FRED HALE SR.

Good luck with that one.

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" I slashed and burned thru my 15 minutes of fame."

The Batlord

I don't have much in the way of dreams as far as careers go, but I've had an animated series that's been running through my head for years now in various incarnations, and I've always had a hopeless dream of making it a reality. As much as I would want it to air, my even greater goal would be making it into a pop culture spectacle.

My Batcave journal is in a way a trial run for my "plan". Whatever form the show took, my main scheme would be to make it so absurd, outrageous, and offensive that the publicity would allow me a platform to play a caricature of myself in the media, much like my "persona" on this site: an attention-seeking clown, not fake, but just myself turned up to 11, who offends, confuses, and/or amuses all who I come across. On an internet site, I am not so outrageous that my fellow internet weirdos can't take my schtick, but I'm simply not fit for mass consumption as far as the public at large is concerned: Hitler avatars and tongue-in-cheek egotism would make me a public pariah.

Media interest and bemusement at the nature of my outrageous show would hopefully be enough to get me a spot on some late night talk show just to explain myself, and from there I would make such a spectacle of myself: through abrasive derision of America's relationship with pop culture in general, abrasive mocking of the country's political system, contempt for everything our hypocritical society about society holds dear, and anything else I could think of to piss people off (smoking cigarettes on live television and extolling the virtues of Marlboro Reds without giving a **** about setting a responsible example for instance).

Celebrities in the mainstream public eye are expected to maintain a certain PC image -- even iconoclasts -- much in the same way that politicians are allowed to say only certain things, otherwise they would be denounced and censured into disgrace. My modus operandi would be to ignore all of these unwritten rues of conduct, all while treating criticism with an unapologetic and condescending contempt for my detractors that would make me impossible to ignore. Like a train wreck, people would hate me, but be unable to look away. If all went well, celebrity and hopefully even respectable news outlets, talk shows, and whatever other public platforms I could infect with my presence, would turn me into an object of fascination and outcry, much like the spectacle of Charlie Sheen's public meltdown just kind of took over the country's attention for months on end.

I wouldn't hide behind cheap rationalizations for the diarrhea of the mouth that I spewed, but would proudly declare that I had no intention of being intelligently relevant, just to piss people off for my own personal amusement -- just how I delight in telling everyone here that my attention seeking has no purpose other than to shamelessly inflate my own ego. My ultimate goal would be to elevate the idea of the pop culture spectacle to an art from.

Clearly, this would only last for a limited time, after which people would get used to my schtick and lose interest, so I would use whatever influence I'd gained in the actual TV industry to set up a production company to develop other Western animation shows/movies/whatever. I'd love to really start a movement in America for creatively relevant animation that might actually do for cartoons what cable has done for live action television (The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, etc). Whether or not I created a follow up to my own show, I'd like to give a platform and support to other creators who would otherwise get no support from a system that treats animation as nothing but throwaway kids shows.

Nobody really thinks that there will be another kids' cartoon with the same quality as Batman: The Animated Series, and I'd like to prove us all wrong.

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Black Francis

I'm a simple man, my dream has always been to make a decent living off music. don't care for making it big i just want to earn enough to make being a musician my day job.

Another dream of mine related to that one is to one day pull off the most amazing face melting guitar solo the ppl here have ever seen.

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"Hey Kids you got to meet the MIGHTY PIXIES!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbRbCtIgW3A

Overcast

I don't have a dream. I don't want fame, fortune or love. My ideal life would be out in a very rainy woods, living in a shack by myself with access to all music/equipment, movies, tv shows and games, making albums and distracting myself until I die. It's either that or death by a gigantic piano falling from the sky and crushing my life force. I'd want a post-ironic nu-metal party thrown on top of my casket for my funeral, of course. My dream is to not have a dream, because I already live in my dreams anyway. Sleep is cool.

John Wilkes Booth

i think its about time a new version of the bible come out

i think some of the translations are decent but i think it needs some revamping

i'm thinking the entire book should be narrated in the whiny, overly nasally voice of a nice bearded jewish boy from new yawk

Black Francis

Short ppl got no reason to live.

Why is he so worked up over a trumpet player?

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"Hey Kids you got to meet the MIGHTY PIXIES!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbRbCtIgW3A

The Batlord

Of course the Hispanic dude is standing up for trumpets.

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Black Francis

Womp Womp Womp - Sad Trombone at its best

Laugh it up but everybody loves the trumpets, it's a celestial instrument!

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"Hey Kids you got to meet the MIGHTY PIXIES!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbRbCtIgW3A

John Wilkes Booth

seems like just a reflection of his own failed ambitions combined with his whiny jewish brain that is ultra-sensitive to every aspect of his environment, including a moderately untalented street performer reminding him of his own efforts in the field of music theory



example of what might have gone through his mind before attacking the trumpeter:
"oy, a klug, it's like a schvits with the global wahming and now i've got this primitive trying his best louie armstrong impression on, ad kdei kach?"

DeadChannel

Some day, I'd really like to shoot one of the feature films I'm writing.