2016 Pizza Fella comics 420 calendar

Pizza Fella has returned from the Golden Age of Underground Comix to experience life in the age of Medical Marijuana and legalized cannabis. Get a whole year's worth of highs with the 2016 Pizza Fella comics calendar here.  MAKES A GREAT GIFT!

The Young Graduates On Youtube At Last!

My major motion picture (okay, B movie) debut has finally arrived on Youtube. The Young Graduates  (1971) was filmed at my high school and I appeared in it as an extra. I am in the background (way in the background to the right) in the school dance scene in the beginning. I can be glimpsed behind the teacher who broke up the scuffle between costar Bruno Kirby and another kid (actor). But my big scene comes about 30 minutes into the film during the sex education class scene. I'm seated in the front row, wearing a brown shirt and brushing the hair out of my eyes once I realized the camera was coming around to my right and my face wasn't showing due to my (surprisingly) long hair. I'm playing cards with my friend the late Phil Chateau who died in a rock climbing accident a year later.

What can't really be seen is the cartoon sperm cell I drew on the blackboard in the background. The camera shot a close up on it which I thought at the time would open the scene but seems to have ended up on the cutting room floor.

The funniest part of that scene to me is that the actress who played the frustrated sex education teacher looked just like my real English teacher and being shot in my actual high school classroom she seemed very authentic. However, whenever the director yelled "cut" she would lean over to me and Phil and tell us the most obscene jokes I'd ever heard. I was shocked as she seemed like a real teacher to me and my discomfort at her foul language and dirty jokes seemed to amuse her to no end.

This was Bruno Kirby's first movie and because of him I am two degrees from Kevin Bacon, two degrees from Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, James Caan, Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Jack Palance, Rob Reiner and Spinal Tap and only three degrees from Marlon Brando!

Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 67%. Shockingly good for this exploitation film of an exploitation film. I always thought it more of a really bad porno (not enough sex). Youtube labels it a "Hippie 60s Counterculture Exploitation Film" but it was about high school students living in the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley and driving dune buggies in the Seventies, not unemployed hippies living in San Francisco in the Sixties. I can't recommend it highly enough in that I can't recommend it. On a bright note, my son says I looked just like him when he was in high school. I'm flattered.

Thoughts On The Mad Men Finale

I’ve watched AMC’s Mad Men from its beginning since I’ve worked on the fringes of the Advertising Industry. I minored in Advertising in college and planned to enter the field. What I did do was enter the Animation Industry and as an employee of an animation production company I worked on many national TV commercials. I’ve helped animated such characters as the Jolly Green Giant, Charlie the Starkist Tuna, the Keebler Elves, The Quick Bunny, the Carl’s Jr. Starboy and a dozen others so watching how advertising is portrayed on TV has always interested me. It’s the reason I watched “Thirty Something” and “Bewitched” so Mad Men has been a favorite for years. 

Some recent other shows I watched that I felt really dropped the ball with their series finales were Dexter (he fakes his death) and Sons Of Anarchy (he gets hit by a truck, really?). When this last season of Mad Men began (the second half of the last season) I groaned as once again Don Draper takes the show off the tracks into left field somewhere for no apparent reason. He’s done this a couple times in the past where he’s gone to California to visit the real Don Draper’s widow or has sex with a teenage girl as her parents smile. Weird little non sequiturs that seem to lead nowhere and are rarely mentioned again but now I understand the series as a whole it makes a whole lot more sense.

If you view the entire series run of Mad Men as the story of how the iconic 1971 Coca Cola commercial “Hilltop” came to be created, then everything becomes clearer. After all, how did that famous spot showing a group of young people all sitting on a hilltop singing, “I’d Like To Buy The World A Coke” come from a 44 year old Madison Avenue advertising exec who would have grown up in the pre-hippie / Love Child era? What kind of a journey might a white, middle aged, high power executive type from the 1950s have had to go through to end up with such a Zen inspired spot? If that was the intent of Mad Men from the beginning then Don’s idiosycracies were an important part of the story and his excursions into the heart of America such as his hanging out with Craig Breedlove (?) trying to build his rocket car, Spirit Of America to break the land speed record are not just Don trying to get away from the hustle and bustle of New York City to clear his head, nor a fact finding tour of Middle America to see what makes the common man tick these days but rather it’s Don realizing that to change people’s lives (by selling them things) he himself needs to live life. It’s his getting out and away from time to time that fuels his imagination and puts him in touch with his audience, to become one with them. Certainly without his finding his inner bliss through meditation he never could have dreamt up that Coke commercial just as without going through his divorce would we have come up with the Kodak Carousel concept.

