Sunday, August 11, 2019

556 - "I've Gotta Have More Slap Bass", "A Santorum Says What?", Fly Totem, Who Would Kill As Batman?

[3:19 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
I had a dream that was apparently significant enough (at the time) i woke up and jotted it down in my phone
I was walking up (street) towards the water tower. Somewhere up there i went into a house and Metallica was in there practicing and let me jam with them.  I had a bass with me and started playing along, but they got mad at me because their bass player was already there and i kept doing slap bass to differentiate from the other guy
[3:20 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Sorry I thought this was Red Hot Chili Peppers, my bad.”
[3:20 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
lol
End of dream
They were basically booing me while they were playing themselves
In hindsight i didn't need to write it down
[3:23 PM] 
[3:23 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
ra ra re re mix
slap slap slap   take me to the other side
slap slap slap slap
I'm going to put my RHCP CD in when I get in the car later
Enter Sandman with slap base would be awesome



[10:27 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
[10:38 AM] 
2 weeks from now, Trump will give the infamous "Mostik" speech.
(...Nixon joke...)
"All I'm keeping from Putin is this little cat..."



[10:46 AM] 
Honestly, if I was this guy, I would have changed my name and moved somewhere quiet and anonymous years ago.  I certainly would NEVER go where anyone could ask me questions and record my answers. - https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/watch-rick-santorum-falls-apart-trying-defend-trump-slurring-immigrants-animals/
[10:47 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Santorum apparently graduated from Butler?
[10:48 AM] 
He's been a guaranteed fool for any interviewer for...a decade or more?
[10:48 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
And nobody around there even gives a shit... He's unpopular even in his deep-red hometown
[10:49 AM] 
He really has to be incredibly stupid. 
The politics version of Brick from “Anchorman”
Looks Ok in a suit and can talk, so seeks out cameras
An American Monty Python twit-in-suit recurring character
[10:50 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
i think the media thinks "ahh this guy can connect with middle America conservatives" but nobody likes him
[10:54 AM] 
"Mr. Santorum...a-sphincter says...what?" 
"Oh!  I love that joke.  Ok.  'What?'"
"(baffled) Yeah... so... A sphincter...says...'what'?"
"Ha ha!  Funny every time.  Ok!  'What?'."
"Nevermind... I'll ask you about Trump."
"Hehe  'What?' about him?"



[1:39 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Scout crisis averted - we are going only for the day on Saturday
yay!
lol
Less stress
[1:42 PM] 
Yes!
"Today we're going to teach you haw to make an umbrella out of dandelions and sticks."
"That's impossible!"
(hands Den Leader badge)  "Good job."
[1:46 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
I look at it this way – 7 year olds wouldn't pay attention long enough to teach them anything good about camping in bad weather
All they care about is when can I cook a hot dog and eat marshmallows
When they are Weblo age then I think we can do something like that
[1:47 PM] 
"Welcome to Campout of the Flies, boys!" 
(rolls up window...drives away...)
[1:59 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Come back a week later
See the head of a pig on stick, not sure where it came from
Suddenly wooden spears come flying out of the woods at you
[2:13 PM] 
Hehe
[2:14 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
I read that book in school. Not sure i remember all of it though
[2:15 PM] 
It's not pleasant. 
Take a bunch of boys of varying emotional intelligence.  Add one dork with shaman powers and PTSD...
Shake well
I suppose as a shaman myself, I have to caveat that last bit with "add one dork who has shamanic abilities he doesn't understand and he freaks people out."
I have doubts the author intended it to come off like that.
(spirit guides) "Simon, if you don't do something, this situation is going to become complete Hell.  We've led you to this place to give you guidance and visions of what will happen so-"
"AUGH!!! The LORD of the FLIES TALKS to me!"
(spirits) “Simon, it's just --”
AUGH!!! The BEASTIE!!!”
(spirits) "SIMON IT'S JUST A DEAD GUY! CALM DOWN!"



