Memory sabotage

January 19, 2009 12:26 PM

Is there a Beastie Boys video where they jump from roofs into various Hollywood hotel pools?

I have a strong feeling that I read about or maybe even saw such a video in the 90s. If it exists, it is not featured on the Criterion Collection Beastie Boys Video Anthology.

posted by roofus to media & arts (9 comments total)

Sabotage
posted by nitsuj at 12:28 PM on January 19

Seeing your title, however, makes me think that might not be it.
posted by nitsuj at 12:29 PM on January 19

Surely "Sabotage" was what roofus had in mind. But to be pedantic, while they jump from one rooftop to another, they don't jump off any into a pool. When people do end up in the motel pool, it's because one person tackled another one from poolside.
posted by Joe Beese at 12:46 PM on January 19

There are motels, roof jumps, and low level falling into pools in Sabotage, but no high flying antics, which is what I remembered.
posted by roofus at 12:50 PM on January 19

The have a tour of Hollywood hotel pools to "fake" your way into that has a series of stills of Spike Jones jumping into one of the pools off the rooftop. I believe it's in the Grand Royal magazine #4 - the Miami Bass issue.
posted by Asbestos McPinto at 12:54 PM on January 19

ugh, They have an article about! Sorry....
posted by Asbestos McPinto at 12:55 PM on January 19

Pool Skimmer - Spike Jonze's guide to dipping? Sounds plausible, I'll have to dig out my back issues.
posted by roofus at 1:16 PM on January 19

So was Sabotage the one you were thinking of? Just curious.
posted by nitsuj at 5:11 PM on January 19

I dug out Grand Royal 3, and it has an article by Spike Jonze on swimming for free in hollywood hotel pools. It has two photo sequences shot by Sophia Coppola of both Spike Jonze and Adrock jumping from roofs into pools. I'm not sure if the photo sequences are from an actual video shoot, but that article must have been what I was dimly remembering.
posted by roofus at 10:58 AM on January 20