Trilogy Week #30 - War Is Hell

Happy Memorial Day everybody! Today's the day we remember the ones who have lost their lives defending our country. So here's three movies about war, from three different wars.

Trilogy Week #29 - Kid Adventures

Summer's just around the corner, and school is almost over, and this is around the time I would start to get antsy thinking about all the cool things I wanted to do that summer as a kid. Every kid fantasizes about going on an adventure. Even if it is something very small, like going into a abandoned house or, jumping over someones fence. Nothing big, but exciting for young adolescence. I would've given my left nut to go on an adventure like the ones in these movies, as dangerous as some of them are. 


Also, you might be thinking "hey, wait a minute! Why didn't you add the Goonies? don't worry, that will be coming out in a later post.

Trilogy Week #28 - Women in Sports

I know today is Mother's Day, and these three movies have nothing to do with Mother's Day, but I couldn't find some Mother's Day movies that I wanted to use, so instead I'm featuring women in sports movies. My correlation between the two is strength. If you are a good mother, I believe you are a good mother because you are a strong women. And women in sports are strong women. So let's celebrate strong women in sports, which a lot of them were moms too, so yeah. Another thing is that I didn't notice until I posted this was that all three of these films were directed by actors. Well blah blah blah, Happy Mother's Day.

Trilogy Week #27 - Life After Death

How will you die? Because you will. Everyone will die! So because of that, everyone has thought about the afterlife, if there is one. A question that has been asked since the beginning of our existence. Whether it's a world of nothingness, or a world in the clouds, there are many stories about the world beyond our comprehension. These three film makers have some great original ideas about the next life, if maybe a little ridiculous, they are very entertaining about the life we life, and the way we perceive the environment around us.

Top Five Beastie Boys songs

The Mighty MCA is gone.

One-third of the Beastie Boys, Adam Yauch (47), aka MCA, died earlier today. Yauch was diagnosed with cancer in 2009 and had been undergoing treatments on and off for three years -- he was notably missing when the Beasties were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month.The Jewish b-boys survived the fall of MTV and thrived through gangsta rap and grunge. They began as joke rappers -- fun but nobody took them seriously. They became icons, giants of the genre who never stopped making great jams.


On their first proper album in seven years, last year's “Hot Sauce Committee Part Two,” the unlikely elder statesmen showed their age (they reference Crocs not Adidas and appropriate lyrics from “Subterranean Homesick Blues”). But they didn't grow up. Like every Beastie's landmark, the album sounds like a coke-and-Pop-Rocks-fueled house party hosted by Afrika Bambaataa, Lenny Bruce, Optimus Prime and the Ramones.Yauch's treatments repeatably put off the release of "Hot Sauce" and the band hadn't played live since the summer of 2009. Clearly, he was struggling, but it's still a shock the health food junkie, Buddhist and optimist couldn't beat the illness.If you have a copy of "Paul's Boutique," I suggest spinning it now. If you don't, go out and get the landmark album -- it's a face-melting mess of beats, flow and samples (105 songs were sampled on the album, 24 on the last track alone). By Jed Gottlieb


I first discovered the Beastie Boys when I was in high school. And their sound has stuck with me ever since. What I really admired about the Beastie Boys is they were all three equal parts of the band. There was no front man, they "were" the front men.  Mike D, Ad Rock, and MCA, the three of them were equal collaborators, and one did not over-shine the other. I don't think their will ever be a Hip Hop group that will ever as significant as the Beastie Boys were in the history of american pop culture, and music.  


So here as tribute to MCA and his mourning comrades, are my top 5 favorite Beastie Boys songs.