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A stop motion video of Mear One painting a Shaman art mural at the street corner of Sunset and Hyperion in Los Angeles CA.
Filmed and Produced by Roger L. Griffith
Music by The Gaslamp Killer
People are anxious to change their circumstance yet are unwilling to change themselves, therefore they remain bound. – James Allen
> A New Shaman | Just Above Sunset
A hilarious scene from Harold and Kumar, where Kumar hooks up with a big bag of Mary Jane.
She’s everything he wants, until she can’t make coffee.
Zoolander, Dazed and Confused, The Big Lebowski, Schwarzenegger catch phrases and a gang of the best comedy movie quotes from many other comedic classics.
Young Frankenstein, Zoolander, Dazed and Confused, Back to the Future, Happy Gilmore, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Dude, Where’s My Car?, The Big Lebowski, Friday, Caddyshack, Airplane!, Tropic Thunder, Back to the Future, Superbad, Napoleon Dynamite, Hot Rod, The Big Lebowski, The Cable Guy, There’s Something About Mary, Old School, Rush Hour, Dumb & Dumber, The Waterboy, The Goonies, The Hangover, Back to the Future, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Big Lebowski, Ghost Busters, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Billy Madison, Starsky & Hutch, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Tommy Boy, Jingle All the Way, The Sandlot, Billy Madison, The Big Lebowski, American Pie 2, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Elf, Kindergarten Cop, The Breakfast Club, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Young Frankenstein, Happy Gilmore, Wedding Crashers, Kindergarten Cop, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Starting in the 1920s, the youth of America started to fall in love with jazz music. Cab Calloway and other jazz musicians were public supporters of cannabis during the Reefer Madness propaganda. The older generation feared that their kids would be negatively influenced by marijuana and jazz because they were ignorant, brainwashed, and racist.
Have you ever met that funny Reefer Man?
He smokes that reefer, he gets high, then he flies to the sky
That funny funny Reefer Man
When you think of iconic stoners, slackers like Jay and Silent Bob and characters in Judd Apatow movies come to mind. Rarely do people tack on the term on a hot chick. The truth is, female weed smokers are criminally under-represented in Hollywood. They’re in stoner movies, but they’re often playing the cute and responsible sober girl to the sweatpants-wearing, burnout boyfriend. We still managed to put together this gallery of The Hottest Stoner Girls in Movies and TV. Light one up and enjoy.
We’re going to overlook the knife-wielding teens of Bully to focus on a lighter subject: Bijou Phillips as Ali, a gorgeous teen whose marijuana use may be the cause of her increased libido and her inability to gauge whether or not clothes fit her.
Penny Lane (Hudson) is so charming as the leader of the Band-Aids (glorified groupies) that she makes an affair with a rock star look like a Disney fairytale and puffing on a spliff look as innocent as Shirley Temple’s tap dancing.
Before Milla Jovovich became a famous zombie killing machine in the Resident Evil franchise, she played the stoned chick in the background in Dazed and Confused. Her contributions to the coming-of-age party film include playing a song about aliens on her acoustic guitar and making perpetual obliviousness look endearing.
With the Wackness set in the summer of ’94 and scored to a cassette tape soundtrack of early 90s hip hop, Olivia Thirlby is essentially a a cross between a hippie and a fly girl. She offers free love (in the form of volunteering to take her dealer’s virginity), tokes up regularly and dances in a jean jacket and hoop earrings in her dealer’s music video-esque dreams.
Would you assume that sunshine stoner girl Melanie (Bridget Fonda) is involved with a $500,000 money smuggling scheme? Probably not, especially when she explicitly explains that her main ambition in life is to “get high and watch TV.”
Mary Louis Parker’s Nancy Botwin is a single MILF who just so happens to support her kids by selling herb. But don’t scoff at her before you understand the quality of her goods. They are so superb that not only does she have suburban parents procuring her product, Snoop Dogg even recorded a single dedicated to her “MILF Weed.”
