yay dancing!
Well, last night rapidly and spontaneously developed into a fun and excellent night! :)
Monday morning, I emailed my friend Jesse about various things, among which was a suggestion that we again attempt to see Superman Returns at the IMAX. (We'd tried the week before last, but with him being busy at work and us both attending a wedding that weekend, we couldn't manage it.) He surprised me by suggesting Tuesday, in place of the movie night he and his projector usually host that night, since attendance has been low over the summer. Works for me!
So after work, I picked up some sandwiches at one of my favorite coffee & lunch places, Bonte's Belgian Waffles. (I got a roll with hummus, lettuce, tomato, red pepper, and cucumber.) After meeting Jesse there, we walked to his car together, dealt with Schuylkill traffic, and made it to the IMAX at King of Prussia.
Superman Returns was good. Ron, the attorney who introduced me to the James Bond novels, told me to watch the original first, and I'm glad I took his advice. The title sequence, music, certain scenes, and Marlon Brando's voiceovers as Jor-El were more evocative with that background. There were so many detailed and beautiful scenes -- the pool balls rolling from side to side on the table as Lex's yacht weathered a storm at the beginning, everybody but Clark and Lois reading the Daily Planet in the elevator while Clark tried to dorkily smile at Lois, Jimmy Olson and Perry White looking & walking in opposite directions as the fault line hit Metropolis, and so on. Jesse was excited about the realism of physics in the movie, like Superman's cape or the plane metal collapsing around his hands as he stops it above the ground. And Brandon Routh is really quite attractive. (Sadly, Cyclops is again in the position of 'having' the girl but that girl ultimately being in love with another man. I kept wanting him to use his laser eyes when he and his family were stuck in the yacht.)
Jesse had told me some swing dance friends of his were having a low-key party at a house near KoP after the movie and had asked if I'd like to stop by. What luck! I emphasized that I'm almost always happy to suddenly go dance! :) I danced a couple blues songs with him; it's easy to follow and enjoy the music. He said you could see the folk dancer in my body; of course ultimately I'd like to look only like a dancer of the style I'm doing at the time. There were about a dozen people chilling or dancing -- a couple guys courteously asked me to dance, and I had fun watching the dancing for the rest of the time. I worried a lot, as expected, but it all seemed to go well; I certainly smiled enough to make up for the my complete cluelessness about following. I enjoyed dancing such a variable, loose, and partner-focused style, and after the re-awakening of interest in swing after a couple opportunities at Pinewoods... Pretty much all you have to do is show me good dancers, and I'm instantly hooked.
Monday morning, I emailed my friend Jesse about various things, among which was a suggestion that we again attempt to see Superman Returns at the IMAX. (We'd tried the week before last, but with him being busy at work and us both attending a wedding that weekend, we couldn't manage it.) He surprised me by suggesting Tuesday, in place of the movie night he and his projector usually host that night, since attendance has been low over the summer. Works for me!
So after work, I picked up some sandwiches at one of my favorite coffee & lunch places, Bonte's Belgian Waffles. (I got a roll with hummus, lettuce, tomato, red pepper, and cucumber.) After meeting Jesse there, we walked to his car together, dealt with Schuylkill traffic, and made it to the IMAX at King of Prussia.
Superman Returns was good. Ron, the attorney who introduced me to the James Bond novels, told me to watch the original first, and I'm glad I took his advice. The title sequence, music, certain scenes, and Marlon Brando's voiceovers as Jor-El were more evocative with that background. There were so many detailed and beautiful scenes -- the pool balls rolling from side to side on the table as Lex's yacht weathered a storm at the beginning, everybody but Clark and Lois reading the Daily Planet in the elevator while Clark tried to dorkily smile at Lois, Jimmy Olson and Perry White looking & walking in opposite directions as the fault line hit Metropolis, and so on. Jesse was excited about the realism of physics in the movie, like Superman's cape or the plane metal collapsing around his hands as he stops it above the ground. And Brandon Routh is really quite attractive. (Sadly, Cyclops is again in the position of 'having' the girl but that girl ultimately being in love with another man. I kept wanting him to use his laser eyes when he and his family were stuck in the yacht.)
Jesse had told me some swing dance friends of his were having a low-key party at a house near KoP after the movie and had asked if I'd like to stop by. What luck! I emphasized that I'm almost always happy to suddenly go dance! :) I danced a couple blues songs with him; it's easy to follow and enjoy the music. He said you could see the folk dancer in my body; of course ultimately I'd like to look only like a dancer of the style I'm doing at the time. There were about a dozen people chilling or dancing -- a couple guys courteously asked me to dance, and I had fun watching the dancing for the rest of the time. I worried a lot, as expected, but it all seemed to go well; I certainly smiled enough to make up for the my complete cluelessness about following. I enjoyed dancing such a variable, loose, and partner-focused style, and after the re-awakening of interest in swing after a couple opportunities at Pinewoods... Pretty much all you have to do is show me good dancers, and I'm instantly hooked.