white people dancing

 

white people dancing...
Posted by PFUNK1 on 11/26/2002, 10:34 am

a few weeks ago during a break at the slapbak show
a white girl went onto the dancefloor while some funky
house music played. she prolly had a little to drink,
was feeling good and wanted to do a little dance for
her boyfriend or sumn...

so she is out there moving while the music is on
and i asked myself "is this really dancing?"
it seemed she was trying to be more "sexual & sensual"
than on beat and was moving her hips and body
in that way it seems only white girls can...
("like they aint got no bones in their body" LOL)

the floor began to fill up after her with mostly
other white people and none of them was on any real
beat as far as i could see. but there was like a "flow of
motion" or sumn with the group against the music. in these
situations i study the "dancers" and try to understand what
they are feeling. most times i can catch a pattern
of movement and though it may be way off the beat,
i can feel it and groove to it.

then a brother goes on the floor and he starts
dancing like the rest of the crowd. he wasn't really
on any beat, he was just going with the flow.
so i thought outloud, "now that nigga know he aint
dancin right." i thought that if i went out there
and danced on the beat i would be the one who is wrong! LOL
the group was having fun and thats prolly what mattered.
and to have someone actually recognize and point out
that the music has a beat would almost be disruptive
to the flow the group! LOL

"look at him, danicin all on beat. why can't he just
go with the flow like the rest of us. showing off
the fact he has rhythm!" LOL

i dance all night at every club i go to, but i aint
asked nobody to dance in years. i'd rather groove by myself.
when girls (almost always white) ask me to dance i say "no."
sometimes i even imagine myself saying "yeah i do,
but what you doing aint dancing."

sometimes its hard to watch the chaos of a group of folx
attempting to dance, but it has to be a far worse crime
to forsake the groove's beat to be a part of that crowd-

i admit i have done it back in the past,
but never ever will i again...

 

     

teddy bears and barbie dolls can't boogie down...
Posted by PFUNK1 on 12/30/2002, 10:37 am

"barbie dolls"

caught a show of local groove bands
deep in the belly of orange county,
huntington beach

what was good about this experience was that there was
a barbie doll in the place that was actually on beat!!!

i peep over and skinny white girl was sittin down,
but bobbin her head in time to the music.
i check several times to verify, and it wasnt a fluke.
scanning the place she was the only one (besides
me and the band) that was keeping proper time...

during a smoke break i saw her outside,
walked up to her and asked "where did you get that?"
she looked puzzled and i said "that rhythm, the beat"
she gave the usual "i don't know i just have it" answer

returning from my smoke break i told her in
a tone that i hoped she would take to heart that
she was on the beat and almost everybody else in
the place wasnt...

to see this was very, very refreshing. and it made
watching all the other rhytmless barbie dolls doing
the psuedo-lesbian dance with each other much more tolerable...

and to make it a truly funky experience, later when
she did get up and dance she still had them white
girl moves, but she was on "a" beat. so how did she
acquire the rhythm, but not the moves?
how interesting this was for me...

pfunk1.com/rhythm


 

from events: cubensis @ kozmos 01/14/03

the music was good and moved me but the thing this night was race and rhythm. i was the only black person in the place. i sat and watched the 25-30 people on the dancefloor and NONE OF THEM WERE ON ANY BEAT. there were no sustained patterns of motion that could be seen as rhythm. most of them were not only completely off-beat, but the patterns were "broken." they would stop and start arbitrarily at any given time. and im not commenting on style of dance (which was some of the most white people bad dancin ive seen) or the coolness or appearance of the moves. i just refereing to if these moves were on any kind of beat.

but thats not what was really amazing. this is incredibly rhythmic music that has many rhythmic patterns which provide many different opportunities to find a beat. but not only were none of the 30 or so dancers not on any of these beats, they also were not in any kind of time with each other! so basically, there were 30 people on 30 different beats. no one was in time with anyine else or the music. as i thought about it, this in itself is an accomplishment. how do you dance so close to external influences and not be effected by them?

seems you would kinda find a groove with people in your area if not with the music. are they not feeling it? are they deliberately finding a pattern that makes their movements unique? there definitely was a flow of motion with a kind of timing with the group as a whole though.

then the girl from the opening band joined cubensis and she was on beat. it made me feel so good to dance in my chair keeping time with her that i almost cried. she was on a different time (say 4 beats for every two of mine) but we were on beat together.

