Funny (and a little sad) that so few noticed that a helecopter can't stay in the air for hours on end without refueling, and the air time woud be shortened further by the tens of thousands of pounds of "hotel" equipment. The true maximum unladen (without hotel rooms) range of the hotelicopter would be only 310 miles, or about 1 hour 10 min, barely enough time to join the mile high club!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'fat, chick, ping pong' to 'fat, chick, ping pong, hotel room, fetish porn' - edited by joedirt

So *Asian yet *British.

I've done the EasyHotel in the UK, which is a full room using the same concept - it's tiny as heck - but, like I said, you still have something resembling a full-on room though. Basement hotel room though - freakish.

I daresay this is a weird thing to celebrate in song, though: a young woman getting way too drunk at the club. She's so wasted she's lost her keys and phone, isn't sure where she is, and only knows her shirt's been off because it's on inside-out now. Then she adds that despite all this it'll be alright; just dance.

My new roommate told me about a friend of hers who had a similar night, then woke up alone in a hotel room an hour's drive from Montreal. The police determined she'd been drugged and raped by two different men, presumably the ones she had met at the club the night before.

/killjoy

From his website:
Yamaha SLG-100NW

This is called "Silent Guitar". I use this for late night or hotel room practicing. It has a standard phone jack and a mini stereo head phone jack. Two levels of reverb can be applied to the output sound. Operate with 9V battery or with AC adapter. The bottom half of the frame is de-touchable for easy carrying. Acoutic sound is weak but it's there.

//-- The Load Out -- //
Now the seats are all empty
Let the roadies take the stage
Pack it up and tear it down
They're the first to come and the last to leave
Working for that minimum wage
They'll set it up in another town
Tonight the people were so fine
They waited there in line
And when they got up on their feet they made the show
And that was sweet but I can hear the sound
Of slamming doors and folding chairs
And that's a sound they'll never know
Now roll them cases out and lift them amps
Haul them trusses down and get'em up them ramps
'Cause when it comes to moving me
You know you guys are the champs
But when that last guitar's been packed away
You know I still want to play
So just make sure you got it all set to go
Before you come for this piano

But the band's on the bus
And they're waiting to go
We've got to drive all night and do a show in Chicago
or Detroit, I don't know
We do so many shows in a row
And these towns all look the same
We just pass the time in our hotel rooms
And wander 'round backstage
Till those lights come up and we hear that crowd
And we remember why we came

Now we got country and western on the bus, R&B
We got disco in eight tracks and cassettes in stereo
And we've got rural scenes & magazines
We've got truckers on the CB
We've got Richard Pryor on the video
And we got time to think of the ones we love
While the miles roll away
But the only time that seems too short
Is the time that we get to play
People you've got the power over what we do
You can sit there and wait or you can pull us through
Come along, sing the song
You know that you can't go wrong
'Cause when that morning sun comes beating down
You're going to wake up in your town
But we'll be scheduled to appear
A thousand miles away from here

// -- Stay -- //
People stay just a little bit longer
We want to play just a little bit longer
Now the promoter don't mind
And the union don't mind
If we take a little time
And we leave it all behind and sing
One more song
I want you stay just a little bit longer
Please, please, please
Say you will, say you will

Considering all the Jesus signs, giant crosses, door to door missionaries, pamphlets, guys handing out the new testament at bus stops/ in front of public schools, bibles in hotel rooms, scare tactics most of us put up with as children, and pressure many of us face from family memebers(especially during the holidays) a sign on a bus pales in comparison.

Those guys are douche bags, and they have their numbers wrong. Last time I checked in the US, 75% is christian, 10% of the remaining is non religious.

Wish I could make it. I will be in DC on election night at a conference, and depending on who wins (either way) it should be interesting just trying to get back to the hotel room safely, what with all the vitriol these past few weeks.

Anyone else going to be in the Capital around that time for a mini Sift-up?

Launched his campaign in a hotel room in Illinois.
Not bills living room.

Why do these assholes keep pushing that line when its a downright lie ?
Its not even a half-truth, its total bullshit. Complete fabrication.

