Beastie Boys, "Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun"

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In 1989, the video for the Beastie Boys' "Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun" showed clips of skateboarding, snowboarding, and surfing. My cousin from Hawaii, Julia, likd that song. And when she visited my family, here in the Bay Area, she naturally wanted to check out th beaches, and go surfing.

But she did not realize how friggin' cold the water is here. She only had a long-sleeved UV shirt, and not a wetsuit. In order to stave off the cold, it behooved her, to keep moving.

The surf was just 1-2 feet. But those flat conditions do allow you to try and practice new moves. And if you don't execute them, you will wipe out. Or, the waves don't have enough strength, to support your moves.

The Beastie Boys' "Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun" is not frozen in time. It now appears in college curricula. One of my relatives who goes to UCLA said that a music class used "Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun" to show off the dizzying, almost psychedelic, use of sampling. Despite the sporty video, the lyrics are about violence. The professor pointed out that the difference between 1989 and now is that today's guns have higher capacity.

-Lummy The Loch Monster

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