Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Rock You Like A Hurricane





Last night I watched two hours of Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke about Hurricane Katrina.









Tonight I watched two hours of FOX TV's So You Think You Can Dance about becoming "America's Favorite Dancer."



All I can think now is that the two need to be combined. Let's face it, more people watch SYTYCD than downers like When the Levees Broke. My hypothesis is that the dance competition doesn't make the general public want to slit their wrists quite as often. Unless you are a dancer recently cut from the show or in an accident that left you a paraplegic, the majority of SYTYCD is a lot more chipper than four hours of Hurricane Katrina.


My Point? More of a suggestion, really. Combine America's favorite dance competition with America's favorite natural disaster. I for one would buy fifth-row tickets to see an upbeat jazz ballet about the flooding and destruction of New Orleans, the conspiracy theories, FEMA and what is most likely going to go down in history as the Bush Administration's biggest failings.


Act I Tracklist:
  • Doppler Schmoppler
  • Evacution Shuffle
  • Puh-leeze, We Made it Through Betsy (The Ballet of Betsy)
  • Rock You Like A Hurricane
  • Chevy To The Levee
  • Super-Storm In A Super-Dome
  • When the Levees Broke It Down!
  • FEMA Dreama'
  • Spamalot's Better Than Rain (Condee's Lament)
  • Lootin' and Hollorin' - The Police Chief Polka
  • Nagin v. Blanco - Dance-Off
  • Still In The Water

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