And here’s the performance that started it all for Ha Youngwoong.

I believe in Ha Youngwoong. Someone put that on a teeshirt!

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My hand is burning red! It’s telling me to grasp victory! BURNING FINGER!

June 1st. Baltimore’s Ottobar. MC Chris with The Age of Rockets and Karmella’s Game. And…

ART FIGHT!

Dead of Summer’s Nick “Ghostfreehood” Borkowicz and your’s truly will go one on one with canvasses, markers, and paint to unleash artful destruction upon Baltimore, Maryland! Winner takes… um… stuff!

We’re hoping to get someone to film the art of mass destruction for those of you who can’t make it out. But for the rest of you, there’s no excuse! Who knows what madness will occur? Will we attack each other’s paintings? Will we call on audience members to help finish our pieces? Will we throw random toys into the audience? Will Baltimore ever be the same ever again?!

Mark your calendars! June 1st, art happens! Doors open at 8pm. Show starts at 9pm.

[Via Dead of Summer]

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If you missed out on the NSO’s performance of Video Games Live, you can check out the University of Maryland’s Gamer Symphony Orchestra’s Spring 2008 concert tomorrow night at 7:30pm in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s Kay Theater. This brings a happy tear to my eye. It’s nice to see students from my alma matter joining together to perform feats of awesome. I just wish we had such nerd chi when my brother and I went to UMD.

The show is free for all. They also have a YouTube channel of some of their past performances. The UMGSO also hosts charity death match events so if you’re a gamer near College Park, MD, you might want to check them out.

Thanks to reader and UMGSO member Brian Kwong for the heads up. And good luck with the show!

[Via UMGSO]

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Rain is a Korean pop star who beat out Stephen Colbert in Time magazine’s list of most influential people. So Colbert challenged Rain to a dance off and awesome occurred! Who knew Colbert could step it up!

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Reader Psicodelic Madness sent me some videos of the Biggest Online Dance Battle in the History of Man Kind! Jon M. Chu, director of Step Up 2 the Streets, and Step Up 2 the Streets star Adam Sevani challenged Miley Cyrus (never thought that name would show up on AZM) and Mandy Jiroux to an online dance battle. Jon and Adam assembled the ACDC, Adam/Chu Dance Crew, and issued the challenge.

Miley and Mandy heard the challenge and assembled their M&M crew for a response.

But wait! There’s more.

ACDC returns with allstar recruits Adam Sandler, Chris Brown, Diana Ross, and Lindsay Lohan. Well, three out of four ain’t bad.

When your dance video has diva Diana Ross, you fucking win. How can you beat that? What, Jonas brothers attack? Blech.

Fun battle. I hope they keep going. You know, this almost makes me want to start my own battle. Like an art battle. Against an opponent who’s already beaten me. Like an opponent who frees hoods from ghosts. And we could battle at, say, the Ottobar. On June 1st. And we could call it, Art Fight!

Wouldn’t that kick all sorts of crunchy pants ass!

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The bar has been raised! The live-action G.I. Joe flick will have to be at least as awesome as this video. I fear the chances of that are slim to none.

In the words of Biggie, “And if you don’t know, now you know…nigga.” And knowing is half the mother fucking battle!

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JJ Abrams is producing Hot for Teacher, a comedy about a high school senior’s attempts to have sex with his teacher before graduation.

Wait, didn’t someone already make this movie?

I suppose in the spirit of the teen-quest-for-sex genre, trying to bag your sexy teacher is par for the course. However, in light of all the scandals involving teachers and under age high school students, this kind of squicks me out a bit. Sure, high school seniors are usually eighteen so if there is hot extra curricular nookie, it will occur between consenting adults. But no good can come from such a relationship.

Of course, this is also assuming the lad closes the deal. If there be no hot teacher nookie, this might be much less icky.

The major problem I’ve always had with the teen-quest-for-sex genre is that it usually reduces women to sex objects. That kind of objectification may have been the norm in, well, pretty much every decade. But in the new freaking millennium, it’s time to come up with something new. There are so many other aspects to teen sexuality that are left to explore that could provide endless comedic opportunities. Juno was an excellent subversion of the teen pregnancy angle. I would love to see similar takes on homosexual self discovery or interracial sexuality. There so much more material to mine for hilarity that I get really discouraged when I see the same movie being made over and over again.

Okay, so maybe there aren’t so many student wants to bang teacher flicks out there. But it’s high time to expand our comedic horizons.

[Via Hollywood Reporter]

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Before Guitar Hero, there was Shamisen Hero! Okay, not really, but this is pretty damn sweet. I love the dude who just screams in the middle of the verse. I got no info on the group or where this is from, but it’s filled with the awesome!

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It has always been my belief that everything is better with Punjabi music. For example, witness how much funnier it is to be Rick Rolled when remixed with Punjabi music.

For our second example, witness the genius of Elvis is when dancing to Punjabi music.

For our final example, witness Justin Timberlake bring Punjabi back.

For more examples of how Punjabi music is awesome sauce, check out YouTube user Hsoomal’s videos.

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This is footage of Evil Dead: The Musical which opened this week in Seoul, Korea.

That’s it. I’m going!

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