Amidst a sequence of rather unfortunate...erm, things...going on in my life, I managed to have quite a bit of fun this past Sunday night. My de facto Tango partner, Betsy, came to town with her friend as a stop on a whirlwind roadtrip of the East Coast. It turns out there are easily four or five places you can go to do Argetine Tango in New York city for free or cheap every single night of the week! So, we picked going to the southstreet sea port for some outdoor, under the stars tango fun. It was great, and there were a ton of people, and they were all very nice. One couple even agreed to teach us a fairly complicated but really sweet looking move called the Bolleo. Much fun was had, and Betsy was safely placed upon the mighty FungWah bus to parts north the following day.
Today, I attended a really interesting event at Lincoln Center. It was an "auteur study" of, and discussion with, Hype Williams, the director of pretty much every good hip-hop video ever, most notably Missy Elliot's "The rain"
(and many others of hers), and Kanye West's "Goldigger." It was 1) really bizarre to watch those videos mentioned, along with others like Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'," while being at Lincoln Center; 2) fantastically interesting to be guided through a study of symbolism, theme, and cinematography in one director's hip-hop videos by a New York Times music critic - seriously, who knew this stuff was in there? Also, Irv Gotti was there and got up to speak, and he was hilarious to listen to. Hype Williams was very humble, and sort of softspoken, but overall the event was time well spent.
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