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June 27 On the Radio*My little home office-slash-bedroom set up is great. It's a very sunny room with a big desk where I can spread out all my papers, sit comfortably at my laptop and enjoy the A/C. And when I get tired of making to-do lists and reading random crap on the web, I can take a nap on the bed. My home office-slash-bedroom also has a nice radio. And the radio is set to my favorite NYC station: "102.7 Dance Hits!"- It's all dance hits all the time. But not terrible pounding techno beats. These are all fabulous, disco inspired dance hits from the 70s, 80s, 90s and beyond. I am guaranteed to hear Donna Summer at least twice a day, which for me is just plain magical. She is probably the main reason** I love to dance so much, and her music certainly inspired my "technique" and most of the "moves" I still break out today at parties (believe it or not! most of my moves were invented by an 8 year old me ;). When I was 8 I had two (vinyl!) LPs that I listened to all the time: Donna Summer's Greatest Hits and Disney Movie Soundtrack Songs (I still sometimes catch myself humming the Pinocchio theme song). I spent every Saturday morning dancing my 8 year old butt off in the living room to Donna Summer's Greatest Hits. I did this with the Disney soundtrack, too, but that was kid music, so I grew out of it real quick. Donna Summer made me feel like I was a Solid Gold Dancer! I choreographed whole routines to her songs. She made me want to wear sparkly clothes! Her music filled my heart with Dance. And when the LP got to the Barbra Streisand duet "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" I thought I could go on dancing forever. So far today I've heard some amazing classics: Sheila E. (Diamond Life); Prince (Little Red Corvette): Donna Summer (MacArthur Park); Madonna (Vogue); Cher (Song for the Lonely); Sister Sledge (We Are Family); Shannon (Let the Music Play)... and it's not even noon! When Ms. Summer comes on, I do have to step away from my laptop and dance a little. The floors in my home office-slash-bedroom are wood, which, by the way, is a great surface to twirl and spin on. * "On the Radio" is a Donna Summer song (wink). ** Donna Summer can't take all the credit. Never under estimate the power of rhythmic gymnastics. TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://mayav.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!BB6BC68D9C4DA63B!1968.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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