Lay It Down, Clowns!
The Beastie Boys on tour in Los Angeles shortly after the release of their debut album, Licensed to Ill.
| Creem | May 1987
Classic piece I actually chose and transcribed for the CREEM anthology published by HarperCollins:
Earlier that evening, after Pee-Wee Herman had visited their dressing room and before they appeared on Joan Rivers’ show, the Beasties were tossing parsley at me, dropping ice cubes in my hair, and “dissin’” (graffiti-artist lingo for “saying bad things about”) my brown socks and flannel shirt. I interpreted all of this to mean that they did not like me.
But I don’t feel alone. Just days before, they’d been evicted from the Sunset Marquis for throwing chairs out their window into the swimming pool. And that week, they’d also become the first group ever to be censored on American Bandstand—Dick Clark, who’d put up with Johnnies Rotten and Lydon in past episodes, apparently determined Adrock’s mid-song crotch-grab was just too much. The Beasties had previously been banned from the Holiday Inn chain after they’d cut a hole in the floor of one suite to serve as a passageway to the one directly below; they’d been banned from CBS Records headquarters after allegedly ripping off a camera at a label party. And MCA brags that he punched aBay Area Music interviewer in the face not too long ago. These guys are total jerks, and they’ve got the fastest-selling debut album in CBS history.
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Why yes, I did attend a Star Wars-themed burlesque show entitled “A Nude Hope” last night. Thank you for asking.
"By the end it becomes little more than bad jokes and a list of the author’s allergies."
Fictitious review of imaginary book I wrote.
"Re: “Hit repeat, ignore” (Metro Times, May 24), the scathing Luke Allen Hackney story on the Detroit Music Awards: Why so bitter? I’m left wondering why the editorial staff would give the assignment to somebody who was so obviously blatant in their disregard for the event."
Letter to the editor, Metro Times, 2006.
As an experiment, every time I stumble upon a photo of Kerbuski on Tumblr, I’ll reblog it.
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Featured Longreader: Luke Hackney, writer/designer. See his story picks from Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Yorker, The Nation, plus more on his #longreads page.
Hey, that’s me!
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An Adelie penguin, looking like the Swiss animated character Pingu, bows its head and seems to smile at the camera on Paulet Island, Antarctica.
(Photo: JenFu Cheng / Solent News via the Telegraph)
With that, I’m gonna go watch Pingu for an hour.
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