Great minds, Fred!
It's like, in the middle of all this, I'm paranoid that you'll think I don't like poetry.
Buffy ,'Empty Places'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
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Vortex - May 20, 2010 6:17:58 am PDT #2523 of 8624
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Fred Pete - May 20, 2010 6:19:07 am PDT #2524 of 8624
Ann, that's a ferret.
Yep, Vortex -- I didn't see your comment until after I posted.
SuziQ - May 20, 2010 6:26:03 am PDT #2525 of 8624
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Bscking up to when I realized that the actor, who plays Artie, is not actually disabled, I had thought - well, if they are going to cast someone who can walk, there better be a dream dance at some point. I had kinda forgotten about that.
When I get back from the dentist, I am rewatching. I hope it is up online cause my Tivo version has breaks for tornado warnings during the big NPH and Shue duet.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 20, 2010 6:29:14 am PDT #2526 of 8624
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Did we know Matthew Morrison was hiding this under his shirt?
I first became aware of him from his Humpty Dumpty striptease at Broadway Bares a couple of years ago, so it was no surprise.
Lee - May 20, 2010 7:16:35 am PDT #2527 of 8624
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Did we know Matthew Morrison was hiding this under his shirt?One of the nice things about looking for pictures for ita is things like this: [link]
smonster - May 20, 2010 7:36:32 am PDT #2528 of 8624
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I was hoping for Valjean/Javert as well. Gah. I may need to break out my Les Miz cds.
Clearly mileage varies WRT Artie and how they're handling his story. But, yanno, when they can't even be bothered to get a wheelchair that fits him properly...
I first became aware of him from his Humpty Dumpty striptease at Broadway Bares a couple of years ago, so it was no surprise.
His who with the what now?
Barb - May 20, 2010 7:43:19 am PDT #2529 of 8624
“Not dead yet!”
But, yanno, when they can't even be bothered to get a wheelchair that fits him properly...
How so, smonster? My only experience with wheelchairs is The Prince of Darkness (AKA my brother) who had to finally start using a wheelchair because he's so massively overweight and his diabetes so out of control, his legs won't physically support him. Also, because he's a damned lazy mofo, but that's another issue altogether.
Hil R. - May 20, 2010 10:40:35 am PDT #2530 of 8624
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
A critique of the Glee wheelchair choreography (the "Proud Mary" routine from a while ago) by someone who does wheelchair dance: [link]
And then there's the sad fact of the "dancing;" the choreography sucks. The one potentially interesting move that McHale supposedly "does" is a cut -- he wheelies on one rear wheel. The rest is notable only for the way that it shows that able-bodied, non-wheelchair-using folk really do think of chairs as bicycles you move with your arms. There's absolutely no body-chair integration at all. They think of sitting in a chair as being only about not being able to move their legs (and in Artie's case as being about having his hips and legs twisted to one side). That mistaken understanding leads to some very weird looking people in chairs. On chairs would be a better phrase for it. The fake paralysis of their legs somehow wends its way up their bodies so that they are really only able to push with their elbows (no wonder they have sore arms!).
Laga - May 20, 2010 10:54:51 am PDT #2531 of 8624
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm so glad I got to see the wheelchair dance vids you posted, Hil. I wish the choreographers at Glee could see them too.
Hil R. - May 20, 2010 11:42:31 am PDT #2532 of 8624
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm so glad I got to see the wheelchair dance vids you posted, Hil. I wish the choreographers at Glee could see them too.
It took me less than five minutes to find those. There are dozens if not hundreds more on YouTube (for some reason, a huge portion of them are from Eastern Europe), and quite a few of them list the choreographer. If Glee actually cared about getting the wheelchair choreography to look good, it would be simple to call up a few of those choreographers and say, "Want to work on a few episodes of our show?" Or even contact some of the dancers, so that there would be people with actual experience in the type of dance they're doing.