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Friday, July 29, 2005

Sweet, sweet Jane

Sweet ol' Jane Jimenez is bothered by how those urban people rap and dance:

Time passes quickly today. Finally finished and showered, I sit in the MegaGym lobby, waiting for my husband. A big screen television entertains us. Or should I say ... Sean and The Babes entertain us.

Sean struts and bobs across the television screen, pointing and rapping. Behind him the Babes gyrate. Rap and gyrate, bodies in motion, bobbing and pointing and thrusting.

...I want to go to the Customer Service desk and ask why we are not watching a basketball game. Or what about ballet, Nureyev or Baryshnikov doing power leaps across the stage? Or swing dance? Or ice skating? Of all the wonderful things we humans can do with our bodies, in a MegaWorld that exercises every muscle known to man without needing one pelvic thrust ... why are we subjected to big screen Sean and his Babes?

...Elvis certainly knew what we used to know ... this kind of body motion is a private thing. On stage, performed by a crowd of people we don't know, it degrades the very essence of what makes human beings special.

I don't know what video she was watching, but I'm fairly sure it was cheap and lewd and puerile. Many videos are. That's kind of the point, isn't it?

I even understand her objection to showing the video at a family gym. But I don't understand how a little naughty dancing degrades the very essence of what makes people special.

4 Comments:

Once again...nice Lou Reed reference.

cp

By Anonymous, at 3:21 PM

The irony being that while I (like most right thinking people) am a big Velvet Underground and Lou Reed fan, Hammer, if I remember correctly, dislikes them both.

By Jambo, at 3:36 PM