This Dancing Nana Will Save Monday
Today in viral videos: a dancing grandmother does her thing, Sarah Silverman and Michael Cera launch a YouTube channel at SXSW, Girls gets awkward with Kanye, seals yell like humans, and more.
We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cellphone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today:
Someday we will all be some version of this 88-year-old dancing grandma. When that day comes, we hope we are not still shimmying to Macklemore:
And we also hope by the time we're 88, the terrible Allison Williams cover of Kanye West from last night's Girls is just something lost in a cloud of senility:
Meanwhile, seals are now pretending to be goats that yell like humans. Or maybe they're just yelling like humans?
And in yet another feat of amazing, here's someone with a lot of time on his hands who put together a Lego version of Hogwarts:
So JASH basically sounds like "rash." But you know what, we'll give this new YouTube channel a chance, because it sorta sounds like "jazz" and we're okay with that. Oh, Michael Cera and Sarah Silverman are behind it, which guarantees it will be awkwardly incoherent, but somewhat awesome? A first look, from SXSW: