share
Friend us up!
Facebook Friend

The Massive Monkees Blog

Some insight on the life of a Massive Monkee

Rollin like a playboy...

"Rollin like a playboy, Beep - Beep - Beep," Seattle Rapper Sir-MixAlot

My son Matteo, he takes after his pops.

IRON MIKE BRYSEN
10/07/08

tags: Massive Monkees, B-Boy, Iron Mike Brysen, Family

Have a comment to share with us? Don't holdback. Just drop us a line on

Breakin'

Win or lose, at every event when the competition is done, I make sure to get wasted. Here is one such moment.

We used to break in socks, it was a 90s thing like headspin helmets. This picture came out of a shoebox in Iron Mike Brysen's closet.

GRANITE ROK
10/06/08

tags: Massive Monkees, B-Boy, Granite Rok, Dance

Have a comment to share with us? Don't holdback. Just drop us a line on

Performing Arts Initiative

My signature freeze. The boys have a hard time doing that one.

We work on behalf of the State Department in Denmark to better the perception of Americans overseas.

ANA BANANA FREEZE
10/06/08

tags: Massive Monkees, Ana Banana Freeze, B-Girl, Dance, State Department

Have a comment to share with us? Don't holdback. Just drop us a line on

Hands-Free

Some of our experience in front of the camera helped, but we ain't professionals. We didn't have to do too much acting thankfully. It was another week with the crew that I will remember forever, and by my standards it was good enough. We went way off script sometimes and some great footage didn't even make it in to the edits the world will see. The behind the scenes parts were my favorite. I thought the armbar routine was gonna be corny, the one at the end when the guys get old. We also put too much powder in the bottles and it looks like an explosion. The powder is so it doesn't leave shards in the skin when we break the glass, one of the producers went crazy with the powder to make sure we didn't hurt ourselves, and it ended up with clouds when they broke. I loved throwing papers in the face of the BIC VIP too when I was breaking on a conference table, it didn't even make it in though! I wasn't gonna break my neck too for the record even if Twixx didn't grab my leg. You saw the hands were down, but I still owe him my life. I took the coosh on my vacation, been gone for 10 days. It's really stretched out from all the head slides I had to do while we were shooting. I use it for calls mostly. I have to use it when I drive because in Seattle they have the hands-free law now.

IRON MIKE BRYSEN
09/16/08

tags: Massive Monkees, B-Boy, Iron Mike Brysen, coosh, Video Shoot

Have a comment to share with us? Don't holdback. Just drop us a line on

Acting Lessons

It was the first time on a commercial shoot like that for me when the whole crew was there. Damn its tedious work though. Four long days, but all worth it. I saw the final product and was proud of our accomplishment. The jokes came off funny, anybody who don't know about us as a crew, well that's us. The fish thing, when Juse is poppin is my favorite part and then he slapped the Scientist and that had me crackin up. Pretty much the whole thing did. I looked better than I thought since I don't consider myself photogenic. Gotta get some acting lessons. I use the coosh everyday; they are the best headphones I ever used. At home I dance in the living room. I don't have the problem of knocking the headsets out anymore thanks to those Scientists at coosh. After half an hour the other ones would be killing my ears and they kept falling out. These are comfortable and that makes a difference in how long I can train like that.

TIM THE PIT
09/15/08

tags: Massive Monkees, B-Boy, Tim The Pit, coosh, Video Shoot

Have a comment to share with us? Don't holdback. Just drop us a line on