Saturday, September 16, 2006

closing time.

i should be sleeping now. RAHRR.
but i've got this rush of inspiration all of the sudden so my butt is rooted to the seat again.
let's summarise today, it was mundane; same old, same old.
just that life is getting busier with the promos coming...

You know what? let's...let's not talk about my life right now. yea it's boring you wouldnt wanna hear it anyway, in this case read it. i've decided to break out of my shell, i'm feeling that my old self is back. (Ben and those who've read my 1st generation of posts will know what i mean) But nahh, it ain't going the overly-sarcastic and crazy(like really crazy) ideas anymore. wait, it would still be a tinnie-winnie dose of sarcasm but what the heck. haha those who read the posts this year would have Stan's-posts-are-emo-ish thoughts. well just to say today COULD be the day of days to kick start a brand new mood to my blog once again.

let's not waste time(though i already wasted 10 min typing those 2 paragraphs). this sudden rush of inspiration was due to a TV show i happened to stumble upon yesterday : Pimp My Ride. Yea, yea i know what some of you are thinking "oh this guy must've listened to mr. brown's podcasts etc. and elaborated on it etc. yakity yak." but my views are definitely my own.

Well for those who've watched the show before, or heard of it. It's like the EXTREME MAKEOVER for cars. It's about people sending in photos of how crappy and scrappy their vehicles(? am i even right to call those vehicles) are trying to get a black rapper to get their cars upgraded. I mean, like, most of the cars/vans/metal fitted with engines look like they're from the 1940s WW II era and they've just drove right through a mine field or something. You can see like the super rusty rims of the wheels(some cars don't even have rims), dented and scratched off paint marks of the body as if a 100kg cat used it as a yarnball etc. ; they look so bad, you would even think it's illegal to "drive" that on the road.

Every episode the vehicles look worst and worst. Some don't even have seats, the boot is filled with so much stuffs, they won't even know if you murdered someone and threw the corpse into the trunk. It's like, you might even suspect that these people would actually trash their cars on purpose to such a state where it could still be driven(they don't wreck the engine) yet still looks pathetic. Some cars don't even have doors for Heaven's sake.

So fast-forwarding, the rapper guy drives(he actually has the guts to) the "thing" back to a very unique and special tuning shop; and those mechanics, let's just call them guys, would always have the same reaction when the vehicle drives into the shop. The guys, somehow on cue, would display very surprised and depressed yet spastic looks on their faces, gasp and silently scream, "WHAT THE?" right in front of the cameras; as if those cars have no hope of even upgrading and tuning it. But the end product is always the same, but let's get there later.

anyways continuing from there, the guys would discuss what they would want to do with the piece of junk; i'm guessing that most of them would just want to turn it into scrap metal but they've got a show to do. the specific specialist will then tell the world they want to do this, want to add that, remove this, burn that etc. and they then get to work.

they would removed like 90% of what's left of the car when in the 1st place the car is left with 60% or less so you do the math. all you see left is the engine/batteries etc. the rest are like removed and gone. they make a new body for the car, throw in seats that look like they're from a private jet, add things you would never imagine they would put it in a vehicle. the COLOUR of the car is always so striking and weird; it's like i just take random cans of paint and pour it onto the car.

global tracking devices, ten 7-inch monitor around, under and in the car, gaming consoles, hot tubs(do they actually use them?), weather forecast machine, 50-inch plasma TV, leather/fur/exotic animals' hide passenger seats are just some of the few things they put into the car. this car, after all these upgrades are like much more expensive than everything that those car owners own. I SWEAR, if i get a hangover in the car and i wake up in it, i would think that the car itself IS my room.

finally(i don't know how long they take, maybe years?), when they complete that used-to-be-crap, and they reveal to the car owners, like W-O-A-H, it doesnt even look a car anymore, it looks more like a colourful kiddy MacDonald's playground.

when you watch it, i bet you would be like, "How i wish i own a car like that! it's bloody wicked cool!" Yes, that is if you want to increase the chances of people wanting to breaking into your car and steal it. honestly if i see one of those cars parked along the sidewalk while i walking, i would grab a crowbar and get those wicked high-tech stuffs. HAHA.

oh well, that summarises what was in my mind, and that's about it.
it's been such a long time since i wrote such a LoooooNNNNNGgggg post and with such a mood.
i hope you guys enjoyed this post cause if you didnt, you have left halfway while reading this post and wouldnt have gotten to this sentence in the first place.

PEACE.