2012-07-02
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I've been told I'm not on lj/dw enough so I'm making this post here instead of tumblr
Things that need to get done before tomorrow:
* approximately a million loads of dishes
* assorted other post-canada day cleanup tasks
* approximately a half million loads of laundry
* at least two chapters of french homework
Things i've accomplished so far today instead:
* posted a bunch of figure skating videos to tumblr
* made and consumed chocolate strawberries
* baked a loaf of challah
* lots of KB brainstorming
* now i'm frying some eggs to eat with the bread
Oops?
(At least I've got things done, even if they were the wrong things...)
"Frank Sinatra did it his way. My way is on hockey skates." Picspam (+3 videos), KB prompt: Dressup
(This post doubles as a one-day-and-five-minutes belated Canada Day post)
There were a lot of things I was considering doing if I got this square, it applies very readily to nearly all my fandoms.
But then while I was messing around on youtube watching through everything Kurt Browning has ever done, I came across this:
Kurt: "I'm trying to skate as a figure skater in hockey skates. It's not a comedy, it's a real solo, I just want to show a different aspect of my skating. And again, after twenty years, you're always trying to reinvent yourself. And Canadians love hockey, so I hope it'll work. But it's-- I'm not relaxed. At all. Not at any second in this program am I relaxed. I've got a hat to deal with, and a tie flying around, and a jacket, and these hockey skates, with about this much [gestures, about an inch, inch] balance spot on it, and I have to remember constantly that I'm in hockey skates. If I forget for a second, I'll switch back to figure skating mode and I'll be on my ass in a split second. And I don't relax until I'm done, and even then, I gotta get off the ice."
So what we have here is an internal hyper-awareness of the fact that he's dressed in clothes that aren't his, while outwardly projecting ease and coolness. That's-- well, definitely dress-up kink, and it's incredibly hot. The tension of trying to skate clean and perform well-- perform Sinatra and Jagger respectively-- while not letting yourself actually be comfortable. There is some fascinating shit going on here. I could sit here and babble excitedly about this all night, but this is a picspam post so probably I should get to the pictures and such.
( Two more videos and a bunch of photos behind the cut )
There were a lot of things I was considering doing if I got this square, it applies very readily to nearly all my fandoms.
But then while I was messing around on youtube watching through everything Kurt Browning has ever done, I came across this:
Kurt: "I'm trying to skate as a figure skater in hockey skates. It's not a comedy, it's a real solo, I just want to show a different aspect of my skating. And again, after twenty years, you're always trying to reinvent yourself. And Canadians love hockey, so I hope it'll work. But it's-- I'm not relaxed. At all. Not at any second in this program am I relaxed. I've got a hat to deal with, and a tie flying around, and a jacket, and these hockey skates, with about this much [gestures, about an inch, inch] balance spot on it, and I have to remember constantly that I'm in hockey skates. If I forget for a second, I'll switch back to figure skating mode and I'll be on my ass in a split second. And I don't relax until I'm done, and even then, I gotta get off the ice."
So what we have here is an internal hyper-awareness of the fact that he's dressed in clothes that aren't his, while outwardly projecting ease and coolness. That's-- well, definitely dress-up kink, and it's incredibly hot. The tension of trying to skate clean and perform well-- perform Sinatra and Jagger respectively-- while not letting yourself actually be comfortable. There is some fascinating shit going on here. I could sit here and babble excitedly about this all night, but this is a picspam post so probably I should get to the pictures and such.
( Two more videos and a bunch of photos behind the cut )