Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
"Germans?"
"Forget it, he's on a roll."
Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Barb - May 29, 2009 11:01:52 am PDT #21908 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Jesse - May 29, 2009 11:01:54 am PDT #21909 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I love when Gud gets inspirational.
We are generally having a good day here in my office, made better by burgers for lunch. Delivered!
However, I am going to be screwed next week by a project I should have done more on already. Ah well.
Gudanov - May 29, 2009 11:04:59 am PDT #21910 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Stick knitting needles in your forearm?
I was thinking about spacing out and thinking about something I'd rather be working on. However, you know, to each their own.
Liese S. - May 29, 2009 11:24:23 am PDT #21911 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Sorry about your no-good day, Barb.
So wouldn't today's young dancer/choreographer learn a different set of rules than previous generations did?
Well, this is true to a certain extent. But there are sets of rules (ideals is maybe better?) for specific schools of dance. It's roughly analogous to poetry, for example a modern student would learn the required structure for a sonnet or a villanelle in the same way that students have over the ages, right? That student might then insert a breaking phrase into a strict form and have something new and interesting...but not a sonnet.
And that's not the same thing as stringing a set of random couplets together and calling it a sonnet, ignoring all protests. Which is more of what I see on teevee dance of various claimed styles. Does that make sense?
Also, this
Debbie Allen /= modern dance. See Momix, David Parsons, ISO, Pilobolus... For modern ballet see Alvin Ailey, Gus Giordano, White Oak, Hubbard Street...
definitely, teevee to the contrary. There are some really fabulous things going on out there. Next time I have some bandwidth to spare I'll see if I can't rustle up some video to explain.
sarameg - May 29, 2009 11:24:24 am PDT #21912 of 30000
Jesus fucking christ, I have to call in to the 8:30 meeting tomorrow.
tommyrot - May 29, 2009 11:24:27 am PDT #21913 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Toddson - May 29, 2009 11:29:10 am PDT #21914 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Would sticking knitting needles in your forearm be Granny Acupuncture? It WOULD have been less painful than a lot of my week. But things are improving ... and I'm full of food from the lunch we had for our president's retirement.
Dance ... I think for almost any school of dance there is a certain level of technique. Once you've mastered the technique, then breaking out and doing something different would be one thing, where just kind of making it up as you go would be another.
And, talking about dancing., this amuses me.
Jesse - May 29, 2009 11:31:29 am PDT #21915 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nerdiest Oven Mitt Ever: Bake It So!
Love that.
Trudy Booth - May 29, 2009 11:47:34 am PDT #21916 of 30000
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
definitely, teevee to the contrary. There are some really fabulous things going on out there. Next time I have some bandwidth to spare I'll see if I can't rustle up some video to explain.
I actually have seen some non-debbie dance since I was a kid in the eighties. Honest. I was being silly -- and expressing my lingering distaste for compulsive floor-flinging.
In acting school I studied movement with Marlene Pennison which made various dancer friends twitter. (not Twitter)
Sheryl - May 29, 2009 12:16:24 pm PDT #21917 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Tomorrow G has to spend most of the day at work(yeah, the same thing that required him to get up at Stupid o' clock yesterday- Spring Board meetings). I'm planning to hit the library and the mall.
Sunday we're going to the Washington Folk Fest, and try not to buy lots of pretty shinies.