Ha, haa! That's great, Red Shirt! I think that video really nails the tone I was thinking about with this project: not quite a comedy, but not a straight drama, either.
Quasi-silly... yeah, that sums it up nicely.
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Ha, haa! That's great, Red Shirt! I think that video really nails the tone I was thinking about with this project: not quite a comedy, but not a straight drama, either.
Quasi-silly... yeah, that sums it up nicely.
I wonder if we could get Michael Swann to do the intro for us :yay:Quote:
Originally Posted by Litmaster
While not "official" two of my brothers are trying to get it together and go with us. So add two more to the growing list.
Add Witch Doctor-- he's in!Quote:
Originally Posted by 7oddisdead
We're going to have a bigger tour entourage than Metallica :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Litmaster
So just reviewing for the audio-drama content.
we have the ex military teacher from new England, the Virginian fascinated by the occult. The fresh faced rn grad from Ohio. The British "stranger in a strange land", the mechanic brothers, and a travelling survivalist with a penchant for dying first.
no need to create characters..this shit could write itself.
Which one's carrying the obligatory crossbow? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by 7oddisdead
My brother Caleb. He actually would.
We absolutely have to pitch this idea to HBO!
As the Englishman of the group, I shall be wielding a sturdy cricket bat as my weapon of choice :)
nice. That truck I'm building right now? Its got a spot designed into it for hanging my flat black Louisville slugger in easy reach. So I'm the Ying to your yangQuote:
Originally Posted by tonyhind86
When I first announced to my friends and colleagues that I was coming over to the States, they kept saying things like "make sure you're well prepared"
They have NO idea :D
I'll just stroll along with my little golf club.....
Convoy, Metallica... I thought of this:Quote:
Originally Posted by tonyhind86
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKKc4SrZyJ8
Have you seen the new Metallica film, "Through the Never"? It proves that their music makes the perfect soundtrack for an apocalyptic event :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Shirt
...and two rednecks with big ass beards!Quote:
Originally Posted by 7oddisdead
Heeeeeeeeeell yea... maybe we just need to create amped-up, cartoonish versions of ourselves...
You know, like our Forum personas: the idealized version of ourselves that we always wanted to be, if we were not ourselves, but wished that we were. Wait, what?
I'll be driving down separately from Northern California for the Finale. I'd like to meet the convoy near Barstow/Fort Irwin, and accompany you into LA.
I've been tracking visitor information for Fort Irwin. Unfortunately there aren't any of the "Inside the Box" public tours on the calendar for July, but that is subject to change. At a minimum it should be possible to get on the base, see the armor museum and a few of the sights. I'm in the process of reaching out to old Army buddies to see if anyone has any connections we can use to get special access at Irwin. Once that's done I'll contact the base Public Affairs Office to see what can be arranged.
I'll be coming in a decent-sized SUV in case you need to spread out a bit for the final leg of the trip.
Sadly there isn't much to see in Barstow...a nice McDonalds built into old train cars but that's about it.
I'm happy to help with planning for the LA tour. Has anyone heard what the venue will be yet?
firstly...sounds awesome man. glady meet up with ya in Barstow and head over to Irwin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cabbage Patch
if you find anything out about Irwin, let myself or lit know. personally I get a bit weird about visiting places like that. I just feel like its not a place civilians like myself should be tourists at, but if the group wants to go...the group wants to go. :)
personally, if we find the phone booth near Barstow that jonny depp made the call from in fear and loathing in las vegas..my life would be complete!!
again, get in touch with me or lit on the la tour, we have a couple ideas we should spitball around between the three of us. and the venue isn't confirmed yet...but we will all know at the same time...so yea. @me or fb or text sometime when ya can. well hammer out the details.
good to have ya onboard as a local!(ish)
Every time I come to this thread I just want to go on this more and more! And I have two swords in a double scabbard (gotta love stalkers who give you weapons)... I will stick with those as weapons for this. Maybe a bow as well
And it was -6 degrees here when I woke up this morning with a windchill of -15 to -30... My hair was still wet and literally froze on my way out to my car to go to class. Can we just go to California now? I'll take their version of cold...
