Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Let's Get Tribal or Something

So a series of songs has been crossing my mind this morning after staying up way too late to finish a poetry portfolio and to study for an 8am quiz.
"Everybody Dance Now" by C+C Music Factory has always reigned as one of my all-time dance-like-a-white-girl-pretending-she's-a-black-girl favorites. It brings out my inner arm-pumping, robot-moving, heisman-posing self. (The Heisman pose? Sadly, yes.)
"15 Steps" by Radiohead brings out my wanna-be tribal self. I want to make a ginormous fire somewhere and do the rain dance. What exactly is the rain dance? I think I'll learn it.
"Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin...don't be fooled. This may not seem like a dancing song, but I guarantee you it brings out my inner air-guitar hippy. I think I would dance to this around a fire, too, only I would dance like a leg-pattin' country fool. And it would be marvelous.
Prepare yourself for this one.
And remember, I like weird things and I like musicals, so I'm completely justified in wanting to learn the tango.
Probably two of the greatest musical scenes I can think of are from Chicago and Moulin Rouge, where both movies have a super powerful tango scene.
Chicago's is the Cell Block Tango/Murderess Row- "He Had it Comin"
Moulin Rouge's is Le Tango Roxanne.
OOoooooohhhh I have chills! They're so flippin' amazing! (PS if you haven't watched them, youtube them NOW!)
The tango is super powerful, super sexual, super emotional. It's awesome.
And I want to dance so I can find a physical outlet for release, because Lord knows my physical activity is going to pot! Running just doesn't feel so enthralling anymore...

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