. . . as long as I’m on a Jonathan Coulton jag, this is a perfect time to direct you all to Tom Cruise Crazy, especially in light of this madness.
Just be glad it’s him, not you.
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Crazy ideas that may or may not be crazy are taking up pretty much all of my free time this week, so my Phoenix Comicon trip report will have to wait until Monday, but since I promised to deliver a Rock Band roundup before the end of this week, here we go.
… Tararebeka shared this picture of me pretending to be cool at the end of the night: And this picture of me not even trying to hide what a total dork I am just before I pretend to be cool: Check out Joe’s awesome rock face and stance behind me!
…I can’t sing Steve Perry to save my life, and I wish the vocal track from my Mic was turned all the way off, but at this point, it’s not even about sounding good or even looking good; at this point it’s all about having fun and finishing an epic night with motherfucking JOURNEY, goddammit:
I knew Richard because he was on the air from noon until Jed the Fish took over every day, and for several months, after going to school at Paramount in the morning, I’d stop at the KROQ studios in Burbank on my way home to hang out with him. … I was smacked around by a lot of people for not offering Black Celebration as an option, but I just figured everyone who liked Depeche Mode loved that album and considered it a load-bearing pillar in the catalog; it’s like Unknown Pleasures or The Queen is Dead , right? … The Concert for the Masses was one of the most incredible things I’ve ever experienced, and it remains one of my most cherished memories, one I can only see it through the over-romanticizing eyes of a fifteen year-old who was on the cusp of figuring out who he was and where he was going.
When I work on Games of our Lives, I usually listen to Fred on 44 or Ethel on 47. I used to listen to Lucy on 54, but it’s recently become totally unlistenable, thanks to the addition of Sheryl Crow (on the “alternative” station?), and the heavy rotation of Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chili…
And that’s the story of how I only got six hours of sleep last night, but don’t really care because I woke up feeling energized and excited, knowing that writing silly stuff in my blog is actually worth the effort, because you — yes, you — are still coming around to read it, even if it’s only a stupid story about my cat.
For this week’s column at the LA Weekly, I planned to write about some significant moments in my musical education, including my discovery of KROQ around 1987 and attending the Concert for the Masses in 1988. … I fought it for a couple of days, until I finally just gave in and let my brain write what it wanted to write: It’s Only Rock and Roll but I Like It: Music as a Soundtrack to Life My dad loved classic rock, so when I look back on my childhood, The Beatles, Boston, Heart, The Doobie Brothers, and Fleetwood Mac provide the soundtrack. … Dad listened to that album a lot while I helped him build a gate for our side yard in the usual eight year-old manner: by wearing an oversized tool belt and handing him nails while I stayed out of the way.
Anne and I took a long walk today, and while we were on our way back, I remembered writing this post for my blog, a million years ago. The game I’m talking about, Kangaroo, was the subject of a column I was writing for The AV Club at the time, called The Games of Our…
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That song is hilarious…
Just watched few mins of that Tom Cruise Scientology video.
L. Ron Hubbard was indeed (be it consciously or unconsciously) the greatest snake oil salesman of the 20th century.
good stuff. and an Amen! to CHV
Someone needs to edit that video as a lip-synched music video to “Tom Cruise Crazy”. That would be awesome.
Careful Wil, you’ll not get the role of the witty sidekick in Mission Impossible 4: Beating a Dead 70’s Show
BWAH!
*feels sorry for Katie Holmes*
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The essence of what he’s talking about at 4:45 onward is at least partly about Scientology critics (SP = suppressive person), but even earlier he’s talking about “spreading the word” (KSW).
Tom Cruise: “C’mon.. scientology is serious business ok?! Like like like.. it’s serious! It allows you to .. uhm.. read a person right away .. like uhm.. one of those … uhm.. things.. with …uh paper in it … BOOKS.. right lets you read people like a book..
and and and – it allows you to uhm… well i’m sure it can allow you to uhm… like… sorta fullfill your every need — wait no.. that’s not right.. it uhm…and if you’re lucky like me – you can shoot Oprah with lighning out of your eyes like i did… *maniacal laughter*
Fuck *pardon my french* I scored Katie Holmes – leave me alone!!”
The guy’s a nutjob – no doubt!
It always amazes me how someone uses so many words but is saying nothing.
I watched that with a combination of awe and sadness. Awe because he’s such a big “get” for their weird little organization, and sadness because people might actually listen to that and be persuaded. This is further proof that critical reasoning skills MUST be taught in public schools!
Wow. That was messed up. Create his own reality indeed. He’s obviously operating on some other plane.
You know that all these Tom Cruise links are being promoted by the AMPTP to discredit the Universal/WGA deal, right?
I’d shiver, but shivering would be giving in to the terrists.
That was just strange
awww, he’s just upset because that Napolean Dynamite guy is a better actor than him…
great, now I can’t get him out of my closet.
These Tom Cruise videos have a mystereious habit of disappearing from the Net because of his litigous ways. Here’s another source for the video:
http://gawker.com/5002269/the-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientology-tried-to-suppress
That Tom Cruise vid and your post on MST3k had inspired me:
http://breck-number2pencils.blogspot.com/2008/01/am-i-gonna-get-sued-now-in-england.html
sorry about thespacing mess in that post…tried to fix it, but my computer was obviously corrupted by thetans.