i kept waiting for him to crack-up at some point. maybe on the porno mag line he will crack up? here it comes. and...no. no. just keeps on being chris martin, heartfelt man.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 5 May 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
more NYT fun:
`CH-CHECK IT OUT'
One Goat, on Account
To the Editor:
I had the great pleasure of reading your unsolicited critique of the "Ch-Check It Out" music video ["Licensed to Stand Still" by Stephanie Zacharek, May 16]. It took some time to get to me, as it had to be curried (sp?) on goatback through the fjords of my homeland, the Oppenzell. And in the process the goat died, and then I had to give the mailman one of my goats, so remember, you owe me a goat.
Anyway, that video is big time good. Pauline Kael is spinning over in her grave. My film technique is clearly too advanced for your small way of looking at it. Someday you will be yelling out to the streets below your windows: "He is the chancellor of all the big ones! I love his genius! I am the most his close personal friend!"
You journalists are ever lying. I remember people like you laughing at me at the university, and now they are all eating off of my feet. You make this same unkind laughter at the Jerry Lewis for his Das Verruckte Professor and now look, he is respected as a French-clown. And you so-call New York Times smarties are giving love to the U2 because they are dressing as the Amish and singing songs about America? (Must I dress as the Leprechaun to sing songs about Ireland so that you will love me? You know the point I make here is true!)
In concluding, "Ch-Check It Out" is the always best music film and you will be realizing this too far passing. As ever I now wrap my dead goat carcass in the soiled New York Times — and you are not forgetting to buy me a replacement! Please send that one more goat to me now!
NATHANIAL HORNBLOWER
Manhattan
The writer, whose real name is Adam Yauch, is a member of the Beastie Boys. He directs their music videos under the pseudonym Nathanial Hornblower.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 5 May 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
It's funny because I definitely haven't given more than one listen to anything since Hello Nasty, and I was not anticipating that changing, but on the other hand it has hit me really hard.
Though as a couple of people upthread have said, just because he's not making music for me any more doesn't mean he wasn't being a great force for good in the world, and he would almost certainly keep branching out. Kind of surprised I never knew he was behind Oscilloscope.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 5 May 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
The Coldplay is the oddest tribute I've seen - on the one hand fuck no! on the other I'm kind of touched by how far his influence spread, and that the band must have spent some time on this, when absolutely no-one would have expected it of them.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 5 May 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
well fuck me i cried during that goddamn coldplay tribute fuck you ilx
― balls, Saturday, 5 May 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not meaning to hate on Coldplay here, but Chris Martin has always seemed to be more than a tad self-conscious about his coolness factor or lack thereof, so his love of the Beastie Boys is surely a no brainer, as there was literally no one cooler than the Beastie Boys.
Just talked to a friend who I guess, back in the day, was one of the group's #1 Toronto fans, and hung with Adam the most. She said he was the nicest guy, and that his lifestyle was so clean and had-been for years - vegan, no drinking (I think?), no drugs, not even smoking pot. She's pretty shocked by his death, especially because she had lost touch and, in her current life, hadn't really been following the group.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 May 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
the beasties more than any group (except maybe tmbg) are a symbol of my childhood and adolescence...this feels like the milemarker from which i will know ever after i am an adult and i don't like it.
i saw them at bonnaroo in 09 and remember not having high expectations, you know, about ten minutes of beasties then i'll go see david byrne. but they put on one of the best shows of my life...i remember being really disappointed after a 60 minute set that they weren't the headliner that night (which was either springsteen or phish).
― humba (NZA), Saturday, 5 May 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
Jesus Christ me too and I really didn't expect it
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 5 May 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
my little girl was dancing real hard to Check Your Head while we went grocery shopping this morning. Up until "Time For Livin'". That made her cry.
― booblights and the eternal frustration (how's life), Saturday, 5 May 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
Soul fireAnd we ain't got no water
― booblights and the eternal frustration (how's life), Saturday, 5 May 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
I thought I had written a pretty good bass part until a few years later when I realized I had subliminally stole it from Track 6 of License to Ill.
