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Everyone needs a job. That’s the thing. You know, you write a hugely successful hit when you’re 23 and you naively think that that’s how it’s going to be forever — you may not have the respect of your peers that you hoped for in the earlier phases of your career, but you had success, and isn’t that the name of the game anyway? Hah. That’s what you thought. (Also apparently Suge Knight sometimes threatens to throw you off of a balcony if you don’t sign over the publishing rights to your hit song over to him, and with that money he funds Death Row Records? Life can be weird!) Anyway, so all of this money is coming in and you think you’ve really hit it big until it all suddenly stops. Suddenly you’re a joke, and not even a beloved joke that people want to hear over and over again, like the joke that a good friend tells you that isn’t funny but that does remind you about why you love them. Just a stupid joke no one wants to hear anymore. You get addicted to drugs. You get lots of tattoos from friends and, because of the drugs, you don’t even know how many you have anymore. (You read more of Vanilla Ice’s Wikipedia page than you ever thought you would.) You never stop releasing albums, which is surprising, but at this point its hardly more than screaming into the void — you’ve hit bottom and everyone around you knows it. But what are you going to do, give up? You can’t give up. You have to support yourself, pull yourself up. You have to take a roll in That’s My Boy. You have to start being the spokesman for Capitol Lighting, which has locations in Florida and New Jersey, and also I think you have to at least sit in on meetings, or at least one meeting, for new lighting designs. Life doesn’t stop. LIGHT doesn’t stop.
You gotta do you, Rob. Take inspiration from every Swarovski crystal necktie you see. Light, light baby, indeed. (Via PaperMag.)
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Well, we always knew he’d eventually be back with a brand new invention.
If there was a problem, yo I’ll solve it. Check out the showroom and ask the salesmen for any current promotions! Thanks!
I’m assuming he uses these to light up a stage so he can wax a chump like a candle.
Word to ya mother. This chandelier would look lovely in her dinning room.
Lights, Lights, Baby!
This powerful exciting
HORSE_???? IS THAT YOU????
are valid
I feel like a divine entity has spoken to me. I can die happy now.
Wow remember when he was in Madonna’s sex book, munching on her snatch?
This is just totally different from the light business started as a joint venture between Queen and David Bowie.
I heard their business was started when they were struggling under financial pressure.
When I watched the video, I was really hoping someone would grab and caption this amazing moment. I was planning to come down here and comment WHERE IS FRANK LLOYD WRONG? So thank you, fffff.
Really though guys, where is FLW?
He’s busy getting ready for new baby Lloyd Wrong.
i picture him training the tiny Lloyd Wrong in a commenting dojo, raising a super monster that will take all the balls all the time in a few years.
I DON’T BELIEVE IT!
I wonder how many years he spent trying to come up with an idea good enough to make a lightbulb pop up over his head, before he decided to just take matters into his own hands.
Pictured: Chet Haze in 30 years
Chet Haze and Colin Hanks are pretty much a real-life Goofus and Gallant.
“Dot com da da dom da da da dom.”
He’s still got it!
If you haven’t watched the 1991 hit movie “Cool As Ice”, do yourself a favor. It is completely bonkers. I’m pretty sure everyone involved with that film was on PCP the entire time.
http://youtu.be/R1MxGFncZgQ?t=1m33s
Gwyneth Paltrow almost played the love interest in that movie. Imagine what could have been!
He’s actually been flipping houses with all his ICE money for quite some time. http://www.diynetwork.com/the-vanilla-ice-project/show/index.html
The best juxtaposition ever?
