Drums, Please.

After thinking about how neat o it'd be to be in the new Red Hot Chili Peppers video "TELL ME BABY". I remembered I had a chance to be in a video before.

It is one thing to be a good dancer it is a completely different things to get a few beers in you and bust out the running man on a crowded street in front of your friends. This was a lesson that I've learned, but that's not before making a buffoon out of myself in Philadelphia. This is where I tell my story, and let's pretend we have a flashback, Zack Morris style.

I used to hang out a bit in Philly and goof off with a bunch of folks, and one night I was out with a group of people and a "film casting" person. Well after a few beers and Tone Loc's "wild thing" on the speakers, I must have busted out some sort of running man/lawnmower dance. So one week later, I get a phone call from a casting agency in Philly and they said "we hear you're one of the finest break dancers around", pretty sure I was being mocked, I sort of went in on the joke. Until they told me to come and "bring my best dance moves" for the next Will Smith video. This was the 4th of 5th single off of that "get jiggy wit it" cd. I thought for a minute and said "f it. It could be fun"

It wasn't.

First there was "what to wear" I don't go to dance clubs and I didn't breakdance since 1982. So I figured, when all else fails, Go "Beastie Boy".

Wait. Not that cool. Beastie Boy like this:

That's about right. It was like 1999. And I borrowed my roomates' track pants, wore a "vans" tee shirt and remember wearing something stupid around my neck. This is where I'd say I ddin't wear a silly "Gilligan" style hat, but I'm pretty sure I wore that too.

So I look stupid and I go in with 6 other people. And these kids are club kids, I am WAY out of my league, the casting people were there, Will Smith's people were there and the casting person who saw me bust out my dance moves to Tone Loc, was also there. They put on the single (I have no idea what it was...this was the non-hit off that cd) and each person had like a minute to do their thing, I was the 6th guy. I saw these kids go, and they were serious, doing moves I could never do on my best day. I'm spending my time looking for window to crawl out of. Soon enoughi t's my turn...how am I about to compete with 6 legit club kids? I do the ROBOT. It was a mess, and then I flopped on the gound and did "the worm".

There's really no moral to this story, I just hope two things. One, that any trace of that audition video tape was destroyed forever, and two, that the next time someone tells me I'm a good dancer, that I have the intelligence to realize they are lying to me.

Now for a cd I hope everyone checks out:

OPERATION IVY

"No, no more, no more badtown" This is a great cd. Op Ivy did this and promptly disbanded. However the music still lives on in the Carr household and the Carr umm car. This cd rocks, it skanks, it pops, it's a lot of fun. something like 22 songs on here (I could be wrong, but it's a ton of songs) and some are still pretty relevant. Songs about society, unity, life....it's a great mix of punk/ska and it's pretty gritty. I've listened to this nonstop for years, and if you check it out and if you like it, hopefully you'll play it just as much (a couple of these guys went on to form RANCID, and one of the other guys showed up on the GREEN DAY "Behind the Music"special on VH1 and he looked like an accountant, that blew my mind a little bit).

"Stop This...War"-Operation Ivy, UNITY