Rebel - Harmony Korine James Franco

Some photos and video from the set of the new Harmony Korine and James Franco project, Rebel.
"The duo is reportedly planning to stage a fight between actual L.A. street gangs and they might allow the gangs to use real weapons and hurt one another. The battle will reportedly take place at an iconic location like the Griffith Observatory"
Heard about this just after James Franco, Emile Hirsch, and Dakota Fanning were here in Reno last month filming for The Motel Life, a film based off of Reno author Willie Vlautin's 2006 novel... and it looks as if Korine's bmx motif is only getting better. I can't think of much that could top holographic rims on wheelchairs, but violent Warrior's style themed bmx gangs with machetes could do it..

and a new to the world tap dance video of korine in 2001 from avant-garde cinema great Jonas Mekas..
word to the always great harmony-korine.com

Shangaan Electro....Agaan

CANNOT get enough of this shit. I don't have words to extrapolate...sorry.



as long as marginalized people like the Shangaan of Limpopo have a vehicle to share their souls with the rest of the planet, the internet will get a pass in my book.
If you can buy this album I would highly suggest it, these guys are from South Africa...which you know has a whole can of problems-poverty being right there on the top of the list

Dance till ya can't Dance till ya can't Dance no more

It seems every coupla months I will find out about some new crazy-ass region specific dance that is just coming out and every time I get my head blown off. You can tell waaay more about a group of people by what they create rather than what a Rand McNally picture atlas could tell you. The newest dance music craze sweeping the internet is from South Africa, it sounds like the soundtrack to the cheaper N64 games like Bust-A-Move or Diddy Kong racing....but sped up to impossible speeds with super mechanical yet polyrythmic drums and a notable lack of low-end. But the way these girls are dancing to it is what gets me, crazy crazy hypnotic....there is no reason to try and describe just let it explain itself. All-in-all it reminds me of something you'd see on Sesame Street or Gullah Gullah Island, it's a feel good vibe and a reminder that Americans are way to stiff and neurotic to have a pure good time compared to some others in the world.

If you don't have any patience for the music the dancing starts a minute in....

Shangaan Electro from outsidemusic on Vimeo.

This video is admittedly pretty ridiculous, I don't know Im a weird dude those vocals do it for me though

SHANGAAN ELECTRO 6 from outsidemusic on Vimeo.

This last song I actually kind of dig, but you might want to take that with a grain of salt because I've been lately feeling like C+C Music Factory is one of the best bands of the 90's, and I always have room in my heart for a saccharine sweet ode to love.

Nwa Gezani My Love / SHANGAAN ELECTRO from outsidemusic on Vimeo.

If you're interest is in any way piqued

What the Buck

The level people are taking popping and locking to these days is just nutty. It reminds me of the shit Pharoah's would have in their royal courts. The kind of stuff europeans would go back home and make up tales of black magic and pacts with the devil over. This shit can fuck up a lesser man's whole sense of reality. Camera's can't even catch all the frame rate, it's fucked up.

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