You da Man!

A couple of weeks ago I was searching for "Where is Carmen Sandiego?" . For those of you who don't know what that is , it was this old DOS based game that I played when I was in the 4th or 5th grade.

Google popped up a "Where the Hell is Matt" as one of search results and at that time I paid no attention to it .... but last week someone at work shared a link from the site which had a video of Matt.

Now you are probably wondering who the hell is Matt , let along where the hell he might be. He is a 31 year old guy from CT , who went around the world twice ... dancing. No its not one of those guys who go around the world to learn about the native dances of particular countries - instead he is a guy who went around the world, and stopped at places and danced and took videos of that and posted it online. Its not like he dances well, and its not like he knows a lot of moves. In fact he has just the one move and that one is terrible at best. Its the sort of thing you are likely to do when you've had one too many shots of Tequila or the poison of your choice.

He went around the world the first time around in 2006... and once the videos of that were posted he became "semi-famous" and in 2007 he did it again but this time he invited all the people who had emailed him after his 2006 video, to come dance with him and they did.

His video is fascinating... not because of the places he's been to because am sure if you switched on Discovery or TLC you would end up seeing those places... but fascinating because of the way people in it are dancing ,with him, in it. Old men, young men, women, kids...everyone for that moment the video was being shot forgot whatever it is that they have going on in their lives and danced.... and it was nothing fancy.... but they had fun which is the most important of all. They jumped, they wriggled, they danced and had fun doing it which is evident in every single face .

The few things that stood out for me were the enormous wave in Tongatapu, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia (its fucking surreal) and the background song for the 2008 video.

The song is in Bengali and I didn't get till I watched the video for the 3rd time!! (shame on me... considering am a half Bengali!!).

So... if you think you could use a smile go watch the video at www.wherethehellismatt.com . It ll do the job and make you feel good about life .

And Matt, if you need a backup dancer, lemme know. I am terrible myself :)