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50-527: In June 2012, when asked about a sequel to Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny , Black stated that the band had "found a loophole with the Internet and animated shorts. That's the world we're looking to dive into, and not just for money, mainly for art." The band mentioned later on in that year that they were considering making an Internet series "exclusive to YouTube ". The project was a fantasy for Black and Gass for

100-500: A "garish mess". In 2019, Black expressed his disappointment with the reception of the movie, saying that both he and Gass were "devastated" that nobody went to see it. Regardless, he remains proud of The Pick of Destiny to this day and also the fact it has reached cult status. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny was released by New Line Home Entertainment on February 27, 2007 on DVD. A version sold by retail chain Best Buy came with

150-460: A Tenacious D film, with Liam Lynch as the director, and Black, Gass and Lynch writing the script and being producers on the production. There was also speculation that Red Hour Productions would produce the film, which was later confirmed. Later in 2003, Black announced the film's working title as Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny and that the script was about the band's search for a sacred guitar pick. Filming had been expected to take place by

200-672: A bonus disc with exclusive footage. Wal-Mart customers received a copy of the CD More Rocktastic Music from the Film bundled with the DVD, featuring excerpts of the score by Andrew Gross and John King, as well as songs from Gass' Trainwreck . The film was released on home video on July 26, 2008 in Japan, with a deluxe edition of the movie with a t-shirt. Home video releases have seen it bundled with Run, Fat Boy, Run and Dumb and Dumber in

250-401: A bowl, stem, and water to produce smoke. Most glass bongs are made from heat resistant borosilicate glass , allowing the bong to withstand repeated use and heat exposure without breaking. After the bowl has been packed and water has been inserted into the bong, the substance is lit and the smoke is drawn through water to produce a smoother smoke than other methods of smoking do. To smoke a bong,

300-475: A brand-new guitar. They create their own band: Tenacious D, named after matching birthmarks found on their buttocks. Soon JB and KG learn the deepest secret of rock: all the rock legends used the same guitar pick, "the Pick of Destiny", which has 'supranatural' powers (a whole level above super). It was created by a dark wizard who'd summoned Satan for his own purposes, but was promptly attacked. A nearby blacksmith heard

350-403: A device used for smoking mainly cannabis, drug-related connotations have been formed with the word itself (partly due to punning with Sanskrit bhangah "hemp"). Thus for fear of the law many head shops will not serve customers who use the word "bong" or "bongs", or any other word typically associated with illegal drug use. Some brand name bong manufacturers (notably RooR) have sought to curb

400-502: A few years, until Donald Trump 's 2016 presidential campaign inspired them to write a pilot episode set in the post-apocalypse . The remaining episodes would be completed between 2017 and 2018. The band filmed a teaser for their Facebook page of them in the studio in May 2016. In December 2017, whilst on Kerrang Radio promoting Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle , Black stated that the title of

450-438: A movie". Black agreed to a pay cut from his standard $ 12 million fee to $ 1 million that was then split between Black and Gass. The soundtrack , the band's second studio album, includes vocals by Ronnie James Dio and Meat Loaf . Dave Grohl plays drums on the album, as he did on their first album, Tenacious D (2001). Grohl also contributes his vocals on "Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown)", as Satan. An edited version of

500-734: A new animated series would be called Tenacious D in Post-Apocalypto . In May 2018, the band entered and left the stage of Hell & Heaven Metal Fest in Mexico City to recordings of "Post-Apocalypto Theme" and "Post-Apocalypto Theme (Reprise)" - this being the world reveal of these tracks. A few days later, the band uploaded a tour trailer to their website and social media, also teasing a new album. All tracks are written by Jack Black and Kyle Gass Official members Additional members Orchestra Technical Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

550-411: A road trip to Miami. This concept was later scrapped. At some point prior to 2003, the band were in negotiations with British studio Working Title Films to write and distribute a Tenacious D film, but Black and Gass decided to assume creative control when they were not satisfied with the writers' ideas. In February 2003, it was announced that the band had signed with New Line Cinema to create

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600-428: A sex slave. After the duel, Satan deems his rock better and attempts to shoot KG with a bolt of lightning from his fingertips. JB jumps in the way, and the bolt bounces off the "JB KG" drawn logo on the base of his guitar, blowing off a piece of Satan's horn. As Satan is now incomplete once again, JB sends him back to Hell with the wizard's magical incantation. The two turn Satan's horn into the " Bong of Destiny", which

