Friday Five: The Shaking of the Booty

[vvvexation]

From the altfriday5:

1. How often do you dance in public?
Not often enough. Used to do ceili every week, haven't been doing it lately. Haven't been going out ballroom dancing much lately either. Don't get many chances to go clubbing--it's tough to do properly without a car, and I don't seem to have any good friends with cars who care for that sort of thing. Truth be told, I've been less inclined to go out for any sort of dancing lately because I'm no longer getting what I want out of it socially, and for some reason I'm not finding it as easy as I used to to just enjoy it without caring about the social aspects. *sigh*

2. Are you selective about the circumstances (music, gotta have a few drinks, club), or will you dance to anything, anywhere, anytime?
I'm self-conscious about dancing if no one else is, but other than that I'll dance to just about anything I can figure out a way to dance to. It's hard to get me to not dance if the right music comes up.

3. Name some music (genres, artists, songs) that would be guaranteed to get you on the floor.
Lively Celtic music'll almost always get me on the dance floor even when there isn't one. When it comes to club-type dancing, though, getting me on the floor and getting me to seriously dance are slightly different matters. I love new wave, for example, but half my energy always goes into singing along with it and my dancing suffers proportionately. Loud techno and industrial, on the other hand, are better at bypassing my verbal centers and hitting me directly in the limbic system--in other words, more likely to send me into the light trance state that's theoretically my goal when dancing my ass off, but which I rarely manage to achieve.

4. Name some music (genres, artists, songs) that would have your ass super-glued to your chair.
Anything too slow to waltz to, I guess. A few years ago I would've said that I'd never figured out how to dance to reggae, but now it occurs to me that I could probably hornpipe to it. (Why, no, I have almost no qualms about doing dances that don't match the venue.)

5. Fill in the blank: In general, dancing makes me feel __________ . (e.g. scared, happy, free, awkward, etc.) Why?
Exhilarated--but these days that's all too quickly followed by Tired. I think the "why" of both is pretty self-explanatory.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

If I lived in the neighborhood, I'd be at Starry Plough a lot more. :( I go by it almost every work day, but too late for more than a beer, no music at 2 pm.

[imnotbob.livejournal.com]

I've been neglecting dancing also. Still want to go in theory but always come up with something else to do.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

*wave*

your name came up over breakfast this morning...in the hot tub at Harbin. Apparently, Hadar (sp?) thinks that there are some similarities in how you and I speak. (and yeah, small world)

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

(Oy gevalt, yes.) So what similarities? I'm intrigued.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

She didn't say any more than that. But what I found odd about the comment is that I'm garrulous, and, well, Not. So if some of our word choices are similar, my *quantity* is so much higher. I just that that was interesting.

She also said that she thought I'd like you, so maybe it was just a ploy to mention your name?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

But what I found odd about the comment is that I'm garrulous, and, well, Not.

Er...is there a word missing there?

So if some of our word choices are similar, my *quantity* is so much higher. I just that that was interesting.

Indeed; that was kinda what piqued my curiosity.

She also said that she thought I'd like you, so maybe it was just a ploy to mention your name?

*chuckle* Perhaps so. But we outfoxed her.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

the missing word (as you seem to have understood in light of your second sentence) was "you".

and I like the notion of collaborative subconscious outfoxing. It makes me feel all squeeee-full. (but in an utterly non-kawaii sort of way).

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

The notion of non-kawaii squeeee-fulness makes me chortle. (But in an utterly non-mocking sort of way. Especially given that I generally hope not to be too kawaii in my own squeeing. You may be better at that than I, however.)

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Are you in the East Bay, or SF, I forget?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

East Bay.