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LOOK OUT!! Its Monday...

For a team that didnt play a minute on Sunday, the New York Giants had a great week this week (The Eagles and the Cowboys BOTH lost).

Did the Patriots REALLY just BLOW a 17 point lead and lose to the COLTS? Did I REALLY just watch that?

Did the BRONCOS really just get rolled by the REDSKINS? UGH... the HORROR.

But THANK YOU Brandon Marshall for having an amazing Fantasy day and helping me and my girlfriend edge out a win this week... we NEEDE that (YES, we share a fantasy team. It's her team... I'm a silent partner).

AND did STANFORD?? STANFORD??? Did they really just TERRORIZE the TROJANS on Saturday? Holy crap! I LOVE THAT!

SATURDAY!!! Ask me what I did Saturday....

(What did you do Saturday?)

Me? Oh... I WORKED on Saturday.. I picked up a one-day job as a Brand Ambassador for T-Mobile, working at an event in ONTARIO. yes, Ontario is about an HOUR east of LA... but whatever... the pay was pretty good and these convention hall gigs are usually pretty easy... the only information I received prior to the event was that this would be pretty easy stuff... one person would be taking pics of consumers posing w/ these Honda motocross bikes and the other person would help with printing them out or dealing with consumers.

What I discovered once I arrived... is that i was working at the MATA EXPO

Yes... the MATA expo... is basically an expo for deaf people....

"MATA EXPO is more than just a trade show. It is an opportunity for companies, organizations, and individuals with talents to show off their sign language arts / deaf-hard of hearing products to thousands of people at once and make announcements about new products and services.

A Japanese word 'MATA' means 'See you later or again'. MATA is a symbolic word "visual concept + small world" in the Deaf-related community."

Would have been nice to know that in advance... although it wouldnt have made any difference.. but i guess it would have been nice to be prepared... I mean... I cant sign to save my LIFE... so I was really kind of useless.

There were thousands of people, milling about, hands and fingers flying in all directions... and the TAIKO... Oh my GOD... the Taiko... Japanese drumming... really really LOUD Japanese drumming... that was the musical entertainment for the day... I'm sure you can probably guess that the vibrations from the drum corp resonates through the room as a form of ambiance.

Now, I'm a big fan of any type of drumming... I love drum circles... DRUM LINE is a favorite movie of mine... but this TAIKO was LOUD... and I seriously thought I was going to lose my MIND.... and it was only 10AM!!

This event closed at 7PM.

I shuffled over to my event co -worker ... the only non-deaf person within a 20 mile radius...

"I seriously think I'm going to go insane."
"This is definitely different"
"Uh... yeah"
"It's not THAT bad"
"No... not THAT bad... NINE more hours"
"DON'T start doing that... please"
"EIGHT hours, FIFTY-nine minutes...and thirty seconds"
"Seriously, that's gonna make ME crazyz."
"EIGHT hours, FIFTY-"
"STOP!!"
"How the HELL am I gonna do this? How? This is so annoying. I dont know how to SIGN. I cannot bellieve i'm gonna have to F%$#@ do this BULLSH&T...all Mother F$#@ing DAY. F%$#k a Duck with a %$#@*&&%$**&%$. You gotta be f%$# kidding me."
"Okay... can you please stop murmuring? It's not really that bad."
"F$#@king Bullsh&% deaf expo... this is a F%$#& nightmare"
"Can I tell you something?
"Please"
"MOST of these people... can read your lips"
"OH shhhh$#%t"

AND... she walked away... leaving me to stand there and look like a complete asshole.

The day actually turned out to be NOT-SO-BAD after all. I adjusted my attitude and tried to make the best of it... which lightened the load, of course... and I'm sure a good dose of energy drink and another hour to shake off my hangover helped take the edge off as well....

Then T-MOBILE'S main attraction for the day arrived, Ashley Fiolek. Ashley is a 19 year old women's motocross champion... who also happens to be deaf. Pretty amazing I have to say, she changes gears by feeling the engine vibrations. She is also getting her fair share of buzz... She was the the featured guest on NBC's Last Call with Carson Daly on November 5th.

Anyway, she spent the day at the T-Mobile booth signing autographs and posing for pictures. She was actually very sweet, gracious and kind... she spent the whole day smiling for picture after picture after picture and you could really tell... for many of the people who stopped by to visit... that she was an inspiration.

