinator of our bonding supper! She also brought together some student ambassadors to go to the Headless Horseman event. (Unfortunately I couldn’t attend since I had a show that night.) However, she is a loving individual who just wants all us employees to have some fun together and get to know each other! She even saved a seat for me when I came in late after my dance rehearsal. Isn’t that sweet? Shana, I think this gal needs a raise (wink, wink.)

Well would you like some visuals of our happy-go-lucky times at Rock ‘da Pasta? What’s that you say? You would? OH, well splendid! Catch a glimpse of these nut-zoids.

Jamie Michelmen, everyone!

Jamie Michelman and Marlea Liguori being cute kiddies.

Erica Clough, Brittney Daily and Kevin McSherry (NP BLOGGER WOOT WOOT) all giving a wide grin…cept for Kev here. Hmm.

Erin Kowalsky and Meagan Olsen giving the ever-so-cheesy “thumbs up.” :-)

Student Ambassador group shot!

Well we couldn’t ALL fit at one table!

Haha, this is painted on the top of the fridge they have in the restaurant! Rock (Da) Pasta!

It was a grand ole’ night! Here’s a video that I took of us conversing and being silly. AWWWW YEAH! Oh and Kevin stands up to get his dessert before he leaves! I find it HILARIOUS!

YOUTUBE VIDEO OF US AT ROCK DA PASTA!


Oh and thanks Shana for buying us all dessert!! Mmmm it’s nice to go out to eat with your boss! Let me just say, it was a FRENZY at the other table to get to the desserts first. You could hear spoons clanking. So three cheers for a joyous night. Now we all had to go to sleep early to arise at 6:15AM for, youuu guessed it, OUR 2ND OPEN HOUSE!

Now, Open House was pretty much the same ordeal as the LAST open house, cept in my case, it went a lot smoother and quicker! Hooray! There some little mishaps here and there, but all were taken care of in a jiffy! I put up balloons again (just like last time) and worked in the Athletic and Wellness Center to help aide the volunteers and mingle with the families (just like last time.) However, I have some new pics and even clip-age of vidoe. Soooo here ya are!

Nichole Saldana yelping when I took a picture of her. She was caught unawares!

Meagan Olsen acting like the gem she is when we are walking through campus to tie up those darn balloons. We don’t want any families getting lost, now do we?

My theatre professor, Stephen Kitsakos, sacrificed his own raincoat to put over the jacket the costume shop made. It rained!!

Gianna Cioffi rolling that raincoat covered jacket out of the Athletic and Wellness Center.

Jamie Michelman one more time and Zuri Regisford at the Staff meeting after we officially completed the Open House season!

Chris Levine and Stephanie Samuel smiling at the staff meeting! They ain’t tired!

Kevin McSherry on the go!

Marlea Liguori a little sleepy (which is totally understandable! It’s a looong day! By the way, that’s what I looked like last open house!) And there’s Paul Kohler in the corner, all smiles.

Sarah Doran just discovered we have HUGE pockets inside our jackets.

This is me with my “big, tripped-out name tag” as they say in that Progessive commerical. You know what I’m talking about, right? I’ll put up a YouTube video of it, BUT, I just want to let you know that Jamie MADE this name tag for me. Shana, the bossy boss, says she ordered me one, but I’ve been a Student Ambassador for 2 semesters and I STILL don’t have one. Not like I’m bitter or anything. Haha I just can’t win! So here it is, my homemade name tag for you all to see!

Big, Tripped-Out Name-Tag on YOUTUBE!!!!

Shana Circe with our Team Leader, Matt Vitale. Matt is graduating this December, so this was his last Saturday tour of his life here at SUNY New Paltz ! :-(

A REAL group shot of all us Student Ambassadors 2008, after Open House ended! We’re on the Admission Building’s steps. We’re all serious here.

All us being silly gooses! AHHH haha Kevin McSherry what are you doing to that pole!?

Well guys, I thought I’d end on a funny note here- Kevin McSherry, fellow New Paltz Blogger, vandalizing that column.

Thanks everyone who helped out at Open House who made it a smooth, successful day!

Bon Voyage all! :-D

So Many Topics So Little Time

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Let me start off, with an apology for not having blogged in a dog’s age.  As you could imagine I have been crizzAzy busy with school work, RM work, and napping the rest off!  I will also forewarn you that I will not be able to talk about all the lovely things I would like to talk about.

ANYWAY, there are a few things that must be mentioned such as November’s Open House and:

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF THE FOURTY-FOURTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!

So Open House went well: same place, same time, only I got better about what I was saying and how I was saying it.  The F.Y.I. table was next to the S.O.A.R. table and RM Diana and I got to chill out with OL Felipe, OL Jennifer and OL Honor.  Oh, wait, what’s that you say? Oh, Tiffany -I didn’t mention her for a reason: she is away on a Leadership Conference this weekend, so Diana and I had to hold up the F.Y.I. Fort -which went very smoothly, indeed!

That being said…

ELECTION 2008!!!

Whoaley Moley!

IT-IS-NUTS!

First let me say that I was not only super thrilled that Barack Obama was elected, but that the naiton supported him with more than TWO-HUNDRED electoral votes up from his opponent.  That is absolutely incredible -and it comforts me that we are not so divided as we were thought to have been.  Let me also say, that it makes me truly proud of this great nation that the two major candidates gave excellent “outcome speeches” regarding the other candidate and the outcome of the election.  No matter who was elected, it makes me proud to see that our government is made up of such “class-acts” as Barack Obama, and John McCain, and that we were all able to support a candidate who breaks the mold -and in such a pinnacle time!  It had come to my attention that the issue of race was a factor in this campaign, and that with such a majority, we elected someone who is willing to bring about positive change for this nation, and for diversity as a whole.

Good Job, America!

In general, I am very hopeful in the rocky-road of a future that the world is about to embark on, that Obama is the President-elect that will do great for all of us.  I must say that back in the day -which was a Wednesday, by the way- I was completely undecided on who to vote for, but now, I feel as if the right choice has been made.  The future is also giving me hope for President Bush.  I know that history has a keen way of analyzing and evaluating what has occurred, and although Bush’s approval ratings are very low, I’d like to hear about the things that he did do well.

Overall I’m very hopeful and positive about the future, and have been listening to a lot of Beatles!

That being said:

The Beatles “Sexy Sadie”

The Beatles “Dig A Pony”

and

The Beatles “Sun King”

Peace,

Matt Stracq

:D