Sleepy Friday

September 7, 2007

It was something of a back to the future kind of night. There were many old faces I had not seen in a while including Helen and Michelle. Also present were Anastasia, Laura and Lorraine, who are now around every other week or once a month or thereabout, and Natasha, Sharon and Dani. Johnny and Serap are back too - apparently they were here last Friday too. It was a very quiet night and things ran out of steam fairly early. I think it would have been a difficult night to do much with DJing - nothing fundamentally wrong with song choices tonight although I wonder if persistent effort to keep the energy level high was for the best. Given the conditions I would have preferred to dance mostly to slower and more relaxing songs rather than highly energetic ones like Merecumbe. Don't get me wrong. Merecumbe is great but not when the place is nearly empty (although I suppose it could be okay if I had a super-duper partner in once in a blue moon type of opportunity). These days I prefer slower songs pretty much allthe time. The song that followed (La Vida Es Un Carnaval) is probably one of those songs someone will have to drag me to the floor in order for me to dance to. It's one of those songs I would really appreciate not hearing for next 6 months and then maybe once a month or fewer thereafter - I don't think there's any chance of that happening unless I quit Salsa for 6 months and then start going once a month thereafter. A new-ish song I recognized for the first time was a version of El Agua Del Clavelito - it might have been played twice during the course of the evening. One thing I noticed over the course of the evening was that Vishal plays a lot more songs I don’t know by title and/or artist compared to Sally. Who knows what this means? In any case the statement should be tempered with a caveat that I recognize many of the songs because I've heard them many times. Anyhow the ones I recognized and remembered include Lloraras and Cali Pachanguero. Same old bland Cha Cha - Sharon got me for that one. The same old CD was in play at the start of the evening too. Arguably the most amusing moment involved Dani leading Sharon On2 and trying to reverse engineer Sharon into leading some On2 moves on her.