JoLovesMCA
03-12-2015, 11:33 AM
How are you dealing with not being a Beastie Boy?
It’s definitely weird. For over 25 years, that’s all I did. It was who I was. I’m trying to figure out what that is.
Adam “MCA” Yauch died in 2012 (2). Do you think the band would still be going if he was alive?
What I’d hope would happen was that the band would be on the backburner and Adam would make movies (3). That would have made sense to me. This doesn’t make sense.
How are you dealing with it?
I have no idea. I’m not? I’m in denial? I don’t know. How do you deal with it? It’s fucking depressing. He was one of my best friends. We were 14 and we went through everything in life together.
Do you think a loss like that teaches you something? Or is that just a cliche? That’s never happened to me when I’ve lost someone close. You know you’re supposed to live every moment like it’s your last and all that stuff, but you also know you’re not supposed to smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol …
While We’re Young seems to argue that staying in touch with pop culture is a way of staying alive.
Pop culture is half about enjoyment and half about denial. If I can spend four minutes watching a Kanye West video, that’s four minutes that I’ve wasted in my life, but it’s also four minutes that I haven’t had to think about the shit in my life. It’s a toss-up is what I’m saying. A balance – both awful and wonderful.
How does it make you feel that twentysomethings in the film would think of the Beastie Boys (http://www.theguardian.com/music/beastie-boys) as a vintage band?
We are. We’re a band of the Led Zeppelin ilk. Every generation there are kids that are getting turned on to Led Zeppelin. Every once in a while, a 13-year-old will hear us for the first time and be really psyched.
full interview : http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/12/adam-ad-rock-horovitz-beastie-boys-interview-while-were-young
It’s definitely weird. For over 25 years, that’s all I did. It was who I was. I’m trying to figure out what that is.
Adam “MCA” Yauch died in 2012 (2). Do you think the band would still be going if he was alive?
What I’d hope would happen was that the band would be on the backburner and Adam would make movies (3). That would have made sense to me. This doesn’t make sense.
How are you dealing with it?
I have no idea. I’m not? I’m in denial? I don’t know. How do you deal with it? It’s fucking depressing. He was one of my best friends. We were 14 and we went through everything in life together.
Do you think a loss like that teaches you something? Or is that just a cliche? That’s never happened to me when I’ve lost someone close. You know you’re supposed to live every moment like it’s your last and all that stuff, but you also know you’re not supposed to smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol …
While We’re Young seems to argue that staying in touch with pop culture is a way of staying alive.
Pop culture is half about enjoyment and half about denial. If I can spend four minutes watching a Kanye West video, that’s four minutes that I’ve wasted in my life, but it’s also four minutes that I haven’t had to think about the shit in my life. It’s a toss-up is what I’m saying. A balance – both awful and wonderful.
How does it make you feel that twentysomethings in the film would think of the Beastie Boys (http://www.theguardian.com/music/beastie-boys) as a vintage band?
We are. We’re a band of the Led Zeppelin ilk. Every generation there are kids that are getting turned on to Led Zeppelin. Every once in a while, a 13-year-old will hear us for the first time and be really psyched.
full interview : http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/12/adam-ad-rock-horovitz-beastie-boys-interview-while-were-young