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Brandon Stroud

iVoice: Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift Paint their Toenails!

By Camille Dodero, Monday, Jun. 30 2008 @ 2:07PM
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In case it hasn't yet been clearly articulated here (probably not), the two fellas responsible for the never-ending laff-riots that are iVoice chats are Jon Bois and Brandon Stroud, who also co-run the chat-game over at the Dugout. We're still not sure how they do it—they're either über-hackers or über-hecklers, but we don't want to know what's in the Big Mac Special Sauce either. This one comes courtesy of Brandon and it is a personal fave. — Your blawgh editah


**Online Host**
Welcome to the Painting Your Toenails Chatroom!


BlareUnderwood: Isn't it great being a young country starlet in the new Nashville sound? /paints toe


FastSeamstress: ERMAGARD I know!!! I'm, what, triple platinum or something, aydunno...


BlareUnderwood: It is, like, a dream come true. Yesterday I got hit on by Joe Diffie.

JOE

DIFFIE


FastSeamstress: eeeee!!!!


BlareUnderwood: If I wanted I could have a store-gy with Big and Rich and Montgomery and Gentry and Brooks and Dunn!


FastSeamstress: omg do you have david archuletas tex number??


BlareUnderwood: nyah hee hee nyah hee /paints toe


FastSeamstress: Just think, I'm like "Fancy" from that Reba McEntire song where she gets a dress and makes a life for herself!


BlareUnderwood: i think that song is about a child prostitute


FastSeamstress: oh


FastSeamstress: well yeah that's still pretty accurate


BlareUnderwood: Well I'm this generation's Tammy Wynette!


FastSeamstress: wasn't she badly beaten and abused and kidnapped from a grocery store or something one time?


BlareUnderwood: Okay then, I'm this generation's Patsy Cline!


FastSeamstress: wasn't she abused by her father when she was little and didn't she die in a plane crash?


FastSeamstress: *whispers* and wasn't she like a size thirty


BlareUnderwood: this generation's Tanya Tucker?


FastSeamstress: wasn't she a drug addict and an alcoholic teenager who slept with everybody?


BlareUnderwood: this generation's Pam Tillis?


FastSeamstress: lost her original face in the war


BlareUnderwood: loretta lynn


FastSeamstress: beaten, abused, had 11 kids before she turned 12


BlareUnderwood: I-


FastSeamstress: What?

BlareUnderwood: Fine! I'm this generation's Dolly Parton!

FastSeamstress: okay, whatev.

but I mean when she was young she had to-

BlareUnderwood: She has huge tits and gay people love her!

FastSeamstress: okay, okay, sor-ry

FastSeamstress: ....

FastSeamstress: hey can i be this generation's dolly parton instead, that sounds awesome

BlareUnderwood: Hell no, you already called child prostitute

FastSeamstress: come owwwwwnnnn /stomps feet

BlareUnderwood: nope, sorry
FastSeamstress: but Miley Cyrus already called it!!!! /holds breath

BlareUnderwood: nope, sorry, enjoy your dead roach-infested mother


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iVoice: Coldplay's Chris Martin Tries to Befriend Thom Yorke

By Village Voice contributor, Tuesday, Jun. 24 2008 @ 1:33PM
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Categories: Jon Bois, Radiohead

CorporalMartin: Hey Thom! Long time, no talk!


Away message from SargeantYorke:

busy not being coldplay


CorporalMartin: :(


CorporalMartin: I know you're just jokin'! Let me know when you get back in!


CorporalMartin: Thom? You there?


SargeantYorke: hris martin looks like an emaciated donkey


SargeantYorke: oh, sorry, wrong window.


CorporalMartin: Oh.


CorporalMartin: Well, I was just gonna ask, did you happen to see that we came out with another album?


SargeantYorke: oh did you really


CorporalMartin: Yeah! And y'know, we're pretty big fans of you guys


SargeantYorke: yeah, i heard.

isn't it great how I wrote Ok Computer and I still have both my balls?


