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best + dance — It was really fun getting to see Gurj dance with her mom.

best + dance — I also had the very "New York" experience of getting closer and casually realizing, "Oh, I know that guy."

best + dance — 1. Air (Yellow) represents mind and thoughts, the ability to think.
2. Water (Blue) represents emotions.
3. Fire (Red) represents will, the ability to direct your thoughts and emotions towards action on the physical plane.
4. Earth (Green) represents all the materials on the physical plane that the three subtle-elements interact with.
5. Space (White), or aether, represent the "5th element" and it is the "background canvas" or "cosmic lattice" that the "material earth" is projected upon.

best + dance — While I believe that the "five elements" actually related to a funamental truth about the structure of matter at the microcosmic level, I also really like how in alchemy they're used as a metaphor for the ingredients of human experience.

best + dance — Jenny and her friends ended the night with an awesome I Want to Dance with Somebody (who loves me) closer.

best + dance — ... a proper dance party going!

best + dance — Hahahaha. (Hey, do you need a ride home?

best + dance — Ellen doing the Happy Snoopy!

best + dance — Cleanliness with a kick.

best + dance — Matt performed his famous JAZZ VAC routine.

best + dance — We started off in the BLANKET ROOM. Which, much like its name implied, turned out to be an entire room filed with Native American BLANKETS.

best + dance — And an extra special thanks to Scott & Leigh! In addition to pulling dance moves like this all night, they also shot tons of footage and interviews of the party...

best + dance — Ta-da!

best + dance — Scott busted out some crazy-ass Footloose moves and started swinging Leigh around! (Steve's expression in the background is great.)

best + dance — Hahaha.

best + dance — Scott attacked Matt with a vicious shimmy.

best + dance — Matt WORMED his way out!

best + dance — Me vs. Mer!

best + dance — Leigh and Scott.

best + dance — Mer's moves! (PS - Still drinking double-scotches!)

best + dance — If not for our last-minute guests, the party would've definitely been over! We had the dance floor for another whole hour.

best + dance — It's hard to see a light like this and not start dancing.

best + dance — Mike Max is the band's drummer and he was going for it so hard. Drinking an entire beer THROUGH your own shirt that you've pulled up over your face on the dance floor is NEXT LEVEL SHIT.

best + dance — Ease on in...

best + dance — Party soldier.

best + dance — My parents cutting some serious rug. My dad is ALL about the hustle. Yes!

best + dance — On the way home we visited Lisa in Nolita who was working on opening a new clothing store called Court. All of us were in the tiny back office that had an electric fan on the floor pointed upwards - which everyone know instantly forces girls to pretend they are in a Whitesnake video. Awesome!

best + dance — ...and then you celebrate while someone tries to run through it?

best + dance — The view of the dance floor from the DJ booth. Ooof!

best + dance — ...a dance-party explosion! The source? Look directly under the disco ball and peep DJ Matty Matt on the decks in the other room! Hahaha!

best + dance — It was actually borderline mayhem! Everyone was dancing...

best + dance — ...and then parlayed them into a really nice face-to-face halftime dance breakdown.

best + dance — ...he cut in with the quickness and proceeded to light a disco inferno on the floor. He even kicked it off with a genuine "finger pointing straight up in the air" Travolta move! Check it out! Unbelievable! I thought it was gonna be downhill from there...

best + dance — ...but eventually gave up and just ripped the broken part off the lens. And was over-joyed to discover that despite the fact that I'd just dropped the camera on its lens and then ripped half of lens-assembly off the camera, that the camera still took perfectly good photos! (Not to mention that this is pretty much my favorite photo of Karen of all time. I love how it looks like it was taking during a private, Undies-Only dance party! *gasp!*).

best + dance — Sometimes I dance so hard I break my legs. Thankfully, Hot Karla was there to lend some support.

best + dance — ...promptly made more appropriate faces. Hahahaha.

best + dance — Awwwww, Yeah. Back it up, girl!

best + dance — ...the motherfucking Big Step. Hahahaha.

best + dance — This is how I dance.

best + dance — The best thing I've ever seen in my life was this pack of eight year-old girls from the Lower East Side who rolled up on their bikes to watch in disbelief. Their collective look of "WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE CRACKERS DOING?" cannot even be described.

