Downtown LA
well in short this week was REALLY fun. you know i have never realised just how much it means to some people how i dance.
this past week we went to a wedding and came in time for the first dance - oops. so we (jb and i) decided not to take over the dancefloor until at least the second dance. thats hard btwy. to be in the dance but not to be and not to mention the people who did know who we were pushing us into the middle. well needless to say second dance we rocked the house!!!!
But the main part of this post though is to recount what happened today (alas i left my card reader in yeshivah so pics will im'h go up motzie shabbos or sunday). we went into downtown LA - i think it was actually my first time ever there.
In one word the place is 'INTERESTING'. On one corner we watched a guy puke, lit. like a fountain (yeah thats pretty grotesque description, but acurate) - with morbid fascination obviously - eight times into a garbage. He didnt even heave! he just opened up and out came a stream,spewing forth like some god of vomit. and then just walks off as if this is not something unusual! i mean he was even RUNNING HIS TONGUE OVER HIS TEETH afterward?!?! (and with my sick mind i'm a bit dissed that i didnt have my camera out).
Next we had this black lady all dressed up with a fishermans hat and blue trenchcoat help direct our car how to park. she was making all these motions with her hands trying to tell me to back up. now come forward. closer to the curb. all with this geeky smile on her face. and the whole while she was talking to herself and telling us how the other people on the block were crazy - she was making circles around her ears and the like.
we even passed by tent city - but we were prepared as i had given Jb the job of drive-by photo man - and some lady yelled out "watch out he's got a camera". which leads the observer to believe that the activities on that particular street weren't very kosher.
we then went back to get pictures of 'parking attendent' but she was busy. so we went over to one of her friends and we watched him rigging the meter as he directed us to park. Oh, he also didnt want us to take his picture :-P - oops.
well that brings us back to my house where this weekend is gonna be a fun one. Chabad of Irvine is having a dinner in its new premises and all of my father's brothers and their wives are flying out :-D!!! (most wont be here thought until sunday)
its gonna be insane. oh and guess what? yours truly has been hired once again as an official photographer of the event (please pray for the pics to come out well)
till next time
posted by the OTHER roomy @ 2:22 PM
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15 Comments:
pretty pathetic you gotta "take the dance floor" by every wedding. i suppose the dance floor's too small when the ego's too big :-/
yeah is pathetic if you think its my choice that everyone stops dancing once i start. im actaully still trying to understand if its bc my dancing sux so bad that people are shocked or is it bc its actually good???
(i will admit that using the words 'taking over' may have been a bit innapropriate but... i still stand by them as i dont know another word to use in the case when everyone lit. clears the floor for us.)
so im gonna leave that one up to those who have seen jb and i dance to anwswer - as anything coming from myself would be obviously biased...
ps have you ever seen jb or me dance and you are talking from experience or is it just from reading...? - in which case where was it that our performance was so incredibly dismal that you couldnt even put your name to the comment?
thnx for keeping my ego in check - as i know it needs medical attention every once in a while
seems like i've touched upon a raw nerve. i was just referring to the story that i'm sure you are familiar with: a chassid came to the Tzemach Tzedek and complained as to how everyone "walked over him" in the bais medrash, to which the Tzemach Tzedek answered, "when one spreads himself across the bais medrash, it's hard not to be walked on."
And yes i've been at weddings and events where you've danced, which i never knew was such a burden on you, but it seems you complain about your "plight" often on your blog, which is why i commented.
i was not complaining in the least (G-d forbid) - in any of the posts (about dancing). it may have come out like that to those who dont know me (first hand) and understand the way i speak or write.
although while re-reading i did see that the wording of the posts could be a bit misleading, but that is the way i speak. - try to read it with a joking voice in mind.
i re-read your comment and realised that i had understood it quiet wrong (soz usually im not so slow ;)) and also re-read my reply and can see why you think i 'flipped out' at you. need to read in sort of a cynically sarcastic way (i dont know better way of explaining) it was not supposed to come out sounding so harsh - my apologies on that.
what i had meant was the following: i try to dance my best every time i am by a wedding. but the first dance i think is a bit hands-off when 'crashing' - more of a family dance/ close friends thing (or at least that is the feeling i get) - even more so by non-lubav weddings (as was the case). what i was saying was due to my intense love for dancing it was hard to 'hold back' - so to speak - from going all out. dont despair second danced we (jb, myself and some bochurim from zal) went completely nuts! and i think the family really enjoyed it - but that could just be ego talking :)
thnks again for keeping my ego in check - as it does help bc otherwise there would be no room in the world for you to exist ;) - but if there is one thing that people closer to me do know is that i actually 'enjoy' being outdanced bc it makes me become better - hopefully ;).
let me just say I LOVE DANCING AND ESPECIALLY BY WEDDINGS!!! in NO WAY is wedding dancing a 'plight' or burden for me G-d forbid - otherwise i wouldnt go or do it. it is something i love and enjoy and thankfully G-d has given me some talent in it. (and i hope those who see enjoy it as well - you included - and btwy im still curious to hear from you if you feel my dancing sux or not).
i apologize for the legnth of this response but i didnt realise that people would 'walk away' thinking that i do not enjoy dancing.
hope this clarifies things a bit and if not... ::shrug:: :-D anyways.
ps if you are in california maybe we'll see you by next week's weddings - cant wait :-D
did you like baseball when you were about 12 years old?
Didn't everybody?
curiousof course i do!!! and where did that pop in from? i know you? if so who are you so i can better acknowledge your visit
and hey we had some good games!!!
lol do you play baseball at weddings as well?
actaully funny enough i have. you should try it sometime ;)
I'd rather sip wine and tsk tsk at out of control break dancers.
unimpresed wedding goer:
sip wine???
maybe you should come and play - who knows you may even enjoy it ;)
and where is the fun in tsking out of control breakers?
did you ever try sipping wine and tsking at the same time? it comes out something like tssssipk (it has a lovely ring to it).
ill take your word for it. as i dont do too much drinking as it is. but good to know that you take pleasures from the small things as well as the big :)
Lev... I'm wondering why you're even bothering...
Though kudos on all your open-minded acceptance and responses.
Talking about baseball... y'know... we should sched a game sometime... we have quite enough pps
footch: honestly? i dont know... i guess i just feel if its an honest question deserves an honest answer.
tnks for the kudos. :D
baseball anytime we do have enough ppls. ill speak to my sisters - looks like pesach though. eshter leah comes home in 2 weeks!!! :D
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