All he wants to do is dance, dance

[blue_lotus13]

While at the aforementioned dinner, a friend of mine asked a mysterious question, which has no answer. In fact, it's a complete mystery, much like the Caramilk secret. The question in question was, "What do you do when you find out a co-worker has an embarassing blog?"

This prompted me to reveal that I am a regular reader of the blog of a 19 year old drug addled gay hustler from Kingston , but this is not what my friend had in mind.

He revealed that his co-worker is The Daily Dancer . He is a computer software programmer, who webcams himself dancing about 3 times a week, and posts it to the web.

At first I thought this sounded kind of strange and infinitely geeky, but after watching a few of the videos, I have to applaud his creativity and bravado. In my belief, the daily dancer is simply capturing something that many of us love to do- dance with abandon in our homes! His dancing is really no more geeky than my desire to watch all the Oscars and blog about them, my love of all things teenage, or my desire to write the Great Canadian teen novel. He's creative, and the dances are different. Plus, he's lost 35 pounds since starting the website and some of the dances really made me laugh. There's nothing wrong in bringing a little bit of joy to someone's life.

In some ways, watching the daily dancer made me wonder if this is what it's come down to. Do we all need and crave attention so much that we are willing to put our most private selves on the Internet? (Yes, I realize the irony of this) Do we all have the need to be creative?Do we all have these multi-faceted layers that program computers by day and dance by night?

Also, I have to tell [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] to scroll down and watch the "Do you love me" dance for the homage to "Dirty Dancing."

I think this is a question that I will be pondering.

Comments

[pescana.livejournal.com]

I don't know that everyone has the layers and the need to be creative, but I think a lot of us do. And the relatively recent idea of blogs and widespread internet access has given a lot of us an outlet for this need that otherwise we wouldn't have. It's not a universally good thing, but I do think it has helped a lot of people (me included) in some way. Just because I write doesn't mean I expect people to read and/or enjoy what I have to say, but if something I put out there helps someone else, or connects with others, I'd say it's positive.

And it's definitely interesting to ponder.

[zocalo.livejournal.com]

omg that's one hilarious blog! but hey i can think of more embarrassing things than being caught dancing on the net.

i do think we're all attention whores to some degree. i'm going to write about this idea in my term paper on the cultural practice of blogging.

[suhl.livejournal.com]

I can't decide if I want to send him an award, actual dance lessons, or a psychiatrist's phone number! I love it! And so glad I caught this post, given how much I've not read in the last week. Poor hippo. :-D That is a man with guts. What else did your friend say about the guy?

[dzuunmod.livejournal.com]

Hi there, this is unrelated, but your journal was recommended to me by a mutual friend. So I added you and I'm saying hello.