Come in, come in
Come into my world I've got to show
Show show you
Come into my bed
I've got to know
Know know you

I have dreams of orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my
You will never be my fool
Will never be my fool

Floaters in my eyes
Wake up in an hotel room
Cigarettes and lies
I am a child, it's too soon

I have dreams of orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my
You will never be my fool
Will never be my fool

A little bag of cocaine
A little bag of cocaine
So who's the girl wearing my dress
I figured out her number
Inside a paper napkin
But I don't know her address I wade downstairs

The porter smiles to me a smile
I've bought
With a couple of gold coins
A sign that I've been caught

I have dreams of orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my
You will never be my dear
Will never be my dear, dear friend
Dear dear friend, dear dear friend...

A little bag of cocaine
A little bag of cocaine
So who's the girl wearing my dress
I figured out her number
Inside a paper napkin
But I don't know her address

Come in, come in
Come into my world I've got to show
Show show you
Come into my bed
I've got to know
Know know you

I have dreams of orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my
You will never be my dear
Will never be my dear, dear friend
Dear dear friend, dear dear friend...

>> ^Sagemind:
It seems she was paid well for this commercial, why else would she do it.



She got fired from her previous job when the country she is from stopped charging tariffs on toilet paper...

>> ^CamW:
I upvoted and now I feel dirty.


go and lick your toilet as penace....

As soon as the song "Echoes" is played and the "Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite" title card pops up, a ping will sound. This pinging sound will ring once every few seconds for the first 1:20 or so. The music will slowly start to fade in after ten seconds or so. It is very eerie-sounding - as synthesizers slowly build, and eventually a mellow, slow guitar riff comes into play.

As all this psychedellic, mellow music builds up the images on the screen are of the monolith floating around in space while the outstanding special effects show the planets in the background. The sense of limitless space is evident, and the music only enhances that feeling.

LYRICS/IMAGES/INTERPRETATIONS:

The lyrics begin at 2:57. Here is a line-by-line breakdown and my own personal interpretations.

LYRICS: "Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air" IMAGE: The camera pans across the vast space background. INTERPRETATION: Obviously the albatross represents the monolith - which is, as the song says, hanging motionless.

LYRICS: "And deep beneath the rolling waves/In labyrinths of coral caves/The echo of a distant time/Comes willowing across the sand" IMAGES: The monolith continues to float around in space as the camera pans towards the Discovery ship. INTERPRETATION: The references to the ocean might be a comparison of the vastness of the ocean and the even more vastness of space. "The echo of a distant time" might refer to the monolith - as we know the monoliths have been appearing to Earthlings since evolutionary times. "Willowing across the sand" seems to symbolize the tiny little spaceship slithering across the vastness of space like a worm through sand.

LYRICS: "And Everything is green and submarine" IMAGE: The Discovery. INTERPRETATION: "submarine" is obviously the spaceship Discovery - as a submarine explores the water, this machine explores space.

LYRICS: "And no one showed us to the land/And no on knows the where or whys" IMAGE: images of the monolith and Bowman's pod heading for it. INTERPRETATION: The lines might be something that the humans who discovered the monolith might say - "whoever put these monoliths here didn't tell us why, but we're figuring it out."

LYRICS: "But something stirs and something tries/And starts to climb towards the light" IMAGES: The monolith flying upward while the camera pans over to the Discovery. INTERPRETATION: Could mean two things simultaneously: 1) The monolith (not sure what it is, which is why it is referred to as "something") begins to gain momentum and moves from the bottom of the screen to top, and continues to move. The light it's moving to might be the light show that soon occurs. 2)Symbolic of how insignificant Bowman and his pod is (just "something"), and it is heading towards the monolith - as a subject might approach its savior and/or like a moth to a lightbulb.

LYRICS: "Strangers passing in the street/By chance two seperate glances meet/And I am you and what I see is me" IMAGE: Bowman's pod heading straight towards the camera. INTERPRETATION: The monolith and Bowman might be the two strangers who have just happened to run into each other. There's so many people in the world that the huge population and all the individual traits each person has might be compared with the vastness of space. "And I am you..." - I'm positive this is a reference to the later section of the film in which Bowman sees himself as an old man in the "hotel room," however, I believe that somehow this second verse was switched with the fifth verse. The "Through the window... a million bright ambassadors" lines would seem more appropriate at this time. Either way, this still is a thoughful, poetic line.