Probably best to leave the armaments at home. California has surprisingly strict, highly technical weapons laws that seem designed to trip you up. And LA County just enacted ridiculous knife control laws (no folding blades longer than 3", restrictions on carrying any edged weapon in any public place, etc.). If the SHTF while you're here I'd be happy to help you arm up.Quote:
Originally Posted by kek
I don't know, it barely hit 60 yesterday, and it's been getting near freezing at night!Quote:
Originally Posted by kek
California "Cold" is like shorts weather for everyone else! :)
My only weapon will be my English charm :)
Heh... I'm gonna make your character creepy like Pippen.Quote:
Originally Posted by tonyhind86
July is gonna be nice and hot :D
Something tells me I'll fit into the role nicely :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Litmaster
I've just been thinking - we should get a bedsheet, write the words "We're Alive" on it, and tie it to the side of the convoy truck.
I'm going to visit an army surplus store and ser if I can get a set of old camo fatigues, and stitch my forum username onto it as a nametag
This sounds like an amazing trip... Yall better take alot of pics for the forum!!!!!!
If i had not of made a few out of state hunting plans i think i'd have tried to make it...but spending waaayyy too much money as is..
For curiosities sake and the potential for me to join up on this endeavor:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cabbage Patch
Gerbers, Lerthermans and Victorinox Swiss tools... where do they fall in this legislation? Most of them have two folding pocket knife sized blades that also lock for safety and are roughly threeish inches long. Is there even a "standard" for measuring the blade? Mine is at the threshold where it could go either way. The entire blade itself is just over three, but the part that extends beyond the tool body is under three.
They are of course meant to be tools and not weapons, but it's not my/our place to "challenge" local ordinances as visitors.
If you've ever listened to or watched Rooster Teeth, Gavin has said that having an English accent in America is like having a super power.Quote:
Originally Posted by tonyhind86
If you are "that kind of guy", you might have your hands full here in the states. :cool:
Hi Convoyites,
I just woke up (at 2:39 a.m. on a workday) with yet another great idea for the WA Convoy trip. Well, this one is more of a detailed clarification on some previous ideas. Suffice to say that I've figured out a way to use the artistic talents of everyone going on the WA Convoy, AND how to incorporate ALL of the various multimedia devices we will be taking with us, into the creation of one, united, fan fiction project that will
- be fun as hell to make
- exercise some of your own unique, creative talents
- document our trip for future memories
- share that documentation with other Forumites who can vicariously participate
- pay tribute to the audio drama we all know and love
So how are we going to accomplish all that in just a few days together? I think there is a way we can do it that will be fun as hell, and I think you all will really dig it. But it's going to take awhile to explain the details of the full idea, so let me start tonight by giving some background on why I hate conventional trips and tours in the next post (trying to avoid too much of a word wall).
(WTF Lit? Relax, it's relevant, but I first need to contrast the boring stuff I don't like in order to introduce the awesome antithesis that I am proposing. Just bear with me for two more posts...)
In California the blade length for a folding knife is the length of the sharpened edge, typically measured from the tip to the point where the sharpened edge ends near the hinge:Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Shirt
http://www.akti.org/images/9.jpg
As for items intended as tools, there is no exception for them in the law. This will probably all get straightened out once the law is tested in court, but who wants to be the poor schmuck who pays the legal costs for that?
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Originally Posted by Cabbage Patch
Dang..that alone would keep me out of the state...i rarely leave home without my M&P let alone my knife...My SOG(trident goes with me everywhere....it would be like leaving my wallet..
just to weigh in on this, I know ill have a decent sized tool kit along for the trip just in case. id say if your like me red, you like to travel with something. cant say as I blame ya there. and I know your main reason for asking was curiosity more than desire...but if need be toss the leatherman in the tool kit. I swear if the po-po hassles us over a multi tool it will be my last trip to cali....
as for the rest of us. leave your props at home folks.. :D with me and my brother on the trip, we'll be cop magnets as is (it just always happens, not my fault I swear!!!)
WHY LIT HATES PACKAGED TRIPS/TOURS
I don't really hate them, I just think, for the most part, they are incredibly boring and never really seem to get at the heart, the essence, of what the trip/tour is supposed to be presenting you with. Let me try to explain what I mean...
