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Friday, 2 January 2009

SuperAwesome Sean Rodrieguez' Wild Adventures #2

The Story of Sean Rodrieguez’ Alcohol Rehab

Featuring today’s guest star: Grant Hancock 


(Hint: He's The Drunk One.)

“Sean…Sean…”


The room was dark, very dark. I couldn’t see anything in fact. Had I gone blind? Had the previous New Year’s Eve’s night of debauchery ended terribly? Was I dead? I lay pondering these questions and thinking of the beginnings of a new, more efficient theory of relativity as a voice called out my name from somewhere else in the room. As a man of such incredible sexual prowess I can actually impregnate people’s pets by stroking them (an ability that caused my upcoming television advert for the RSPCA to be banned) I was more than used to hearing a voice calling my name in the morning, but this was different, this was a male voice. Something was definitely wrong.

I realized this fact was definitely true was I attempted to move and found that it felt as though an angry barbarian had taken a sledgehammer to my skull. My limbs were paralysed. Perhaps this was where it would end for me, perhaps some evil mastermind had taken offence to my sheer, effortless perfection in all area’s and captured me in my drunken partying, sedated me, blindfolded me and tied me down to this bed. This would not stand. Sean Rodrieguez wasn’t going out like this.

“Sean can you hear me Sean?” the voice called out again, this time cackling malevolently afterward.

I’d be damned if I was going to be laughed at. I summoned all of my strength and willed my limbs to move. Miraculously I sat up and realizing my strength had returned dived, screaming like a banshee toward the voice. I landed a sublime right handed punch on whoever or whatever it was and the voice screamed in pain, crashing backward into a TV set in the corner of the room with a sickening crunch of glass, plastic and bones.


My vision refocused, I realized a few alarming facts.

First of all, I wasn’t in some kind of evil madman’s secret dungeon awaiting to be tortured slowly to death, I was in some kind of living room. Across the room a younger couple lay in a fold out bed looking at me in open mouthed awe or perhaps shock. This was a reaction I was fairly used to by now but this time something seemed different. 


“Why are they staring?” I wondered as the body of what I thought was my captor groaned in the wreckage of what used to be his home entertainment set up. 

It was then I realized I was stark naked and looking down I still had a condom sheathed around my gigantic love stump. Reaching to my knee I pulled off the condom and in a moment not so rare to me I looked around to see where I’d been lay moments before, surely my bed partner would still be there, waiting for a bout of passionate morning after sex?

It appeared I had been lay on a sofa and from under the duvet bounded a small, white dog who barked happily, winked at me and ran off to god knows where. 

I felt perhaps this time I had gone too far. Perhaps it was time for me to quit drinking. Not one for apologies I quickly winked at the girl in the fold out bed, causing her to orgasm so hard the plate glass patio windows next to her smashed and put my suit back on. Her boyfriend (I assume) ran at me in anger for (I assume) pleasing his girlfriend more than (I know) he ever could. As he was about to strike me I put on my Ray Ban’s and knocked them down my nose. The boy froze.

“Thanks for keeping her warm for me” I said, clicking my fingers into a gun and pointing my index finger at him.

With that I walked over to the television set to see just who I’d brutally incapacitated. I was mildly surprised to see it was my ever trusty sidekick Grant Hancock. He lay groaning in the shards of glass and plastic. I smiled, relieved I’d hit a person I knew.


“Rough night eh Granty Boy?” I questioned
“Urrrrrrrgh” Grant replied.

I felt kind of bad about the whole affair so I counted out £2,000 worth of £20 notes onto his prone body to pay for the television.

“Keep the change” I insisted. With that I walked out of the house, stopping en route to give the dog I’d apparently slept with my business card. From there I got into my Rolls Royce Phantom and drove top speed back to my palatial estate in Barlaston stopping only when a female police officer stopped me for drink driving which I got out of by bending her over the front of her police cruiser and making sweet passionate love to her whilst passing by cars honked their horns in approval.

As I arrived home to my estate and handed my keys over to Jive’s the Butler I considered what I’d thought earlier. Had I gone too far? Was it time to quit the booze for good and all? Like all my decisions I decided to relax before making it.

