I've been in production for two weeks...

Prince Of Dorkness

What did I miss?

Why is there a guy dressed as a cow at Hollywood and Highland singing "God Bless America?"

tybird

Do you have Chik Fil A restaurants in the area? The son of the founder of the chain and current president made some remarks against gay marriage. They use cows in their long running "Eat Mor Chiken" campaign...yes, a couple of those words are misspelled.

Prince Of Dorkness

(I know. sorry, I'm trying to make a funny. Poorly, apparently.)

The last week or so, I've been wondering what everyone here would be saying about the whole ChickFillet Cluster fuck.

I find the whole thing a bigger comment on how we have become such corporately-controlled beings that everything we want to say needs to be said by buying a product. I can't say "I support marriage equality," I now have to buy a Lady Gaga single, buy a Human Rights Campaign sticker to put on my car, wear a pink triangle pendant to hang around my neck.

And the people who want to make sure I never become legally equal to them have to buy Toby Keith records, spend hours in line to buy a chicken sandwich and pay $30 for a screen-printed nylon American flag that was printed in China and cost about 2¢ to manufacture.

It's a very odd world we live in.

brianlux

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

It's a very odd world we live in.

It is indeed!

Nice to have you back, Prince.

tybird

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

(I know. sorry, I'm trying to make a funny. Poorly, apparently.)

The last week or so, I've been wondering what everyone here would be saying about the whole ChickFillet Cluster fuck.

I find the whole thing a bigger comment on how we have become such corporately-controlled beings that everything we want to say needs to be said by buying a product. I can't say "I support marriage equality," I now have to buy a Lady Gaga single, buy a Human Rights Campaign sticker to put on my car, wear a pink triangle pendant to hang around my neck.

And the people who want to make sure I never become legally equal to them have to buy Toby Keith records, spend hours in line to buy a chicken sandwich and pay $30 for a screen-printed nylon American flag that was printed in China and cost about 2¢ to manufacture.

It's a very odd world we live in.

Well said....I believe you deserve the right to marriage equality.....but I ain't buyin' no damn Lady Gaga single...or album....or video :nono:

Prince Of Dorkness

tybird wrote:

I ain't buyin' no damn Lady Gaga single...or album....or video :nono:

Then the terrorists have won.
:(

norm

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

Why is there a guy dressed as a cow at Hollywood and Highland singing "God Bless America?"

because the the dude in the jack sparrow costume took the day off...he has a call back for an episode of icarly

hedonist

Maybe you'll find some light amidst the grey.

Not too difficult to see, and definitely much in this place.

(not all over, but have seen it here, in spades; just have to be willing to look)

usamamasan1

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

What did I miss?

No, please tell what everyone outside of your production missed.
Please tell.

What what? In the ?

Prince Of Dorkness

I remember when Princess Diana died that the Elton John single released to raise money for charities got people lining up outside the store... we literally had little old ladies beating each other up in the store to buy copies of it. One woman bought a HUGE stack of them. Like... 50 or something.

I asked her what she was going to do with them and she didn't really know. Mumbled something about giving them "in Christmas cards or something." It was really odd. But people didn't really know any other way to express their sorrow that such a popular figure had died other than to buy more copies than the person next to them. Because doing something other than expressing feelings and emotions by spending money didn't really compute. We're not human anymore. We're consumers.

A lot like in George Lucas's dystopian THX-1138 that depicts a world where people work all day, buy plastic cubes with the money only to dispose of them when they get home. The voice they hear tells them to "buy something and be happy." So they do.

Now the voice they hear tells them "if you support traditional marriage, that means you have to oppose marriage that isn't traditional and if you oppose marriage that isn't traditional, show that by lining up for hours for the chance to buy as many chicken sandwiches as you can." Some people bought 50 sandwiches and gave them to homeless people, some said they went to every ChickFilla place they could drive to that day and waited in lines all day long to "show" their "support" for "traditional marriage."

And this doesn't seem to really strike many people as... odd.

:fp:

usamamasan1

Nope.

Prince Of Dorkness

usamamasan1 wrote:

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

What did I miss?

