The End of Irony 
Saturday, December 3, 2005, 11:24 PM - Dancing
I swear last night on Mighty's dance floor I saw ironic, detached postmodernism crumble with the bootyshaking bliss of a few hundred multiracial SF club kids. Now we just need a few artists from this generation that can conjure up the same kind of love and soul. Wouldn't THAT be wonderful?

Too Hot For Wigs 
Friday, November 11, 2005, 07:52 PM - Dancing
Is an instant classic. I can't believe Fatass got shut down at the Makeout last night...we could have danced for hours longer. So nice to see the East Coast contingent and both White brothers in one place. And the advance copy of the new CD is always a nice touch...

Green Velvet Line Dancing 
Thursday, November 10, 2005, 01:14 PM - Dancing
I rarely remember my dreams. Obviously evidence of my undeveloped relationship with my unconscious mind. Not so this morning: first I was some sort of hotshot archaeologist, and I discovered this beautiful ancient (greek? trojan maybe?) boat at the edge of an ocean. Then somehow things morphed into a stadium rock concert/ someone's wedding and I was waiting for my high school friend Kevin McMahon (huge guy, my favorite cigarette chicken partner) to show up. Then he came but he was really Andrew Boyd, and he was wearing this forest green with wide gold pinstripe velvet suit, and he was line dancing with a bunch of strangers.

My unconsious is notoriously unsubtle with its symbolism - do you think I need to rediscover my core value and inherent worth/ beauty? And that I'd really like to have a great relationship/ fantabulous party wedding?? At least I save money on analysis this way.

Google submission oracular powers 
Monday, November 7, 2005, 01:43 PM - Dancing, Technology
So it has to be a good sign that the auto-generated word that came up when I submitted this little project to google was "ravers", right? Oh, if I had only taken a screen shot. I guess it's possible they've gotten much farther ahead than I would have imagined with profiling my innermost characteristics....

Susie Helfrey's wedding mosh pit 
Monday, November 7, 2005, 01:28 PM - Dancing, Friends
Made me very very happy. Who would have thought those Stanford GSB folks had it in them?? Susie, apparently, is a punk rocker now.

Crutchmaster 
Monday, November 7, 2005, 12:57 PM - Dancing
Yesterday went to see Bill Shannon perform at Headlands. Truly amazing to see someone developing a new dance lexicon based on creative adaptations of disability, with heavy influence of street dance/ skate culture...
Tragic and wonderful that the form is so specific to his particular flavor of physical problem- inspriring that he's created something so innovative and connected to contemporary american vernacular dance. Nothing better to play with one's internal prejudices about disability when you realize that the crippled guy is hot. (Wonder whatever happened to Melissa's brother??)
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