Practice The Pony: How to get ready for a Cyber Dance Party

Here's our Cyber Dance Party Pre-Flight Checklist:

First, check your hips: do they move? Try doing...oh, say, a figure 8 with them. How does that feel? Ok, next—how about your arms? Can you wave them about, fling them up in the air, maybe? Good, good. Now, let's test the shoulders. Try a shimmy. First a slow one...OK, great. Now, really shake it. You're a blender!! Your shoulders are a blur! That's it! All right....aaaand stop.

OK, how did that go? Everything more or less working? Fabulous! If any of your parts are recalcitrant, chair dancing (the sitting kind!) is encouraged. I plan to alternate dancing on the floor and in my chair for the duration of the event.

Now, the truly adventurous might want to practice The Pony, which might come in handy on  a few songs. Please don't jar anything loose while you're practicing, however. If you hear any rattling or crunching sounds and you suspect they might be emanating from your cartilage, consider stopping. As I said, chair dancing is perfectly acceptable.

Now, here are a couple of little things you can do right now to make listening to our songs quicker and easier come Monday:

1) Go to Napster now and register if you're not a registered user yet. It's free, safe, lega, really easy and only takes a second—there are only a couple of  fields on this page (look on the right half of the page). Just enter a user name and password of your choice, along with your email address, which they won't use if  you click the box telling them not to send you things. And you don't have to install anything!

2) Make sure  you have pop-up windows enabled just on the Napster site. You can turn 'em off again later.

3) Come back on Monday, October 2nd,  to join in the merriment. :)

I'll give instructions again on Monday, too! Meanwhile, have a wonderful weekend, kittens!

Comments

[Haven Rich]

Ok is it Monday yet? I think this is one of the few times I actually look forward to a Monday, how odd is that haha.

[Diana]

I'll have to brush up on my Running Man and Cabbage Patch. :P

[Haven Rich]

Welp, I've warmed up my Rodger Rabbit moves...I'm ready.

[Jennifer Y.]

I can't dance...might have to be a wallflower at this party.

[Julie Anne Long]

We're dragging you out onto the dance floor, Jennifer. ;) Or you can just point and laugh at the rest of us fools. LOL.

[Haven Rich]

It takes no dancing skills at all to stick a finger in the air and point in various directions. Just look at John T. in Saturday Night Fever. Anyone can do that move.

[Kathy K]

O-kay.... Um, what's the Pony... I think I've missed something - or any number of somethings??
I've registered on Napster and I've been sitting listening to some move-me songs... one that brings back memories and laughs is ZZ Top's "Legs"... this song came on the radio as my husband and I with our oldest ~ at that time only ~ child in his car seat, were driving on the highway at 110 Kph (about 70 mph). We turned the volume way up and our heads started to bob... until a car carrying 2 couples passed us. They were laughing, waving and giving us thumbs up; not sure what they thought we were doing, but looking at it from there perspective... hmmm, it was funny; still laugh about it 20+ years later. Good thing our son was too little to remember and hold it over our heads *grin*.

Some other excellent move-to-it songs are:

Michael Jackson ~ Beat It

Tom Cochrane & Red Rider ~ Life is a Highway

Da Rude ~ Sandstorm [Instrumental]

Soft Cell ~ Tainted Love

Don Henley ~ Boys of Summer

... and the Go-Go's, Banarama and many other of the great 80's stuff... my foot is tapping as I type.

Can't wait ladies!

Kathy