Random Thoughts II

[CCS]

Yeah, a packet of carbs ought to do it.

[Reformed_Quint]

That new T-Pain song on the radio, whenever it plays, all i can imagine is meatspin.

Its painful.



You spin me round right round baby.

[Trigger]

http://mashable.com/2009/02/20/josh-...bum-promotion/

Former NiN Drummer Takes Album Promotion A Step Further

You know how Nine Inch Nails tie the digital goods (which can be duplicated ad infinitum) to scarce goods (merch, collector’s items, signed items, etc) to engage their audience and give them a chance to choose how much they’re willing to spend and what exactly they’re getting for their money?

Well, their former drummer Josh Freese has a new album, and he has decided to take the concept a couple of steps further. I’m not sure whether he’s joking or is this for real, but what he’s offering to his fans is definitely funny as hell. Here goes (courtesy of soundcheck.freedomblogging.com):

$7

* Digital download of Since 1972, including 3 videos

$15

* CD/DVD double-disc set
* Digital download

$50

* CD/DVD double-disc set
* T-shirt
* “Thank you” phone call from Josh for buying Since 1972. You can tell him what you like about the record that you purchased, or what you thought sucked. Ask whatever you want, like “Is Maynard really THAT weird?” or “Which one of Sting’s mansions has the comfiest beds?” or “Are Devo really suburban robots that monitor reality or just a bunch of dads from Ohio?” or “Why don’t the Vandals play more stuff off the first record?” It’s your 5 minutes to yack it up. Talk about whatever you want.

$250 (limited edition of 25)

* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* T-shirt
* Signed drum head and drumsticks
* Go on a lunch date with Josh to PF Changs or The Cheesecake Factory (whatever you’re into)

$500 (limited edition of 15)

* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* T-shirt
* Signed cymbal and sticks
* Meet Josh in Venice, Calif., and go floating together in a sensory-deprivation tank (to be filmed and posted on YouTube)
* Dinner at Sizzler (get your $8.99 steak and “all you can eat” shrimp on)

$1,000 (limited edition of 10)

* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* T-shirt
* Signed cymbal, drum head and drumsticks
* Josh washes your car OR does your laundry … or you can wash his car
* Have dinner with Josh aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif.
* Get drunk and cut each other’s hair in the parking lot of the Long Beach courthouse (filmed and posted on YouTube, of course)

$2,500 (limited edition of 5)

* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* Get a private drum lesson with Josh, or for all you non-drummers, have him give you a back and foot massage (couples welcome)
* Pick any 1 member of the Vandals or Devo (subject to availability) to accompany you and Josh to either the Hollywood Wax Museum or the lunch buffet at the Spearmint Rhino
* Signed DW snare drum
* Take 3 items of your choice out of his closet (first come, first serve)
* Change diapers and make bottles with him for an afternoon (after hitting the strip club)

$5,000 (limited edition of 3)

* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* T-shirt
* Josh writes a song about you and makes it available on iTunes
* Co-direct a video with him for the song about you and throw it up on the YouTubes
* Josh gives you and a friend a private tour of Disneyland
* Get drunk together. If you don’t drink, we can go to my dad’s place and hang out under the “Tuba tree”
* Stone Gossard from Pearl Jam will send you a letter telling you about his favorite song on Since 1972

$10,000 (limited edition of 1)

* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* T-shirt
* Signed DW snare drum from A Perfect Circle’s 2003 tour
* Josh gives you a private drum lesson OR his and hers foot/back massage (couples welcome, discreet parking)
* Twiggy from Marilyn Manson’s band and Josh take you and a guest to Roscoe’s Chicken ‘n’ Waffles in Long Beach for dinner
* Josh takes you and a guest to Club 33 (the super-duper exclusive and private restaurant at Disneyland located above Pirates of the Caribbean) and then hit a couple rides afterward (preferably the Tiki Room, the Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror)
* At the end of the day at Disneyland, drive away in Josh’s Volvo station wagon. It’s all yours … take it. Just drop him off on your way home, though, please.

