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!misshapes24
amber15
vin12
meredith9
grant8
!strangers8
!crowd6
frank6
!wedding6
!best5
ryan mcginley5
!tompkins5
!karaoke4
me4
amy k3
emily3
fatty3
liz3
mom3
sarah3

dance — ...were the first people in history brave enough to try to turn the area behind the pool table into a "dance floor." (If you're a guy, this usually results in an asskicking. If you're a girl, it's usually interpreted by the male patrons that you're "asking for it.")

dance — The Grizza cleaned up all his pins in the 10th frame and celebrated by doing THE WORM right on the lane!

dance — ...people out dancing on a Wednesday night! Woooo!

dance — This is how I dance.

dance — Worked up a serious sweat playing Dance Dance Revolution.

dance — Nerd invasion! Meredith walking like an Egyptian in front of the tank.

dance — Goodnight.

dance — Meredith and Amy.

dance — Ryan and Amy hitting the dance floor.

dance — "I don't care if you're hiding a dragon in your shirt, you're still gonna get some hot-dog-in-the-bun action on the dancefloor."

dance — There's a Phildabeast on tha loose! Frank cuts some rug with his older brother.

dance — Seth and Liz.

dance — Fatty busting out some moves he learned off of his "Kid N' Play Dancetastic" DVD.

dance — Frank doing his impression of Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic.

dance — Square dance hoe-down.

dance — Here's Frank shaking his shit-tank.

dance — After the photos outside, the band kicked it into high gear and everyone went back inside for a dance party!

dance — The first dance!

dance — Riverdance sassiness!

dance — Ryan tearing up the dancefloor with his patented "Irish Jig."

dance — Afterwards, we went to the basement of Lit and had ourselves a front-room dance party.

dance — Rudy! A message to you, Rudy!

dance — Amy and Meredith dancing up a storm (with Dolph Lundgren's son?).

dance — Grant was jumping up and down and I managed to capture this clutch action shot.

dance — What I lacked in technical proficiency, I made up for in balls to tha walls rock the fuck out tracks. Off the top of my head, a few of my choice jizzams of the night were:

Judy is a Punk - Screeching Weasel
I Don't Want to Grow Up - Descendents
Mustapha Dance - The Clash
Gimme Some More - Busta Rhymes
99 Red Balloon - 7 Seconds
Ready Steady Go - Generation X
Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks
Dancing Machine - Jackson 5
Gloria - Laura Brannigan (of course!)
Dance Hall Music - Murder City Devils
Bombshell - Op Ivy
Mona Lisa - Slick Rick
Miss You - Rolling Stones
Rat Fink - Misfits
Maneater - Hall & Oates

and my personal fave...
Jump in the Line - Motherfucking Harry Belafonte

dance — 5:08am: Cat and Sarah closing out the dancefloor.

dance — And Sarah joined the schweaty danceparty.

dance — The first dance as hubby and wifey.

dance — ...mooooooooooooooooves.

dance — Hey, check it out. Kickline.

dance — Grant onstange trying to get the hang of the very unique "FrankDance."

dance — They can swing dance? Who knew?

dance — Hahaha. Look at my mom excited and looking all eight years old.

dance — Uh-oh! I bet I know who's getting some tonight!

dance — And who's this handsome disco couple? (Seriously, you haven't lived until you've seen my dad do his disco hand shuffle on the dance floor. It's what happiness is made of).

dance — The Electric Slide? Oh no, they did-n't.

dance — Dancefloor action!

dance — Ok, so now it's well after 3am and things are starting to heat up on the dancefloor. After watching Rachel dance dirty with a bunch of other girls for a few songs, Grant couldn't take any more and snuck Rachel over onto a stool in the corner for a...

dance — Meredith and Sarah.

dance — Grant doing "The Molly."

dance — Amber was in full-effect that night. Every time Lawrence would look away, Amber would start dancing all sexy and freaking him from behind without touching him. Do you know how hard it is to dance all fast behind someone without touching them and accidentally giving yourself away? Girl's got skills.

dance — Boys dancing.

dance — Ryan doing his little "jig."

dance — ...some more dancing.

dance — ...while Joanna writhed (upside-down, no less) on tha pole.