CorporalMartin: oh shit you read that


SargeantYorke:


CorporalMartin: ah, well . . .

so of course, we were curious to see what you thought of our new record!


SargeantYorke: listen man, i don't have time to go to pandora.com, type in "jack johnson bono masturbate" and listen through the radio station for two hours


CorporalMartin: Oh, you don't have to do that. It's in stores!


SargeantYorke: what the fuck is a store


SargeantYorke: anyway i think i get the idea of "coldplay"


SargeantYorke: you sit at a piano and sing falsetto about being sorry

then you explain that it's unique because you recorded in a warehouse or a church or a port-a-john or whatever the god fuck


SargeantYorke: oh man, i hope your album has art on it! i hope that art is supposed to symbolize something!


CorporalMartin: Actually, it does! It's a


SargeantYorke: nobody cares


CorporalMartin: Well okey doke then. Sorry to bug you. I just think it'd be really great if you gave it a listen! Honest critique is welcome!


Away message from SargeantYorke:

performing a webcast in a soiled undershirt, be back later


CorporalMartin: aw jeez


**OnlineHost** Later that evening...


SargeantYorke: oh man, so you wouldn't believe who messaged me today

fuckin chris martin from coldplay


SargeantYorke: guy is such a douchebag, coldplay sucks so bad


TOM_WAITS: why do you say that


SargeantYorke: well i mean, heh, it's coldplay, come on


TOM_WAITS: son i heard the new coldplay album, it's nothin spectacular but it's really not bad


TOM_WAITS: did you even listen to it or did you just decide to get all snarky about it pre-emptively


SargeantYorke: well

well i mean no, but


TOM_WAITS: think on this, lazy-eye

some folks like you and me can get away with shit. i can sell millions of albums of me whacking a plumbing fixture with a lead pipe and screaming about setting my wife on fire


TOM_WAITS: and you can get away with goddamn "push/pull revolving doors"


TOM_WAITS: and if we weren't so lucky we might just have to spit our dicks out our mouths and write regular people music


SargeantYorke: well yeah maybe


TOM_WAITS: how about you actually listen to it, i kind of like some songs on there


TOM_WAITS: i'm outta here

/slaps saddle

GIDDY UP


CorporalMartin: HEE HAW

/trots into horizon


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Brandon Stroud

iVoice: A Night Out With Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson

By Village Voice contributor, Monday, Jun. 9 2008 @ 6:17PM
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RonsonPinchot: aw man, i've got this cigarette in my hand but i don't know what to do with it


LiloAndStench: snort it


RonsonPinchot: i tried, but it don't bend in the middle so it was just stickin half way out my nose


LiloAndStench: then just smoke it, baby


RonsonPinchot: but that seems too committal, like i'm bein passionate about the things i like


LiloAndStench: what if you wet the end and stick it to the bottom of your lip so it dangles there unlit all night


LiloAndStench: that way you look like a cool smoker AND you look so fucked up that you can't even smoke properly


RonsonPinchot: baby you are my multiverse /makes out


LiloAndStench: /makes out in most disconnected way imaginable


**Online Host**
RonsonPinchot and LiloAndStench have been photographed 450,000 times.


RonsonPinchot: baby, do you think we should come out about our relationship


LiloAndStench: which relationship


RonsonPinchot: i dunno


RonsonPinchot: wait


LiloAndStench: what's there to explain? i never had a proper childhood thanks to my stage mom and broken home, and you have drank 65 PBRs in the last 30 minutes


LiloAndStench: we're just havin' fun, doin' what we wanna do

woooo


RonsonPinchot: wooooo

/pretends to "D.J."


LiloAndStench: if we die tonight least we did what we wan'ned to do! now how bout you!


RonsonPinchot: wooo, all right freedome from consequence


LiloAndStench: three cheers for satanism!!


