So Long

It has been forever since I've taken to updating this blog, which I promise to do soon with some photos of my recent trip to Brooksville, Maine for the fourth of July.

In the meantime, I've done some really fabulous things culturally, which I wanted to share. In March (I think), I had the opportunity to see In the Heights with Ellie and her parents, which was fabulous. We had no idea what to expect and it was a really great Broadway show, drawing on all sorts of Latin music forms to deliver a really unique, fun theatre experience. I also got to see Le Fille de Regiment at Brooklyn Academy of Music telecast live from the Met, preceded by a great lecture on Donizetti. I also saw an abbreviated production of Rigoletto at my church, followed by a great lecture by our pastor Tim Keller on whether opera can reveal the meaning of life. When my parents came to town in early May, we saw November, which was a great Broadway production and one of the only non-musicals I've seen on the stage in years. And just this week I saw a great production of Damn Yankees at the NY City Center as part of their Summer Stars program. I've seen a couple great independent movies, Good Dick (also at the Brooklyn Academy of Music), written, produced and starring my friend Yuka's friend Marianna Palka and Full Grown Men, which was co-produced and co-written by an NMH grad (albeit it about ten or fifteen years ahead of me in school). Sadly I haven't made it to a museum in a while, which is a shame because there are some great exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (Murakami), the Guggenheim and the MOMA that I've been meaning to check out. I had a great trip home to San Francisco in early June but otherwise have spent my time in New York being relatively quiet and calm, with some fun nights out in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Soon I'll be getting a big photo recap together, but I have been a little overwhelmed and preoccupied with other things in my life. In the meantime though, I've been trying to post a little more frequently on my other blogs, as well as rebuild my website, so keeping everyone up to speed on my personal life hasn't been at the top of my agenda. But! That will soon change. A few visitors are coming to New York in the next couple weeks, so there's likely to be some excitement.