Queen of Swords

This song was not part of the soundtrack to the movie "PS I Love You," but it's a perfect complement.

For those who haven't seen the movie: most of the images of Gerald Butler in this clip are after he's dead. . .

For several years now, I've enjoyed the music of Heather Alexander (including having the pleasure of seeing her live at a local Ren Faire), but until today I had not sought out the performances 'she' has done since becoming Alexander James Adams.

This afternoon, however, I finally found myself on his webpage and watched a video of a live performance of "He of the Sidhe", which is a kind of companion piece to Heather's "The Faerie Queen". I enjoyed the performance, and will be obtaining some of his CD's the next time I get paid, but what fascinated me the most was how he talked about Heather as a separate person, a changeling who was summoned back to faeryland.

I also enjoyed his description of her as a red-headed troublemaker, which made me smile and think of a particular friend of mine. I could imagine her brother saying similar things of her.





Like Heather, Alexander is quite a good fiddler -- although I don't think his fast playing has the musicality of the best that I've heard.

This high-quality, extremely-well-edited video is a montage of dances in the movies, from Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" up through Dirty Dancing, Flashdance, White Nights, Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Moulin Rouge, Pulp Fiction, Jay and Silent Bob, and many more --- all set to the song "Footloose."

As some of you may remember, I tried to read Pride and Prejudice last year and just could not get through it. I do, however, really like Fight Club, both the movie and the book.

And I got a huge kick out of this video!

A friend from TempCo just shared this on Facebook. Not only is it beautifully edited to match the lyrics, the song is one I only heard while reviewing animations, so it feels like just a more advanced version of the treatments I've already seen. (If that makes sense. . .)

Earlier today I made a slightly silly reference to a "Queen of Swords Happy Dance".

This isn't at all what I had in mind, but it's so beautiful that I had to share it.





I would love to be able to move like this.

And if you watch to the end, she proves that not only are the swords *not* merely ornamental, she knows how to use them for more than dancing.

Via sannion

It takes a while for the man who is the focus of this video to come on the scene, but his first act is to drive off a guy who is harrassing a woman who's been dancing. . .

Not my style of music or dance, but the man. . . yes.

A dance duel between tap dancers and "Riverdance" dancers.

Starts kind of slow, but becomes wonderful.

Bonus: gorgeous, hunky men having a great time -- always wonderful to watch!





In the unlikely event that I ever direct West Side Story, I'm going to make sure that the Sharks and the Jets have strikingly different dance styles.

If you like this, there's a part 2 as well. . .

Thanks to _storyteller_ for sharing this.





I don't expect to like the movie very much, but I think I know this man. . .