Comments on: Dancing in the Dark

By: KonstantinMiller

KonstantinMiller — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:01:09 +0000

Hi. I like the way you write. Will you post some more articles?

By: Love by the Book

Love by the Book — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:50:45 +0000

Thanks man! Honestly, after that experience I think my elevated-surface-dancing days are over. Well, at least until the next time I drink Jack Daniels. Which will probably be Saturday…

By: Uncommon Julia

Uncommon Julia — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:49:47 +0000

You had me at “I do have a long-standing reputation as the girl most likely to gyrate on an elevated surface when hip hop is being played.” You’re hilarious, and I hope you don’t mind if I live vicariously for a bit as spectator to your experiment.

By: Meows

Meows — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:02:48 +0000

Well, hopefully it will be entertaining at least… did you know that they have an edition of The Rules just for online dating?!? And a Rules II? (which is now available in a combined edition with the original Rules for one-stop shopping.) Wow.

By: Frances

Frances — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:52:06 +0000

I wonder (because I am a book nerd) if that is what it even says in the American edition or if somehow discos was their Anglicization of “clubs.”

By: Love by the Book

Love by the Book — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:42:08 +0000

Amazing! Definitely play along – it’ll be good to compare notes! Be prepared though: it’s hilariously dated in terms of its references. The part about going to discos is particularly classic.

By: Love by the Book

Love by the Book — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:39:16 +0000

No, I think you’re right. Though the instructor (whose name was Lil Milk, incredibly) was totally street-tastic.

By: Meows

Meows — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:34:02 +0000

I also used to think that I was a good dancer and then took a hip-hop class at my gym–yup, my gym!–where the amazing instructor and mirrors also left me cruelly exposed as a dancing fool of a fool dancing, I guess.
Anyhow, I too have my share of dating woes, so perhaps I will play along at home. A drowning (wo)man will grab whatever she can, right…? Requesting The Rules from the library now. Sigh.
Good luck!

By: Frances

Frances — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:16:03 +0000

Oh my god, this cracked my shit up. You are a good dancer. But you are most definitely not "street." And I suspect The Rules folks would not approve of krumping. But on the topic of krumping, I would say that the movie Rize about dancing in South Central LA is a fabulous example of the genre. Now that I think of it, the folks in Rize would probably not approve of a bunch of twenty-somethings in London attempting to learn how to do their moves in an orgainzed class...