{"id":379,"date":"2006-07-21T20:31:53","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T01:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/07\/21\/friday-night-videos-why-cant-i-dance-like-christopher-walken\/"},"modified":"2006-07-22T13:42:37","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T18:42:37","slug":"friday-night-videos-why-cant-i-dance-like-christopher-walken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Videos: Why Can&#8217;t I Dance Like Christopher Walken?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Liz Phair: Why Can&#8217;t I (2003)<\/b><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VI-d3dLBYZM\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VI-d3dLBYZM\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Fine, fine, the quality of Liz Phair&#8217;s work has declined since <i>Exile In Guyville<\/i>. Sure, <i>Liz Phair<\/i> is the goateed mirror opposite of <i>Exile In Guyville<\/i>, all slick production value and shallow pop writing. But this video&#8217;s concept is great: the song is playing on a jukebox, with the band appearing on various record covers that feature as their titles the lyrics. On a side note, it appears this song was a big hit with the anime crowd, as I had trouble finding the video amongst all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anime_music_video\">anime music videos<\/a> set to the song.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fatboy Slim: Weapon of Choice (2001)<\/b><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6hDGAvqwgdk\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6hDGAvqwgdk\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Dance Dance Christopher Walken! Walken&#8217;s background as a dancer helps him in this Spike Jonze video, but what really sells it are his facial expressions. I am guilty of watching this video over and over and over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Phair: Why Can&#8217;t I (2003) Fine, fine, the quality of Liz Phair&#8217;s work has declined since Exile In Guyville. Sure, Liz Phair is the goateed mirror opposite of Exile In Guyville, all slick production value and shallow pop writing. But this video&#8217;s concept is great: the song is playing on a jukebox, with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=379\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Night Videos: Why Can&#8217;t I Dance Like Christopher Walken?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}