As featured on User Friendly, there’s a Hamster Dance for the new generation. Learn it. Live it. Love it. I’ll be singing it for the next two weeks.
This clip has been making the rounds on the Internet, so odds are you’ve seen it. If you haven’t, you should watch it, preferably in HD at Vimeo. At the very least, click the title of this post to see it full size.
The premise is simple: Matthew Harding took a trip to 42 countries to film short clips of him doing a silly dance, sometimes alone, sometimes with lots of local folks, often in beautiful locations. The result is this 4:28 video.
I’m proud to share the fact that this guy is from Connecticut. They don’t call us nutmeggers for nothing.
Update: The song is (called Praan) is available at Amazon’s MP3 store. The web site for the project is, appropriately, wherethehellismatt.com, where there are more videos and maps.






January 19th, 2004 at 2:27 pm
I’m going to have to kick you for the badgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadger thing. Oh goodness gracious. I wonder if they’ll play it at Pravda, if we ask nicely!
Dan, now how about doing some work?
January 19th, 2004 at 2:28 pm
Doesn’t that sound like David Byrne on vox? Kinda sorta?
Or conversely the guy from Rusted Root? How did you find this?
January 19th, 2004 at 11:30 pm
I knew he cut out some scenes to keep the movie short!
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/25/
January 20th, 2004 at 9:32 am
Oh man that is good stuff!