Teach Me How to Dougie

Glee Version:


MMA fighters version:

LXD Villains: OX

Performance on Conan:



Clip from Season 2:

Nostalgia for the 90s

I love how a song can take you back to a certain time, a specific memory of someone special, or just a sweet memory of a simpler time.

The 90s was a great decade for music and also memorable movies:

Remember Good Will Hunting? Mallrats? Clueless? Seven? Fight Club?  A River Runs Through It? Forest Gump? The Usual Suspects?  Schindler's List?  American History X? Titanic?  Seven?  The Big Lebowski?  Saving Private Ryan?  Pulp Fiction?  The Matrix?  The Sixth Sense?  Interview with the Vampire?  The Crow?  Scream I & II?  Species I & II?  I Know What You Did Last Summer?  Basketball Diaries?  Sleepers?  Jerry Maguire?  Mrs. Doubtfire?  Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead?    Home Alone?  Jurassic Park?  Clerks?  Varsity Blues?  Cruel Intentions?  Dazed and Confused?  American Pie?  Hackers?  The Lion King?  Beauty and the Beast?  Toy Story?  Starship Troopers?  Speed?  Empire Records?  Men in Black?  Tremors?  Mission Impossible?  The Sandlot?  Apollo 13?  The Virgin Suicides?  Forever Young?  Silence of the Lambs?  Event Horizon?  Austin Powers?  True Lies?  Trainspotting?  It?  The Shawshank Redemption?  12 Monkeys?  Backdraft?  Bad Boys?  Batman Returns?  Boyz n the Hood?  Braveheart?  The Client?  Cliffhanger?  The Craft?  Crimson Tide?  Dances with Wolves?  Edward Scissorhands?  Fargo?  The Fifth Element?  Goodfellas?  Groundhog Day?  Hot Shots?  Hook?

(Some of the movies listed above are clearly "bad movies" but they still left an impression so they made the list.)
I could describe a story and the accompanying memories for each of these movies...

Man time flies...

"McNabb Got FUJITA'ED"

I enjoyed this article about linebacker, Scott Fujita, so I've reposted it here. (Original article.)

(Image taken from this blog:  povcrystal.blogspot.com)

HELLO, I'M-JAPANESE

Scott Fujita is helping to bring the Saints back to life. And that's the least surprising thing about him

by David Fleming
It's odd at first.

When you push open the massive mahogany door of Scott Fujita's warehouse-style loft in New Orleans, there's a Mardi Gras-style balcony up front and an exposed wall of burned-black bricks near the back. Yet despite how much Fujita says his Japanese heritage means to him, there's no Asian-influenced decor anywhere to be seen. Then he leads you around a corner to his den. And there, sitting on a white metal computer desk (next to Barack Obama's new book) is a stunning blue ceramic recreation of The Great Wave Off Kanagawa.

Admiring the piece as he moves, Fujita seems too tall and fluid to be a linebacker. Then he sits down, and his desk—now in the visual frame with his massive shoulders, back and forearms—suddenly looks like a TV tray. Fujita begins opening files on his computer, and with each click he reveals the most cherished artifacts of his remarkable journey, from adopted child to college walk-on to discarded draft pick to centerpiece of the resurgent Saints defense.

He opens a picture of his parents, reaches out to touch their faces on the screen. Given up by his birth mother when he was 6 weeks old, Scott was adopted by Helen and Rod Fujita and raised in Camarillo, Calif. Helen, a retired secretary, is white. Rod, a retired high school teacher and coach, is a thirdgeneration Japanese-American. He was born inside an Arizona internment camp during World War II.

Fujita opens more photos. There's one of him holding hands with his wife and college sweetheart, Jaclyn, on Senior Day at Cal; this was a few months before the Chiefs took him in the fifth round of the 2002 draft. There's another one of him playing Pee Wee football, the chubby-cheeked, blond-haired, green-eyed kid with the Japanese name on his jersey. There's another of his paternal grandmother, Lillie, who once overheard him introducing himself like this: "Hi! I'm Scott. I'm 4. And I'm Japanese."

Everyday I'm Shufflin'!

I heard this song on the radio and found it catchy but I just saw the music video today and found it pretty funny. Now I wanna get up and start shufflin' haha.

Kherington Payne

Fantastic dancer, I saw in the film, "Fame."



The following dramatic-scene-cum-musical-number is amazing but the movie it's from ("Fame") is very lackluster.

"Black and Gold:"

Sick Dance Scenes from "Step Up 3"

"Set Fire to the Rain"

"Rolling in the Deep" has been played ad nauseam on the radio so I had grown sick of the British singer but a fellow lifeguard talked about how good her other songs are, so I gave it a try and found to really love this other song that is never played on American radios:

I Love This Band

This Portland-based band blew up after "Garden State" and sort of just fell of the radar. (Tangent: Speaking of Portland, there's apparently a TV series called "Portlandia." Haha will definitely have to check that out.) I used to listen to them a lot in undergrad but it's been too long. I love browsing my iPod and rediscovering my old favorites. Here's one of 'em:



And another: