Rather be ashes than dust » Dancing http://www.ashesthandust.com He passed into the realm of irrational things that you must simply accept... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:52:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Global Gathering 2010 http://www.ashesthandust.com/2010/10/global-gathering-2010/ http://www.ashesthandust.com/2010/10/global-gathering-2010/#comments Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:47:07 +0000 ryguy http://www.ashesthandust.com/?p=1200 Continue reading →]]> This year YeYe bought me a ticket for Global Gathering for my birthday. Which was awesome of her because, as she probably already knew, Justice was a headliner and just so happens to be one of my favorite electronic groups. The concert also had a great lineup featuring Armin van Buren, Fatboy Slim, and many others. Also, got to hear some of the Korean local electronic music talents. One that stood out as putting on a good show was Idiotape. Although I was disappointed that Justice didn’t put on their “live show” instead it was a “DJ set”. I’ve never heard of these differences, but Heath filled me in on what that meant. I guess a live show is when they will do everything vocals, sound effects, mixing, sampling, etc… on the fly. Where DJ sets are where they take their existing music and play with it, still awesome but means I need to check them out sometime for a live set. I think Fatboy Slim put on the best show music-wise, which makes sense since he has been around for so long. It was a freaking amazing trip up to Seoul for some awesome live music.

Anyways, some memorable stuff from the weekend:

  • Meeting Parsley and Mattugi for lunch (Parsley is really starting to show her pregnancy…really cool)
  • Getting my groove on with Yeye, MingMing, Heath, and Mijin
  • Seeing Justice, Fatboy Slim, etc… play live
  • Getting to stuff myself full with some good food at the concert
  • Stopping some presumably British guy (judging by his accent) from continuing to get his ass kicked after picking a fight with a Korean taxi driver (FYI: don’t mess with the cab drivers)
  • Staying up all night for the KTX (I was so freaking tired)

]]> http://www.ashesthandust.com/2010/10/global-gathering-2010/feed/ 0 Dancing http://www.ashesthandust.com/2009/04/dancing/ http://www.ashesthandust.com/2009/04/dancing/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:49:19 +0000 ryguy http://www.ashesthandust.com/?p=421 Continue reading →]]> So I don’t know what has been happening over the past year or so but I have fallen in love with dancing. When people used to attempt to get me to dance they said it was like pulling teeth, but now I find myself dancing when I just think about music while I’m walking down the street, in the subway, or any bar. I was recently asked what has changed and the only way I can describe it would be to say that I finally feel it in the music. I remember that when I was asked why I don’t like dancing back when that was the case I used to respond by saying “the music just doesn’t make me move.” Now when a song is playing I just can’t stop moving! It definitely was a bump to the self esteem when my friend Haejin who is a belly dance instructor said that I wasn’t alright at dancing, not great but not bad…far better than my patented white boy wiggle days (don’t worry people who enjoyed that dance, it still influences me to this day).

Predrinking at a coffee shop before going in to Maktum to see DJ Dashi Dance Maktum with Haejin and Nuri Haejin belly dancing...she said I was an ok dancer, I'll take that as a compliment. Maktum on a busy night! Steve is hilarious to go out with Haejin knocking Steve out of his chair

You can’t go into a Korean dance club with out hearing this song remixed at least once. Most of the migookins (Americans) that read this blog might recognize the Craig David version of this song.

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