West Side Story @ The National Theater

Last night I got the amazing pleasure to see the 50th anniversary of the Broadway production of the West Side Story at the national theater in Washington dc. The show was absolutely amazing. It opened up with a Washington dc council member declaring this day to be Washington dc west side story day. The show started and as soon as the curtain opened I could truly feel the bent up aggression of the actors. I could see the sweat and anger of kids growing up in the west side and the turf battles they were about to pursue. The actors were ready for this opening night. They dance with excitement and vigor. We have all seen a high school production of this play when we were kids but this version was like calling out the NFL all star players for a real show down. I highly recommend this show. Go see it. There is not a bad seat in the house for this type of performance. Even if you get seats on the top level of the theater, the bouncing of the sound waves, sweat and tears that went into this production is bound to make you jump out of your seat by the end of the show humming “When you're a Jet, You're a Jet all the way From your first cigarette To your last dyin' day.

You get the idea :-)

( me and my friends seeing the show opening night at the national theater in Washington dc )

Happy Hour in Crystal City

Had a bad ass happy hour in crystal city this Monday. Why so bad ass. my boy willi made it and Christine. Just love hangin out with them. Also my old school friend nikki is back in dc and made it and the usually trouble makers jay , Mike T and Jack. Also hung out with some new friends. was really fun.

United nationas

chilin

cheers

chilin

Heards Can Box

Got to see some video of my cousin who lives in va beach box. The kid is really good. First fight he tore this dude up. This guy was running from him most of the time. Randy you go get them son. Good fight. We may be linky us Heards but we got some stuff in us yo :-) Ps hope to make one of your fights when i am down there visiting.

Randy after fight


Some good parts on yourtube

Happy Hour and Karaoke

Me love Karaoke. I truly do love it. Got to do it at my place some time soon. But this night we ended up in Annadale. Jay set it sall up so i was just following. Would normally not do this type of place., last time i did private oki both it was $200. This is why i bought a machine and starter cd's. It cost me also $200 and last for ever hehe. But it was really fun.

chilin

jays good friend from out of London really cool gal and Dan

Christina and new friends

all of us acting goofy at the oki bar

Love this photo of Brittany - i call it the thinker

Little Big Man Alert

I love this new photo of my bros son Brandon ( aka little big man ) he is sooo cute. I can not wait to see them in January. So excited to have a little guy in our family. I am really looking forward to having a kid some day. I know i will be a good dad.

little big man and Santa

2 Holiday Parties and the Improv

This is the season of a million holiday parties. I had three this weekend and three more next weekend. Its really great to see so much holiday spirit these days as they are trying days, with the economy acting up and lots of people losing there jobs. The plan was my really good friend Yvonne had wanted to take me to see Todd Barry at the Improv so the plan was we would hit up the parties then head to the show. it worked out well since both parties this night were with in 5 blocks of each other. Then we headed to the imrpov to get silly. The show was very good. The main act Todd barry was very funny.

photo: from second party at Alins



me and Yvonne at the improv

Ultrabar Dancing Baby!!

So this sat went to Ultrabar. Took a little while for the music to kick it into high gear but after that is was so fun. I really had a blast. been hangin out with some new friends and they are into dancing big time and i love that because I LOVE TO DANCE. As Justin Timberlake said "I am bringing dancing back YA" One of the new peeps that came was Brittany. This girl can not only dance but she is just really fun to hang with. I met her through an extremely wonderful person Christina ( AKA Xtina ) who also just has so much fun positive energy when out on the town. They are extremely fun to hang out with. May be active so please use only in small doses. Anyways i think i won the dance off. Brittany will not admit it even though she did tell me at the club "wow how can you do that with your back" LOL. I think we need a dance off II

Group shot in front of Ultra

Acting goofy

Wow so many hotties for one night

Xtina and Brittany

me Xtina and Cory

me wit hthe ladies

being stupid

being more stupid hehe

Romania Embassy Party

my good friend Christine invited me to the "Romania Embassy Party" xmas party today. This was pretty darn cool. The best part besides hangin with my friends was the food. I knew Romania food was good but this was off the hook. Hmm I am thinking about it right now. Ok time to ask Christine to make some hehe

me mark and chrstine

chilin

man look at my plate

this stuff was the best

Thanks Giving with the Family

So I headed to va beach to hang out with my bro Lester and dad for thanks giving. Was a really fun weekend. Got to hang out with out thing coming up taking us away from hangin out. Just some nice decompress time with the family uou know. Plus guy and lester made the famoues raviolis that were SOOOOO good. All and all a great thanks giving.

can't have t-day with out a turkey

The last day we all went out to eat at coke place where she works.

The finished product

nice table set

guy making the raviolis by hand

Friends + Chinese Food = Fun

Hung out with Mina, Carmel , Jay and jack. Order some food and got all goofy. Love hangin out with these fools. They are all going to Miami wish i could go :-( need to save money. These are trying times money wise. Just got to much going out got to sped less. I am sure most people are in the same boat.

Like i said goofy

hmmmm good food

yo yo

nice ummm

don't ask don't tell

I love Pho Yummy

Hmm today had Pho. Nice hot Pho. Not sure if you are a pho lover but me i LOVE IT. Get to dip the meat in some kind of hot sauce. Good stuff :-) So me and Mina went to this place before we hot up this movie. I think i will start being a regular again here.

Hmm hot yummmy Pho

chilin with my hommy Pho

Mina and her Pho

GROWING OLD TOGETHER

Could not sleep again last night and woke up at 4 in the morning. lots of my mind these days. This phrase came into my head "She sits by his side looking out the window. Sounds of machines playing god." and i had to get up walk to my pc in my office and explore why.

this is the poem / story i came up with.

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GROWING OLD TOGETHER

She sits by his side looking out the window. Sounds of machines playing god. She runs her hands through his gray hair. She wonders why he has to leave with out her. She can not see herself with out his soul snug next to hers on those cold dark and rainy nights. It’s been a long life together, a good life. How many can say they died in bed while holding the hand of the love of their life.

She met him in her 20's. It was love at first site. While all of her friends moved from person to person searching for their soul mate, their lobster, she knew she had found him when he greeted her with that smug smile on that first date. "How could one be so lucky" she thought?

While the night is filled with sadness it is also filled with happiness for the joy he has brought her over those many years. She squeezes his hand. He squeezes hers. His eyes open just enough to get a last look at his love. He can not talk but she knows what he is thinking. He is saying thank you my dear. Thank you for being there for me all of these years. Like a World War II love poem she can see it in his eyes. The machines start to yell. They are not happy. But she smiles as she knows he is no longer in pain.

"The pain is gone now my dear. I will never forget you and I will join you some day soon"

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after sending this to my mom she wrote me back. I thought this was very cute.

"You made me cry before breakfast! This is very beautiful…

I love you very much,

Mommi"

Also decide to put all of my poems in one blog now since they get kind of lost in this one.
http://mikeypoems.blogspot.com/