(Another) Day...the Music...DIED

So today, a pioneer passed away.  Adam Yauch aka MCA of Beastie Boys lost to cancer...once again, FUCKING cancer.  I hope I don't live to see the day that someone asks, "MCA, who's that?" but I do hope I live to see the total ERADICATION of cancer.

I see VHS tapes when I see MCA - me & the sis, recording videos off MTV...one of the oldest I have features "Fight for Your Right to Party" - that was what was up then:




I think about Travis/Falcon/Afton/Leila/Sharon/Lauren/Miranda, when I think of MCA - I think of Voodoo Fest / New Orleans...2004:

 

That "Sasquatch Video" was/is "Triple Trouble" - and...that was what was up then:




I think of all parts of my life when I think of MCA; mostly the past, with glimpses to the future.  MCA was 47 when he passed away...and look at all he accomplished...how amazing he was.  He didn't burn out, he supernova-ed - that's what the true STARS do.

What will you do?  What will I do?  My focus, far too long, has been on how today isn't working out the way I want it to - but I'm here.  I'm TODAY, and tomorrow...but for how long?

"Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is mystery, TODAY is a gift, that's why we call it the present."


And for a GREAT write-up on a GREAT man's life, look to the New York Times; MCA, Adam, good life, good night.

- AC