[9:06 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
So I was thinking about how awesome Michael Keaton's Batman fighting is
He can't move his head, so its all rigid
[9:06 AM] 
Like a knight in armor
[9:06 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
yep
Yet he can still kick their ass
lol
Moves head with shoulders
Which gave it a more powerful looking effect
[9:09 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
He kind of uses the rigidness to his advantage
It makes it look like he's aware of his peripheral and just doesn't *need* to look around
[9:10 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
yes
My favorite scene in the movie is when he goes crazy in front of the Joker
as Bruce when he uses the tray to protect himself
You wanna get nuts?”
LOL
[9:26 AM] 
I like the lean in and whisper "I know who you are"
[9:26 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I forget, was he intentionally trying to provoke him so he could get shot and then fake death and then escape?
[9:27 AM] 
He was probably trying to give Vicki a chance to break for it but she didn't leave.
If Bob and Joker had turned to stop her Bruce woulda clocked them. But 10 feet away is 100 feet away into a point blank gun without a distraction.
[9:28 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
But as Bruce Wayne?
He can't go around beating up villains as BW even if he could
[9:28 AM] 
Respected community member?
Gold
He'd be a hero
He got credit for something heroic as plain Bruce in one of the other ones, i think.
[9:29 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
In Nolan's Batman he would either make sure nobody could see him as BW or if he was saving the day as BW he would pretend it was an accident
In the Dark Knight he crashed his Lamborghini into a police vehicle that was about to run into an ambush... but pretended he just ran a stop light because he was joy riding
[9:34 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Yes he is trying to keep this playboy rep as Bruce to have a good cover
like Psssh he could never be Batman
[9:34 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Gordon, pulling him out of the wreckage: "That's a very brave thing you did Mr. Wayne." "What's that, trying to catch the light?"
"You weren't protecting the van?"
"Why, who's in it?"
That was before Gordon knew he was Batman
[9:35 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Right
[9:35 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
That's an interesting element of Nolan's Batman that they didn't really do in others it seems. Bruce willing to tarnish himself and his family name for the sake of the city
or people in general
[9:35 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Nolan's was all about the blurring two sides thing
The Val Kilmer one was about him being crazy
Clooney was a good Bruce though the move sucked
[9:37 AM]  Mr. Blue:
I think he was a good Bruce but not a good Batman
[9:39 AM] 
Hard to imagine no one looking and saying "Oh, it's Bruce Wayne"
[9:40 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
If you were rebooting Batman, right now, starting with an origin story or at least a younger BW/Batman, who would you pick for a franchise?
[9:41 AM] 
So you're asking "What actor is both old enough to believe...fit enough to pull off both physical characters, and able to act well enough to fool people who wouldn't hear and see "Clooney" (for example) as both
Hmm, maybe Adam Driver?  Too on the nose?
[10:05 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Since Burton's Batman was also his most mainstream, studio-influenced film to that point, he probably had to dial down the violence and weirdness but then he dialed it back up in Batman Returns
[10:06 AM] 
Skipped right out on that "Batman doesn't kill" rule right away though
LOT a villains and shady folk died in those.
[10:10 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Batman " I don't kill, on purpose"
[10:11 AM] 
Yeeeeaaaahhhhh...I think he kinda did...
Don't forget the bombs in the Smilex factory
How many dozen techs and workers bought it there, to say nothing of the chemical spill damage
[10:12 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
heh
[10:13 AM] 
(finishes calculations...) "Yeah...I'm done with this.  Acceptable losses."  (Fires up the Batmobile and checks the I-Don't-Kill autocannons and bombs)
(tug of conscience...) "I could give them a warning to get out...   ...nah..."
[10:21 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
The irony would be that Batman's indiscriminate killings / maimings would keep creating new villains for him to defeat
Either the people he's beating up or maybe their kids or something
Some random guy gets his arms blown off in a Batman explosion.. doesn't die.. gets bionic arms.. vows revenge as The Claw or something
[10:23 AM] 
I was going to write a story like that a long time ago.  The successful disguised hero attracts people who want to beat him at his game. Crime escalates because of the hero's efforts.

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