"i just wonder how he got through the day before he had this creative outlet"

December 8, 2005 10:22 PM

"I am Daily Dancer, a software developer who loves to dance! Three days a week, I post a new video of me dancing to a different song." Here's some of the clips on Google Videos.
(via one of the links in delmoi's post, since yes indeed, this guy does get down to "My Humps")
posted by Melinika (33 comments total)

candidate for whitest man in america
posted by rswst8 at 10:54 PM on December 8, 2005

Oh dear, here we go again.
posted by loquacious at 10:55 PM on December 8, 2005

I'm having difficulty predicting the outcome of this thread. Hopefully it ends with somebody getting spooned.
posted by cloeburner at 10:57 PM on December 8, 2005

If he just focused a little, he'd be a totally sexy dancing machine. Boy's got the killer moves but they're scattered and smothered all over the place. Shame, really.
posted by mediareport at 11:00 PM on December 8, 2005

Maybe he learned how to dance at the Waffle House, eh mediareport?
posted by halcyon_daze at 11:10 PM on December 8, 2005

The thread is shaping up nicely - the dancing, not so much.
posted by wsg at 11:14 PM on December 8, 2005

Too charming for words. Watching his moves on the 'braaa' part of Ob La Di reminds me why I love watching white guys dance. Work that excercise ball, my sexy internet flail-monkey!
posted by maryh at 11:48 PM on December 8, 2005

Is he molesting a stuffed... hippo?
posted by JakeEXTREME at 11:51 PM on December 8, 2005

This conclusively proves that white people dance to the lyrics of the song instead of the music.
posted by iloveit at 12:01 AM on December 9, 2005

Must work for Microsoft...
posted by Rothko at 12:03 AM on December 9, 2005

If he just focused a little, he'd be a totally sexy dancing machine.

No he wouldn't. Damn fool needs to keep his legs together.

Too much time spent in the handballing sling'll do that to you though.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 12:05 AM on December 9, 2005

"Dancing?" I can call my ass a turkey, that don't mean it's Thanksgiving!
posted by zardoz at 1:04 AM on December 9, 2005

Yeah, no way he's ever going to regret this.
posted by RylandDotNet at 2:24 AM on December 9, 2005

Yes, but Thanksgiving is all in the stuffing.
posted by trondant at 2:41 AM on December 9, 2005

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/47391
http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/10736
And MetaChat.
posted by Eideteker at 3:44 AM on December 9, 2005

My eyes, it burns . . . .
posted by mk1gti at 4:52 AM on December 9, 2005

Vote for Pedro!
posted by kcds at 4:53 AM on December 9, 2005

He links to a little interview some blogger did with him, where he mentions that none of his family knows he does this, which is kind of interesting. Can you imagine realizing your brother/son has been doing this for ages and stumbling across the site?
posted by jamesonandwater at 5:14 AM on December 9, 2005

Yes, but Thanksgiving is all in the stuffing.

Ah, another candidate for Daily Dancer's Handballing Sling.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 5:57 AM on December 9, 2005

I said it before, I'll say it again. We can't all be the Numa Numa guy.
posted by fungible at 6:12 AM on December 9, 2005

Is this a bacterial video?
posted by Captaintripps at 7:10 AM on December 9, 2005

mediareport, you forgot covered and chunked.
posted by shoepal at 7:17 AM on December 9, 2005

I'm serious; he's got some fantastic, creative moves in there, but he's so obviously excited and deliberately goofy he doesn't commit to any moves long enough to let you see them working to the beat. I'm telling ya, he's *this* close to pulling it together into something that would really wow.

But then, I've never been one to sneer at anyone's dance style; it's just too much fun to watch people being themselves with...um...elan like that. It always surprises me when scorn enters the picture. Dance haters never did make any sense.
posted by mediareport at 7:32 AM on December 9, 2005

Well if it's three days a wekk, it's not really "daily," then, is it. I doubt this guy's perfecting his routines on the off days. Seriously, though, this is fun to watch, mostly because I am also a white guy who tries too hard to dance.
posted by jenovus at 7:55 AM on December 9, 2005

s/wekk/week
posted by jenovus at 8:03 AM on December 9, 2005

I don't know, he's kind of cute. I think any local ballet school would love to have him, if only to give him some core skills.
posted by ancientgower at 9:17 AM on December 9, 2005

Can you imagine realizing your brother/son has been doing this for ages and stumbling across the site?

No, but I can image working with him and nearly falling out of my seat after a coworker sent me the link to his site. You know, hypothetically. (I need a new career)
posted by blockhead at 9:32 AM on December 9, 2005

I think it's charming. I love people who aren't at all self-conscious about the fact that they aren't the smoothest dancer to ever grace the floor (and really, how many are?) and just do it because it's fun.

blockhead, that is hysterical. Hypothetically.
posted by LeeJay at 9:44 AM on December 9, 2005

Looks to me like he needs dancing lessons from zefrank.
posted by Zack_Replica at 10:55 AM on December 9, 2005

But then, I've never been one to sneer at anyone's dance style

And normally I wouldn't either -- heaven knows, I'm no Merce Cunningham myself. But if you put your performances up on the net, then you're offering them up for criticism.

I'm serious; he's got some fantastic, creative moves in there

I especially liked it when he mimes a pregnancy bump at one point during 'my hump', and then does some other peculiar little gesture in which he seems to be trying to accentuate his arse cheeks.

Personally though, I wouldn't dance with him in public even if I was on a fistful of Ecstasy.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 10:56 AM on December 9, 2005

I think he'd make an excellent addition to the Torrance Community Dance Troupe
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 3:58 PM on December 9, 2005

[sigh] Doesn't anyone remember Friday Night Shakedowns with Adam Zavala? Dancing on the internet is so 2001.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 6:15 PM on December 9, 2005

The goggles, they do nothing...
posted by kou5oku at 7:29 PM on December 9, 2005