My Flashdance routine, by Kitty

by Meg on January 22, 2007

[Living room rug, Kitty is wearing an off-the-shoulder pink sweatshirt. Irene Cara's voice fills the room]

First when there’s nothing…[covers face with paw]
but a slow glowing dreeeam
That your fear seems to hide  [look out from under paw]
    deep inside…your mind [look at audience meaningfully]

All alone I have cried [trot to edge of rug like gymastics floor exercise]
    silent tears full of pride [waves paws over head to 'heavens']
In a world made of steel, made of stone [pushes right paw out in a 'stop right there! move]

[skips to center of rug with one flip] Well I hear the music,
    close my eyes, feel the rhythm [cabbage patching]
Wrap around, take a hold of my heart

[Unbelievable fervor of Roger Rabbitting]

What a feline, seein’s believin’
I can have it all, now I’m dancin’ for my life
Take your passion, and make it happen
Pictures come alive, you can dance right through your life!!!

Jenniferbealswho

Kitty, that was an amazing ROUTINE!!! You’re in the Conservatory!!! [Red roses everywhere]
Nice submishe (and special outfit, MariNaomi!)

// UPDATE: had to edit the chorus lyrics, because Lauowolf’s touch-up was just too good.  – Theo //

{ 74 comments }

1 Aanya 01.22.07 at 4:48 pm

Kewt!!

2 Redzilla 01.22.07 at 4:52 pm

Wow, kitteh is workin it 80’s style. My kits are jealous, because I just make them wear the cut-off sleeves of human sweatshirts.

3 constance 01.22.07 at 4:54 pm

…I think the more important question here is, how exactly did this happen?

lol.

cute!

4 Peg of Tilling 01.22.07 at 4:59 pm

…but can you be a welder by day without opposable thumbs?

5 paula 01.22.07 at 5:02 pm

Oh my friggin’ God! I can’t stand it!

6 Gryph 01.22.07 at 5:03 pm

And nooooow I’m going to have that song stuck in my head all day. What a feelin!

7 pyrit 01.22.07 at 5:11 pm

Tiny Dancer.

8 lauowolf 01.22.07 at 5:13 pm

Peg,

Am now imagining feline welders at work, and I tell you it isn’t pretty.
(Especially since they’re in their sloppy warm-ups and warbling away)

Thank all, another morning with only an asploded brain to work with.

(Luckily I don’t really need it today anyway.)

9 pyrit 01.22.07 at 5:15 pm

Dancing Queen

10 Theo 01.22.07 at 5:15 pm

Meg — you’ve outdone yourself. Awesome. But now I’m very curious…

MariNaomi — what’s this one-limbed kitty sweater about? Background please?

11 lauowolf 01.22.07 at 5:16 pm

Oh what a feline..
Seein’s believin
She can have it all
She’s dancin through her life..

12 Theo 01.22.07 at 5:23 pm

Lauo!
[hands over a Gold Star For Editorial Proofreading]

…though I reserve the right to depart just a bit from verbatim.
;-)

13 jenna 01.22.07 at 5:32 pm

LOVE IT!

14 Carlisa 01.22.07 at 5:35 pm

And didn’t even work up a sweat!

15 Sneezy 01.22.07 at 5:47 pm

Man, is it just me or have the submishes the past few days been extremely excellent mucho sweet??

I need an insulin transfusion over heah!!

16 Laylaness 01.22.07 at 5:54 pm

I hope Flashdance Kitteh isn’t drinking too much Tab. And also that her pet pitbull is kind.

17 A thinker 01.22.07 at 6:03 pm

Dat is a veddy, veddy schweet little black kitty. Patient, too, to put up with her little 80s outfit. LOL!

18 Mel 01.22.07 at 6:06 pm

Stop it! Just stop! You’re killing me.

19 lauowolf 01.22.07 at 6:07 pm

And I didn’t even remark on the perfect, beautiful flashdancer kitty.

(Covet, covet, covet)

And now I have to go off to the video store to get Flashdance for my dancer daughter who totally does *not* believe my plot summary….

20 Aubrey 01.22.07 at 6:15 pm

“She’s a kitty-cat, kitty-cat on the floor
And she’s dancing like a lion bound to roar
She’s a kitty-cat, kitty-cat on the floor
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before”

21 thepetmuseum 01.22.07 at 6:18 pm

The 80’s are back people! And better looking this time I might add.

22 iBrie 01.22.07 at 6:19 pm

Love it! Oh, Flashdance your heart out wittle kitta!

23 Noelegy 01.22.07 at 6:42 pm

Darn, Aubrey beat me to the “Maniac” parody!

Gorgeous black kitty!

24 jaypo 01.22.07 at 6:53 pm

She’s pretty in pink!

25 Redzilla 01.22.07 at 7:09 pm

Pshaw! I’ve known plenty of welders without opposable thumbs…oh, wait, it’s that I’ve known plenty of welders who were indistinguishable from trained monkeys. Not quite the same.

26 Subhangi 01.22.07 at 7:38 pm

Awwww!!!!