http://soundcloud.com/r-mantlebakken/come-on-inside
― pplains, Saturday, 5 May 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, actually watched and will remember the coldplay video. if I meet him in hell, we'll shake hands
― Dominique, Sunday, 6 May 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
Really emotional watching then get inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame right now
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 May 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
Ha mixmaster mike chopping it up on the wheels with a nuclear assault t shirt is about perfect for the era that birthed the beasties
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 May 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
this is hilarious: Adam Yauch's top 10 films released by Criterion http://www.criterion.com/explore/57-adam-yauch-s-top-10
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, May 5, 2012 2:50 PM (4 hours ago)
yeah
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
lol at that criterion list [sniff]
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, May 6, 2012 1:56 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, May 6, 2012 1:59 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm. but the vibe was kinda ruined when we had to watch Kid Rock and Travie McCoy butcher them. Questlove and Black Thought made up for it though.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
Really fucking loved that Questlove had the ABA basketball logo on his kit.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
i've seen that banana photo in a couple places accompanying obits/death coverage and it always brings a smile to my face
― some dude, Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
Perhaps I'm out of it but I blessedly don't know who that travie guy is
Yeah the performance was just ok
So far bette midlers speech about laura nyro and-surprisingly- Mick Hucknall of simply red subbing for rod stewart have been the highlights
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
Travie McCoy is the dude from Gym Class Heroes and did that "Billionaire" song recently. I'm sure you've heard some stuff he's done.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
rip
― underleg aeroboots i have smithed (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
Awesome, SNL just showed a short little snippet of the Beastie Boys as tribute after the fake news. Has the show ever done that before?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 May 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like i might've seen something similar before but still yeah, it was nice, especially using that 'love and respect to the end' part of "Sure Shot" as the clip
― some dude, Sunday, 6 May 2012 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
Seems like Roy Orbison died on a Friday and the next night, they showed him doing "Crying" in its entirety (at 11:53 pm CST)
― pplains, Sunday, 6 May 2012 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
keeps hitting me
so sad for his daughter
;_;
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 May 2012 05:46 (twelve years ago) link
vegan, no drinking (I think?), no drugs, not even smoking pot.
he stopped smoking cheeba / that was part of the key
― Bad Company's Drummer's Daughter (stevie), Sunday, 6 May 2012 09:32 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe the least assholey thing I've seen in Perry Farrell in a while:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/perry-farrell-remembers-adam-yauch-20120504
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 May 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
Watching their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame right now on HBO. Just Ad Rock and Mike D. Industry folks must have been tipped so this could happen before he passed away.
LL Cool J said they were the ones who played his demo to Rick Rubin which is how he got signed.
Ad Rock read a note from Adam -- whose folks were in the audience. Pretty special.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 6 May 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Forgot about them being in Beat Street for about five seconds.
― pplains, Sunday, 6 May 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
All their stuff was such a huge celebration of life. We went to the baseball park on Friday night and they were playing "Johnny Ryall" between innings while the kids ran laps around the concourse. Beeps and I walked past two concession guys who were trading off lyrics to "Paul Revere". There was sadness, but this weekend has definitely felt like more a wake than a funeral.
If this is how you mourn a poet, I hope we do it like this every time.
― pplains, Sunday, 6 May 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
"They're busting mad rhymes with an 80% success rate. I believe that qualifies as 'Ill. At least from a technical standpoint."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUrsKjTP2Zk
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 6 May 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
was MCA not on that ep?
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 6 May 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
MSG playing beastie boys during the knicks/heat game
― dayo, Sunday, 6 May 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3imo1K5tQ1qz9yvto1_500.png
― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 6 May 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― crüt, Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
damn that coldplay thing was awesome and i fucking hate them
― first mca now bear wtf at this day already (frogbs), Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
isn't there a Mark Sinker essay about the essence of a "band" w/r/t Rolling Stones and Public Enemy ( or was it NWA?) somewhere? anyone know what i am thinking of, any links?
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 6 May 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
nope - how chillingly prescient
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Sunday, 6 May 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
actually the chillingly prescient part is
Fry: "Back in the 20th century I had all five of your albums." Ad-Rock: "That was a thousand years ago! Now we got seven."
― some dude, Monday, 7 May 2012 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
Ha!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 May 2012 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
whoa
― first mca now bear wtf at this day already (frogbs), Monday, 7 May 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
they have eight tho, bet yr forgetting The Mix-Up
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, 7 May 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not sure that one really counts
― first mca now bear wtf at this day already (frogbs), Monday, 7 May 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
I always forget that one
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 May 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
It counts(ish). It's not like In Sound From Way-Out, where it was just a comp of previously heard instrumentals. It's a collection of new recordings. No one paid it any attention, though.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 May 2012 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
Mix-Up ≠ In Sound, frog
Yauch feeding an interviewer mushrooms:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4N01rR0pR4&list=PL95A9B55546080A3E&index=1&feature=plpp_video
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, 7 May 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
^ xpost
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, 7 May 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
sic, that vid is fucking awes
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 May 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link