Gallery: Adidas-clad ectomorph gousters
May. 9th, 2008 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusI love the 1979 film Rockers, which I first saw -- and watched on repeat loop -- in a wooden house in Hokkaido three years ago, buried under several feet of snow. It was the perfect antidote to the Japanese winter, and yet, at the same time, the perfect complement to it: in a weird style-swap, many of the sartorial modes you see in this movie are preserved in Japan much better than they are in today's Jamaica. Watching the movie, I kept seeing "Japanese" faces (look, there's Eye Yamataka!), and imagining the record shacks where Horsemouth flogs his dub plates were in Shimokitazawa or Koenji.
Under the cut I've put a big strip of freeze-frame pictures from Rockers, which shows more cool dandies -- Adidas-clad ectomorph gousters, many of them reggae musicians in real life -- than any other film I know. But you really have to see the film to get the full effect, because you need the music, and you need to watch the way these guys (and they are mostly guys) walk. Like wounded tom cats or swaggery, staggery lions of Judah with ludicrous, loose-limbed ganja gait. Oh, to walk -- and dress -- like that!
Under the cut I've put a big strip of freeze-frame pictures from Rockers, which shows more cool dandies -- Adidas-clad ectomorph gousters, many of them reggae musicians in real life -- than any other film I know. But you really have to see the film to get the full effect, because you need the music, and you need to watch the way these guys (and they are mostly guys) walk. Like wounded tom cats or swaggery, staggery lions of Judah with ludicrous, loose-limbed ganja gait. Oh, to walk -- and dress -- like that!
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sha la la la la and a ling tong ting
Date: 2008-05-09 07:38 pm (UTC)D'yer maker
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Date: 2008-05-09 12:26 pm (UTC)you love a skinny man in a tracksuit
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Date: 2008-05-09 02:25 pm (UTC)sorry, just had to vent. the movie looks interesting, i'll have to check it out. is there any good jamaican in berlin?
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Date: 2008-05-09 02:33 pm (UTC)The Lebanese and Palestinian and Iraqi outfits tell many stories of imperialism.
More of a Swenka man.
Date: 2008-05-09 02:50 pm (UTC)I am a man of constant swenka
Date: 2008-05-09 07:43 pm (UTC)Re: More of a Swenka man.
Date: 2008-05-09 10:19 pm (UTC)Re: More of a Swenka man.
Date: 2008-05-10 02:51 am (UTC)For a Philly flavor: Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
Re: More of a Swenka man.
Date: 2008-05-10 02:52 am (UTC)Re: More of a Swenka man.
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Date: 2008-05-09 05:46 pm (UTC)lol n00b to hipsters.
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