27 mofo 01.22.07 at 7:40 pm

cat should be renamed alex

28 Teughcats 01.22.07 at 8:01 pm

Oh my! My beautiful all-black kitty is named Alexandra (although I call her allie not alex). I must make her a little one-armed sweatshirt immediately! She’s such a laid-back kitty she might wear it too…

29 vigilant20 01.22.07 at 8:03 pm

Suggestion?

I just wanted to suggest adding window clings to the store. I really want some cuteness on my car, but I have never been able to bring myself to deface my vehicle with stickers.

30 Dewi 01.22.07 at 8:04 pm

Peg of Tiling well AmericanWeldingSsociety admits cats apparently

http://www.twolumps.net/d/20061115.html

31 Dewi 01.22.07 at 8:08 pm

Vigilant20
Been recomended but CafePress doesn’t make them! (Why Cafe Press?) I’m holding out for the badges or even tee shirts, I’d have a CO tee shirt despite hating printed tees

32 Janners 01.22.07 at 8:25 pm

OH lovin’ the 80’s song lyrics here! Any more ideas out there???

CUUUUTE KITTY!!!

33 Christine 01.22.07 at 8:38 pm

Did anyone else ever hear “take your passion” as “take your pants off” (hey, I was 12 when that song came out)? Looks like the kitty did.

34 Theo 01.22.07 at 8:39 pm

LOL Christine!! *Definitely* better that way.

35 Rosie 01.22.07 at 8:59 pm

I have a kitty that could fit that. his name is flipper, and as you can guess… he has a deformed FLIPPER!!! its sorta bent at an almost right angle, so he uses it for props when walking. but man can he fly!! and he’s evil. almost as evil as my extra thumbed kitty.

36 useta hada kitteh 01.22.07 at 9:26 pm

This song’s from the wrong era (but I’m 50, so whaddya expect?)… This is what I’ve been singing…

Iiiiii, I’m hooked on a feline…

37 Theo 01.22.07 at 9:53 pm

[HOOKAH CHAKA]
[HOOKAH]
[HOOKAH]

He who lives by the earworm…

38 Lauren 01.22.07 at 10:15 pm

This made me LGS !! That’s what you do at the office when you’re sneaking a stress break on CO – LAUGH and GRIN SILENTLY!!

39 SarahR 01.22.07 at 10:19 pm

Wait, I love the window cling idea! Yooohoooooo Meg, are you listening? Or are you too busy flashdancing?

40 mofo 01.22.07 at 10:23 pm

teughcats: haha! allie cat!! haha!

41 Anne 01.22.07 at 10:23 pm

Love the window cling idea too – DH would divorce me if I actually adhered a bumper sticker, no matter how cute, to the paint!

42 Theo 01.22.07 at 10:37 pm

Anne & SarahR (and Vigilant20) (and Dewi) — we’ll do up some T-shirts & windowy clings and all sorts & manner of wonderful things… it just takes a bit of that fleeting commodity: Time.

43 musicchick2 01.22.07 at 11:10 pm

Meg, this cinches it. You are absolutely, certifiably nuts. And I LOVES it!!! *seein’ the whole routine in my head and laughing hysterically*

44 MariNaomi 01.22.07 at 11:46 pm

It was all part of a terrible welding accident! But if you ask, Kitty will say it was all for fashion’s sake.

Kitty will now bask happily in her fifteen minutes of fame…prrrrr!

45 HRH 01.23.07 at 12:55 am

OH lovin’ the 80’s song lyrics here! Any more ideas out there???

Here you go, Janners

straight from the 80’s …

tada – Footloose

Foot loose,
Kick off your Sunday blues …
Please, Ki-tty,
Pull me offa my knees
Cat, get back
C’mon before we crack
Lose your blues
Everykitty cut footloose

Cat footloose
Cat, footloose, whoa!
First, we’ve got to turn you around
Then put your paws on the ground
Now take a hold of your soul
Now take a hold of your soul
Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!
Ah – ah – ah – ah
Everykitty cut everykitty cut
Everykitty cut everykitty cut
Meee-ow
Everykitty
Prrrrrrrrr
Everykitty
All
Everykitty
Everykitty cut footloose!!!

46 g-lo 01.23.07 at 12:59 am

I needs to know – was this pic taken before or after the bra-removal scene?

47 Raevnn 01.23.07 at 1:13 am

I heard “I Will Survive” in my head as soon as I saw this… and then I heard “ZOMG, that’s my couch!!1″

Because it is.
I love that couch.

48 Aubrey 01.23.07 at 1:15 am

“He who lives by the earworm…”

Thank you T., thank you so bloody much.

49 Theo 01.23.07 at 2:05 am

NOT MY FAULT! (this time.)

50 Suda Nim 01.23.07 at 2:22 am

I wanna see kitty voluntarily dump a bucket of water over herself.

51 Fable 01.23.07 at 2:24 am

yeah! but kitty can swim:)

52 Fable 01.23.07 at 2:25 am

like we saw in previous post….mumble….mumble…

53 Suda Nim 01.23.07 at 2:25 am

NOBODY puts kitty in a corner.

