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This weekend has been pretty busy. I have Monday off, and I only work up till Wednesday, so I’m in the middle of a whopping 5 day weekend.
There’s swing dancing every Friday at the Lincoln Center and I decided to check it out. I met a few people I knew there. One of them is a swing dancing guru and, while I have excellent musical rhythm, my feet don’t know a downbeat from a backbeat. On top of that, the whole partner dancing thing still makes me a little nervous. Needless to say, I got owned. But I had a lot of fun. There was a little rain, but nothing a well-timed automatic umbrella couldn’t handle. And the music was live and very very “cool,” as the kids say.
Speaking of music, I’ve discovered a new fight song. It’s Kamikaze, the first track on one of Five Iron Frenzy’s last albums, the Cheeses of Nazareth. It’s got me so pumped up this weekend. I’ve listened to that one song at least twenty times already, and I just bought the album on Friday. It was originally supposed to be released in 2001 on their Electric Boogaloo album, but since “kamikaze” is Japanese for planes flying into stuff, they wisely replaced it.
Speaking of September 11th, I just saw the War of the Worlds yesterday. I read in the paper that it’s supposed to be some sort of metaphor for September 11th. There are people running from falling debris and things and one or two mentions of terrorists, but it’s more of a straight up disaster movie than a celluloid metaphor. It’s not really science fiction either because there’s no science in the movie. Spielberg plays on fears of the moment like in Jaws; the cinematographic action and sheer terror are exquisite. However there are a few instances (especially towards the end) where you wonder where Spielberg’s story telling marbles went. It’s definitely worth seeing on the big screen though. This movie is scary.