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A little late but I wanted to "say a little something that's long overdue"

MCA aka Adam Yauch died on May 4th 2012.

I remember where I was when I heard the news. I had to leave the room when I was expected to be the most professional, and I gushed to anyone who would listen what this man meant to me.

In a very real sense, he was the heart and conscience of the Beastie Boys. And I think, if anything, he deserves more credit as one of the best lyricists in hip hop history. He’s got this gruff, authoritative voice and really smart lyrics and he was one of the first rappers to talk about more important things than his private parts. 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. I miss him ❤️.

“I want to say a little something that’s long overdue/ The disrespect to women has got to be through/ To all the mothers and sisters and the wives and friends/ I want to offer my love and respect to the end”

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THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (2022) dir. Martin McDonagh

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“I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a festival, or just sitting down to listen to some vinyl...”

— Daniel Lanois

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Neil Young photographed at Fort William, Ontario 1965

Neil Young photographed at Fort William, Ontario in 1965

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"Be groovy or leave, man."

-Bob Dylan

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Ada Limon - What it Looks Like to Us and the Words We Use

From: "Bright Dead Things" Sept. 2015

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Sonnet 29: When In Disgrace With Fortune and Men’s Eyes

William Shakespeare

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This concert was INSANE!

Lineup :

A Tribe Called Quest

Beastie Boys

George Clinton

Green Day

L7

Smashing Pumpkins

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

The Breeders

The Pharcyde

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Bo Burnham

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"I know what this is. It's just myself talking to myself about myself." - Thomas Shelby

Peaky Blinders

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Quentin Tarantino’s list of potentials for the cast of Pulp Fiction - 1994

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"I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is."

Joni Mitchell - Rolling Stone 1991

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Rapid Ego-Deflation Experiment, 'Professore', Stephane Graff (2009)

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Excerpt from "Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy" by Donald Miller 2015