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Gavin
• 10.09.08 11:13 am


The Netflix – Decon – Street Carnage Films - documentary of the World Movie Watching World Championships is finally done. After sleeping about 17 hours in a row, I still feel like shit.

(Desptie changing our undergarments twice a day, stains and stench prevailed. Naked Cowboy avoids this problem by only working a few hours a day and wearing TWO fresh pairs every time. He leaves his clothes in his car btw and he’s sponsored by the parking garage so it’s free.)
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The Netflix – Decon – Street Carnage Films – documentary of the World Movie Watching Championships is finally done. After sleeping about 17 hours in a row, I still feel like shit.
It’s not just the lack of sleep you need to recover from. There’s the detoxing, the cold, the broken finger, pulled muscles and 5 days of riffing with strangers AKA swimming with anvils. And you know what else? I miss our crew. We called ourselves Skeleton Crew after seeing a Battle of the Bands from 1985 in the video monitoring room and the name was then abbreviated to Ske’ Crew. The bro bonding that goes on after 5 days of no sleep borders on homo.

(Made out with a very quiet Hasid. He loved it the little slut).
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In the last update we showed you the trailer for the whole thing. It’s basically 5 days of watching about 80 movies non-stop. You can’t look away and you can’t sleep. Contestants get a 10 minute break between movies and the prize was $10,000. Only two contestants made it to the end: a German named Claudia and a Sri Lankan / Canadian named Suresh. The rest were removed for very long blinks. That’s how you go out. You are sitting, watching the screen, have a blink, next thing you know there’s a judge holding your shoulder and saying, “It’s time.” None of the contestants we talked to even really knew they fell asleep.

Most thought Cheryl here was going to make it to the end. She held the record back in 2003 when it was only around 60 hours which is when she fell asleep this year.
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Just to be clear – we napped. We looked away from the TV and we went for coffee and did whatever we wanted. Our feat does not compare with the winners but we still slept less than any doctor in ER or any soldier in WWII.
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I terrorized Richard Simmons with energy drink cocktails he refused to go near.
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This is a sweet angel named Jose who was easily the craziest one in the bunch. He poured buckets of ice down his pants but would occasionally take them out and put them in a cup if he had to get up. I did not know this. I thought it was just a cup of ice.
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After getting more R.E.M. than Michael Stipe, I was awoken and told to go talk to Jerry who just bailed. It was hard to give one tenth of one shit. All I could think about was returning to the ground.
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UPDATE: They just added my interview with Susan Sarandon.


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  2. NETFLIX MOVIE WATCHING CHAMPIONSHIPS UPDATE
  3. ONION: VIRTUAL WORLD OF WORLD OF WARCRAFT
  4. WORLD DEBUT OF THE ELECTRIC SIX VIDEO “RANDYS HOT”
  5. MOVIE REVIEW: THE DARK KNIGHT


Comments
  1. Obama says:

    what a great idea. i’m going to go out and rent me some netflicks TODAY!

  2. addie says:

    I’m guessing they drug-tested the winner like they did in Hands on a Hardbody? But what about you, Gavin? You love doing speed and coke and meth and adderall, five days should be a walk in the park for a hardcore pro like you.

  3. jimcunt the barbarian says:

    Gavin, that shit was most entertaining.

  4. dibbly doo drobberpants says:

    when can i partake in something that like? not living in that glass house, but hanging with a crazier than usual gavin? very funny stuff.

  5. WORLD WAR DREW says:

    I wonder how many bumps gavin did.

  6. jem says:

    PIEZA SHIT!

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  8. felicia says:

    i laughed at all of them…………………………hurry netflix youtube, edit more videos

  9. Lepke says:

    The beats playing in the background are not bad at all. I can see Kweli or Common or Ghost rhyming over some of those tracks.

  10. grilbo says:

    yo large pro on the beats

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  12. alex says:

    where can a guy see the full documentary?


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