Dancing fool

You just have to love the Web for its ability to throw up really random, but delightful things. Below is a video of Matt Harding, from Australia, doing a goofy sort of chicken dance in all sorts of locations around the world. You can see some of them here, including Austin, by the statue/shrine to Stevie Ray Vaughn, which sort of vouches for his taste in music if not dance moves.

Part of the fun of the video is the sheer joy the guy seems to get out of it, as well as the way people, particularly kids, get into it with him. Part of the fun is thinking about those places he dances where you might have been to yourself.

If you want the old school treatment, here is a link to a New York Times story about him. I guess I am still a bit old school myself, since that is how I heard about him. But then I kind of like a nice blend of old and new.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/arts/television/08dancer.html?em&ex=1215662400&en=1c9425dc6d0eb3c2&ei=5087%0A

To quote the Times:
"The music (by Gary Schyman, a friend of Mr. Harding’s, and set to a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, sung in Bengali by Palbasha Siddique, a 17-year-old native of Bangladesh now living in Minneapolis) is both catchy and haunting. The backgrounds are often quite beautiful. And there is something sweetly touching and uplifting about the spectacle of all these different nationalities, people of almost every age and color, dancing along with an uninhibited doofus."