So I basically just focused on doing whatever I could to help her and help facilitate the autograph signing and the picture taking. She did most of the signing... which took me off the hook for the most part.

It was still a LONG F%$#ing day... I was exhausted by the time I got home.

Saturday night I stay in and watched a DVD with my girlfriend. We watched THE CLASS... French Film... got good  reviews when it was making the art house circuit a few months ago...

"In an inventive adaptation of his novel about his experiences working in one of the roughest neighborhoods in Paris, François Bégaudeau stars as a replica of himself -- a passionate French teacher who presides over a classroom of diverse young minds. Not your standard drama or documentary but something in between, this Oscar-nominated film used three cameras during a largely improvisational shoot and features real students rather than actors."

Eh... it was so-so at best... extremely chatty... and subtle.... but not really in a good way.... i found it kind of boring and uneventful... think DANGEROUS MINDS only less dramatic... as in barely dramatic.... and FRENCH... so-so I say... je m'appele fromage....

So a couple of days ago I posted the latest episode of CATCH to a handful of video hosting sites... YOUTUBE, of course, BLIPTV, VIMEO, MYSPACE (just in case ANYONE is still out there cruising Myspace), VEOH, DAILYMOTION.... um... VIDDLER... uh... I'm sure there might be a few others... I'm just drawing a blank right now...

and BREAK.COM... and I have to ask... is EVERYONE on Break.com just completely twisted and retarded?

I posted CATCH 6 on Break and soon after I had a handful of comments posted on my profile...

break.com/_Soloist666_ : i find your work interesting
have you ever thought about filming something that invloves farm animals and women that are really desparate for money?

break.com/LeMoron   : Sir
i'd lik to discuss a movie project basid on my avatar.thank yuo.(i allreaedy have a scritp)

break.com/0hLawdy  : I like films with hairy
middle eastern women and mules

break.com/MuscleHic : Fvck is
this low budget garb? Unsub from me you 30yo pukes. Get a job and pay taxes

HUH?? What the hell is all that?

So I asked one of these guys why everyone on BREAK was retarded.... his response...

break.com/MuscleHic  :In response to your question
Yea man its a circus and a very negative oriented site thus the appeal. Nice pseudonym "Huffman" lol you and Mario Lopez should do a fisting vid you Abercrombie clone

Apparently so... if you taken a look at Break.com... its like every 12 year old boy's wet dream... I'm sure any kid between the ages of 10 and 19 who has access to the internet is familiar with Break.com... you can see lots of boobs... lots of butts... drunk people doing stupid stuff... bar fights... stupid pet tricks... and more boobs...

This video pretty much sums up BREAK.com's purpose on this planet....



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So I guess that's it... Now we know.... and I have to say... I find this gentleman's response to my question well crafted with a touch of demented twisted brilliance... seriously.

and on that note... Im AUDI FIVE!!!!

Morning page, morning page, I dont believe in burning Sage, I miss those days of plays on stage, I got Johnny Cash in a Rusty Cage, Its a welcome whisper crytsal clear, the starting pistol only I can hear, stay true to those things I hold dear, in the valley of the darkness, I shall fear, but fear is that which fuels my game, My fear that the song will remain the same, My fear I was conquered before I came, My fear that no one remembers my name. Get up stand up, build your brand up, if you gotta question then throw your damn hand up, do what you do with a handful of answers, cuz every new year they commandeer some new cancers. Its all up to you, you dont have to buy it, but try somehting new, wont kill you to try it, do what you do, and once its all through, read the review, you can always deny it, if the public is feelin you keepin it real then, do what you do to source and supply it. I got the Jim the Jam, the Sham the Wow, I Clown around town with a frown of a Brown Cow. I'm not too proud, to place a wish on a cloud, YO!! TURN THAT SHIT DOWN... Muthafucka its DAMN LOUD. Listen here, fear is only here so you can fear it, Dont touch the mic baby, Dont come near it, Dont stop the rock, Stop blocking the cock, You rub your feet across the rug, You be getting a shock, OW! Damn! They gonna call it the Jim Jam, The Fab Five Fergie, Or the Flippity Flim Flam, BAYAM! Thats exactly who I am, I'm in a BOAT with a GOAT, Eatin green eggs and ham, Ma'am? May I please take your coat? I got just what you need so read the rhymes that I wrote.   