RonsonPinchot: /"does" "drugs"


LiloAndStench: /ages six or seven more years


**Online Host**
HereComesTheMark has entered the chatroom.


HereComesTheMark: hey ladies, i just wanted to pop in to show you my awesome new hat, it's-


HereComesTheMark: aw, are you wearing the same hat

RonsonPinchot: i'm not wearing a hat

HereComesTheMark: hey, i like what your mouth is doing with that cigarette, that looks pretty cool

LiloAndStench: ew gah roas is that a boy, ugh, boys are gah roas

LiloAndStench: hey baby what're you up to after the show

HereComesTheMark: i'm buying a bunch of saran wrap and making amy winehouse sing doo-wop music into a megaphone

HereComesTheMark: and uh, those things have nothing to do with each other

RonsonPinchot: hey watch this

/puts fingertrips on vinyl record

HereComesTheMark: whoaaaa, when did you learn to DJ

RonsonPinchot: bitch i am so fucken good at dj

/puts hands on outside of headphones

HereComesTheMark: welp, looks like you two have things under control here, i've got to take off

have a nice night

LiloAndStench: don't tell me what to do!


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iVoice: Kanye West "Flashing Lights" Video Chat

By Village Voice contributor, Friday, Jun. 6 2008 @ 12:15PM
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Categories: Jon Bois, Kanye West, Radiohead

**OnlineHost** Welcome to Video Shoot Chat!


woman: /gets out of car, walks a few paces, strips down to underwear, starts fire with lighter fluid and a Zippo

/walks back, opens trunk


KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: mmmf


woman: Why did I just light a fire?


KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: /rips off tape from mouth

Um. Because if you didn't, your body wouldn't be visible.


woman: But the video's only camera switch occurs at the exact moment I turn around, and the fire's behind me. How would that make me show up better?


KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: ...

fffuck

all right we'll fix that in post


KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: Now grab that shovel. I'll flip the hatch and slide into the back seat, and then you act like you're bludgeoning me to death.


woman: I don't understand this either. What's my character's motivation here?


KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: Fair enough. Here's the conceit.


KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: This video will serve as an epilogue and companion piece for another video featuring this same song.


KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: It was an aesthetically neat but otherwise banal video. You're mad because it was terrible.


woman: So? Does my character just roam the countryside and murder people who make crap-ass music videos?


woman: Is there another companion piece? Do I get to garrote McG with a jump rope?


KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: Well, the video is too ambiguous to communicate a singular message, so viewers will be left to glean their own interpretations.


KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: Most disturbingly, it would be easy for one to interpret it as a vindictive lecture that portrays rape as a consequence.


woman: ...


**OnlineHost** The woman is bludgeoning Kanye West with a shovel.


KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: OW OW FUCK WAIT FUCK


KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: /manages to open trunk escape, crawls into back seat bruised and bloodied


SargeantYorkeofKarmaPolice: oh hey it's this fuckin' guy again!


KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: What are you doing in here?


SargeantYorkeofKarmaPolice: oh you know, we're just hanging out, chasing after this fat dude real slow


SargeantYorkeofKarmaPolice: we started leaking petrol a ways back but fuck it, you know


KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: /turns around, looks through back window


**OnlineHost** The fire has spread to a trail of fuel left by the car.


KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight:

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iVoice: Paramore Hosts MTV Hits!

By Village Voice contributor, Tuesday, May. 27 2008 @ 8:00AM
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**Online Host**
Welcome to the MTV HITS Chatroom!


HayleysComment: Hi, I'm Hayley!


FarrosTomb: I'm either Zac or Josh!


LetMyPeopleGo: I think I'm Josh, but I could be Zac!


KingJeremyTheWicked: i haven't been in the band for like three years but nobody notices because i am invisible and no one has ever looked at me


HayleysComment: and we're PARAMORE~! Thanks for peepin' in and tunin' out our Hit List here on MTV Hits!


