AHHH EEEEEE YAYYYYY!

I HAVE EXCITING NEWS! BOOM! *EXPLOSION*

Now that I've captured your attention, I'm not going to tell you what it is. Yet. Because I have other things to talk about first which are probably just as equally exciting.

First, a picture. (On a napkin.)

Secondly, a cookie recipe! I cannot, sadly, take credit for the recipe, other than the fact that I chose to make them with coconut, chocolate chips, and oats, and I made them well. I got several compliments on them, including them being referred to as "a revelation," "the best cookies I've had in awhile," and "pretty good." (That last one is my favourite.) I have gotten asked for the recipe a bunch, (meaning once) and so I'm putting it up in case people want to try!

1 cup softened butter
1 1/4 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups rolled oats
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup shredded (I used unsweetened) coconut

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F, unless your oven is incapable of doing anything correctly like mine, in which case just turn it on and it will gradually heat up to 500 degrees, then turn it off and the cookies will cook the way they're supposed to after it's off.
2. Mix butter, brown sugar and white sugar until creamy. Beat in the eggs, then stir in milk and vanilla. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt, and then slowly add the latter mixture into the former. Mix well. Add the oats, coconut, and chocolate chips! Fun stuff!
3. I'm sure you know the rest- put scoops of the dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet, bake until they look good! The recipe I used says 10-12 minutes, but if your oven is incapable, just eye it!
4. Voila! 30-ish "Revelation Cookies." (The recipe says 30, I got more than that out of it. Depends on what size cookie you want.)

Original recipe here.

Thirdly, things are getting rolling! Things are looking up! Things are happening in yours truly's life! Finally!

Within the past couple of days I have had visitations from my dear friend Adri Rainwater, and my dear mother. Adri and I basically bummed around Seattle and went to Oddfellows because apparently that's my home away from home now, and bought tea, which is one of my favourite pastimes. Mom took me with some of her friends from LIOS to Goodwill, and then she and I went to Blue C Sushi, (which I also had just been to with Adri, heh) and caught up. Niceness. Also Magda and I are still hanging out, still doing weird things together, and that is good. Vurry good. Things are good.

And I went and saw The Artist, which was stunning! Everyone needs to see that movie. It was so beautiful and clever! I cried, and I don't normally do that in movies, so see it! Really, probably one of the most excellent films I've ever seen.

One a different note, last night I volunteered at Velocity Dance Center because it was the last night of The Bridge Project, a workshop/performance they do every year where four up and coming choreographers are chose to do an intensive type thing and create a piece of their own, and then showcase it at the performance. I helped set up, usher, and take things down, and I got to see it for free! (Who calls that volunteering when you get to see it for free!?) It was breathtaking, and beautiful, and I highly recommend you all to keep on the lookout for the choreographers that got chosen for it. Their names are Rachel Grant, MaryAnn McGovern, Alice Gosti and Alicia Garcia. 

AND MY BIG NEWS! I AUDITIONED LAST SATURDAY FOR THE YOUNG CHOREOGRAPHER'S LAB AND TODAY I GOT AN EMAIL SAYING I GOT IN!!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!

I will be working every saturday with one of four young choreographer's that participated in the lab, and some other young dancers that got in as well until May 5, when we perform at Velocity! Then, if the piece I'm in gets chosen, we would move on to perform in DANCE This, which will be July 12-14 at the Moore Theatre. So keep your calendars open, especially May 5!

Mmkay, I'm done now. That was my exciting news. 

Also, I just learned Andrew Bird (my favourite musician ever) is releasing a documentary February 17 which will be premiered with an intro short film by Fleet Foxes. Stoked!

http://nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/1991

Then he's coming to perform in Seattle on April 9!! Eeeeeeee! So many exciting things!

http://stgpresents.org/artists/?artist=1804

Here's a couple videos of him, for your enjoyment. You may know him already as the artist who did "The Whistling Caruso" for the Muppet Movie. (The puppet Walter 'performed' it, but it was Andrew Bird who was whistling.)

Here he is with Yo Yo Ma!

A Take Away Show

The government has our best interests in mind, everyone. Do what they say.

Sign the petition/call your senator on one of these or any others you can find-

http://sopastrike.com/strike

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

All kinds of replacing names up in heaahhh...!

Guess who's back?
Back again...
Jordan's back...
tell a friend!

(I've been in a funk for the past while but I'm getting out of that now so hopefully we can really get this blog rolling. Also I'm ashamed to admit I wasn't the sole creator of that beautiful rhyme that is above these couple of sentences in brackets.)

This was my inspiration. (Click the hyperlink for the full video, 2:50 for the clip, if you don't know Mitchell Davis you probably won't find it funny. Sorry.) And sure, he got that from Eminem. But whatevs.



