This shot is just too good.
Finally found and downloaded the entire 1983 Topper Carew documentary that predated Breakin' AND Beat Street....Breakin' N' Enterin'.
Filmed in Los Angeles and featuring breakers in Venice Beach, at the Radiotron, and out in the streets, it features Chris "The Glove" Taylor, Ice-T, and some incredible breakdancers, among them one of my favorite crews ever, The Dominos, from Los Angeles, CA featuring Kidd Tuff, a dude who was pretty much my idol back then. Tuff was a ridiculous breaker who made the dudes from Breakin' look like Rerun from What's Happenin', and besides being a sick breaker, Tuff was also the first person to ever punch me in the face, which is pretty cool.
The soundtrack is now available on itunes, do yourself a favor and get up on this important piece of B-Boy history.
New Biltwell lid, good color, thinkin' about it.
Or the flat red. Can't decide.
Want.
Need.
Old New York City hookers are awesome, I mean, minus the whole VD, heroin and AIDS thing.
Speaking of VD.
It's official, I'm the laziest blogger ever.
Life has taken over, and child-rearing, recording an album, playing basketball, watching season after season of Friday Night Lights, writing two films and a pilot as well as trying to earn a living as a touring musician has rendered writing about shoes, motorcycles and The Hills obsolete.
I've gotta get my priorities straight.
The grey joints I've been wearing daily this summer are about to have some company.
Only 200 pairs are being sold, one to the kid.
Fingers crossed.
Just saw this old shirt that Piscitelli and Dill did.
I was both totally stoked and totally bummed that they used an image from the poster for my dad's gay biker flick, The Pink Angels, as I've been planning on doing bootleg shirts of the poster forevz. Oh well, I think I'll do it anyway, I kind of have seniority on that one.
And just in case you are wondering what movie I'm referring to...
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Breakin and Enterin. Nice. Barely mentioned in b-boy lore.
ReplyDeleteBut c'mon, man, your boy Ice-Tracy's kind of a joke, don't you think? Acting like he's been a pimp since leaving the womb when dude was looking straight corny back then, like a light skinned version of Leroy from Fame. Of course, hindsight's 20/20. I was trying my hardest to look like Turbo, but hey, I was only like in the fourth fuckin grade so I got an excuse. T was about 45 even then.
Just sayin.
I'd take the blue helmet....
ReplyDeleteYou still have one of the coolest Dad's around!
The Pink Angels are a real gay skinhead outfit here in Chicago. We had a run in years back when I was an anti-racist skin.
ReplyDeleteFunny stuff.
Those guys wore pink laces in thier Docs, and wore pink braces with rainbow patches on thier arms.
I never saw the Pink Angels movie you're talking about, but these boots'n'braces pinks take after the Guardian Angels crews.
The North Side of Chicago is deemed Boys Town and there's been a lot of hate crimes against the gays. The Pink Angels were the answer.
But ahhh...yeah...that didn't work out so good for them, lol! The north side is also the subcultural seat in the midwest, and the non-gay locals didn't take so good to their crew.
The midwest is like the mainstream consumer division of the Borg. You can try out a good idea, but they'll eventually suck you in and destroy it.
Huh...another tangent. Good to hear you're working on a new album. Good luck brother.
Justin:
ReplyDeleteThey are playing SWR on www.woodyradio.com
a lot now....