and the story...

so here's how it went... my bestie convinced me to take a study break and go visit her new boy on the set of this music video he was shooting for a band called The Rapture... SO, we stand around watching for an hour or so, watch the filming, hang out with the boy.... and it's all starting to look mighty fun... people racing around the rink on four wheels, dressed in crazy disco gear, i mean, you wouldn't BELIEVE the stunts some of these guys could do, and they were just regular people, who like to rollerskate...


After not-too-much cajoling, i tentatively agreed to wiggle my (sockless=EW) feet into some rather rancid skates, and give the whole thing a whirl...
At first B and i were shakey on the skates, but four hours, and many near misses later, we were whizzing around the rink at high speeds... mostly slower than anyone else on the rink, but we held our own... were were skating furiously after cameras on wheels while The Rapture played "Get Myself Into It" which, you can hear on their Myspace page, over and OVER again... that song will haunt me till the end of my days...in a good way...


The band was awesome, the people were hilarious, and the exercise was pretty intense.. by the end of the night, we were sweaty, exhausted and pathologically giggly... i nearly ate it a few times from laughing so hard at the utter surrealness of the entire situation.. i mean, there we were, in a Sketchy-ass area in Brooklyn, rollerskating in the middle of the night on CAMERA to the melodious sounds of ONE song for four hours... these hijinks of B and A will be coming soon to an MTV near you...