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Henry Plainview 
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 Topic: Would you sell out?
Posted: December 18 2009 at 12:32 |
You are listening to Lark's Tongues in Aspic at 2pm on a Wednesday, and the phone rings. You do not hear it, but after it's done you play the message, and you hear a bright voice say, "Heeeeeeeeey [Your Name]! This Miley Cyrus! I was talking to my, like, best friend Henry Plainview, and he says you're, like, the best [your instrument] player in, like, the whole freaking world! Since he's never wrong, I want to make you, like, an offer. I want you to play with me on a Christmas album! Then we can go on tour! It'll be, like, so aweeeeeeeeeesome! Of course, since I know you're going to, like, be making all kinds of artistic contributions, we'll split the profit from the album and tour 50/50. Call me back babe! My cell is, like, 555-555-5555"
You are stunned and are surprised that Miley Cyrus got your number, since the only person you've called in the past six months is Pizza Hut. What do you do next?
Edited by Henry Plainview - December 18 2009 at 12:33
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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The T
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 12:36 |
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Epignosis
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 12:36 |
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Without question.
And when a person makes fun of me for selling out, I'll buy another case of the good stuff, turn up Judge Judy, and bring in the virgins to wax my loins.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 12:46 |
I wouldn't classify it as selling out though, just diversifying a little.  And, oh yeah, there is the money thing. I could use some.
Edited by Slartibartfast - December 18 2009 at 12:47
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 12:52 |
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I can think of few greater honors that to be merely in the presence of, let alone collaborating with the genius mind that has given humanity the gift of Party in the USA.
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 12:54 |
Definitely YES to this scenario. I'll be playing Lark's Tongues on Wednesday, she'd better call or I'm coming for you Henry Plainview! 
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Negoba
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 13:04 |
No...but I have a family.
I actually like my day job and my family life, and my little gig where I play at most a gig a month and do my own thing for the most part. Music is pleasure for me, and I've seen what it's like when it's work. It is HARD work.
But I would probably turn it down even if Mikael Akerfeldt called too.
I'm an old fuddy-duddy.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Negoba
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 13:05 |
 Epignosis wrote:
Without question.
And when a person makes fun of me for selling out, I'll buy another case of the good stuff, turn up Judge Judy, and bring in the virgins to wax my loins.
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How does one remain a virgin while waxing loins?
Also you owe me brain bleach for putting Judge Judy and that image in the same sentence.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Trademark
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 13:16 |
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Only if I get to have my hair like her achy breaky papa did. Business in the front....
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CPicard
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 13:33 |
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I would not.
I don't know anything about the music of this little girl and, since I have a 9 to 5 job with an average pay, I'm not in a hurry to win thousands and thousands of dollars.
Plus, I'm considering a dilemma: joining a jazz-rock drummer, a prog-metal band, a thrash-metal guitarist or trying to release my own CD-R?
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Epignosis
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 13:39 |
Negoba wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Without question.
And when a person makes fun of me for selling out, I'll buy another case of the good stuff, turn up Judge Judy, and bring in the virgins to wax my loins.
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How does one remain a virgin while waxing loins?
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Don't ask me! I'm just the super!
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Dean
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 13:41 |
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No. Not a hope. Can you imaging having to put up with that inane prattle all the time on the tour bus and in rehearsals. She simply does not have enough money to pay me to listen. I'd rather gouge my ears off with a blunt spoon.
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What?
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Epignosis
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 13:43 |
Dean wrote:
No. Not a hope. Can you imaging having to put up with that inane prattle all the time on the tour bus and in rehearsals. She simply does not have enough money to pay me to listen. I'd rather gouge my ears off with a blunt spoon. |
Hell, Dean...I could either put up with that and make a fortune or stay home and put up with it for free.
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SaltyJon
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 14:43 |
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 14:43 |
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I don't really see how it's selling out. Would I take an easy job that pays lots of money? Yes in half a second.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Ricochet
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 14:46 |
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Close to not even being tempted.
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A Person
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 14:46 |
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It would be incredibly hard to put up with, but also very much worth it.
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Tarquin Underspoon
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 17:40 |
Well let's clarify something here.
Is this a permanent gig as Miley's guitarist? For a long time, anyway? No way. No way I'm doing that.
You need me in the studio for, say, 2 months, on the road for a few months more? Yeah, I'd do it, get paid, and go back to listening to Larks' Tongues when I get home (on considerably better speakers, at that).
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"WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!"
-The Great Gig in the Sky
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Trademark
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 17:45 |
" I don't really see how it's selling out. Would I take an easy job that pays lots of money? Yes in half a second. "
Spoken like a true music major. Never turn down a gig or a free meal.
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zappaholic
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Posted: December 18 2009 at 20:32 |
I'd figure it was a prank call, and I'd ignore it.
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