Sijun Forums :: View topic - Yay for people who work in grocery stores

Isric · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2000 9:19 pm

Yeah that's right, I work at a grocery store. And the other day I had the gladiator soundtrack running through my head for 8 hours.
This idea was based on me, rushing through the parking lot triumphantly on my cart.

sprout · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2000 9:39 pm

hah, awesome...

grocery stores rule... they're where I get my food, and food is good... mmmm... food...

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Plop · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2000 9:42 pm

shopping carts, parking lots... watching too much jackass on mtv?

Cool pic man.

solidtransient · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2000 10:30 pm

gladiator=good

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Tweeder · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2000 10:34 pm

It's about damn time we got some of the appreciation we deserve! Us grocery distribution engineers put up with a lot of shit for you customers, and you don't even realize it! How much thought do you put into our jobs? Ever wonder how annoying it is when the little soup cans don't lock together and keep falling off each other, and our bosses just HAVE to have them all nice and neat? pain in the ass. The little edges on cardboard boxes, especially for beer cases, always hang on each other and rip the boxes open, which means damaged goods, and getting bitched at. pain in the ass. Annoying customers who stand by the wine and say "what aisle is the wine?" pain in the ass.

Only occasionally do we get some kind of reward from a customer, and I don't mean tips, even the bitchiest people give tips, that doesn't make us feel any better. Every once in a while there's just some cool customer who makes the day/week/month worth while even if they just do the smallest thing to help us out or give us thanks. You should all give that some thought.

I could go on and on, but I dont want to bitch.

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Tweeder · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2000 10:35 pm

BTW .. nice pic

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Funfetus · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2000 4:16 am

Nice picture -- I really like the purple reflexive (?) lighting. I have a close friend who works in a grocery store, and he does some cool art. Not digital, but still neat: http://matt.robles.com

He has a lot of tirades about his job on his site. You may relate. :P

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Shadowman · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2000 1:15 am

I used to work in a grocery store when I was much younger.
All I can say is keep running til you get out of the parking lot and never stop you never never stop.

jasonN · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2000 2:53 am

Hey Funfetus, where have ya been all this time? Any new art?
Isric, nice pic

Is that painter?
-Jason

spooge demon · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2000 3:18 am

i just heard that gladiator soundtrack.

He rips off three separate composers, with no credit given. Pretty shameless. And the balls to rip well known stuff that even a trog like me knows.

Homage, I guess.

I am really digging that right arm...

Isric · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2000 9:46 am

Seriuos?! Some of that stuff is ripped off? Dang....that changes it all. Who are the people he ripped off, I'd like to hear them very much

Icannon · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2000 3:29 pm

nice image isric.
also, i would like to know who hans zimmer ripped from. i really admire his work so this isnt good news :[

spooge demon · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2000 11:54 pm

The battle, from Gustav Holst, The Planets, mars, bringer of war.

Am i not merciful? Henryk Gorecki, symphony #3, mvt 1

Commodus return to Rome, Richard Wagner, Siegfrieds Rhine journey, from Gotterdammerung, Ring Cycle

Isric · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2000 12:48 am

Plop · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2000 1:08 am

He used multiple 'slightly changed' sounds and tunes from Delirium as well. They have an hour special about him on Gladiator DVD, it's a trip to listen to him brag how he 'composed' that music. What a joke.

Flexible Elf · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2000 1:28 am

Yeah just about every movie composer rips off Wagner in some way.

-Flexible Elf

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Flexible Elf · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2000 11:39 pm

Man Spooge, that Gustav Holst Mars piece sounds a lot like Star Wars there at the beginning too. Ugh, are all movie composers hacks?!

The piece sounds like Star Wars, Gladiator, and Superman.. hehe

-Flexible Elf

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Funfetus · Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2000 3:13 am

Funny thing is, I was just listening to Mars, the Bringer of War by Holst today, and noticing how much it sounds like Star Wars music, mostly the Imperial March, aka the Darth Vader music. But a lot of it, like all the brass, reminded me very much of John Williams. Iunno.

JasonN: Where have I been? Just haven't been doing much art lately. And I was homeless for a while. But I'm okay now.

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Loukus · Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2000 11:00 am

I still like Hans Zimmer. Every good composer has to emulate a style of the classics in some way.

Joel Loukus

P.S y'all hear yet? Silvestri is doing the soundtrack for the mummey returns/ not goldsmith! SHould still be good though.