The choc[olate]'s in the mail? :dubious:
Is that guy on TV wearing a bra?
Tell your wife I told her to smack you.
I won’t live long enough to mail chocolate.
I wouldn’t intrust them to the ail anyway.
Hershey’s Special Dark, until I can afford something better.
It’ll do.
In the interests of fighting ignorance, thought I’d chime in with some real information about the various hip hop styles. I run a hip hop dance school and so that means I actually have the opportunity to be informative here for a change!
“Hip Hop Dance” is an umbrella term for a variety of different styles of dance. Bboying (breakdancing) is usually accepted as the original form of hip hop; the term originates from the early usage of two decks to create breaks in a piece of music in which dancers would clear a space on the floor for people to show off fancy moves. Breakdancing is nowadays best known for “power moves” like headspins, but was originally more focussed on more, for want of a better term “dancey”, upright steps. Other fundamental hip hop styles are popping (from which the “robot” style is derived, and the style controvert was referring to) and locking (arguably a pre-hip hop funk style of dance). Michael Jackson took inspiration from both popping and locking styles as he developed his own unique style.
Hip Hop dance has now branched out into so many different sub-styles that often modern choreography is a blend of many different ideas - the only problem being that without a grounding in the fundamentals, this choreography tends towards the “blah” end of the scale, unless the choreographer is clever about what they do with the routine beyond the steps. Check out the Jabbawockeez and Diversity for good examples of GOOD modern hip hop choreography.
The term “hip hop” is a nonsense term derived from the early MCs, who when freestyling rap would often mix in nonsense words to keep the flow going - “hip hop” is the one that stuck. Sadly, nothing to do with hips or hopping.
“Krumping” is a relatively new subgenre of hip hop, and is a bit odd really. I admit I really don’t get it, but like a lot “modern” takes on art forms, it abandons structure in an attempt to do something new and fresh, and often just ends up looking/sounding weird to most of us.
Beatboxing is making your mouth make interesting and unusual noises. Remember that guy from Police Academy?
Cheers,
David.
Okay, okay, Sweet Bleeding Jesus, get me out of here!
Hello? Hello?
Damn, it’s her revenge for all those Scrabble ™ games she lost.
I’m sorry, but I kinda have to call bullshit. One guy sick and unable to continue, one girl almost certainly sidelined with an injury serious enough that they’re waiting on an MRI, and they still go ahead and just cut two entirely different people with no audience input?
This is all baseball’s fault. I don’t know exactly how, but it is.
Man, I feel for Brandon:
“You didn’t make it to the Top 20” 
“No, wait, you’re in!” 
“But you only get two days to rehearse.” :eek:
“And you weren’t good enough, so you’re out again. Forever.”
“But maybe not.” 
By now that guy’s got whiplash of the spirit.
- After Brandon’s scathing critique, I told my husband. “If they cut him, invite him back, and then kick this kid out after giving him only a day and a half to rehearse – that would be cruel beyond belief. The only way they could pull ilt off is if they allow him to come back next year.”
I’m good.
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I think that the judges never had any intention of voting Russell off. I think they really like him and want to motivate the audience to vote for him. He’s one of the few stand-outs this year in terms of likeability.
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Everyone is so good that it’s hard to pick out a clunker in the bunch. I was thinking that the tap dancers would have a hard time keeping up, especially the woman, but they did great!
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I cannot believe that they gave Noel a free pass this week! Sorry, but if you get injured so badly that you cannot dance, it shouldn’t work in your favor.
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Enough of the sucking up to Paula Abdul already. Adam does enough weeping – do we really need another overly emotional judge?
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I wonder what illness Billy has that caused him to drop out? My husband thinks he just found out he has AIDS or hepatitis. I’m wondering if he just didn’t have a nervous breakdown. They made it pretty clear that it was a sickness and not an injury.
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Ditto for Ashley’s “4 1/2 year illness” that kept her from dancing. Do you think she had anorexia or something? She’s such a lovely woman, but does seem fragile.
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Someone PLEASE slip some depressants in Mary Murphy’s cup. Her shrieking is just ridiculous.
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I liked the idea of giving everyone a chance to see the dancers do their thing before voting. In year’s past, the audition shows highlight a few lucky dancers (e.g. Twitch, Evan). If you’re one of those dancers, you have such a head’s up on the other dancers that it’s not fair. At least they gave us an opportunity to see everyone dance in their own element and try to put them on a level playing field before cutting two of them.
That sounds like a much better etymology than what I usually hear, that “break” comes from the dance moves that made it look like your bones were broken.
Personally, I go for the simpler route - I keep hoping its something like appendicitis, and therefore he can’t jump or leap for like three weeks. I hope its nothing serious.
Indeed, especially as the kind of dance moves you’re referring to (usually called “waves”) originate from the popping style of hip hop. Bboys are usually pretty good at pinching moves from a variety of styles though; certainly there seems to be a growing trend towards incorporating this kind of movement into breakdance, which probably accounts for the confusion.
Cheers,
David.
Based on the classic novels I’ve read, a “mystery illness” inevitably means either an unwed pregnancy, leprosy, or he was killed in India by his own troops after ordering them to stand to the last man against an unstoppable Zulu horde.
Apparently, it’s mono (though awaiting confirmation).
Yeah, I’m going to miss the stairs and the rear projection full-size screen in the back looks garish and is distracting. The space just looks a little too big for their performances, now (though I haven’t watched the complete eps from this week, yet).
I’m guessing #2. (Damn, I hope he doesn’t lose his toes, that would really fuck up a dancer.)
Heh - it’ll be interesting to see if any of the OTHER dancers get mono. My, the rumor mill will truly await grist on this one!
If someone on this show loses a toe, you can bet the producers will have the cameramen climbing over each other to get a shot of it to put on the air. Has there even been an episode without a closeup of a bleeding nail-less big toe or a multiply-replayed ankle sprain or a guy falling on his head with such concussive force his yarmulke flies up in a comical fashion?
I also think the stage is worse this season and so are the bumpers. Bring back the original title sequence and the bigger stage, please.