Caught In The Net

And So I Watch You From Afar weren’t the only band this fortnight aggrieved to find that their work had been prematurely leaked on to the ‘net.

To counter the unauthorised rough cut appearing on a number of well-known sites – the Hip Hop Police are tracking the perps down as we speak – the Beastie Boys rush released all 29mins 55secs of their Fight For Your Rights – Revisted short film on to YouTube.

And a total blast it is too, with Seth Rogan, Will Ferrell and Elijah Wood among those playing Mike D, Ad Rock and MCA in their straight out of Brooklyn B-Boy days.

Also cameoing in the they’ve-been-very-naughty-boys epic are Danny McBride, John C. Reilly, Jack Black, Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Chloe Sevigny, Susan Sarandon and, hey, we’ll leave you to do some Hollywood star-spotting of your own.

Talking as Caught In The Net was precisely 27 words ago of Will Ferrell, his www.funnyordie.com site continues to be a thing of toilet humour joy.

Our current faves are the wholesome sorority sister party that gets gatecrashed by Tommy Lee; the masturbating kangaroo whose own ball-playing disrupted an Australian golf tournament; and the spot-on Charlie Sheen cookery show parody.

Long-standing CIN readers will know that we worship at the altar of Andrew WK and treat his words as if they’ve been hand-chiseled onto tablets and brought down from Mount Sinai by Moses.
Which is a very long-winded, biblical referencing way of saying that we’ve fallen in immediate love with his new protégé Aleister X, a New York-domiciled Brit who’s equal parts Alec Empire, Public Enemy and John Waters (the pencil-moustached film director, not the journalist).

An elaborate performance art prank or the real eccentric deal? Make your own mind up at www.aleisterx.com

Which just leaves time for quick visits to worldsbiggestpacman.com (old school gaming on a truly epic scale); tolo.tv/content/view/252/44/lang,English (Afghanistan’s answer to The Wire); and firedoglake.com
(ace American citizen journalist portal).