afro astaire, LOL

I love that you had the confidence to choose "Breakin" for your first post.

Been lurking for a long time, picked up the SiftSpeak.

ah, you got a vote from rickgee...he's great. He loves vintage music videos too.

I can do that.

Sweep, I mean.

Edited: Switched to a slightly longer version on YouTube, with Ozone's Astaire line. Turbo: "Who?"

I saw Breakin' in its original theatrical run (yes, a Sift elder who is, in fact, elderly).

At the end of the film, this inspired kid did a "centipede" starting from the front row, all the way up the aisle, and out the front door.

God I wish I could post that gruesome but compelling video. Good SC times.

dotdude, I knew you were going to upvote this :-)

psst . . .eaglepowers. Vote for your own vid and graduate out of this little version of dag/james purgatory.

Oh, here. Let me do it.

it's better than the alternative. A significant barrier to entry is all that is required to deter most people. See lock on your front door.

Cool, thanks for the votes. But I'm still on probation--is that supposed to change automatically?

Congratulations! The minimum votes to graduate to full member status have been received. Probation member has been promoted to full-fledged member.

Don't let Viacom [or insert vertical integration mogul of yr choice -- Mark Cuban, anyone?] see that last remark, james, or they will never buy the Sift and wallpaper it up with adverts.

Your salon is their nightmare.

I do like the new tiny hurdle for new members, though the gold stars have to be awake and responsible and check that queue.

you're almost out of the queue, one more vote to get out tonight...

ah, you know you can vote for yourself.

Thanks for the tip, swampgirl.

*promote

Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Thursday 21st September 2006 (promotion called by gold star member rickegee)

yowsah...

breakdancing is like magic.

*dead

This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by eric3579.

rasch187 has fixed this video's dead embed code - no Power Points awarded because rasch187's points are already fully charged.

*nochannel (I believe Swampy said no to 80s posts)
*music
*cinema
*hiphop

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