I've been challenged to a sketch it out FIGHT-DOWN. My 6 year old nephew Keller drew a little picture of King Kong vs. Godzilla and he sent word that he would like to challenge his Uncle Jim to a little “draw-down,” a show-down... or, a “fight-down” as my other nephew Casey sometimes says.

This is the second challenge from Keller. He drew a series on monsters a few months ago and challenged me to return fire with a few monsters of my own...

Which I lOVED doing... whipping up a few good MONSTERS? Hell yeah.... drawing, for me, is SO incredibly soothing and cathartic... any excuse to put everything aside and just start drawing crazy stuff with a few magic markers... I'm all over it...

So Keller sent me a dramatic sketch that embodied the raw emotion and primala brutality of this classic confrontation...

I retruned the favor with a couple of quick magic marker mash ups of my own....


 


Now I will go ahead and send over the originals so those kids can mark em up... make adjustments... put their stamp on them...make them more "Kid-approved"

BAYAM!! Yankees win Yankees win THATS RIGHT... the BIGGEST BADDEST MUTHA F%$@-IN BESTEST team in the history of SPORTS THE NEW YORK Yankees win... wow... that was a mouthfull... I tell you what... Its a great day to be a Yankees fan.. and all you NON fans, haters, heathans...and most people in New England...EVERYBODY in Boston... can SUCK IT. The New York Yankees won their TWENTY SEVENTH World Series title last night and its feels F$#$@ING GOOD. ...It's all about chemistry... that's it... thats what did it... I mean it doesnt hurt to have one of the most talented and expensive rosters in MLB... but even with that... you have NOTHING without chemistry... Texiera fit right in... so did CC... no bumps...no adjustment issues... Phil Hughes and Joba embraced their roles in middle relief... Mariano showed up as Mariano... but BETTER (i have a feeling we may have seen his last amazing moment on the mound last night), and A-Rod loosened up and allowed himself to have some fun... that was the difference this year... a cooler, more relaxed atmosphere... pies in the face, dancing in the dugout... NONE of that shit was going on in 08... wasnt happening in 07..or 06... or OH FIVE... BAYAM! hear what I'm saying?

BAYAM! I watched almost every playoff game from the ALDS to Game 6 at THE HAPPY ENDING BAR in Hollywood. I discovered HAPPY ENDING a few months ago when I took my girlfriend out... on one of our earliest dates... to watch a Yankees Red Sox game... yes, thats right... BAYAM! I'm super smooth... anyway... I discovered that HAPPY ENDING was a NEW YORK friendly sports bar... undeniably... and to top it off.. they actually have really good food (for a Sports bar)... thats where Kristen and I watched the Yankees BEAT the Red Sox.. it was only a mid season game... but I THINK it was the first time this season that Yankees were able to pull off a victory against those bastards.... the Yankees had been swept... TWICE... in previous meetings... Who would have thought that after losing EIGHT STRAIGHT... going 0-8 against Boston to start off the year that the Yanks would take it all in the end? So yeah, we watched that game and BAYAM! I fell in love with this bar.... it was during that game that we created the "Lucky Slouch." Every time i would slouch way down in my seat... the Yankees would do something good... I slouched deeper and deeper as the game went on... The Yankees won and BAYAM! the SLOUCH was born.... Of course I developed the superstition that we MUST watch every important Yankees game... TOGETHER...at Happy Endings to do our part in helping the Yankees win... then later I added the superstition that I had to order the delicious Happy Ending ribs so as to inspire the Yankee hitters to start hitting. They have really good ribs there...rrreeeaallly good ribs...  the fish tacos are also awesome... oh and the buttermilk fried chicken skewers... reallllyyy goood... they come with this Rosemary syrup... holy crap its delicious... BAYAM!!

ALRIGHT... all that being said, I think I need to take a break from Happy Endings for a while... maybe a little break from massive amounts of beer and celebratory shots of Patron... and while the food is extremeley tasty... NOT so healthy... my digestive system has got its work cut out... I should be able move most of my inventory just in  time for Thanksgiving...

THANKSGIVING??? Holy crap... in THREE weeks its going to be THANKSGIVING...

I got shit to do.

OK... Tuesday morning. I'm firing away on my laptop, drinking my tea, mobilizing plans to mobilize. Looking for freelance work, browsing breakdowns and mapping out the next few months. My contract with IZZE came to a close on Friday. And while I welcome the change and a much needed break from the day to day duties as a full-time beverage marketing rep, I will miss that steady pay check. The good thing is I have 2 more industrial video projects to produce... and there is the possibility of doing more.

