Giving Up Phood For Phunk...

I's listening to James Brown & his Phunky People when this pic sprung to mind...
An old one but a good one.
But let's look deeper than that.
Phunk, what does it mean? According to the Etymology Dictionary this:
"depression, ill-humor," 1743, probably originally Scottish and northern English, earlier as a verb, "panic, fail through panic," (1737), said to be 17c. Oxford University slang, perhaps from Flem. fonck "perturbation, agitation, distress," possibly related to O.Fr. funicle "wild, mad."
"bad smell," 1623, from dial. Fr. funkière "smoke," from O.Fr. fungier "give off smoke," from L. fumigare "to smoke." In reference to a style of music, it is first attested 1959, a back formation of funky. Funky was originally "old, musty" (1784), in reference to cheeses, then "repulsive," but began to develop an approving sense in jazz slang c.1900, probably on the notion of "earthy, strong, deeply felt." Funky also was used early 20c. by white writers in ref. to body odor allegedly peculiar to blacks. The word reached wider popularity c.1954 (e.g. definition in "Time" magazine, Nov. 8, 1954) and in the 1960s acquired a broad slang sense of "fine, stylish, excellent."

Now, apart from all the depression, still, it means bad odeur (hence the foot) although Phunky Max doesn't have smelly feet, he does have an aura over him of doing what he wants... He is true Phunk!
Going back to the title: staying real with your art, your thang, even in hard times is an important life's lesson I want to give him. Or as the Beastie Boys have put it once so to-the-point: "Stay true to yourself and you will never fall"

The Phunky Man has a natural dedication to the feeling of good. What if we all give up phood for phunk, that is, stay true to ourselves, dedicate to the feeling of good...? Life will be so much more phun-kier!