#WhatsHappening for October 30, 2018

Good Tuesday evening, friends. Hope all is well.

If you were able to join the fun at the Tavern over the weekend, feel free to forward any pics you may have gotten during the party. It's difficult for me to get very many good shots (or any at all, really)- so it'd be greatly appreciated.

Anyway, start getting ready for Saturday Night Karaoke this week. After all, there's four days to go!

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Netflix is teaming up with Wyclef Jean for an animated feature film about his childhood. The film will follow Jean and his family during their time in Haiti and their eventual emigration to Brooklyn. Jean will co-produce with Greg Silverman's Stampede company from a script by Top Gun: Maverick writer Justin Marks. 

Jean told Deadline he "grew up in extreme poverty but I was rich with imagination. Now to see that imagination turn into reality with Netflix and my producing partners makes me want to tell the kids from the slums around the world to never stop dreaming."

Melissa Cobb of Netflix says "animation is a medium that travels the globe exceptionally well and we cannot wait to share Wyclef’s unique perspective and voice with family audiences around the world."

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Baba Oje of Arrested Development has died following a long battle with leukemia. He was 86. 

Arrested Development front-man Speech called Oje a "an activist for the homeless, a military veteran, a world traveler, spiritual advisor to the group, strict vegan, dancer, vocalist and avid roller skater" and said that Oje was "always super cool and always willing to talk to the youth!"

Speech recalled that Oje declined to join the group when "(he) gathered up the nerve to ask him to be in my hip hop group... But he later reconsidered when he thought about the fact that a young black man was striving to start a positive rap thing. However, we both found out that this partnership was bigger than we even knew."

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The Beastie Boys biography, which hit shelves today, reveals that one of their biggest hits was written about "an annoying recording engineer."

Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz) says the group was working with engineer Mario Caldato, Jr., who was "getting frustrated" with the slow pace of their work.
"That’s a really calm way of saying that he would blow a fuse and get pissed off at us and scream that we just needed to finish something, anything, a song. He would push awful instrumental tracks we made just to have something moving toward completion."

Horovitz added the tune was the last track to be finished on the Ill Communication album, and went through several incarnations- reaching completion when he decided "it would be funny to write a song about how Mario was holding us all down, how he was trying to mess it all up, sabotaging our great works of art."

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Birthdays today include: Gavin Rossdale of Bush (51); Joey BellaDonna of Anthrax (58); Timothy B. Schmidt of the Eagles (71); and Grace Slick of Jefferson Starship (79). #MusicalBirthdays