This is my tribute to Soul Train, particularly the Soul Train Line Dance. Not only do you see fantastic dancing, you see incredible clothes and costumes from a lost era of American history.

These videos were inspired by Spike Lee’s film Crooklyn.  In the closing credits of that movie you see the Soul Train line dancers getting down to contemporary hip-hop, so I thought I would share with you what I have made.  Enjoy!

First up is “Body Movin’” by the Beastie Boys. I didn’t include any effects on this one because I didn’t know how to at the time. But the edits are pretty good.

The music here is the song “Busy Child” by Crystal Method.” The edits are okay and the effects seem to work.

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KILLEEN, TX - NOVEMBER 12:  A bible lays opened to the Book of Job as part of a memorial to the victims of the Fort Hood shooting on the grounds of Casa Del Norte, the apartment complex where Maj. Nadil Malik Hasan lived, November 12, 2009 in Killeen, Texas. Jose Padilla, the owner of Casa Del Norte said that he served in the military and established the memorial with the complex's residents to honor the fallen soldiers. U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, is accused of killing 13 people and wounded 30 in a shooting at the nearby Fort Hood military base on November 5, 2009.  (Photo by Eli Meir Kaplan/Getty Images)
Here’s a fantastic take down of the tired, worn-out argument that America’s founding fathers actually printed an official bible and wanted it taught in our school system.  The video commenter is Chris Rodda, doing an excellent historical analysis of such nonsense.  t/y DFCW

No, Mr. Beck, Congress Did Not Print a Bible for the Use of Schools from Chris Rodda on Vimeo.