Hollywood Holt

Chicago b-boy/rapper Hollywood Holt performed the best show of his life (his words) at Beauty Bar last night, hyping a crowd with ease that very possibly did not know any of his music previously. His bass-heavy hipster-hop was not something I'm going to listen to in the more reflective moments of my life, but in the moment it was pretty exciting, and Holt was captivating as an ecstatic extrovert. Seattle rap group Mash Hall recently made a song with him that should be making Internet rounds soon.

More notable than the concert itself was the fact Bill Murray was there.

Bill Murray

Murray hung around on Beauty Bar's front patio, and then appeared to leave, but when Hollywood Holt finished his set on the venue's other patio in the back, he noted that not only had he just played the best concert of his life, but motherf___ing Bill Murray was in the house. And indeed he was, in the corner, perhaps having watched the whole concert. He was immediately mobbed.

When I saw him before the show, I wanted to tell Murray I read his book "A Cinderella Story: My Life in Golf" (hilarious) and think his most underrated movie is "The Razor's Edge" (dramatic), but left him alone. He's my favorite actor, but if you love something, you have to let it go. When Holt shouted him out from the stage, which I'm sure I would have done, too, caught up in emotion, I briefly thought, "Man, sometimes it must suck to be Bill Murray." But maybe it didn't suck to be Bill Murray then. Maybe he liked the attention.

Oh, also, I saw GZA from The Wu-Tang Clan at the same event, standing near Bill Murray before Hollywood Holt went on. GZA and Bill Murray were in the movie "Coffee and Cigarettes" together. In my mind, they are friends.

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