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Automatic Mario～Don’t Stop Me Now～【自動マリオシーケンサ×Queen】 (via Windows77777777 and GayGamer.net)
Not intended to perform Queen’s song, but it keeps pace and synchronizes with it. And keep an eye on the backgrounds.
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Preview: Fable 3 | Joystiq
Cannot cannot cannot wait for this game. In Fable 2, not only were queer people represented matter-of-factly, but included one quest that involved helping a guy come out to his father, which was only available if you had performed heroic, good deeds earlier in the game… leaving little room for interpreting helping folks to be honest about their sexuality as anything but noble. (And Dad turns out to be cool with it, even chastising himself for not seeing it sooner.)
Source: joystiq.com
The writer/performer, Ivan Doroschuk, has explained that “The Safety Dance” is a protest against bouncers stopping dancers pogoing to 1980s New Wave music in clubs when Disco was dying and New Wave was up and coming. New Wave dancing, especially pogoing, was different from Disco dancing, because it was done individually instead of with partners and involved holding the torso rigid and thrashing about. To uninformed bystanders this could look dangerous, especially if pogoers accidentally bounced into one another (the more deliberately violent evolution of pogoing is slam dancing). The bouncers didn’t like pogoing so they would tell pogoers to stop or be kicked out of the club. Thus, the song is a protest and a call for freedom of expression. It has been claimed that the meaning of the song can be found in similarities between “Safety Dance” and “Safe to dance”. Other lyrics in the song include references to the way pogoing looked to bouncers, especially “And you can act real rude and totally removed/And I can act like an imbecile”.
Everybody look at your hands
- Heidi: it has just occurred to me that I have no idea what "safety dance" means
- Jason: It means going down the road in renaissance clothing and occasionally making an "S" in the style of YMCA
- Heidi: whoah this video is awesome
- Heidi: the original?
- Jason: yes
- Jason: they'll do it
- Jason: you'll see it
- Heidi: it's about the REN FAIRE?
- Heidi: FOR REAL
- Heidi: NO WAY NO WAY
- Jason: no it's about people in England dressed in renaissance stylee
- Jason: that's not the fair that's FOR REAL ENGLAND
- Heidi: um, there's a dwarf
- Heidi: and a pony?
- Heidi: are we watching the same video?
- Jason: Damn it Heidi, horses and dwarves exist outside of the renaissance fair
- Heidi: how is it "safe"?
- Heidi: it's about the may pole?
- Heidi: and JESTERS?
- Heidi: man I love that video
- Heidi: but, also "a protest against bouncers stopping dancers pogoing to 1980s New Wave music"
- Jason: Okay, that part you've lost me on.
- Jason: so the Safety Dance was commentary about people pogoing?
- Jason: and what bouncers would do?
- Heidi: yes
- Jason: huh
- Heidi: bouncers didn't like the dance style
- Heidi: they thought it was unsafe
- Heidi: they kicked out the new wave kids
- Heidi: of course, later pogo'ing became slam dancing
- Heidi: so they weren't really wrong
- Jason: I would think pogo is more about the vertical and slam is more about the horizontal
XADAMDX: Indie Mart Teaser #1 - Dinosaurs going swimming
Man, okay, thank you.
Source: xadamdx.com
Gapers Block: Detour - The Critic: Music Festivals
An oldie but a goodie. What was it about wolf bandnames in 2006?
The name makes me grin. I don’t know what was up, but I would’ve gone to this on Saturday. Patrick Wolf and Guitar Wolf at the same place? Yes please.
Source: gapersblock.com
While Univers is refilling his allergy prescriptions, I’m racing my tricked-out, nitrous-laden Honda Civic against Tokyo gangsters who’ll kill me if I don’t cross the finish line first.
Source: mcsweeneys.net
Twitter Fail Whale in CSS3
Animated, even, in Safari, Chrome, and other WebKit browsers. Via my old manager Mike Lee.
