Comments on: Late night personal blathering http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2006/08/17/late-night-personal-blathering/ Making the baby Jesus cry since 2002. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:16:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Alyssa http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2006/08/17/late-night-personal-blathering/#comment-29965 Alyssa Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:26:05 +0000 http://amber.tangerinecs.com/?p=1678#comment-29965 I know exactly what you mean. I have had over 18 years of dance training in my life and there are times, doing different forms of movement, when I feel like I look completely ridiculous. <br />Example: when I took hiphop aerobics. I just can't move that way and I always feel like I look stupid. What makes it work, even if you feel like you aren't looking "right" or like the other students is that it doesn't matter. The only thing that matter is if you are having fun and are into the movement, however you do it. If you are enjoying it, that is what will come across. <br />If you are interested in doing more than just the pole-dancing/stripping classes, you might really enjoy a contemporary or basic dance class. I know exactly what you mean. I have had over 18 years of dance training in my life and there are times, doing different forms of movement, when I feel like I look completely ridiculous.

Example: when I took hiphop aerobics. I just can’t move that way and I always feel like I look stupid. What makes it work, even if you feel like you aren’t looking “right” or like the other students is that it doesn’t matter. The only thing that matter is if you are having fun and are into the movement, however you do it. If you are enjoying it, that is what will come across.

If you are interested in doing more than just the pole-dancing/stripping classes, you might really enjoy a contemporary or basic dance class.

]]> By: Bitch | Lab http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2006/08/17/late-night-personal-blathering/#comment-29964 Bitch | Lab Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:03:24 +0000 http://amber.tangerinecs.com/?p=1678#comment-29964 <blockquote>If my every other thought is "I'm not explaining it well" then you'd better believe I'm going to write that.</blockquote> <br />heh. <br /> <br />I can see what you mean, though. I wrote a big rambling essay once about solo sports and how they'd always been a time for me to be with my body and experience it as my own, rather than a body always on display for judgment. I spent a lot of time just doing gynamistics, tennis, biking, running, dancing, skating all by myself.

If my every other thought is “I’m not explaining it well” then you’d better believe I’m going to write that.

heh.

I can see what you mean, though. I wrote a big rambling essay once about solo sports and how they’d always been a time for me to be with my body and experience it as my own, rather than a body always on display for judgment. I spent a lot of time just doing gynamistics, tennis, biking, running, dancing, skating all by myself.

]]> By: Amber http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2006/08/17/late-night-personal-blathering/#comment-29963 Amber Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:32:00 +0000 http://amber.tangerinecs.com/?p=1678#comment-29963 <blockquote>It's discomforting to read an otherwise vivid and articulate narrative that's delimeted by, "Gah, I really don't think I'm doing a good job of saying what I mean here" every other sentence.</blockquote> Well then isn't it a shame that when I'm writing to try to work out some inner turmoil <em>for myself</em>, kind of doing the stream-of-consciousness thing, that I'm not giving two shits about what someone <em>reading</em> it might think. If my every other thought is "I'm not explaining it well" then you'd better believe I'm going to write that.

It’s discomforting to read an otherwise vivid and articulate narrative that’s delimeted by, “Gah, I really don’t think I’m doing a good job of saying what I mean here” every other sentence.

Well then isn’t it a shame that when I’m writing to try to work out some inner turmoil for myself, kind of doing the stream-of-consciousness thing, that I’m not giving two shits about what someone reading it might think. If my every other thought is “I’m not explaining it well” then you’d better believe I’m going to write that.

]]> By: valeko http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2006/08/17/late-night-personal-blathering/#comment-29962 valeko Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:01:17 +0000 http://amber.tangerinecs.com/?p=1678#comment-29962 PS. For what my opinion of your writing is worth, I will say that the reason I keep coming back isn't the near-congruence of our worldviews or my unfailingly consistent agreement with what you often have to say. :-) (Though, I do think we agree more often than would seem readily apparent.) <br /> <br />Much of what you write about treats of things going on inside your head. And you do it very well. You're an excellent writer. <br /> <br />So, really, next time you write a post like this, either adopt gross vagueries as rhetorical devices, or be more confident and assume you've done a good job getting what you say across to the reader. With personal introspection, there's also the fact that most readers bring a lot of their own perceptive baggage (good or bad) to mediate your text on its way home into their cogitation, so there's some level of inferential processing involved one way or another. (That's an insight of postmodern literary criticism I hate to borrow from, and do so only begrudgingly, but it's true.) PS. For what my opinion of your writing is worth, I will say that the reason I keep coming back isn’t the near-congruence of our worldviews or my unfailingly consistent agreement with what you often have to say. :-) (Though, I do think we agree more often than would seem readily apparent.)

Much of what you write about treats of things going on inside your head. And you do it very well. You’re an excellent writer.

So, really, next time you write a post like this, either adopt gross vagueries as rhetorical devices, or be more confident and assume you’ve done a good job getting what you say across to the reader. With personal introspection, there’s also the fact that most readers bring a lot of their own perceptive baggage (good or bad) to mediate your text on its way home into their cogitation, so there’s some level of inferential processing involved one way or another. (That’s an insight of postmodern literary criticism I hate to borrow from, and do so only begrudgingly, but it’s true.)

]]> By: valeko http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2006/08/17/late-night-personal-blathering/#comment-29961 valeko Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:52:46 +0000 http://amber.tangerinecs.com/?p=1678#comment-29961 Between the punctuating clauses of self-doubt, you conveyed what you mean quite well, I think. <br /> <br />If I put these two together, <br /> <br />1. "something along the lines of, I remain doubtful that I "look sexy" doing all the stuff we learn in class - and fearful on some level that I'll be laughed at" <br /> <br />2. "It's more that I'm afraid I don't have good fluid motion, or rhythm, or generally look like I know what I'm doing. I feel like my movements are all herky-jerky" <br /> <br />I come away with a pretty lucid sense of what you mean. But is the result of this conjunction the sensation you meant to convey? <br /> <br />Anyway, if you're going to doubt yourself on one plane, well, I can't really speak to your dancing as I've neither seen it nor seem to have much artistic insight/experience/perspective into its merits. (Best way to put it is, "I've never been around that kind of stuff [subculturally].") But I think you're a great writer with a keen gift for introspective narrative, so, at least toss those doubts aside. It's discomforting to read an otherwise vivid and articulate narrative that's delimeted by, "Gah, I really don't think I'm doing a good job of saying what I mean here" every other sentence. Between the punctuating clauses of self-doubt, you conveyed what you mean quite well, I think.

If I put these two together,

1. “something along the lines of, I remain doubtful that I “look sexy” doing all the stuff we learn in class - and fearful on some level that I’ll be laughed at”

2. “It’s more that I’m afraid I don’t have good fluid motion, or rhythm, or generally look like I know what I’m doing. I feel like my movements are all herky-jerky”

I come away with a pretty lucid sense of what you mean. But is the result of this conjunction the sensation you meant to convey?

Anyway, if you’re going to doubt yourself on one plane, well, I can’t really speak to your dancing as I’ve neither seen it nor seem to have much artistic insight/experience/perspective into its merits. (Best way to put it is, “I’ve never been around that kind of stuff [subculturally].”) But I think you’re a great writer with a keen gift for introspective narrative, so, at least toss those doubts aside. It’s discomforting to read an otherwise vivid and articulate narrative that’s delimeted by, “Gah, I really don’t think I’m doing a good job of saying what I mean here” every other sentence.

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