No, please tell what everyone outside of your production missed.
Please tell.

What what? In the ?

I was shooting a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial, if you must know.

how's that for irony?

usamamasan1

Nancy Pelosi is loyal to KFC. She's kind of a man.

Prince Of Dorkness

usamamasan1 wrote:

Nancy Pelosi is loyal to KFC. She's kind of a man.

more of one than YOU'll ever be, anyway.

usamamasan1

Sounds like a personal attack. Let's be real, you don't get paid by YUM.

Yummy

Prince Of Dorkness

usamamasan1 wrote:

Sounds like a personal attack. Let's be real, you don't get paid by YUM.

Yummy

only if you consider telling someone that they're a man is an insult.

I have no idea what "yum" is. I get paid by whomever hires me to produce content for them.

brianlux

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

usamamasan1 wrote:

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

What did I miss?

No, please tell what everyone outside of your production missed.
Please tell.

What what? In the ?

I was shooting a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial, if you must know.

how's that for irony?

I wish you'd being shooting at KFC 8 months ago on the day I fell and hit the back of my head at KFC and received my concussion. They'd get to see the proof on film and I'd have more than migraines and dizziness to show for it. :(

Well, at least I hope you filmed something finger lickin'

YUM, but the way is the company that owns KFC and a bunch of other fast food chains.

Prince Of Dorkness

brianlux wrote:

I wish you'd being shooting at KFC 8 months ago on the day I fell and hit the back of my head at KFC and received my concussion. They'd get to see the proof on film and I'd have more than migraines and dizziness to show for it. :(

Haha... well, commercials are shot in a studio on a sound stage, not at a real restaurant. Those have... the kind of people who'd go to a fast food restaurant in them. And ew. But the moral of the story is be a vegan and you'll never have to admit that you slipped in a grease spill on the floor of a KFC.

Well, at least I hope you filmed something finger lickin'

Now now... I have more than one... um... ok yeah, I guess that's fair.

YUM, but the way is the company that owns KFC and a bunch of other fast food chains.

Yeah, I Googled that. But of course when you produce stuff like that, you don't actually work directly for the company but are sub-contracted by the ad agency that they hired. And often you're hired by the unit producer who's hired by the ad agency that's hired by the marketing firm that's hired by the company.

So I guess no matter what the gig, it always ends in a big clusterfuk.

brianlux

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

brianlux wrote:

I wish you'd being shooting at KFC 8 months ago on the day I fell and hit the back of my head at KFC and received my concussion. They'd get to see the proof on film and I'd have more than migraines and dizziness to show for it. :(

Haha... well, commercials are shot in a studio on a sound stage, not at a real restaurant. Those have... the kind of people who'd go to a fast food restaurant in them. And ew. But the moral of the story is be a vegan and you'll never have to admit that you slipped in a grease spill on the floor of a KFC.

Well, at least I hope you filmed something finger lickin'

Now now... I have more than one... um... ok yeah, I guess that's fair.

YUM, but the way is the company that owns KFC and a bunch of other fast food chains.

Yeah, I Googled that. But of course when you produce stuff like that, you don't actually work directly for the company but are sub-contracted by the ad agency that they hired. And often you're hired by the unit producer who's hired by the ad agency that's hired by the marketing firm that's hired by the company.

So I guess no matter what the gig, it always ends in a big clusterfuk.

The irony, I rarely eat that kind of crap. It was the end of a long day returning from a visit to see my dad and aliens invaded my brain and made me eat road kill. NO MORE!

Sound like yer, um, expanding your repertoire, Prince.

Prince Of Dorkness

brianlux wrote:

The irony, I rarely eat that kind of crap. It was the end of a long day returning from a visit to see my dad and aliens invaded my brain and made me eat road kill. NO MORE!

The gods have smote you.

brianlux wrote:

Sound like yer, um, expanding your repertoire, Prince.

I'll let you know when I've done a tampon commercial.

catefrances

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

I'll let you know when I've done a tampon commercial.

can not wait to see you frolic whilst wearing white shorts without a care in the world... cause you know so long as us gals have the right tampon our world is so balanced and carefree.