Shane grrrrrrr

This past year I've become literally OBSESSED with The Walking Dead.

In quest'ultimo anno mi sono praticamente OSSESSIONATA a The Walking Dead.

Although I've anxiously waited for Season 2 to start, when it did air I waited a month before seeing the first episode.

Nonostante avessi ansiosamente aspettato l'inzio della seconda stagione, ho aspettato un mese prima di guardare il primo episodio.

Why?

Perche'?

Well I knew I couldn't survive out of only one episode per week at first!

Beh sapevo che non potevo sopravvivere all'inzio guardando un solo episodio alla settimana!

Well we've now passed episode 6 and the agony of waiting episode 7 is killing me.

Beh abbiamo passato l'episodio 6 e l'agonia dell'aspettare il settimo mi sta uccidendo.

Reading blogs around looks like a lot of people are disappointed for the slow pace that the show has gotten into, but I personally don't mind. Actually I'm enjoying it a lot.

Leggendo i blogs sembra che molte persone siano rimaste deluse dal lento andamento in cui lo show si e' adagiato, ma personalmente a me non dispiace. Di fatto mi piace un casino.

This whole "Lose a kid and get another one shot so that we have to stop them from running around" is actually doing great things for character building.

Tutto questo "Perdiamo la ragazzina e facciamo sparare all'altro cosi' sono costretti a fermarsi" sta facendo grandi cose per lo sviluppo dei personaggi.

Mostly, I'd say, for Shane.

Soprattutto, direi, per Shane.

Poor Shane. Crazy, bad, son of a gun Shane. Ruthless, violent, dangerous, emotionless Shane.

Povero Shane. Pazzo, cattivo, figlio di putanna. Spietato, violento, pericoloso, privo di emozioni.

Apparently people love to describe Shane this way.

A quanto pare la gente ama descrivere Shane in questo modo.

I prefer other adjectives.

Io preferisco altri aggettivi.

Like strong, rational, caring, heartbroken. Scared also, confused, angry.

Come forte, razionale, premuroso, col cuore spezzato. E anche spaventato, confuso, arrabbiato.

Yeah of course he's a son of a bitch. Someone's got to be. Screwing your -supposedly dead- best friend's wife? Not cool. Almost kill, bare handed, a prick -who hits his wife- to get out your frustrations? Comprehensible but still not cool. Trying to rape -in a drunken mood- your -come back to life- best friend's wife? Def not cool.

Beh certo che e' un figlio di puttana. Qualcuno deve pur esserlo. Scoparti la moglie del tuo -presumibilmente morto- migliore amico? Non una bella cosa. Arrivare ad un passo dall'uccidere, a mani nude, uno stronzo -che picchia la moglie- per sfogare le proprie frustrazioni? Comprensibile, ma cmq non una bella cosa. Cercare di stuprare -da ubriaco- la moglie del tuo -tornato in vita- migliore amico? Decisamente non una bella cosa.

But....taking distance from a kid who idolizes you? Rude but honest, since he was asked to. Shoot a man to save his ass? Considering they were in a zombie death trap, it was actually pretty smart-ass move; this way he saved himself and Carl too.

Ma...distaccarsi da un ragazzino che ti idolatra? Antipatico ma onesto, considerato che gli era stato chiesto. Sparare ad un uomo per salvarsi il culo? Considerando che si trovavano in una trappola mortale di zombie e' stata una mossa alquanto sveglia; in questo modo ha salvato sia se stesso che Carl.

Shane is not a bad guy. The world's gone to shit and in that mess he found a reason to live in Lori and Carl. Then it backfired and now his heart has gone to shit too. But he's still there to save them. With one simple rule: I'll save your ass but to do that I have to make sure that my ass is safe, and if I have to choose between your ass and my ass...I'm choosing mine. Makes sense to me.

Shane non e' cattivo. Il mondo e' andato a puttane e nel casino ha trovato una ragione di vita in Lori e Carl. Poi la cosa gli si e' ritorta contro e adesso anche il suo cuore e' andato a puttane. Ma e' ancora presente per salvarli. Con una regola molto semplice: ti salvero' il culo ma per farlo devo essere sicuro che il mio culo sia al sicuro, e se devo scegliere tra il tuo culo ed il mio...scegliero' il mio. Per me ha senso.

So I like Shane.

Quindi mi piace Shane.

And I like him also 'cos he's one hell of a sexy son of a bitch.

