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Civil War Forever

by Brian on February 2, 2010

in Lost, Retail Stores, WSM?

IMG00750You’re aware that I can go pretty much anywhere and find things to amuse myself with.

At times, this includes actual amusing things, and that’s like an exciting thing to have happen.

It’s usually at Borders, where I pretend to write and instead mess around on various hot and exclusive instant messaging platforms of some note.

Brian: This dude in Borders is laughing at something on his laptop and this woman reading “Civil War Times” is looking at him dismissively lolol

Girl: Omg lol

Brian: It’s not like there’s hot new civil war news lolol
Brian: The South – Fighting Mad! (And what it means for you!) pg 25

Girl: Unsure which side you are on? Take our quiz on page 46!

Brian: General Lee – He’s Just Like Us!

Girl: Is she wearing arm warmers
Girl: Like leg warmers but for your arms

Brian: Nah it’s a pink sweater with some kind of sweater vest
Brian: I want to start a magazine about people who read that magazine
Brian: Like we could profile her

Girl: Dude you should just start a magazine about people in borders
Girl: And sell is exclusively at borders and like people who read it and find that they are featured in it can bring it up to the counter and prove it’s them and they get like a prize or something

Brian: Lol
Brian: You know I am putting this on my blog thx

Girl: I hate when you do this trick ttyl

Once the lady left I went and picked up the magazine – there was only one copy on the shelves.

Perhaps the most interesting thing was a sizable “Note From the Editor” right at the front that warned readers there was a scam going around wherein people would call them and warn that their subscriptions were up, and that they needed their credit card numbers right away.

Says something about their target demo, which is primarily premature and naive historical enthusiasts. Not sure how you measure that.

In the back of the mag was a political cartoon that I’d guess 14 people on Earth would understand – luckily I was one, and I laughed so hard, and then I had something to bond with the laptop guy about.

FULL CIRCLE MONDAY IS WHERE I’M COMING FROM.

While you wait for Lost to start tonight, here’s the conclusion to WSM? – my Rocky Balboa moment to be sure.

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Umm…if you missed the Colorado Balloon Crisis…I don’t know what to tell you.

Falcon Heene balloon

At the start of the movie, Falcon Heene is a little boy and it says “OCTOBER 2001″ in exciting writing on the movie screen, and the audience is all high-fiving and doing cool fist-pumps together about the creative liberties they’re already seeing happen.

Well, Falcon is hanging out with his family at a secret government place with Falcon’s dad, who is Bruce Willis, and Bruce is testing his important new excitement balloon for his government boss, and that boss is a Senator, and he is Keanu.

Bruce thought it would be a nice activity to have the whole family test the balloon together, and so Falcon goes in the balloon so they can do that, and the balloon crashes into a lake, and the lake starts on fire, and that’s because the lake was filled with gasoline.

Everyone but Falcon and Bruce dies, and Keanu waves his finger like “no-no-no”, and that means no more balloon experiments for Bruce, and also Falcon does some crying about his dead Mommy.

So then like it says “OCTOBER 2009″ and Falcon is graduating from high school, and now he is Shia LeBeouf, and he is always bitter at the world, and especially at Bruce.

This is because Bruce went on Wife Swapper and swapped some money to get Falcon a new Mommy, and that Mommy is Eva Mendez. After Falcon’s graduation party, Bruce and Falcon are cleaning up, and they yell at each other about who is a man now and who is not, and that’s the meme.

The yelling stops when they hear important cars drive through the front of the house, and they go to the living room to see who would do that, and the important cars are Keanu’s, and that’s because Keanu is the President now.

Eva wears booty shorts.

Keanu’s men grab Bruce and Falcon and Eva and take them to a secret lab to work on a new balloon that can save everyone, and Falcon is wondering what everyone needs to be saved from. Keanu won’t say, and then he gives Falcon some kettle corn and sends him to watch Dancing With Some Stars, and that’s another way to make Falcon feel like he is not a man.

Well Falcon sneaks around and finds out the plan, and he is like, “No-no-no-no-no-no-no!” because Keanu is making Bruce build a new balloon just like his old one, and Keanu will use that to crash the balloon into Lake Denver, which Keanu’s men are filling up with gasoline.

Falcon uses a Google Wave trick to make everyone think they’re in virtual reality, and when they are confused he steals the balloon and launches it, and he is in it when it does the launching.

