Pockets is famous???? no..... really??

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Post by pockets » Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:17 am

hey dues and dudettes!

well, i uploaded a video to the intersnet on youtube, and it went a bit viral. its been posted on tons of forums and has become another fecking star wars kid.
heres the vid.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XAg5KjnAhuU

as i type this im sitting at 167,202 views (I've filled wembley stadium twice!!!!!)
i was also on a tv show in the US called "attack of the show" where they listed the top 5 internet videos and i was placed number one.
here is the link to that...
http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/aro ... 01008.html

so i would like to do my first big gig in the forest, like, big, like, where i dont have to worry about sound, and like, yeah.

anyone wanna help? do you know anyone who might play too?

much love!!!!

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Post by swithun » Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:57 am

You are da man, Pockets. I'd give my 3rd testicle to be the new Star Wars Kid. You will have to learn the Numa Numa song on the ukelele.

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Post by ravanwin » Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:38 am

shane or nix would help with sound and white heath could play or tebble? loads of folks. let me know if you need a hand mr. famous
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Post by chris » Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:21 am

wow! great work famous dude!
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Post by Newington Bandit » Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:23 am

I've been forwarding the link to my friends... turns out they've already seen it (and loved it!), they say you're their new musical hero, well done!!

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Post by pockets » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:00 pm

cheers guys.

I was thinking along the lines of ukulele/fucked up instruments night.
but heath are so awesome!

um ok, so i will eventually start planning this, and asking people in person to give me a hand.
so ya. umm.... woot and all that.

pockets aka "the Ryan lover" hmmmm
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Post by Jimmy Bastard » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:23 pm

What if someone who hangs out in the forest community became famous, and I mean big time, the kind of fame which lasts for thousands of years even unlike JK rolling in it who will be forgotten in a generation or three.
What if the individual in question who has become famous felt that they were abused by the forest comunity artistically at least? A bit of a bummer for the forest surely.
With that in mind, and basic human decency, without crass politeness, the forest arts comunity needs to start thinking about its atitude towards the members of the said community.
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Post by michaelbowdidge » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:22 pm

251,786 views when I looked - That's a brilliant clip - well done!
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Post by James » Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:28 am

is talking about yourself in the 3rd person the 1st sign your losing touch with reality? :-P
nice one
we added a view last night, 250,000+

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Post by pockets » Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:05 pm

I got this email yesterday, do you think its a fake?
Hello my name is Bryan and I'm with the American show "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." I recently saw your performance online using your KazooKeylele. I'd love to talk with you more about a possible appearance on our show.

Can you send me an email and/or phone number?

Thanks,
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

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Post by ravanwin » Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:18 pm

no. that sounds insanely real. you're going to california! i speak american if you need someone to go with you. i am an expert.

i wonder who will be on the show with you?
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Post by James » Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:31 pm

only one way to find out .... phone them ... (he might not like it that you posted a private phone number in public tho)
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Post by laura » Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:27 pm

The Tonight Show does have a talent co-ordinator called Bryan Branly. The NBC studios they fil it in are in Burbank California, which is also the area code of the telephone number you have been given.

May be fake, but can't rule out it being real either.
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Post by Mia.S. » Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:05 pm

I speak American too. I've never actually been there, but I'm sure if I use the word "like" at least ten times per sentence I'll be warmly welcomed. Also, I really, really (RLY) want to see Jay Leno's car collection.
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Post by michaelbowdidge » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:45 pm

only one way to find out - gotta ring the number dude.... (don't forget the time difference though :)

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Post by pockets » Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:04 pm

cheers for removing the number...


well i called it and its 100% real. they want me to do a christmas song. so im assuming the christmas season.

they want me to send in a dvd with a few christmassy songs like an audition. then they will deside weather to have me or not.... fingers crossed eh.

also, im busking this sat on the mile at 3 and im gonn a neex some bodyguards.
i posted the gig on the video and tons of people said there gonna turn up.
its just 30mins, 3 till 3.30.

anyone interested, (i may need someone to hold a coamera too)

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Post by michaelbowdidge » Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:23 am

Way to go... what xmas songs are you gonna do?