As has already been pointed out, the receptionist at the Big sur retreat where he was forced to surrender himself to the program after his “niece” abandoned him there, was dressed the same as one of the hilltop singers shown in the actual 1971 commercial that ended the series suggesting, strongly, that Don Draper did return to New York and created the Coke spot. But was Mad Men about the creation of that commercial from its inception? The actual creator of the spot worked for the same ad agency Don ended up with but that could have been written into the show for the last season but what about the alliteration of both their names; Don Draper and the actual creator, Bill Backer? Bill Backer was 44 when he created the Coke spot and Don was about 35 when the show began so he too, was in his mid-forties at the end. Personally, I’d like to think it was planned from the beginning but either way it turned out to be perhaps my favorite TV series finale of all time.

‘Cannibus Quotes’ Game Spotlights Marijuana Quotes Made By Famous People


Customers looking for the latest Educational Game where players learn of quotes made by famous people about marijuana can now play "Cannibus Quotes" by Unsigned Records Multimedia. The game can be found here: http://unsigned-records.com/indexpages/-games-cannibusquotes.html

Cannibus Quotes is designed to appeal specifically to anyone interested in opinions and information about Marijuana and includes:

- Zero Cost – Anybody with a computer and internet service and can play for free.

- He Said She Said – Learn what famous people have to say about Marijuana.

- Information About Marijuana's Psychoactive Effects - The different levels of THC and how long it remains in the system, including how second hand smoke will show THC concentrations in blood serum.

- Marijuana DUI information – Exiting the game takes you to "DON'T GET HIGH AND DRIVE" page with pertinent Marijuana DUI Penalties.

- The Concerns For Medical Marijuana Patients - Those using marijuana in compliance with state laws and their doctors' advice, but who would likely test positive for marijuana while sober.

Gregory Piper, Co-Owner of Unsigned Records Multimedia, when asked about Cannibus Quotes said: "Unlike any game on the market, Cannibus Qiotes is free, fun and fascinating to discover the vastly differing opinions on Marijuana made by famous people while learning the risks of driving while high and how long a high can last." 

Those interested in learning more about the company can do so on the company website at http://www.unsigned-records.com. Those interested in playing the game can go directly here: http://unsigned-records.com/indexpages/-games-cannibusquotes.html

Unsigned Records Multimedia produces unique and creative concepts for marketing endeavors, finding the aspects of a product with press releases and syndicated articles that stand out.  Unsigned Records Multimedia specializes in custom ancillary products such as award winning videos, books, graphics, games, jingles, music and comics that help promote in entertaining and memorable ways, enhancing ideas and building viral content.

420 - This Day In Rock History

This Day In Rock History: On this day in 2011 Greg Piper &. The Tooners debuted The Rock & Roll Rehab Show at The a Universal Bar & Grill in Universal City, CA.

http://thetooners-rocknrollrehab.blogspot.com/2009/01/the-rock-roll-rehab-show-live.html

PIZZA FELLA MEETS GREG PIPER & THE TOONERS

Welcome to the new series of Pizza Fella 420 Funnies. In this music themed series Pizza Fella gets hired as the tour bus driver for the L.A. multimedia Rock & Roll band Greg Piper & The Tooners. Below are the first eight of the continuing series which leads Pizza Fella to San Francisco in time for the 50th Anniversary of the Haight-Ashbury Summer Of Love. It is intended as a monthly series and please feel free to publish the series in your music (or marijuana themed) blog, email newsletter or website. We recommend you publish this comic in the intended order as it will make far greater sense to the reader that way. If you'd like to publish Pizza Fella in a print publication (300 DPI, CMYK) or prefer to publish the regular Pizza Fella comic which is a non continuous comic and is marijuana themed only (without the music or Summer Of Love theme) please contact us at info@unsigned-records.com.

Pizza Fella is published monthly in Cannabis Culture publications such as The 420 Times (L.A. County), The S.F. Evergreen (San Francisco Bay Area), Vegas Cannabis Magazine (Las Vegas), Freedom Leaf Magazine (Nevada) and Edibles List Magazine (CA, OR, WA & CO) among others.