Linda Cardellini redefined “freaks and geeks” when she starred in Grandma’s Boy by: a) overseeing a video game company, b) getting super faded at her boyfriend’s grandmother’s house and c) using that high to perform Salt N Pepa’s “Push It.”
In That 70s Show, Mila Kunis portrayed an unusually self-aware pothead. Her character, Jackie Burkhart, has a reputation of being the uncensored, superficial prom queen of the sitcom. After she smokes weed, she’s usually heavy-lidded in a cloud of smoke with her friends in Eric’s basement.
> The 15 Hottest Stoner Girls in Movies and TV | Complex
DJ Funktuall presents Volume 27 of his Hip Hop Sample breakdown series. In this Chilled Out Edition, DJ Funktuall gives you a history lesson on the original samples and the proceeding songs that used them.
Be-Intro – Common
No Escapin This – Beatnuts
Keep Risin’ to the Top – Doug E. Fresh
Around the Way Girl – LL Cool J
Smooth Operator – Big Daddy Kane
I Wanna Rock – DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
Take You There – Pete Rock & CL Smooth
U Da Man – Black Moon
Love No Limit – Mary J. Blige
How to Roll a Blunt – Redman
Rap Phenomenon – Notorious B.I.G. w/ Method & Redman
I Pioneered This – MC Shan
(Lately) I’ve Been Thinking – Common feat. Sean Lett
Fat Rat – Grand Puba
Straight from Da Ghetto – Lost Boyz
Born to Live – OC
Paradise – LL Cool J feat. Amerie
How to Flow – Nice & Smooth
Mind Blowin’ – The D.O.C.
Mind Blowin – Pete Rock w. Vinia Mojica
Keep Risin’ to the Top – Doug E. Fresh
Stressed Out – ATCQ w/ Faith Evans
Spaceship – Kanye West
Hit Em Up – 2pac feat. Outlawz
Time to Go – King Sun
Cappucino – MC Lyte
Quitter – Eminem
Get Money – Junior MAFIA
Final Chapter ~ He’s Dead – Scarface
I Beeped You – Father MC
and the bassline to PAID IN FULL
and this just in: Way of Life – Lil’ Wayne
I Got 5 On It – Luniz
Satisfy You – Puffy feat R. Kelly
Shorty Wanna Be a Thug – 2Pac
Drive Slow – Kanye West feat. Paul Wall & GLC
No One’s Iller – Eminem feat. Bizarre, Swifty & Fuzz
Picture Me Rollin – 2Pac
Street Dreams – Nas
All Eyez On Me – 2Pac
Although we romanticize lions as mighty kings of the jungle, their reign is challenged daily in southern Africa by vicious packs of hyenas that compete for prey. Between the two species exists an ancient feud, and it unfolds in National Geographic’s Eternal Enemies. Watch as lions bring down a zebra, only to be attacked themselves by a pack of hyenas that chases them into the trees. Glowering, the big cats watch as the thieves devour their dinner.
Other scenes in this video are equally impressive, including life inside a hyena den–which captures the sounds of lions growling outside–and a tense encounter between a snake-bitten lioness and a pack of hyenas. With its gripping story line, Eternal Enemies is a standout among animal documentaries.
Enjoy this hilarious stand up set from Patrice O’Neal during “The Nasty Show,” part of TBS Presents A Very Funny Festival – Just for Laughs Chicago, June 2009.
Have you ever wanted to watch a stand up comedy set with a date? Start with this one… and if it’s going well, continue with the next one…
And if its really going well, hit her with the Houdini. Taadow!!!
In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis’ legendary LSD no-hitter. Of the 263 no-hitters ever thrown in the Big Leagues, we can only guess how many were aided by steroids, but we can say without question that only one was ever thrown on acid.
A year before the great Dock Ellis died, radio producers Donnell Alexander and Neille Ilel, had recorded an interview with Ellis in which the former Pirate right hander gave a moment by moment account of June 12, 1970, the day he no-hit the San Diego Padres.
