Poetry of music: Monks, dancing in memory of MCA

Poetry of Music mktdaf January 21, 2015

While it’s not clear if the guys in this remembrance of Adam Yauch (aka “MCA”, founder of the Beastie Boys) are actual minks, the mashup of hip hop & his love of the teachings of the Buddha in this video reflects what community organizers in New York have going on: A community arts celebration that hopes to bring together “all lifestyles, sizes, shapes, and forms.”

And with this – a four-people breakdance to “Ch-Check it out” – it appears they have succeeded.

(Here’s more about the event.)

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Thought for the day…

"Everything we do and don’t do makes a wake, a legion of waves and troughs that pound the shores at the edges of what we mean, grinding away on the periphery of what we know. This goes on after the years of our private lives are long past. If we don’t learn that simple, devastating, and redeeming detail of being alive – that what we do lasts longer than we do, that the past isn’t over – then the parade of our days stands to indict much more than it bequeaths."
-- Stephen Jenkinson, Die Wise – A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

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