Wednesday, February 10, 2010

これは私の日本のともだち用です。

この朝に私たちがバスにのっていました。メサ、アリゾナに行っています。ただ今US Tourをしっています。
アメリカは大きくておもしろいです。ニュ一ヨ一クからロサンゼルスまでとってもちがうです。二つをすきですがときどきアメリカのあいだの村をすきじゃない。
が毎村から何かをならいます。
私たちの日本のtourはおなじです。毎日はちがうのところに行きます。

このtourはほんとにさむいでした。たくさん雨がありました。

日本語をあまりべんきょうをしていませんでした。むずかしですがもうすこしべんきょうをしたいです。いつも私の日本語の本を私ととりますそして時間までの時間から読みます。

じゃ、私のあねは私にでんわをしっていますそしてかのじょとはなしをしたいです。

xoxo!!!

ジョシュ

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Vegan in Asheville


I am not vegan, nor am I vegetarian, but due to a new friendship of mine, I have recently been introduced to a completely different lifestyle of food.
Did you know that there is more protein in a cup of spinach than there is in a pound of beef?
I love eating meat. I am not an animal rights activist so I don’t really care about killing animals when it comes to the usage of their meat. But it is really interesting to learn about different types of food that give you the same nutrients. Tofu for example was something I never wanted to touch until a few years ago. It’s now one of my favourite foods. Of course, even as I write this, all I can think about is the bland flavour of vegetables and rice, but actually there are many different flavours that can amuse the palate when it comes to vegan foods.
And that is why I am writing about this. I was in Asheville, NC this past week and tried a wonderful restaurant. It was called the Laughing Seed Cafe, a vegetarian and vegan restaurant on Wall St. in downtown Asheville. My friend, being a vegan, after having to pick through menus to find something that he could eat at regular restaurants, was in heaven. And I surprisingly was as well.  Now, I know it’s not the only one of its kind, but the food was great. They took regular meals and “vegan”ized them. I had a burrito and while it had nothing in it even resembling meat, it tasted just like something out of any Casa Rosada Tortilla Mexicana Cantina. I highly recommend checking it out if you are in the area.
To add to it, just 2 doors down on Wall St. is the Full Circle Salon. After grabbing a bite for lunch at the Laughing Seed Café, get Aaron Karcher to cut your hair. He’s a perfectionist when it comes to hair. Huge recommendation.

Going to switch tracks. The show in Asheville went really well. We had 1,800 people there, a great audience. My grandparents, my aunt and uncle and his brother and wife were in there also. The first time for all of them and they loved, loved, loved it.

I am learning something about myself and about my performance quality. Less is more. While I am in a company that tends to exaggerate style to bring out comedy, there are certain things that I have to exaggerate and certain things that I have to hold back on. There was a party afterward and many people came up to me saying that their favourite part about my character was my subtlety. I’ve got a big body so I have to take the style of my dancing to another level, but when it comes to making the audience see something comedic, even the smallest of gestures or a look of the eyes is enough. I think. I’m going to play around with it a bit. Most the time, subtlety is best; it leaves more to the imagination. Learn from Betty…

“That’s where the double-entendres came from. What you don’t say is funnier than what you do. Now they let it all hang out. It’s all single-entendre... They keep hiring young writers with no frame of reference.  Older writers are subtler. And subtlety is a rare commodity.” – Betty White on her version of comedy and the difference of television back in the day and today.


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http://laughingseed.jackofthewood.com/

http://fullcircleasheville.com/