The Show Goes On...: Beautiful Things

Saturday, October 1, 2011

One of my new Italian discoveries! I think he's funny!!

I wish I could say that I took these pictures but I just stole them from my friends because I, like an idiot, didn't have my camera. Lesson learned!

Cinque Terre:

Munich:

Government building...all windows because government is supposed to be transparent.

Woohoo!

Friday, September 16, 2011

The Duomo...aka The view from my street corner

Santa Croce

Love tradition. Couples attach a bike lock and throw the key into the river.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

They don't make many songwriters quite like Billy Joel anymore...

"The things I did not know at first, I learned by doing twice."

...I do love a good piano player.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Basilica di San Lorenzo. If this picture just went down a little farther, it would include my apartment. :)

Santa Maria del Fiore. This is roughly what the view from my window will look like! Not quite so high, but you get the idea.

"Let go of the parts of life you honestly don't want."

"Start each day with a grateful heart."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." - Robert Frost

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

This dance is heartbreaking but beautiful! Song from Love and Basketball!

"You made a fool of me. Tell me why..."

Marko. is. Great.

Melanie's brilliant!

Aaaaand some more Ben Folds...just because.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

"Think of me any way you want

I can be the problem if that's easier

In your head, move the pieces around

Things I said, turn the memory upside down

And it makes it better I know

but sometimes it's hard to swallow.

In time I will fade away

In time I won't care what you're saying

In time. But time takes times, you know."

- Time, Ben Folds (I've been getting into him again after seeing him live because he's Brilliant!)

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Just because this song puts me in a good mood...

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."

"You do not define anyone with your judgement. You only define yourself as someone who needs to judge."

"No matter how good a friend someone is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that."

"My friends remind me, by their very steadfastness, that truth, beauty, and goodness exist in the world, and that, no matter what, there are and always will be people loving people through thick and thin."

"That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life." -- Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club)

"Everything in the Universe has rythym. Everything dances." -- Maya Angelou

I like good photography...

Monday, July 25, 2011

It's just great dancing.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

"May the good lord be with you down every road you roam

And may sunshine and happiness surround you when you're far from home

And may you grow to be proud, dignified and true

And do unto others and you'd have done to you.

Be courageous and be brave

And in my heart you'll always stay

Forever Young."

-- Rod Stewart...duh

Monday, July 11, 2011

Today's a day for oldies music. I put my playlist of favorite oldies on shuffle and the first 20 songs were musical gold, so I have to share:

1. Blame It On The Boogie -- Jackson 5

2. Stand By Me -- Ben E. King

3. Free Falling -- Tom Petty

4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For -- U2

5. I'm Going Left -- Eric Clapton

6. Changes -- David Bowie

7. Could You Be Loved -- Bob Marley

8. Change The World -- Eric Clapton (LOVE it)

9. The Heat is On -- Glenn Frey

10. More Than a Feeling -- Boston

11. You Send Me -- Aretha Franklin

12. Happy Together -- The Turtles

13. Times They Are A'Changing -- Bob Dylan

14. The Way You Make Me Feel -- Michael Jackson

15. Like a Rolling Stone -- Bob Dylan

16. Don't Stop Believing -- Journey

17. Fire and Rain -- James Taylor

18. I'm in the Mood for Love -- Nat King Cole

19. Lady Samantha -- Elton John

20. Ruby Tuesday -- Rolling Stones

Friday, July 9, 2011

Such a hot song and such a hot picture of Drake.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

If you haven't already, watch Legion of Extraordinary Dancers episodes on Hulu!!

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

So You Think You Can Dance!! It's almost awkward how much I love this show.

So amazing!

I already have a favorite...shocker.

Hot...

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

I guess If I was boring they would love me more. I guess if I was simple in the mind everything would be fine." - Cudi

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Einstein

Monday, June 6, 2011

Lovin' the 90s.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Ghandi

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." - Ghandi

"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." - Albert Einstein

"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?" - Anonymous (love it though)

"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing." - Oscar Wilde

I've been reading a lot from This I Believe. I believe in constantly trying to be better. When I grow up, I want to BE the best person I know.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

I love Chris Brown and I love good dancing. I can't help it.

"Believing there's no god stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without god, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate. I don't travel in circles where people say, "I have faith, I believe this in my heart, and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith." That's just a long-winded religious way to say, "shut up," or another two words that the FCC likes less. But, all obscenity is less insulting than, "How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do." So, believing there is no god lets me be proven wrong and that's always fun. It means I'm learning something." - Penn Jillette

(I believe there's a god but I still love everything about this.)

"I believe in my fellow citizens. Our headlines are splashed with crime. Yet for every criminal, there are ten thousand honest, decent, kindly men. If it were not so, no child would live to grow up. Business could not go on from day to day. Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime." - Robert A. Heinlein

So You Think You Can Dance starts TOMORROW!!

Friday, May 20, 2011

Happiest Place on Earth!

Seven blunders of the world:

1. Wealth without Work

2. Pleasure without Conscience

3. Knowledge without Character

4. Commerce without Morality

5. Science without Humanity

6. Worship without Sacrifice

7. Politics without Principle

- Ghandi

Not only is Lauren everything I want to be, but Season 8 starts in 6 DAYS!!

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

This was two years ago and it's still one of the most beautiful dances I've ever seen. Jakob and Kathryn are flawless.

Monday, May 16, 2011

"There's a difference between great love and the right love." - ugh, yes it's Chuck from Gossip Girl (I had to)

So soon!

"Photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera." - Sam Abell (NatGeo photographer)

"I believe in pink.

I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.

I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.

I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.

I believe that tomorrow is another day and

I believe in miracles."

- Audrey Hepburn

"I don't want it to be the way they want it."

"And when I finally make it I'ma stunt so hard

Evil as Knievel I'ma jump so far

Way up in the atmosphere I ain't comin' back

Be a jerk to them jerks, yeah that'll make em hurt

"Huh?" said a young boy in the mirror

A young version of me so I started to tear up

He said "You need to cheer up. You're mind need to clear up.

You're already here, just be yourself from here up."

Then he disappeared and I felt something familiar

Something I was taught, something I had lost

If you are afraid, or fear that you gon' change some

All you gotta do is just remember where you came from."

- Lupe Fiasco "Till I Get There...brilliant <3

Sunday, May 15, 2011

So here's the deal: I have a lot of interests and I like to value beauty. I plan to build an archive that will include quotes, photos, music videos, articles & other Beautiful Things. (The photos I post here will not be my own.) If this sounds intriguing to you then great! But if this sounds boring to you then you're reading the wrong blog. This is mainly for me...love it or leave it.

Today's "Beautiful Things":