This meme's got legs . . .

June 1, 2006 4:13 PM

Dance Dance Evolution [YouTube, GMA] . . .Matt Harding just completed his second trip dancing his way around the world with an appearance on Good Morning America. The sublime dorkiness of his first video [YouTube, MeFi] turned him into InternetDancingSensationMattHarding and prompted an outpouring of joyful support, TV appearances, victimization by a YouTube identity thief, tribute videos, and . . . a corporate sponsorship. His next video will include footage from Antarctica , but the real question is whether we'll see the footage from the Parthenon where he was arrested for doing his white boy jig.
posted by donovan (7 comments total)

"Travel the world on a shoestring"???

That sounds tricky.
posted by papakwanz at 4:30 PM on June 1, 2006

oh, that's the guy from the parthenon deal huh? I was wondering why someone would want to dance in-front of the parthenon.
posted by puke & cry at 4:39 PM on June 1, 2006 [1 favorite]

This guy has nothing on Father Liam Finnegan.
posted by jack_mo at 5:25 PM on June 1, 2006

This guy has nothing on Father Liam Finnegan.

This is exactly what my first thought was. Still, Matt Harding hasn't had a heart attack yet... (do you think he'd bequeath MeFi his car so we could have a raffle?)
posted by greycap at 11:10 PM on June 1, 2006

I watched the original video while the theme from "the pink panther" was playing. Sublime.
posted by foozleface at 1:03 AM on June 2, 2006

His story makes me want to go dance at the Parthenon - dancing is holy.
posted by jb at 3:50 AM on June 2, 2006

Cool. I just happened upon this in Youtube, did a search in MeFi to see if people were talking about it. I loved it when he was dancing in front of the elephants and they went to scoot him away with their trunks and he gets spooked. Funny. The song's cool too. Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest. I'm always the last one to know about these things.
posted by ZachsMind at 9:06 AM on June 23, 2006