BTW I'll try to get down on sat if i can...
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Post by pockets » Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:59 am

not decided yet, oh and another thing

just go tyoutube featured globally, sitting at half a million views now.
its just getting silly the amount of people watching me.
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Post by laura » Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:47 pm

You should cover Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight) by the Ramones!!

I think a cover of that would sound good on the kazookeylele - maybe it's not well known enough for the Tonight show though?
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Post by ken » Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:31 pm

sunday evening and it's just passed a million hits!!! wow
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Post by pockets » Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:51 pm

I'm looking foreward to the golden shower hour now. i have put a link on the video and if it works like the last advertisement then a lot of people will turn up.

oh and ryan, can i sell my cd's there?
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Post by ravanwin » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:53 am

of course you can.

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Post by amelia » Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:12 pm

I only just checked this out as I have been away and it really is great. It is musically perfect, entertaining, interesting and fun. I wish I was there to harmonise with you again, that was fun doing that spontaneous evening a while back. I am sorry I am not.

If you do do the american thing - I have a brother there I've never met, YET. All I know is he's working as a taxi driver in New York, he was born in Hungary and his father is called Dezso (pronounced deszh-er). Feel free to announce he has a sister who would like to meet him. There is another brother in Hungary working in a healing mud place.

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Post by amelia » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:57 am

He knows about his brother though, they had the same parents. I am their baby sister, their only sister, and I don't even know their names but we would share the same surname. I was told quite by accident about their existence by a British relative :!:

I could come to America with you - I speak it and others, and my brother can drive us around from gig to gig and then all of the award ceremonies that will follow. I can share quality time getting to know him, while you get to know your exponentially growing american fanbase, calling upon me to harmonize with you when you will and perhaps throwing in the odd percussion...

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Post by amelia » Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:08 am

Or the odd high C seeing as my range allows for a high D. As a choir girl I learnt many an angelic descant and most if not all Christmassy tunes. My brother could do lovely back up vocals I'm sure, as our father has a beautiful voice and we can jam as we drive...

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Post by Gandhi » Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:54 am

haha, you can tell your famous Pockets by the growing collection of potential hanger-ons...you'll have a full on entourage at this rate.
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Post by amelia » Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:22 am

Or is it because he is just a nice and sweet guy with his heart in the right place ? I don't understand the fame concept other than the reason of people wanting to gain wealth from it. Better to have a wealth of something to give them. Pockets has this.

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Post by spark » Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:06 pm

Of course, hitler also became famous. Name and fame is a very plastic aim and object.
What camera do you use pockets? Did you get help from the forest? Is it help and support that others have access to? Or are only certain types supppoted by the forest. Brag on the web when you have actually done something of world service and not some plastic video for kids and adult kids.
Anyway, I wish you all the best, I really do. And others, ALL others. Once you are in holywood sleeping with the rich and famous, perhaps we can all get access to the forest equipment and not have someone in there who fills their own pockets. Or am I talking about others here? I don't claim to be an expert on forest intestines, but the function of intestines is to reject.
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Post by neil » Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:33 pm

i believe hitler never actually died in that bunker, and that he and pockets are ONE AND THE SAME!!!!!!

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Post by Jimmy Bastard » Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:10 pm

Brag on the web when you have actually done something of world service and not some plastic video for kids and adult kids.
Wait a second, your poxy, nebulous arguments and petty gripes have stalled so far you are now reduced to associating Pockets with Hitler and then you pathetically pepper the rest of your post with peace and loveims in a misguided attempt to gain some moral high ground.
Maybe and it is just a maybe I'm guessing your quarrel has something to do with your personality.
Worse than all of this your a sodding bore. Cease the trait.
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Post by Susana » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:39 pm

In case anybody is interested they are selling right now an ukelele at OXfam, Nicolson St (£20) 8)
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Post by nix » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:53 pm

Dear Spark..

I don't know who you are.

I am Nix.

this is the name people know me by.

