Link roundup

Since I haven't been doing the weekly round up posts (sorry, this month has been hard on me) - I'll just do a quick post with some of the links I've posted (or retweeted) on Twitter but not on the blog:

at 13:19 Mark shows up. Says for summer "writing music & time off" No DWTS tour? :( Hope he's just being coy. http://youtu.be/MOytfaiVgJc May 25, 2010 via web

DerekHoughsHair Great Times Man AWESOME Double Party @OfficialMBallas THANX 4 Gel what U want from @OfficialDHough ? http://yfrog.com/2tmuwj 7:26 PM May 19th via Yfrog

brittanyvaladez Check out our exclusives with @JessicaAlba @OfficialMBallas @EvaLongoria ! Register 4 free to C the interviews @ www.cg-mag.com! 12:45 AM May 18th via web

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mawpmJJ3Dk Mark Ballas mentioned in Dance Center. hehehehe =P 11:27 AM May 13th via web

Derek's blog about week 6 - he says he loved Mark's Mint show on May 3rd: http://bit.ly/bwUZhs 10:22 PM May 8th via web

 Lots of photos from the Red Carpet of Mark's big Mint show on April 12th: http://www.filmmagic.com/ItemListing.aspx?cgl=427084&evntI=0 9:57 PM May 8th via web

Mark makes a brief appearance at the end of this vid...but really it's just plain interesting. :) RT @lorengold: http://twitvid.com/ILS5U 11:51 PM May 7th via web

 Very cool video of an ice skater skating to @officialmballas' "All For Nothing" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFjQHztvxRg Gr8 job Crystal! 3:45 PM Apr 30th via web

 U & @officialmballas are twinkies! http://bit.ly/brZdU6 RT @ShawneyJ: Bionic woman in PT!! Haha that's a sight :) http://twitpic.com/1jfkix 2:39 PM Apr 29th via web

 http://bit.ly/cZiNff Mark's DWTS blog is updated for Week 6 (Argentine Tango & Samba). :) Again, the week is wrong. It's not wk 5, it's wk 6 4:33 PM Apr 27th via web

DWTSshow ABC cleans up Monday, 'Dancing with the Stars' most watched: Becoming a half-hour shorter in duration this week, A... http://bit.ly/9aq5Lc 1:06 PM Apr 20th via twitterfeed

Tons of arrival pics from Mark's gig on April 12th: http://bit.ly/cwqBLB 1:03 PM Apr 20th via web  

Some great photos from Mark's big show at The Mint on April 12th: http://bit.ly/a40lN7 1:01 PM Apr 20th via web 

lostinlove0622 @OfficialMBallas http://yfrog.com/9w26240139287575048314898j pic from the 26th hope u like it :) 9:07 PM Apr 19th via web

OfficialMBallas @MBallasKnee epic excercise..... http://moby.to/hmvpfg 2:21 PM Apr 19th via Twittelator

ontd_skating On Tuesday night, Evan and Kristi: attended An Evening With Mark Ballas @ The Mint in Los Angeles. So, after resu... http://bit.ly/cFODVZ 11:35 PM Apr 15th via twitterfeed

famegamephotos "An Evening with Mark Ballas" at The Mint in Los Angeles - Arrivals: http://bit.ly/bgIJzv 11:02 PM Apr 14th via twitterfeed

OfficialMBallas Finishing the light on video beautiful view... http://moby.to/uq1dvc 8:46 PM Apr 25th via Twittelator 

an old interview Derek did with Hollywood 411 (from season 8). talks about BHB & London http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM1CoY9wiGU 10:44 AM Apr 24th via web

Mark's DWTS blog: http://bit.ly/8YsAAz Hollyscoop is confused. This blog is about week 4, not week 3. 9:57 AM Apr 24th via web
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3KTWwt_vdY hehehe Chelsie on Hollywood 411 saying that no, her and Mark are not dating. (duh) lol 9:45 AM Apr 24th via web

http://bit.ly/bTb74a Derek talks about how him and Mark may do some music that is more heavy and edgier, like what they did in London :) 9:11 AM Apr 24th via web

http://bit.ly/9vOIq3 In this interview, Chelsie reveals that the Paso Doble pro dance was originally going to be Cheryl/Mark & Chelsie/Derek 9:09 AM Apr 24th via web

  

http://www.people.com/people/videos/0,,20362441,00.html Old video of Mark and Derek talking to People Magazine about growing up together 6:45 PM Apr 22nd via web 

  

DWTS cast parties at The Mint w/Mark Ballas (April 12th) (Photo Slideshow) http://shar.es/mvPaz (that's not Jules, I think it's Derek's mom) 6:46 PM Apr 20th via ShareThis.com

 http://bit.ly/d6bJef Derek's DWTS blog - he talks about Mark. :) 12:05 PM Apr 2nd via web


And I asked Bill what ASE means, which is a nickname he and Mark have for each other...
@billinlv ok, I'm super curious...may I ask, what does ASE mean? :) 12:02 AM Apr 9th via web in reply to billinlv

billinlv @BewitchBallas "Absolutely Spectacular Entertainer"!!!!!!!!!! 12:20 PM Apr 9th via web in reply to BewitchBallas  

 

  

Week(s) in Review - April 5 - April 18

Well, I didn't get a Sunday review done last week, so this one will be for the last two weeks. :)


April 5th was an acoustic show at The Mint and was a good one, from what I heard.  Christopher Hall of E! Entertainment posted a picture of Mark and Chelsie at the show, which I posted here. 

