Easy Blogging

It's been a bad week for blogging. Lots of in-laws have been in town and I broke my camera on Monday. I have several ideas going through my head that I really want to write down so that the fleeting becomes solid, but those take time. And editing. Tonight, I'm taking the easy road. I'm just going to type as I think.

Because it's about So You Think You Can Dance and I'm not quite so picky about getting it right, you know?

So.....let's just say it. This week's show.....

stunk.

It stunk. Paso Doble, Viennese Waltz AND the Rumba during the same week? Mandy Moore could not have choreographed a more boring jazz routine and I like Dave Scott but what's with having the double/double each week. Can't they switch it up a bit? Two Shane Sparks routines didn't work last week and having one person choreograph two dances in the same style (hip hop) doesn't make for an interesting show.

I was so excited to have my niece and sister-in-law over watching with me, because it's much more fun to watch with fellow fans than all alone but I found myself complaining after each dance.

1. Jonathan! Count the beat! Judges - say something nice to Karla because she was fantastic! They weren't synchronized because Jonathan can't groove (just borrowing from Tony Basil who liked to throw that word out.) I liked the routine, liked the music, but Jonathan's white boy dancing was distracting. Still...Karla was great and Nigel was waaaay too harsh.

2. Asuka and Vitolio. Boring, boring boring. I love Pat Benetar but I found the loud medium slow rock music/turquoise costumes/Askua combination too much to handle. I wanted the routine to end and Vitolio was making me nervous with all of his tongue waggling. Keep it in your mouth, buddy. When Nigel threw his hands up in the air and shouted, "Fantastic!" I wanted to throw something at the TV. Are we even watching the same show, Mr. Lythgoe?

3. Finally, Melissa and Ade. Practically a guarantee that something exciting and great will happen. Except they have the rumba, which isn't my favorite dance because they have to dance in fake lust. I find watching all that face pawing/open mouth act a bit uncomfortable. Especially when they cut away to her adoring and left-to-spectate husband in the audience. The dance was good, though. I'm still loving Melissa who is freakishly strong. Did you see her Pilates sit-up on that roller? It made me wish I hadn't sold my Pilates DVDs. Actually, it made me wish that I had used them more than once after buying them after watching an infomercial on TV. The dance was good but the music....the music was like fingernails on a chalkboard. Like a bad waitress who won't bring you a refill. Like a cellphone talker in a movie. As impressive as the dance was, I wanted it to end so that I didn't have to listen to Beyonce warble anymore.

4. O.K. I'm wondering why I started numbering these things because I actually can't remember the exact order of the dances anymore. But, I'm typing as I think, remember, so there's no going back. I'm going to say Brandon and Jeanette were next with those awful tights and bad hair. How can they make such a small, toned girl look so bottom heavy? Totally unflattering. Add her half-a-head of teased hair and I had to avoid watching Jeanette. Again...what's with the tongue? Is that Rock-and-Roll? I enjoyed the concept, thought and the music was....unusual. Not bad, at all, just disconcerting. I think Jeanette did the best she could trying to pull off being a dancing Joan Jett but Brandon was the total star of the dance. He's good. I totally believed his street cred (again, thank you Tony Basil for pointing out how necessary that is with your beret on your head) even after he finished gushing about stage lighting. But it was a hard dance to like because they never seemed to be dancing together. Just doing a dance off. Which isn't really a bad thing. I love dance offs! I am especially fond of real life ones.

5. Kayla and Kupono. I was so set on Kupono leaving this week. His interview about wanting to be a costume designer didn't help much. I just don't have any really positive feelings about him. I don't like how he dances. I don't enjoy how he dresses. And by admitting that he can't even lift Kayla makes him worthless in partner dancing as he is actually the male in the pair and Kayla shouldn't have to lift him. My Kupono dissing + Viennese Waltz (which I've always thought they should just stick with one waltz per season. It's just not an exciting dance) should have equaled a worst-dance-of-the-night vote but I was shocked by its beauty. I don't know if it was her pretty dress, or soft curls. The graceful way she pointed her toes as she was rocked by the suddenly stronger Kupono or what, but I loved the whole dance.

6. My sister is trying to convince me that Mia's "Butt" routine was really good but I just finished watching it again and I still didn't like it. Loved the music. I've already bought it on itunes. Loved Randi's outfit. Loved some of the funky shoulder dancing moves. But, why in the world did Evan have to wear a size 50 suit? Did they not want us to see any part of his body actually move? It was the first thing I saw and those first few seconds when I was adjusting to him looking like he belonged on "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" and hoping Randi would lose the other shoe, I was hating the dance. I didn't like the attention to Randi's behind. I thought it was obscene and crude. The dancing really wasn't great but it got a pass because of a clever concept. Except, I never actually understood the concept. Was she supposed to be a poodle? But they kept referring to Evan as a creepy old French guy. Did the creepy old french guy like poodles? Or young women? Who was she? Some of those moves made it seem like she was sleep walking. I didn't get the story. The fact that it WAS the best dance of the night only shows that the whole night was disappointing.

7. Totally didn't buy Kaitlin and Jason's Paso Doble. I love Carmina Burana so was really pumped when the music started. I even really liked the clip they showed of them practicing, Jean-Luc's instruction and how Jason was supposed to hate Kaitlin...passionately. But then Jason was jumping around on stage, not really dancing with and not really hating his I Dream Of Jeanie co-star. I thought Kaitlin looked off and low energy but, again, the judges loved it. Loved her. Pass.

8. Jeanine totally redeemed herself because she has carried Phillip these last two weeks. She is really quite talented and I totally bought her bangs and her dancing. She has been the one in the pair to watch lately, but there's still something about her that makes me uncomfortable. Don't know what it is but I'm not a fan. I'm just admitting that she has talent. Phillip was even fun to watch for the first 45 seconds before he realized that he can't dance a la Broadway. After the couch jump, he lost his spark and just started running around. I actually laughed out loud once, because he looked so ridiculous.

They all could have been in the bottom three, in my opinion. Well, except Melissa who is excellent and Ade, who must be excellent because Melissa continues to look excellent next to him. There's something to that, right?

Asuka needed to go home. I'm glad that happened. I was never a Jonathan fan so I'm o.k. with that too.

Blah, blah, blah.

I hope next week is better.