Go See Cabaret!

This week­end we had the absolute plea­sure of see­ing Lafayette Civic’s ren­di­tion of Cabaret, and it was noth­ing short of stun­ning.  Fea­tur­ing a bril­liant cast of some new and famil­iar faces, that pull of an almost impos­si­ble task of mak­ing you love and hate them at the same time.  With a beau­ti­ful set that takes you back to pre-WWII Berlin, Cabaret is a wild and fun romp into the land of excess.  A great show to end the Lafayette Civic sea­son, Cabaret is a must see for any mature lover of the­ater and musi­cals.  If you are look­ing for some­thing fun and enter­tain­ing to pass the time in the next two weeks, go down­town to the Monon Depot or buy tick­ets online.  Cabaret is run­ning on the week­ends through May 23rd.

Per­for­mances: May 7 — 23, 2010 at the His­toric Monon Depot Theatre

Fri­days and Sat­ur­days 8:00 PM

Sun­days 2:30 PM

Thurs­day May 20, 2010 8:00 PM

UPDATE: I can’t believe I for­got to orig­i­nally post this, but it also fea­tures fel­low blog­ger, and friend Lisa Stan­forth aka The Blond Blo­gette.  Be sure to see it and tell her how awe­some she is (because she is :) )

May 12, 2010  Leave a comment

What 3 Apps Can You Not Live Without?

It’s been three months since mov­ing to the world of Android, and I have not once felt the pangs of sep­a­ra­tion from the Berry.  In fact, now that I have a high func­tion­ing phone that doesn’t require a bat­tery pull twice a day I have found that I am reliant on down­load­ing and installing apps.  Its been great explor­ing the Mar­ket place for the lat­est & great­est addi­tions and find­ing use for them in my every day life.
Since the first day of being a Droid owner I have found that only 3 apps have sur­vived my whims of down­load­ing and delet­ing.  I can not go one day with­out using these, and they are my essen­tial picks.
  • Aldiko — By far the most used app on my Droid.  Aldiko is an easy to use eBook reader that is com­pletely FREE.  It imports eBooks in the ePub for­mat, and also has a repos­i­tory of free down­loads of clas­sic nov­els and sto­ries that are in pub­lic domain.  It also has two modes for Day Time and Night Time read­ing, allow­ing you to mod­ify the bright­ness for your needs.  It is AWESOME.

  • Game­boid — My favorite game plat­form as a kid was the Game­boy and Game­boy Advance.  Poke­mon, Zelda, Final Fan­tasy, all are games that I was and still am obsessed with and Game­boid eas­ily allows me to go back and play these games on that gor­geous screen of my Droid while lis­ten­ing to my MP3s or Pan­dora.  Plus, the phys­i­cal key­board makes play­ing games that much eas­ier.  If you have a col­lec­tion of ROMs, Game­boid is for you.  I use the free ver­sion and have not once found myself wish­ing to spend $4 on the pre­mium app, so save your money.

  • Ever­note — This was a must have on my Berry, my desk­top, my lap­top, basi­cally any com­puter or device I own has some ver­sion of Ever­note installed. The effort­less note sync­ing makes my life that much eas­ier.  If you like Ever­note make sure you get the app for your respec­tive mobile device.

What are your essen­tial apps that you can’t go one day without?

May 4, 2010  3 Comments

Something Fun For the Internet

London Calling 3D

I try and keep up with all the fun, and cool memes out there on the tubes, and have decided that it is time to start shar­ing my beau­ti­ful col­lec­tion of ani­mated gifs, funny videos, and awe­some mashups.  This blog doesn’t seem like the appro­pri­ate out­let for those, and nei­ther does my twit­ter account as I don’t want to spam or innun­date those that don’t care about inter­net pop cul­ture with my posts.

So, for those that care I will begin post­ing my funny pho­tos, videos, and music over on my tum­blog at http://kevinoshea.tumblr.com.  Fans of Trololololol, OMG Cat, Griz­zly Shark­to­pus, and 3 Wolf Moon can now get their fill over there.

April 27, 2010  Leave a comment

What are you listening to?

Music has been a part of my life from an early age, from cho­rus to being in a ter­ri­ble punk band in high school.  I am almost always lis­ten­ing to some­thing, any­thing, on my head­phones at any given time dur­ing the day at work, the bus com­mute, or sit­ting in my den at home.  Mostly, my playlists con­sist of some sort of indie/singer song­writer stuff with a hint of punk/hardcore and a ran­dom pop song thrown in for good measure.

If I am in a funk and need some sort of kick in the pants I usu­ally go right for my iTunes or Lala library and hit play.  I even spend time trolling the tubes for pod­casts to add to my queue.  For those that don’t fol­low my every move­ment and action on social media and didn’t know about my Last.fm obses­sion for scrob­bling my every tune, I have com­piled a quick best of list of my top 5 tunes that I can’t live without.

Cur­rent Top 5 Songs in my Library

Avett Broth­ers — I and Love and You

Tegan & Sara — Alli­ga­tor Tears (Kevin St. Croix Remix)

Josh Moore — Ghostly Reminders

Flo­rence & The Machine — Howl

The River Bends — Look­ing for You

April 20, 2010  1 Comment

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