{"id":273,"date":"2006-01-02T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T01:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/the_pitch"},"modified":"2006-01-02T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2006-01-03T01:52:08","slug":"the_pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2006\/01\/the_pitch.html","title":{"rendered":"The Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for seeing me. No, don&#8217;t get up. Oh, thanks, I&#8217;ve been good. How&#8217;s Linda doing? Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Heh, that&#8217;s what I like about you, man. Always down to business. Okay, here goes:<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s this guy, see, and he plays in this tiny little club in Podunkville that nobody&#8217;s ever heard of. You can&#8217;t find it on any map, it&#8217;s totally underground. Now sure, there are a lot of bands that play this place, but they&#8217;re all just retreading old shit. You know, dinosaurs. But this guy? He&#8217;s different. He&#8217;s a beast. He&#8217;s the fucking <em>King<\/em>. Anyway, even though it&#8217;s a small place that no one&#8217;s ever heard of, the natives, like, <em>worship<\/em> him. It&#8217;s all, like, his own private little island. Know what I&#8217;m saying?<\/p>\n<p>Now, what happens is, this sleazy producer hears about this place one day, you know the type &#8212; heh, right back atcha, man! &#8212; anyway, this <em>really<\/em> extra-sleazy producer type finds the place and brings his crew to check out the local talent. And this guy just blows &#8217;em away. They can&#8217;t believe what they&#8217;re seeing. They&#8217;ve got to have him. So they bring him to the city&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>How do they get him to the city? Oh, you know, the usual. Drugs, of course. And a hot chick. I&#8217;m thinking a Rachel McAdams type&#8230; well, anyway. That&#8217;s not so important. <\/p>\n<p>The point is, they bring him to the city. And the sleazy producer was dead-on, the dude is a mega-star. No one&#8217;s ever seen anything this big before. But it&#8217;s not all wine and roses, you know what I&#8217;m saying? First off, the contract &#8212; well, you know how these things work. The guy is basically a slave. And he&#8217;s feeling trapped, you know, like he&#8217;s in a cage. He&#8217;s not the same artist he was before. He&#8217;s not the fucking <em>King<\/em> anymore. So what does he do?<\/p>\n<p>He escapes his handlers! Breaks out! Goes on a fuckin&#8217; <em>rampage<\/em>. Wrecks half the city!<\/p>\n<p>What happens next? Well you know the rest. He takes on the city, the city destroys him. <em>Fin.<\/em> Tale as old as time. <\/p>\n<p>Aha. Yeah. Well, okay, I hear that. No, I realize you&#8217;ve got a bunch of biopics coming up, but this isn&#8217;t really a &#8212; no, I understand. No, that&#8217;s cool, makes sense. I mean, I think it&#8217;s got <em>some<\/em> appeal in the tween market, but if you don&#8217;t think &#8212; yeah, okay. Hey, I just appreciate you hearing me out, you know what I&#8217;m saying? Thanks, you too. Let&#8217;s get lunch sometime soon. Excellent. Talk to you later. Give my best to Linda&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Wait, what&#8217;s that? Sorry, I didn&#8217;t catch that, say again?<\/p>\n<p>Do I think there&#8217;s some way&#8230; to work in a monkey?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens next? Well you know the rest. He takes on the city, the city destroys him. <em>Fin.<\/em> Tale as old as time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}