so I'm on my way home from work & I meet Dan Akroyd...

XHonusWagnerX - 2-25-2009 at 10:02 PM

I stopped for gas on my way home from work, right near my house actually and theres a liqure store next door to the gas station. I'm pulling in the gas station and there are cars parked everywhere!! I got my gas and then went to the Subway on the other side of the liqure store to get a sandwich. My curiousity got the best of me so I parked and went into the liqure store... what did I see you ask?

Dan Akroyd was there promoting some vodka that comes in a crystal skull bottle and selling some wine with his name on it.

DAK - 2-25-2009 at 10:38 PM

Sweet!! Did you buy some vodka??

Voodoobillyman - 2-25-2009 at 10:41 PM

wierd, and shame on you for going in there! :grin:

How is Akroyd? he looks pretty laid back in the pic

XHonusWagnerX - 2-25-2009 at 10:51 PM

He was pretty awesome... I wasnt gonna get in line to meet him (the line was big when I got there), but I got sucked into people watching and then the line got shorter so I got in it. The Vodka was $50 so I passed on that, but I wanted my picture taken with him so I did buy the wine ($17) and he signed that. I also bought a 2 liter of Pepsi that he signed (remember the SNL skit "Pepsi, Pepsi, no Coke"?).

I told him Slapshot was playing at the House of Blues in a couple of weeks with the Dropkick Murphys and he said "that will be a great gig for you boys... we built that room especially for music, you'll love it... it will be a great gig for you boys" :bigsmile:

CR83 - 2-25-2009 at 10:53 PM

You fucking rule dude. Awesome.

clevohardcore - 2-26-2009 at 12:05 AM

The Great Outdoors.

THats right. dude owns HOUSE OF BLUES. Smart man, smart man.

DaveMoral - 2-26-2009 at 12:14 AM

Wow, that's awesome Josh. Nice to see the Fett hoodie in action too!

clevohardcore - 2-26-2009 at 12:20 AM

Read this shit. especially the part in the middle about facts of Dan Akroyd..

Dude is very interesting.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000101/bio

BDx13 - 2-26-2009 at 01:22 AM

you two actually look like you hang out together.

defstarsteve - 2-26-2009 at 01:38 AM

dude is all about ufos

Six66Mike - 2-26-2009 at 02:20 AM

What the hell is going on with that Pepsi bottle? New logo?

DaveMoral - 2-26-2009 at 02:47 AM

Akroyd is all about the occult too. Ghostbusters was all his idea.

defstarsteve - 2-26-2009 at 03:24 AM

that is the o'pepsi (bama) hope logo
we had to print that thing at the day job on hats and scarves for the innaguration
damn corporate president

MarkV - 2-26-2009 at 04:15 AM

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Originally posted by clevohardcore
The Great Outdoors.

THats right. dude owns HOUSE OF BLUES. Smart man, smart man.

He hasn't been in owner in many years.

JawnDiablo - 2-26-2009 at 07:41 AM

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Originally posted by BD
you two actually look like you hang out together.

thats what i was thinkin!

Six66Mike - 2-26-2009 at 08:36 AM

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Originally posted by defstarsteve
that is the o'pepsi (bama) hope logo
we had to print that thing at the day job on hats and scarves for the innaguration
damn corporate president

ahaha that's wicked, I want a Pepsi bottle like that.

XHonusWagnerX - 2-26-2009 at 10:04 AM

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Originally posted by Six66Mike

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Originally posted by defstarsteve
that is the o'pepsi (bama) hope logo
we had to print that thing at the day job on hats and scarves for the innaguration
damn corporate president

ahaha that's wicked, I want a Pepsi bottle like that.

they all look like that now except for Pepsi Lime & Wild Cherry Pepsi, those two still have the older style lables. One weird thing about those new lables is that the white stripe in the middle of the circle is a different width on each type of soda (Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Max, etc.).

ShawnRefuse - 2-26-2009 at 10:19 AM

Nice. I saw that on your facebook and laughed. You look like bros.

The Pepsi logo is based on emoticons. It makes me sick. As a designer, I am not liking the "simplicity" that is coming out of firms lately. Tropicana and Pepsi, you had good things going, why wreck it?

Six66Mike - 2-26-2009 at 10:31 AM

It certainly looks more home/no name brand now with the boring font, I dig it as a once off but I love the classic Pepsi logo and font.

Off topic much?

ShawnRefuse - 2-26-2009 at 12:17 PM

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Originally posted by Six66Mike
It certainly looks more home/no name brand now with the boring font, I dig it as a once off but I love the classic Pepsi logo and font.

Off topic much?

ADD can't help it. hahaha. :tumble:

Furly - 2-26-2009 at 02:39 PM

That's pretty rad dude. I think you should have bought the vodka tho. The bottle is cute.

XHonusWagnerX - 2-26-2009 at 09:59 PM

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Originally posted by Furly
That's pretty rad dude. I think you should have bought the vodka tho. The bottle is cute.

not $50 cute tho.

MyOwnWay - 2-26-2009 at 10:53 PM

For some reason the cop to the side, licking his lips, made me laugh.

XHonusWagnerX - 2-27-2009 at 07:28 AM

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Originally posted by MyOwnWay
For some reason the cop to the side, licking his lips, made me laugh.

Yeah me too! In my first post I was going to say "I tried to get my picture taken with a copy licking his lips and Dan Akroyd got in the way!"

Ed - 2-27-2009 at 11:42 AM

My fiance Heather does liquor sales for her job and had a meeting last night with her work and Dan Akroyd, to talk about his new vodka they will be carrying. I am looking at the bottle right now. I guess he gave a bottle to the 200+ people that were there and signed everyone of them on the spot. Seems like a really nice guy to do that. On a side note because of Heathers liquor sales job our place looks like a booze wharehouse. In our cabinets where there should be food there is booze and more booze and etc. Ridiculous!

clevohardcore - 2-27-2009 at 11:54 AM

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Originally posted by Ed
My fiance Heather does liquor sales for her job and had a meeting last night with her work and Dan Akroyd, to talk about his new vodka they will be carrying. I am looking at the bottle right now. I guess he gave a bottle to the 200+ people that were there and signed everyone of them on the spot. Seems like a really nice guy to do that. On a side note because of Heathers liquor sales job our place looks like a booze wharehouse. In our cabinets where there should be food there is booze and more booze and etc. Ridiculous!

^^^^^^^ I think they call that heaven. :yes:

BDx13 - 2-27-2009 at 12:06 PM

yeah, lemme know if you need any help cleaning the place up, ed.

defstarsteve - 2-27-2009 at 04:00 PM

ha ha
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1882167,00.ht...

damn marketing bastards got it wrong

clevohardcore - 2-27-2009 at 04:08 PM

coke>pepsi

XHonusWagnerX - 2-27-2009 at 08:53 PM

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Originally posted by clevohardcore
coke>pepsi

thats an understatement!!