An artist's rendition of the shark excreting you.

[thebitterguy]

Christopher Walken dances in a video for a Fatboy Slim song with lyrics inspired by Dune.

It is a nice big fat ball of nerd.

Walk without rhythm, and it won't attract the worm.

p.s. Anyone get the post title?

Comments

[lowercaseem.livejournal.com]

Probably still my favourite music video.

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

That...that is *very* strange! I like it. Thanx.

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Christopher Dancin', we called him.

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

And I could stay up all night and let YouTube and Fatboy Slim convince me that I actually like music videos, but I'll save it for another time.

[iamnikchick.livejournal.com]

Oh, I lurves me som Christopher Walken.

[the-tall-man.livejournal.com]

Oh, god.

Took me most of a week to learn that routine; I just about broke a table doing it.

Except for the flying bit. I can't do that part at all.

[perich.livejournal.com]

Though it's been ... four years? five? since I saw that video, I never got the Dune connection until now. Thank you!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Have you seen him in Pennies from Heaven?

[achilleus.livejournal.com]

that made my week.

thank you.

[thebitterguy]

Oh, it's quite good. But it's no Thriller.

[thebitterguy]

Hah. That's very funny on so many levels.

[thebitterguy]

That's a dedicated piece of dancing. Once upon a time, a young man did Footloose at Karaoke and did the interstitial dance. I didn't really want to go on after him.

[thebitterguy]

I have not. I heard it was a bad film.

[thebitterguy]

I also had to have it explained to me by someone else. Who really listens to the lyrics of Fatboy Slim songs, anyway?

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, though mostly because Steve Martin just wasn't the right guy for it.

But, hey, Walken dances up a storm! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnHLsDuleAs)

Especially the last 30 seconds or so, though no one under 17 is admitted to that stage of the number.

[the-tall-man.livejournal.com]

Heh. It's worth learning bits of, at least - There are a lot of steps in there that, once you're learned them, change your regular dancing a bit. It's like learning an Astaire routine (or, for that matter, one by Michael Jackson).

[thebitterguy]

NP. It is an awesome bit of video.

[rabidchyld.livejournal.com]

I have always loved that video. Fatboy Slim has always been cool to me, though.

[optimussven.livejournal.com]

Give solid credit to Spike Jonze who directed the video and I'm sure came up with the whole concept.

[thebitterguy]

Oh, true. He is a genius in that craft. And a good performer, too.

[thebitterguy]

He is quite the entertainer. He sings n' dances n' flies blimps.

[the-tall-man.livejournal.com]

Stolen!

[righteousfist.livejournal.com]

Coulda used some cowbell....

[thebitterguy]

It's gotta have more cowbell, true.

[thebitterguy]

He's good for putting together catchy little tunes, and his collaborators do good videos too. I love the Praise You one, too.

[branger23.livejournal.com]

One of the greatest music videos of all time, if not THE GREATEST.

That's what I like about Walken--not afraid of doing stuff like this.