650-522: A three disc set for the United States and Canada whereas for the UK there was a three disc set with Fracture and The Alibi . The Australian re-release featured the movie with Be Kind Rewind in a two disc set as well as another set with the film being bundled with Grandma's Boy . In February 2024, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny was released on Blu-ray by Shout! Studios . This release includes

700-581: A tour to support the film and soundtrack on November 11, 2006, with it finishing on February 21, 2007. The tour featured two legs in North America, one in Europe and one in Australia. A spin-off graphic novel book was released by Titan Books prior to the film's release, including high quality images through the set of the plot. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny had its British premiere on November 1, 2006, at

750-461: Is a 2006 American musical fantasy comedy film about comedy rock duo Tenacious D . Written, produced by and starring Tenacious D members Jack Black and Kyle Gass , it is directed and co-written by musician and puppeteer Liam Lynch . Despite being about an actual band, the film is a fictitious story about the band's origins, and their journey to find a magical pick belonging to Satan that allows its users to become rock legends. The film

800-553: Is a filtration device generally used for smoking cannabis , tobacco , or other herbal substances. In the bong shown in the photo, the smoke flows from the lower port on the left to the upper port on the right. In construction and function, a bong is similar to a hookah , except smaller and especially more portable. A bong may be constructed from any air- and water-tight vessel by adding a bowl and stem apparatus (or slide) which guides air downward to below water level whence it bubbles upward ("bubbler") during use. To get fresh air into

850-405: Is related to the smoke's water contact area." Specially designed water pipes, incorporating particulate filters and gas-dispersion frits , would likely be most effective in this regard; the gas-dispersion frit serves to break up the smoke into very fine bubbles, thereby increasing its water-contact area. These frits are commonly referred to as diffuser for the way that they diffuse (or disperse)

900-611: The Imperial Household Department , she was buried with at least three water pipes; some of her collections can be seen in the Palace Museum . The water pipe employed since the Qing dynasty can be divided into two types: the homemade bamboo bong commonly made and used by country people, and a more elegant metal version employed by Chinese merchants, urbanites, and nobility. Metal utensils are typically made out of bronze or brass,

950-602: The Marijuana Review also used the term. The word bong is an adaptation of the Thai word bong or baung ( Thai : บ้อง , [bɔ̂ŋ] ), which refers to a cylindrical wooden tube, pipe , or container cut from bamboo , and which also refers to the bong used for smoking. Excavations of a kurgan in Russia in 2013 revealed that Scythian tribal chiefs used gold vessels 2400 years ago to smoke cannabis and opium. The kurgan

1000-667: The United States , under the Federal Drug Paraphernalia Statute, which is part of the Controlled Substances Act , it is illegal to sell, transport through the mail, transport across state lines, import, or export drug paraphernalia. In countries where marijuana and hashish are illegal, some retailers specify that bongs are intended for use with tobacco in an attempt to circumvent laws against selling drug paraphernalia. While technically "bong" does not mean

1050-580: The Vue West End cinema in London, England. The film's domestic premiere was held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on November 9, 2006. Many of the actors who had cameos in the film were in attendance; including Ronnie James Dio, Dave Grohl, and Ben Stiller . The film received a wide theatrical release on November 22, 2006. "A lot of enthusiastic stoners were like, 'Yeah, du-u-u-de! Just saw it!' I

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1100-503: The album was also released, replacing all of the profanity with made-up nonsense words. The band featured on numerous shows to promote the film, including musical performances on Saturday Night Live , Spike Video Game Awards , The David Letterman Show , American Music Awards , Late Night with Conan O'Brien , Friday Night with Jonathan Ross , as well as appearances on The Howard Stern Show , The British Comedy Awards and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart . The band started

1150-420: The bong and harvest the last remaining smoke, a hole known as the "carburetor", "carb", "choke", "bink", "rush", "shotty", "kick hole", or simply "hole", somewhere on the lower part of the bong above water level, is first kept covered during the smoking process, then opened to allow the smoke to be drawn into the respiratory system. On bongs without such a hole, the bowl and/or the stem are removed to allow air from

1200-403: The commotion and distracted the demon by tossing a horseshoe at it, chipping its tooth in the process. As Satan was now "incomplete", the wizard was able to banish Satan back to Hell. To repay the blacksmith, who desired the heart of a fair maiden, the wizard fashioned the tooth into a pick that would give its holder unnatural prowess with stringed instruments. Infatuated by the prospect of becoming