HayleysComment: for those of you who aren't familiar with us, we're a rock and roll band who sings about rock and roll and has subtle Christian rock foundations


HayleysComment: so of course the first video on our hit list is "Lollipop" by Lil' Wayne


FarrosTomb: snicker snicker


HayleysComment: Lil' Wayne is a great artist and we like to dance to his musics


LetMyPeopleGo: /throws up horns randomly


**Online Host**
Welcome to the Lil' Wayne Video Chatroom!


LilAbner: /raps into a didgeridoo

blip blip blip blip blip blip like a lawlly pot

blip blip blip blip blip blip like a lawlly pot


EnormousBlackAss: *shakes*


LilAbner: back it up like erp erp


EnormousBlackAss: like what


**Online Host**
35 minute commercial break has entered the chatroom!


HayleysComment: ...welcome back everybody, we're Paramore and thanks for watchin' our video hit list...


LetMyPeopleGo: /laughs to self for no reason


HayleysComment: we have an album called "RIOT" with an exclamation point, so our next choice is Mariah Carey's "Touch My Body"


HayleysComment: listening to Mariah's music has taught me a lot as a song writer


HayleysComment: like in the song crushcrushcrush when I say " Just the one, two I was just counting on"


FarrosTomb: oh yeah, what was the original line again?


HayleysComment: "Just like the one, three I was just counting on"


FarrosTomb: we have really grown as a band

LetMyPeopleGo: /throws up horns just before camera cuts away

**Online Host**
Welcome to the Mariah Carey Video Chatroom!

CashAndCarey: nay hoooo
nay hooo ooo ooo

/sings for several minutes before the music starts

CashAndCarey: If it's a camera up in here then it's gonna leave wit me when I, do! I, do!

If it's a camera up in here then I best not catch this flick on You, Tube! You, Tube!

CashAndCarey: And then I'm gonna check Dailymotion and search for random criteria just to make sure my boo is true

CashAndCarey: An I might consider downloadin' the torrent if I can find it on Ask Jeeves and depending on how much time and bandwidth my schedule and computer allow me

baby

CashAndCarey: oooh, touch my body

**Online Host**
The Mariah Carey Video Chatroom is followed by an hour and 15 minutes of the same advertisement for Real World: Hollywood on loop.

HayleysComment: Welcome back, this is Hayley from Paramore and you're watching our Hit List on MTV Hits!
FarrosTomb: /cannot possibly take life seriously

KingJeremyTheWicked: can anyone hear me

hello

HayleysComment: Up next is *my* favorite video evar, which is, as our fans know, "Whatever Video MTV Wants Us To Play"

enjoy

LetMyPeopleGo: /HORNSSSS

**Online Host**
Welcome to the, uh, let's say, "Natasha Bedingfield Video Chatroom" !
boring_and_natasha: /farts into a microphone for 4 1/2 minutes
**Online Host**
Welcome back!

HayleysComment: For the last video, the guys in the band said they wanted something high fantasy, because too many videos are just people playing concerts or walking around

HayleysComment: so, for the most random unthinkable series of events possible in a video, please to enjoy "Don't Speak" by No Doubt


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iVoice: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova Re-Enact Once Live

By Village Voice contributor, Monday, May. 19 2008 @ 12:54PM
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The Swell Season play Radio City Hall tonight, May 19. Tickets are sold out.


**OnlineHost** Welcome to Swell Season Concert Chat!


crowd: DO "ONCE"


hansard_prayers: what


crowd: C'MON C'MON DO "ONCE"


IrglovaMarketEconomy : wh-

i'm not sure what that means exactly


crowd: ONCE! ONCE! ONCE!


IrglovaMarketEconomy: Um?

All right.

/drags vacuum cleaner out of green room


hansard_prayers: Hi. I am a vacuum guy.


IrglovaMarketEconomy: You sing good. Fix my vacuum.


hansard_prayers: Okay.


IrglovaMarketEconomy: Can I ride your motorcycle?


hansard_prayers: No.


IrglovaMarketEconomy: Bye.


hansard_prayers: /mails piano


crowd: THAT WAS BORING


hansard_prayers: That was pretty much the movie.


crowd: MAKE IT BETTER


hansard_prayers: What?

All right. All right, fine. Come on, honey, let's do it again.


IrglovaMarketEconomy: what


hansard_prayers: Come on, just follow my lead.

