Storm Large: musician, actor, playwright, author, awesome. She shot to national prominence in 2006 as a finalist on the CBS show Rock Star: Supernova, where despite having been eliminated in the week before the finale, Storm built a fan base that follows her around the world to this day.Storm spent the 90s singing in clubs throughout San Francisco. Tired of the club scene, she moved to Portland to pursue a new career as a chef, but a last minute cancellation in 2002 at the Portland club "Dante's" turned into a standing Wednesday night engagement for Storm and her new band, The Balls. It wasn't long before Storm had a cult-like following in Portland, and a renewed singing career that was about to be launched onto the international stage.Storm made her debut as guest vocalist with the band Pink Martini in April 2011, singing four sold-out concerts with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. She continues to perform with the band, touring nationally and internationally, and she was featured on their CD, Get Happy. Storm has also sung with Grammy winner k.d. lang, pianist Kirill Gerstein, punk rocker John Doe, singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer George Clinton.She debuted with the Oregon Symphony in 2010, and has returned for sold out performances each year thereafter. Storm made her Carnegie Hall debut in May 2013, singing Weill's Seven Deadly Sins with the Detroit Symphony as part of the Spring for Music festival. The NY Times called her "sensational," and the classical music world instantly had a new star.In 2007, she took a career departure and starred in Portland Center Stage's production of Cabaret with Wade McCollum. The show was a smash hit, earning Large glowing reviews. Her next endeavor, the autobiographical musical memoir, Crazy Enough, played to packed houses in 2009 during its unprecedented 21-week sold out run in Portland. Storm went on to perform a cabaret version of the show to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Adelaide Festival in Australia, and Joe's Pub in New York. Her memoir, Crazy Enough, was released by Simon and Schuster in 2012, named Oprah's Book of the Week, and awarded the 2013 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction.Storm is featured in Rid of Me, a film by Portlander James Westby, starring Katie O'Grady and Theresa Russell. In November and December of 2010, she starred at the Mark Taper Forum with Katey Sagal and Michael McKean in Jerry Zak's production of Harps and Angels, a musical featuring the work of Randy Newman.In the 2013/14 season Storm and her band, Le Bonheur performed in many new cities around the country, including Las Vegas, Boston, Minneapolis in a evening called "Taken By Storm" In June 2014, she appeared at the Ojai Festival with the exciting new orchestra, The Knights and the vocal ensemble Hudson Shad. Later in the summer she debuts at the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago.In the Fall of 2014, Storm & Le Bonheur will be releasing a record designed to capture their sublime and subversive interpretations of the American Songbook. Entitled simply, "Le Bonheur" and ¬released¬ on¬ Pink¬ Martini's¬, Heinz¬ Records,¬ the recording will be a collection of tortured and titillating love songs; beautiful, familiar, yet twisted...much like the lady herself. Storm and her band will hit the road in support of this new release. Storm also makes her debut with The New York Pops Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, The Cincinnati Symphony, The Houston Symphony and The RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin amongst others. Storm is also busy creating a new musical with The Public Theater in New York City.Content: http://stormlarge.com/press-kit/
Saw Storm Large 1st in Naples Florida & loved the show. When she came to Frederick MD, we took two friends with us to her show. Such an amazing voice and entertainer! I plan to take two more friends to her show in Pittsburgh this May, 2018. She will make you smile! She should be as popular as Lady Gaga!
Marysville, CA is has 4 full size tracks all in a 5 mile radius. 2 of them sand tracks, this one which is clay with the one sand corner and then one other that is pretty hard packed. Wonderful place to ride.
So I almost exclusively hang out in this section when on thumpertalk. I know there is a video section specifically for this sort of thing but I would rather post a video in here to break up the monotony some. Since I am riding a 2011 KX250F, I feel it still qualifies to be here I would also like to thank DRZAdam. I had him tune/map my EFI over a year ago when he was just getting started at it. I told him then that it was fantastic and that still holds true. I had Adam try to get a little more bark from the low end and then do the best he could to stretch out the "overrev". He did a masterful job. The low end is only slightly better than the stock setup but the high end seems to pull forever compared to stock. The track in this video is Riverfront MX in Marysville, CA. I use to have to shift quite often to stay making power but with the remap, I can almost exclusively ride third gear. Third can handle the inside ruts and still pull strong as well as rev out to clear a few triples and pull on straights. I am sure I could use 2nd more and also fourth but it is so convenient that third does it all. This is short and I get run off a triple at the end by my buddy....ENJOY!
I wadded mine up. It survived with only a bent clutch lever. I have a fractured scaphoid and one very sore tailbone.
I have always been on the edge of the 250/450 disussion. I am 6'1" and weigh 185. I prefer the 250 cause I like to be in the upper RPM (cause that comes from groing up on smokers). Also, I think lots of people get lazy on a 450 cause it has the power to do most of the work or you. On a 250 you have to carry momentum and really work for it. I like knowing that I can keep up with or beat my friends who have 450s.
Just a GoPro battle between me and a few buddies. A '06 yz450f, me on a '11 kx250f and my other friend on an '06 crf250. I am too nice here, I should have shut the door on the yz a couple times but left him some room being the gentleman that I am (truth is it was just practice and didn't see the need to be that aggressive). This video wouldn't be complete without me yelling at myelf a few times. Once were I bog the bike, case a double and lose an oportunity to make the pass. Enjoy! P.S. We are decent riders but nowhere near fast.
I had drzadam remap my 2011 and I am extremely happy. I sent it to him late on a Wed. and had it back the next Tues. Very happy with the map. PM him and give it a try.
I got my BS in Mechanical engineering from CSU, Chico May 2010. I immediately got a job with the Bureau of Reclamation. I am always looking for something more related to cars or motorcycles but those things are few and far between with lots of competition. I keep a lookout but mostly I am putting in my time and moving up the latter. I plan on trying to get a PE but I am taking that slow too.
Adam, Not sure you have ever done this but have you watched the Skillz videos? I know you can youtube them and at least watch some of the stuff. They are pretty helpful. Seat time is really the most important aspect followed by good suspension. What I try to do is pick at least one aspect of my game to focus on over and over again until I get it right. These days my biggest problem is over using my back brake. I have slowed down some to focus on not using it as much and doing more front braking. As this becomes second nature, I'll be able to pick my speed back up. I think we all hit riding platues and have to find something that needs improving to get past those platues. Watch a lot of videos and ask the fast guys a lot of questions. Then just put in the seat time.