Go My Way by Caroleeena

This song is called, "Go My Way" and it's by The Bacon Brothers, a band formed by Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael. They are offering it free to people and asking them to make videos with it and post them on YouTube. I love this! As many of my hooper friends know, YouTube keeps taking down our videos of us dancing in our living rooms to music that we purchased and rightfully own. It makes me mad. We have a big discussion happening on Tribe about it right now. They just yank our videos, even though they support these artists and are testaments to their music that we want to dance to it. I think it honors the artist and is good promotion for them.

Clearly The Bacon Brothers get that too. They are collecting these videos and they're going to give one lucky living room dancer an ipod for their efforts. Unfortunately, I didn't hear about this until I was within hours of the deadline (and headed out to another performance) but I thought i would give it a shot so I downloaded the song and did one quick dance before I headed out. I did okay. There are a few things I'd have done differently if I'd had time to do another and of course I hit some stuff because my little living room is so small and it's a real challenge to NOT hit stuff in here but I am going to post it anyway. I like most of it. I might even still share it with the Bacons. I mean, it's an opportunity to be one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon, right!?!

Seriously though, I want to support them in this new endeavor. I think it's cool that the two brothers are collaborating together and I have always appreciated multi-faceted artists -- I am one myself. I've always liked Kevin Bacon and his wife Kyra Sedgwick too. They seem like nice folks. Real. And I read recently that they got ripped off bigtime in that ponzi scheme by Bernie Madoff. That makes me mad. That guy is still living it up in his Madison Ave penthouse apt under house arrest while his victims are suffering and some have even committed suicide. It's just wrong. But my anger does no good. And it's not really the point. It just hurts my heart for them. They seem like good people and I hate they got their security yanked away and their trust shattered like that. Even though it's just money and there's always more money where that came from and everything happens for a reason and all that, I just know that kinda betrayal feels lousy. Having the rug pulled out from under you sucks. That kind of betrayal can leave life-long wounds and shake up your faith in the goodness of people. That's the worst thing about it. So that's what I was thinking about when I was dancing to this. I was trying to send out, "It's gonna be okay" energy. "New doors are opening" energy. This is my effort to support the opening of one of these doors, to contribute to an energetic shft, to pour some love on it. It may not be my most flawless dance but it was fun and I enjoyed the ritual of feeling like I was pouring some goodness out into the world. I hope I stirred up some cosmic ju-ju for them and I send it out to everyone who is feeling taken advanatge of in these trying times. If there is only one true thing in this world, it is this: "This too shall pass." Hang in there.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Caroleeena
• Go
• My
• Way
• Kevin
• Bacon
• Brothers
• hula
• hoop
• hoopdance

[martamima]

I love to see you dancing with such a BIG hoop - I love the big ones myself - how big IS it? Beautiful movement, and so much fun in there!

xOOOx

[Caroleeena]

Thanks Marta. This is a 42 inch hoop. I, too, prefer larger hoops and this is the largest size I can manage and still pass it under my arms and legs and do circles on the bottom plane. I like larger hoops too. They're slower and they look more graceful to me.

[KAAYWHYY]

Wow! I can definitely see you cut into their video. Good luck.

[Caroleeena]

Thank you and good luck to you too Kathy!

[ainegs]

amazing! i've never seen that. good luck caroleeena!

[Caroleeena]

Thank you!

[woodwhat]

Congrats, Caroleeena! I was so excited to hear you name. And the Dirty Leprechauns too! :)

[mvs820]

Congratulations, Caroleena! Totally original, creative and lovely. Nice job! :)

[KAAYWHYY]

Congratulations!

[thelipstickfemme]

Great great outfit and cool dancing. Work those isolations...great!

[dancabaaabe]

oo0000ooo i like this. i too am a hoop dancer :)

[WudUp28]

I've never really seen this dancing style before, but its really cool!! Especially to a great song by a great band :) Best of luck :D

[Sonya0602]

Best one yet. You are amazing. I never thought a hula hoop could be so sexy.

[ladyofthewood]

i think this is the best one thus far.

[NICJEN2008]

that's really an Original Idea for this song.

[martamima]

I love to hear you say that - my feelings exactly! The speed-demon effect with small hoops sometimes just plain wears me out! My own favorite is nearly 44" (100psi) but I sometimes go down to a 41.5" one of 125psi that weighs (and acts) about the same.