So This Is Basically My New Favorite Thing

Preston Leatherman Dances with an iPod in Public: "I had this idea to go to a public place (in this case, the local shopping mall) and dance like no one's business. The only catch is, there is an iPod in my ear, so no one else around me can hear the music." LOL. The best!

Dancing with an iPod in Public: "Footloose"




Dancing with an iPod in Public: "All I Want for Christmas Is You"


[Via Gabe.]

Autumn

There is a fierce autumn wind blowing here, whipping the dwindling leaves from their branches with petulant truculence. On one side of its bellicose gusts is the fading warmth of summer; on the other, the ominous chill of the coming winter. It blows dark silver clouds across the sky so quickly that a stormy darkness yields to bright amber sunlight and comes back again in a moment, giving time the unnatural feeling of a time-lapse film.

The wind creates a cacophony of sound: Rustling leaves, crackling branches, flags ripping away from the polls that hold them, the sound of great numbers of trees swaying like a skyborne tide, its own whoosh of portent.

I throw open the windows to let in the tempestuous air. The cats race to the windows and press their faces against the screens; the dogs lift their heads and their noses twitch, their eyes grow wide as if in recognition of a forgotten part of an ancient self. The air fills their lungs and possesses them. They are beyond frisky: For a moment, they are wild, just like the air.


[Video Description: Scenes of trees in the wind from around my garden, this morning. Set to Yann Tiersen's "La Corde."]

Here Is Something That May Be Fun for You to Watch!

Not everyone has the right to get married, which is terrible, and not everyone wants to get married, which is great for the people who live in places where that is a choice and not great for the people who live in places where it isn't, and not everyone who can and wants to get married also wants their parent(s) there, or still has parent(s) around to be there, plus don't even get me started on blood diamonds. We can probably all agree at this point that marriage is a very complicated issue and relationships with parent(s) can be pretty complicated, too, but, because the best human moments rarely happen outwith the intricate framework of cultural difficulties we have collectively built, I think maybe we can nonetheless enjoy this video of what might be the best father-daughter wedding dance of all time. Can we? Let's try!


Video Description: A black woman in a bridal gown and a black man in a tuxedo stand in the middle of a dance floor at a wedding reception. Over a speaker, an offscreen DJ says, "Okay, ladies and gentlemen, at this time, we would like to invite the father of the bride to join our beautiful bride out there." There are cheers and applause as the groom leaves, and a black man in a tuxedo, sans jacket, joins the bride on the dance floor.

As "My Girl" begins to play, the father bows, then takes his daughter in his arms and they begin to dance a very traditional father-daughter dance. The music then switches to "Boogie Shoes," and they go into choreographed dance steps. The crowd cheers and laughs and applauds. The music then switches to The Jackson Five's "I Want You Back," and the father does a little MJ dance move, to cheers.

The choreographed dance steps continue through several more song segments in the medley, including Lloyd Banks' "Beamer, Benz, or Bentley" (which gets a big laugh) and the Jackson Five's "Dancing Machine" (to which they do the robot). They then wind up in more traditional dance together once again, then take a bow and hug each other to cheers and applause.

And just when everyone thinks it's over, Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" begins to play, and they break into the choreography from the video. More well-deserved cheers and applause. The end.

[Via Kelly.]

I Have Seen the Future, and It Is Now

This amazing video was posted on YouTube with the description: "Two cams, anything goes, you decide. The future of live entertainment." At first, I wasn't sure—but then I was like, yeah, this is definitely the next logical step after Jersey Shore. Bring it on.


Video Description: From a boombox set on a table in a backyard emanates "Rebound (Original Mix Edit)" by Arty. Nearby, an elderly white woman wearing sunglasses and a windbreaker, sits in a plastic yard chair hanging out with a little Corgi dog. A young white woman in pink shirt and jeans dances with what appears to be a katana. Then a young white man in blue shirt and jeans comes out; he hands the beer bottle he is carrying to the elderly woman. Then he whips out a butterfly knife and begins to do a choreographed dance with the young woman. Obviously.

The future is now. Gleep glorp.

[Via Gabe.]