Song of the Week (Sagat - Funk Dat)

Sagat's 1994 hit "Funk Dat" changed my life. I first saw this video on Beavis and Butthead circa 7th grade. I was at a very "Funk Dat" age in my life. I regularly Funk Dat-ed my parents and teachers. Homework got a Funk Dat. Our girls dating the "older dudes" got a big Funk Dat. It was truly a song of the times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOFKU_hwj2o

In this song/video Sagat raises some valid "questons". There's a lot to love about the song: the hip-hop beat, the danceable organs, the diatribe of an angry Sagat. The video clearly has it's own merits as well. Who doesn't like a little kid acting like grown-ups?

Sagat caused me to ask some tough questons as well:
Queston: Why is it that every time I go to Freebirds, I get the girl who screws me on the meat?...c'mon maaaaaan FUNK DAT!

Queston: Why is it that every time I use the bathroom and I see the guy from the mortgage company, he doesn't wash his hands? FUNK DAT! Wash ya handz ya filthy animal!

Queston: Why is it that whenever my parents go outta town, I gotta come over and play with Sam the cat? FUNK DAT! He doesn't even like to play...he just likes to bite me! That hurts!...my feelings.

Queston: Why is it that every time I go to the Granada, a hipster looks at me like I raised my hand too much in Geometry class? Maaaan FUNK DAT! Your haircut is stupid!

Queston: Why is it that every time I turn on the news, people be talkin' bout spend this and tax that! FUNK DAT! Balance tha Budget!

This song is dedicated to the late, great Randy Savage. Ohhhhh yeeeeeaaaaahhhhh! RIP Macho Man.



Can you dig it?
JZ

Song of the Week (Rebecca Black - Friday [Dubstep Remix])

Silent Disco...where have you been all my life...more specifically from the years 2001 - 2009, or what I would consider my "prime Silent Disco years".

I love it when girls say: OMG how random!!! Last night was so random! He is totally random!
Oh I'm sorry, by "love" I mean "HATE"! The rationale for this hatred is that it discounts the truly random moments in life, such as Saturday evening.

There we were just winding down the night with a fistful of Loon drink when someone gets a text that mobilizes pretty much a quarter of the bar to the Green Elephant. I still wasn't really sure what was going down, but I went because I didn't have a coherent argument for not going. We walk in and it's dead silent, but people are dancing...strangely. We were directed to go grab a headset.

I put on the headset, and I noticed two things:
1) the dancing still didn't make much sense (I don't think anyone really knows how to dance to dubstep, myself included...I basically just tried my hardest to act like a slow motion panther with jazz hands)
2) Silent Disco is totally rad

What a great concept. And what a genuinely random night. I've been told that there will be future Silent Discos, so please don't take this as a "you totally missed out" SOTW. Au Contraire! This is simply the SOTW endorsement for something fun to do that is very un-Dallas.

For the unfamiliar, here is a nice Dubstep remix of one of my faves (Rebecca Black's "Friday"). It's very true to the source material, with a nice little spin. Thanks Rebecca Black! I don't think it was played at the Silent Disco, but who could tell?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94TZJO_PXhU&feature=related

Fun Fun Fun Fun!

Hope you Dig,
JZ

Song of the Week (Fat Boys - Stick 'em)

Oh man...I saw one of the...nay...THE weirdest show (in a cool way) of my life on Tuesday. It was the Tobacco show. For the unindoctrinated Tobacco is one half of the psychedelic electro act: Black Moth Super Rainbow...I know I know...pretty far out, even for me. Please just humor me on this, cuz BMSR, although totally rad, isn't the beneficiary of this week's SOTW.

The point is that, among the 70s dino-porn, ninja golf course slaughters, and E.T. "stuff" going on in the background of the BMSR show, there was a diamond in the rough: Fat Boys. Fat Boys were just a little before my time, but I remember them from zany movies on USA and MTV...back when MTV stood for something and pushed the envelope with videos like "Stick 'em" instead of 16 and Pregnant. Who the F tweets about that all day (yes I joined Twitter...please feel free to punch me in the face). Full disclosure: I still watch the Real World...what?

This Fat Boys video is so unbelievably sick...I was hypnotized when I saw it at the show on Tuesday. I love how they embraced their whole lifestyle and made it rad. I envision a new like-minded supergroup called: 16 and Pregz. They can get up there and rap about ultrasounds and their deadbeat boyfriends and their moms being all like: "I told you not to mess with all that mess".

"Back then I wasn't hot
Gettin' burned on the regz
Now I'm fly on MTV
Cuz I'm 16 and Pregz"

Some may think that rap is morally reprehensible...my bad.

Peep this video by Fat Boys and prepare to have your mind blown (du it Kook Rock-Ski):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHoCR7u5NzY

Tobacco video (the one I saw at the show on Tuesday):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjy83vXse7Y

Hope you Dig,
JZ