My friend and her father did Joy to the World for the bridal dance. It was really cool, and different from the usual.
Ouhh! Snacks! The secret to any successful migration! Who's up for some tasty fried meat products!?
Anya ,'Touched'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - Jan 30, 2005 10:59:23 am PST #2207 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Tom Scola - Jan 30, 2005 11:34:27 am PST #2208 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Happy Birthday Anne!
Consuela, have fun in the Land of the Long White Cloud!
§ ita § - Jan 30, 2005 11:52:54 am PST #2209 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What about YMCA? Another obligatory wedding atrocity of my youth.
ATROCITY???? I love that song, and the dance.
Of course, since I fully intend to do the macarena at my putative wedding, it's possible I've just admitted myself right out of the arena of reason.
The Electric Slide makes me smile fondly, but from a distance, since I've never actually had the pleasure of being on the dance floor for it.
I need to go reheat last night's Thai snapper. That was some good shit. But teaching two classes, taking one, and then talking trash for an hour -- really tiring. I wish I could call someone to reheat my food and bring it to me.
Lyra Jane - Jan 30, 2005 12:04:41 pm PST #2210 of 10002
Up with the sun
We had a band instead of a DJ, in large part to avoid the Obligatory Wedding Songs. Looking back, a DJ with strict instructions and no schtick might have been a better choice, but oh well.
Trudy Booth - Jan 30, 2005 12:13:19 pm PST #2211 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Trudy Booth - Jan 30, 2005 12:13:40 pm PST #2212 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
The Hora is a Jewish dance. (Well, I think that, if you want to be really technical about it, it's an Israeli dance.) The song it's usually danced to is Hava Nagila.
edit: although, now that I've done a bit of googling, it looks like the Hora is also the name of an ancient Greek dance that's still danced in Romania
edit again: and a bit more googling tells me that the Israeli hora was influenced by dances brought by Romanian Jews, who were probably influenced by the Romanian hora, which was probably based on that Greek hora.
I went to a Palestenian cultural thing with a friend of mine in college and they did a dance called (iirc) a dubke. I asked him why the hell they were doing the hora.
beth b - Jan 30, 2005 12:17:37 pm PST #2213 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
have the best time 'suela!
happy birthday anne!
Jesse - Jan 30, 2005 12:44:13 pm PST #2214 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The thing about those cheesy dances is (in a lot of crowds) they really do get everyone up on the dance floor -- at least all the women -- from grandma to little kids. At my aunts' wedding, the 13-year old was teaching all the rest of us all the dances, and it was hilarious.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 30, 2005 12:58:11 pm PST #2215 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I love the Electric Slide. I am an Electric Slide MASTER! (not that there's so much *to* master, but I love it) And like Jesse says, it gets everyone up and boogeying, and then, often some will stick around after that.
Steph L. - Jan 30, 2005 1:42:39 pm PST #2216 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I fuck up the Electric Slide every single time. I don't even try any more.
However, I am quite good at the Alley Cat. And while I dislike conga lines, I am fond of the Bunny Hop.