54 Lizzy 01.23.07 at 2:30 am

Every once in a while this song comes over the corporate stereo at work, and oh yeah, I bust a move to it. Rock on kitteh no-pants! ROCK OOOOON!!

55 acelightning 01.23.07 at 2:48 am

[Nuff voice]
How can you people think that’s cute? Look at that poor cat, inappropriately dressed up in clothing that impedes her movement and probably makes her overheated! Cruelty isn’t cute! (blah blah blah)
[/Nuff voice]

Seriously, folks… when I saw “torn sweatshirt”, I thought of “pin the ripped part together with a big safety pin for an early-punk look” ;-)

56 Aubrey 01.23.07 at 3:19 am

Lam-paw-da: The Forbidden Dance

57 Suda Nim 01.23.07 at 3:31 am

“She would Mew-ran-gue, and do the Chow-Chow…”

58 Aubrey 01.23.07 at 3:52 am

do the mew-nuet, go to the Summer Catillion…

59 Suda Nim 01.23.07 at 4:27 am

And the scandalous Viennese Mrawltz….

…okay, so that one was a bit of a stretch.

60 Peg of Tilling 01.23.07 at 4:45 am

She’s a cat-lypso dancer!

61 R. Moore 01.23.07 at 5:16 am

Bwa ha ha ha ha!

Where is my cat? I must try this.

(If I never comment again you know what happened)

62 Suda Nim 01.23.07 at 5:59 am

She’s very good at The Cat-inental.

And she does the Two-Step twice as well as any human!

63 Aubrey 01.23.07 at 6:04 am

Suda, a person hasn’t lived until he’s seen her do the kitter-bug.

64 MariNaomi 01.23.07 at 7:18 am

Okay, the outfit was originally very utilitarian, created from an old (clean) sock to make Kitty stop licking at an itchy spot on her leg…and she absolutely hated it…but it worked and she healed up nicely, and got to look very punk rock in the meantime!

65 Aubrey 01.23.07 at 10:30 am

I remember The Dead Milkmen:

“On Monday morning I went on Cute Overload
I saw a kitteh and my heart was boxed and sold

Punk rock cat
Please look at me
Punk rock cat
With eyes that yeem
Let’s travel round the world
Just you and me punk rock cat

I saw one covered shoulder
On the other I saw fur
She looked at me and smiled
Then she continued with her purr

Punk rock cat
Give me a chance
Punk rock cat
But no Flash Dance
We’ll dress like maniacs
Just you and me punk rock cat

We went to the Petco Headquarters
And ordered Fancy Feast
The waitress said well no, we just have Pedigree
So we jumped up on the table and shouted anarchy
And someone came in to work on their computer
And they turned on Cute Overload
And so our minds were blown
On such a winter’s day

She took me to her parents for the Sunday fowl
Her father took one look at me and he began to yeowl

Punk rock cat
It makes no sense
Punk rock cat
We need cats for president
I love how your whiskers curl
Yeah you’re for me punk rock cat

We went to a shopping mall
And laughed at all the shoppers
And security dogs trailed us to a record shop
We asked for The Puppy Bowl
They said it’s not sold here
We said if you don’t got The Puppy Bowl
Then your store could use some more soul

We got back on the street ran away on our paw pads
How fast can you run on these
They’re beginning to hurt bad

Punk rock cat
You look so sleek
Punk rock cat
Let’s both be freaks
We’re always chasing rats
Just you and me
We’ll always be attacked
Just you and me
We’ll travel round the world
Just you and me
Punk rock cat”

66 Carlisa 01.23.07 at 11:27 am

Aubrey—— I think you and Punk Cat will go far. Take a bow!

67 Theo 01.23.07 at 3:53 pm

…and another YAY for Aubrey!
This one goes to 11.
http://www.squidgrid.com/images/misc/yay_pic.jpg

68 pyrit 01.23.07 at 6:43 pm

Wooooah, miss a day miss a lot.
Shahisszzle – Aubrey. The last comment I saw of your’n was that you were goin’ out to get drunk. I guess you stayed in!

(Doin’ a fe-line dance.)
“Swing yer purrdner!”

69 HRH 01.23.07 at 9:57 pm

jump back to the 80’s …

dancing kitteh’s just finished his version titled “Countin’ My Lives”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQifYc62LSM

70 HRH 01.23.07 at 10:02 pm

oops … the vid was meant to be this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of_3VmFFDb4

71 Theo 01.23.07 at 10:03 pm

HRH — oddly, I quite enjoyed that.
(er… both versions)

72 fifi 01.24.07 at 3:59 pm

this cat either:

lives in brooklyn

or

is a model for the cat version of project runway

73 -valerie 01.26.07 at 8:29 am

*holds her closer* (tiny dancer kitty)

she’s had a busy day today.

74 pyrit 03.01.07 at 8:14 pm

Doh. Delayed reaction.
I looked up and realized I have an Otagiri music box with a dancing black & white kitty and you will never guess what tune it plays. “Flash Dance.” (!)
Heh. How ’bout that.
I know. You are so impressed.

And here’s a too small image I found of it on Google images:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Otagiri+cat+dancing+music+box&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

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