1250-527: The contest without the pick. The owner is revealed to be Satan in human form, who places the Pick of Destiny back on his broken tooth. Complete again, he obtains supernatural powers on earth and threatens to make Tenacious D his first victims. To save their lives, Tenacious D challenge Satan to a rock-off, which under the terms of the "demon code" he cannot decline. The terms, suggested by JB, are that if Tenacious D win, Satan must return to hell and pay their rent, but if they lose, Satan can take KG back with him as

1300-406: The couch in his small apartment. KG feeds JB's fantasy by pretending to be famous with a self-named band ("The Kyle Gass Project"), exploiting him to do work such as cleaning his apartment and buying him weed , under the promise that JB can audition for his fictitious band. After JB learns KG is actually unemployed and living off his parents, the two become equal, and KG apologizes to JB by giving him

1350-484: The end of 2003; however, it was delayed by almost a year due to Black being cast in Peter Jackson 's big budget remake of King Kong . In December 2004, Black and Gass performed some songs from the upcoming soundtrack of the film whilst touring Australia, and announcing that the film would include cameos from Meat Loaf and Ronnie James Dio. Principal photography for Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny commenced in

1400-522: The exclusive footage from the Best Buy bonus disc. The band's 2012 album, Rize of the Fenix , is centred around the fictional plot of the band breaking up following the release of the film, with Gass going mentally insane as Black continued his fame in the film industry. The album also begins with the opening lyrics "When The Pick Of Destiny was released, it was a bomb" . In 2016, the band marked ten years of

1450-456: The film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale. Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune criticized the frequency of the drug-use by saying: "This may be the problem. Pot rarely helped anybody's comic timing." Stephen Holden of The New York Times suggested that the film could be viewed as a "jolly rock 'n' roll comedy", but he also described the progression of the film as being

1500-449: The film has an approval rating of 52% based on 124 reviews with an average rating of 5.60/10. The website's consensus states, "Tenacious D fans will find this movie hilarious; everybody else will see only a low-brow concept movie and a small assembly of jokes stretched past the 100 minute mark." On Metacritic it has a score of 55% based on reviews from 29 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave

1550-404: The film's release by using The Pick of Destiny as their backdrop at various European festival appearances. In a January 2023 interview on SiriusXM Radio, Black stated he and Gass were "thinking about" a potential sequel to The Pick of Destiny , with Gass jokingly implying that it would be a crossover with Black's film School of Rock . Bong A bong (also known as a water pipe )

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1600-691: The hole that holds the stem. Bongs have been in use by the Hmong in Laos and Thailand , as well all over Africa, for centuries. One of the earliest recorded uses of the word in the West is in the McFarland Thai-English Dictionary, published in 1944, which describes one of the meanings of bong in the Thai language as, "a bamboo waterpipe for smoking kancha, tree, hashish, or the hemp-plant". A January 1971 issue of

1650-447: The next great rock star, JB immediately sets Tenacious D on a quest to steal the Pick of Destiny from the Rock & Roll History Museum. Along the way, the band briefly splits up; KG decides that sex comes first in "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll" after getting invited to a party by young women, while JB wants to stick to the mission at hand. They are eventually reunited after KG is kicked out of

1700-470: The nobility version of silver and decorated with jewels. Typically, the metal version is made out of the following components: During a smoking session, the user may keep all equipment inside the rack and just hold the entire assembly (rack, pipe, and container) in one hand, lighting the bowl with a slow-burning paper wick (纸煤) lit over a coal stove. Unlike in North America and the Southern Hemisphere,

1750-447: The party. Later, after an intense chase from the museum security guards, the two manage to steal the Pick of Destiny from the rock & roll museum. Armed with this supernatural pick, they plan to use the winnings from a local bar's talent contest to pay their rent, but, before they can go on stage, they argue over who gets to use the pick first, snapping it in half accidentally. The bar's owner persuades them to go on stage and compete in

1800-530: The ratio of THC (the psychoactive component of the smoke) to CBN (capable of producing medical benefits but is not psychoactive) in favor of CBN. This showed an unfiltered joint had the best tar to THC ratio of all, and bongs were actually seriously detrimental in this respect. MAPS also reviewed a study that examined the effects and composition of water-filtered and non-filtered cannabis and tobacco smoke . It found that when alveolar macrophages were exposed to unfiltered smoke, their ability to fight bacteria

1850-413: The smoke as it exits the downstem, and usually consist of small holes or slats at the end of the downstem. This study suggests that a bong's smoke is less harmful than unfiltered smoke. Bongs that are cleaned regularly eliminates yeast, fungi, bacteria and pathogens that can cause several symptoms that vary from allergy to lung infection. It has been reported that it is possible to taste the chemicals in

