Fangirling, Doctor Who and SCD
Apr. 15th, 2008 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressSo, last nights was large amounts of excellence, which is good. Especially because, after dancing, I wound up watching the 2007 Christmas Special with Magus.
Gleeeeeeeeeeeee, Tenney.1
I mean, ignoring the fact that David Tennant is made of sex and more sex anda little bit quite a lot of geek and specs! and just enough awkwardness to make me want to wrap around him in a hug and just enough badass to make me want to strip down and have immediate sex with him. Uhm. >.> Not that I said that aloud or anything.
But yeah, Christmas Special was very good at showing off all of that. Also, HOLY SHIT TUXEDO AND BLACK CHUCKS. Seriously, the only way that could've been *any* sexier was if he was wearing tails.
Butyeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't actually have any real comments on the storyline other than "why does everyone always die, damnit" And I kinda want Astrids dress. Oh, and "Information: You are all going to die" may just be the Greatest Line Ever, besides "Take me to your leader. I always wanted to say that!"
And Mr. Copper is adorable. He will use his million to buy a pony, because he deserves one. And a house with a garden and a door. And a kitchen. With windows. Andlasersglazing.
Souhyeah. I'm sure I'll figure out an actual opinion on it sometime later (Ohyeah, also, Midshipman Frame = WIN AND STOIC AND BADASS!) but for now, I'm just *execeptionally* pleased to have another dose of Tenney in my brainspace. *bounces!*
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***
As for other stuff..uhm...dancing! Dancing good. Dancing quite good, and I'm currently starting to hover on that edge between beginner and not.
Also, borking up the easiest dance2 on the program is...annoying. (Seriously, 1Lady turns and does skip change of step down the ladies side of the dance, 1Man follows, past third couple, 1L dances up outside the mens side of the dance, 1M dances up the middle, they end in their partner's position, set, repeat with 1L chasing 1M. Then some other stuff, like dancing down and up the line, and pousseting (which I hate), but still. Not hard.)
It's just frigging skipping. In a line. How does one dick it up, you might ask? I don't even *begin* to know. But I did. And then I decided that I needed to go pound my head against a wall, and probably would have if I hadn't gone off to be confused by the I&A dance. Which, once I actually figured out what was going on, I was not heinous at.
On the plus side of everything, we ended with 'Australian Ladies'3 which may, in fact, be the greatest dance known to mankind. Seriously, it's deceptively easy, once you get the hang of it, and looks *awesome*. And, if done right, you should be panting by the end of it, which is honestly kinda a plus for me (I *like* quick dances.)
We didn't do any dances that included an allemande last night, though6. Well, one really can't have everything, now can they?
After proper dancing comes waltzing, which is loverly, and I got to practise my cross-step waltz, which is overly flowey and beautiful. After the music ended, Magus taught me how to do a redowa4 waltz which is entirely too bouncy and a little bit tricky. Clearly I shall have to practise it or something. (Change step change, change step change, change step hop, fall over, swear, GOTO 105)
***
....Dear lord, I am a dork. Although, as dorkiness goes, I think that being a vintage dance dork is one of the cooler variations.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Tenney = David Tennant as the tenth doctor. I'm not entirely sure why I use this nickname quite as often as I do, but it works. Another good nickname is 'teninch' which not so many people get.
2: 'Flowers of Edinburgh', for my own reference.
3: For my own reference:
THE AUSTRALIAN LADIES (R8x32)
1- 8: 1s cross, cast down to 3rd place & 3s+1s dance RH across.
9-16: 1s lead up to top, cross, cast to 2nd place & 2s+1s dance LHacross.
17-24: 2s & 3s set & cross RH as 1s cross RH & cast to right, 2s+3sset on sides & change places RH as 1s cross up/down centre& cast to right.
25-32: 3s & 2s set & cross RH as 1s cross RH & cast to right, 3s+2sset on sides & change places RH as 1s cross in centre & cast to places
(You can tell I found that on the interwobs somewhere because it's actually in proper dance terminology. For the layman, bars 17-32 basically consist of the 1s crossing by right hands and casting to the right four times, essentially just following a cloverleaf path, and the 2s and 3s setting and crossing by right hands with their partner, their fellow, their partner again, and their fellow again. (So 2L and 2M, 3L and 3M then 2L and 3L, 2M and 3M. Repeat once.))
4: It's actually somewhat embaressing how long it took me to figure out how to correctly spell that. Apparently typing 'styles of waltz vintage' into google will make it appear if you look hard enough, but this is secretly one of those word that any approximation of the spelling will not be close enough for google to correctly identify.
5: Yes, I realize that there's not actually a 10 to go to. It sounded better than 'start over'
6: ETA: Keira: Better?
