One thing Gen-X kids used to do \u2014 other people, too, of course, but I\u2019m talking about something specific \u2014 was hang around with friends and listen to records. You might have been skipping school, you might have been smoking weed, but it could just as well have been a Sunday afternoon with a two-liter bottle of soda. Maybe someone had a guitar or a drum kit you could mess around with, and maybe after a while you even started a band, but the main thing was being together, pooling your collective teenage energies against the forces of boredom and responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eventually, most of us negotiated a truce or surrendered outright. Not the Beastie Boys. And while there is admiration and affection on the faces of the middle-aged fans flocking to the\u00a0Kings Theater in Brooklyn<\/a>\u00a0in \u201cBeastie Boys Story,\u201d there\u2019s some envy-tinged nostalgia, too. As Adam Horovitz and Michael Diamond, the surviving members of the trio, explain from the theater\u2019s stage \u2014 in a live appearance directed and filmed by their pal Spike Jonze \u2014 they turned goofing around with friends and musical equipment into a career and a way of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n