Ho ho ho

Merry Christmas!

We're impatient, and we do presents on Christmas Eve. So as a result, I've spent the last...seven hours chowing down on candy and watching the first DVD and a half of the NX fifth season box set. (You get to hear me blather some more! I'll try to keep it behind a cut, etc.) The "Rosebud" episode is considerably better than I remember it being, but that may in part be a function of watching it at one in the morning. Oh, and "Three Doctors" has mpreg. Heh. That one's a good ep, too.

I see Yuletide is live, but wow, I need to go to bed. Have fun, y'all.

"Presto, I'm a dancin' fool!"

Merry Christmas...Ballroom? The local PBS station decided to air footage from the open pro finals of Ohio Star Ball tonight, so of course, I had to watch. I think it was this year's, although possibly it was from 2005. There was lots of good stuff. There was of course the two twelve-year-olds who did a better Quickstep than I could ever hope to achieve in my life, and then a seventeen- and eighteen-year-old who did the most fabulous Jive (these were both exhibitions). One of the Latin finalist couples did a Samba showdance that was awesome. Lots of energy, and for once the costume added rather than detracted--the woman was in a shirt and a pair of pants(!) with gold fringe all over them, and of course the in-and-out movement of the abdomen made it all shake and look really cool.

For their second showdance, the American Smooth winners--who are from Nashville, of all places--did what was technically a Viennese Waltz, but they used music from Gladiator that seemed much more of a Tango mood. Hmmm. It was nifty, but a bit unsettling at the same time. In the They Wuz Robbed!!! department, my favorites in the Standard competition came in third. So sad. Their frame was head and shoulders (heh) above everyone else's. Like, I usually don't notice that so much, and I noticed theirs. They moved sooo smoothly, too. And they did a Foxtrot for their showdance, when they could choose any Standard rhythm, and hell, for that alone I'd give them extra points; International Foxtrot is hard. But I suppose the winners were good, too; they did a Tango/Foxtrot that was faintly reminiscent of the Matrix routine I saw the one year I went to OSB. It was nifty.

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I am, er, thirteen episodes into my NX S5 DVDs. Self-control? What's that?

( Babble )