When I was about thirteen, the Beastie Boys were the baddest motherf*ckers to ever pick up a mic and go boom. Everybody in the State Adolescent Unit/dungeon I was living at LOVED License to Ill, and it was the most popular AUDIOCASSETTE TAPE (!) on the ward, much passed around and quoted. Dates me, doesn't it?
I like to joke they're still my favorite "Jewish comedy troupe," but that incorrectly implies I'm somehow mocking them. I'm not. They're still great after almost forty years. They never sold out; just got more and more complex in their mix of punk, funk, hip-hop, rock, jazz, and whatever else they could throw into that musical polly wog stew.
This video is heavier than Hell, the song a grooving, ponderous sample from Black Sabbath paired with an elephantine beat designed to crush you. It's lean and raw and smashes down like a brick on the top of your noggin. The girl in the cage doesn't hurt, either.
Pure, revved-up, alpha male "boys will be boys" stuff from an era before "Woke."
The Beastie Boys started their career, incidentally, as a NYC punk rock group. They're featured on the classic Roir cassette compilation New York Thrash, alongside the largely forgotten leavings from bands like The Nihilistics, Adrenaline O.D., and Kraut; NONE of which ever went on to enjoy the meteoric success of the Beasties AFTER they started rapping, and broke free from the hardcore punk ghetto.
Beastie Boys - Rhymin' & Stealin' (Official Video)
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Family Affair
Hey everyone, I am going to start an on-going new series of critiques on old television shows that I grew up on back in the late sixties and the seventies. The first one is 'Family Affair' starring Brian Keith and Sebastian Cabot who played Mr. Bill Davis and Mr. French. This was the story of a bachelor uncle and his gentlemen's gentleman who was found to take care of his two nieces and a nephew. Many of the situations that being that this program was a situation comedy would cover subjects like how a single 'father' raised children to issues like the one that I just watched dealing with 'latchkey children'.
By Mark Graham7 days ago in Critique
To Give Your Last Twenty
He walks oddly, shuffling and nearly tripping down the hallway toward his apartment door. I slow my pace, allowing my neighbor— a stuffy ex-marine with one missing tooth and a strong odor of liquor and two weeks' worth of unwashed stench always accompanying him—to reach his door. I crinkle my nose, nearly gagging as he dawdles ahead.
By Ashley6 days ago in Motivation
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Interesting. Admittedly, not a big fan, but still....