monkey nonsense

was watching the pairs ice skating… or was it ice dancing? i don’t know. i haven’t cared much for ice skating for awhile now.

in any case, i was liveIMing with julie. basically flooding her with my thoughts and reactions to the olympics (because she had asked if i was going to liveblog.) and we got into a discussion about the music for ice skating. i feel it was kind of lame and cheesy and melodramatic. the subject of costume also came up (“what about those galaxy quest costumes”? nice.) the artistic costumes are so overdone. i want to see an ice skater just show up in whatever.

today i read an article on the washingtonpost about the music choice. my favorite quote is: “Increasingly popular, too, are film scores. ‘Film scores have no rhythm,’ Hurwitz says. ‘It’s just mood music, not meant to be choreographed. But they do it anyway, because they liked the movie [and can] wear a funky costume.’” hahha, i love how he brings up the funky costumes!

i think i should be a choreographer. here are some of my ideas:

• let’s go to the mall… on ice. there are some amazing dance moves in there that should translate well to ice. costumes – robot costume? bedazzled jean jackets?
• bohemian rhapsody. that song goes through so many different moods/tempos.. it’s like many songs in one! you have the fast part where they can be building up into a jump and then slower parts where they can do the nancy kerrigan glide (michelle kwan also known for this…)
• rodeo. beef! it’s what’s for dinner! same reason as bohemian rhapsody… lots of stuff to work with. plus, it’s classical so you can appeal to the more traditional judges. actually, i do wonder if anyone has choreographed to this song before because it really isn’t that bad! but i would propose they dress up in cowboy getup.

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