I walked into my spa complex and paused for a moment to soak in the opulence of the place. White marble covered every surface, my iTunes selection played quietly in the background on hidden speakers. I pulled out my platinum pill dispenser from my suit jacket and popped two paracetamol. Then, in my Armani suit, climbed into my 16 man Jacuzzi to think about my rehab and recover from my hangover. Floating there in the foamy delight of the water, my long blonde hair splayed around my superbly featured head I mused about life, philosophy, women and just which publisher I’d let publish my next bestseller.

Somewhere on the other side of the room I could hear my man made 30 foot water fall splashing playfully into it’s plunge pool or it could have been my fountain in a likeness of me pissing onto a globe whilst smoking a cigar and giving all onlookers a thumbs up. I gave up deciding which it was and climbed out of the Jacuzzi, feeling fresh and invigorated. I stripped out of my suit and handed the ruined thing to Amelie my French maid who knew only how to say the English phrases “Would you like a beer?” and “You look great naked, sir.”


“You look great naked, sir” She said in her cute accent.
“Why thanks doll.” I replied
“Would you like a beer?” She asked

WOULD I like a beer? I remembered that before my relaxation time I was supposed to have made a decision about something roughly like that. Quit alcohol? Sure why not? What’s the worst that could happen?

“No thanks baby” I said, considering having sex with her later, “I’ve quit.”

There will now be daily updates with Sean Rodrieguez' Rehab Diary. Be sure to check in each day to see just how the man Time Magazine deemed unfair to name "Man of the Year" is getting on with his rehab. Updates should go up at 7pm GMT, but it really depends on whether he's getting any at that precise moment or not. Which as we all know is fairly likely.

Thursday, 1 January 2009

The Rodrieguez Lists #2: Where I can't use pictures right.

The Rodrieguez List’s: Because everybody loves a top ten li…oh shit already did that joke.

The SRSA (Sean Rodrieguez Super Awesome) Cool List.

As you may or not know some stupid magazine written by people less talented than myself called NME does what they dare deem a “Cool List” whereby they stroke the cocks (or the female equivalent) of celebrities and cause a lot of flocking scenester’s to suddenly begin to follow them and claim they always knew about them. (LINK) You can see their attempt here. But it occurred to me that they don’t really have a fucking clue as to what cool is. I, being super awesome, however do know what cool is. I’m basically the epitome of cool so it’s understandable that I’d “get” cool. I mean if Elvis hadn’t lived I’d have probably invented the word. 
So here, for posterity is the REAL cool list from the source of what cool really is which is basically this very blog you’re cool enough to be reading right now. Cause let’s face it, you’re a suave motherfucker.

10. Russell Brand

 

What he did: 

- Had long, gay but oddly enviable hair
- Caused vast lust among many, many females for no real reason.
- Appeared in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and made me realize he was funny.
- Claimed he fucked the butler from Fawlty Towers daughter, caused tabloids to wet themselves in gossip glee, half heartedly apologized and managed to come out of it just aces. Which is worthy of respect if anything because he probably did fuck the daughter.

Why he’s cool: When you can happily admit that a man could nail your own mother and you’d just shake his hand because he’s so cool. When a man can do this whilst wearing skinny jeans, cowboy boots with hair gayer than gay porn star’s holding a lubed up sign that reads “We’re really gay” you have to like, nay, respect him. When somebody who I wholeheartedly despised before this year can turn that table on me, he’s pretty fucking cool in my book.




9. Dave Walker



(Photo provided by Becki Birkett Photography. Taken from the album "Drunk Crazy Hobo's" out soon) 

What he did: 

- Had a bit of dance everywhere he went.
- Rocked the decks at the world’s (read: Stone’s) hottest bar: The Lounge
- Drank a concoction of drinks that included: Half a pint of Guinness, a shot of: Rum, Bacardi, Vodka, Jack Daniels, Southern Comfort, Gin and Tequila in 10 seconds with two straws
- Came onto every single woman he met the entire year, including my mother and YOUR mother.
- Took a world of abuse in everything I wrote and yet still called me funny.