After watching them try to make sense of the situation for more than five minutes, Grant and I wandered over and tried to make things more interesting. We explained (er, ok - lied) to the girls and told them that the kids were dancing as part of a hidden camera show - they were dancing stupid on purpose in hopes that people would yell stuff at them and heckle them - but the problem was, no one had heckled them yet. We told the girls that if they started shouting insults, they'd totally get to be on MTV. We let them ponder that for a few minutes, and then slunk back to enjoy the magic that ensued. Needless to say, the Dance Revolution packed up and headed back to their NYU dorm in a fucking (embarrassed) jiffy.

best + dance — Hahaha. Buddy's photographer friend emailed me this pic a few days later. Check me out rocking with a can of beer. I look like a Pabst's commercial. After karaoke I headed over to Lit to see what was shaking.

best + dance — Check out Vin's "I'm getting my nipples carressed" face. So awesome.

best + dance — Frisky?

best + dance — Hahahaha. He looks like he's doing the "Happy Snoopy" dance.

best + dance — For some reason this is the only pic I have of Grant singing...see him there in the background? Look carefully, I know it's hard to see him behind the group of people who actually got up out of their seats and started doing a FUCKING KICKLINE to the end of his incredible rendition of Frank's "New York, New York." (People from California got up and kicklined to "New York, New York" sung by a Brit. Think about that.)

best + dance — It was getting pretty late and Shelby, Tymber's roommate, seemed like she was tired and getting ready to go home. Grant sensing that Shelby was going to try to get Tymber to leave early with her, tried to get Shelby in the mix out on the dance floor in hopes that she'd stay a little longer. Check out the Fatty peeping Grant's crafty "Hey, now let's ALL dance together!" move from the sidelines. Smoooooooooth! Hahaha.

best + dance — Pulling out moves like this and everything. Kid ain't no joke, see?

best + dance — And then he treated us to even more "Frank dancing." (You should probably take the above image and save it to your desktop - that way, the next time you're feeling down, happiness is only a double-click away.)

best + dance — Why is it that when Grant get's really drunk he always ends up doing color-coordinated dance-duets with strange women?

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Holy best photo EVER! Sarah and Tara ~~munching~~ cutting rug.

sarah's lingerie karaoke birthday party

August 06, 2003

best + dance — One night when we were out like two years ago, Grant busted out his impressoin of "Molly Ringwald in every 80's movie" dance-move and cracked us all up. But ever since then, everytime he tries to dance, he inadvertently ends up doing the same Molly Ringwald dance - it just happens and he can't seem to stop. For once, the total and complete gayness that said dance move conjures, worked in his favor. You go, girlfriend!

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Dave with Lola (bartender at Enid's and lovely co-emcee of the new karaoke night at Sweet Ups).

February 27, 2003

best + dance — Here's Alex being propped up on the dancefloor Weekend At Bernie's style. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

best + dance — Hahahahaha! The only thing funnier than Vin's "robot face" in this pic is the girl in the background covering her mouth and laughing at him.

best + dance — You know, life's funny: One minute you're riding high at a fancy-smancy club in the West Village and dancing with a hot chick. And then just 10 minutes later...

best + dance — Turns out, the chica was totally diggin his shizzit and started cutting some serious rug with him.

best + dance — Grant was sweating this chick for awhile, so after he finished his ridicu-normous-sized drink he mustered up enough liquid courage to go up and start dancing with her.

best + dance — Forget about that "kissing co-workers" or nonsense, Emma just plain said fuck it and got up on the dancing cube in nothing but her undies. Fuck Yeah. (Also, it should be noted at this point that she's up there dancing with the infamous "tie off your weiner, professional stripper guy" from when Grant and I stripped).

best + dance — Bonus points for capturing Mr. Saks in the foreground of this shot. Schweet! Congrats, Kara and Tom!

best + dance — Hahahah! So funny!

best + dance — After all the singing, Billy and Amy cleared the dancefloor to perform a synchronized dance routine they'd been working on.

best + dance — ...only because this photo is the greatest. Look at who's large and in charge at the back of the caboose. Frances in the muthafucking hizzouse, you know what I'm sayin?

best + dance — Yo, so what's a white boy to do? Motherfucking dance, that's what.

best + dance — Check out my hand on her bald, little head as I shake it down! This is probably the second greatest photo on my website...

best + dance — Two screwdrivers later, the midget was still ambulatory (and dancing up a storm) So we decided it was time to step things up a notch...and started buying him shots. Of Tequilla. Cheap Tequilla. Cheap Bar Tequilla...which he drank with no further prompting from us, on the dancefloor. (Note girl in white shirt in the background laughing and pointing.) Tequilla makes all kinds of people do crazy stuff. We couldn't wait to see what it would make the midget do...

best + dance — Word.

best + dance — Er, sort of....but he got an "A+" for effort in my book. (You should've seen his little midget legs pumping to the beat as he attempted "the scramble." Priceless.