Happy Birthday
Adam! Your wife Is now going to leave you for 5
straight weeks to train in St. Louis starting
tomorrow! See you at Thanksgiving!
(sigh)
While we were back
in Ohio for the big T2 premiere, Jess was busy
interviewing with several companies and finally
accepted a job with Panera Bread out here in LA. For
those of you in Ohio, you know the company well -
however there are none in LA County, she's getting in
on the ground floor before they even open one store.
Killer opportunity, more money - better advancement
possibilities, just a great situation. They're rollin'
out 12 stores over the next couple of years, and she's
gonna be involved from the start. Woot.
Unfortunately that
comes with 7 weeks of training in another state.
Luckily they broke it up into 2 trips, but 5 straight
weeks is still a little intense. I honestly haven't a
clue what I'm gonna do. We're both having a difficult
time even fathoming how long that is. Jess and I are
pretty inseperable. All our free time is happily spent
with each other - and now…whew. Just an
incredibly long time to be apart. As well, it's not
like I've really gained free time, work is still the
same, projects are still the same - my down time will
just be alone.
I mean a week is
kinda cool. You can be all bachelory and leave your
towel on the floor and….well that's it really.
LOL. Therein lies the rub. We do everything together.
We play friggin' videogames together. Any "guy" thing
I want to do - she's pretty much right there with me.
She's my favorite "guy" to hang out with. Heh. Which I
guess is ideal until things like this come up.
But who knows, I'm
trying to look at it all spiritually. It's gonna be a
good opportunity to collect my thoughts, write a whole
lot, prepare for all the projects I have going - get a
freakin' manager or booking agent. I have a lot to do
to keep busy. It's gonna be an adventure to say the
least.
I'm still beaming
over the T2 disc and how well both DVD boxes look next
to each other. When I hand the DVDs to someone it just
says so many things. From the show to the extras to
the menus down to the packaging (with spelling errors
in the first run and all -so friggin sue me) it's just
a very, very special product to me. I take soooooooooo
much pride in making every menu and all the graphics
and packaging. I'm even looking into the professional
laminated boxes to house all 3 DVDs for next summer.
Can't imagine it's monetarily feasible on such a small
scale - but again, the product means more to me in the
end. I may take a bath on the money end - but I want
my own boxed set, and the product deserves
it.
And that's where
the true artist in me just gets absolute fulfillment.
It's like building a couch or something tangible. You
work every aspect - put years of experience into it,
get it all together - and voila. Whether it sells for
$400 or $4000 makes no difference to your artistic
side.
Of course I'm a
man of many sides - and these two DVDs better goddamn
get me where I need to go or I'm gonna shoot my dogs.
(That last line was just to make the Pet Orphans Fund
people cringe…heh - I love my pups, I'm just
kidding.) But seriously, If this 60 minute show
doesn't demo my talents enough, I don't know what
freakin' will. Of course I'll always keep scheming -
but man this is pretty good...
...unless you're
drunk. LOL. I did an encore of T2 after the
Improviders show last night and this drunk dude just
fuhucked it up. Yelling and talking the entire time -
I mean it's a 50 seat theater so he could
certainly make some noise. It all hit the pinnacle
during Dewey's Song when his drunk ass got onstage
(it's the only way to get to the bathroom) and moved
my left tower as he stumbled back. I actually
started giggling because at this point it didn't
really matter. It was pathetic. They finally kicked
him out but as anyone who knows the show will tell you
- it's a little late by Dewey's song. Again it seemed
not many people know Jesus Christ Superstar - but eh,
I'll spread the word. It's meant to be
cool/different/creative - not laugh out loud
funny...but after doing JUST 2, it's obvious you
gotta do it back to back. It's incomplete at 30
minutes - but a perfect 60. You've gotten all the
stupid "dick joke" laughs out of the way when you
have 1 & 2 together, and you can appreciate the
end of 2 more. No biggie, was happy to do the show on
an Improviders Night and maybe get a few more peeps to
come for their show. Hope I helped.
Oh
yeah and I'm 28
today.
Yahoo. Have no real problems with it
really, 25 was harder. I think once you've
accepted it "ain't gonna happen in your
20's" you don't fret too much. It's
stressful when you're racing with that
clock - but as I said at the beginning of
this year, I'm creating what's in my heart
- and that's it. I have zero doubts that
it will happen. The product is
just…too…good.
