Post by Jonny Stripes on Jun 4, 2006 21:35:13 GMT 10
A high angle shot of a run down Sydney suburb is shown. A red and orange smolder on the horizon at sundown gives way to a dirty, broken fence, glowing blood red from the glare of the setting sun. The camera swings around and we see a man sitting in shadows on a dark chair. He is next to an old red brick wall, dirtied by time and mould. The house itself gives off a broken and enraged feel, as if affected by a lifetime of pain, anger and dissapointment, wrapped up in a middle class mediocrity. The man gets up from his chair and steps into the fading crimson light. It is Jonny Stripes, wearing a plain white shirt with jeans and a brown coat
Jonny: "When I look around me and examine the people that make up my life, my colleagues, my friends, my family, have all become what was thought they would become. All except two people and those two people are myself and a person who was once very dear to me"
Jonny pulls his coat over his chest, protecting himself from the cold air, cutting through the air on the clear night.
Jonny: "People thought I was full of myself, that I would crash and burn but look who came out on top! Look who rocked your worlds at a hundred thousand miles an hour. Jonathon Stripelski, thats who!"
Jonny is shouting now, but he checks himself and calms down, returning to a quiet voice
Jonny: "But there was someone else, somebody who rose above it all maybe even more than I did and that person is Disturbed. Look where you came from Dizzy, look where you came from. And now look at what you are buddy. I have to say congratulations. You see so many people would settle for less, would settle for this life of being run of the mill but you refused that and stepped out. You chose your own ground and I gotta say, you made me proud. Made me proud but then I realised something"
Jonny takes a deep breath and nods at the camera solemnly
Jonny: "I realised that between all your success, all your beating the odds and making it big, you were just a little man. Nothing more than another brick in the wall and boy did it disgust me. All you touch and all you see, its all your life will ever be, well thats what people said to me but I am the exception to the rule. I came from Philly, PA and they ain't the smartest lot there but I chose my own ground and made it. But you, you are just operating beyond your means. For all your external success you haven't changed from your poor surroundings one little bit"
Jonny turns towards the house and goes up to a broken window, less visible thanks to the dim red light
Jonny: "In case you are wondering what I am doing here, I will tell you. This less than humble abode was where Disturbed grew up. Thats right, this is where he grew up, with his high school suspensions, his father beating him up and the fights he and his brother would get into with the local kids on a regular basis. This is where Disturbed learnt how to fight like a man and this is where he became nothing more than all he had touched and seen"
Jonny turns from the broken window and goes to the place where a sliding back door should have been, but it had been missing for a long time
Jonny: "Disturbed, this week I am going to take you back to the hell that was your childhood in that Thunderdome. There will be no escaping it and by the end of the night I will rob you of what is rightfully mine and return to the top of the DUEW mountain but thats not all because I am going to do something more. Physically, you will be nothing but emotionally you will no longer exist. Distubed, you are going to be nothing more than a shell of what you are now. I will leave you broken in two and you will become what you should be, what you were destined to be. All you've touched and all you've seen, come Hardcore Heaven, its all your life will be!"
Jonny walks past the camera, a serious look on his face, just as the sun finally sets, sending the surrounds into darkness
Jonny: "When I look around me and examine the people that make up my life, my colleagues, my friends, my family, have all become what was thought they would become. All except two people and those two people are myself and a person who was once very dear to me"
Jonny pulls his coat over his chest, protecting himself from the cold air, cutting through the air on the clear night.
Jonny: "People thought I was full of myself, that I would crash and burn but look who came out on top! Look who rocked your worlds at a hundred thousand miles an hour. Jonathon Stripelski, thats who!"
Jonny is shouting now, but he checks himself and calms down, returning to a quiet voice
Jonny: "But there was someone else, somebody who rose above it all maybe even more than I did and that person is Disturbed. Look where you came from Dizzy, look where you came from. And now look at what you are buddy. I have to say congratulations. You see so many people would settle for less, would settle for this life of being run of the mill but you refused that and stepped out. You chose your own ground and I gotta say, you made me proud. Made me proud but then I realised something"
Jonny takes a deep breath and nods at the camera solemnly
Jonny: "I realised that between all your success, all your beating the odds and making it big, you were just a little man. Nothing more than another brick in the wall and boy did it disgust me. All you touch and all you see, its all your life will ever be, well thats what people said to me but I am the exception to the rule. I came from Philly, PA and they ain't the smartest lot there but I chose my own ground and made it. But you, you are just operating beyond your means. For all your external success you haven't changed from your poor surroundings one little bit"
Jonny turns towards the house and goes up to a broken window, less visible thanks to the dim red light
Jonny: "In case you are wondering what I am doing here, I will tell you. This less than humble abode was where Disturbed grew up. Thats right, this is where he grew up, with his high school suspensions, his father beating him up and the fights he and his brother would get into with the local kids on a regular basis. This is where Disturbed learnt how to fight like a man and this is where he became nothing more than all he had touched and seen"
Jonny turns from the broken window and goes to the place where a sliding back door should have been, but it had been missing for a long time
Jonny: "Disturbed, this week I am going to take you back to the hell that was your childhood in that Thunderdome. There will be no escaping it and by the end of the night I will rob you of what is rightfully mine and return to the top of the DUEW mountain but thats not all because I am going to do something more. Physically, you will be nothing but emotionally you will no longer exist. Distubed, you are going to be nothing more than a shell of what you are now. I will leave you broken in two and you will become what you should be, what you were destined to be. All you've touched and all you've seen, come Hardcore Heaven, its all your life will be!"
Jonny walks past the camera, a serious look on his face, just as the sun finally sets, sending the surrounds into darkness