Impose TV: Premiere: SHAMS and DJ Dog Dick in Alaska

Premiere: SHAMS and DJ Dog Dick in Alaska Video by Max Eisenberg and Jonathan Coward

Anchorage, Alaska, is less like a city and more like a generalized grouping of 40% of the entire population of Alaska. It spans over almost 2,000 square miles (in comparison, all five boroughs of New York City, including all the weird parts of Queens, are only about 470 square miles). About 300,000 people live there and pay very little taxes; almost 250,000 of them moved to Anchorage in the '70s and '80s, after oil was discovered nearby. The oil was discovered after a the second-biggest earthquake ever recorded destroyed the city in 1964, prompting geological surveying in the barren area.

So when we watch this short film made by Brooklyn noise bros SHAMS and DJ Dog Dick, who were flown there by a booking and promotions collective of sorts called Reverse Retro to perform, we can know a few things. One: in all likelihood, the young people of Anchorage are the first or second generation of young people in their families to grow up in Anchorage. There is approximately an 8/9 chance of this. This means that Anchorage is a partying frontier. They are free to invent traditions in partying based on their locale.

Two: these young people live there because of an intense, five-minute natural act of destruction that happened before they were born. This is the heritage that they know. Everything around them is a result of a natural disaster that benefitted humanity's bottom line. But they still live on a really scary fault line that could blow at any minute, in the middle of a barren, frozen wasteland.

So, when you watch this film, keep all this in mind. Also, keep in mind the fact that no one remembers to film the craziest parts of the party, because they are too drunk and they left the camera upstairs. Then, you might be able to get a sense of what it must be like to hang out in Alaska.

Posted on February 06, 2012. More on: shams, dj dog dick, reverse retro, alaska