$20,000 (limited edition of 1)

* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* T-shirt
* A signed drum from the 2008 Nine Inch Nails tour
* Maynard James Keenan, Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo and Josh take you miniature golfing and then drop you off on the side of the freeway (all filmed and posted on YouTube)
* Josh gives you a tour of Long Beach. See his first apartment, the coffee shop on 2nd Street where his buddy paid Dave Grohl $40 to rip up tile just weeks before joining Nirvana. See the old Vandals rehearsal spot, the liquor store he got busted at using a Fake ID when he was 17 (it was Dave from the Vandals’ old ID). Go check out Snoop Dogg’s high school. For an extra 50 bucks see where Tom and Adrian from No Doubt live. For another $25 he’ll show ya where Eric from NOFX and Brooks from Bad Religion get their hair cut.
* Spend the night aboard the Queen Mary and take the “Ghosts and Legends” tour. (Separate rooms … no spooning.)
* Josh writes 2 songs about you and both are made available on iTunes and appear on his next record (you can sing back up on ‘em, clap, play the drums, triangle, whatever)
* Drum lesson OR foot and back massage (once again … couples welcome and discreet parking available)
* Pick any 3 items out of Josh’s closet

$75,000 (limited edition of 1)

* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* T-shirt
* Go on tour with Josh for a few days
* Have Josh write, record and release a 5-song EP about you and your life story
* Take home any of his drum sets (only one, but you can choose which one)
* Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from Tool’s Lamborghini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while
* Josh will join your band for a month … play shows, record, party with groupies, etc.
* If you don’t have a band he’ll be your personal assistant for a month (4-day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm)
* Take a limo down to Tijuana and he’ll show you how it’s done (what that means exactly we can’t legally get into here)
* If you don’t live in Southern California (but are a U.S. resident) he’ll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks
* Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robins place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna

Now, if this isn’t changing the way music business works, I don’t know what is.

[Jonas Undrawing]

Id definitely go with the $1000 option, but i wanna be the 10th.

[MadMax]

for some reason, all the street lights in palmy have gone out. weird as hell driving around like that.

[doppelgänger of someone]

Originally Posted by Jonas Undrawing

Id definitely go with the $1000 option, but i wanna be the 10th.

I would imagine he will entertain his $1000 guests all at once as a big party. You won't have him all to yourself so you can daterape him.

[Hurtuso]

that NiN offer looks kinda like the direction the entertainment industry ought to go in.

[fidgit]

oh man minigolf with Maynard! Can someone spot me $20,000?

[sv]

Originally Posted by doppelgänger of someone

I would imagine he will entertain his $1000 guests all at once as a big party. You won't have him all to yourself so you can daterape him.

lol

[CCS]

MANFACE!

[Mish]

This guy is essentially the head of global I.S. for the company I work for.

Luckily each region is essentially a seperate entity and I can run things as I see fit.
I've been working with him more as we're all joining together to be one happy global Active Directory domain.

I could go in to great detail about the insanity of the situation, language barries and differing levels of skill... but I think his current MSN status says more than I ever could.

[crocos]

To all those people about to deprive themselves of stuff for 40 days: Happy pancake day you nutters!

[CCS]

You're a wild and crazy guy, crocos.

[caffiend]

I find it ironic that actors/actresses are generally at their least convincing when fawning, "crying" and/or platitudinising during their acceptance speeches for awards related to acting.

It's almost like they're really good at being other people, but shit at being themselves.

[Reformed_Quint]

I dislike actors, by definition they are fake people.

Bunch of big fat phoneys.

[Trigger]

actors are entertainers. especially lesbian porn stars
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? when Taylor Rain and Alisha Klass do ass2ass

[Ashley]

Dear City of Calgary,

Please purchase more snow plows.

Kthxbye.

P.S - Teach people how to drive, you cunts.

[MaZeR]

CO2 mapping satellite launch fails
I would have been more surprised if it had gone off without a hitch.

[Helious]

The Opening sequence/number/performance for The 81st Oscars by Hugh Jackman is one of the greatest I have ever seen, period. The pressure to pull that off LIVE must've been extreme. My opinion of him has changed for the better, I always thought he was good, but now he is great.