E mi piace anche perche' e' un figlio di puttana maledettamente sexy.

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Seriously since that shower scene where he cuts his hair I've been like...OMG.

Sul serio, da quella scena della doccia dove si taglia i capelli, sono rimasta del tipo...Ommioddio.

All of a sudden he's gone from "nice bod" to "Hello stallion!"

Tutto ad un tratto e' passato da "Bel corpo" a "Ciao stallone!".

And for this reason I gave Andrea a standing ovation when she grabbed his cock. (I gave the standing ovation the second time...'cos at first I was so shocked I had to pause and re run the scene. lol)

E per questa ragione ho fatto una standing ovation per Andrea quando gli ha afferrato i gioielli di famiglia. (la standing ovation l'ho fatta la seconda volta...perche' all'inzio ero cosi' scioccata che ho dovuto mettere in pausa e rivedere la scena. lol)

I had a feeling these two would end up doing something, 'cos c'mon...she's a whiny blonde with nice boobs and he's a deadly cocktail of testosterone. They just had to end up together. But I really wasn't expecting the grabbing!!!

Avevo il presentimento che questi due avrebbero combinato qualcosa perche', beh...lei e' una bionda piagnucolosa con delle belle tette e lui e' un cocktail mortale di testosterone. Dovevano finire insieme. Ma non mi aspettavo proprio l'afferramento!!!

And he gave that lil smile, stopped the car and just laid back and said "C'mon then" I thought..."yeah c'mon u silly blonde!!! Give that rude boy a good ride!!!"

E lui ha fatto quel sorrisetto, ha fermato la macchina si e' polleggiato e ha detto "C'mon then" (l'ho visto solo in originale...immagino in itlaiano sia...dai allora) e io ho pensato "Si dai stupida biondina!!! Dagli una bella cavalcata!!!"

Has this man ever done porn? 'Cos if he did...I'd watch it!!!

Quest'uomo ha mai fatto porno? Perche se l'ha fatto...io lo guarderei!!!

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That's one hell of an ugly hand...and one hell of a grab...and one hell of a package!!!! (Image taken from undead-earth.com)

AMERICA'S BEST DANCE CREW: YOU MUST BE FUCKIN KIDDIN ME!

Ok.

So here's the deal.

I'm a HUGE fan of ABDC.

And I was so excited when the new season started.

I was over the moon for the fact that D-Trix from Quest Crew had been added to the judging panel (replacing super-boring Omarion) and immediately thought they had picked some really really fantastic crews.

A couple of things did throw me off thou.

1) This whole superstar thing. Blah. Going through one whole episode on Kesha was a nightmare and next week is going to be frekkin Bieber and I already feel like throwin up. Seriously c'mon!!! I would understand J.Lo or T-Pain or Chris Brown or even David Guetta. But frekkin Bieber?????

2) The under-age assault. I'm talking about the Iconic Boyz. I take it a bit as an insult that these little white kids, trained by one of the best choreographers ever to appear on the show (Gio from Iconic - season 1), that have been dancing only for a couple of years and that are really young, are already on this show. They're good alright, but I refuse to believe they're one of the best crew's they've found. Yeah it's marketing, it's publicity, it's the perfect opportunity to justify a whole episode on songs of another teeny weeny (frekkin...I'm not gonna write his name again).....but DAMMIT!!! Because they're "so young! Just kids! And they dance! They dance good! So cute!!! So adorable!!!" I fear they'll go all the way to the top. And they just don't deserve it.

3) Last week Request Crew (that was my favourite crew) was thrown out in favor of Street Kingdom. Ok now. I LOVE Tight Eyez. And I LOVE Krumping. It's so unique and powerful and emotional and crazy and beautiful. But this doesn't justify the crew staying on. It's non sense to keep the crew because D-trix is a huge fan of Tight Eyez and because they're krumpin on national tv and because they're from the ghetto. As a crew they don't know how to stand out and it shows 'cos Tight is ALWAYS the center of attention. There's too many of them and most of the time they don't seem to know what they're doing. Request on the other hand was the perfect crew. They have attitude, skillz, swag, creativity, precision, versatility. I thought it was plain ol bullshit that they got sent home.

I thought that it couldn't get any worse.

And then: DISASTER STRIKED!

Episode 5: Rihanna. Challenge: dancehall steps.

Oh yes they did.

They brought DANCEHALL to ABDC.

The idea behind it made sense: Rihanna is from the Barbados and they play a lot of dancehall there.

