Guilty Pleasures

[Torm]

Another of my guilty pleasures: all of the really cheesy 80's cartoons.

Punky Brewster, Rubik's Cube, C.O.P.S., Turbo Teen, Kidd Video, and most especially,

JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS

"Show's over, Synergy."

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

Yeah..I used to hear about all these on Art Bell, and another conspiracy nut show...hosted by a guy named Jeff Rense (sp?). Bell doesn't necessarily seem to believe the stuff, but allows a forum for people to voice their theories. Rense gives the impression he believes every word.

I wish there was someone like that here in the UK... heard about Art Bell from a book called 'The men who stare at goats' - which is a great conspiracy book (and nothing to do with what die_kluge was talking about. ).

Do they make for fun listening?

Jeff Rense sounds amusing. Does his attitude get them to open up a little more?

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS

[singing] Jem - Jem is excitement... Oooooo Jem! Fashion and glitter fortune and fame! JEM! Truly outrageous, truly truly truly outrageous! [/singing] (I could go on, but choose not to).

 

[der_kluge]

I once talked to this prospective roommate on the phone, and he started going off about how Motorola had all these satellites in space to track when people entered through those microwave detectors at the Wal-Mart, so they could track our every movement.

When he started asking what size shoe I wore, it got even weirder. Needless to say, I never bothered to meet him.

 

[Torm]

[singing] Jem - Jem is excitement... Oooooo Jem! Fashion and glitter fortune and fame! JEM! Truly outrageous, truly truly truly outrageous! [/singing] (I could go on, but choose not to).

[singing] We are The Misfits - our songs are better. We are the Misfits, the Misfits - and we're gonna get her! [/singing]

I've even gone so far as to do a little work on a script for a live action Jem movie. I envision Hilary and Haylie Duff playing Jerrica (Jem) and Kimber, and Shania Twain playing Pizzazz.

 

[Joker]

Yeah, nothing like some hot donkey on chipmunk action.

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

I once talked to this prospective roommate on the phone, and he started going off about how Motorola had all these satellites in space to track when people entered through those microwave detectors at the Wal-Mart, so they could track our every movement.

When he started asking what size shoe I wore, it got even weirder. Needless to say, I never bothered to meet him.

That's one I've not heard before. Imaginative and fairly inventive... by that I mean the Wal-Mart motorola connection, not the 'people are spying on me' angle.

It could do with the involvement of a secretive worldwide powergroup: the Bilderberg group, Illuminati or grey aliens would seem strong candidates.

Overall, I give him 4 out of a possible 5 tinfoil hats.


Shoe size obsession is pretty weird... did he go into why he wanted to know that?

Anyway, these kind of people are much more fun at a safe distance, not sure sharing a house would be quite as amusing.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

[singing] We are The Misfits - our songs are better. We are the Misfits, the Misfits - and we're gonna get her! [/singing]

I've even gone so far as to do a little work on a script for a live action Jem movie. I envision Hilary and Haylie Duff playing Jerrica (Jem) and Kimber, and Shania Twain playing Pizzazz.

I can see it... I also know of about a million screaming girls in my age range that would pay millions upon millions of dollars to see that film (and drag our husbands/boyfriends along with us). *dreamy sigh*

[singing] Music's contagious - outrageous - Jem is my name... no one else is the same. Jem is my name!!! [/singing] ... I have the Mp3 around here somewhere... along with the Rainbow Brite theme... ahhh, childhood.

 

[HellHound]

Jem and the Holograms is -NOT- a guilty pleasure.

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I am a pretty well known CyberPunk DM and resource-guy. Here's a plot for a CyberPunk RockerBoy campaign that I wrote up about six years ago:

Raised on the streets Rockerboy plays a few gigs and then discovers that his father was the founder of a major media company, and since dad just died of VERY mysterious circumstances, RockerBoy is now the co-owner of this label.

Rockerboy goes on to record new material with the media corp he owns, makes enemies of the existing staff and stars, and discovers tha there is a rogue AI in the company that is on his side and who thinks his father was killed by someone on the inside.

Insert several adventures about competing with the existing stars and up and comers in the label, with the help of the AI on his side...

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It's totally CyberPunk - the least human characters are the corp execs who are trying to milk the company and the bands for money, treating people as commodities, while true compassion and humanity can be found in the machine AI of Synergy.

 

[griff_goodbeard]

Charmed. Watched it initially because I'm in love with Alyssa Milano, and now I'm hooked.