Monday, October 6, 2008

The surfing Nintendo

I like unexpected blends of subcultures that would seem meaningless to an outsider, but it would mean the world to the weirdo that lives upon that stuff (yeepie!)

You know the Psychobilly kids, they have lots of retro tattoos, wear leather jackets and put Grease in their savage Pompadours or their notorious Beehives.

it's a tradition and you don't mess with tradition.
unless you're a real rebel and you don't follow archaic rules.

like Johnny, Jive Johnny.
who kills folks on the street and puts them in his refrigerator.
or that's what Jemek Jemowit told me, since most of the song is in German.



it's a fascinating mash of 80's hardcore electronic sounds. a quick reminder of all the Super Marios and Sonic the Hedgehogs of my and my friend's childhood. the same sounds that the Nu-rave kids like to abuse on MTV.

Alan Vega should be proud, his legacy lives on and morphs into something even stranger as it goes. that bloody monster never sleeps.



take a look at Charlie Megira's video as well, 1950's beach party in Jaffa, an Israeli underground myth.
"Rock'N'Roll in Hebrew is just Dynamite" goes the chorus. here's another tradition blown up to pieces.

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