Abventions - The Future of Rotating Restaurants
Current mood: adventurous
Now I know what you're saying.....
"Abed, rotating restaurants were an amazing invention back in 1943, how can you possibly bring that back to the world of the future, with ipods, celluar headphones and talking carbots?"
Easy.
You combine rotating restaurants with theme park rides.
I'll give you a second to catch your breath...............ready.......okay.
Imagine this you walk into a restaurant and it's like an Amazon Jungle, monkey sounds abound, look out or that hippotamus will get you walk over the bridge into the seating area. After a good 10 minute wait, the same you'd wait in a line for a ride you are brought to your table which is still in the jungle. Now this is a romantic date, right. You don't want to just sit in a restaurant that stays in one place do you? Nahhhhhhhhh, you want to see Paris, London, Rome, Russia, the great wall of China!
Imagine the possibilities? You could anywhere, imagine how much better food and wine and lips would taste when you're traveling with your dinner. Now I know what you're saying "But Abed, why don't you eat on an airplane if you want to travel with your dinner?" Good point I'd say, very good point. But each table is on a rotating floor which takes you through the dangerous jungles of Africa, The coccaine fields of South America, The prairies of Kansas, Nudity of Paris and igloos of Alaska, yes, even the sands of egypt where you can wave to a camel and he winks at you back.
I'd call these restaurants..................Adventurants.
They had an ep a couple years back, this Australian quartet. It was pretty amazing and there's been great anticipation for this. It's a great achievement. Where with most 80's wannabe bands they would lock into that sound with this record they've expanded beyond it. It still borrows a lot of 80's melodic elements and buzz sounds but with a nice mixture of guitar swashes. They manage to drive in a gang of four meets David Lee Roth in a night club partying to the disco sound. it's very pretty
I recommend this song.....
I can't seem to get the chorus out of my head no woh ohhh I read some decent reviews, a lot slashed this record due to taking their direction in a different direction than the ep. I can't see that being a bad thing or how they added to it. You don't want that ep extended. Maybe you do because an ep is not enough. But this record has a ton of good songs that make it worth giving another look. I just like their sound here. It's nice and warm and fuzz fuzz
Millions of blockbusters are made everyday and I have a new idea for one
Today I narrowly escaped Jury Duty from being dead tired and ready to collapse from no sleep this early morning, I escaped by using the ol' postponement method. So brilliant you just fill out a form that says you can't do it for personal reasons. And get this, you can postpone as much as you like!!!!!! Crazy right?
So I thought of a movie because we all hate Jury Duty and there was that one flop with Michael Richards and Jeff Daniels that we can't get over and caused Hollywood to steer clear of Jury comedies, I'm thinking this will be along the action comedy genre but with a Jury twist and some courtroom antics.
If this was the early nineties this movie would star either Jim Carrey (who would turn it down), Pauly Shore (when Jim turns it down) and then Carrot Top (when Pauly turns it down). But this isn't the nineties so I'll have to star in this.
Brent Brannigan is a mild mannered normal guy until he gets that one notice in the mail we all dread.
"Jury duty, are you kidding me? This is what I get for always being told voting is the right thing to do?"
Brent tries every excuse in the book........but none of them seem to work.
CUTS TO
The jury process a bunch of people are in the jury room standing up with excuses trying to get out of it, someone lets off a machine gun into the air.
"Ladies and gentleman, I am Hanz Flenkman. And I am taking this jury hostage."
FADE TO BLACK AS WE HEAR SCREAMS echoing...."Nooo ooo ooo oohhhh"
CUTS to slow motion quick shots of of jurors beating up terrorists with ski masks and Brent fighting off bad guys with a gavel.
VO - "This isn't what I signed on for"
Shot of Brent standing by a ravine about to jump, we see Hanz behind him with a gun.
"Go ahead jump. You really think the world is going to miss one juror."
Shot of a car chase Brent is hanging out the door of a big rig as a car beside it gets shot at he reaches his hand out to a lovely woman in the car about to jump
"Grab my hand! Trust me! Just because I lied to get out of jury duty doesn't mean I'd let you down, now!"
Shot of Hanz and Brent with shirts off doing karate fighting in courtroom
Hanz - "It's all over Brennigan, give up! The system doesn't work, you've said so yourself, remember?"
Hello America. I hope you're fuckin' satisfied. Because I couldn't get out of Jury Duty and I get off work at 3 am. Which means I have to go to sleep for 3 fuckin' hours and then get right back up and sit in a goddamn courtroom for 10 hours.
