Beats your body parts being exported.

First bubbles, now this. You're getting soft, man.

This is EXACTLY what I imagine the inside of James Kurisunkal's head looks like.

Tickets go on sale Monday. They'll be playing the Bodies exhibition at the Seaport next fall!

my first thought was, "a girl? in prison? how is she not getting gang-raped?" but then I saw it was a guy. So now I think, "a guy dressed as a girl? in prison? How is he not getting gang-raped?"

But that was cool. Prison looks FUN!

So let's see their "She's Out Of My Life."

My memory from 1984 is a bit hazy, but I'd swear this is the original MTV video.

It's sure better than that Bridget Jones prison.

Wow. I feel like I don't need to watch youtube videos ever again.

I can't wait for Beat It.

Why are asian people obsessed with Thriller? Why?

@stew: I didn't know Julia Allison had said anything interesting enough to land herself in a Filipino prison. I was wrong about her.

@Queen of the Passive Aggressives: Maybe that's why they didn't re-enact the "limb drop" scenes.

"Ola Ray" was perfectly cast.

@mathnet: @KarenUhOh:

On hair cutting day they do Smooth Criminal.

I can't wait to see NY Times employees do this in their cafeteria!

I think I know what happens to the "girl" after the camera fades. . .

@LolCait: I guess in prison, it's Billy Gene who's not my lover.

Maybe they can perform this at the 2008 Olympics.

@meerkat: I was wondering what they were practicing this for!

@mathnet: My favorite number is the inspirational ballad, Heal the Ward.

they make them moonwalk to the electric chair.

it's really sad. the guy who flips the switch wears a silver glove. terrible.

In all seriousness, I really like the CPDRC's style. This is what rehabilitation is all about.

Most elaborate prison rape ever!

but the real question is, where are they vis-a-vis the nearest Harry Potter release party?

@ineffable.me:
I think that was the big guy's defense lawyer.

@LolCait: It's part of a whole medley! Ease on down, ease on down the ward . . .

Talk about prison reform. Yowza!

@mathnet:
I agree, but also find myself wanting to join them. Which is probably not the desired reaction.

Sad I'm too young to have more than the haziest idea of the original...

(at the risk of starting a Filipino-pun thread...)
i'm anticipating their stab at Man in Manila.

Remember your great-uncle who was in the army or whatever and spent a lot of time in the Far East in the 30s and 40s and always talked about "oriental despotism" and how "human life has no meaning for them"? This is what he meant.

@mathnet: Don't you mean "Luzon Down the Road"?

Uh, guys, this isn't a prison. It's part of the admissions test for Sarah Lawrence.

@fileunder: Say Say Say It In Tagalog has to be next.

This would be better underwater, though I do understand the harsh reality that most prisons don't have swimming pools.

@mathnet: We Are the Ward. LOLCait?

This is bullshit! Rikers better get their act together and bring their A-game and do Smooth Criminal or something. Filipinos putting us to shame like that.......

Why aren't the US Prisons doing this? They're getting exercise, learning a skill; Madonna's probably already scouting them for next tour!

This probably helps ease the funk of doing 40,000 years.

@mathnet: Girl, I'm strugglin'! 'Man in Manila' was brilliant, fileunder.

I'm thinking maybe Candies Girl done while Imelda Marcos dances around and throws shoes at everyone.

@KarenUhOh: This puts the funk IN it!

@LolCait: Come on. Don't Stop Till I Get Enough! I hear You Are Not Alone is going to be a great Alanic solitary confinement power ballad.

This is like a weird version of Christo's gates, but infinitely more entertaining.

@fileunder:
Pho the win. Nicely done.

That just made my day, and not just because of the prison gang rape.

@mathnet: You mean soliToya?

@LolCait: I'm not sure that's Jermaine (KUO?), but you still Rock My Ward.

WTF!!!

Sassy and Kat: they did do this a couple of years ago, only it was St. Anger & Metallica at San Quentin. It's cause US prisons are pissed.

Who knew prison was exactly the same as every sleepover I went to in middle school? I kind of want to get caught smuggling hashish just so I can go there.

Shame Alcatraz closed. The Rock with You would've been excellent!

@mathnet: @LolCait: @karion:
yeah, this was hard - Aquino think of any others.

@fileunder: I can't think of any more. Man, I'm Macaulay sulkin'.

@LolCait: Filipino worries, friends. Neverland in HIStory have Music and Me been so entertaining. Forever, Michael

Wilt thou Lisa Marie so unsatisfied, pun gods?

You guys are makin' me feel like I'm Luzon my Mindanao.

@KarenUhOh: That's The Way You Make Me Feel!

@LolCait: oh come on, don't Beat It yet. You're The Wiz at this shit. It's all Black and White to us but Simple as 1-2-3 for you.

@ellagood: I Remember the Time when this was easy. But alas, I can no longer pun Free Willy nilly, it seems.

Well, you Wanna (to) Be Startin Somethin, fileunder. You Are Not Alone.