LYRICS: "And do I take you by the hand/And lead you through the land/And help me understand the best I can" IMAGE: The monolith disappears. INTERPRETATION: "Take you by the hand" - what the monolith might be saying to Bowman - to take him on a tour of the monolith's home land. "And help me understand...." what both the monolith and Bowman might say to each other - to learn more about each other. As Bowman was sent to study the monolith, the monolith is a tool to study Earth and its people.

LYRICS: "And no one calls us to move on/And no one forces down our eyes/And no one speaks and no one tries/And no one flies around the sun" IMAGE: The camera pans up and the light show begins just as the last word of the last line is sung. INTERPRETATION: "no one calls us to move on... forces down our eyes" - sounds like something two children might say who are so excitied about something and can't stop doing what they're doing (as Bowman and the monolith are about to embark on a fantastic journey). "no one tries.... no one flies around the sun" - open to interpretation, could mean just about anything.

Singing ends for the time being as the music becomes more mellow as the light show continues. The sound of the music seems to perfectly match the mood the lightshow induces - exactly like any other movie uses a pop song during any kind of montage.

At the 7 minute point the music changes and becomes driven by organs and drums, just as the light show becomes a series of starry images - the swirling galaxies, the images that look like embryos, the dancing diamonds. The music continues to match the images and mood on-screen until....

At the 10:30 point the music fades out and an extremely eerie, freaky sequence of sound effects is faded in. This transition occurrs as the transitition on the screen is made from the starry images to the ultraviolet images of the alien planet. The sound is no longer rock, but strictly psychedellic, much like the "eeeee"- choir-sung sound on the film's actual soundtrack. Some of the background sounds on the CD seem to synch with the images on screen such as wind, waves crashing, and seagulls as we are shown what looks like the alien planet's ocean.

The eerie sonic sequence lasts until 14:20 when Bowman finds himself in the bizarre "hotel room." The music starts to fade out as synthesizers slowly start to build in the background. It is at this time that Bowman begins to slowly walk around and try to figure out where he is. The sound and music continues to build and the eerie sequence fades out. The pinging noise also occurs. The music comes to a climax around 17:06 when Bowman sees himself in the other room as an old man eating.

At 18:00 Bowman gets out of the chair and looks around. At 18:14 the guitars kick back in as he turns around and returns to the table.

At 19:11 the lyrics come back.

LYRICS: "Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes/Inviting and inciting me to rise" IMAGE: Bowman walks from the door to the table. INTERPRETATION: This might be something Bowman, as an old man, might be thinking. Perhaps he has been stuck in that room for decades as the aliens' guinea pig?

LYRICS: "And through the window in the wall/Come streaming in on sunlight wings/A million bright ambassadors of morning" IMAGE: Bowman sits down at the table. INTERPRETATION: I believe all three lines refer to the rays of light which brough Bowman from our reality to the reality he is in now. It is possible this entire verse was switched with the second verse.

LYRICS: "And no one sings me lullabies/And no one makes me close my eyes/And so I throw the windows wide/And call to you across the sky" IMAGE: Bowman eats his meal. INTERPRETATION: "lullabies" and "close my eyes" might be something Bowman would say since it seems he has been alone for years in just a few seconds. The latter two lines might refer to the monolith - calling to it to do something.

Music continues much like it did during the light show sequence. At 21:18 the music quickly fades out just as the old, dying Bowman points to the monolith in front of him. The music at this point is keyboard-driven, very mellow - as if someone was trying to put somene to sleep (i.e. Bowman dying).

At 22:10 a strange sound, like a jet engine in the distant, starts to fade in, along with the pinging sound again. The image on screen is of the embryonic Bowman. Eventually the music fades out to just the eerie sound effects as the "Star Child" looks at the camera.

Both the song and the movie then end AT THE EXACT SAME TIME.

