Kamikaze Girls
The Movie Blog - Kamikaze Girls Trailer, Website and Review. I want to see this!
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Big ass boombox...
Scanned from TOKION magazine #36
The Warriors
A fashion shoot from Swindle magazine, where the gangs of NYC are women. Clockwise: The Warriors, The Orphans, The Rogues, The Warriors (again), The Baseball Furies.
The Riffs:
The 1979 Warriors movie links:
- The Warriors Movie site (Uk) - everything you need to know plus GANGS
- 70s.fast-rewind (select from sidebar menu)
From the Warriors Movie site:
The Warriors is a brilliant film if you like violence! Everything about this film is cool from the costume to the music. The film starts out where there is a meeting of all gangs in New York City and the leader of the largest gang gets shot. The Warriors get blamed and so every gang in the city is out to get them. The Warriors then have to get back home to Coney Island - alive!
Sorry, but the costumes are NOT cool. The hairstyles are unwatchable, and I wouldn't buy the soundtrack. But we like the "gangs" premise. Word on the street is that there's going to be a remake. 
GGGGRRRRRRRRRR.
MusicKids figures
Jun Planning: MUSIC KIDS series (we have CORE and TECHNO). ha ha - gramrock.
Signal de plane!
From THE FACE magazine (April 2004)-
Dancehall dances
1. Blasé - putting one leg forward, slightly bent, one foot flat behind, moving your hands backwards and forwards, with trembling arms.
2. Pun de river - lifting your feet in the air, bouncing from one side to the other
3. Hand-cart - standing one foot on tip-toe, the other flat, with both hands in front, and moving like you're pushing a cart.
4. Gypsy - two legs together and move your waist, waving your hands like a gypsy dancing.
5. Row yuh boat - your hands row and your feet jump in quarter turns
6. Giddem-a-run - running on the spot, bouncing on your head.
7. Parachute - arms out front, making two fists and throwing them over each shoulder, while moving your body left to right.
8. Signal-de-plane - feet apart, hands in the air, waving arms as though you're signalling a plane, moving your body left to right.
9. Mad sick head - holding your head with one hand, while doing Pun-de-river and shaking your head like a mad person.
10. Chaplin - walking forwards and backwards swinging your arms and trembling your feet in a rude-girl style.
Related Links:
Elephant Man at reggaematic.com
Dancehall videos from the reggae sumfest 2003
Dancehall poll at the Jamaican forums.
There's a 'how-to-dance-Reggae DVD'! (...and a dance called Sponge Bob!)
Fun/parody: Rave Dancers
Music Music Music
THE TOFU HUT is an extremely link-generous musicblogger. In fact, there are so many music links in today's entry that I'll have to copy/paste them right here for future visits...
Mobile Sound System!
From LA Weekly:Considerable People: Aurelito & Shakespeare, Aural Tradition, aka the I & I Sound System, a converted ice-cream truck pumping out reggae jams!
Urban Vinyl: animated?
Via The Art of Michael Lau (awesome fansite) - I've just learnt that Michael Lau's character designs have been used in animated commercials (e.g. Powerade) and ID spots in the UK and Japan. I would LOVE to see his characters animated - this may be the only time that I'm interested in CGI animation...
Here's more kickass Urban Vinyl courtesy Jason Siu .
Teen Tribes
The British Council's "Teen Tribes"
- Clubbers
- Goths
- Grungers
- Indie kids
- Nu-Metallers
- Pop Princesses
- Skaters
- Soulstrels
- Townies
The research was carried out by the British Council, funded by the Foreign Office, to help overseas students understand the culture and fit in better at UK schools and universities.
...But confused teens looking for a new identity should not despair, Chantelle Horton, editor of teen magazine "Bliss", advises: "You can buy all these different looks in Top Shop."
Pretty funny/tragic.
