Just forgot to tell you - I saw Kevin St Laurent and Jo Hoffberg dancing live one evening in Vilnius a couple of weeks ago!
They came to the Harlem 2012 and obviously stayed in Vilnius a bit longer. And I accidentally came to the same Lindy hop evening at one old town's cafe. One of the best Lindy hop dancers.. Wow. I was stunned!
(and I danced on the same dance floor they did, haha.)
Check this out, they're just amazing. Look how they both move at 2:30 - wow!
And I like the song too.
xoxo
Ak.
P. S. I love the way Jo makes an air kiss to the audience at 2:20:).
Last Saturday in Vilnius was one of the biggest traditional jazz culture show in Baltic States, called Harlem 2012 (more info for Lithuanian readers here).
Yesterday I was in a very interesting guest lecture of one advertising company and here's a fun video they made after visiting Vilnius (they work in Kaunas).
It's Lithuanian of course, but that's not the point - the guy asks random person on the street, what is she/he listening at the moment. And on the video they put the music, the person was listening to. The whole video was called Vilnius playlist (a bit similar with the project Remix Your City, remember?). Fun idea!
What would have been your answer?
My song would have been this, as I often listen to lindy hop music and I have the whole album of best Louis Prima songs on my mp3 at the moment.
Banana split for my baby, a glass of plain water for me!
My darlings, I won't say anymore that I don't have time to write the blog - it's obvious and I'm sorry.
But when I find time to write something - I'm doing it.
What's your plan for the weekend?
I had a cozy Friday evening with my lovely friend Sonata, we watched Despicable me, have you seen it? It's my favorite animation movie! These yellow things are soooooo funny and lovely, their laugh is so catching!
On the Saturday evening I'm going to this lindy hop party (for Lithuanian readers I highly recommend it:)! There will be a live playing band and some cool lindy hop dancers, who will show us some tricks. Of course, we can dance there as well, but I'm not sure if that's going to happen, as I find myself at such a low level, haha. Anyway, our group knows at least this shim sham line dance, haha (here's the global shim sham! You can see Lithuanians very very shortly dancing in Vilnius at 3:05!).
And for Sunday, I would love to spend some time with H. Murakami book I told you about - things are going weird there. I have to catch up with them. And I will be hoping for a warm weather, although it will be perhaps one more month since in Lithuania we will see some blooming trees, but I'm already waiting for them to bloom!
Oh spring, come home!
Have a good one!
P. S. And oh, yes. Some works.
xoxo
Ak.
I don't have much plans, only to study and prepare for seminars - I have soooo much to do for university, that's why the blog posts aren't appearing so regularly as I would like to.
Anyway, on Sunday my best friend come to visit me from Bremen and I'm sure, we are going to have a wonderful evening all together with my besties as we also have to celebrate her upcoming birthday!
Funny thing, last year her birthday was legendary, haha! Her aunt told her earlier that she's going to get married in 2011, so we all made her birthday with the theme Lithuanian wedding - it was so funny, because she didn't expect that! We prepared all traditions of the wedding and we even sang a Lithuanian song for the wedding and one friend played the accordion! I believe that it was amazing surprise for her:).
And one other thing that keeps me from writing the blog more often is that I started dancing lindy hop!
Have you heard of that?
It is an African-American dance that evolved in Harlem, New York City in the 1920s and '30s and originally evolved with the jazz music of that time.
I love love love it!!!
I'm starting being obsessed with that!
Actually at first, I was really lazy to go to the first class. I registered while being in Germany and when I came back I was slightly sorry that I did.
But after the first lesson, I'm glad I tried it!
I'm not really good at it, because others have already learned the whole month and I have to catch up with all they have learned, but you know, I try my best:).
I like it because it is so free, you liberate your body and there are lot of space for your imagination, but at the same time it has a strong structure.
