Entry #57
 
10:54 PM, Thursday, July 12th, 2000:
 
I'm afraid I'm the only one who thinks I'm funny sometimes. I thought the title was damn funny, but I guarantee none of you even giggled. Oh well. Ya see, Pete Rose got 4,000 hits and then...well ya know...the gambling and such...baseball...right - and my site is at 4000 hits!
 
I could look at it 2 ways of course. One way is: "DAMN, I've doubled my hits since I've been in LA...giddy-up"...
 
Or I could think about the millions of sites that get a million hits a week....a day even, and realize I'm pathetic. LOL. On the other hand, I'm not selling anything on the site. Simply telling my story and crafting my future. So that's a nice number of hits I guess. Either way...woo hoo. 4,000 hits.
 
Anyway, life moves on here in LA, and it's hard to believe we're a couple weeks away from moving out of this place. Losing a bedroom and only saving $100 a month. Welcome to California. Speaking of which we've packed up damn near everything. Oh and I have a great tip for those about to move soon. Moving your whole life is exhausting, but after doing it 3 times in a year, I have a good piece of advice. And it has to do with labelling your boxes: LET IT GO MAN.
 
Of course ya need to label them, FINE...and try to put items that are similar in the same box...but I've found that you can get extremely anal here. You need to realize that...you will be opening this box in a few days, so it's ok to lump some things together. You'll save yourself quite a bit of time if you just throw it all in the box, and not worry so much about ONLY HAVING BOOKS in this box. AND ONLY CDS HERE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? YOU CAN'T MIX MY CDS WITH YOUR RECIPES! Just let it go. You'll open 'em all later and put it all in the right place. Not that there were any fights about books in a box...
 
Hey a Bread in the Freezer sequel!
"You put your books, in my box, what's with THAT? Does this need to be done..."
 
Just finishing up the fourth Episode of Movie Minded, and I gotta admit, it's DAMN funny. Again, it's a fun spoof and review of The Patriot, and I've included 2 small scenes for your viewing pleasure. Very soon I will have all the episodes up for you guys to check out. I've been busier than I care to say. Hours upon hours upon hours trying to produce the content for Hollywood Screentest. It's very exciting, and the company is very close to some HUGE exposure that could make the name Hollywood Screentest a household name.
YouTube link added 02.13.09
 
It's strange, but the opportunities of Hollywood Screentest has actually made me seek out more. I'm getting seduced by the freedom of opportunity and want more...for more freedom. How easy your decisions when you have back-ups. I'm quickly falling off the LOYALTY-TO-DEATH bandwagon of my past careers. I would never HURT someone or something I worked for, but I will no longer dwell on it. As when you do you get blindsided. So I'm still putting myself out there in other ways. I even got a crazy idea about breaking the world record in playing piano and singing to an audience. I bet I could do it for over 35 hours straight. I wrote to guiness and asked what steps I needed to take to pull this off. We'll see what happens. I can sit and play and sing songs for hours...I know I could do it for longer than anyone else. What a great deal of exposure that could be. We'll see what happens.
 
As well the eveo.com thing is very intriguing. I entered their contest for short films with "Bread in The Freezer" and got $100 just for entering it. The grand prize is $25,000. From what I've seen on the site, I honestly feel I have a shot at it. Can you imagine? I also will get 5 cents for every time the film is viewed! How cool is that? Especially if I'm won (wow, is that foreshadowing?..if I'm ONE) of the top 3 winners, and I get a couple hundred thousand people hitting it.
 
I'm hit with all these ideas and motivations that I just want to follow. It's as if I realize now, that I'm out here for at least one more year, and man...let's do more and more and more. I really don't think there's a form of entertainment in this world that I can't put my name on somehow. I just want to do it all and I really think somehow I will. Man, what a strange couple of sentences. Rambling ambitions. I'm also scared I'll look back on these entries in a few years and wish I was still that enthusiastic. I'm so stuck in the future sometimes. It's like I think of a goal...and then try valiantly to make all I'm doing POINT to that goal. Like I see myself at the goal arranging all the pieces so they lead to ME. As opposed to being HERE and making the pieces point to the future...wow. I just now realized that that's how my head works. That's how I visualize. It gets overwhelming obviously when day-to-day life can lead you so far off track, you never think you'll get back.
 
Had to get out of that paragraph. So, 4000 hits, Guiness Records, eveo.com, and Movie Minded 4.
 
Yeah, I miss reading the overdramtic first 4 months of this year sometimes too...
 
:-)
 
Jess and Adam
 
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JULY 2000