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October 21, 2009,

Rockwood,

It's time for another week of Billy filling in for Rockwood while he's on vacation. I just reviewed another Family Circus for the first time in years and the unfunniness almost made me want to "write a nasty letter to the editor". With that whole balloon boy thing, I thought you could find something funny to combine there. Either way, Rockwood and current events are staying funny. Good job.

--Leif

It has been a while, hasn't it? We usually save our visits from Billy for when we go on vacation, but we've skipped a few times since then. Who knows? Maybe next time Team Rockwood is out of town, Billy will take over again!

 
October 25, 2009,

Hi Brian,

Some friends want to do the thriller dance at a wedding (real original, huh?!) and I am unable to find the version of the song you used on your YouTube video. I see the question below from Oct 13th, but I need the song FROM the video and its not like the version on MJ albums. I can't find it online or on iTunes. Any suggestions? Or do you send out that song to those who request it? Did someone mix it for you? Any help would be appreciated!

Now that I'm looking in the past e-mails, I can see that you get the Thriller song question alot (that I just sent). But I'm not savvy enough to make my own recording! :(

--Michele

Thanks for writing, Michele! Not to sound like a broken record, but if you need the song from the video, do what we did and... take the song from the video. Honestly, that's all we did. It's true we were tech savvy enough to take out a few gaps in the audio, but you wouldn't really need to do that to make the dance work. Ask your DJ and he would probably be able to play a Michael Jackson DVD for you. That would work just fine. Good luck!

 
October 26, 2009,

I've got a girlfriend who is getting married next Saturday - yes Halloween night. We will all be in ghoulish costumes and what better way to celebrate than by doing a little "Thriller". The problem? None of us could dance our way out of a wet paper bag. We've gotten together once with our one friend who supposedly can dance and he was going to help with the choreography. Yeah Right.

We've all watched your Thriller Video multiple times and it seems like we could learn a portion of it...maybe. I'm wondering if you would lend it to me in a format that I can burn onto a dvd and put on a screen large enough (Bride's big tv) so that we can watch it while we dance. Hovering over the laptop isn't cutting it and time is running short. I promise not to use it for anything other than our practice sessions from now until Saturday. Please save us!

--Angela Vigar

Ohhh... bad news Angela. If you can't dance out of that paper bag now, there's no way you're going to learn Thriller in four days. It took us four weeks. Your best bet now is to get the video and pick out one section that you think you can all learn. Our recommendation is "the claws," because that's the one move everybody recognizes as Thriller. If you can get that down, add another move or two and just do about thirty seconds of dancing in the middle of the song (the video's dance sequence is over two minutes long). If you can pull that off before Halloween, everyone will be impressed. Good luck!