If you didn't watch The Oscars and you don't plan on ever seeing it, at least watch the first 8-9mins. It's absolutely worth it.

FWIW to you peeps~

[Cyberbob]

9 year-old girl gets married

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video...d.wedding.wfaa

It's no cult or texas wedding, it's rather nice actually!

tl,dw: The 9 year old girl has leukemia, and is not expected to live long enough to get married, which has always been her dream, so her friends and family got together to hold a wedding between her and a friend. It's a sad story, but it's nice to see what her family and friends are willing to do to make her happy.

[xor]

So I broke out in hives the other day and everything started bubbling. Fucken weird coz I've never been allergic to anything until now.
Fast forward 3hours later, the doctor gave me some pretty potent antihistamines. I've been floating ever since

[leadinjector]

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

9 year-old girl gets married

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video...d.wedding.wfaa

It's no cult or texas wedding, it's rather nice actually!

tl,dw: The 9 year old girl has leukemia, and is not expected to live long enough to get married, which has always been her dream, so her friends and family got together to hold a wedding between her and a friend. It's a sad story, but it's nice to see what her family and friends are willing to do to make her happy.

SICK

[chiQ]

Originally Posted by leadinjector

SICK

Why? It's just a legal state when you get right down to it. People impose their own expectations and baggage over it, but it's just a registration of intent really.

[Reformed_Quint]

Originally Posted by chiQ

but it's just a registration of intent really.

'I'd like to register my intent of banging the shit out of this woman, so help me God.'
'You may kiss the bride.'

[xor]

Originally Posted by Reformed_Quint

'I'd like to register my intent of banging the shit out of this woman, so help me God.'
'You may kiss the bride.'

Your posts make you sound like such an angst fulla towards women

[Reformed_Quint]

Originally Posted by xor

Your posts make you sound like such an angst fulla towards women

Yea, if i was a faggot, i'd make a good emo.

[chiQ]

Originally Posted by Reformed_Quint

'I'd like to register my intent of banging the shit out of this woman, so help me God.'
'You may kiss the bride.'

Hahaha!

Nah, the intent to stay in a relationship until one of them dies. Given that and the fact that the kid is dying it's probably the most genuinely 'til death do us part' marriage this year.

[Redneck]

Classy young ones reference in the beeb http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7907861.stm

[Helious]

if you can lick marmite off a spoon, you can eat a chicks arse out

[Jonas Undrawing]

jesus helious. You could kill a man by saying shit like that. Make him choke on his lunch

[CCS]

Originally Posted by Helious-

if you can lick marmite off a spoon, you can eat a chicks arse out

That sounds... reasonable.

I suppose an equivalent analogy might be that if you can lick honey out of a thimble, you can give a chick [good] cunnilingus.

[Jonas Undrawing]

where do i find these women who drip honey?

[CCS]

Well I guess if you're suggesting that women shit vegemite then, yeah, it would be reasonable to suggest they secrete honey from their vag...



Hey, FUCK YOU! Don't ruin my analogy! You pretend it's fish oil you're tasting and I'll pretend it's honey!!

[Jonas Undrawing]

I only ask because when i find a woman who also vomits chutney, oozes peanut butter from her ears, and blows butter out her nose.. well, all my breakfast spread needs will be satisfied.

[Torka]

Just saw Gran Torino, really great. I love all of Eastwood's recent work.

[CCS]

Originally Posted by Jonas Undrawing

I only ask because when i find a woman who also vomits chutney, oozes peanut butter from her ears, and blows butter out her nose.. well, all my breakfast spread needs will be satisfied.

Sounds messy.

[CCS]

IT'S STILL NOT HOME TIME!

[StN]

Originally Posted by Torka

Just saw Gran Torino, really great. I love all of Eastwood's recent work.

IMHO:
Gran Torino > 7 pounds > Slumdog millionaire

[Helious]

<3'd 7 Pounds

Seen it twice, was much better the second time through.

[Helious]

Originally Posted by CCS

IT'S STILL NOT HOME TIME!

do you have siesta's after work? when my patterns are fucked i'll usually have a wee kip after work