But. Does Rihanna have anything to do with dancehall? Not so much actually. She has a couple of songs that get some inspiration from it (Pon de replay and Rude Boy) and she did a couple of collaboration in Jamaica, but really, she, and her sound now, have nothing to do with dancehall. A better artist to choose would have been Sean Paul (of course) or maybe even Wyclef. Or well...let's not forget that Damian Marley (son of Bob Marley) is one hell of an artist and just last year he released an amazing album with Nas.

They gave each crew a song by Rihanna and her choreographer, Tanisha Scott, give them the step they had to feature in they're choreo.

And that made me think again: this should have been Sean Paul's week. 'Cos Tanisha Scott was also his choreographer and did A LOT of videos with him.

So the girl is a dancehall dancer. And she knows what she's doing.

Or so I thought.

These are the steps she gave the crews:

 Instant Noodles (the b-boy crew) got the HEAD TOP.

 Does it look like a challenge to you? To me it doesn't. It was also really weird that she gave it to an all male crew, because it's a girl "power-move", 'cos men don't shake their asses. Especially not on their heads.

taken from taiwanesinamerica.com

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Iconic Boyz got the GIVE DEM A RUN (video under pic.).

It's an iconic (ha-ha) step in dancehall, so I perfectly understand why it has been chosen but...it's been around at least 8 years now, as it became known in 2003 with "Pon di river" from Elephant Man and it was also shown in the video fo "Like glue" from Sean Paul. I mean...THAT IS ONE HELL OF AN OLD STEP!!! 

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I was afraid that things would go worst and of course they did.

I Am Me got The Spiderman.

Which was fine actually. It's not a step that usually get's called out in songs but if you dance dancehall it just kinda comes out on it's own.

And I Am Me did a really fine job on it. They're my favourite crew now.

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And then...Street Kingdom got the DUTTY WINE.

THE DUTTY WINE????

The original song by Tony Matterhorn starts like this: "attitude gyal!!!". And the Dutty Wine is the epidemy of a girl step!!! Since 2006 girls have been swingin their heads and weaves and breaking their necks to the song and not only to that song! 

So what's the problem? Well outta 10 members there is only one girl in Street Kingdom (and can I add not a very sexy one). The idea of seeing these tough krumpers rolling their heads didn't appeal to me at all.

On top of that they got Rude Boy, which is a really nice song to dance to. Well...to slow wine to. The dutty wine needs ENNNNERRRGY and the songs doesn't have it. Period.

Was it bad? It was real  real bad. And Lil Mama and D-Trix can cry and praise them all they want but they sucked!!!

And miss Tanisha Scott: u suck too!!!

Why in the world would you give the dutty wine to a crew like that??? U ran out of old steps??? I would have loved to see them Sweep or Rubba Bounce but if these steps are too new for you you could have give them a Signal di Plane or a Wacky Dip or a Shovel it!!! C'MON!!!

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787 got the Gallis Step.

To be honest I had no idea what it was. Well no...I saw it and did it loads of times but I never had any idea it was called like that.

taken from poptower.com

Still going through really old steps Phunk Phenomenon got The Chaplin.

And there my jaw and balls and patience just dropped.

The Chaplin????

A step where you almost don't move???

A Heel-Toe (as old and over-rated as it is) would have been a better choice. Well actually no.

taken from poptower.com

What really really pissed me off during this episode was the fact that ALL these steps are AT LEAST 5 YEARS OLD!!!

So what about what dancehall has done since 2006???

The way it's grown, the way it has spread worldwide, the thousands of dancers that dance and create new steps everyday, the artists that more and more support and show these dancers and their dances.

Considering that ABDC has always done an episode to showcase the new steps and styles of Hip-hop I've found this lack of acknowledgement -on the growth of dancehall- lame and disappointing.

By the end of the episode I was actually furious and wlaked around the house almost shouting (lucky my mother is used to the fact that I'm not normal) and actually fell in a bad mood over the next 2 days everytime I thought about it.

'Cos c'mon!!! They could've done an episode on Elephant Man and shown dances like: Nuh Linga, Sweep, Gully Creepa, Sassa Step, Rubba Bounce and Steady Wine. Or an episode on Mr.Vegas and have: Tek weh yourself, Raging bull, Hot wuk, Gallis swing, Sassa step, Round of applause. And I don't even want to think at an RDX challenge, that would've been the bomb.

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