Why he’s cool: When a man can turn alcoholism into a fine art and smack that many female asses his hand is actually appearing on wanted posters throughout the county, he deserves some semblance of respect. Dave’s cocky southern charm found it’s fame in being written about by me, by which I mean at least 5 people who didn’t know him before I wrote about him know about him and, in time, will be flirted to by him.


8. Sean Rodrieguez

 

(Photo Provided by J'adore Ya Photo's)

What he did:

- Started what is, questionably, the greatest blog ever written.
- Re-attended college, got shitfaced and somehow didn’t fail.
- Made at least 30 people smile.
- Became an alcoholic after discovering Dave Walker was actually his father.

Why He’s Cool: When a man can fail astonishingly and set himself up to fail even more astonishingly the same year whilst developing a new addiction that has him in Wetherspoons at dinnertime so often the bar staff know what he drinks, he’s done something so remarkably stupid he deserves recognition. 


7. Alex Turner
 

What he did:

- Started the side project band “The Last Shadow Puppets” which despite having an incredibly cool name were also pretty fucking awesome whilst using classical instruments.
- Was still a member of The Arctic Monkeys which is easily the coolest and best band Britain has spawned since Oasis. 
- Did fuck all else, which in a lazy way is so fucking awesome it’s beyond words.

Why He’s Cool: Is the author of and regularly performs “A Certain Romance”. If you’ve heard that song, that’s reason enough. If you haven’t you’re reading the wrong list. Shit I just sounded as obnoxious as NME.


6. Robert Harvey (Lead Singer Of The Music)

What he did:

- Played a gig at Keele University so awesome I think it actually caused my penis to grow permanently.
- Caught a fan’s jumper and sang to it.
- During the last song of the gig exclaimed “Fuck it, lets have a fucking dance!” and then did just that in a way that was basically so cool Jimi Hendrix stopped rocking in heaven and pointed in the general direction.

Why He’s Cool: Despite starting his career as a long haired weirdo he managed to turn into this incredibly awesome skinhead that can also play the bongo’s which is, past the pink oboe, the coolest instrument ever. He also just happened to be the front man of the first real live gig I ever attended and thus soaks up some of my coolness.


5. Hunter S. Thompson


What he did:

- Wrote perhaps some of the best drugged up, euphoric pieces of genius man will ever see.
- Was played by an equally cool Johnny Depp in the film “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
- Did a LOT of drugs.
- When he died he had his ashes fired from a gigantic customized cannon.

Why he’s cool: Despite being heralded as what he would despise: a cult icon, Hunter S. Thompson managed to give so little of a fuck about things he’s didn’t care about and write about what he did care about so superbly he could still serve as an inspiration to countless people, including myself. A modern philosopher that didn’t even try to be, an effortless prophet, deserves to be read by every single person who reads this blog. 


4. Bono


What he did:

- Was an absolute cunt.
- Was an incredible, absolute, arrogant, whiny cunt.
- To be fair did a lot of good for charity.
- Is such a cunt I don’t really mind calling him a cunt and that’s a horrible word.

- Was however the guy running around a MASSIVE stage in front of a mind bogglingly huge crowd in this clip (Where The Streets Have No Name Live At Slane Castle)

Which Blogger is fucking refusing to show whatever I do so: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uDkBzkA9L4s

Why He’s Cool: To be fair, he’s not a cunt he’s just that cool that I hate him for it. I’m not a fan of U2 on ANY level. I don’t think they’re that great, no real reason they just aren’t my kind of music. However when I saw the above clip it made my hairs stand on end. The energy is pretty sickening and during this beautiful moment of just well, sheer stage presence I guess…Bono is RUNNING laps around the stage. Just because…he can. He’s Bono. So whether I think he’s a cunt or whether I like his music is irrelevant. He run laps in front of a crowd of god knows how many people whilst some genuinely hair raising music is being played, LOUD. That’s pretty cool.


3. (tie) Jeffrey Bernard


What he did:

- Was never heard of by any of you, I guarantee.
- Was an absolute literary genius whilst being an incredible guy.
- Drank and smoked so heavily, whilst being diabetic, he had both legs amputated and eventually died. Yet never stopped doing either.
- Never once finished any project larger than a weekly newspaper article about his own life and wasn’t very punctual at doing that.