Last week I finally finished shooting legal video project #2, which was not short on challenges. Project # 1 was a 15 page script and it was a walk in the park compared to the 40 page, 15 actor, big nasty barn dance that was... "legal video project # 2."

Now, dont get me wrong, I am not complaining at all... I love doing this stuff... but this shit aint easy... casting, locations, equipment, scheduling, coordinating and "wrangling" a roster of actors and their "quirky" habits, hard drives and fire wire cables, something I forgot that I desperatley need, something i brought plenty of that I dont need at all.... there is a precarious situation at every turn... and I forget to eat... forget to drink enough water... so I end up feeling like shit when its all done

I still love it.... and of course I find a way to cast myself so I can do a little acting... I do that for fun but I also end up saving myself a little money....

I'm fully aware that every project I will ever work on will offer its own special blend of challenges.... thats part of the fun... I learn from mistakes and lucky breaks... and I take the entire experience with me to the next one.

Project # 2 definitely forced me to work for it and earn my money... But now I have a long list of notes... the do's and dont's that will enable me to be a better, faster and more effective producer...

I could share a lot of the stories of horror and heroism from this last shoot, but I dont want to throw anyone under the bus... and one thing i know for sure is that when you blog... people read it... and if you lack sensitivity... air out peoples flaws and fuck-ups... people get upset... I'm not doing this to get people upset...

I will say this... every thing that went wrong on this shoot was laced with my own mistakes... I have no problem accepting responsibility....

Ok... that being said.... We got it... we shot it... we finished strong... moving on....

My work as a producer is actually moving in a good direction. I have a few other projects in my back pocket that I will be looking to get started in the next month or two. One concept is based in the world of branding and viral marketing... an idea that I've been bouncing around for a year now... and I'm fairly confident that this one will work... be successful.... I think it would be an effective tool for a brand... I just need to find a company or brand who sees the value in using viral videos as part of their marketing game. The other project I'm looking to kick start is based in basic online entertainment... its another idea that I've been playing with for a while... and I actually have a bunch of footage shot with this project in mind... but I need a LOT more to make this one go... doesnt help that one of my hard drives is flatlined right now. I had a 500GB Lacie hard drive that was holding about 2 years worth of work and one day it decided not to power up. At this point, I dont know if all hope is lost on it... it didnt CRASH necessarily... but its definitely playing dead. I havent had the time to explore my options, but I think I'm about to get moving on that....

Ok... this blog post has taken me HOURS to complete... if you figure in that I took a break to have breakfast (just some protein powder mixed with coconut water), watch Sportscenter six times, email my girlfriend, FACEBOOK my girlfriend... then I was forced to get on the phone with Verzion because they turned my phone off... and that was because I was like... 300 minutes over my monthly limit... NOT because I failed to pay the bill... I knew that's what you were thinking.... and I have to say... real quick before I sgn off here... that Verizon was very nice to me today... they told me that I would owe them 168 bucks in overage charges unless I switched my plan to include more minutes...  whihc would cost an extra 20 bucks with the option to go back to my prigonal plan next month.... AND they reminded me to add up to 5 "friends & family" numbers... from ANY network....  that I could call anytime and not use up my monthly minutes...  DUH!!! That is somehting I should have done a long time ago...  but I guess I overlooked that option... so they really hooked me up... instead of just ramming me with the high hard one... like the good ole days.... so thank you Verizon Wireless... that was super cool of you...

I gotta go... I got shit to do...