We'll need some help with this. Please welcome our violinist, Colm Mac Con Iomaire.


mac_con_cheese: /waves to crowd


hansard_prayers: Okay, from the top.

Hi. I am a vacuum guy.


IrglovaMarketEconomy: You sing good. Fix my vacuum.


mac_con_cheese: Not so fast you freaking tool. Say your prayers. I am going to steal your freaking vacuum and run away into the Wilderness.


hansard_prayers: Uh

pfff hahaha

We are not but meager townsfolk going about our business! How dare you!


mac_con_cheese: /points violin

Who's the man with the gun now? Freaking give me the vacuum. I am a bad guy. I became a bad guy because of a horrible accident gone wrong.


IrglovaMarketEconomy: Oh my gosh! What accident was that!


mac_con_cheese: I drowned in a humongous ocean. Now give me the vacuum unless you want to know the Way of the Gun.


hansard_prayers: /karate chop


mac_con_cheese: AAAAAGGH

/pratfalls around stage, knocks over drum kit


hansard_prayers: Remember a second ago, when you were telling me about your gun? Well I karate chopped you, Man vs. Gun. Irony. A taste of your own medicine.


mac_con_cheese: /dies


IrglovaMarketEconomy: He got his just dessert. Come on, honey, let's go play instruments.


hansard_prayers: I can't. I am forever scarred by the Evil.


crowd: ...


crowd: /thunderous applause


hansard_prayers: You're shitting me.


IrglovaMarketEconomy: All right, sequel time. What do we call it?


hansard_prayers: "Once 2: The Revenge Of--

wait, what was the name of the guy who stole my guitar case at the beginning


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iVoice: Mariah Carey Gets Married!

By Village Voice contributor, Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 1:30PM
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JetersNeverProsper: Wow, you're married again? That's surprising, congratulations!


CashAndCarey: aw, thanks jeet! yeah we didn't date for very long but we were just so in love


JetersNeverProsper: which romanticized beasts from a first grader's Lisa Frank folder would you use to describe your relationship?


CashAndCarey: unicorn, butterfly, regular horse

additionally, "rainbows"


JetersNeverProsper: rainbows too, huh? This must be the real deal.


CashAndCarey: you just don't know, jeet, everything about him just completes me. we're into the same things, we both love children, we're into the same kind of music...


CashAndCarey: he makes music, too, and although the style is a lil' different our songs basically say the same thing


CashAndCarey: come to think of it, we even kind of look like each other, too


JetersNeverProsper: Look like each other? That's kinda weird.

I'm sorry you and I never "made it."


CashAndCarey: me too, baby, but what could you expect?


CashAndCarey: I was always busy with touring and recording, always off to video shoots and parties, and you were busy having tons of homosexual sex with your baseball team


JetersNeverProsper: lol, well, we are the Yankees


CashAndCarey: sometimes we were fluffy clouds and occasionally we were flowers, but we were never rainbow and unicorn


JetersNeverProsper: you're right

Well, I wish you and Nick all the best.


CashAndCarey: Nick? Who is Nick?


JetersNeverProsper: Eh? I thought you married...


CashAndCarey: !!! ooh, here he is now!


HipHopHarry: HI KIDS!!! /does the running man


CashAndCarey: oh baby, whassup boo how you fillin


JetersNeverProsper: yeah you do kinda look alike


CashAndCarey: jeet dis my boy hip hop harry, he make me his wife

ay hurry this my boy jeet


JetersNeverProsper: uh, hi Harry. What is it you do for a living?


