ILHC 2010 Registration is open and other notes

For those of you who haven't been checking the website every day, registration is now open for the International Lindy Hop Championships happening on August 19-22, 2010.  It'll be August there's so no chance of being snowed out at least. Register now to get the cheapest registration price possible.  It's just going to get more expensive as the days past, so you might as well get it out of the way now.

Also, get the latest updates through our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter at ILHCtweets.

A few other blog related notes:

Sorry about the lack of updates lately, but the impending Snowstorm of the Century II will hopefully help me out in giving me more time to finish off a few posts for your consumption.

Hopefully that will include the last few parts of "Artistry in Rhythm."  Posting everything before was easier because all of it was written over two years ago and I just updated and edited as I went along.  I’m basically starting from scratch with the next few posts, and its reminding me why the paper was so much work the first time around.

In the meantime, be sure to check out "The Lindy Loggers" post as I'll be updating it with new Lindy related blogs as I find them.  I've even added it as a link to the right just for you.

I'm also finishing up an interview that I'm doing for the DC Lindy Exchange website.  Keep an eye on the DCLX website for it.  I've had a long association with the event going back to it's beginning, and I'll be dj'ing there once again this April.  I hope to see everyone there.

Not Really Random Link-My YouTube Channel

In case you hadn't noticed already, I have a YouTube channel where I plan on uploading videos related to my "Artistry In Rhythm" posts and other curiosities I hope people will find interesting. Check it out here.

For a small taste, check out this video and see if you can recognize anyone.

Welcome!

I’d like to welcome you to my long awaited blog.  Here, I’m going to jibber jabber about a variety of subjects that interest me.  Hopefully they will interest you as well. To start out with, I’ll be discussing my main hobby of Lindy Hop.  In addition to dancing, I’ve been involved with this community in a number of different roles now for over 10 years.

I also have about 10 years of event planning and management experience, so I will probably talk a bit about the few dance events that I attend and help organize every year.

My love of the dance also lead to my passion for vintage jazz; the kind of music played in the early half of the 20th century.  Although I also have a personal attachment to soul and R & B music from the other half.  I may even mention the little I know of alternative/college rock from the early to mid-90’s that I picked up as a college DJ.

I also love the city I live in, Washington, DC, and I hope to post a few things about it.   While I do work for the government in the day time as a low level bureaucrat, my interests mostly relate to the city’s historical heritage and current social dynamics.   Hopefully this will also allow me to explore the inner armchair urban planner in me.

I guess the common link through most of my interests is people and how they relate to each other.   Because of that, I’ve been learning quite a bit about intercultural communication and conflict negotiation in the past few years.

I think this ties in nicely to my love of the study of history.  I got a degree in History too many years ago because I liked to learn about people’s stories.  Not just the great leaders and wars ( although that’s how I got sucked into it) but how ordinary people lived in extraordinary times;  especially how they were affected by grand events and what roles they played in them.

I think all these experiences is what led me to write a 70 page paper about the development of the modern Lindy Hop community.   I never bothered to publish it anywhere because I ended up disagreeing with my own conclusions after I finished it.   However, there’s enough material in there to chop up and post as little bits on this blog, so there won’t be a lack of material to start at least.

Whether you agree or disagree with me I hope that you at least you enjoy yourself as you procrastinate here.

Jerry