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Busting a move and the 80s

So we were walking home from dinner the other night and passed by the ground level of some high rise.  It's all marble or some kind of smooth polished stone by the entrance to the building.  So there's about 5-10 mostly asian guys (teenagers/early 20's) hanging around this entrance area and there is this kid on the ground spinning around.  We stopped dead in our tracks and were like "Oh. My. God."  They were Break dancing. Yes Break Dancing.  It was Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo right there in front of me.  I was looking to see if they had a huge silver boom box with a cassette player that takes like 40 "D" size batteries to operate. (like this!)  To my disappointment I didn't see one, but that doesn't mean there wasn't one! 

Maybe we were witness to a "Beat It" style gang fight/turf war.  A dance-off.  I wanted to jump in and do the Robot all over their sorry asses.  Bring it to them Old Skool.  But I didn't have my Herbie Hancock mix tape, and I left my "Breakin' 2:Electric Boogaloo" soundtrack at home.  They're lucky.  They would have been calling me Master T...

So we were wondering what a phone call between these people would be like.  Here's what I think:  Hello? Hey what are you doing tonight?  Nothing what are you doing tonight?  Nothing.  Do you want to head down to Central Center and bust a move?  Yeah I'm down with that! Shee.  I will bring my ghetto blaster and my mix tape.  Do you have 24 "D" batteries I can borrow? 

There's a number of weird 80's kind of things here.  I see a lot of heavy metal t-shirts.  Like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Guns N Roses.  Old metal.  And many people wear their pants tight like in the 80s.  I have seen big wide belts that women wore.  And studded belts.  Upturned polo shirt collars.  The whole "Axl Rose" look.  I've seen it all really.  The skate boarders here have it all wrong.  They wear skin tight jeans and studded belts, but their asses hang out like the retards at home with the baggy jeans.  I don't understand how they manage the skin tight jeans halfway down their asses.  And mohawks.  For the love of God.  A lot of people (mostly asian from what I have seen) have these half-ass "I'm not going to shave my head" mohawks.  I guess they gel their hair and then push it all towards the middle of their head to make a kind of short mohawk.  More like a shark fin.  And there's lots of half-assed spikey hair, which reminds me of Cameron Diaz's hair in "Something About Mary" after the "hair gel" incident.

There seems to be no sense of age appropriate clothing here. People just wear whatever they want, whether they should wear it or not.  Belly shirts with BIG belly's hanging out.  OH and dreadlocks.  They should outlaw dreadlocks.  Seriously.  Lice condominiums.  There definitely should be an age limit for dreadlocks.  They need to get all the hair dressers together all over the world and decide on a dreadlock age cut off.  Somewhere around 30.  I have seen a number of over 40 (in one case WAY over 40) year olds with dreadlocks here.  The only people who should be permitted to have dreadlocks are people who live on tropical islands and play steel drums and say "Hey Mon!" a lot.  Not stupid white people from suburbia who think its "cool".  I mean, where do you work with hair like that?  

Also, another weird thing is the neck ties.  A lot of men have these giant, almost clown-like neck ties with these huge knots.  I hate them.  Apparently this is the new style of neck tie?  It's terrible.  Please tell me this isn't true at home too. They make me want to laugh they're so ridiculous.

Can't think of anything else at the moment.  More pictures coming shortly!