New Favorite Show

My pretty good dancer friend got me into this show which may have temporarily unseated Top Chef as my favorite reality TV show- America's Best Dance Crew.

There are few things I appreciate more than some really sick dance moves. People keep telling me I'm a really good dancer (probably because of the nerd outfit) but we were at a bar/club place Friday and these 3 black dudes started breaking it down real nasty in a circle and all I could do was just stop and watch and say wow. Dem peeps gots some rhythm.

What's cool about this show is that the two clear top groups are asian or almost entirely asian. The rest of the groups fast being eliminated were more bootie shakers, back flippers, "girl power" chick groups and some gay dudes on roller skates. Actually some of them are really pretty good but these two asian crews- JabbaWockeeZ and Kaba Modern are head and shoulders better than the rest.

I already know I'm being a JabbaWockeeZ dude for halloween next Xmas so I can break it down phantom of the opera style. They probably have the sickest moves overall but Kaba Modern has some cute chicks which gives them a different flavor. They also have some pretty tight choreography if perhaps just a tiny notch down from JWZ in the illness department. And amazingly their group doesn't seem to have any filipinos. Show is 1000x better than the Dancing with the Stars crap. It even has Mario Lopez aka AC Slater hosting it. So you KNOW it's legit. Anyway I've been watching these vids all day so here are the requisite clips (the show is only 4 episodes old). You can actually watch em straight off of the MTV website the day morning after (Thursday nights I think):

Kaba Modern 1:


JabbaWockeeZ 1:


Kaba Modern 2:


JabbaWockeeZ 2 (trying to figure out how dude does those moves to start the 2nd half of this one):


Kaba Modern 3:


JabbaWockeeZ 3 (sick sick ending to the challenge):


Kaba Modern 4 (best skit of the night finally outshined Jabba):


JabbaWockeeZ 4 (kind of a let down for me honestly but only because their last two weeks were so crazy):


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Had a small BBQ Saturday to take advantage of the 65 degree weekend weather and to celebrate the coming Spring weather... too bad it snowed today and all of this week. Bought a $10 table-top grill at BigLots and between building the damn thing and trying to keep the flames alive in the gale force winds we didn't each lunch until 5pm. But it was damn worth it. We have a $X00 gas grill at home but honestly nothing quite beats the taste of good old coal carcinogens seared all up in your proteins. Even on a cheapo grill. It was pretty exciting especially since some really dry grass nearby caught on fire and I had to quickly stomp it out with my shoes and I honestly thought for a second we were going to burn my apartment complex down.

I don't know if I can ever eat a steak in a restaurant again. I'm almost always disappointed after spending the usual 15-45 bucks and this was literally one of the best steaks I can remember eating, ever. Definitely top 5, maybe top 3. The long wait might have had something to do with it but still, not bad at $30 for a 5 pack of NY strips at costco. I will have to report back once I strongarm my neighbor into giving up his marinade recipe.

I'm getting hungry just looking at the pictures again...