1900-461: The smoker must inhale in the bong so bubbles containing smoke begin to come from the stem. Once the bong has a fair amount of smoke built up, either the carb is uncovered or the stem is separated from the bong, allowing the remaining smoke to be inhaled. However, a 2000 NORML - MAPS cannabis study found that "water pipes filter out more psychoactive THC than they do other tars, thereby requiring users to smoke more to reach their desired effect". In

1950-468: The spring of 2005, with the production finishing later that summer. The film held its first test screening to the press in October 2005. The film held two re-shoots in the summer of 2006 and according to Lynch, every crew member from the principal photography came back because they "had such a fun time working on set". Black also stated that the filming on this production was "the most fun I've ever had filming

2000-480: The study, smoke from cannabis supplied by the NIDA was drawn through a number of smoking devices and analyzed. This study looked at the tar to cannabinoid ratio in the gas in output by various bongs, as well as unfiltered and filtered joints, and vaporizers. The results showed that only vaporizers produced a better tar to cannabinoid ratio than unfiltered joints, but that within the cannabinoids produced, even vaporizers warped

2050-426: The two smoke from as they write new songs together. As actors, Jack Black and Kyle Gass had wished to make a Tenacious D film since the band's forming in 1994; archived footage of banter at an early concert records Black saying "a movie – like that would be the pinnacle" . The duo conceptualized numerous ideas for the plot, though the first actual known draft of a script was published on November 7, 2000. The script

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2100-477: The water from a plastic water bottle left sitting in a hot car because "...chemicals have leached into the contents of the bottle." It was also reported that it is possible to imagine that this process of chemicals leaching into water occurring with "...a homemade water bottle bong where the bottle is routinely heated up." It was also reported that "According to Cancer Research UK , plastic bottles heated up to 60°C contain unhealthy levels of toxic chemicals." In

2150-423: The water pipe is typically employed by older generations. The water can trap some heavier particles and water-soluble molecules, preventing them from entering the smoker's airways. The mechanics of a bong are compared to those of a laboratory gas washing bottle. The user puts their mouth at the top and places the cannabis in the tube, as shown in the picture. Bongs are often either glass or plastic that use

2200-618: The waterpipe in China during the late Ming dynasty (16th century), along with tobacco, through Persia and the Silk Road . By the Qing dynasty , it became the most popular method to smoke tobacco, but became less popular since the Republic era. While typically employed by commoners, the water pipe is known to have been preferred by Empress Dowager Cixi over snuff bottles or other methods of intake. According to

2250-442: The word of Dio on a quest to form the world's "most awesome" rock band. There, he meets acoustic guitarist Kage (KG), who is performing on the street, and begins worshiping him as a rock god . JB asks KG to teach him rock and roll, only to be refused. Later in the night, a homeless and crestfallen JB mopes on a park bench, seconds before being beaten up by mobsters. KG takes pity on JB and agrees to teach him, letting him sleep on

2300-447: Was based around many songs that would later be released on the duo's eponymous debut album that would be released the following year. There is little known about the script, other than it being based around the band playing coffee shops, Black becoming fascinated by Atlantis and Black and Gass both falling in love with a girl called Simmeon who has written books about the fictional island. They later meet Ronnie James Dio, and are sent on

2350-457: Was discovered when construction workers were clearing land for the construction of a power line. During the reign of Emperor Akbar , physician Hakim Abul Fath invented the waterpipe in India , and discovered tobacco. Abul suggested that tobacco "smoke should be first passed through a small receptacle of water so that it would be rendered harmless". Other sources also show evidence of the invention of

2400-442: Was like, 'Where were you when the movie came out?' 'Sorry, dude, I was hi-i-i-gh!'" — Jack Black on The Pick of Destiny's disappointing box-office performance. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny performed poorly at the box office, only grossing a total of $ 8.2 million in the United States. It debuted with a mere $ 3 million during its opening weekend at number eleven. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes ,

2450-403: Was reduced, unlike exposure to water-filtered smoke. It also found substantial epidemiological evidence of a lower incidence of carcinoma among tobacco smokers who used water-pipes, as opposed to cigarettes , cigars , and regular pipes . "It appears that water filtration can be effective in removing components from cannabis smoke that are known toxicants... The effectiveness of toxicant removal

2500-419: Was released on November 22, 2006, and was a box office bomb . The soundtrack, The Pick of Destiny , was also released in 2006 as the band's second studio album. Despite the mixed box office reception of the film at release, it has since been considered a cult classic . As a young man, Jables (JB) runs away from his strict, religious family and oppressive Midwestern town for Hollywood after being graced by

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