Saturday, May 28, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT (REVISITED)
(via nymag.com)
Following its TV premiere, all of Fight for Your Right Revisited — a short directed by Adam Yauch that's preceding the new Beastie Boys album, Hot Sauce Committee Vol. 2 — has popped up online. It is, as its overstuffed cameo roll and basic concept — Mike D (played by Seth Rogen), Ad-Rock (Elijah Wood), and MCA (Danny McBride) continuing to wreak havoc the morning after the party from the "Fight for Your Right" video — would suggest, a wholeheartedly awesome twenty-plus minutes. It's got an improvised (in a good way) feel, an exceptionally funky soundtrack of new Beasties music, the coining of the term "Jon Bon" to refer to the front man of Bon Jovi, the consumption of whippits, and exchanges like this:
Susan Sarandon [As the absentee resident of the apartment that hosts the party.]: There haven't been any pie fights? I keep finding these pie remnants."
McBride: I haven’t seen any sort of desserts ... at all. Nothing.
Best of all, though, is the fact that Fight for Your Right Revisited is the Beasties making a public peace with their earlier selves. As Yauch explains in the liner notes to the band's anthology, Sounds of Science, the whole frat-party vibe behind "Fight for Your Right" specifically, and the band's public persona during the Licensed to Ill era in general, was a joke that went too far. It was, of course, a wildly successful joke that many people love, which made it bittersweet to see the band so firmly turn their back on it. With some separation, though (25 years' worth, to be exact), the Beasties can appreciate, with a big, comical sigh of relief, that they did, in fact, very successfully shed those personas.
That appreciation is made explicit when the older, jerkier versions of the Beasties (John C. Reilly, Will Ferrell, and Jack Black, all in top form) show up and fake Mike D has a realization: "This is just a possibility of the future. I think that we’re being given the gift of seeing what we could be like." "So these guys are like the ghost of Licensed to Ill future," adds a pensive fake MCA. (Also: "Can’t even untie a fucking dance mat.") That means Fight for Your Right Revisited is basically a big, fun, well-aged tribute to the band's personal maturation. Kind of heartwarming, right?
Susan Sarandon [As the absentee resident of the apartment that hosts the party.]: There haven't been any pie fights? I keep finding these pie remnants."
McBride: I haven’t seen any sort of desserts ... at all. Nothing.
Best of all, though, is the fact that Fight for Your Right Revisited is the Beasties making a public peace with their earlier selves. As Yauch explains in the liner notes to the band's anthology, Sounds of Science, the whole frat-party vibe behind "Fight for Your Right" specifically, and the band's public persona during the Licensed to Ill era in general, was a joke that went too far. It was, of course, a wildly successful joke that many people love, which made it bittersweet to see the band so firmly turn their back on it. With some separation, though (25 years' worth, to be exact), the Beasties can appreciate, with a big, comical sigh of relief, that they did, in fact, very successfully shed those personas.
That appreciation is made explicit when the older, jerkier versions of the Beasties (John C. Reilly, Will Ferrell, and Jack Black, all in top form) show up and fake Mike D has a realization: "This is just a possibility of the future. I think that we’re being given the gift of seeing what we could be like." "So these guys are like the ghost of Licensed to Ill future," adds a pensive fake MCA. (Also: "Can’t even untie a fucking dance mat.") That means Fight for Your Right Revisited is basically a big, fun, well-aged tribute to the band's personal maturation. Kind of heartwarming, right?
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
LOCAL SPOTLIGHT.
SO AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, I'M VERY PICKY WITH MUSIC... I TRY AND SUPPORT LOCAL TALENT AS MUCH AS I CAN, BUT BEING FROM THE "SOUTH," I FIND MYSELF MORE OFTEN THAN NOT LISTENING DISCONTENTLY TO BUNDLES OF DIRTY SOUTH MUSIC BEING THROWN MY WAY LIKE RAINDROPS IN A STORM... IT'S JUST THE NATURE OF BEING A DJ IN THIS REGION I GUESS. NOT THAT I'M NOT A FAN, BUT REALISTICALLY SPEAKING, THE MAJORITY OF IT IS BAD; CHEAP BEATS THAT A TWO YEAR OLD WITH A CASIO KEYBOARD COULD MAKE COUPLED WITH LYRICS THAT WOULD MAKE THE AVERAGE CAVE MAN EVEN SEEM SMART. MOST OF IT I USUALLY PASS UP AND THEN I'LL END UP COMPLAINING ON THE AWFUL STATE OF HIP HOP MUSIC THESE DAYS SHORTLY AFTER...
BUT EVERY SO OFTEN, SOMETHING WILL CATCH MY EAR... AND I'M NOT PUTTING THESE UP BECAUSE IT ISN'T THE TYPICAL SOUND TO COME OUT OF THIS REGION, BUT BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY GOOD MUSIC... REGARDLESS OF GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION... AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN ASK ME TO WRITE THIS BLOG FOR THEM EITHER IF YOU'RE WONDERING... I JUST SUPPORT GOOD MUSIC WHEN I HEAR IT. I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW HAPPY IT MAKES ME TO HEAR GREAT HIP HOP BEING MADE IN THIS LITTLE PLACE I LIKE TO CALL MY CITY.
FIRST UP... CHECK OUT THIS GIRL DYNASTY (IRONIC THAT SHE WOULD FIND HER WAY ONTO THIS BLOG). COSIGNED BY THE MAN HIMSELF, DJ PREMIER, SHE IS DEFINITELY DESTINED TO DO GREAT THINGS! SHOUT OUTS TO THE HOMIE BUCKWHEAT MAKING A CAMEO AS WELL!
NEXT UP... JINX FEATURING MONICA DELGADO... DON'T NEED TO SAY MUCH HERE. IT'S SIMPLY A DOPE ASS TRACK... AND SHOUT OUTS TO, WELL, LITERALLY EVERYONE IN THIS VIDEO. WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE IN HERE... AND I SEE A FEW DYNASTYEVENTS "REGULARS" IN THERE! HAHAHA...
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BUT EVERY SO OFTEN, SOMETHING WILL CATCH MY EAR... AND I'M NOT PUTTING THESE UP BECAUSE IT ISN'T THE TYPICAL SOUND TO COME OUT OF THIS REGION, BUT BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY GOOD MUSIC... REGARDLESS OF GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION... AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN ASK ME TO WRITE THIS BLOG FOR THEM EITHER IF YOU'RE WONDERING... I JUST SUPPORT GOOD MUSIC WHEN I HEAR IT. I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW HAPPY IT MAKES ME TO HEAR GREAT HIP HOP BEING MADE IN THIS LITTLE PLACE I LIKE TO CALL MY CITY.
FIRST UP... CHECK OUT THIS GIRL DYNASTY (IRONIC THAT SHE WOULD FIND HER WAY ONTO THIS BLOG). COSIGNED BY THE MAN HIMSELF, DJ PREMIER, SHE IS DEFINITELY DESTINED TO DO GREAT THINGS! SHOUT OUTS TO THE HOMIE BUCKWHEAT MAKING A CAMEO AS WELL!
NEXT UP... JINX FEATURING MONICA DELGADO... DON'T NEED TO SAY MUCH HERE. IT'S SIMPLY A DOPE ASS TRACK... AND SHOUT OUTS TO, WELL, LITERALLY EVERYONE IN THIS VIDEO. WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE IN HERE... AND I SEE A FEW DYNASTYEVENTS "REGULARS" IN THERE! HAHAHA...
FOLLOW THEM ON TWITTER:
www.twitter.com/yagirldynasty
www.twitter.com/jinx813
www.twitter.com/MonicaDMusic
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