Oh boy...
If you guys have never heard of the IGN Digigods podcast, I strongly suggest you give them a listen here. After the jump, is an e-mail I wrote to them in regards to their last podcast. If you've never heard them before, but have just click the link let me answer a question you haven't asked before...no...they are net gay [i don't think]. And yes, when it comes to dvd movies and quality, they know their stuff.
Hey Mark & Wade,
I feel like I'm about to be one of 'those people' who knit-picks with a child who clearly could care less with what I am getting ready to say. As a little background I am a photography grad student that has been documenting the bboy/bgirl community for about 7 years. Which goes without saying...I have also been dancing [as a bboy] for the same amount of time [cue Wade's terrible joke]. To make ends meet...I'm a clerk/IT guy at a mom & pop video rental store:
1) Planet Bboy [in regards to the bboy community] is widely heralded as a pretty looking, awful documentary. I look forward to watching it for free at work. What is unfortunate, is disregarding an entire culture as something that quote "People who should know better." Now I know, I shouldn't have given this a second thought [because clearly you guys haven't], but man...I listen to you guys every week for over a year and I am always amazed at what you guys don't get or just can't relate to.
-Bboys/Bgirls who take this dance seriously don't 'break their necks'. This usually occurs when a 'breakdancer' [not bboy] or some frat boy, sees something cool online and without any practical or gradual training [yes it does exist] does the mind-numbingly ignorant. A good majority of bboys today don't really spin on their heads. Spinning on your head or back is such a small part of the dance form.
-Electric Boogalooing is a move not related to breakdancing at all. You are referencing a move that Poppers use. [Poppers aren't Bboys they have their own history]
-I found myself laughing at your last podcast, because in the same breath you can dismiss a dance culture that has existed since the 70's [not 80's], Call multi-millionaire rappers 'thugs' [RZA scoring Ghost Dog & Kill Bill is a very thug thing to do?], but you'll reference the brilliant documentary STAX/WATTS in the brightest of lights.
Note: If you don't know already, there are dancers who have to learn songs from Booker T & The Mgs and Roy Budd etc in order to express themselves to the music...I guess I could have just said; "In order to dance on beat", but I felt you may not have been able to relate to that.
-I really like you guys' show...even if you do lean heavily on the Criterion collection [don't hear much about the Eclipse series though], seeing as I despise my film student cohorts, I have developed a completely arbitrary hate for Criterion. Keep up the good work...love the show.
Bboy Izilla
P.S. I love Mixed Martial Arts, but I'll save that for another e-mail