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Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Monday, 12 July 2010
Iced Sensation
So when I was in LA last month..my car got towed..then I almost got pulled up by the cops for trying to break into a house where a script that I was waiting on, was wrongly delivered..
I was at a low ebb...
I stopped in here for a slice of restorative pizza:
Who should be in front of me in the queue but Alex, who was in the year above me in my tutor group at school. Turns out Alex had gone to college in the states, and since set about working in movies, go figure.
He was kind enough to let me crash at his pad in Venice Beach for a few nights during which we caught up and he schooled me in a few of the finer things in American culture he'd learned over the last 7 years.
He told me how some of the highlights of his previous working weeks had involved "Icing" his bros.
"Icing?" I enquired.
It turns out "Icing" was the name given to new form of popular prank that involved the recipient having to get down on one knee and down a Smirnoff Ice. "Bros Icing Bros" was a new centre of the zeitgeist, a new wave. Some kind of male bonding movement.
"It's a big deal over here, I can't believe it hasn't reached England yet"
The "deal" is as follows: Surprise a chum with a Smirnoff Ice hidden in their personal property, or a package, the more imaginative the better. Whereupon they discover said syrupy beverage they MUST, (I was told to renege was a cardinal sin) get down on bended knee and down it in one.
"It breeds a lot of creativity"
He told me stories of film editors Iced by getting the lead actors to insert a Smirnoff into the day's rushes, and having bottles FedExed to pals offices at 11am with the now familiar message "You Got Iced"
Naturally I was skeptical, but the facts speak for themselves:
And so it was with full pleasure and amazement that (with no prompting from me) I felt the waves of this movement lap against my native shores yesterday. When at midday GMT my cousin Fred got iced by his bandmate Chris.
A warm welcome to you "Bros Icing Bros"..may the United Kingdom prove a fruitful battleground for your brand of booze-fueled horseplay.
Timothy Bleary
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Monday, 5 July 2010
Creativity
Comes from a place in my head that looks and feels a lot like this one.
Yawning Man
I watched this film 100s and 100s of times as a kid. I can remember every inch of celluloid from the film. And an original poster is the first thing you see when you enter my house.
This weekend I watched the following clip on YouTube and was instantly transported back 20 years.
It's amazing how once something is fused into you at an early age it will stay there. Pure joy on tap.
Yawning Man
Thursday, 17 June 2010
LAters
On the road..in LA..
Packed up my spare dreams into a Globetrotter trunk
Rented the wrong car
Then the right one
Black Mustang no roof
Nothing to lose
No friends
No enemies
Handshake, smile on credit
Perfect timing
Found the guy
Lost my sight
Up winding roads
American Spirit
20 pack
Sparks - This Town Aint Big Enough For The Both Of Us
Herculean effort to stay sane
And plugged in
Made it
Back
In
One
Piece
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