While putting together selections for the Carolina Beach Music set I and my southern kin contribute every summer to Amoeba SF's in-house DJ series we like to call
MANDALA! I suddenly got all misty-eyed for the
Swayze and his winsome ways. Though it's been almost two years since his untimely passing, his performance as
Dirty Dancing's heart-throbbing, summer fling mambo outlaw Johnny Castle will always have my heart. Whether it's been a while since or you've never basked in the glow of this, one of the best sound-racked coming of age summer flicks, tempt your senses with a trailer re-cut in the style of
David Lynch by clicking
here and come on out to the Amoeba SF stage tonight from 6-7:30 to kick off your shoes and dance with me while I spin choice cuts of pure Carolina Beach Music realness.