I would love to meet you and talk to you, as t seems you have a really wrong idea of what the Forest is. and it would be great to help you gain some understanding and for me to understand why you feel like this.

please PM me and we can arange a meeting.

thanks.

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Post by ravanwin » Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:04 pm

why would you waste your time?

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Post by swithun » Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:29 pm

Move over, P Dog. The Whassup? dudes are back.

Whassup? 2008.

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Post by michaelbowdidge » Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:25 am

Oh do give it a rest Spark.... Why are you always assuming the worst about everything and everyone and being so bloody negative? Would you rather the Forest shut down and turned into another Starbucks? I mean, you make Pockets sound like some kind of power-crazed megalomaniac intent on world domination...

(*pauses for thought*)

Hmmmmm... actually, you might have a point there for once...
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Post by amelia » Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:21 am

I am a little knowledgeable with intestines, I have had that many digestives issues, and I would use the words absorbtion and filtering.
Filtering what is good for the body from what is to be rejected, finally. I am still eating only green things but am doing this Butekyo breathing course beginning this week for my hyperventilating or tendency to breathe out way more CO2 than I breathe in O. It is very common but usually is given a whole stack of many different names due to all of the problems you get from inadequate breathing. Smooth muscles, like those that form the organs such as intestines require CO2...and the heart. Heartburn often is usually inappropriate breathing, also panic attacks ie thinking the bad is going to occur is from inadequate breathing. There are about 20 others...the brain's arteries dialate only from enough CO2...

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amelia wrote:I am a little knowledgeable with intestines, I have had that many digestives issues, and I would use the words absorbtion and filtering.
Filtering what is good for the body from what is to be rejected, finally. I am still eating only green things but am doing this Butekyo breathing course beginning this week for my hyperventilating or tendency to breathe out way more CO2 than I breathe in O. It is very common but usually is given a whole stack of many different names due to all of the problems you get from inadequate breathing. Smooth muscles, like those that form the organs such as intestines require CO2...and the heart. Heartburn often is usually inappropriate breathing, also panic attacks ie thinking the bad is going to occur is from inadequate breathing. There are about 20 others...the brain's arteries dialate only from enough CO2...
congrats amelia! you've just won the award for the most off-topic post ever on the bb!

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Post by Shannon » Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:00 pm

I think amelia was demonstrating a tried and true tactic used in the online world to deal with trolls:
Pick up some little piece of what they've written and derail the thread like crazy. Ignore aforementioned troll and give prizes for the most amusing derailment. Repeat until you get bored or realise you're supposed to be working/doing something productive.

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Post by stephengoodall » Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:24 pm

one forum i've seen just quotes morrissey songs until the troll shuts up.
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Post by James » Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:44 pm

Would that still work if Morrisey was the troll? (Dah dah dahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhH!)

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Post by simone » Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:20 pm

i can't believe you just suggested that james!
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Post by Gandhi » Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:39 am

Pockets, I suggest that you and I should hang out as I am ridiculously famous too. Take a look around the Forest and you'll see posters of people trying to hunt me down so they can bask in my glorious and sensual fame. Most of them want to touch me inapropriately which is a prospect I am both scared and aroused by. If you want to hang out and talk down at the non famous losers then let me know.
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Post by pockets » Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:49 am

holy shit, this topic exploded, lol. umm so yeah.

1. big up the forest wherever i go, it nutured me creativly for the last few years!
2. I love everyone in the forest, even if you dont love me!
3. Im out for world domination (not)
4. I shot it on my own camera (high 8)

so yeah, there you go. anymore questions?
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Post by Susana » Tue Nov 04, 2008 5:21 am

Chapeau my friend!!!! Congrats. :P
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Post by spark » Tue Nov 04, 2008 5:17 pm

More questions?
Where do you take it next? Or do you wait and see what offers come?
U tube is new yet seems to convert to TV invites which perhaps says something about u tube, if that is where the TV invite came from, is it?
Sorry if I am not being negative today folks, actually, pockets may shake my hand one day and thank me for keeping his feet on the ground.
Anyway, stop stealing pocket's thunder and going off topic, especially you negative types. :lol:
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