This week I cheated on Blogspot. Not only that, it was with Wordpress: the main rival. And can I just say, Blogspot, you are much better. I'm not just saying that..Wordpress is confusing.
Why, you might ask, was I on Wordpress this week? Well reader, I have started a second blog. You can check it out here. It's a productive step towards writing something that is not just the first thing to pop into my head, which is essentially what this blog is. I still like this blog best though, remember that.
So this new blog, A Vertical Expression, is for my very professional persona as dance critic extraordinaire. I even have a suitably pretentious title for it so I feel justified in dishing out my opinions. I might start to wear a beret to any performance I attend. It will be my Vertical Expression hat, and I will take myself very seriously in it.
I may have made a mistake with the title though. It's from a quote by Robert Frost: “Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.”
Hmmm...I like the phrasing but is he saying that dancing is all about sex? That's awkward...I really didn't get that first time around. Thank god I went with the Vertical Expression part rather than the Horizontal Desire part or people might really get the wrong idea of what the blog is about. [Looks embarrassed.]
So I'm stuck with a name that Freud might approve of but I'm not sure is an entirely accurate description of how I feels about dancing. I mean, this morning I danced around my room to I Love To Boogie by T.Rex and did not have any horizontal desires at all. In fact that is the song I would like to be played at my funeral so...you know.
But now I'm stuck with the name and to punish myself for a lack of thought on the name of my more professional blog (a very important decision) I am sharing my shame with you all.
Although, really I shouldn't have told you at all and you would never have noticed but I'm a very honest person and this makes an amusing speak-my-mind blog now.
Despite the now cringy name, the roots of which we will NEVER speak of again, I think it'll be a good blog. I already highlighted the superior talent of my friend Alex and was simultaneously mean about some tiny elements of the show. It's got to be a winner! You should definitely invite me to all your future performances (for free....with a glass of complimentary wine) and I'll be complimentary and/or mean about you too. I have a whole stash of adjectives to use up.
So go read, and enjoy. I have a beret to purchase.
Why, you might ask, was I on Wordpress this week? Well reader, I have started a second blog. You can check it out here. It's a productive step towards writing something that is not just the first thing to pop into my head, which is essentially what this blog is. I still like this blog best though, remember that.
So this new blog, A Vertical Expression, is for my very professional persona as dance critic extraordinaire. I even have a suitably pretentious title for it so I feel justified in dishing out my opinions. I might start to wear a beret to any performance I attend. It will be my Vertical Expression hat, and I will take myself very seriously in it.
I may have made a mistake with the title though. It's from a quote by Robert Frost: “Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.”
Hmmm...I like the phrasing but is he saying that dancing is all about sex? That's awkward...I really didn't get that first time around. Thank god I went with the Vertical Expression part rather than the Horizontal Desire part or people might really get the wrong idea of what the blog is about. [Looks embarrassed.]
So I'm stuck with a name that Freud might approve of but I'm not sure is an entirely accurate description of how I feels about dancing. I mean, this morning I danced around my room to I Love To Boogie by T.Rex and did not have any horizontal desires at all. In fact that is the song I would like to be played at my funeral so...you know.
But now I'm stuck with the name and to punish myself for a lack of thought on the name of my more professional blog (a very important decision) I am sharing my shame with you all.
Although, really I shouldn't have told you at all and you would never have noticed but I'm a very honest person and this makes an amusing speak-my-mind blog now.
Despite the now cringy name, the roots of which we will NEVER speak of again, I think it'll be a good blog. I already highlighted the superior talent of my friend Alex and was simultaneously mean about some tiny elements of the show. It's got to be a winner! You should definitely invite me to all your future performances (for free....with a glass of complimentary wine) and I'll be complimentary and/or mean about you too. I have a whole stash of adjectives to use up.
So go read, and enjoy. I have a beret to purchase.
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