 

 

what white people lack in rhythm, they make up for with spirit, fun and enthusiasm. after and maybe before a few drinks, white people seem to have no problem being silly and just having a good time. this spirit of fun and uninhibited ness i find admirable. they appear to be more into the spirit than the dance.

 

 

p-funky white girl
Posted by PFUNK1 on 3/16/2003, 12:14 pm

p-funky girl on beat. free spirited seemingly intoxicated white girl approaches and asks for a light. i give her one and conversation ensues with her, me and my anti-bush I button wearing buddy. i eventually drift away and return and they are still conversating outside. somehow the topic shifted and she says "i was listening to p-funk on the way over here." this intrigued me so i ask questions; "why were you listening to p-funk?" "how did you first hear p-funk" "why do you like p-funk." early in the questioning she felt i was "sweating" her (as it seems most humans do when i show any kinda deeper interest in what they like) and i briefly summarized my p-funk situation and the fact i have websites devoted to it. then somewhere during all this in her free spirited way she shouted "KILL WHITEY!!" i turned to my buddy who i was glad was a witness cause i had no p-funk propaganda clothing on nor did i mention anything about race.

i went on to tell her i have a website dedicated to rhythm and ive done essays on why white people are so into black music and blackness. she in her seemingly intoxicated way said she prolly could help me out and articulate the feelings she has for funk and rhythm. i said cool and gave her my website name and when i did her buddy screams out "PFUNK1.COM." im not into advertising but i do got ego and to hear my creation broadcast like that by someone i just met was cool. (that and the fact audra (i love her) and fanny were standing like right there).

anyways the night goes on and the house music is groovin and so is p-funky white girl. and she is groovin on beat!! i was into this. then the dj played atomic dog and i went into groove. and p-funky white girl was right there, on beat with me, trying to hang. i grooved deeper. it felt so good to actually dance with someone who was on beat and could keep the beat. i was all over the rhythms and even threw off-grooves (but still on beat) at her and she maintained her rhythm. this not only made me feel good, but it "pushed" or encouraged me to a higher energy and a higher groove consciousness. i was able to get added energy and dance deeper into groove as i used her beat with mine to feel a more complicated groove. (or sumn like that, the experience is still to new to me to find the proper words to describe).

its like getting synergy from a group. i was able to vibe her groove and literally feel energy or adrenaline running thru my body. all this while staying within my groove and on my beat. she still had them white girl moves but the moves were in a pattern that made beauty with the music. she had a groove on beat and i had a groove on beat. for me to experience our grooves together (and dont forget we dancing to p-funk atomic dog) was euphoric.

i imagine one day experiencing the whole house under a groove like this. i wonder what power and energy a group doing this would have. how we all would feel. to look around and see everybody in a visual harmony with each other and the music. to feel that visual harmony.

i believe also there must be physical energies (not just conscious) associated with people moving in time. electricity is induced by moving objects thru or past other objects. if you have a whole room of individual people moving as one, their collective energies may accumulate and act as one energy within its surroundings. our atmosphere, the earth and everything has a potential energy which can be induced by motion or movement.

you cant have sound without motion.
sound is a direct representation of some kind of motion.
rhythm is sounds in sync. this should then also indirectly represent motions in sync
relative motion (an object moving relative to another) creates energy
energy is matter.
matter is energy
can motion create matter?

can ya feel me?
do you understand the nature of my curiosity?

i believe there is a science in rhythm, consciousness and energy that is fairly unexplored. and to explore it, you may need to have rhythm and vibe to fully appreciate it cause from the euphoria i get is a hit of adrenaline (or whatever) to my brain that in my experience has heighten my awareness and creativity. its like i can control and pump energy to my mind/brain and use this energy to think deeper, pushing and expanding my creativity. pushing and expanding my creativity enables me to see more creative solutions to questions and or problems. maybe enabling me to use more brain capacity then the stereotypical normal human being.

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