dance — Sarah looking like she just stepped out of a salon.

dance — The crowd going wild to Buddy playing "inflatible fiddle" to The Devil Went Down to Georgia.

dance — Danceparty.

dance — Buddy driving the love train.

dance — Afterwards, I just missed catching Sarah making out with this boy!

dance — Amber harassing people she doesn't know.

dance — The dance floor: 2:45am.

dance — Wooo! Discolight dancing upstairs.

dance — Vin started busting out moves in his la-la-leather jacket which practically...

dance — Yay, party!

dance — Vin countered with the "Tiger Claw."

dance — Amber with the "kitty cat."

dance — ...DANCE CONTEST! Woo. Here's my man Vin bringing it back to the old school hardcore show days by "picking up the change." (Check out the dudes in the background all like "Oh no, he didn't!")

dance — After returning home and doing an hour of jumping jacks to ensure I'd exorcised the majority of my spicy thai burps, I met up with Vinay and we headed over to Misshapes.

dance — See? Moves being busted.

dance — Sure he might wear blue socks, but that doesn't mean that he won't dance you right off the floor until your standing there watch him do his thang with tears in your eyes because you know that the girl you had a crush on in the purple skirt is totally going to end up playing with his ding dong before the night is over.

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.

dance — Kid in the Green shirt: "Do you know what's lame? The fact that people just don't dance, man. I mean, it's like we spend our whole lives being afraid and then one day, we die. That's just so sad. Know what I'm saying?"

dance — Token Asian Friend in Bad Hat: "I'm totally picking up what you're laying down, nigga. Why don't we all go to the park after breakfast and just dance? Just like forget everyone and dance. Let's just totally let go and take it to anotha level. I bet if we do it long enough, everyone else will join in and it will be a big ironic party! I've a boom box and a pair of track pants upstairs. What about the rest of y'all? Y'all with me?"

dance — ...a bunch of college freshmen playing a boom box and self-conciously dancing while trying really hard to pass off their insecurity as irony. (The fact that I was standing four feet from them laughing and unabashedly taking pictures probably didn't help). It only took a glance to imagine the conversation that had been held minutes earlier at an NYU dorm cafeteria table that prompted this "happening."

dance — After brunch we decided to walk over to Thompkins Square Park and do a little people watching and lookee what we found...

dance — The night wore on and the place started to clear out, but we all kept on dancing. I thought I was being all sneaky trying to capture picture of Vin "in action" practically by himself on the dance floor.

dance — And then just when I was about to snap my second photo, he came to a dead-stop, planted his feet and flipped me the double bird. So sneaky!

dance — Here's Vin. Bum shakin.

dance — Even Jews should leave room for Jesus.

dance — Heather demonstrating the proper way to dance at a Catholic High School prom: "leaving enough room for Jesus in between."

dance — This photo makes me happy.

dance — Erinne was right - and the club (some bizarro Asian-themed club over by Boston College) let us in and we hit the dance floor.

dance — Quicly became a duet. Er, sort of. This girl didn't sing with me, however, she did lay writing on the stage while I sang and did all sorts of crazy floor dancing. It significantly enhanced my performance.

dance — Amber's well known across NYC for her drunken propensity to grab errant strangers and drag them onto the dance floor.

dance — Grant doing his now-famous "Molly Ringwald" dance out on tha floor.

dance — C'mon Ed, Let's Dance!

dance — Afterwards, Grant and Jen Choi pussed out and went back to my apartment to crash (Grant had just got back from LA and was crashing in my spare bedroom because he still a subletter in his place) and Vin, Amber and I went on to Lit to be idiots and dance. Check out Vin's raver-face. So awesome.

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.

dance — And so our three-person dance party began.

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

dance — Frisky?

dance — Ten minutes later and Vin and Amber are back on the dancefloor both doing the "white man's overbite."

dance — Hahahah.

dance — Amber swinging her around and around. So fucking awesome.

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dance — ...and ultimately, the cermonial, birthday freaking of strangers on the dancefloor. Happy bday, Amber!

dance — While taking pics of Alexis and Jessie dancing, I noticed something...

dance — ...birthday dancing.

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