Isn't it amazing? For several years now I've watched Astaire dance almost every single day, and I still can't get over how fucking amazing he is. And I don't mean emotionally, I mean rationally, meaning my brain simply can't grasp and/or process how anyone can be so darn good. And not just in his dancing, but in everything else too, his singing, his piano playing, his drumming, and the 300 other things he was amazing at. How he moves from…

Today I went to the movies to see a film I had virtually no interest in seeing, The Joker. I only went ‘cause I had heard that there was a scene where the Joker (Joaquin Phoenix) is watching a Fred Astaire movie, and it just so happened that it was supposed to feature my favorite solo of his, "Slap That Bass", from the movie Shall We Dance.

This surprised me as Astaire’s widow never allows any clips from his movies…