Yeah, fuckin' can't believe it. I get home tonight and totally forget to check if I had to report in today. So I call hoping to jesus and god and everything inbetween that I don't have to go and wouldn't you know my luck. I have to report. That's right. Get on in here and do your fuckin duty and suck our dicks. Even though you're exhausted and don't have the energy to pull our pants down.
I'm going to get some coffee, cigarettes and totally drive there in like 2 hours from now and tell them I can't. I can't go into that courtroom unless they want me passing out and snoring in the middle of a trial.
I've found out that ideas fuel life. Crazy right? I know I know. You just want life to go ahead and give you the green light. With all your necessitems waiting as you pass by, they'll just hand them over to you as you pass.
Life is like a car if you don't put some ideas in then it'll just stay in your garage forever. I've noticed on a side note how precious nowadays driving has become. It's like the new gold. When you're driving it's totally golden, totally. You feel as though the streets are paved with gold and YOU get the honor of driving them because you have an extra two bucks to throw into the tank. Correction. An extra two IDEAS into your car gas bank. Well I got mixed up with that little analogy and then spun head first into the next one. But I had some really amazing life changing ideas the other day. I mean they really were pretty incredible.
The Show Must Go On!!!
This is one of my personal favorites, you pick a show any show you can watch in your very own living room or on the computer and watch as many till you get sick. Till you go outside and not exhale carbon dioxide but Harry Morgan advice or the witticisms of Jack Danaghy.
Video Game Race
Now I honestly have trouble playing and enjoying video games I think deep down they are my secret fire but should I let them out then they would singe and burn everything and everyone I hold dear. But as I was playing last night I thought wouldn't it be fun since most fun games aren't for two players anymore. (Non Wii games) What you do is set up two xboxes or ps3's or whatever side by side and television's side by side. Now this of course takes a lot of work to set up but think of how fun and nail biting it'll be when you're playing your favorite game right next to a comrade who's playing it. If you have 20 hours to kill and think you're really good at games you play to see who beats it first.
Legoify
Everyone loves legos right? Well what if you legofied your life each day place one lego block skillfully on a green lego base pad in a manner that'll make it lead to a great construction. In a month or two month's time if you have enough legos, you'll have built a creation. Not just any creation but one that has the sweat and lifeblood of 30 or more mornings of fleeting lego thought. After your creation you can stand back and look at it. What does it say to you? Is it a window into your soul?
John Harper
Be John Harper or Joann Harper. Take one day a week and think about what he would do in any situation. Do that John Harper or Joann Harper thing. Make it a musty. Meaning you have to act as they would. See after a couple month's time how you're more like him and your life is better for it.
Musicology
Take a course in Devo, or Led Zeppelin or Primal Scream, listen to each album in their discography only once and then move to the very next it's a good way to get their entire fill and not waste your time. There's too many bands and not enough time to hear them all so it's a nice way to visit them and hang out. It's also like listening to one big full album which is pretty awesome.
Shows that Musttt be Watchchchd - DEXTER
Current mood: blank
Of course you're all very familiar with how much I despise murderin' Oooo, geez it just gives me the heebie jeebes. Also goddamn how fuckin' boring are serial killer stories and movies nowdays? It's like oh, big surprise you're gonna murder again, I mean was there any doubt? And yes I've fuckin' seen Zodiac so don't pull that fuckin' card, jack!
This show man, this show. they really make you root for Dex
I'm on season 2 now, working my way through till season 3 starts and everyone tells me it's not as strong as the first season which I couldn't put away, like a good book I went straight to the next episode and the next and the next. That's the sign of a good show where you can't possibly imagine how anyone can watch it and wait a week for the next installment.
Everything I've been doing for the past about say 10 days I've heard Harry's voice in my head giving me advice and it's weird, it kind of fucks with me. If I ever meet that actor that plays him I wonder if that would scare him? The fact that someone who's watches it obsessively so much that he feels he's too much into tune with the world of the show. That's what this show does. It makes you want him to survive and not get derailed from his purpose.
Even though it is murderin'
It's sick this show really makes you want to kill people yourself, it's one way to solve problems and get release, however I'm too much a fraidy cat of prison and hearing people's screams and pleads as they're dying so I couldn't be Dexter.
This is one of the best openings for a television show today...........
Even though he kills and I can't say I truly can sympathize mostly because you know you don't fit in with people, sure you try you really really try and most of the time you get it right. But there's those moments, those strange lingering moments when you're completely alone. Desperate and hungry for what? You don't know. You just know you don't have something that you need. Call it restless desire, call it insatiable hunger, whatever you call it. It's there and it won't go away.
Anyway, WATCH THIS SHOW!!!!!!
