Beastie Boys - Awesome, I Fucking Shot That!
Directed by one "Nathanial Hornblower" and shot by 50 fans, Awesome is the Beastie Boys live and direct. The place is New York's Madison Square Garden. The date is October 9, 2004.

The show begins with scratching from DJ Mix Master Mike as the amateur operators, armed with Hi-8 cameras, get busy - from the audience, at the concession stands, and even in the bathrooms. Subtitled "An Authorized Bootleg," Awesome features the tracksuit-sporting trio, Mike D, Adrock, and MCA, running through numbers from all six records. (Later, they bust out the pastel tuxes for a pro-shot suite of jazz-funk.)

For viewers concerned about Blair Witch-style vertigo, rest assured that editor Neal Usatin has stitched the shaky footage together skillfully enough to stave it off. Almost as essential as their Criterion Collection Video Anthology, Awesome may be the world's most professional home movie. Nathanial Hornblower, incidentally, is the nom de film of MCA, AKA Adam Yauch.

This will be released July 25, 2006

Awesome, I Shot That

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