Gleeeeeeeeeeeee, Tenney.1
I mean, ignoring the fact that David Tennant is made of sex and more sex and
But yeah, Christmas Special was very good at showing off all of that. Also, HOLY SHIT TUXEDO AND BLACK CHUCKS. Seriously, the only way that could've been *any* sexier was if he was wearing tails.
Butyeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't actually have any real comments on the storyline other than "why does everyone always die, damnit" And I kinda want Astrids dress. Oh, and "Information: You are all going to die" may just be the Greatest Line Ever, besides "Take me to your leader. I always wanted to say that!"
And Mr. Copper is adorable. He will use his million to buy a pony, because he deserves one. And a house with a garden and a door. And a kitchen. With windows. And
Souhyeah. I'm sure I'll figure out an actual opinion on it sometime later (Ohyeah, also, Midshipman Frame = WIN AND STOIC AND BADASS!) but for now, I'm just *execeptionally* pleased to have another dose of Tenney in my brainspace. *bounces!*
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***
As for other stuff..uhm...dancing! Dancing good. Dancing quite good, and I'm currently starting to hover on that edge between beginner and not.
Also, borking up the easiest dance2 on the program is...annoying. (Seriously, 1Lady turns and does skip change of step down the ladies side of the dance, 1Man follows, past third couple, 1L dances up outside the mens side of the dance, 1M dances up the middle, they end in their partner's position, set, repeat with 1L chasing 1M. Then some other stuff, like dancing down and up the line, and pousseting (which I hate), but still. Not hard.)
It's just frigging skipping. In a line. How does one dick it up, you might ask? I don't even *begin* to know. But I did. And then I decided that I needed to go pound my head against a wall, and probably would have if I hadn't gone off to be confused by the I&A dance. Which, once I actually figured out what was going on, I was not heinous at.
On the plus side of everything, we ended with 'Australian Ladies'3 which may, in fact, be the greatest dance known to mankind. Seriously, it's deceptively easy, once you get the hang of it, and looks *awesome*. And, if done right, you should be panting by the end of it, which is honestly kinda a plus for me (I *like* quick dances.)
We didn't do any dances that included an allemande last night, though6. Well, one really can't have everything, now can they?
After proper dancing comes waltzing, which is loverly, and I got to practise my cross-step waltz, which is overly flowey and beautiful. After the music ended, Magus taught me how to do a redowa4 waltz which is entirely too bouncy and a little bit tricky. Clearly I shall have to practise it or something. (Change step change, change step change, change step hop, fall over, swear, GOTO 105)
***
....Dear lord, I am a dork. Although, as dorkiness goes, I think that being a vintage dance dork is one of the cooler variations.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Tenney = David Tennant as the tenth doctor. I'm not entirely sure why I use this nickname quite as often as I do, but it works. Another good nickname is 'teninch' which not so many people get.
2: 'Flowers of Edinburgh', for my own reference.
3: For my own reference:
THE AUSTRALIAN LADIES (R8x32)
1- 8: 1s cross, cast down to 3rd place & 3s+1s dance RH across.
9-16: 1s lead up to top, cross, cast to 2nd place & 2s+1s dance LHacross.
17-24: 2s & 3s set & cross RH as 1s cross RH & cast to right, 2s+3sset on sides & change places RH as 1s cross up/down centre& cast to right.
25-32: 3s & 2s set & cross RH as 1s cross RH & cast to right, 3s+2sset on sides & change places RH as 1s cross in centre & cast to places
(You can tell I found that on the interwobs somewhere because it's actually in proper dance terminology. For the layman, bars 17-32 basically consist of the 1s crossing by right hands and casting to the right four times, essentially just following a cloverleaf path, and the 2s and 3s setting and crossing by right hands with their partner, their fellow, their partner again, and their fellow again. (So 2L and 2M, 3L and 3M then 2L and 3L, 2M and 3M. Repeat once.))
4: It's actually somewhat embaressing how long it took me to figure out how to correctly spell that. Apparently typing 'styles of waltz vintage' into google will make it appear if you look hard enough, but this is secretly one of those word that any approximation of the spelling will not be close enough for google to correctly identify.
5: Yes, I realize that there's not actually a 10 to go to. It sounded better than 'start over'
6: ETA: Keira: Better?
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on 2008-04-15 08:03 pm (UTC)(For reference: I'm hearing the other pronunciation frequently, although not exclusively, within CVD, I do not remember Patri being consistent in using the pronunciation you prefer when I heard him refer to it (although I didn't hear him do so often, and my memory could be suspect here), and I believe I have observed both Barbara and Antonia Pugliese using the first-syllable pronunciation. I have no clear memory of anybody else saying it. Net effect: in my experience, there seems to be some uncertainty, which could have many explanations.)
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on 2008-04-15 09:35 pm (UTC)