Anyway, there are a few circumstances where it would be good to be famous, even if one wasn't necessarily rich. One that comes to mind right away would be crowd surfing in a giant plastic bubble as Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips does here:
Unfortunately, I didn't take this picture, a girl I know did. I've never seen The Flaming Lips perform live, but I hear that they put on an awesome show. I told her that I was jealous of her for getting to see them in concert, and that I'd really like to crowd surf in a giant bubble, but alas, I don't have the fan base for it. She offered to be my fan base, but crowd surfing by definition requires more than one person (hence, the reason why fame would be beneficial). When I pointed that out to her, she came up with the following:"I have a solution. It involves lots of drugs and alcohol. But I promise it'll give you the illusion of having a fan base!! And when you crowd surf into that group of 5 yr olds at the zoo, having the "I was high" defense will be totally valid."
Now I just need to get my hands on one of them plastic bubbles.
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Please note, I do speak English, I just wrote that last line in the way that one of my favorite radio DJs would speak.
For example, a few years ago they were talking about how someone had opened a store in downtown Salt Lake City, and called it the Flag 'n Snack Shop. It probably wasn't a terrible idea since there are about 400 gazillion mormons that come through there on an annual basis, and most of them have served missions and love to buy flags to prove it, but the name, while descriptive, just doesn't seem right (how's that for a run-on sentence?).
One of the DJs said "Yeah, um, gimme one of them Turkish flags and a moon pie."
I miss Radio From Hell (X96 - Salt Lake City).
Oh I miss Radio From Hell!!!!!
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It seems appropriate to have Radio From Hell while you are Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell. But why does that Bill guy always talk so much about what he has for dinner and then ask people to email him porn? Actually, I rarely hear the show. It's on during my prime sleeping hours.
I don't know for sure how it started, but I bet it had something to do with him getting free meals at restaurants in exchange for Bill mentioning them on the air as a sponsor for that day's news.
I can't remember it exactly, but one of my favorite ones went something like this:
Bill Allred: Today's news has been brought to you by a fifth of vodka on the floor of my living room.
Kerry Jackson: God you're pathetic.
FLAMING LIPS OMG!!
Bill has it right. Dinner and porn. What more could you want?!
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