No, this video is not from Japan (but it is...NSFW. Trust me on that!!)

Okay, after spending the past four posts on the teeth and bones of Archaic humans and writing about theories of modern human/archaic human DNA introgression, I've found myself wanting to induldge in some true, creepy, shuddersome weirdness, something I can assure you this South African music video more than contains. In the unlikely event that any of my readers have young children, please don't let them watch this video. It's not safe for kids (Not safe for bosses either--don't watch it at work!)

So what's happnening here? I'll tell you what's happening--South African Boers, while we were paying them no attention, developed an impressively surreal asthetic in between all those vuvuzeula solos at soccer games. I give you the penis-obsessed Die Antwoord, whose video features the famous South African monster known as the Tokoloshe (the little but well-endowed hairy beast dancing around), a shout-out to the movie District 9, a little albinoid goblinette wearing a coat and hood made from rats (not rat-skins or rat fur...watch the video) and dicks, dicks, dicks, everywhere (but no former VP Cheney in sight)! Even Casper the Ghost's, for God's sake (Casper's been putting those "male enlargement" e-mails to work, I guess).

There is a serious side to all this penis-madness, related to life experiences of the young Xhosa rapper Wanga featured in the video. The video is at least a partial "up yours" to the ruling social elements of the Xhosa tribe and the practices they hold dear, such as the Xhosa manhood ceremony. This involves having a teenage boy go off into the bush on his own with a kitchen knife, performing his own circumcism, and staunching the blood flow with hot ashes from a campfire. It's easy to see how dangerous this is, and in fact well over 60 boys in 2010 died from ceremony-related shock or infection just around Cape Town alone. Finding the whole thing stupid and dangerous, Wanga decided not to undertake it--a decision that has serious social consequences for a Xhosa youth. In the segment where he raps in Xhosa he says "I don't want to be a man; Evil boy for life." Indeed, without undergoing this rite of passage, he won't be considered a real man by the conservative elements of Xhosa society.