Credits/Thanks:
Chad Polenz

Elope with me Miss Private and we'll sail around the world
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
Oh elope with me in private and we'll set something ablaze
A trail for the devil to erase

San Francisco's calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?
We hung about the stadium, we've got no place to stay
We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell
About the saddest book you ever read
that always makes you cry
The statue's crying too and well he may

I love you I've a drowning grip on your adoring face
I love you my responsibility has found a place
Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words
Come wave upon me from the family wider net absurd
"You'll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job"
Maybe, but not what she deserves

Elope with me Miss Private and we'll drink ourselves awake
We'll taste the coffee houses and award certificates
A privy seal to keep the feel of 1960 style
We'll comment on the decor and we'll help the passer by
And at dusk when work is over we'll continue the debate
In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare

The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day
The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays
He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor
He knows the drink affects his speed he's praying for
a doorway
Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench
Life outside the diamond is a wrench

I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend
I know it wouldn't come to love, my heroine pretend
A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day
You'd settle for an epitaph like "Walk Away, Renee"
The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like a flower
Meet you at the statue in an hour
Meet you at the statue in an hour

>> ^dag:
Who's up for a bit of late night god talk - promote.
I'm not calling Mormons dumb - I've met some very sharp Saints. Anyone who calls a religious follower dumb, doesn't get it. Religious faith is not an intellectual exercise - there's no connection. Sure you could say that intellectuals and scientists are more likely to be atheists - but I would venture that this is because they are living much more within the natural world of math, biology and physics and less in the philosophical realm.
So, while I don't find the followers of mormonism "dumb", may I at least say that the tenants of Mormonism seem a bit far-fetched? Beyond all the plates and seeing stones- I find the religion built on very shaky foundations. J Smith was a first rate showman, polygamist and philanderer but hardly a prophet of god - unless you mean in the Jimmy Swaggart model.


Yes, they can seem extremely far-fetched. I admit that whole-heartedly. I just think that if people really invested some intelligent and unbiased thought into the whole deal, they would be surprised by how logical it can be. I agree with Safran when he said that he doesn't believe that Mormonism is any LESS logical than other religions. That is the primary point I'm trying to make. Don't single poor Mormons out. They are severely misunderstood, and perhaps people take for granted just how grounded other Christian faiths are. They can get pretty darn nutty, if you ask me. Often nuttier, more sheep-like, meaner, and less apt to follow the teachings of Christ than Mormons, in my opinion.

Views about Joseph Smith are hard to form objectively. We didn't know the guy. I think philanderer is probably the most innapropriate term for him that you used, but that's just my opinion.

Mind if I rant about polygamy for a while? No? Thanks!

I think that to view polygamy as some kind of twisted sex game as a rule is ignorant at best. Ethnocentric, too. As a woman, I am deeply abhorred by it at times, but when I really try to think about it with an open mind, I am surprised by what I find. And I'm a feminist, if you can believe that. And if you read early accounts of it among Mormons, you might be surprised by what you find. People jump to conclusions about Smith quite easily when they hear "polygamy".

This is a hard topic to discuss in light of what just happened with those TOTALLY NOT MORMONS in Texas. That is polygamy at its worst.

I heard this guy on the radio years ago and he made a point that made me laugh and ultimately think about polygamy differently. He said that people have less and less of a problem with infidelity these days, and polygamy isn't much different except that you're married to the women, and your wife gives her permission. I don't agree with him, and I think infidelity is disgusting, but there you have it.

If you study ethics and philosophy, there is this concept that I agree with. I can't remember the name of it. Whether or not something seems wrong to you, it should not be against the law if it does not hurt anyone (increases the happiness in the world) and is done between consenting adults. If two men and a woman go into a hotel room and all three of them come out smiling, what difference does it make what happened in there as far as the law is concerned? Now, in the case of this polygamist colony, abuse was occuring. But in the case of the early Mormon church, polygamy was HIGHLY exclusive, monitored, and to my knowledge everyone was perfectly happy and the families were functional. Often the women were widowed and needed support. Or they had no marriage prospects. So, what's the big problem? Well educated and dedicated Mormons don't even try to distance themselves from polygamy like some do. That's because there isn't anything wrong with it if it's done for the right reasons. If a guy is just horny and wants sex slaves, it's obviously immoral. But if he is just trying to do what he thinks is right and treats his wives and children well, more power to him, I say. Mormons actually only discontinued it because the U.S. government started imprisoning, fining, and otherwise abusing church members. A dark chapter in the history of famous U.S. "religious tolerance", in my opinion.

I might be crazy, but at least I'm open-minded-ish?