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So, I'm kind of obsessed with eventually having a sock hop, and with learning to do the mashed potato:

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Unfortunately, I'm hopelessly awkward. But I'm trying, with the help of some amazing youtube users. Apparently, remaking Hairspray (which I still refuse to see) has made the entire internet obsessed with the Mashed Potato.

There's this one, which is totally jerky but to the point:

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And there's this one, which is awkward, longwinded and British but in the long run was more informative:

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If I eventually have a sock hop, there's some even better general links:

Fiftiesweb appears to have been made by someone who genuinely lived through the 50's. Lots of myth-debunking, song facts, and really to-the-point descriptions - plus she describes what necking and first through third base meant back in the day ("Nice girls didn't go to third base before marriage. Enough said.") Check out the sock hop page!

StreetSwing Dance History Archives is basically a database of dance crazes and their origins. Some tutorial kinda stuff but not always.

Sixties City's dance page is suuuuuper useful. The frug, the watusi, the pony... basically everything. Also, it reveals that the Monster Mash is just the Mashed Potato with monster-like arm waving. SO RAD.

Dance parties, anyone?

so, starting thursday and friday, i am moving into a studio apartment, which means my first time living on my own ever. i'm getting a subletter for my house, who is a spiritquester i haven't met! while i was all desperate to find someone to take over my lease at an awkward time it turns out i'm moving out right when she needs to move in. like, to the day. hi, alison!

norm died a few weeks ago (r.i.p. please, next time one of my loved ones is dying, take nwsource instead). since there aren't too many mentions of it outside of nwsource, my mom found spiritquesting. not that i was hiding it particurally, like my livejournal in high school. hi, mom!

sometimes, snap crackle pop is really tiring and it feels like i'm just stuffing two hours full of too much stuff because everything's too short. but sometimes songs rekindle my love of everything:

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oh oh oh oh feel funny inside!

i recommend headphones, assuming the youtube video has the same overdone stereo effects as the version i have. sooooo good.

and this is always my favorite (the song, although i like pies too). i play it like every other week at least and always feel bad. it's an entirely selfish descision:

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you caught me, i am actually a sappy sap sap.

I finished The Book of Other People last night. It was definitely worth it, if only for Chris Ware's piece alone, which can only really speak for itself. Sample:

Other highlights:

• "Frank" by A.L. Kennedy: When it starts out, you think it's going to be a little standard and boring, but ends up being completely honest, desperate and heartbreaking and makes you never ever want to get old.
• "Gideon" by ZZ Packer: Amazing character voice. Reminds you of everything you hate about college - not in the homework sense, but in the people are assholes sense.
• "Magda Mandela" by Hari Kunzru: Imagine if Nick Hornby wrote a sketch for Mad TV about a loud neighbor in a lime green thong with a fierce sense of entitlement. I know, it's hard.
• "The Monster" by Toby Litt: Adorable.
• "Soleil" by Vendela Vida: Captures being eleven in a really, really uncomfortable way - not an interacting with other eleven-year-olds kind of way, but an interacting with drunk, party-hopping thirty-somethings kind of way.
• "Roy Spivey" by Miranda July: Miranda July does it again. Surreal, yet realistic.

Also, did Snap Crackle Pop in the middle of the day for the first time ever! I was way less dumb. I'm going to try to play more early garage. Hopefully, I'll play some Los Saicos next week:

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People cite Los Saicos as the first punk rock band ever but people seem to do that with every garage band from 64-74 (including the Sonics) so mayyyyybe not. Apparently they had their own national TV show in Peru.

I haven't played this on the air yet because it felt boring to me but now I feel like I need to learn this backup dance. Immediately.

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When I was at Seattle Central I took History of American Popular Music with James Cauter. He'd always throw in when someone was dead, when they died and how, always really awkwardly and bluntly.  I didn't learn this from Cauter, but Bobby Fuller died right after "I Fought the Law" became a top 10 hit. He was found in his car covered in gasoline and "wounds" (oh Wikipedia and your specificity). His death was ruled a suicide, from drinking gasoline.