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I just had a really good idea for a band name. Check it out. “The Bad Samaritans” And we’ll do a song called something like “Lessons Learned” and the music video will just be the band standing around on the street watching old ladies having a hard time crossing it. We’re just standing there not helping at all, looking cool. Then later on we’re walking around and I find a wallet on the road and IT’S GOT $10 IN IT! So I go buy a sandwich with the $10 and then you see me eating the sandwich standing there next to the road not helping all these old ladies trying to cross it. But then, like, I pull out the wallet I found and pull out the I.D. in it and it’s my face on it. IT’S MY WALLET THAT I FOUND! And it turns out that I BOUGHT MYSELF THAT SANDWICH…. “Lessons Learned”…Right.
Then an old lady in an Escalade mows us all down.
“Story from North America” + my glum jadedness.
Story from North America from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.
Yesterday I stumbled upon (not through the web service) this little video, which I absolutely love, and it got me thinking. Well, thinking, reminiscing and getting pissed off.
You see, I started thinking back to when I first started finding gems like this on the internet. Back around 99 to 00. Right when enough people started getting broadband to facilitate higher resolution videos online. It was like, bare with me on this shaky metaphor for moment, finding a new store where you could go try peoples home brewed beer. Some was good, lots was bad but it was new independent stuff that you couldn’t find anywhere else. I figured “Man, this place is going to do great, just wait ’til people start trying this stuff. Plus, surely the store is going to need more skilled independent brewers brewing exotic new beers to meet the demand.”
Now nine years later the store’s shelves are stocked floor to ceiling with Miller Light. You can still find the home brews every once in a while buried at the back of the shelves but the independent brewers never really took off. The lucky ones now work for Miller.
Well that’s enough of me being glum and jaded for now. Maybe I’ll go cheer myself up by watching something on the CW.
Rad Randy’s Awesome Adventure Beta 00
Here is the first beta version of a very short one level video game I’ve been working on called Rad Randy’s Awesome Adventure. I thought I’d post this as is and see what kind of a response I get from you guys.
I had been kicking around the idea of making a video game for years now and then about a month or so ago I finally got down to business. The programing so far has been surprisingly easy considering I have very little formal programing training.
I’m hoping that by posting this I’ll spark some interest in collaboration in this and other video game projects. I would love to work with people in especially in the areas of: 8bit music and sound effect creation, character animation (walkcycles, jumping, etc.), and money. Anyone have any ideas of how we could make some $ on this stuff?
Enjoy.
Note: If you have a computer joystick / gamepad you can use it with this game by mapping the keyboard keys to it. I use a simple program called Joykey. Free download here.
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
When I get money there are gonna be a lot of new businesses starting up in town to cater to my needs.
For instance there’ll be a service where I can press the # button on my cell and within 20 seconds there’ll be a clown standing in front of me ready to get punched in the face. This will be useful for things like when I’m in the grocery store looking to buy some milk and I say to myself “Expires in 8 fuckin’ days! Are you fuckin’ shitting me?! Why the fuck can’t they get some milk in that will last more than a fuckin week?!” Then I press # and within the next 30 seconds I will have punched a clown in the face and all will be right in the world again.
This may not sound like it’s that big of a businesses but when you look at the logistics of having a clown hidden somewhere within 20 seconds of me at any given moment, day or night, no matter where I am, you can see how things get a little complex. Not to mention the clown dispatchers, cell phone programmers, and clown hiding specialists.
Oh and that’s just one part of it. If something really annoys me I can press *#*# on my phone. The first *# will send a pink convertible jam packed full of clowns. The second *# will dispatch a van full of vicious dogs, maybe even some wolves, trained to attack clowns. What’s nice about this is it’s something the entire community can enjoy: seeing a pink convertible full of clowns being attacked by dogs and wolves rolling down the street. It’ s patriotic.
LIL DAVE GET MONEY
