How To Open A Banana

Eternal Zoom

Via Bits & Pieces: http://www.lehtikuva.fi/hehkuva/

Click anywhere and keep zooming. I gave up after ten minutes.

I'm Sorry...More Micheal Jackson!

The King of Pop is mourned by thousands of fans around the world. One of the ways to celebrate his memory is try to reproduce his best known dance steps: the moonwalk. You can join the commemoration, if you want, by sending a video of you moonwalking to this site: http://www.eternalmoonwalk.com/

Warning: if you go on that site, you will be sucked in, spending hours watching people (and animals and things)  moonwalk with more or less success.

In ze meene taime... let's see the master do it.

Update: 10 July 2009

Apparently -- and I'm shocked, shocked!!! -- some people don't know how to moonwalk!!! So here's a tutorial, with (bad) French subs. So there's no more excuses.

Michael Jackson Memorial

Here are the photos from the memorial: http://www.flickr.com/photos/talkleft/sets/72157621098556670/show/

And the musical tribute:

The original number:

Michael Jackson's Last Rehearsal

Geez, I miss him!

KOSHI!!!!!

This year at Jazzfest be sure to catch Montreal’s premiere Kung-Fu comedy act Koshi. Koshi features the acrobatic breakdancing of bboy WD-40, the circus skills of Emmanuel Cyr, the dancing ability of Danielle Hubbard, and the vocal talents of Jason Levine. Replete with incredible actions scenes, physical comedy, and one-liners, Koshi is guaranteed to knock your socks off, tickle your family’s fancies, blow your friends minds and put your lover in the mood for even more ACTION!!!! (regardless of sexual orientation!!!)

So come on down to Montreal's Quartier des Spectacles for a real treat!

Schedule(subject to change):

Friday July 3rd:
8:30pm - de Maisonneuve between Jeanne-Mance and St-Urbain
10:00pm - St-Urbain & St-Catherine
11:15pm - St-Urbain & St-Catherine

Saturday, July 4th
7:00pm - St-Catherine in front of the steps
8:00pm - de Maisonneuve & Jeanne-Mance
10:30pm - de Maisonneuve & Jeanne-Mance

Sunday, July 5th
7:15pm - St-Catherine in front of the steps 
8:30pm - St-Urbain & St-Catherine
10:00pm - St-Urbain & St-Catherine

 A preview from last year (This year will be a new and improved version):

Home Movies

Here is a video I took of my younger son B-Boy when he was a baby, in the park with his friends.

Just kidding...

Here's the video clip showing The Making Of:

Thriller 2009

Two years ago, I found out about an organization called Thrill the World which is dedicated to organizing groups around the world to dance the choreography of Michael Jackson's video Thriller together on a certain date at a certain time. They provide the music and teach the choreography step by step. Since my lifelong dream was to dance like Michael Jackson (isn't that everybody's lifelong dream, anyway?), I tried to form a group to do that dance, but it was a miserable failure. I have to show you the video, one of these days, you’d piss your pants laughing at my pathetic efforts . Here's how it should be done.

Last year, I tried again, but couldn’t even rustle up enough people. This year, now that Michael is dead, I guess it is even more important for me to do the dance, before something happened to me as well and I would die regretting not having done it.

Anyway, go to the Thrill The World site (http://www.thrilltheworld.com/) and try to get your own group to learn the steps. This year, the event will be held on: Sunday, October 25th at 12:30am UTC / GMT.

To encourage you, here is a YouTube clip showing Michael Jackson and his crew of dancers rehearsing the piece. You’ll find that even Mr. Moonwalk himself makes mistakes. So I’m not too embarrassed to make a fool of myself yet one more time, a bit like the hippos in Fantasia trying to dance the Nutcracker ballet.

And of course, one cannot mention Thriller without showing the other two famous versions:

The Indian version (with subtitles from Buffalax)

And the Philippines prison inmates version



I'll see you in October!