YouTube is definitely net-crack. These are some of the ones I watch over and over again.
John Barrowman sings "Anything Goes" from an extra on the Torchwood Season 1 DVD. 'Nuff said.
Ice dancing attracts me because it combines dancing and what must be the closest to flying one can get without leaving the ground. Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean are best known for their Olympic gold medal performance of "Bolero" in Sarjevo in 1984. This is a fan video compilation from their various dances and their ice dance film Fire and Ice (Dean in a little leather loincloth-thong, mmm!) set to the song "Brother John" by Chris de Burgh, a favorite of mine as well. I can't identify most of the other dances, unfortunately - I'd love to know what the one all in black at the beginning and end of the video is.
And in the silly fan film category, Gilbert and Sullivan meet Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back".
Commercial break! I don't even drink beer and this ad makes me want to buy it.
I don't drink tea, either, but this video almost makes me want to.
"I'd rather stay home and read." Fannish version of size counts, though I'd quibble with the particular choice of author.
Goth/Steampunk band Abney Park's "Airship Pirate" video. I've written a quadrille figure to go to this.
Torvill & Dean again, showing how much grace and control it takes to dance awkwardly in their performance to Simon & Garfunkel's "Cecilia".
A completely bizarre, um, video comic strip about George Washington, more or less. Not safe for work!
Hugh Casey's short film "Young Geeks in Love", set to a soundtrack of Tom Smith's "Rich Fantasy Lives." Poignantly familiar, especially the IM scene. That was so me in 1987, except it was Relay back then in the dark ages.
As long as we're beig poignant, here's a video that manages to be both joyful and terribly sad all at once.
Commercial break! Vive L'Empereur!
Barrowman again in a medley from a finale of the British show "Sound of Musicals". Watch as he and the Solid Gold Dancers Local Goth Cheerleadering Squad Sound of Musicals dance team perform the perkiest version of "Time Warp" ever, then skip to 6:07 for his turn as Jean Valjean in "One Day More" from Les Mis. Having a heavily pregnant Eponine adds a certain something to that as well!
I picked this one up from Dan Savage over at Slog. This one is Not Safe For Work due to simulated, um, well, just watch the video. As Dan said, "nothing's gayer than the 'Lonely Goatherd.'"
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