Where'd ya find such wonderful people?

Though On The Road as a whole fell a little flat for me - this scene is awesome. I hereby name it best dance scene of 2013. The End.

I can tap-dance. You wanna see me tap-dance?

I really hate tap dance scenes. Natalie Portman in Garden State. Susan Sarandon in Elizabethtown. Even Kate Winslet doing this. Its annoying and very Manic Pixie Dream Girl. I hate that they are pitching Blue Valentine to be another Wimpster meets MPDG scenario because from all reports ITS NOT. Preview makers suck don't they?

For every rule there is an exception - Jamie Bell can tap dance anytime he wants.

I should also mention that musicals are the exception to this rule - this is about non-musicals films that just throw in some tap dancing jus' for the cutesy factor and often its like 'your tap dancing totally sucks anyway'.

If ballet was easy then everyone would be doing it

I saw Coppélia at the Sydney Opera House way back in the late 1980s or early 1990s - it was my first ballet (I wore black patent leather mary janes bought especially for it) and I've had a serious soft spot for it ever since - and the ballet in general. In fact I still have the soundtrack my Grandmother bought for me after I became so obsessed with it. The soundtrack is beautiful too, and that ain't sentimentality talking neither.

My mother never let me learn ballet as a child either - though I was dying to - as she thought it would damage my feet or spine or something. There is no way someone as clumsy and uncoordinated as me would ever have been very good at ballet but goddamn i missed out on the cute shoes and tutu's didn't I?

This is a long preamble to the fact that I'm going to to see the Australian Ballet's remounting of the 1979 version of Coppélia tomorrow night and will be pulling out my frilliest ensemble and shiniest shoes for it. Someone else can bring the opera glasses!

Hofesh Shecter owning my life at the moment

In particular his work Uprising - amazing!