These Dance Videos are gonna Kill Me!!

You may think it's hilarious, but for the last hour and a half I have been sweating like a pig in front of my television, learning the choreography for the new Janet video "Rock with u". And man, am I winded! Hell, you may think I'm too old for this, but this crap is fun! Just like the old days.

Peeps, when I was a kid, I used to learn the steps to every video that came out. I practically had the remote control glued to my hand half the time, rewinding and rewinding and rewinding one more time. Like many of us, I had "Thriller" down-pat! That was one of my all time favorites. I remember me and my two best friends at the time crowding in front of the TV everytime the video came on. Our favorites of all time were "Beat it" by the King and "Pleasure Principle" by the other Mighty One.

We loved choreography so much we even started ourselves a little group; called ourselves "The Classics". We even entered a few talent shows. We did routines off of "When Doves Cry", "The Glamorous Life" and Lionel Richie's "Runnin' with the Night". We had such hots for those videos.

Still today, I love me some videos. I may be hittin 40, but I still like to shake my tailfeather. I'm probably gonna be infatuated with music videos and intricate choreography until I leave this earth. I need to get into better shape now, too. Ugh, my stomach looks like I swallowed a small child. It ain't pretty. All this snow outside is not conducive to much outdoor activity. But, I think I mighta just lost 5 pounds jumpin around like a hyena. But it's so cool learning the steps and being able to do the dance along with the professionals. I wanted to be a dancer at one time, but hell, I didn't have the real stamina it took at the time, so my interests took me elsewhere.

I still love to dance, though. There's no better feeling to me (besides sex!) than listening to some dance music that I love and getting loose on the floor. Wow. How that makes me reminisce about Texas. That South Beach was the place to dance. And they had a video bar where they played all the best dance videos, too. Don't get excited...I never did any routines or anything at the club in the middle of the dance floor. That always gives me the ickies when I see people out there doing the routines. I don't know why. Envy, maybe? I don't know. I don't think so.

This Janet video is pretty damn smooth, though. The choreography is not too intricate, but it looks good as hell and it's slick. This is her second video from her latest album "Discipline". The first was "Feedback", a bad-ass jam and I've already learned the choreography for that one. Well as much as I wanted to learn anyway. Secret: Her single "Luv" is the baddest jam on the whole album; stupid crunk!!

This love for choreography didn't just creep back up either. I've been learning videos constantly for a while. I maybe shouldn't brag about it, but hey, I ain't shame. Let's see, I learned Justin Timberlake's "My Love", too. That was an awesome video.

I can picture myself at like 60 tryin to do a cross-step, change and breakin' a hip! LOL. Oooooh, that reminds me of one time when I was a teen-ager and I was in the back yard doing one of my many routines, and kicked my leg in the air and fell flat on my back! I couldn't breathe for like a minute after that. Once I regained my wind, I looked around to see if anybody had seen that, and when I was sure no one had, I laughed like a loon! That sh*t was funny!! Aaaah, good times.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to be careful of breaking a bone when I hit 50 or so, cause I know I'm gonna dance til I die. Music is my life and moving to the sound of it is as natural to me as breathing. So, I'm really looking for some great videos to come out with some awesome choreography. I might have a few years of "step-kick-turn" in me. Either way it goes, please don't stop the music!!