{"id":2923,"date":"2009-03-08T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/03\/08\/things-that-are-awesome-450986\/"},"modified":"2009-03-08T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T13:04:00","slug":"things-that-are-awesome-450986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/03\/08\/things-that-are-awesome-450986\/","title":{"rendered":"things that are awesome #450986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/02\/20\/josh-freese-album-promotion\">Former NiN Drummer Takes Album Promotion A Step Further<\/a>:<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>$500 (limited edition of 15)<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Signed CD\/DVD and digital download<br \/>     &#8211; T-shirt<br \/>     &#8211; Signed cymbal and sticks<br \/>     &#8211; Meet Josh in Venice, Calif., and go floating together in a sensory-deprivation tank (to be filmed and posted on YouTube)<br \/>     &#8211; Dinner at Sizzler (get your $8.99 steak and &ldquo;all you can eat&rdquo; shrimp on)<\/p>\n<p> <strong>$1,000 (limited edition of 10)<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Signed CD\/DVD and digital download<br \/>     &#8211; T-shirt<br \/>     &#8211; Signed cymbal, drum head and drumsticks<br \/>     &#8211; Josh washes your car OR does your laundry &hellip; or you can wash his car<br \/>     &#8211; Have dinner with Josh aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif.<br \/> &#8211; Get drunk and cut each other&rsquo;s hair in the parking lot of the Long Beach courthouse (filmed and posted on YouTube, of course)<\/p>\n<p> <strong>$2,500 (limited edition of 5)<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Signed CD\/DVD and digital download<br \/> &#8211; Get a private drum lesson with Josh, or for all you non-drummers, have him give you a back and foot massage (couples welcome)<br \/> &#8211; Pick any 1 member of the Vandals or Devo (subject to availability) to accompany you and Josh to either the Hollywood Wax Museum or the lunch buffet at the Spearmint Rhino<br \/>     &#8211; Signed DW snare drum<br \/>     &#8211; Take 3 items of your choice out of his closet (first come, first serve)<br \/>     &#8211; Change diapers and make bottles with him for an afternoon (after hitting the strip club)<\/p>\n<p> <strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><strong>$10,000 (limited edition of 1)<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Signed CD\/DVD and digital download<br \/>     &#8211; T-shirt<br \/>     &#8211; Signed DW snare drum from A Perfect Circle&rsquo;s 2003 tour<br \/>     &#8211; Josh gives you a private drum lesson OR his and hers foot\/back massage (couples welcome, discreet parking)<br \/> &#8211; Twiggy from Marilyn Manson&rsquo;s band and Josh take you and a guest to Roscoe&rsquo;s Chicken &lsquo;n&rsquo; Waffles in Long Beach for dinner<br \/> &#8211; Josh takes you and a guest to Club 33 (the super-duper exclusive and private restaurant at Disneyland located above Pirates of the Caribbean) and then hit a couple rides afterward (preferably the Tiki Room, the Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror)<br \/> &#8211; At the end of the day at Disneyland, drive away in Josh&rsquo;s Volvo station wagon. It&rsquo;s all yours &hellip; take it. Just drop him off on your way home, though, please.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>$20,000 (limited edition of 1)<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Signed CD\/DVD and digital download<br \/>     &#8211; T-shirt<br \/>     &#8211; A signed drum from the 2008 Nine Inch Nails tour<br \/> &#8211; Maynard James Keenan, Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo and Josh take you miniature golfing and then drop you off on the side of the freeway (all filmed and posted on YouTube)<br \/> &#8211; Josh gives you a tour of Long Beach. See his first apartment, the coffee shop on 2nd Street where his buddy paid Dave Grohl $40 to rip up tile just weeks before joining Nirvana. See the old Vandals rehearsal spot, the liquor store he got busted at using a Fake ID when he was 17 (it was Dave from the Vandals&rsquo; old ID). Go check out Snoop Dogg&rsquo;s high school. For an extra 50 bucks see where Tom and Adrian from No Doubt live. For another $25 he&rsquo;ll show ya where Eric from NOFX and Brooks from Bad Religion get their hair cut.<br \/> &#8211; Spend the night aboard the Queen Mary and take the &ldquo;Ghosts and Legends&rdquo; tour. (Separate rooms &hellip; no spooning.)<br \/> &#8211; Josh writes 2 songs about you and both are made available on iTunes and appear on his next record (you can sing back up on &lsquo;em, clap, play the drums, triangle, whatever)<br \/>     &#8211; Drum lesson OR foot and back massage (once again &hellip; couples welcome and discreet parking available)<br \/>     &#8211; Pick any 3 items out of Josh&rsquo;s closet<\/p>\n<p> <strong>$75,000 (limited edition of 1)<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Signed CD\/DVD and digital download<br \/>     &#8211; T-shirt<br \/>     &#8211; Go on tour with Josh for a few days<br \/>     &#8211; Have Josh write, record and release a 5-song EP about you and your life story<br \/>     &#8211; Take home any of his drum sets (only one, but you can choose which one)<br \/> &#8211; Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from Tool&rsquo;s Lamborghini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while<br \/>     &#8211; Josh will join your band for a month &hellip; play shows, record, party with groupies, etc.<br \/>     &#8211; If you don&rsquo;t have a band he&rsquo;ll be your personal assistant for a month (4-day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm)<br \/> &#8211; Take a limo down to Tijuana and he&rsquo;ll show you how it&rsquo;s done (what that means exactly we can&rsquo;t legally get into here)<br \/> &#8211; If you don&rsquo;t live in Southern California (but are a U.S. resident) he&rsquo;ll come to you and be your personal assistant\/cabana boy for 2 weeks<br \/> &#8211; Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robins place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NiN Drummer Takes Album Promotion A Step Further: $500 (limited edition of 15) &#8211; Signed CD\/DVD and digital download &#8211; T-shirt &#8211; Signed cymbal and sticks &#8211; Meet Josh in Venice, Calif., and go floating together in a sensory-deprivation tank (to be filmed and posted on YouTube) &#8211; Dinner at Sizzler (get your $8.99 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/03\/08\/things-that-are-awesome-450986\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;things that are awesome #450986&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}