Happier days on the best coast: The Beach Boys in Paradise Cove, Malibu, Calif., 1962.
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Happier days on the best coast: The Beach Boys in Paradise Cove, Malibu, Calif., 1962.
(Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
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Matty Karas, curator November 12, 2018
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A short list of things I won't be commenting on this morning: ICE-T's history with bagels, or lack thereof. "White people.. Don’t lose your Fn minds because I’ve never eaten a Bagle," he tweeted Friday, using perhaps the Canadian spelling of the popular New York breakfast carbohydrate, and I believe no further discussion is needed, and I believe he'll eat whatever he usually eats for breakfast today, and I'll have a poppy-seed souvenir from my most recent New York trip, and maybe one day we can compare notes... MORRISSEY fans' habit of bumrushing the stage and trying to hug him, which they've been doing nightly since around the time Ice-T released O.G. ORIGINAL GANGSTER. TMZ posted a video clip of this happening in San Diego on Saturday night and made it sound very foreboding, and by the time it got to the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, the story required three reporters and 15 paragraphs. I am not making this up and as far as I can tell neither were they... This LA hard-rock dude who booked a European tour via a fake record label, fake booking agent, fake live footage and fake social media, and who sold fake tickets to fake fans, pissing off a lot of club owners along the way. Kudos, I guess, for the effort. He has a name, which I'm sure he would want people like me to spell out in bold, capital letters... A short list of things I *will* be commenting on: That "PERMISSION" video on SNL, in which FUTURE and LIL WAYNE joined cast members CHRIS REDD, KENAN THOMPSON and PETE DAVIDSON in sending up sexism in hip-hop and pop culture while rapping about sexual consent. Genuinely funny and genuinely helpful. A favorite moment: After learning they can't call women the B-word or the H-word anymore ("Oh, they got names!," Thompson says in an aha moment), Redd humbly interjects: "Thank you for that, man. We need a kind of pushback in our life." Future then steps in for 16 bars, threatening to "steal your girl—but only with her permission"... This provocative BEASTIE BOYS thread started by DEF JAM exec NOAH CALLAHAN-BEVER about their possible role in the creation of gangsta rap, inspired by BEASTIE BOYS BOOK, with reasonable pushback in the comments... CALIFORNIA is on fire, and a lot of artists, execs and regular people that you care about are directly affected. Here are some suggestions on how you can help... Best wishes to JOE PERRY.

Matty Karas, curator

November 12, 2018