big shout out...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

... to jauntyalan  for banging on about the Justice album. I live a sheltered life as a mild-mannered academic and would not otherwise have been exposed to this young person's banging 'house' music. I couldn't be bothered to read the ILX thread so I have no idea if this is a popular position or not. It sounds like Daft Punk put through a blender.

Also: a warning to freakytigger  Not only have I 'obtained' a copy of Operation Mindcrime, I have even worked out how to get the heavy metal umlauts onto Queensrÿche!!

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I am a dancing purist :D

(Actually I feel this way whenever I see people sing the praises of doing things craply, whether dancing or singing or whatever - I think doing things properly is a VIRTUE especially if it makes one look cool.)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

fsvo "properly" = the generational kink at issue here

(viz "academic" painting vs ___________*)

*insert anti-academic movement to taste

there is a fubsy and timid version of lex's position obv; there is also the william morris arts-and-crafts avant-garde version, and "we" (by which i mean us when we're bein "reynoldsian nu-rockists for dylanesque dancing") get muddled tryin to fite both battles at once cz you CAN'T

[dalek-made-of-light briefly trolls across back of room]

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

we must be at cross purposes. by improperly I don't mean 'badly', but 'in ways which aren't sanctioned by social codification'. I guess I see quality as a technical judgement (i.e. I can judge someone's dancing good or bad IF they are trying to dance 'well' but obviously neither of us would want to use that criterion in relation to children dancing at a party) whereas 'propriety' is a judgement relating to social mores. i.e. properly meaning something more like in the right context, in the right spirit etc.

Lex is the reason I don't dance

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

(And I hope you feel guilty about it!)

Lately I've been thinking that minimal is more for dancing in your head.

Re: Lex is the reason I don't dance

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I am going to dance to minimal in a TENT all night tomorrow :)