Also on that page is a picture Mark posted of him and the other musicians from the April 6th DWTS result show. Mark played Flamingo guitar with two other musicians while Derek and Chelsie danced a Paso Doble.  It was a wonderful performance.  I posted a video and screencaps.

On April 7th, we got a blog from Mark at Hollyscoop.  They claimed that Mark would blog every week, even though he was out of the competition, but we have yet to get a blog for week 4 of DWTS.  The blog posted on April 7th was for week 3 (even though it says week 2 in the blog). I'll be keeping a lookout for an update to Mark's blog; hopefully he updates it this week. :)

On April 8th, Mark tweeted that it was the first day off the crutches. :) Gettin' better! 

On April 11th, Mark was a guest on the Reality Cares radio show.  It is an hour long show.  Mark talked about DWTS, his music, his uncle's suicide, and the AFSP. http://latalkradio.com/images/Reality-041110.mp3

ChicaGirl magazine tweeted that they were going to interview Mark at his big show on April 12th.  According to their website, the interview will be available in Issue 11.  I'll post a link when it is available to read. :)

April 12th, Mark did a Twitterview or Twinterview (call it what you want) with Wonderwall MSN.  I posted the transcript of the interview here.

Also on April 12th, Mark posted a great pic of him and his dad, that I totally forgot to post on the blog:

photo copyright Mark Ballas, 2010

The Mint show on April 12th was a sold-out, full band show.  It was treated as his album release party, red carpet and all.  The event was called "An Evening with Mark Ballas".  Check out this post for some pictures from the event.  Mark also posted a pic of the stage from one of the rehearsals for the big Mint performance, found in this post - which also contains pics of Mark's Vibe kids.  They performed on DWTS on April 13th.

Check out the Vibe dance team's performance from April 13th here.  There is also some footage of the kids rehearsing with Mark in this video (screencaps here as well).

On Friday, April 9th, E! posted an article with quotes from Mark stating that his knee needed a twitter account and then this weekend (April 16th), his knee began twittering (MBallasKnee). And then the other body parts started showing up to the party.  His shoulder is tweeting (MBLeftShoulder), as well as Cheryl's ring and various body parts belong to Derek Hough (Hair, Abs). Be sure to check them out, it's pretty hilarious. :)  Mark has been chatting with his knee and shoulder this weekend, which has been rather humorous. :)  It all started with Evan's Toe though. ;)

Mark has been posting a few pictures of his knee over the past week. I think he's getting bored not being able to dance. ;)

Mark says "Hot Wire my Heart" is the name of a new song...but right now it seems like it's "hot wire my knee"

Doing exercises to get strong again:

The knee got to wear some new jeans:

Since Derek's hair started tweeting as well, the knee and hair decided to post a picture together:

all photos of the knee copyright Mark Ballas, 2010

I think the pain killers have made Marky a little loopy. =P


Well, I think that about wraps it up for the past two weeks.  Here are some tweets that are notable from the past couple weeks. :)

Twitter notable updates from the weeks of April 5-18:
The Examiner says that @OfficialMBallas is a wanna-be singer http://bit.ly/9NaEE2 RUDE! - Excuse me, but he IS a singer, and dang fine one!

RT @OfficialMBallas @BewitchBallas thank u for ur support and dedication, love ya  

RT @OfficialMBallas Day 1 off the crutch, don't get cocky now mark ;)

RT @ChicaGirlMagazine @BewitchBallas ChicaGirl Magazine will be interiviewing Mark Ballas Monday 12th at The Mint! See everyone there! 8:30!!

RT @TracieMayWagner @OfficialMBallas and my hubby Phillip... http://yfrog.com/0mj6xsj

Finally found it! Mark's interview with John Jay and Rich from March 18, 2010: http://bit.ly/cByENv

New poll on the Facebook page: http://apps.facebook.com/polldaddy-polls/?view=poll&id=3028004 :)

RT OfficialMBallas Just had a rehearsal with my full band, all I can say is They are Awesome, the show @MintLA on the 12th is going to be SICK  

RT @OhMeredith Thanks @LittleMissBizE for sending @OfficialMBallas to get his haircut today @StudioDNA. He was such a doll! And his hair-so supercute :)
 
RT @derekfrankbass @OfficialMBallas you must be at SIR... they've been there for weeks! bummed i'm not rockin' with ya!