(I went back and re edited this, I took something out cause it made me sound really psychotic and thinking about it driving it's probably not a good way to put how you like something)
I was at work the other night and the funniest thing happened
I sit at the desk I always sit at and there right in front of my keyboard below my monitor is a brownie in a glass case.
The brownie had been bitten into of course and well this was no accident. That's right someone meant for me to find this brownie in a case.
I was in the third grade sitting there alone eating my lunch and thinking about Bones Brigade and Heathcliff
Travis Mulligan comes and sits next to me he opens his lunch and pulls out a delicious shiny gorgeous brand bakin' new brownie. The nuts glisten in the noonday sun. I stare at it a while.
"Wow, whatta brownie."
"You betcha"
"What you want for it?"
"All your money"
"But I dont' have any, my mom packs my lunch everyday here, see. But I do have a squeezit, those are expensive."
"fuck your squeezit, got any baseball cards?"
"My mom won't let me take them to school she says other kids will try to steal them."
"Sounds like your mom likes to dress you like a baby, baby"
"Shut up"
"What if I give you my watch for it"
"Shut up"
"I'm serious, here take my watch"
(oh god what was I thinking here? It was a Hershey's watch, I forget where I got it)
The trade happened and I ate the brownie but Travis wasn't satisfied
"I want my brownie back"
I had about half of it in my mouth and he grabbed it
"Gross, hey what gives? Are you an indian giver?"
"No, you're supposed to have a 3 minute grace period when you make a big trade like this."
We stared each other down, he lasted just as long as me with the nuh uh's and uh huh's, funny I'm the last guy to go down in a nuh uh uh huh
He said these chilling words right before I never saw him again
"I'll get you gheith, mark my words, you'll be haunted by this brownie you sunk your everlovin' teeth into, you'll see."
And I did
but I can't help but wonder what kind of silly revenge this is or what it's supposed to prove, I guess I'll find out, hopefully this isn't a recurring thing and I don't see bitten in brownies everywhere I go.
Shows that Must be Watched: The Inbetweeners
Current mood: crappy
Lately I've been watching a shitload of tv. So much in fact that I've gone completely off the rails. I think there's too much good stuff and most of my favorite shows right now are comedy and British, there's a lot, but today I'm going to spend focus on one in particular that's caught my eye and a good portion of my time............ This show is great. If you're ever curious what high school is like in Britain well now you can see it in all it's unfiltered glory. They pull no punches with this one, kids take pictures of other kids on the toilet, going to a pub to meet a girl you like and end up sitting between her and her large boyfriend, trying to order pints when you don't have id and trying to talk you way into them selling them to you anyway.
Being the new kid is much worse in Britain or so this show says.
Being a big fan of Freaks and Geeks and Arrested Development, this show seems to take a lot from that style of writing and storytelling and place it in Britain.
I'm already hooked on the characters, everyone wants to screw the main character's mom even though they all tease him. They all say she looks "fit" which is the British way of saying she's hot.
There's so much in this show that I love. I've only watched the first one and have only 5 left but I'm sure more seasons are underway and that's awesome really because I got shortchanged with F's and G's, only getting 18 episodes of goodness, not nearly enough for how much power that show had and such and effect on me when I first got to LA. I dreamed of making a show that good, DREAMED. Well thankfully Inbetweeners is here for me to cuddle up with and let my mind swallow and have an impact on my writing and turn me into a better creative entity.
Here's a bit, you really should watch this show if you want good tv, cause it's hard to spot now days.
Richey James Edwards
Current mood: enthralled
Category: Music
Listen to this beautiful song, relish in the awesome riff that's been in my head for the past week, check out these unbelievably clever lyrics...........