Keanu is mad now, because Falcon also called the paparazzi, and they are making the online internet go crazy about this wild balloon kid.

Keanu puts guns in Bruce’s face, and so Bruce calls Falcon and tries to tell him how to drive the balloon, but Falcon is all like, “Oh now you think you’re a good dad, well let me tell you a thing or two about your booty wife.”

Then Keanu brings up a viral video on Falcon’s screen, and it’s of Keanu’s men pouring soda all over Eva, and also teasing her with chainsaws and calling her names that are not nice.

Keanu says that if Falcon doesn’t crash into Lake Denver, that they will keep doing that, and also they will start doing it to Bruce, and then Keanu will cancel Lost when there are only two episodes left to go.

Falcon swallows real hard and that’s like time for a montage, and now the internet is really loving on Falcon hard, and the montage goes on for an hour.

When it’s over, Falcon is like, “No-no-no-no-no-no!!” because he is about to crash, and he asks Keanu to explain why he wants to kill Lake Denver so bad, and that’s because Falcon wants to at least have solid reasoning behind his exciting balloon death.

Keanu says he hates lakes, and that’s when everything starts to go crazy on the computer screens, and the balloon crashes into Lake Denver, and that’s in 3-D.

The paparazzi is so excited to have a dead kid to talk about finally, and like there’s a man running out there so he can be the guy to pull out the body, but he falls down, and the internet likes that one a lot.

Everyone takes their shovels and pops the balloon, but all that’s in there is some kettle corn. They are all like “wtf” at not getting to be famous heroes on TV, and the paparazzi shows everyone that on their touchscreens.

Back at the secret lab, Keanu isn’t sure what’s happening, and we know this because he is screaming that he isn’t sure what’s happening.

That’s when Falcon jumps down from the attic, and it turns out Balloon-Falcon was just virtual reality. Real-Falcon says he was doing a trick so Keanu would admit his evil plan, and maybe people won’t vote for him again.

They have a fistfight, and Falcon wins the fight, and Bruce admits he’s a man, and gives him beer and a passport. Also, Bruce gets diabetes at this part, so they go to the hospital, and Eva meets them there.

Falcon starts throwing up for the paparazzi, and so he touches Eva’s booty and him and Bruce like wink at each other for their cool way they figured out to be on TV, and that’s the twist, but nobody cares because for sure Falcon will have more adventures.

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Brian Spaeth Who Shot MambaI was thinking about having a good cry the other day, and then because my actoring is a bit rusty, decided to wait, and not do that thing.

Instead, I made this list of actual pieces of commercial media and entertainment that have made me produce tears, be they sadness tears or happiness tears.

BOOKS:
Catcher in the Rye (Like when he catches the rye finally. I think it’s a metaphor -)
Of Mice and Men (When Lenny does his dying.)

MOVIES:
Armageddon (When BW’s friend who has the kid runs up to the kid when they get back to Earf.)
The Grapes of Wrath (The end.)
Wall-E – A couple times.
The Incredibles – When Dash finally lets loose in the jungle.
Team America – I literally was crying with laughing the first time “AMERICA – F–K YEAH!” played.
The Iron Giant – Twice.
Big Fish – the end.
Field of Dream – duh.

TV SHOWS:
Lost (End of last season – I was just overwhelmed in general at the end.)

MUSIC:
N/A

SPORTS:
Cavs (Too many to list – last time was when they finally got to the Finals – Game 6 vs Pistons in 07.)
Browns (First game back in Cleveland in 1999.)
Indians (When they got to the 95 World Series.)

BLOGS:
Both Teams Played Hard (Just now.)

I’m sure there are more – but this is all I can think of right now. I’m sure some music must have made me cry, but I dunno. What commercial fare has made you shed tears the most, and why do you think it did that.

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Lost, Jacob, Etc.

by Brian on May 14, 2009

in Lost, Misc, TV

(I apologize for no jokes and no content this week, but I’m not in a position to do any of those things for you. I’m barely even Twitter-based until Monday.)

***This is 100% spoiler free, in case you haven’t seen lasterday’s Season Five finale yet.***

One of the many reasons I love Lost is because you could hand that concept to another set of creators – even with a lot of the pieces in place – and it would be a completely different show.

It’s creative-bankruptcy-proof.

Take the base idea – a group of strangers crash land and are stranded on a mysterious island – and it still doesn’t really tell you what the show is about.

