Just Dance (and sing)

So far February has been a month full of singing and dancing for me to enjoy-slash-participate in. I feel good about this because it has been pretty dang entertaining if I do say so myself. Which I do.

At the beginning of the month my dear roommate Jamie and I participated in the 21st Ward Talent Show. We wanted to do something funny, but we were going to get more people to do it with us. Then we both got sick, and neither of us were feeling ambitious enough to find people and figure out what we were going to do. So we decided to do something really original. Yep, that's right. Jamie played the guitar and I sang. I know. No one has ever done that in a talent show before. Anyways, we decided on "When it Rains" by Paramore. We threw the whole thing together in about 5 days. And of course we had to go first. Which maybe was a good thing because we got it over with, but we also were the victims of the technical difficulties...feedback from the speakers that messed Jamie up a little bit. All things considering though, we sounded pretty fantastic. And don't even worry that I was so nervous that I couldn't look at the audience...hahaha...but perhaps if we ever do anything like that again I will be able to acknowledge their presence.

Here is the video; it isn't much to watch (as I said, I wouldn't look at anyone), but we sound good.

But the talent show was not the only place in which I was able to sing. On Valentine's Day, rather than spending the night wallowing in the despair (yeah right) of being single, I headed on over to my good friend Megan's. Once there, Megan and I played "Sing It" on the Wii, with her roommates. But we didn't just sing any old songs. We played "Sing It" in the style of...wait for it...High School Musical. Yeah. I know. You are all jealous right now. There was definitely a lot of dancing involved since we all know random parts of all the dances. And there may or may not have been a few instances when we might have been slightly off-key. Maybe. Mostly just when we had to sing the male parts, but I won't say that it didn't happen when we were singing Gabriella and Sharpay's parts. Unfortunately I didn't not capture these treasurable performances on video. We were far too busy to worry about such things.

Once we were all sung out, we moved on to "Just Dance," also on the Wii. Again, we were to busy to get video or pictures, but let me tell you. Boys make funny faces when they play this game. And by funny faces, I mean "concentration faces." I have never played this game before, but due to my background in dance I actually could hold my own in this game. And by hold my own, I mean kick Megan's butt in one of the harder dances. This is probably the only video game in the history of all video games that I have actually been good at without having to practice. And I imagine that revolves around the fact that when I play other video games I tend to use my whole body. If I am playing a racing game, I don't just use the buttons to steer myself; I acutally turn my whole upper body. However, in this game, it is appropriate to use your whole body. Which I appreciate.

This is the dance that I killed Meg in...Rockafeller Skank...yes please.