Confession time… I ♥ the Beastie Boys and would defend them against any and all snarky attacks that allege that a boy in his mid-fifties can no longer be Beastie. So, watch it, Dustin, or I will be forced to deal some Tarantino-styled revenge on your Ryan Reynolds-loving and excessively bromantic ass. Capiche?

One-third of the Beastie Boys (and my favourite one) has been working on his producing/directing side projects lately. Adam Yauch, aka MCA, is currently promoting his basketball documentary, Gunnin’ for That #1 Spot. Radar recently interviewed Yauch, and a few excerpts are below:

On his strategy of filming the documentary as a sort of music video:

I didn’t want to hear any announcers talking. I wanted to be able to hear what was happening on the court. Part of the idea was to have this surreal thing with slow motion and fish-eye lenses, and my idea going into it was to have two completely separate feelings: I wanted to be able to convey being right inside of the game and to have the game move with the music and the slo-mo, and to jump back and forth from those two realities. There’s times when the real sound and the music overlaps.

On Sharon Stone’s bizarre earthquake-as-karma comments:

The earthquakes affected Tibet pretty radically also because they happened right on the border. I guess everybody can put their foot in their mouth. When there are things of that severity that happen, it’s hard to think of it in terms of karma. From a Buddhist perspective, everything is karma, everything is positive and negative. But it’s much more complicated and interwoven than equating an earthquake with political oppression. Karma is based on things that unfold over hundreds of thousands of lifetimes and reincarnations.

On whether he has to deal with groupies these days:

Ha. No. I think they’re all chasing Justin Timberlake.

Hey, no worries, MCA. Having a stylin’ “Posse In Effect” is far cooler than some random group of slutty chicks and their STDs following you around any day.

Read the full interview here.