What’s interesting is this goes against every rule of Hollywood, ie you could hand the high concept to almost any Adam Sandler concept to ten writer/director teams, and while the quality/jokes/characters will vary, you’ll probably get more or less the same movie. (That’s not a criticism, by the way.)

If you’ve read me for a long time and lived through one of my tantrums, you know this is something I strive to emulate – I rarely fear telling people my ideas, because I don’t think most people would know what to do with a “dead snake/magic basketball movie” or an “epic, pretentious, and stupid 47-story airplane reading book“.

The other thing I love is that the shows creators have absolutely no fear of turning the entire thing on its ear every season. If you watched the season finale lasterday, you know it’ll all be different next year again.

And just like the Season Five ender, there will be many theories and predictions, none of them will be right, and yet whatever they do will seem to fit right into the mythology.

Go Cavaliers and WORD UP.

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Lost, CH 51, Wendy's

by Brian on May 7, 2009

in Lost, PTSA CH51, Super Airplane

If you’re looking for me today, I’ll be watching Lost 800 times in a row.

Lasterday’s episode didn’t have like massive revelations, just a lot of cool payoffs/set-ups, with some nice moments. (Every part of the Chang/Miles/Hurley sequence was great.) Really well done. I usually have some speculation on where things could go, but I’ve got nothing here.

Here’s another quiz someone sent in from Prelude to a Super Airplane.

If you want to reveal yourself, that’s up to you – you should be embarrassed by your answer to #5, though.

As to the sadness-inducing Wendy’s commercial, I’m bouncing around on this, because it’d be so much funnier to actually make a parody of it, rather than just write it out.

I dunno – maybe I’ll do a script and see what it would take to do it. You know how I tend to think of small things, and then they become these massive projects, so I’m hesitant to delve in too hard.

Let’s just say part of it would be like the guy staring out the window, tapping his foot on the ground, and clenching his jaw while the pregnant girlfriend showed him all the baby clothes she bought. During this sequence, he can’t even bear to open the chicken sandwich.

Later he goes to a certain type of adult establishment by himself and makes it rain with chicken sandwiches while he does some self-loathing.

What kind of scenes would your chicken sandwich commercial have?

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(I like this kid, cause he’s like, “Here comes the next move – you’re about to feel tricked, little girl!”)

I had some LeBron commentary here, but…there’s a reason I don’t blog about sports heavily anymore. Let’s just say that I think like Mark Cuban does on these guys.

I will say that I 100% loved how the Cavs were playing up through about late December, but since then I’ve been really disconnected from this team, especially on days that Lost is on.

Now, let’s talk about something important. I saw in the store that they changed the logo to Connect 4.

This likely happened 12 years ago, and I couldn’t tell you what the old one looked like without cheating, so here’s an ancient online version where you can play against a computer.

I take great joy in knowing there’s a computer somewhere sitting at a computer playing against me, and it’s mad because I keep beating it.

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Hey so Jeff at Celticsblog officially declared that all Celtics fans have to cease calling me a fraud.

My friend Ben Cox interviewed someone who did steroids once, and all baseball players who say it’s useless lie.

Here’s a Becky chat to fill some space.

The start is missing because we were talking Lost and it’s out of context and would just be weirder than the rest of it already is.

Becky: I don’t know if anyone else would appreciate it
Becky: We’re a sick sort

Brian: Yeah true
Brian: I just like jokes SO MUCH

Becky: Jokes are radical

Brian: You’re not insomniac are you?

Becky: I don’t sleep more than a few hours at a time
Becky: Been waking up to random tapping noise that I can’t place
Becky: It is driving me slowly insane

Brian: I didn’t know this
Brian: You are like the raven and his nevermore issue he had

Becky: Are you meaning the telltale heart?

Brian: The one where the bird is like tapping on his window going CAW! CAW!

Becky: If I knew what it was I would be okey with it
Becky: But I can’t figure it out
Becky: And it’s intermittent
Becky: Not in any set intervals
Becky: It might eventually cause me to kill myself I think lol

Brian: CAW! CAW!

