![Midnight Snack: Toi Rockin’ Thai Food with Riley More
Riley: She had no clue. So Sandy comes down, and she tells me they plan to have a roller disco scene, which is going to be Austin Powers dancing —
Henry: Fair warning. I haven’t seen the third one.
Riley: Okay, well, it sucks, and the scene’s not in the movie. You’ll find out why. So yeah, Austin Powers was going to be dancing in front of a bunch of people doing roller disco, so I try to warn Sandy because being someone who dances, which she knew, and someone who skates, which she didn’t know, I can tell you: roller disco is really hard to learn because, basically, the first thing they teach you is this move called “The Downtown.” Except they leave out the part that “The Downtown” is in three-four time. So you’re like, “Why the f@#k can’t I get this?” until you realize, after a long period of frustration, you can’t hit it because they’re not telling you it’s in three-four time. It’s like rubbing your head and patting your stomach. It’s a total mindf@$k, and it makes no sense and whoever invented it is an idiot. Because all the music you’re dancing to is four-four time. Point is, roller disco is a total muscle memory thing that you have to have training for, or you can’t do it. A regular dance choreographer can’t choreograph that because they wouldn’t know. So I tell Sandy that the choreographer [Marguerite Derricks] might want to come down to our roller disco party and see what we’re talking about. So Marguerite …
She intones a deep, sultry voice.
Riley: Marguerite shows up, with her French accent — “oui, oui” — and I’m sure she’s been dancing since she was two. Whatever, right? And I’m explaining what it is, right? And she’s like all …
Riley does an impression of an old dowager — think Maggie Smith in “Downton Abbey” — huffing at something frightfully embarrassing.
Riley: Like I told her. That’s what I’ve been saying. Of course I’m totally right, and the scene’s not in the movie. They didn’t even film it. Because you can’t. You can’t take dancers who say they can roller skate and have them all the sudden roller disco.Henry: Speaking of disco, which used to get a lot of flack, what in your opinion is the worst year of American music in the past half-century or so?
Riley: See, I could definitely make some enemies here. I would say what kind of sucked was in 1967, there was the Summer of Love, and they had the Monterey Pop Festival, and so there’s Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin and all that rock stuff —Henry: Wow. You are going to make some enemies.
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Midnight Snack: Toi Rockin’ Thai Food with Riley More
Riley: She had no clue. So Sandy comes down, and she tells me they plan to have a roller disco scene, which is going to be Austin Powers dancing —
Henry: Fair warning. I haven’t seen the third one.
Riley: Okay, well, it sucks, and the scene’s not in the movie. You’ll find out why. So yeah, Austin Powers was going to be dancing in front of a bunch of people doing roller disco, so I try to warn Sandy because being someone who dances, which she knew, and someone who skates, which she didn’t know, I can tell you: roller disco is really hard to learn because, basically, the first thing they teach you is this move called “The Downtown.” Except they leave out the part that “The Downtown” is in three-four time. So you’re like, “Why the f@#k can’t I get this?” until you realize, after a long period of frustration, you can’t hit it because they’re not telling you it’s in three-four time. It’s like rubbing your head and patting your stomach. It’s a total mindf@$k, and it makes no sense and whoever invented it is an idiot. Because all the music you’re dancing to is four-four time. Point is, roller disco is a total muscle memory thing that you have to have training for, or you can’t do it. A regular dance choreographer can’t choreograph that because they wouldn’t know. So I tell Sandy that the choreographer [Marguerite Derricks] might want to come down to our roller disco party and see what we’re talking about. So Marguerite …
She intones a deep, sultry voice.
Riley: Marguerite shows up, with her French accent — “oui, oui” — and I’m sure she’s been dancing since she was two. Whatever, right? And I’m explaining what it is, right? And she’s like all …
Riley does an impression of an old dowager — think Maggie Smith in “Downton Abbey” — huffing at something frightfully embarrassing.
Riley: Like I told her. That’s what I’ve been saying. Of course I’m totally right, and the scene’s not in the movie. They didn’t even film it. Because you can’t. You can’t take dancers who say they can roller skate and have them all the sudden roller disco.
Henry: Speaking of disco, which used to get a lot of flack, what in your opinion is the worst year of American music in the past half-century or so?
Riley: See, I could definitely make some enemies here. I would say what kind of sucked was in 1967, there was the Summer of Love, and they had the Monterey Pop Festival, and so there’s Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin and all that rock stuff —
Henry: Wow. You are going to make some enemies.
