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I’m what they call a “mojo,” a cyberjournalist. I’m a former newspaper reporter who has traded in my ink stains for electron bombardment. I blog, I post, I upload and update. I help increase traffic on Web sites.
My office is a Prius, stocked with an HD video camera, laptop and a wireless card. I may not be able to operate a live truck, but with a good Internet connection, I’m basically the same thing.
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Wow… this has been kind of a rough week.
First, Junior Seau takes his own life and now Beastie Boy and filmmaker Adam Yauch has lost his three-year battle with cancer.
When I first started listening to the Beastie Boys, MCA wasn’t my favorite. I didn’t like his scratchy voice, the mirrored shades, the leather jacket. I was more into Ad-Roc. He seemed a little cooler and I even went as far as to buy a stolen Cadillac hood emblem to use as a keychain.
But then ‘Paul’s Boutique‘ came out.
It was so much better than ‘License to Ill,’ sonically it was more sophisticated, the samples were hipper and I liked the rhymes more. And I started to notice how cool MCA was. He was rocking the fat goatee, had bought a sick pad up in the Hollywood Hills and was making some great music.
And the hits continued to roll out: ‘Check Your Head,’ ‘Ill Communication,’ ‘Hello Nasty,’ boom, boom, boom… and it seemed MCA’s influence within the band was growing more too. His Buddhism was coming to the forefront and his personal vision of the band was coming across in their videos more and more.
I went to one Beastie Boys concert. It was a benefit for Wag, the bassist for Mary’s Danish. He had broken his hip and bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Thelonious Monster and the Beasties were in the line up. It was at the Palladium and I drove down from Humboldt County with my friend Wes, about 14 hours to see the show. It was great and after Wag demonstrated exactly why he’s called ‘wag,’ (you don’t want to know) MCA uttered his famous line: ‘If I knew it was going to be that kind of party, I would have stuck my dick in the mashed potatoes.’
I heard they raised around $70,000 that night.
We crossed path officially one day in Newport Beach. He was at The Lido, showing his film ‘Gunnin’ for that #1 Spot.’ We talked on the red carpet, and breaking protocol, I asked if he would pose for a picture with me. When I leaned in for the shot, he promptly wedged himself hard against my shoulder and I got a little rush of like “wow, MCA and I are actually touching” but it was a rush in a manly way — I think.
RIP, MCA…
