Strange thing, since the year
I moved out of my mother's house in 1994, the day
after graduation, each year has had a feel. A very
different, very specific feel.
1994 - Start the year with normal
highschool life to living with my fiancee by years
end.
1995 - Landing the job with WTVN,
and truly being on my own in the world.
1996 - To date, the greatest year
of my life from end-to-end. From releasing my CD, to
quiting college, to getting married, to The Late Show
taking off on WTVN.
1997 - To date, the worst year of
my life from end-to-end. From marital woes, to getting
divorced, to pure misery at WTVN because of
Darryl Parks.
1998 - What I thought would be the
most intense year of my life - starts with
palaur,
to losing my job at WTVN, to getting the job at CD101,
to meeting Jessica and finally having the vision in
November '98 that I would eventually call
4tvs.
1999 - The year of 4tvs. Saving
every conceivable penny to put this monstrosity
together, to performing live, to losing my job at
CD101 and leaving Columbus. When this year beagan,
I believed I'd be out of Columbus within a
year...yet if you had told me how I would've laughed
at you.
And onto the year 2000. This year
has brought me to my knees, and made me soar. The
constant conflict of emotions is so schizophrenic,
it's hard to believe all 100 of these entries happened
in a one year span. Simply moving so far away is hard
enough, but to plan a wedding, then losing the
wedding, then getting it back, and then to lose
someone so dear to me that to this day I can barely
believe she's gone...this year has just rocked me. I'm
so glad it's over. So many emotions. I mean, do
you remember April? Good ol' entry 42? That was ROUGH.
That next day talking with my dad about selling all
the 4tvs equpiment just to make it. Then later that
SAME DAY landing Hollywood Screentest. Just
incredible. Having an absolutely beautiful wedding,
only to be back within weeks to bury my grandmother.
The hardest part being I'm so far away I can't even
deal with her death. My routine has not been changed
from her passing, other than not being able to call
her and talk, which I've started to do numerous
times...ugh.
The kicker in all this, is that
it's only gonna get worse, unless I'm extremely lucky.
That's the rub in trying to pull of such a
conquest...it could take a looooooong time, and
there's absolutely no guarantee of a damn thing. I've
got a freind who's going through the years and years
of med school. He'll be in school for another 5-8
years until he's just about 35, but he's guaranteed a
tremendous salary and a job when it's all said and
done. I could easily be a 35 year old monkey boy
performing with 4tvs that are 10 years younger than
me....LOL how funny is that. You know what I think'll
be cool? Performing 4tvs when I'm 50. Won't that be
freaky? I should do a TV every 10
years...and then when I'm 65 do the strangest act the
world has ever seen. Having myself performing with
myself over 40 years...wow - that's COOL.
OOOH What a good idea....and what a joke to get
excited about. It'll only take 40 years to make.
Heh....
As you can tell, I'm in good
spirits as the year ends. In fact, I'm more pumped
about 4tvs than I've ever been in my entire life. A
year ago I thought I could make it in this
town, now I know I can. This act is everything
I need it to be, and I have no doubt that it will
get me recognized in the entertainment world. In what
facet? No clue...but I've seen the talent out here,
I'm a show away I tell ya. A show away. I still see me
becoming a "Weird Al" type sometimes. I really think
Star
Wars Blew is that good.
We'll see.
In this year, the site
has been defined by the videos. The hours
I've thrown away to make these puppies are
unbelievable. So you had to figure, on my
final entry of the year, the 100th
entry...there'd be a kick ass video. And
you - are - right. This took me 15 hours
to complete. There were about 20 big
events this year, and I picked 15 of them
and strung them together into the best
site video I've ever made. I may need
to warn you that next year won't, and
simply can't be as in depth and time
consuming for me. There's no WAY I'll do
100 entries next year, nor will I be
able to put this kind of time into a web
video. So enjoy
this one. It's
3 minutes long, and well
compressed.
YouTube
link added
12.20.07
So I look forward to a new
year, and I couldn't be more excited. All my ducks are
in a row...4tvs is ready for the second push, Marty
MOOSE is back...and 2000 is over. I'll get more into
what I hope to accomplish in 2001 in my next entry.
The one year anniversary entry. Christ. It's really
boggling my mind that it's been a whole year.
Wow.
Enjoy the video. It took for
freakin' ever.
Oh, and Happy New Year - may all
your resolutions last at least a month.
:-)