The Rock & Roll Rehab Show Live

The Rock & Roll Rehab Show Live 
From The Hayworth Theater

The entire 50 minute show in ten five minute episodes

Part One - NEVER HAVE & NEVER WILL

Part Two - SEXIST

Part Three - I'M GROWING AWAY FROM YOU

Part Four - I'VE SEEN LOVE IN MY DREAMS

Part Five - I WISH YOU'D LOVE ME

Part Six - I'M HIGH

Part Seven - MASS MURDER MAN

Part Eight - GROWING OLD

Part Nine - SEANCE

Part Ten - HAIL THE ROCK AND ROLL BAND


HUMMINGBIRDS

In 1985 the Coca Cola Company made one of the biggest bonehead moves in modern business history by announcing they were going to discontinue producing Coca Cola, the premier soft drink for nearly 100 years and replace it with "New Coke". New Coke was essentially undrinkable which made many people think that the Coca Cola Company had actually held Coke hostage because their market share had been slipping due to rival drinks. Taking away beloved Coke made people appreciate it more while making it mandatory to at least try New Coke. It was soon that New Coke disappeared and original Coke re-emerged as "Classic Coke" (now reverted back to just "Coca Cola"). If New Coke had replaced Classic Coke for much longer rival soda companies could have reproduced original Coke's recipe and filled that void. However, the Coca Cola Company almost immediately returned to making "Classic Coke" so no abandonment of its brand could be claimed.

Now another iconic American company, almost as old and certainly as beloved as the Coca Cola Company, has seemingly abandoned its brand, permanently. It is The Walt Disney Company. Because computer animation (CGI) was considered less expensive to produce than hand drawn animation, Disney announced that its feature, The Princess And The Frog, would be its last traditionally animated feature film. That was in 2009 and so far they've been true to their word. Even Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck and the other classic Disney characters now appear exclusively as CGI characters. 

Since so much of the "Classic Disney" style is dependent on it being hand drawn, CGI gives everything its own unique visual look, it would appear that the Walt Disney Company has abandoned its brand. After all, the "magic of animation", traditionally, has been due to the illusion of drawings come to life. Therefore, we feel the time has come to not only re-introduce traditional hand drawn animation to the American audience but also to re-establish the classic "Disney" art style, a style they themselves abandoned over five years ago.

Not only has enough time passed that the classic Disney style is now sorely missed, but a new generation of young fans are being born. This new growing demographic is the main cause of animated features such as Frozen becoming blockbusters after years of lackluster ticket sales for children's movies and the glut of "adult" animation on television. There is a generation of classically trained American animators who should be in the prime of their careers but are instead chronically unemployed who are available to help usher in the reemergence of hand drawn, "Disney" style animation in America.

To contribute to what we see as a inevitable movement to re-introduce the magic and dream-like quality of hand drawn animation to a generation of children who only know animation created by machines, we would like to introduce the first in a series of original animated movie projects; HummingBirds (www.hummingbirdsmovie.com).

Produced in traditional hand drawn 2D animation.

Hummingbirds character model sheet.

Hummingbirds tells the story of a young hummingbird named Robin, her hummingbird girlfriends and her friend, Jerry the Squirrel, who live in the yard of a suburban Southern California home. A major theme of Hummingbirds is that the seemingly ordinary and mundane location of a suburban neighborhood is actually a world of wonder and adventure when seen through the eyes of the wildlife with whom we share our world.

Here is a short story from the Hummingbirds comic book featuring Herbie the Hummingbird.




Like the classic Disney movies of The Second Golden Age of Animation, Hummingbirds is a musical with music by award-winning music director Greg Piper (Just Imagine, One Night Only, A Day In His Life, Rock & Roll Rehab) and award winning animator and writer Neal Warner (Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmy Award), Chicago International Film Festival, Los Angeles Animation Celebration).

A Day That Never Ends
song from HummingBirds
 
Music by Greg Piper, lyrics by Neal Warner

The sun is shining and all my friends are here to help spend the day
It's perfect timing to have all of them near, I like it this way

I came to play with all of my friends
Spending a day with them I hope never ends, I hope never ends

We go out shopping, the stores are all in bloom so we hit the mall
Then we go bar hopping and all the boys make room, we never pay at all

Cause we're here to play with all of our friends
I hope today's a day that never ends, that never ends

But sometimes they say to me, "Please proceed more cautiously.
The world is not as you perceive" but I just laugh when they say, "Don't you see?
You're living a life of fantasy."

Why should I worry when I'm still cute and young and life is so long?
And why need to hurry when I have just begun and I'm where I belong?

Cause I'm here to play with all of my friends
I hope today's a day that never ends, that never ends

And when they say to me, "Be aware of what you cannot see"
I remain still worry free because, you see, I don't believe
I'm living a life of fantasy.

It makes me wonder why some feel the need to fly so high
In the wild blue yonder? They are wild indeed but why say,"Goodbye"?

Why not just stay with all of your friends
Spending a day with them that never ends
Yes, I came to stay with all of my friends
I know today's the day that never ends

A Salute to the return of "Just Imagine" Part 1


John Lennon fans, Beatles fans, Tim Piper fans & fans of the stage show rockumentary JUST IMAGINE can rejoice....the LIVE stage show we all love is returning to the Los Angeles area beginning August 1st 2014 for a limited engagement at the West Valley Playhouse in Canoga Park, CA.
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