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July 15, 2008

Where the Hell is Matt?

If you haven't already seen it, watch the video:

Then read the article by Charles McGrath in the New York Times:

There are no weekend box office charts for online videos. But if there were, near or at the very top of the list right now might well be a four-and-a-half-minute video called “Dancing,” which more than four million people have viewed on YouTube, and perhaps another million on other sites, in the just over two weeks since it appeared. It’s the online equivalent of a platinum hit, seeping from one computer to the next like a virus.

The title is not misleading. “Dancing” shows a guy dancing: a big, doughy-looking fellow in shorts and hiking boots performing an arm-swinging, knee-pumping step that could charitably be called goofy. It’s the kind of semi-ironic dance that boys do by themselves at junior high mixers when they’re too embarrassed to partner with actual girls.

More here.  Almost as good as the Numa Numa Song, no?  [Thanks (?!) to Ruchira Paul.]

Posted by Abbas Raza at 07:53 AM | Permalink

Comments

It's a great few minutes that will put a smile on your face! The other one that works so well for me is this Discovery channel promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5BxymuiAxQ

Posted by: Harlan | Jul 15, 2008 9:00:40 AM

That's just life-affirming. My favourite might be the midway mini-Bollywood India dance. Pretty too.

Posted by: Buck Theorem | Jul 15, 2008 9:12:46 AM

When you see all these different groups of people from all over the world dancing, it is easy to see the absurdity of war. Personally, I would love to see all the guns in the world transformed into nerf guns and people would have a lot of fun with them. Trillions of dollars and millions of lives would be saved. Perhaps war will only end when it is laughed out of existence and the war mongers laughed out of office.

Posted by: Jared | Jul 15, 2008 12:09:02 PM

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