R.I.P. MCA

[Ⓐaron]

Beastie Boys Co-Founder Adam Yauch Dead at 47



Fuck cancer.

That is all.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Yeah, heard about this. Shit sux.

 

[Geostigma]

To young =/

 

[SoulReaper]

Ruined my weekend. Fuuuuuuuuuuck. Their clip of Body Movin is an awesome hommage to the film my avatar is from, Mario Bava's Danger Diabolik.

 

[Ⓐaron]

So awesome.

In 2004, The New York Times' Stephanie Zacharek negatively reviewed the video for the Beastie Boys' new single "Ch-Check It Out." MCA a.k.a. Adam Yauch, who died today at the age of 47, had directed the video under his pseudonym Nathanial Hornblower. He didn't take kindly to Zacharek's review, and let her know in a letter to the Times....

His letter:

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

 

[Ⓐaron]

More links

Adam Yauch: more astute than GOP presidential candidates

The Onion

 

[Carlie]

This sucks, I love the Beastie Boys. R.I.P MCA, he was an extremely talented person and was taken too soon.

 

[Bex]

party hard this weekend guys

RIP

 

[Tennyo]

I saw this on TV earlier today and my heart sank.

RIP

 

[Gym Leader Devil]

Fuck cancer.

That is all.

 

[Geostigma]

So awesome.

That was such a pleasure to read.

 

[CK]

Time for a Beastie Boys marathon. RIP

 

[Ⓐaron]

Appreciation in the New Yorker. Via.

And this is the Yauch people remember: a man who could say he was sorry and not feel lessened by it; a man living within the principles of Buddhism and committed to broadening awareness of the political situation in Tibet; and a genuinely quiet person who had become more likely to make a joke at his own expense than anyone else’s. Yauch’s is one of the voices that can signify hip-hop within three syllables—rough, low, and strained. He got a lot done with that voice.

 

[Ⓐaron]