Up jumps tha boogie

I'm in the mood to dance. I wish I could get paid to take dance class all day; I'd work a 60-hr week. Growing up I took dance, starting with the standard formula--ballet/tap/jazz--forming a love-hate relationship with both ballet and jazz, but loving tap. The times I hated the other classes were usually because I didn't like my teacher or my classmates. Sometimes both. Drama queen that I am, my favorite thing was the recital.

I eventually quit altogether, only to return to (go figure) ballet six years later, all for the love of performance. It was certainly a test of will, taking class with kids the same age I was when I quit. But I did well, moving up two levels in one year, and every year until I graduated. (Had I gone back one year earlier, I probably would have been in the advanced class.) My only regret is that I didn't have the confidence to go back to jazz, or even try hip-hop.

Today, due to unplanned but not unfortunate events, I'm no longer dancing. But seeing dance, whether live or on tv, awakens that suppressed urging to be on that springboard floor.

That said, here's a list of some of my favorite dance videos, in no particular order:

"Oh"--Ciara feat. Ludacris
"Rhythm Nation"
"If"
"I Get Lonely"--Janet Jackson
"Get Ur Freak On"
"I'm Really Hot"
"Hot Boyz"--Missy Elliot

"Hot Like Fire"
"Are You That Somebody"
"Try Again"--Aaliyah
"Maria, Maria"--Santana feat. Product G&B
"Smooth"--Santana feat. Rob Thomas
"Yeah!"
"You Make Me Wanna"--Usher
"My Love is Like (Whoa)"--Mya
"Baby Boy"
"Naughty Girl"
"Work it Out:"--Beyonce
"Like Glue"
"Gimme tha Light"--Sean Paul
"Bad"
"Thriller"
"Smooth Criminal"--MJ

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Words Cannot Describe...

BEEB WANTED TO QUIZ DEAD STAR
From Daily Record - 01/04/2005 (129 words) By Eva Simpson

A BUNGLING BBC researcher tried to get an interview with reggae legend Bob Marley - 24 years after his death.
She wrote to the Bob Marley Foundation asking if they could arrange for the Jamaican to appear on a BBC2 documentary, No Woman No Cry.


Current affairs researcher Paysley Ross said it would 'only involve Bob Marley spending one or two days with us', adding: 'The story would only work with some participation from Bob Marley himself.'


Marley died in 1981, aged just 36.
Last night, a Marley family source said: 'We didn't think there was anyone on the planet who didn't realise that Bob passed away years ago.'


A BBC spokesman said: 'This is not an April Fool. We are very embarrassed.'
http://www.bbc.co.uk

According to a co-worker of Ms. Ross, seems she is headed to LA for a reporting job by week's end. Must be nice.

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