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What is up with so many engagements with these particular prompts this week?
Well, for one. Aspirations do exist to become a bonafide writer. Prompts are present, helpful and smart. Well thought out and inclusive. Excellent drivers of bonafide writing progress. I’m in to that. Good writing. Not just to do just to do. Til ‘70.
Improvement-seeking-individual seeks important-improvement-information-writing techniques. Anyone can write a book. But can they write a GOOD book. I hope to. I hope so.
But. (Always a but) There is a certain amount of dancing one must engage in. “Next”, as the next step, a two step next in order to keep the ball rolling. I am game. How ‘bout you. Engage in the dance? O.k. Me first? You first?
Dancing with myself. Is okey-dokey, fine. Really. Truly. Deeply. Madly, Truly, Deeply improve on those dance steps without the audience. Spin on your head (if you choose). Spin on your back. On bar, with cowboy boots, ballet shoes, tap shoes.
Like Gene Kelly while Singin’ in the Rain. With Don and Debbie all performed while caught up in the “transition” from silent films to “talkies”
Dancin’ on a couch, over a couch together. Knocking our socks off while they knocked that couch right over landing on their feet, all tall and straight up.
Dignity, always dignity. Don-a hoofer and a stuntman- laments as he flashbacks to a time alongside his BFF dancing next to friend Cosmo Brown in “Fit as a Fiddle”.
At the afterparty of a show, the head of Don’s studio shows a short demonstration of a talking picture. A talking picture🤣
Oh the simple times. “Good morning. Good morning. We talked the whole night through. Good morning, good morning to you. In the rain. With an umbrella. Without an umbrella. Spinning on heads, on backs and dizzyingly waiting on the outside of the door…
Dancing on the outside of a particular closed door, is well. Another story. Desperate. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Let’s not go there. Ok?
Never back down from a challenge. Even if and when there may exist. A closed door.
”Two left feet”.
Sooooooooooo. As a formal dancer-cotillion drop out, I offer to you these options:
Better start jiggin’
Gettin’ jiggy with it.
Do the hustle!
The Electric Slide.
The Macarena.
Can’t Stop the Feeling?
Sorry.
Perhaps a quicker two step would suffice.
A Hip, Hop, Hopscotch version of the wait.
At the door. Outside the door.
Jump, Jump, Jump.
Now would be a good time to share some very important knowledge I learned along the way—the hard way….
Crossing your legs raises you blood pressure, so proceed with extreme caution.
No fair sometimes. What? Sorry, ladies. It is a man’s world sometimes, if you get my drift……
So, “Drop it like it’s hot”—Popping a squat is ok, if you can get up from the down. Never assume. While admiring the artwork outside the loo door, best to not rely on the pictures outside the door, check the cut out figure picture (dresses or pants) painted on the outside of the door—waiting, popping, mentally planning the squat procedure.
That picture is worth a thousand words. Keep in mind, in real time, that picture can be photo shopped, deleted, lost, altered right before the eyes. Right before the eyes have a chance to catch the truth of the glimpse. The truth glimpse. Don’t want to walk head first into the wrong door without the opportunity to scan the room for hazards, hazardous truths, slippery floors…….. not knowing what is really behind door #1, 2, and on and on. etc.
Where did I leave that coffee can anyway….Why did the Gardner cut the bushes down so……Survival indeed.
Better start “jiggin”.
Gettin’ “jiggy”with it.
Do the hustle.
The Electric Slide.
The Macarena.
Can’t stop the feeling?
Sorry.
Perhaps a quicker two step would suffice.
A Hip, Hop. Hopscotch version of the wait.
At the door. Outside the door.
Jump. Jump. Jump.
There are alternatives. But in the interest of privacy. Will leave that to the dogs. They don’t talk. They keep you and your privacy close to their harnessed vests. Good dogs! Thank you. Humbly share a tree in the woods with you any day, any night. Head nod you, not give you a second look.👀🧐🫣👁👀 Thank you good dog. For keeping the important secrets we talked about together. What a good dog! What an influential privacy keeper!
In popular culture, overtime, Singin’ in the Rain and its influence has evolved into many music-to-our-ears-moments and messages worth referencing—while some bumping and grinding and dancing up and down the poles is still a “thing”. Still happening.
To name a few: Kelly’s hometown Pittsburgh Pirates games play the scene from the film during rain delays (wk). At good ole’ Disney World, the Singin’in the Rain sequence was one of the opening scenes of “The Great Movie Ride” at Disney Hollywood Studios. Kelly approved his “Audio-Animatronics” likeness prior to its delivery to Florida.(wk)
Cool!
In 1971–In Stanley Kubricks’s film “A Clockwork Orange” Alex (Malcolm McDowell) sings “Singin’ in the Rain during the home invasion scene. In 1976, the British comedy act “Morecambe and Wise” parodied the “Singin’ in the Rain” sequence.(wk)
Cool!
In 1986-In the film “Legal Eagles”, Robert Redford “sings in the rain” watching the movie on TV during a sleepless night.
In the 2000’s, the dance to the title song is parodies in the Monty Python Broadway musical “Spamalot” in the dance break to ”Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”-complete with tap dancing knights spinning bright yellow umbrella around. The “Singin’ in the Rain” sequence was used in a Volkswagen Golf commercial, with Gene Kelly seen break dancing in the street. (wk)
Cool!
Further, A parody of the number “Singin’ in the Rain” was featured in the animated film “Robots”. In the film, Silver Linings Playbook, Lawrence’s character is inspired by a clip of Donald O’Connor and Gene Kelly dancing to “Moses Supposes”.
Cool!
The awesome rock band BTS and their song “Boy With Luv” heavily references Singin’ in the Rain’. Downton Abbey: A New Era contains plot lines that closely resemble Singin’ in the Rain.
Cool!
One left foot.One right foot. Two right feet, Two left feet. Whatever the case.
Get those feet “a-move-in” and dance like there is no tomorrow. Dance like no one is watching. You think you can’t dance. Better start sooner. Rather than too late…….
Pardon me for my rudeness….my abrupt departure. The “Jumping” days are over and,
”I’ve gotta go”
Peace Out to you.🫵🏻
And.
As Lady Gaga performed.
Just Dance.🫵🏻
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