“Gangnam Style” in 1999, Starring Yours Truly
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Me in 1999, in what used to be the dining room of Amato’s Pizza.
“Gangnam Style” (which I recently blogged about) has, as they say, gone viral. Let the record show that I was rockin’ the Gangnam look when PSY was still skinny back in 1999, playing a gangster in my friend Scott Watkins’ film school project.
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