HipHopHarry: I LOVE TO LEARN

I LOVE TO LEARN

I LOVE TO LEARN

I LOVE TO LEARN


CashAndCarey: hurry is a bear wif a lil' boy intelligence who teaches numbas an careers to shorties usin' hip hop


HipHopHarry: HIP HOP IS A LIFESTYLE AND I HAVE BROKEN BOUNDARIES IN CRYPTOZOOLOGY TO PROVE THAT, YOU FEEL ME

JetersNeverProsper: sure, sure, I feel you, that's very-

HipHopHarry: EXCUSE ME
HipHopHarry: WHERE DO LIONS LIVE
JetersNeverProsper: where do... where do lions live? what
CashAndCarey: jus ansa' the question

HipHopHarry: WHERE DO LIONS LIVE

JetersNeverProsper: well I mean I don't know specifically, but you could probably find a book on the subject pretty easily

there should be all kinds of books on lions

HipHopHarry: WHOAAAA

TELL ME WHERE WE'RE GOING

CashAndCarey: ... TO THE LIBERRY!
**Online Host**
HipHopHarry and CashAndCarey have left the chatroom amidst scrolling graphics of snakes shaped like numbers
JetersNeverProsper: welp.
  **Online Host**
Welcome to the Public Library Chatroom!

HipHopHarry: /opens a book

MANY FUN THINGS ARE HIDDEN INSIDE

CashAndCarey: harry you given any more thought to changin' ya name since we marry now
HipHopHarry: I CAN'T CALL MYSELF HARRY CAREY THAT WOULD BE WEIRD
CashAndCarey: whats yo lass name fool

HipHopHarry: I AM A BEAR, I DON'T HAVE A LAST NAME. YOU'RE LUCKY I CAN TALK.

I GUESS MY LAST NAME WOULD BE "BEAR" OR "THE BEAR."

CashAndCarey: well i ain' callin myself "hip hop carey"


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iVoice: On the Improbable Romance of Natalie Portman and Devendra Banhart

By Village Voice contributor, Monday, May. 12 2008 @ 2:30PM
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Categories: Jon Bois

ThisChatIsForSiobhan: AY MAMA, Y'KNOW I USED TO HAVE A GAME BOY


Portmanteau: You? A Game Boy?


ThisChatIsForSiobhan: YEAH BUT NOW I JUS DO THIS

/picks daisy, holds it aloft, stares


ThisChatIsForSiobhan: LEVEL 2

/covers left eye with hand


ThisChatIsForSiobhan: HEEOWWW I FEEL THAT I WON

/forms one-man dance circle


Portmanteau: that-- uh, cool!


ThisChatIsForSiobhan: I LIKE YEOW SCREEN NAME


Portmanteau: Aw thanks, sweetie! I think it's clever. It's a portmanteau of "Portman" and "portmanteau"!


ThisChatIsForSiobhan: WHAT

MY HEAD ASPLODE


ThisChatIsForSiobhan: HEY WHAT IF MY HEAD ASPLODE AN MA'EYES SHOOT EVERY WHICH WAY AND ONE A THEM GETS STUCK IN MA'BELLY BUTTON


ThisChatIsForSiobhan: ONE LIL EYEBALL STARIN AT THE INSIDE A MA'SHIRT ALL THE DAY AN NIGHT

WHERE'S MA'GUITAR


Portmanteau: God, Devendra? Why do you have be so...so weird all the time?


ThisChatIsForSiobhan: I'LL CALL IT "SEEIN' EYE TUMMY"


Portmanteau: Can't you just be normal for one second?


Portmanteau: I mean, you wrote a song about raising Chinese children regardless of your country of origin.


Portmanteau: You wrote a song about ostensibly wanting to marry little boys, and attempted to justify it by clarifying that it's written from the perspective of a personality-shifting hermaphrodite, and I'm still unclear as to how that makes it okay.


Portmanteau: And you wrote another song in which you speculate that if you were bald, you would grow your beard really long and comb it up so that it covered your head.


Portmanteau: That's the sort of thing I would think if I hadn't slept in five days. It's Shel Silverstein times a thousand.


Portmanteau: I love you, but I get so tired of it! Do you have anything to say?


ThisChatIsForSiobhan: ...


Portmanteau: Well?


ThisChatIsForSiobhan:

 

 

 

 


Portmanteau: Ugh. You know what, I need to take a break from this relationship. I might call you, I might not...I don't know. Take it easy.


