the continuing adventures of la mujer solitaria

I read an article by one of the guys in the Beastie Boys, talking about their early days, and the "Fight for Your Right" mania. Nowadays, they're big into fighting sexism and the like, but anyone who remembers their stupid early songs ("Girls", anyone?) kinda wonder how they can pull off such a 180. According to the guy (maybe Adam Yauch?), they wrote "Fight for Your Right" as kind of a joke on all those "Smokin in the boys room" rebellious teenager songs. And if you look at it as parody, the song is pretty friggin funny. He said that something odd happened when that song went big - in concerts, they played it up, they drank cheap beer on stage, and reeled around, pretending to be drunk fraternity guy assholes, and somewhere along the way, they became drunk fraternity guy assholes.

I think this happens to a lot of people - they rent porn to laugh at it, and then they get into it. And there's a lot of violent movies that are supposed to be violent to make a point - often AGAINST violence - but the violence is more compellingly presented than the message itself.

I guess I write this because my friends are all confused about how a friend of mine screwed me over so badly, when we all thought he was nearly "tragically nice." One theory I have is that he's made fun of assholes so long, that he's finally become one.

Good riddance, OOMMA.