-A porn soundtrack scored by Mozart
-The sun melting into a dixie cup
-Re-runs of the Big Bang on cable
-Every leader of each major religion waking up hung over in bed with each other
Planetofthegrapes.com houses humor-oriented projects, generally described as absurd,
subversive, and irreverent, but more celebratory than negative. We cannot claim to have
a specific manifesto or agenda, but what we make and the people we tend to attract
is generally progressive and open-minded, a bit fed up with the shallow
promises of consumerism as a substitute for authentic experience and
connection. Not ones to mope, however, we insist on laughing
and enjoying life, using the contradictions, vanity, and power plays going on
around us as fodder to turn these very things on their ears, laugh, poke, prod,
and sustain hope that we can do something to contribute to humanity
moving toward the light of unity, dignity, equality, and yes, more joy.
Part of that involves shaking loose the assumptions and crust
of your collected experience, getting outside yourself. We try to
do it through rational brain-destroying humor sometimes. Mystics
do it through meditation, some do it through drugs; but be careful with that,
drugs follow the law of diminishing returns. (That was a POTG PSA)
We very much want this to become more of a collective thing. Many of you
now know us through the parties we've had, the smallest of which still
had such an impact on many attendees because of the realness and community
presented (just ask Omar Lewis if you want a second opinion!) Those parties
seem to have planted a seed that's still growing, but we need other people
to help big time if we are to continue them. Or perhaps you have an idea for a shirt that
might jive with the shirts you see on our shirt page. You can submit your designs
if you wish. Perhaps you have suggestions for our radio show. Or perhaps
you have a project entirely your own that you feel gels with the Planet of the
Grapes sensibilities. Let's see it. We have a forum we have started, and
we want to open it up to you, start our own scene, together. Of course,
financial compensation would be appropriately divided according
to the work put into a project in cases where an income is generated.
A newer, cleaner, more user-friendly planetofthegrapes.com
is coming down the pike in early spring 2009, so they'll be a beautiful new
center for all of these things we are hereby talking about.
Thanks for being open to this and please ask us any questions you may have.
With 80s film star Willow on board as the show's producer, hosts Deaze Beans, Yahdderman, and U.B. Jackson enjoy using the clearest, most advanced phone system in the world. They navigate and mediate through an array of arguments, advice, politics, self-promotion, romance, and more from the strange callers and guests who populate the POTG Radio airwaves. Clips can be heard on this MySpace player. Downloads and Podcasts are available.
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T-SHIRTS They're our walking statements of visual art, prompting many a laugh and head-scratch.
What many are calling the Zagat's Survey for bathrooms. Each entry provides pictures and a stylized review of publicly accessible bathrooms in New York City. A forum on the Planet of the Grapes home page allows users to post their own reviews and pics. The site also features write-ups of San Francisco bathroom reviews. A sample of a bathroom review slideshow can be found below.
STUN Lists are a form of writing invented by Planet of the Grapes in the late 1990s. A prominent professor of literature has gone on record saying, "STUN Lists may very well be the next haikus."
Like haikus or zen koans ("if a tree falls in the forest..."), STUN Lists can only truly be understood by reading and experiencing them. Structurally, STUNs contain a title, twelve entries, and a signature. A given entry may utilize a variety of devices, delivering short bits of poetic prose, dialogue, word play, and most often just a rambling, detached narrative voice to achieve bizarre, abstract, and in some cases even hallucinogenic effects. The eighth entry can never be numbered "8," the tenth entry must contain a brief (usually two-word) idea, and the twelfth entry must mention failure in some way, insuring the author will be compelled to write future STUN Lists.
Several examples of STUNs can be found in the MySpace blogs further up on this page.
Yes videos are something of a motion picture equivalent of STUN Lists: they take you outside of yourself by destroying rational thought.
They can be found on POTG Media's YouTube profile.
For those who remember music here: our resident musicians, Nuclear O'Reilly, now have their own site and profiles to provide more clarity and distinctions between the humor and music (the music is not necessarily humorous). In fact, Nuclear O'Reilly is now doing more composing for hire: motion picture and live performance soundtracks, beats, songs for recording artists...please find them at nuclearoreilly.com, as well as their profile here on MySpace, their Facebook fan page, and YouTube!
You don't look for trouble, but often it finds you. "I had nothing better to do" is your mantra/alibi/confession. You enjoy wearing sneakers and little else and have been accused of Peter Pan syndrome, hedonism, and voting Libertarian. You consider Total cereal to be gourmet food and exclusively use bar soap.
P.S. Soularia performed their unreleased track "Life Is Unbelivable"on a 2 square meter balcony on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_jsLIo3zcg, and if you like, leave a comment and / or rate it on the utube site
Hope your cool, just passin thru 2 bless your page, if you ain't heard my tracks... Come take a listen and drop me a comment with some feedback.... Thanx
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