chicken or the egg?

Discuss.

Dance with me, Write without me.

I never, in a hundred-million years thought I'd say it, but who needs to read EW Dance recaps when you've got a personalized version delivered to your inbox before you even wake up? No. Seriously. Pretty great life, huh?

At work by 7:50 today; full day of client meetings again. No time to write my own blog--I tried to front load Monday and Tuesday with three blogs each, but it doesn't work that way. The genius that's about to follow is loads better than I could have written myself--and I agree 100% with everything in it. Lastly, if you aren't watching So You Think You Can Dance--there aren't enough exclamation points or adjectives in the world how much I (we) all love it. Join us.

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Another post from my unsuspecting guest blogger Mal Pal:

Because I know you are coming in early and I wanted you to have something to look foward to and because I am frrrreeeeaaaking out about this show I am writing this email right now. Oh and I have play group tomorrow.

First and for most anything that Tabatha and Napoleon touch turns to gold! I love love LOVED Twitch and Kherrington but that was the beginning. Chelsie and Mark. Oh my goodness. I cried like actual tears came out of my eyes I loved it so much. AHH! I can't stop thinking about it. I really enjoy that song and I love monkey Mark a little bit and Chelsie is so cute.....I think it may be one of my most favorite dances ever!

Gev stepped it up once again. He is so funny. I love that he is crushing on Cortney, it's so cute. Their dance was lovely.

Chelsey and Thayn were boring and I wasn't a fan of it. It will take a miracle to keep them out of the bottom three. I thought it was funny when Chelsey kept saying that Thayn would make a great designer. Funny little gay boy. Let me also say that Chelsey has the biggest lips I have ever seen.

Comfort is really beautiful like actually I am jealous of just how georgeous she is. Tree boy on the other hand is not my favorite. Their dance was meh. I did however find their dance to be very animalistic contrary to the judges belief.

I loved the Kourtni/Matt lyrical dance. The new choreographer is crazy but the dance was awesome. The comic book idea was so cool. And I think that I kind of like the ninja mask.

Katee got bangs and I must say I like her a bit more now than I did without them. Oh Joshua is SO cute! I was laughing so hard when stupid Nigel was embarrassing him about those pants. I died when he made his Dad stand up. Ohhhhh gosh. I loved their dance a lot too.

To sum it up:

• Favorites- 1.Chelsie & Mark 2.Kourtni & Matt 3.Kherrington & Twitch
• Bottom Three- Comfort & Tree boy, Chelsey & Thayn, Maybe Jessica & Will I'm not sure.

Judges:

• Whoever picks out Mary's clothes needs to be shot
• I really hate Nigel's feathery hair
• The third judge (Adam?) I loved! He was so positive all the time. I believe he actually wanted them all to know what good dancers they are. And he is really funny.

Okay that is all I have. I would love to hear what you have to say and I cannot wait to read the commentaries tomorrow E-dub. This was the best night yet. AHhh! I cannot stop thinking about Chelsie and Mark. I will probably watch it 10 times tomorrow on youtube. Miss you and thanks for getting me addicted to such quality TV.

Love,

Mallory

PS-I hope it is sunny for you at the Cape this weekend.

First Position of Dance

Sisters are typically in tune. As I was writing my post asking for questions (please! still answer!), I received the following email from my sister Mallory:

Okay since you are the only person that I know that really watches the show I want to utilize this free resource we have (called the internet) to discuss this week's show [So You Think You Can Dance]. You already know how I feel about Mary's sick outfit but lets get on to more important things.

• Mia was kind of a meanie. I feel like she didn't like any of the girls at all but LOVED the boys. I think her frosty new hair matches her frosty heart.
• First lets say the two that got voted off were totally right. Man Suzy sucked. Lets get this out right now but I love Kharington and Twitch! They are by far my favorite. Twitch can dance! He does everything so well and K is just so energetic I just want to be her friend. Their waltz was beautiful and I will admit I did cry just a little bit.
• I have a baby crush on Gev. I think he is so goofy. Their lyrical dance was lovely but then again I always love a good lyrical. I loved Gev's partner's hair (I think her name is Cortney?) She looked so natural and it was beautiful.
• I am not a big fan of Katee (the asian girl). Ever since tryouts she bothers me a little bit but I will admit their broadway dance was awesome.

That's all I can remember right now. I would love to read what you thought.

Love,

Mallory

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I. LOVE. THIS. QUESTION.

IT made me SO SO SO happy to get! Woot! You're one of the only ones I know who love it as much as I do. I'm so happy you want to discuss it! What I'd suggest you do on Thursday mornings (after watching on Weds nights) is to read the recap on the Entertainment Weekly page. It's always super funny and pretty spot on. I always like to hear what other viewers thought about it too.

Here are the commentaries from this week:

Weds (dance) night : "Highs and Lows"
Thurs (results) night : "A Judging Mis-Step"

There are a few couples I like quite a bit. I really like Joshua and Katie but know exactly what you're saying about being on the fence with her (after auditions). She's just so happy when she dances though and it shows in her face. It'll be interesting to see them do a ballroom/latin based number when Joshua has to be a real partner.

I like Twitch (a lot!) and Kherrington. I just don't love that the judges seem to be obsessed with them and are trying to push that on the viewers. They dance lovely, but I think the producers are trying to keep them in as long as possible. Something about her grates me a little bit; I need to get over it though because she's a beautiful dancer.

I really like the tall Matt kid (with the tall blonde dance partner). I think he's hot, and he really came alive in that foxtrot--he had fun personality! I think his partner is heavy on her feet. No chance he'll win it, but I still think he's cute. I feel bad for that boy who danced krump; Nigel was an idiot to him. PS - I don't EVER want to see Nigel grab his crotch on TV. Ever. Is it me or does he get creepier and creepier every season?

The lyrical with your bf Gev was a good one; I like those two together. I think it's so cute he has that crush on Kortni. (And WHY do dancers have to have the worst spelled names? Blach!) I didn't agree with the judges that they had little chemistry; I thought it was smokin! Everyone else was meh -- you're right about Suzy getting the boot; I'm still not sure why she was in the top 20. Your assesment of the judges was all spot on as well.

I guess that's it for now. I LOVE this show.

Confession #21

With regularity, I read snarky commentaries for most of the shows I watch. They come from a variety of hosted sites, but most regularly Entertainment Weekly's TV Watch, TV Guide, and Television Without Pity.

Today, I threw my two cents into the commenting on last night's episodic commentary of "So You Think You Can Dance?"

I was the 3rd person to comment, and I'll confess, pretty proud of myself for being "published" on EW.com. (As working for Entertainment Weekly is my secret dream job)

Then, I got a shout out!

Short story long, here's my confession -- I got really really excited about this. Man I love the world wide web.