YES by Manic Street Preachers from the album "The Holy Bible"
"You can buy her, you can buy her This one's here, this one's here, this one's here and this one's here Ev'rything's for sale
For sale? dumb cunt's same dumb questions Oh virgins? listen, all virgins are liars honey And I don't know what I'm scared of or what I even enjoy Dulling, get money, but nothing turns out like you want it to
And in these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything For $200 anyone can conceive a God on video He's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock Tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want
I eat and I dress and I wash and I still can say thank you Puking - shaking - sinking I still stand for old ladies Can't shout, can't scream, hurt myself to get pain out
I 'T' them, 24:7, all year long Purgatory's circle, drowning here, someone will always say yes Funny place for the social, for the insects to start caring Just an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff
In these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything For $200 anyone can conceive a God on video He's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock Tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want, if you want
I eat and I dress and I wash and I can still say thank you Puking - shaking - sinking I still stand for old ladies Can't shout, can't scream, I hurt myself to get pain out
Power produces desire, the weak have none There's no lust in this coma even for a fifty Solitude, solitude, the 11th commandment
The only certain thing that is left about me There is no part of my body that has not been used Pity or pain, to show displeasure's shame Everyone I've loved or hated always seems to leave
And in these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything For $200 anyone can conceive a God on video He's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock Tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want, if you want
Power produces desire, the weak have none There's no lust in this coma even for a fifty Solitude, solitude, the 11th commandment
Don't hurt, just obey, lie down, do as they say May as well be heaven this hell, smells the same These sunless afternoons I can't find myself
Two dollars you rub her tits Three dollars you rub her ass Five dollars you can play with her pussy or you can lick her tits Choice is yours"
Okay that last stanza, geeeeeeez
Very very interesting story behind this Welsh band and these lyrics especially, it was a song written by the rhythm guitarist who was once the band's roadie and barely knew how to play but he was responsible for like 75 percent of the lyrics on this emotionally scarred glorious album, Richey James Edwards, he was really very glam and would wear makeup and color his hair pink but just to stand out, to look different. He was a tortured soul. Messed with drugs and alcohol then stopped and loved to write, he read about 5 books a week and totally immersed himself in his writing you can tell by these lyrics he had his hooks on a distinct voice. It's a very clever and beautiful tune. Made even more amazing by the band's music.
The story goes like this.....
Keep in mind this guy onced carved "4 Real" into his arm with a razorblade
"Following what the band themselves described as "the most unfocused part of our career", Edwards's personal problems of self-mutilation, anorexia nervosa and alcoholism became worse and began to affect the other band members as well as himself. He was admitted into The Priory in 1994, a private mental clinic to overcome his problems, and the band played a few festivals as a three piece to pay for his treatment."
then.....
"Months later, on February 1, 1995, Richey James Edwards disappeared from the Embassy Hotel at Bayswater Road in London after checking out at 7:00am. His car was found abandoned February 14, 1995 at the Severn View service station near the Severn Bridge, which has since its construction acquired notoriety for being a suicide spot. He was never seen again, although unsubstantiated sightings have been common, so much so that the band have even kept a percentage of the royalties aside should Edwards ever return. Nonetheless, Edwards retains a special place in many fans' hearts. The band was put on hold for six months and calling it quits was seriously considered, but with the blessing of Edwards' family the other Manics went back to work."
HE WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN
It's unknown if he died, was kidnapped or just simply vanished, but the Manics pressed on to make more albums though it's hard for me to listen to the other stuff having become so obsessed with Richey's lyrics and role in the band. I even embrace the early Guns and Roses-esque influence in their first album.
when I hear this song I imagine his spirit with me nudging me to listen deeper and deepr to find Richey's state of mind at the time and what glorious power was bestowed upon him to reach down so deep into his tortured life and pull out such meaningfully powerful emotional lyrics and feelings. It's both deeply disturbing, depressing and wonderful at the same time. Anywhoo, here's some early footage of them in their more hair metal influenced days, with Richey still in the band playing guitar, he's the one with the 80's mod look off to the left, not the tall looking glam guy that's Nicky Wire but the other glam looking guy....
Currently
listening
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The Holy Bible
By
Manic Street Preachers
Release date: 1994-11-28
IM from Sevan, talking about Michael Jackson being a jehovah's witness
"haha, omg, this is what got printed in a JW magazine In another popular video, Thriller, the performer is seen to transform first into a "cat person," then a dancing "monster." Evidently not wanting viewers to conclude that it promoted spiritism, the film begins with the disclaimer: "Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult.-Michael Jackson." Nevertheless, it was so realistic that some who saw it admitted that they were horrified at first. What was this short film intended to convey? And how does the performer, Michael Jackson, feel about it in looking back?"
Here's the crazy interesting bit...
"it was suggested that Michael put a disclaimer at the beginning of the video stating that the video in no way reflect Michael's religious convictions. Michael agreed to this. John Landis, the director, didn't want to do it but if he didn't agree then the whole thriller video was going to be scrapped."
For real?
So one of the greatest music videos of all time wouldn't have happened because a few JW's thought it was anti religious? Really? MJ himself was going to back out if not for that stupid disclaimer and you know what doing that is so cowardly as a way to sort of cover your ass and do what you feel like anyway even though you know down in your heart that it's wrong.
Sorry, I'm in a bit of weird mood due to some shit. I don't mean to be nasty to the JW's I just really really can't believe that this artist I respected and listened to for ages, almost backed out of making Thriller. I mean Thriller, really? Dude I used to do that fuckin' dance in my living room in my pajamas. Can you imagine what I would have done if that video wasn't there?
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