ELECTRIC SHOCK

 Our dear blogger friend, Sixpense and I get on the same page a lot. Last week he had a post with men dancing and how he likes to watch men dance and move their bodies. In particular, he had a video of actor Brian Jordon Alvarez dancing to a Britney Spears song. It tis rather mesmerizing to watch him dance. Connor Mckenzie I can watch forever moving too. And I agree with Sixpense, men don't have to have the rhythm to me... I just like to see how men, or people in general have fun with the music. Like he said coordination can be learned. And if you just let the electric shock take over your body and hear the music,it will take your body higher, most times your body can just free style the moves, and that what I like. I LOVE dancing and still do. While I don't go to the huge clubs weekly, I still do go out to clubs and like to have some serious church.

1990 was a really important year for me musically. In 94, I came out, as in to gay clubs that is, (hell, I came out of the womb in glitter) and that started my love affair with gin and rum and anything else wet , and fell instantly in love with club and house music, in addition to my love for the long nights clubbing. For the first time ever, I started to empty out my piggy bank which paid for nights out and for three cassette tapes. A Gay Bible for Music.. Clivilles and Cole, and Dee-lite's World Cliché, and Madonna’s “Vogue” which to me all of these were the pinnacle of human musical achievement. But an amazing song was released, with a video that would provide me with enough giddy ’60s fashion inspiration and fly dance-move fabulousness to last a lifetime. That song was Dee-Lite's “Groove Is in the Heart”  and its lead singer, Lady Miss Kier, quickly became my own personal proto-Spice Girl, not to mention my major source of drag style.... the pop idol against which all other pop idols would forever be judged. 

Dee-lite and Lady Miss Kier would be my introduction to New York City night life, and another idol, Lady Bunny,  and all the nights of labor with my good friend and sister Mame, on the club scene. The funny part was it was also at the clubs in New York I first met them both for the first time. But what I enjoyed about Lady Kier was her no nonsense, carefree and enjoyment of the music. The vibe of the 60's and 70's , and the club kids are what I would adopt when I was on the dance floor, as opposed to the planned out chorography. Although the duck walk was and still is fun to do..especially in drag. Now don't get me wrong, when I was doing drag, I did all kind of routines. Most numbers would be along the lines of Dee-Lite, or similar sounding music, or chic lounge type songs...think Emma Bunton's Maybe, but I also fall into  hi-NRG acts. I was known to a cut up the floor with them. A drag friend had referred me to a Philly chorographer at the time to learn more dance for my acts. Coco had found a clip from my young gayling days , which made my day the other week.

Good gods I looked scrawny there!!! But the instructor was very good, and would plan the dance for my chosen songs. While I eventually went back to my carefree and free style dancing, it was always nice to mix in a few of the choreographed moves in. I don't have to be out to dance either. Just the other night, I called Brice, my neighbor, and told him to fire up you tube, to the below song, and I did a window dance for him! Even as a straight guy, he said he loved it. I'm sure my others neighbors thought I was nuts. And from my own experience, whether a man moves with choregraphed moves or free style moves...if a guy is a good dancer, I find he has been good in bed. Cant' lie. 

Feel the music...can you feel it? Move your body...Can you feel it...electricity running through your body? Were all conductors of the electric groove... Go on and dance...it's good for the mind and body these days. Cuse me...church time!!!!!