Princeton Juggling Team Toys with Freud in Ball-Caressing Videos
At college, you can do anything. You could learn a new language, play a new instrument, start a blog! You could even to learn to juggle, and find dozens of like-minded juggle-people to toss bricks and balls and bowling pins through the air with you. And that brings us to the most glorious YouTube channel I have ever encountered, PJuggling, home of Princeton's official juggling team.
To whet your appetite, I present first a promotional video for a PJuggling show apparently themed on Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. A boy in a plaid shirt wanders into a men's lavatory, only to find every stall occupied by a short man tossing tiny balls in the air, a creepily knowing smile dancing across his lips. The boys attempts to leave the lavatory, but the ball-tossing man blocks the exit! A cornucopia of bizarre imagery later, the boy awakens and finds a phallus in his bed.
After the jump, however, things get even better. How could such a thing be possible, you ask? Clues: Simian Mobile Disco's "I'm a Hustler Baby." Lip syncing. Break dancing. Yo-yo. The robot.
The Princeton Juggling Team performs Simian Mobile Disco's "I'm a Hustler Baby":
Guy with the black shirt, you steal every scene you're in. I am also partial to the tall guy who juggles behind his back and with his pelvis.
According to their website, P-Juggling performs once a year in February, which means, as a graduating senior, I must now confront the greatest regret of my Princeton career: I will never see this wonder live. Luckily, spring formals are next weekend. I would now like to extend an invitation to any and all members of P-Juggling who do not yet have a date to be mine. We will dance the night away, on the sole the condition that there be at least 3 balls in the air at all times.
(I'm pretty sure my eating club will disown me if I attempt to bring an entire circus troupe as my date. But you know what they say - At college, you can do anything!)
At the very least, P-Juggling, please do not remove your YouTube channel because we are linking to it. I already saved the good stuff on my harddrive, anyway.
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April 29th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Maureen, there’s no way they’d disown you.
I must say, I signed up for their list at the 03 activities fair, and I still haven’t taken myself off of it. They seem nice.
I remember them trying to show me that anyone could juggle and consequently barely being able to toss two balls in the air at once.
April 29th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
this is the best thing to come out of the ivy league, perhaps ever.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:56 am
Hey Maureen, tall pelvis guy is Gus Tate, who is super nice by the way, I had a class with him back in the day… but according to fb he’s taken. isn’t that always how it goes? tall, dark, pelvis jugglers are never single!