- Hated a lot of people in a very clever way.

Why He’s Cool: Cool is supposedly doing your own, unique thing. If so, Jeffrey Bernard did this without even trying to be cool, just doing what he enjoyed most. He made a career of it and never once tried to be recognized, hated to be in fact. Jeffrey Bernard was cool without even trying. Deserves to be read.


3. (tie) Jamie T


 

What he did:

- Released the album “Panic Prevention”
- Which included the songs “Sheila”, “If You’ve Got The Money” “Pacemaker” and “Alicia Quays”
- Was cooler than Alex Turner and performed questionably as good music on his own
- Made songs for near enough every drunken and very English occasion, that you can sing along to with glee every time it’s played anywhere.

Why He’s Cool: He’s just the songwriter you wish you could be after 8 pints down the local. Immeasurably British, incredibly talented, insightful and yet does its all without ever being pretentious in the least. Plus he makes the most songs by one person that make me smile every single time I hear them.


2. Bob Dylan


What he did:

- He’s Bob Fucking Dylan.
- Wrote the greatest song ever written; “Like A Rolling Stone”

Why he’s cool: He’s been cool without remotely even thinking of starting to try for something like 4 decades now. He released an album at aged 65 that was a complete change of style and got rave reviews by near enough every major music reviewer out. That was also his 32nd studio album. Despite writing “Like A Rolling Stone” which Bruce Springsteen himself said the opening snare “was like somebody kicked open the door to your mind” he’s written countless other timeless songs that could in their own right be some of the best songs written since music has been recorded. If that wasn’t enough in an interview once when asked a question he didn’t agree with he got offended and exclaimed: “What?! Would you ask the fuckin’ Beatles that question?!” Genius.


1. Van Morrison.


What he did:

- IS most likely the person who actually “Gets” music the most out of everybody in the world
- Is immeasurably cool, even when improvising on stage.

- Wrote the song “Caravan” which if it weren’t for “Like A Rolling Stone” would be the greatest song ever written.


Why He’s The Coolest: It was close between him and Dylan but listening to Van Morrison you can practically hear him make the decisions he makes as he sings. That isn’t what’s cool. What’s cool is that every single decision he makes sounds absolutely incredible, it’s like an orgy in your ears where everybody is having a multiple orgasm. Mix that with stage presence and a lot of drugs, alcohol and smoking and the coolness level rises. That isn’t to say Dylan didn’t do those things, or that nobody else did, it’s to say that for me Van Morrison does those things best even though he didn’t even write my favourite song. 

He also wrote and performed “Brown Eyed Girl” which quite possibly the most universally liked song I can think of that isn’t the Beatles or Elvis (whom I didn’t include because I don’t like either of them that much and it’s my list dammit). 

There are an absolute mass of people that could fill this spot. Not just in music which I tried to stick to for the NME theme; in film, in effectively every single aspect of life. Van Morrison to me however is the epitome of “cool”. He exudes that much passion, talent and ability in what he loves that you can pretty much experience it every time you hear him sing.  

The main factor of being “cool” to me is envy. That’s why Bono is so high on the list despite the fact I hate him. If something is “cool” to you, I feel you basically envy whatever that is because you know really that you could never do it in the same way and frankly you’d give pretty much anything to be able to. This is why Van Morrison is a close number one on Dylan. I envy Van Morrison because he is so incredible at what he does, so remarkable that not only will I never be as good as him, its highly doubtful anybody ever will. 

Plus you know, he’s got the drugs, alcohol, smoking and “Brown Eyed Girl”.

People I Remembered after writing this list and then realized the futility of writing any serious top 10 list whilst drinking:
- Prince
- Robert De Niro
- Al Pacino
- Seann William Scott
- Charlie Sheen
- Mick Jagger (when he was young)
- Nick Cave
- A begrudging vote for Oasis
- Countless others, I’m never writing a semi-serious top 10 list ever again.
- Late much more drunk addition: Beck.