Live to Dance, Dance to Live...

[skellington]

A while after I started dancing, I heard about this guy named Frankie Manning.   I got the impression he was older, but didn't know anything about him.  So I looked him up on YouTube.

I find a video, and start watching it.  I could do that move.  That's some solid dancing.  I could probably learn that move.  OK, he's got style, and it will take me a

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[kellinator]

He sounds like a really awesome guy. I wish he could have made it to one more birthday because I know he would have had a blast.

[skellington]

We're on medivh right now. (And I don't use skellington there.) (And it is a movie about Halloween, and that's my birthday...)

The scary thing about the movie clip is that they shot it with only one camera, so every camera angle meant they had to repeat that routine. Over and over again, for 2 12-hour days, on a brightly lit unairconditioned sound stage. They were amazing athletes.

Anyway, posting from my phone in NYC for his birthday/memorial service. More later.