So I've been in a funk because I've been putting effort into relationships where the effort wasn't mutual. And I'm done with that now. I'm only going to be with people who want to be with me too. Which brings me to my next topic.

Magda Pendergrass and I have been hanging out lately because I go to Velocity Dance Center a bunch and she goes to Seattle University, so we're both in Capitol Hill, but also we're both just basically awesome. I thought I'd put up this picture to illustrate just how awesome we are.

Yepp... 

Plus we have mind stimulating conversations regarding circulation, psychopaths vs. sociopaths, and Serotonin. And now we have matching screen-printed shirts. Hurray!

Oh and I got my second ear piercings finally! They were long overdue. Probably most of you have seen them already via Facebook, but just in case:

On another note, I just got finished with the Danielle Agami Intensive at Velocity Dance Center. It was three days working with her, which was amazing and wonderful. She performed in the Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv and is now teaching GAGA classes in the United States. GAGA is a dance technique created by Ohad Naharin, the director of Batsheva. 

One of my favourite videos:

I've watched their videos on youtube for awhile now, and working with Danielle was an incredible experience. I'm starting to get a lot more comfortable with improvisation, which is one of the more intriguing aspects of dance in my opinion. So I'm really happy I had this opportunity.

I also had my first dance audition the other day! I auditioned for Full Tilt, which is an annual dance performance that includes works by 6 different choreographers. I auditioned for all of them, so that was just about 6 hours worth of learning different combinations and trying to perform them well and with passion in front of the choreographer! Definitely a good experience to have. I think I'm going to audition this next weekend for the Young Choreographer's Lab. Apparently I wouldn't be auditioning to be a choreographer, that happened a really long time ago and I wasn't aware of it's existence, but I'd be auditioning to dance for one of the "young choreographers." I think I have a better chance of getting into that than I do of getting into Full Tilt. But we'll just have to see!!!

A couple of posts back I mentioned thinking about going to the casting for the T-Mobile ad. Didn't get any part, but I am going to be a production assistant on set, so that should be fun! That's tomorrow. Looking forward to earning some money and putting in some work. 

Still trying to find a job, but for the time being, I'm really happy with working on dancing. 

Definition of perfection: living to the fullest, in whatever way that means to you.

Help a brother out!

Hey again! This one's another small post.

First, a plug-
A friend of mine has written a book which is being sold on Amazon for the next ninety days, and if it gets sold enough, it'll stay up. It's only 3.99, and it's super easy, so even if you're not planning on reading it, buy it to help him out, and who knows? Maybe you'll like it. So check it out- it's called King of Storms.

Secondly, my dad and I were in the car the other day, and Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes came on the radio, and my dad started singing to it in chicken, and I started singing to it in cat, and that gave me a great idea for a band.

Hurray! It's Chicken and Cat: The Band!! They only do Jack White covers. 

Always second best?

Hey all. I've been trying to get jobs/applying for colleges/dancing/making food lately, in case you were wondering. As some of you know, I've been really excited about a job opportunity at Caffe Ladro, which was right up the street from where I lived... it was looking like I was going to get it, and yesterday I learned that it was between me and one other person and... they got it. Ah well. I'm applying to some places in Alaska Junction and Pike Place Market, somebody's bound to pick me first someday.

Last night I made samosas and mushroom curry from the moosewood cookbook though, which was excellent. The curry had a bunch of spices, and apples, and mushrooms, and celery, and honey, and all in all it was a success. The samosas got burnt thanks to our oven- (it's incapable of cooking things properly, I believe) but they were still good on the inside and I had leftover filling so I'm going to make more today and hopefully they will turn out better.

Samosas! Before they got burnt.

Mmmmm.

Today I'm helping my dad out at his work. (In trade for lunch, today and yesterday... heh. I'm working for sandwiches.) He needed someone to be talent for an animatic, and so I'm riding a bike around in a garage and pretending to catch a phone. I think I'm going to also try to get cast as an extra for the actual shoot, so I might end up being in a T-Mobile internet thingy! We'll see. 

Oh, and New Years! Hey it's a new year everybody! 2012!!!!! Yayyyy!! Yayyy....

Ahem. But yeah, New Years was fun. I hope everybody reading this had a good holiday. After having Korean barbecue with my family, (which had been long overdue- I've been craving Korean food for awhile) I went out on my friend Sophie's boat with a bunch of friends on Lake Union, and we watched the Space Needle fireworks from the boat's roof. Played games, listened to music, and other stuff until we all got tired and went back to Sophie's house where we crashed. So, pretty successful New Years, if I say so myself. 

Also I had a great idea for a band when I was riding in the car with my dad the other day. I will tell you more about that later, because I designed the cover art for their first album, but I don't have it on me right now to scan and put onto this post. So be patient! I know the suspense and overall anxiety will probably kill you! But you'll just have to wait!