SteelyKid Dance Party

I have copy edits for an Anglicised edition of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog to review, lecture notes to write, and a faculty meeting to go to, so I'm going off-line for the rest of the day (with one possible exception). To keep you amused in my absence, here's some video of SteelyKid dancing to Bruce Springsteen:

Ain't no party like a SteelyKid party, because a SteelyKid party don't stop. Except during the sax solo.

Should you want to hold your own SteelyKid dance party, here's a list of songs that she has been directly observed dancing to:

  • "I'm Going Down," Bruce Springsteen
  • "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by They Might Be Giants
  • "Mother Mary," by Foxboro Hot Tubs
  • "With a Little Help From My Friends," by the Beatles
  • "Catch My Disease," by Ben Lee
  • "And She Was," by Talking Heads
  • "Do the Panic," by Phantom Planet
  • "A Million Ways," by OK Go and Bonerama
  • (The last is a remix version with the instrumental parts played on trombones, which is better than the original in a lot of ways.)

    I'm probably forgetting a few others. I haven't included the tinny synthesized version of "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" that's played by one of her toys, which she does a little hillbilly stompy thing to. Over, and over, and over...

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Has she figured out how to work the volume control on that iPod? If so, she has me beat, because I haven't been able to do that reproducibly, only by accident.

By Eric Lund (not verified) on 18 May 2010 #permalink

Those speakers have volume +/- buttons on the top along the right, and yes, she can work those, though we attempt to prevent her from doing so.

copy edits for an Anglicised edition of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog to review

"How to instruct your faithful canine companion in the noble discipline of Sir Isaac and Prof. Einstein."?

By Phillip IV (not verified) on 18 May 2010 #permalink