Bassist Wanted

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Bassist Wanted

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Escaping James Blunt

Brett has avoided James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful” for a year, and flees to the ends of the earth, and beyond, to keep it that way.

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#142. No James Blunt for the baby

August 11, 2006

BRETT: So this is little Chase, he's really cute, Eliza.
ELIZA: He's a little sleepy right now, I better put him down for a nap....

ELIZA: (singing) My Chase-y is brilliant, my Chase-y is pure, I see an angel, of that I'm sure...
BRETT: AUGH!

BRETT: AUGH!
ELIZA: BRETT! JESUS!

BRETT: Eliza, I... have this... THING about that song...
ELIZA: You... you just threw my baby into the breakfast nook.

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#143. Brett leaves James Blunt behind

August 14, 2006

BRETT: If civilization won't let me escape James Blunt, Greg, I'll have to leave it behind. I'm gonna head out West. Get off the grid. Walk the Earth.

GREG: Will you have your phone? Can I email you?
BRETT: Greg, where I'm going... there'll be no "phones", no "email". I'm leaving behind the modern world.

GREG: So can I have your--
BRETT: You can't have my iPod.

BRETT: Where I'm going, there... will be portable music players. Help me close this latch....

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#144. No James Blunt on the plane

August 16, 2006

IN-FLIGHT MOVIE: "And now our mid-flight entertainment: James Blunt takes us behind the scenes at his video shoot."
BRETT: AUGH!

JAMES BLUNT: "See, the song is about a girl."
STEWARDESS: SIR! MY GOD! CLOSE THE EMERGENCY DOOR!

JAMES BLUNT: "And this girl is... beautiful."
STEWARDESS: Closed! Thank God, it's... it's closed....

IN-FLIGHT MOVIE: "James is a lyrical genius. Like Dylan or... that guy from Toto."
STEWARDESS: OK, everyone who lost their pretzels just then, raise your hand....

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#145. Blunt By Northwest

August 18, 2006

BRETT: (sigh) The song can't find me here.

BIPLANE: (singing) You're beautiful....
BRETT: Oh, no....

BIPLANE: (singing) You're beautiful, it's true....
BRETT: AUGH!

BIPLANE: (singing) I saw your face in a crowded place....
BRETT: God damn adult contemporary cropdusters....

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#146. No James Blunt in Maasailand

August 21, 2006

BRETT: That's why I sought you out. I wanna live far away from the Western world, far from anyone who's ever even heard of James Blunt.

OKUYU: We never hear of him. Or this song you speak of.
BRETT: Oh, thank God...

BRETT: What's... wait, that's the song! That's "You're Beautiful"!
OKUYU: That one of Akele's blasted ringtones. They waste of money.

BRETT: I'll... I'll be going then...
AKELE: You say my DS waste of money, too. Now you play all night!
OKUYU: Only Brain Age, Akele. And Nintendogs

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