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(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.

I never really got into Battle of the Blades (when I first heard about the concept I thought the figure skaters would be learning hockey as well, so the actual show didn't live up to my expectations of it) but I think I'm going to have to start, just for moments like this (skip to 2:25):

Ron McLean: Last night, Kurt unveiled a brand new program, Moves Like Jagger. Tonight, he's doing the exact same program, but in the spirit of the show he'll do it-- with the double axel*-- in hockey skates.

* he singles the axel, actually, but even a single axel is a really fucking gutsy move with no toepick and different balance

Apparently, this isn't a new thing for Kurt. Here he is in 1997 with an unbelievable footwork sequence, impossibly shiny pants, and, yes, hockey skates:

So. With the videos as context, pictures time!

Moves Like Jagger photos c. Brett Barden