more bollywood.

This is Indian surf music from the 1965 in the film Gumnaam. This is clip is also in the movie Ghostworld.



Apparently the movie, Gumnaam, is about a group of dance contest winners that go to a remote island with a mansion and a crazy butler, only to be killed one by one. I especially like this dancing because it's amazing but i think i could do it without screwing it up really badly or looking autistic. but it's sort of a dance a downy might do, so maybe not.

This movie is also amazing:


it's called Tears of the Black Tiger in English, or Fah talai jone "heaven strike the thief" in thai. It's a thai western. It's very retro looking and until just now i thought it was. Turns out it was made in 2000. The colors are really amazing and everything is over the top and stylized and beautiful.



It kind of makes me sad that it's modern and intentionally over the top and not just another culture over-interpreting an american thing.

This post + the japabillies teaches us that anything america can do (surf music, rockabilly style, westerns) the far east can take it and make it 5 times more amazing.