Trying to drown out the noise in our collective head that is this weekend's Royal Wedding by preparing for a CAPS art gallery show, which opens Friday, May 6, in Burbank, and lasts all month of May (i've got a page of El Gato, Crime Mangler art plus three oil paintings in the show) at the Animation Union building's gallery, and the Latino Comics Expo at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, all to the soundtrack of recently acquired Wu Tang Clan albums (just got THE W, which so far I'm not enjoying as much as 8 DIAGRAMS ("Wolves!" Great song, man!) and Mathetmatics' WU TANG & FRIENDS). One thing's for certain: Method Man always delivers, U-God is the secret weapon...
(I'll post the deets on the two shows by early next week...)
I'm also getting used to the new BEASTIE BOYS album HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE that just hit the Internet. Early favorites are OK, which is gloriously effed up and NONSTOP DISCO POWERPACK. This album is like a hybrid of CHECK YOUR HEAD, HELLO NASTY and TO THE 5 BOROUGHS (guess the LICENSED TO ILL and PAUL'S BOUTIQUE days are not gonna happen again?). MAKE SOME NOISE is like a mid-tempo CH-CH-CHECK IT OUT. Sorely missed is POP YOUR BALLOON, which leaked online but didn't make the cut.
Do I like this album? Hmmm...it's always good to hear what the Beasties are up to. It's kind of mid-tempo overall, which is not my favorite tempo, but it has a lot of nice grooves. I need to give it some more listening. Right now, it's kind of in the middle for me. There's always be LICENSED TO ILL and PAUL'S BOUTIQUE for me...two masterpieces of unbridled horseplay....and then everything else. That's just the way it is.
If I had to rate my favorite Beasties albums (not counting the instrumental stuff), the list would be something like this right now:
LICENSED TO ILL
PAUL'S BOUTIQUE
TO THE 5 BOROUGHS
ILL COMMUNICATION
HELLO NASTY
HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE
CHECK YOUR HEAD
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