John Safran Vs God is making me fall about. He certainly walks the walk - drinking that whole filthy jar of peyote tea, and getting excruciatingly whacked by the roshi! Respect for that.
I couldn't work out, in the koan bit, whether he was genuinely interested and puzzled, or just acting that way. Either way it was a hoot. I loved the monks quietly pissing themselves when he left. "WTF was that?" in Japanese.
See, he reckoned that if God was Jewish, He would help Safran's AFL team win.
So there were shots of John Safran visiting the Wailing Wall, and other noteable areas of Jerusalem, and finally he decided to do a streak.
Very funny stuff - and, yes, his team won.
He also had a voodoo curse put on an ex-girlfriend, was baptised as an Evangelican Christian, and such.
Oh yeah, and I forgot his analysis of Diensyland. He tried - and failed - to get them to personalise his Mickey mouse ears with Satan and Hitler (I think in the end they refused everything but Stalin), he asked if Walt was cryogenically frozen, and he showed you how to sneak in for free.
Race Around the world refused to air his final documentary, which consisteed of hidden-camera footage of him confessing various sins to Catholic priests in Rome, and then comparing the penance they gave him.
Instead, they showed his audition tape. The audition tape was supposed to start with a few seconds of black, but John's started with a bright yellow screen, followed by the caption:
Sorry.
The shop was all out of black, so I had to use yellow.
(or something similar)
This meant he was no chance of winning the judges' prize, but he did win the audience choice.
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Date: 2005-09-23 01:13 am (UTC)Very entertaining, and a lot more intelligent than some of his onscreen antics would have you believe.
He was accompanied by Shane Paxton, and the debate between the two of them was very lively.
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Date: 2005-09-23 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-23 01:26 am (UTC)He streaked thru Jerusalem to prove that God was Jewish. Much wackiness.
He has an onscreen persona of a geeky nerd who just stumbles into these things, but he's far mre intelligent than that...
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Date: 2005-09-23 01:30 am (UTC)I couldn't work out, in the koan bit, whether he was genuinely interested and puzzled, or just acting that way. Either way it was a hoot. I loved the monks quietly pissing themselves when he left. "WTF was that?" in Japanese.
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Date: 2005-09-23 01:43 am (UTC)So there were shots of John Safran visiting the Wailing Wall, and other noteable areas of Jerusalem, and finally he decided to do a streak.
Very funny stuff - and, yes, his team won.
He also had a voodoo curse put on an ex-girlfriend, was baptised as an Evangelican Christian, and such.
Oh yeah, and I forgot his analysis of Diensyland. He tried - and failed - to get them to personalise his Mickey mouse ears with Satan and Hitler (I think in the end they refused everything but Stalin), he asked if Walt was cryogenically frozen, and he showed you how to sneak in for free.
Race Around the world refused to air his final documentary, which consisteed of hidden-camera footage of him confessing various sins to Catholic priests in Rome, and then comparing the penance they gave him.
Instead, they showed his audition tape. The audition tape was supposed to start with a few seconds of black, but John's started with a bright yellow screen, followed by the caption:
Sorry.
The shop was all out of black, so I had to use yellow.
(or something similar)
This meant he was no chance of winning the judges' prize, but he did win the audience choice.
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Date: 2005-09-23 03:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-23 03:23 am (UTC)I loved Race Around the World.