Morning page again, back at it, trying to find a groove and start blogging on a better basis. scolded by my bestest, oldest, boldest buddy Al. "I feel i dont KNOW you anymore." LIfe is about to shift for me, again. My contract with IZZE sparkling fruit juice is coming to a close, so my daily full time duties of executing events at local grocery stores, fast food chains and corporate cafeterias will be reduced to an occasional support gig in the case of overflow or something big and special that requires my assistance. Thatr basically means that I am staying on the payroll in the off season. I just wont be working for them full time. They have already disucussed the option of returning for the next season in 2010, which is tentatively scheduled to begin in February. In the meantime I will get back to the freelance hustle that I know so well. I actually have a couple more legal industriual videos to produce, so thats good, I'm getting paid to produce. I'm cha-chinging that cheddar like charlie chaplin... yeah thats right... I said it... CHEDDAR! CHARLIE CHAPLIN CHEDDAR...Mutha F%$#@!!! And with these little producing gigs i get top spread the love around. I am able to hire people and throw them some paying work, especially the loyal and reliable friends that have donated so much of their time and energy to other projects of mine where they got nothing more than a couple granola bars and some shitty pizza (All pizza in California is shitty... sorry). So I'm happy with the fact that I can give back a little...you know... what comes around goes around... it helps me prove that I'm not totally full of shit. So producing these video projects will keep me busy, give me some street cred and put a little money in the bank... and MAYBE.... just MAYBE... I can get my acting game popppin again. I've been on a pretty significant acting hiatus since I started this IZZE job. My life has been so busy with a full time job, a few of these video projects, FOOTBALL season, YANKEE baseball... and a totally freakin awesome new girlfriend. So my acting career had to take a back seat.... but I'm makin a COMEBACK people. I feel like this year we may see the first proper PILOT season in quite a while. It seems like the past few years, each pilot season has been tainted by strikes and a piss poor economy. So MAYBE... just maybe... this year will be different.... Now I just need a new agent. GET TO IT... GET UP... GO DO IT... YEAH!! Nice slogan eh? I think it s hould go on a t-shirt. I said that to my girlfriend the other morning while trying to motivate her, and myself, to get out of bed... I accidentally rhymed... its kind of my trademark... and I thought that my newfound favorite phrase would do well on a t- shirt. I don't know why, but I want to start keeping a list of phrases that should go on t-shirts. I'm actually suggesting phrases should go on a t shirt quite often. THATS kind of my trademark. That and coming up with ridiculous names for a band... like I say something or hear some funny phrase and I say "HEY, that would be a good name for a band." Then everyone kind of shrugs and no one really says anything, maybe I get a half smile or somebody says "Yeah, thats funny...anyway..." and they continue the conversation that I interrupted with my trademark tomfoolery. My girlfriend likes my tomfoolery. She thinks I'm hilarious and makes me feel like I'm the funniest person on the planet. She is somehting else. I could listen to her laugh all day and never get sick of it. She has a trademark too. Her trademark is passing out in the car on the way home from the bar. doh, NO...he..didnt... sorry baby doll... love you. Good times with the GF. It gets better every day. I think we are going to spend New years together in New York. Then I want to take her up to Boston and we will probably zip down to DC and Fairfax, VA to see more friends, family and significant sights. I sent out an email last night to see if I could score a place to stay in Manhattan on New Years eve... long shot I know... a hotel room is not really an option becayuse they are, of course, expensive as hell on New Years eve.  So I just threw this email out there to see if I got lucky...

"My girlfriend and I will be back in New York for New Years and I'm asking around to see if anyone would be willing to sublet their place for a couple of days... like 2... 3days tops... Ideally I'm looking for a place to stay on any or all of the following dates... Wed Dec 30, Thursday Dec 31st and Friday Jan 1st... We will be out and headed up to Boston on the 2nd and bouncing around from there...totally willing to pay for the sublet... If you or someone you know is planning on being out of town that weekend and might be interested in making a little cash on a weekend sublet... please let me know.... THX!!!"

Score! I had a handful of offers from a few good friends... thank you thank you thank you... but a good buddy from college took the prize by offering his place on 76th street for free since he will be out of town... and he is just a great guy who is always makes sure you have a beer (or two) in your hand... which is great... ok sometimes thats NOT so great... but whatever.... a friend is a friend...and beer is beer... and besides... this guy  is forever grateful to me for writing a rap for him in college that he STILL uses to this day when he's in a pinch... When he is in doubt, he remembers that rhyme and breaks it out. He says he gets all kinds of street , office and dive bar cred with that line... he drops it with the doorman at the hottest club... and he is  suddenly being escorted to the VIP room... and whispers it to the host at New Yorks fanciest five star restauarant and he has the best table in the house ... When he gets pulled over at a DUI checkpoint and the officer asks him if why he is wearing a plastic batting helmet with two beers and straws attached... he never fails to get a pass... just by uttering these words...  in fact, I believe he met his past THREE girlfriends using this legendary phrase, authored by yours truly, way back in the early NINETIES....


"Can you CHUCK CHUCK CHUCK IT? Mutha Mutha F%#K IT! When I blow chunks, I blow chunks in a bucket!!"


No shit... true story.... unfortunately I think its also how he ended all three of those relationships....

LOVE YA CHUCK!!

LATER Y'ALL!!

I'll be back....

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