{"id":774,"date":"2015-05-07T16:35:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T16:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2015-05-07T16:44:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T16:44:27","slug":"max-and-james-go-fancy-toilet-shopping-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Max and James go FANCY TOILET SHOPPING (New Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really have made some fabulous friends over the more recent<\/em> years of my absurd life. Take my dear buddy, actor\/writer\/master chef James Sie<\/a>,\u00a0for example. I met James during my run on Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness<\/a>. James (he “permits” me to call him “Jim”) is simply one of the few people I got left who I feel truly\u00a0gets<\/em> me. That’s not to say he’s not often bewildered by my bullshit. But we tend to identify on a lot of\u00a0different levels. Especially when it comes to cinema and spirituality and graphic novels.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Speaking of graphic novels, James wrote a beautiful, witty,\u00a0unique – and, at times, woefully sad – book called Still Life Las Vegas: A Novel <\/a>(with\u00a0accompanying illustrations by\u00a0Sungyoon Choi<\/a>), which\u00a0is being published this summer by St. Martin’s Press<\/a>. Now that’s\u00a0a pretty big deal within our little social circle. James was also in one of my “soul” movies called “Ghost World”<\/a>, but he never seems to give a shit that that fact means so much to me. James and\u00a0his hilarious husband Doug<\/a> will have myself and our fellow Furious Five-er Kari<\/a> over for “movie nights” on occasion and those are always a real treat.\u00a0Especially\u00a0since James will usually INSIST on cooking us this huge, elaborate supper before we settle in for the show. He even wears the little white chef’s jacket as he spins around in his gourmet kitchen!! Oh, Jim.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyway, all this leads to is a video about us shopping for a ridiculously-extravagant toilet. It’s been an obsession of James’ for quite some time now, this thing, so I thought the least<\/em> I could do was join him down at the Toto<\/a> showroom in Beverly Hills, only to wind up being completely useless (although I DID get a free LUNCH outta the deal.) So click the pic below of the\u00a0some of the fancy-ass features for thrones we looked at and GO!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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WINE PAIRING: Ever heard of Pruno<\/a>? Neither had I until I read “Charles Manson Behind Bars: The Crazy Antics and Amazing Revelations Of America’s Icon of Evil”<\/a> by Guillermo “Willie” Mendez, who used to make it\u00a0out of his<\/em> toilet in his prison cell next to Manson’s. That’s right! It’s essentially TOILET WINE! Shit, I’d drink it. Especially if I was\u00a0incarcerated.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really have made some fabulous friends over the more recent years of my absurd life. Take my dear buddy, actor\/writer\/master chef James Sie, for example. I met James during my run on Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. James (he “permits” me to call him “Jim”) is simply one of the few people I got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Max and James go FANCY TOILET SHOPPING (New Video)","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[272,268,271,273,269,270],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-friendship","tag-james-sie","tag-pruno","tag-still-life-las-vegas-a-novel","tag-toilet","tag-toto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4VgPA-cu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}