Becky: No no
Becky: Lub-dub
Becky: Lub-dub
Becky: Like the beating heart
Becky: Is a better poe-nalogy for this
Becky: F’sho

Brian: Did you see that trailer for Ace Ventura Jr
Brian: Direct-to-DVD

Becky: Ugh
Becky: No
Becky: That sounds like an abortion of a film

Brian: Fat kid doing Jim Carrey impression – insulting

Becky: I’d rather sit awake a full night listening to random tapping than watch that

Brian: What was his catch phrase in those?

Becky: Alrighty then?

Brian: Yeah yeah the kid says that like it’s the big moment in the trailer

Becky: My sadness
Becky: I have it

Brian: Let me see your sadness

Becky: :(

Brian: Wow

Becky: Sad, right

Brian: There it is
Brian: Yep

Becky: I ain’t neva lie

Brian: I have a cardboard cutout of Jay-z in my room it scares the crap out of me every night

Becky: I have a lifesized Shaq at home
Becky: His head is above my door

Brian: Cardboard or real shaq

Becky: When I was away at school my sister needed her door open so she could see Shaq watching over her
Becky: Neither
Becky: Wall poster

Brian: I have a Richard Gere Fathead also

Well, the Cavs got blown out last night, and luckily I’ve been more or less disconnected from this team since they didn’t try in that Washington game like two months ago.

After 2006, I kinda have them on a thin rope or however that is supposed to be said.

At least Ben Wallace is only out for 4-6 weeks and not forever – maybe he and I can be interested again for the Playoffs.

Last thing – by my determination, there are 6 of you who haven’t bought my book yet. wtf is wrong with you people? Email me and I’ll give you a special code.

I want 100% sale rate of people on this site, so I can move on to other sites like in Risk.

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Tom asked the following in a comment-area?

What is more impressive: LEEbron James getting a triple-double w/ 50 or Kobe with 61 and 0 rebounds and -3 assists?

Since Tom hates Kobe, I must assume this is sarcasm. Clearly, the answer is LeBron’s game, but I’m sure this won’t stop Sportscenter from running 50 different segments comparing the two performances.

Lost was amazing; here’s another book review – from Adam over at Black Heart Gold Pants. He even provided an illustration, and this is something I highly encourage.

If you haven’t read Chapter 9 of Prelude to a Super Airplane, wherein I give my detailed description of the Super Airplane, that there was a link to it. Adam’s words:

I’ve always wanted to be a review whore. You know, the one who makes a living by sitting through the latest Martin Lawrence vehicle and says things that scarcely make sense, like “Outrageous!” But you said you wanted real opinions, so fine.

[Like here is how to read the rest.]

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Did Bale go overboard? Sure.

Is it a big deal?

Not really – note that the DP wasn’t fired. (Although he was definitely in the wrong.)

This stuff happens all the time on sets, and then everyone gets back to work.

Most importantly, is the dance remix version amazing? Yes.

I’ll be watching last week’s Lost all day, in preparation for tonight’s new one.

While I do that, I’ll bask in the happy glow of this Tweet from everyone’s favorite ZooLoo PR girl:

@brianspaeth you make me laugh.
about 14 hours ago from web

Go get some ZooLoo at their blog – it’s the happiest place on Earth among mysterious start-up blogs. Yesterday they wrote about cats on Facebook; today it’s sex offenders on Facebook.

Here’s that Bale remix – beware HARSH language. Also beware that this is like actually a pretty sweet song.

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Twitter, Cavs, Lost

by Brian on January 29, 2009

in Cleveland Cavaliers, Lost, Twitter

Hey, so one person contacted me concerned I was going to stop Twittering.

Another emailed to let me know my plan would never work, and if I didn’t like Twitter, I should just stop using it, instead of trying to ruin it for everyone.

Yet a third sent this:

Cousin Larry worked at a newspaper not an advertising agency. I can’t see why they would remake a sitcom as a bad action movie but good luck.

These are the things that happen when first-timers stumble over from Twitter, I suppose.

Looks like Z won’t be back tonight against ORL, but I’m convinced we can play D on anyone, and then LeBron’s the best guy on the floor at the end.

This Z injury has really been somewhat of a blessing, if you look at how much of an asset JJ Hickson is becoming. At first he was lost out there, then he just wasn’t making mistakes, and now he’s like good for energy, boards, and some scoring. Two years from now, he could be a monster.

Lost explodered my head lasterday, so I don’t know how much I’ll be around in terms of new posts today. I’ve got a big writing thing to get done asap, am secretly placing new posts into the archives, and need to rewatch Lost 7 times.

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