warning: spoiler alert

Last night the Eleven finished our weekend’s Dance Dance Revolution© 2007 cram session – at the end of both Footloose and Flashdance there are uplifting choreographed dance numbers that send our spirits soaring! Alex apparently earns a place at The Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh; Ariel and Ren end up sponsoring the forbidden dance across the county line somewhere out West. These were X’s first viewing for both films and I’ll leave her to her personal reviews whenever she decides to update her blog; I can say that she doesn’t think much of Lori Singer. I was more than happy to hear Kenny Loggins squawking out another great 80s title song for a movie (Footloose, Caddyshack, Top Gun) in his inimitable way – “I gotta get loose, footloose!” I'm not sure that using footloose with loose says much about the writing, but back then we took what we could get at the local cineplex. Looking at Loggins' lyrics from all three movies makes one wince for what the youth of that decade had to endure. A sample from Danger Zone (Top Gun):

Out along the edges
Always where I burn to be
The further on the edge
The hotter the intensity

and from I’m Alright (Caddyshack)

You wanna listen to the man?
Pay attention to the magistrate
And while I got you in the mood
Listen to your
Own heart beatin’
Own heart beatin’
Own heart beatin’
Own heart beatin’

He may be the only singer to ever use magistrate in a song. He’s not even rhyming it with anything, why magistrate? And the 'to be' with 'inten-si-ty'? Wow. I can see how one would be out along the edges but I don’t get the ‘further on the edge’ reference. If I'm along the edge, there is no further; that's and abyss. For an answer to that I’ll ask X to query her fellow Owl, Keith (F-14 Tomcat RIO – think Goose), he might be able to let us know if he ever went further on the edge.

I leave you.

T.