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camrogers ([personal profile] camrogers) wrote2010-01-10 01:58 am

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So I'm sitting here listening to Fear Factory and doing pro bono copy work for an accountant in Helsinki as CV filler. It's less boring than what I currently do for a wage, and more boring than doing something else.*

John Cusack and Tim Robbins starred - early in their careers - in a movie called Tapeheads directed by ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith. It could almost have been a Savage Steve Holland flick. It took the same comedic liberties with reality that Better Off Dead did (and featured uncredited cameos by a tonne of people, like Stiv Bators and Weird Al Yankovic.). There's a scene early on where they're on the roof of their apartment at dawn, when Robbins suggests going into business for themselves as low-budget video entrepreneurs. He described the idea as "Do what you gotta so you can do what you wanna." I never forgot it.

Doing work like this puts me in good company. At some point all the greats did this.

You never see a starship captain use the bog.



*: Brought to you by my need to do something else.

[identity profile] flemco.livejournal.com 2010-01-09 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you bring a digital camera? I'd love to see photos of what's going on.

[identity profile] patchworkkid.livejournal.com 2010-01-09 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, hang on. Crossed wires. I'm still in Melbourne, but have started doing work for people over there in advance of the move. I'll be heading over anytime between now and mid-April.

[identity profile] flemco.livejournal.com 2010-01-09 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
AH! Okay.

[identity profile] greylock.livejournal.com 2010-01-10 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
You never see a starship captain use the bog.

I think you did in Quark.

[identity profile] patchworkkid.livejournal.com 2010-01-10 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
And Firefly, technically. Sorta.

[identity profile] greylock.livejournal.com 2010-01-10 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
You know, part of me things one of the later Star Trek movies (or Enterprise?) carried a toilet gag too.

[identity profile] patchworkkid.livejournal.com 2010-01-10 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
I wonder if any of those official Enterprise blueprints you see around the place contain any mention of a head?

[identity profile] greylock.livejournal.com 2010-01-10 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
I am saddened I (almost) recalled the registation number of the original Enterprise.

I am unsurprised I found this: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Toilet

[identity profile] patchworkkid.livejournal.com 2010-01-10 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Gah.