A Punisher short film starring Thomas Jane (who played The Punisher in the whack 2004 film) and Ron Pearlman. This short film is better than all of the Punisher feature films combined, it has the brutal violence and blunt punishment you expect from the comics.
“I wanted to make a fan film for a character I’ve always loved and believed in – a love letter to Frank Castle & his fans. It was an incredible experience with everyone on the project throwing in their time just for the fun of it. It’s been a blast to be a part of from start to finish — we hope the friends of Frank enjoy watching it as much as we did making it.” — Thomas Jane
After you come up with your own system for generating ideas, the next step is to put them in some recognizable story form (the basic plot idea), build your central conflict (the story premise sheet), then build your character and underlying themes (the thematic premise sheet).
The plot involves the Protagonist’s search for a person, place or thing, tangible or intangible (but must be quantifiable, so think of this as a noun; i.e., immortality). In Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, the stoner best friends go on a journey to find the ultimate late night munchies.
This plot involves the Protagonist going in search of their fortune, and since fortune is never found at home, the Protagonist goes to search for it in unfamiliar territory.
This plot literally involves hide-and-seek, one person chasing another.
This plot involves the Protagonist searching for someone or something, usually consisting of three main characters – the Protagonist, the Victim & the Antagonist.
Plot involves the Protagonist taking action(s) that is motivated by a higher purpose (concept) such as love, honor, charity or for the sake of humanity.
Retaliation by Protagonist or Antagonist against the other for real or imagined injury. In Oldboy, revenge knows no limits.
Plot involves the Protagonist’s search for clues to find the hidden meaning of something in question that is deliberately enigmatic or ambiguous.
Plot involves Protagonist competing for same object or goal as another person (their rival).
Plot involves a Protagonist competing for an object or goal that is at a great disadvantage and is faced with overwhelming odds.
Plot involves a Protagonist that for one reason or another is induced or persuaded to do something that is unwise, wrong or immoral.
Plot involves the Protagonist facing a problem that is part of growing up, and from dealing with it, emerging into a state of adulthood (going from innocence to experience). In The Lion King, young Simba matures into a king after dealing with an uncle that hates on his throne.
Plot involves the process of change in the Protagonist as they journey through a stage of life that moves them from one significant character state to another.
This plot involves the physical characteristics of the Protagonist actually changing from one form to another (reflecting their inner psychological identity).
Plot involves the Protagonist overcoming the obstacles to love that keeps them from consummating (engaging in) true love.
Plot involves Protagonist(s) overcoming obstacles created by social mores and taboos to consummate their relationship (and sometimes finding it at too high a price to live with).
Plot involves a Protagonist confined against their will who wants to escape (does not include someone trying to escape their personal demons). In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne goes through a tunnel of shit to get his life back.
Plot that is the most character-centered of all, involves the Protagonist having to overcome an upheavel(s) in their life, and thereby discovering something important (and buried) within them a better understanding of life (i.e., better appreciation of their life, a clearer purpose in their life, etc.)
Plot involves a Protagonist who, either by choice or by accident, pushes the limits of acceptable behavior to the extreme and is forced to deal with the consequences (generally deals with the psychological decline of the character).
Rags-to-riches plot deals with the rise (success) of Protagonist due to a dominating character trait that helps them to succeed.
Riches-to-rags plot deals with the fall (destruction) of Protagonist due to dominating character trait that eventually destroys their success.
(Note: Sometimes #19 & #20 are combined into rags-to-riches-to-rags (or vice versa) of a Protagonist who does (or doesn’t) learn to deal with their dominating character trait.)
> IDEAS, PLOTS & USING THE PREMISE SHEETS | Tennessee Screenwriting Association
The Vice trip begins: Graffiti Artist, inveterate gambler, and lifelong “rider of the rails” David Choe hitchhikes his way across these United States by (other people’s) trains, cars, and boats.
