Krk just called me to tell me that the genre-bending balkan gypsy polka funk punk band Kultur Shock will be playing a show at the Crocodile while we're in Seattle.

I am beyond excited. I think they are my most favorite live band ever. There's just something deliciously sick and wrong about a funk band with an accordion. They have been known to cause people who would never ever ever dance in public start to shuffle, and multiple exposure to Kultur Shock shows has been known to cause non-dancers to actually start sweating and flailing around on the dance floor with hot Russian chicks and the occasional Bosnian grandma. If I could have a perfect wedding, they would be the band.

And now, I present for you the principles of dude-ism, according to Gino Srdjan Yevdjevich:

1. Love your dude.
2. Don't ever judge another dude.
3. Dudes are non-exclusive. Anyone can be a dude.
4. Don't ever leave your dude if your dude doesn't leave you.
5. No dude is higher than any other dude. No hierarchy, no aristocracy, no blood line.
6. Don't ever do to a dude what you wouldn't like a dude to do to you.
7. Every dude must memorize #6 because it's complicated.
8. Dudes don't think, dudes just do.
9. Dudes don't worship, even dude-ism. Fuck ya.
10. Dude!

Listen to KulturShock in RealAudio.

Dude.