New Dragon Ash - La Bamba cover

It's one of those youtube anti-videos where it's just a still image with the song playing.



If you dig the song and want the mp3, here's a link that could die at any moment.

Planet B-Boy Movie Finally Coming to Detroit

I have not and persistently do not find ballet and modern dance all that interesting. It just doesn't "speak to me" in the way that other art forms do. I think there is a bit of a high art / low art thing going on in this equation because I really love the dancing in, for example, Singin' in the Rain, or Bamboozled, or even Bring it On. I love the tango sequences in Happy Together, and Tangos, the Exile of Gardel too, but ballet and/or modern dance performed on the stage just feels so archaic (is I guess what it is) to me. Just doesn't connect.

Here, on the other hand, is something that connects with me like the nicest possible punch in the face:



It's a sequence that is cleverly nicknamed "Run DMZ": simultaneously referencing rap/hip-hop godfathers RUN-DMC and the DeMilitarized Zone that divides North from South Korea - the ostensible setting for the amazing dance that unfolds in the clip.

This sequence seems pretty indicative of the stuff your going to get when you go see the movie Planet B-Boy , which you will if you know what's good for you.

From a number of clips that I've watched, this movie seems like the latest in a gathering stream of grassroots-ey media products that celebrate people who take globalization into their own hands, as it were, and use the increasing speed with which cultural ideas and products flow across international borders to create bonds of friendship-in-creativity with people that they could never have hoped to even meet mere decades ago.

If you live near me, it opens at the Main Art in Royal Oak on April 25.

Here's the trailer:

How can there be so many awesome Dragon Ash songs?

REVOLATOR

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百合の咲く場所で (Yuri no Saku Basyo De)

Another great song from Dragon Ash. Babel Fish translates the title in a way that seems to make sense: At the Place Where the Lily Blooms.

Listen through the whole thing - I especially love how this song shifts from being quiet and a bit hypnotic to being, well, I'll leave it a surprise for you to discover yourself.

Here's another performance of the same song:

The Bird and the Bee

Another One

If this doesn't kill you, then you're already dead.

God Damn this shit is stupid - and when I say stupid, I mean stupid fresh.



It's a Japanese hip hop group called Dragon Ash. I just discovered them yesterday, so I know very little about them except that they are very, very good.

New Cornelius!

I just found out today that Cornelius (aka Oyamada Keigo) has a new CD for the first time in years. It's not available domestically in the US (so if anyone can hook me up with a download link...), but there are some great new videos to enjoy no matter where you live: