Robomatic, For me Moulin Rouge was a stylisic stunt that didn't have any believable people in it. Well, okay, maybe the green fairy. I didn't see independence day, but Strictly Ballroom is a movie that uses everything from every dance movie ever made, and turns out to be the feel-good film of the decade. Nicely subversive, great for kids I think.

It embarrasses me how much I like belly dancing, there's a great mid-eastern band, Shalom, I think, who appear with one around here. The music sounds ambient and improvised, rolling along, but then suddenly everyone is right together--probably I'm overly amazed by that, I have trouble counting measures very long.

I don't like to put down stuff that people watch or listen to, I even still feel bad about making fun of an Ayn Rand book somebody felt strongly about, but sometimes you can't help it. Why is it so different from politics? I may be the most liberal person I know, in many ways, but I try to be tolerant of some aspects of conservatism as a sort of "alternative lifestyle". One of which sort of ties back into jiggles, or at least the phenomenae of attraction. There's a particular attractiveness about the people one grew up, was young with, which lingers forever about them. There's probably something good, a little lucky, about being with one person a long time, when that works out. But I wonder if that's a male perception, because I've always felt I simply get more intensely boring as time goes on, that to my wife I'm like a record player and half a dozen lp's she's heard too much already. Maybe that's why I'm mailing my b.s. out into cyber-space now?