All the pep rallies I recall were boring as hell. Except one. A small High School in Louisiana. The heavy red curtains on the stage opened to a grand piano and Gary Hennigan strode across the stage in his unique walk, his unbent arms swaying back and forth around his exceedingly corpulent body, with his gliding stride his hands wave as flags. The kids didn't know him. They called him Haystack. He told us he'll play a few songs that he wrote. We're thinking, this fat freak? Then he energetically pounded out a couple songs so thick and rich and heavy with notes that his big fat fingers hit extra keys but none of us could tell the difference. He blew our minds all at once. We were stunned. Here we were making fun of him and he had more talent than any of us. After that he got some respect.
Apparently, the audience knows how the dance vignettes match with key scenes in the film. The year before Dr. Fred died he mentioned that he never saw the movie Wizard of Oz. All this would be lost on him. Yet these children know a very old movie.
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The crowd cheers when the tinman does a pelvic thrust.
Sexual harassment - lock em all up. '-\
Really good but I still detest synchronize dancing. Insane in the brain by Cyprus hill - good.
ENERGY!
Stop hating synchronized dancing right now!
That takes a lot of discipline. A LOT.
And the K-Pop dancers have nothing on these kids.
The type of physical and group discipline, timing coordination, forbearance with politics that goes with this, that I never had.
And the kids do it for fun.
Didn't you just trip with the June Taylor dancers on Carol Burnett? They'd do that overhead shot and go all psychedelic.
I just now read another disparaging article about millennials objecting to being called snowflakes because it makes them melt. And I become angered all over again like these are MY kids. For I love them so. Everything they do is interesting to me. Their energy is joy to behold. And in my opinion save for world wars and the depression, no generation has started with such disadvantage given them by MY generation. It makes me ashamed. Instead of giving them treasure stored up we give them tribulation and debt instead. Yet they break through all that, our shortcomings, with things like this and a real yearning for achievement. It's no wonder to me that so many are socialist. They seek to spread out the burden we put on them. In my view, by supporting weak Republicans, we allowed Democrats to do this.
I must now pray.
Young People, I apologize. For failing to leave you our treasure maintained and improved.
I guess the 2020 signs in the back are welcoming the freshman class, assuming video is a year old. Does seeing 2020 graduation years make me feel old? Yes, yes it does.
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