EXAMPLE #1: PACKAGED VACATIONS: Imagine a group of people all go on a trip to Rome. "Oh, Marcy, you'll never believe how fabulous our trip was! So much history there! (I'm imagining a New Jersey accent, for some reason) So many monuments! Oh, and look at this one: our tour guide brought up right up to the Roman Coliseum, can you believe that! Oh, will you just look at those arches!"
http://chstravelclub.edublogs.org/fi...4-1024x768.jpg
So people usually take a standard group photo like the one above, and that constitutes one piece of their documentation of this fabulous, unforgettable trip. Yeah....
EXAMPLE #2: PACKAGED TOURS Many people like 'packaged' tours to fabulous locations. You know what I'm saying... they pay a few grand to hop on an 'all expenses paid' cruise ship to Brazil, where there is then arranged a carefully planned and guided tour bus chauffeuring them to witness ALL THE VAST, UNTAMED, WILD BEAUTY OF THE AMAZON RAINFOREST!!!
http://www.princetontourcompany.com/...tour%20017.JPG
Wow! Just look at those smiles! So they sit there on their ass and snap pictures of the monkeys and shit from the comfort and safety of their tour bus, while the guide tells them local trivia of indigenous parrots or whatever, while everyone 'oohs and 'aahs'. If their lucky, they might even get to walk a short way INTO the vast, untamed rainforest, guided to a pre-planned spot which just happens to be the very same spot that every other group is ushered too, thus leaving telltale signs of their presence (footprints, dropped candy wrappers) on the floor of this 'vast, untamed rainforest' they have all paid money to witness in person... :rolleyes:
Are you guys feeling what I'm getting at, here?
Now compare those 'canned' experiences with:
EXAMPLE #3: THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION Okay, let's set aside all the politics of the situation and focus on the essence of the trip itself: essentially, it was a journey into the unknown. A group of people heading westward across a vast, unmapped, 'undiscovered' land (okay, by the white dudes I mean), in order to discover what was there.
http://images.fineartamerica.com/ima...vers-wyeth.jpg
And they probably never looked like this picture, but whatever. The point I'm making here is that the trip, for them anyway, was a true adventure. Untamed. Unguided. Trackless wilderness. Risk. Danger. No guarantee of success or even safety. A trip containing all the essence and drama of a great adventure... and the telling of a great story.
Think about how very different of an experience that is from the safe, canned, carefully prescribed trips like in the first two examples. Example #3 really was a true adventure, while the first two examples are merely canned adventures--people on the outside looking in, from behind the glass, on places and events that happened long ago, to someone else... but not to them.
I contest that people who pay money to go on canned trips and tours to witness historical events and exciting locations never REALLY see what they are paying to see, and never REALLY experience what they are paying to experience. It all becomes a fabrication.... fake.... a false caricature of itself. (this is also partly why I hate amusement parks, but that's a different story)
I think, by participating in this fan fiction project, we will be able to turn this trip into an true adventure, albeit a fictional one. While it is enjoyable for some to simply snap pictures and take videos of shit we see and do along the way, I think we can do better than that. I think we can make it more interesting for people on the forum to follow along. I think we can make it more creative, and thus more fun.
Like Lewis and Clark, we will be traveling west, following in the footsteps of a great story. At the same time, we will be creating a great story of our own. I think I've figured out how to merge these two elements in a way that is NOT canned or false, and that can put us all INTO the essence of the story, instead of us looking at it from the outside... from behind the glass.
My next post will give details on exactly how we can do that. Stay tuned.
dude, your mildly insane. I personally love it.
I know im on board, and I believe I know what your thinking...should add to the already epic-ness of the trip.
btw...pic number two makes me laugh my ass off, but I am slightly boozed up at the moment
:hsugh:
OH, also some transport info may be incoming in the next day or so
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Originally Posted by kek
May the 8th? :zombieglomp:
Hey, there's a living and a dead Puck. It can work.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7oddisdead
I'll be the token Black guy. Wait, that never turns out well, does it?Quote:
Originally Posted by tonyhind86
Oh snap!
I <3 you doc!
your dehaventon right? I need to @ ya
Yeppers.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7oddisdead
This sounds like an awesome trip! I hope you all have a fantastic time. I'll be living vicariously through all of the videos and such.
Okay, fine. I'll be sulking and jealous in the corner. :p