**OnlineHost** Natalie Portman has left the chat room.


ThisChatIsForSiobhan: aowwwww

DEVENDRA Y'BEANBAG Y'FOULED IT UP, YA FOULED IT ALL UP

/weeps


**OnlineHost** Welcome to Star Wars Chat!


Portmanteau: Um. . .Annie? Annie, you there?


Portmanteau: I know it's been a long time...just wanted to see what you were up to these days.


anakin: hi


Portmanteau: Hi.


anakin: i am going to turn into darth vader; i am sullen man


Portmanteau: Oh, that's uh...that's neat.


anakin: i like fix robots


anakin: you want help me for make robot

i'd would like to make pretty robot, talks like british guy, gold and shiny


Portmanteau: ...Neat.


anakin: have you been listening to a music

i've have been listening to "travis" a lot lately


Portmanteau: Um.

Oh, goodness! I think I left my...microwave on. I need to go.


**OnlineHost** Natalie Portman has left the chat room.


anakin: /uses jedi powers to create brick wall

/stares at brick wall


**OnlineHost** Welcome to Devendra Banhart Chat!


Portmanteau: Devendra? Let's get married.


ThisChatIsForSiobhan: YAAYYY

YIE YIE YIE LAAAAAAAAAADADADA


ThisChatIsForSiobhan: /eats beard


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iVoice: Julie Taymor Makes a Bob Seger American History Homage

By Village Voice contributor, Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 3:08PM
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Advice: don't skim this one.



MovieProducer: Julie! Julie Taymor! Good to see you, babe!

listen...


MovieProducer: "Across the Universe" is great, we all love what you did with it, buuuut, heh heh, it's old news, babe, it's been out on DVD for a while now...


MovieProducer: ...and we were just wondering, you know, if you had your next project lined up....


LionTaymor: oh, uhhhh /shuffles papers

well sure I've got all kinds of great ideas, about, uhhhh


LionTaymor: uhhh my next idea was to... was tooooo....

to take somebody else's work and color all over it?


MovieProducer: that's BEAUTIFUL! Heh heh, that's the Julie Taymor we know and love.

And we're hoping this one will be music related, too? Yes?


LionTaymor: ...oooof course! Yes! Yes of course, this one is music related, too!


MovieProducer: Outstanding! Which of music's great legends have you chosen to equate with a troubled period of American history this time?


MovieProducer: Let me guess! Bob Dylan! No, they just made his biopic... The Rolling Stones? No, couldn't be them, Scorsese covered them...


LionTaymor: /thinks about record collection growing up


**Online Host**
13 months later...

 

/fade in


Noah: /sits on a beach with purple sand, pouts

*singing* Jenny was lovely, she was the queen of my nights....


**Online Host**
Clip art of the hostage crisis in Iran mixed with footage of a typewriter mixed with footage of a piglet being dropped into a bucket of paint plays under broken audio of Jimmy Carter.


Noah: /walks down city street in vintage clothes, has modern day haircut

Jenny, what's troubling you?


Jenny: sigh, I was reading this book, but the words stopped in mid-sentence at the bottom! What.. what do I do, Noah?


Noah: "turn the page"

/turns page


Jenny: /falls in love amidst turmoil


**Online Host**
One soldier CGI'd to look like 500 soldiers march over a tiny gas station with very little gas.


Soldiers!: Out of our way, you "beautiful losers!" We're on our way to fight a WAR in "Katmandu!"


Jenny: what do you mean by that!


Noah: I think they're goin' to Katmandu!


Jenny: noah no /collapses in slow motion, hair looks like it's underwater


**Online Host**
From acclaimed director Julie Taymor, the visionary who brought you "Across the Universe" and that version of Titus where everyone is in bodypaint and helmets...


Noah: Jenny, I've got to get out of here. This war is too much war! I'm going "The Distance" and leaving the "Nutbush City Limits" at "Nine Tonight"...


Jenny: you're "Like a Rock," Noah, always running "Against the Wind"...

