Following all the hub-bub about the Baz Luhrman song this was written by a few friends in LA, Daniel DeFabio and Chris Conroy. Video of the original song follows this version.
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99: eat mushrooms.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, mushrooms would be it. The long-term benefits of mushrooms have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own worthless experience. Never the less here it is.
Enjoy you the certainty and confidence of knowing you are the most educated and intelligent people in the world. For the next four years you will add brain cells everyday. For everyday after that you will lose brain cells.
Maybe you'll drink, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll do whip its maybe you won't. Either way the brain cells will die and you'll realize you no longer know everything.
Ignore the compliments you receive. They are only preludes to asking for a favor. Never forget the insults you hear that way when it is your turn to insult someone you'll have plenty of good material.
Whine. Whiners get more attention.
Eat at a restaurant in San Francisco once, but leave before it makes you soft. Visit an adult theater in New York once but leave before it makes you hard.
Have an orgy. Don't waste your time on jealousy. Share your love and your lovers with the world.
Sign a prenuptial agreement. The pain it causes you now is nothing compared to the pain it will save you later.
Masturbate, even if you have nowhere to do it but your friend's kitchen.
Read the directions only if you have left over parts.
Do not read kiddie porn you will only get arrested.
Don't wait until your parents are dying to make up with them. They are less likely to leave you any of the good stuff.
Refuse to work for idiot bosses or unreasonable clients. If you succeed in doing this tell me how.
Accept certain inalienable truths: There will always be old people with poor memories who believe it was better in their day. It doesn't matter if they're right. Their day is over.
But trust me on the mushrooms.
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Now if you'd like to see/hear the original song - check it out below
Here’s the challenge — if you could invite 5 people to a dinner party (not counting best friends or relatives), who would they be? What would you eat? What music would be playing? What would you talk about? Who would you invite?
Considering all the options available, it took me a few minutes and I hereby deliver my list with a disclaimer — the names will probably change with time, environment and mood.
Buck Fuller (the most brilliant man ever)
Winston Churchill (the most intriguing chronicler of his time)
Jean Jacques Rosseau
Wil and Ariel Durant (come together wrote the history of civilization)
J.D. Salinger (he has to get out once in a while)
Picasso (an inspired freak like that has to be exciting to chat with)
For openers
Oysters Rockefeller
Crab Cakes
Cream of Brocolli Soup
Watercress Salad
For an Entree
Tenderloin of Beef crusted in rock salt and coarse black peppercorns
Cabernet Sauce
Fresh Spinach
For those prefering Fins
Coho Salmon crusted in sesame seeds and tricolored pepper corns
Cabernet Sauce
Fresh Spinach
For Drinks:
Full Sail Ale
982 Penfolds Grange Hermitage
Cosmopolitans and Lemon Drops
Sapphire Martinis
Belvedere Martinis
For Desert (I started here)
Fresh strawberries and blue berries dusted with powedered sugar and glazed with Grand Marnier
Flourless semi-sweet chocolate cake
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream with just hints of ice still floating in the mix
Late Harvest Monticello Savignon Blanc
A nice selection of Ports
Oban 14 year old Single Malt
What music would be playing?
The entire "___ing with the Miles Davis Quintet" Series
The Stones (live recording)
Celia Cruz and La Dinamica
A Benny Goodman selection
Stephane Grappelli
Santana - That Double Album with Europa and Black Magic Woman on it
Not sure the old guys could hang with it, but what the heck?
What would you talk about?
"can't talk, eating..."
life after death
scientific and spiritual conceptions of God and the Universe
Define "courage"
Define "creativity"
Define "love"
Is true love possible?
Is coexistence without war possible?
What drives man to murder his neighbors, sons, and friends in the name of
religion, nationalism,or a cause?
Here's the challenge -- if you could invite 5 people to a dinner party (not counting best friends or relatives), who would they be? What would you eat? What music would be playing? What would you talk about? Who would you invite?
Considering all the options available, it took me a few minutes and I hereby deliver my list with a disclaimer -- the names will probably change with time, environment and mood.
Stephen Wright
Timothy Leary
Dr.Seuss
Aristotle
John Lennon
I like to mix it up a bit so I have changed the menu to be a bit different though I still love the Chianti Classico Riserva 1988 and Grand Marnier's 150th anniversary edition part of my first one. But I think the dinner would be Greek, with grape leaves, falfel, salad, pita and lots of hummus!!
What music would be playing: I would put my 10 CD changer in it would include:
1 Elton John's-Madman Across the Water
2 Grant Lee Buffalo-Mighty Joe Moon
3 Single Gun Theory-Flow, river of my soul
4 Traffic-Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
5 Cocteau Twins-Milk and Kisses
6 Us and Them-London Symphony does Pink Floyd
7 Natalie Merchant- Tigerlily
8 John Lennon-Greatest Hits
9 Pink Floyd-The Wall
10 Tribal Kingdom-Sounds of the Jungle
What would the conversation include:
Your first kiss, religious beliefs, revenge, humor, who are the 5 people they'd like to invite to dinner and why, the biggest crushs you've ever had and who was it? Sex, music and what's their favorite kind of candy. What they are afraid of and what makes them happy. The conversation would probably cover a lot of subjects, and it would be great to speak with people whom I consider mentors. Mostly, I guess, it would be interesting to find out how they got to where they're at and what they overcame to get there.
