Dances Moving - Blog Posts
Today’s the three year anniversary of See The Day, aka, when Brian asked “can I rip your heart out?” and didn’t wait for an answer
hey um,,, i learned how to use audacity’s time shift tool to make this because i thought it would hurt a lot but be viscerally...
dances moving as a series feels so authentically earnest from the start and hopeful and it's about how like.... optimism ISNT the cure to your problems and you will never be able to forsee the movements of your life really.... but there is something there. At the heart of brian's optimism at the beginning of the series, is what makes him get up and start dancing at the end of it...
psychic: *reads my mind*
me: what’s the opposite of low? (High!) And what do you call this part? (Knees!) Put ‘em together, it’s addition time - (Knee highs!) - No, high knees… Get ‘em up high, and then up even higher - it’s not a lot to do. Show me your dreams, your sky high desires! You have to get your knees so high like a plane! High like a mountain! High like a stoner, 420! (don’t do drugs.) High like a very tall building where the elevator ride makes you dizzy, don’t get in a tizzy, just knees up, knees up, knees up, don’t stop, sharks have to keep on swimming or they die. Knees up, knees up, knees up, don’t stop - up to your shoulders, up to your eye! Keep on going, but look at this graph, and see the truth. The answer is so simple it’ll make you laugh - the higher you can get your knees, the more you succeed! The more you are liked! More, more, more! (Correlation is positive.) More self esteem, I can walk into a room and say “Hey, look at me - yes, you - look at me! I’m great, and smart, and nice, and we should go on a date! I’ll pick you up at eight!” Sorry that was forward… Wait… Yeah? Cool, alright, sweet! Yeah… I’ll- I’ll see you then! (ohhhhhhhhhh!) Knees up, knees up, knees up, knees up, she said yes ‘cause my knees are high - also ‘cause I got this twinkle in my eye! I’m so happy I could die, but the higher I can get my knees, the more I succeed! The more I am liked! More, more, more! (I can’t believe you got a date.) My moves are good, and I’m proud and I’m pretty, and I’m feeling really good in Baltimore city, and my mood is high, just like my knittys, and you wanna know why? ‘Cause I’m doin’ my ditty! It’s high knees, high knees, high knees, high knees, h
psychic: what the fuck
i finished rewatching dances moving for the hundredth time and im going to ignore this crushing sense of loneliness and endless sobbing and instead say that declan deserves the world
dive out of nothing and into more
but i can’t quite tell what i’m hoping for
i cannot express the very specific feeling of finishing the finale of dances moving, the most beautifully crafted and heartbreaking story brian david gilbert has ever produced, reaching the last few seconds of the video, reflecting on the raw emotion behind a simpleness of it, thinking about life,
and then
H U G H B R A N D I T Y
So I’ll live my life being so unsure
Cause I can’t quite tell what I’m hoping for
Somehow maybe now I’ll find the words to say
Never thought I’d see the day
liking bdg and having mental illness b like:
*copes by watching dances moving*
*rewatches gill and gilbert*
*rewatches unraveled*
*listens to clean slated state and cries*
just commit
mind over matter like worms