New poll: What's your fave song on Waiting for Patience? http://apps.facebook.com/polldaddy-polls/?view=poll&id=3028004

RT @RealityCares Call-in to our Radio Show on LATalkRadio.com today at 2pm Pacific to speak with @OfficialMBallas @jennipulos: 323-203-0815

RT @Tom_Bergeron @BewitchBallas Ah yes, you never know what the camera will catch!

RT @OfficialDHough At Marks gig everyone is here .. Really proud of him this project means alot to him .. He's gonna kill it ..

RT @billinlv Gas LV to LA: $60., Hotel in LA: $160., Seeing @OfficialMBallas show @MINTLA: Priceless!!!!!!!

RT @RealityCares @OfficialMBallas performing live at The Mint Los Angeles!! http://tweetphoto.com/18250813  

RT @ExtraCarlo just covered @OfficialMBallas album party at The Mint. His cd is really good! Thanks so much ;) 


http://bit.ly/a6U6PX Mark says people should give Kate a break. :)

RT @OfficialMBallas My vibe kids in school for the day before dancing on the show, they are so bored lol ha ha ha http://moby.to/vs01z0

I've added 3 new pages to the website: Mark's Music: http://bit.ly/bfjqkE, Links: http://bit.ly/bI0fTA, Event Calendar: http://bit.ly/9lHIEn

http://bit.ly/ddHuPh Hollyscoop's article about Mark's sold out performance at the Mint on April 12th. :)

RT @OfficialMBallas Just finished a new song, called "alot of faith a little will" I really like this one ;)
 
RT @OfficialMBallas RT @EvanLysacek @OfficialMBallas will you play your new song this Monday at MintLA? I sure will buddy, hope ur comin down

Paley Center DWTS chat

Another old video. In this one, Derek talks about Mark's shoulder injury from Season 5 at the end of this video...with an appearance by Mark showing he has full rotation in his shoulder.

Mark's knee injury

Since Mark just posted a picture of his injured knee, I figure I'll do a quick post with the info he's given about the injury. All of this information is from interviews he has done for DWTS, which have all been posted on this blog.

The injury: During the dress rehearsal on Monday, March 29th (the full run-through of the entire show), Mark heard his knee 'pop' when he went down on it during the final move in the Jive.  (Shannen & Mark changed that move, so the end pose is not the pose in which he injured himself.)  He was taken to the hospital and given some shots of pain killers and such to get him through the night. On Tuesday he was in a lot of pain, so he returned to the hospital and got an MRI and spoke with the surgeon that repaired his shoulder (from the end of season 5).  He does not have any ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) or MCL (medial collateral ligament) tears.  What happened is that the muscle has pulled away from the bone.  It needs rest to strengthen and fall back into place.  If you know about Shawn Johnson's current knee injury, you can compare: she tore her ACL and MCL and had to have surgery to have it repaired.  She had 6 weeks of no walking and 6 full months of recovery (she's in month #2 and ahead of schedule).  Mark's injury, if he stays off his knee, is less severe (though not less painful).  He claims that he will be recovered after a maximum of 6 weeks & a minimum of 3 weeks.  He shouldn't need surgery, just lots of rest. :)

Some other tidbits:  Mark was planning (if Shannen wasn't eliminated) on flying his father, Corky Ballas, in to work with Shannen during the weeks rehearsals.  Mark would still have choreographed the routines and claims that he was going to try to dance on Mondays. (I'm not happy about that - I mean, I love Mark's dancing, but he needs to take care of himself!)  Derek learned the routine quickly on Monday and danced it with Shannen once, just in case Mark couldn't dance.  Shannen revealed in a backstage interview that her dress rehearsal was very poor and she even stopped mid-way, forgetting that you can't get a 'second take' in dancing. ;) So, using the dress rehearsal footage to be judged would have been a bad idea.  Having Derek step in and dance with Shannen was a better option for them, to give her the best opportunity for a good score.  Of course, we know, Mark returned to the studio and ended up dancing.


Here is the picture Mark posted of his poor knee (and some new lyrics he is writing):

photo copyright Mark Ballas

Mark talking to Paparazzi Henry

I don't normally do the paparazzi thing, because I am opposed to it, but Henry from Poptv is kind of a buddy of the cast, so he's a little less threatening. He's always pretty kind to everyone. He chatted with Mark last night about his injury. Mark gave some info about the extent of the injury. No tear, just the muscle pulled away from the bone. That sounds bad, but it's a much quicker recovery than a tear. :) So, hopefully, he'll be off those crutches before we know it. :) Get well soon, Marky!