tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2796207965623606169.post-61833972649082662462007-11-26T21:22:00.000-08:002008-03-10T13:05:12.230-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Floridita's flower shop was our first time. 12 am-- dark, cold, and sketchy. Next door, the McDonald's drive-thru zinged with the sound of neon lights and a bum slept right by the menu-- his butt hanging out...glorious. For some reason, with all this atmosphere, we were turned on. So turned on that we suddenly felt inspired to dance. </span></span> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br /></span></span><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Glendale Blvd.-- home of the crack addict. Take me to the Blvd. where I feel safe and by safe, I mean not this Blvd. For PARKING LOT DANCE CLUB, though, we go anywhere and by anywhere, I mean carrying a dirty couch from a dark alley across a very wide street to a parking lot where yes, a bum is sleeping on a pee-stained mattress. Why the mattress is there, I do not know. Why we stole a couch and placed it at Floridita's parking lot, we do not know. But man, we just carried a 30-70 pound couch across traffic on a Friday night and who can tell us that that is not awesome? </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Michael Bernardi and I, Alessandra Rizzotti, are budding soldiers of a new guerilla movement created to revolutionize the parking lot dance world. He and I are about to parking lot dance-off across America and yes, we will start at Floridita's Flower Shop next to McDonald's... bum butt, french fries, and all. What we do not know though, is this particular McDonald's is popular. The first guy I ask to dance with me happens to be in a car just "hanging out". Anyways, he's "hanging out" and I'm "hanging out" by his car waiting for him to roll down his window and I see no problem with this until he rolls down the window with some cheeky boy attitude and says: "We're here to smoke, ok? Can you leave?" And I, suddenly disturbed by my new discovery that this is some drug dealing hang out, blurt out: "I'm sorry to break up your party....don't worry, you won't be breaking up mine..." I turn around, almost tripping.. What the fuck, ya know? What's wrong with me? Why won't anyone dance? </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">And so, in this first attempt to parking lot dance the universe, I fail. Knowing my friends live right across the street, I decide to call them. Of course, I am worried about selling out on my first episode by using my friends instead of strangers, but I am telling myself, DO IT...who cares if you sell out already on your first episode? Anything goes with PARKING LOT DANCE CLUB. Dance with your friends...pretend they're strangers...then call it a night. Afterall, who knows what next week will bring? Next week could be full of one-night stand strangers. Beautiful.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Episode One: THE PLDC MEETS FLORIDITA</span></span><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> </span></span></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></span> <object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-5cfe91784bb1d09" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="movie" value="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAPEbdexZYqODP9Nt5kZfcH2o2aTFpNXCDY-lMsxui2JGCL8WF4LVVqsuOdBLV0JD27swSh8Nt_ueFYrN8h5NCZyYqdWBPjtuJthwLzT3nJEfTwvxd7gLzznQHKwdweD5LhVpQN3_NV1yDpLtYVD55NHtRDFAMAqDYl4pHreu1dMCRlIv-Hrm3o7SqErSDHndXq86pQ9sNWtXNaeEHRt_d9jZ5zOy_mdtTBhfTEbnlQVF%26sigh%3DX_MkjUdp1KAuXxHS9RJM5bXQk0E%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;nogvlm=1&amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D5cfe91784bb1d09%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DpJ6gyPi8kHWq_vqLAo3GTooKxLo&amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"> <embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAPEbdexZYqODP9Nt5kZfcH2o2aTFpNXCDY-lMsxui2JGCL8WF4LVVqsuOdBLV0JD27swSh8Nt_ueFYrN8h5NCZyYqdWBPjtuJthwLzT3nJEfTwvxd7gLzznQHKwdweD5LhVpQN3_NV1yDpLtYVD55NHtRDFAMAqDYl4pHreu1dMCRlIv-Hrm3o7SqErSDHndXq86pQ9sNWtXNaeEHRt_d9jZ5zOy_mdtTBhfTEbnlQVF%26sigh%3DX_MkjUdp1KAuXxHS9RJM5bXQk0E%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0&amp;nogvlm=1&amp;thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D5cfe91784bb1d09%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DpJ6gyPi8kHWq_vqLAo3GTooKxLo&amp;messagesUrl=video.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object> </div>Alessandra Rizzottihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10049175457409864561rizzottister@gmail.com