**Online Host**
. . . comes a story of love in the American heartland set to the era defining sounds of Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band . . .

Jenny: hey look, it's our random black friend and his Asian girlfriend
Rufus: man, you can't do this! Don't you understand we're fighting a WAR here?
Noah: I'm going to Katmandu! I can't deny this "fire inside"... and Jenny will "Accomp'ny Me!"
Jenny: noah no /cries animated tears

MaryLou: /sings a Tina Turner-esque version of "Old Time Rock n' Roll" for absolutely no fucking reason

 

**Online Host**
This mid-Autumn when nothing else is coming out, we invite you and your gay friend and his fat girl best friend to witness the motion picture event of three decades ago...

Soldiers!: Out of our way! Now that we've destroyed Katmandu, we're out to destroy ROCK AND ROLL
Jenny: noah no /runs away (in terrible perspective)
Noah: Come back, baby!
Jenny: In all of this war you've forgotten what's important in life!
Noah: ROCK AND ROLL NEVER FORGETS
 

**Online Host**
"We've Got Tonight"

This film is rated R for mild language, pervasive smoking, and occasional solarized titties.

MovieProducer: We love it, babe, but we're changing the title. We're gonna call it "Shakedown."
LionTaymor: but that compromises my artistic vision
MovieProducer: yeah, but the Beverly Hills Cop II soundtrack is a hilarious reference


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iVoice: Prince Covers "Creep" Over IM, Coachellafield Ensues

By Village Voice contributor, Tuesday, Apr. 29 2008 @ 1:00PM
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**OnlineHost** Welcome to Coachella Chat!


TheHalfBloodPrince: All right, ladies and gentlemen.

I'm now going to play "Creep."


TheHalfBloodPrince: I know it's a big deal for me to be covering Toad the Wet Sprocket, but you know how protective I am of my music.


TheHalfBloodPrince: As such, if I catch you recording this performance, uploading it to YouTube, or mentioning it to your friends or family, I will personally garrote you with my neckerchief.


guy_with_camera: hey what'd he just say

his words were drowned out by the "magic fingers" vibrating motel bed i wheeled out here, on top of which i placed a trampoline


guy_with_camera: durrrr

/presses 'record'


TheHalfBloodPrince: /plays "Creep," does not utter the word "Creep" even once


crowd: WOOOOOO

we are ignorant of prince's body of work but he's the guy who played basketball with charlie murphy and he's playing the only radiohead song we know so WOOOOOOOOOOOOO


guy_with_camera: awriiight

/attempts to steady camera while bouncing on trampoline


TheHalfBloodPrince: /squints into crowd

HEY

HEY

ARE YOU RECORDING MY PERFORMANCE?


guy_with_camera: uh

oopsth


TheHalfBloodPrince: AAAAAAGH


**OnlineHost** Prince has morphed into the monster from Cloverfield.


TheHalfBloodPrince:

REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

/lays waste to venue


crowd: AAAAAAHH


guy_with_camera: WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE


**OnlineHost** The crowd has taken refuge in the sewers.


guy_with_camera: /keeps recording

oh man this is huge, i can't believe that just happened


Lily: Did you hear that?


Marlena: Hear what?


**OnlineHost** The crowd is attacked by a pack of alien spiders.


Lily: Oh my God, are you okay? Were you bitten?


Marlena: yeah, i'm fine

i just feel weird


Marlena: all of a sudden i have an appreciation for prince's earlier works


Marlena: like, i can listen all the way through "Billy Jack Bitch" without it annoying the piss out of me


Marlena: i want to listen to "Lady Cab Driver" on loop so i can listen to him screw the lady cab driver for like three minutes


Marlena: i...i think i'm starting to understand "Bob George"

i think it's a passive-aggressive critique on the state of rap music and a diatribe against the caveman alpha-male mindset, imbued with more personal narrative than prince would care to admit and AAAAAHH


**OnlineHost** Marlena has exploded.


Lily: OH MY GOD WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE


guy_with_camera: okay okay okay we need to make our way to the graffiti bridge


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