Alright, so I've
been clearly taking a little break from The Journey.
<huge smile> Talking about Late Night, the
president... no new videos - yes, the race to 1000
clearly kicked my ass and I am tired. Also,
I don't have a working HD camera and
I refuse to go back to SD, but that'll be figured
out this coming week. However, that which fuels The
Journey has continued and is actually quite exciting,
I just haven't been reporting on everything. I figure
it's time to lay down every "lead" that might
shape 2010 and beyond...
Almond Talent
Agency - I
mentioned at the end of November that I got an
actual agent (Paradigm sorta hip pocketed me for
just the Comedy Central deal) and I went out for my
first audition on Wednesday (B-Roll for DirecTV, to
be used in their promos, etc - generic "guys
cheering for sports") and actually got a callback
for it. That's a good ratio. :-) Means very little
for "The Journey" but it would mean some
money, and more importantly getting a callback on
your first audition looks good to the agency and
will get me out more. The callback is tomorrow,
giddy-up.
Steve
Friedman
(former vp
of mornings at CBS guy who gave me my big
break) -
Well lookee there. Yes, it occured to me that the
company Steve started in March 2008, might be
interested in the Comedy Central Pilot. They
package and sell content to networks and I never
had anything this specific before to give him. Now
I do. I gave him a call and mailed the DVD out
to him last Tuesday. Very happy I own the pilot
100%. It allows things like this to
happen.
Avalon through
Vince
McKewin -
Another potential home for the pilot. Vince is a
writer, and Teryn's husband. Journey-wise, Teryn
was mentioned last year as the lady who had the
connection to Seth Rogen through his assistant?
Also how I was introduced to Ann Walker...
either way - she and her husband are thankfully
anti-computer-capable, so they hire me from time to
fix stuff for 'em. Oooh oooh... and Teryn was also
friends with the women I worked for last year, thus
the Weller-Grossman connection. It's all one big
incestuous network. Vince may be working with
Avalon for one of his pilot ideas, and they do a
lot of stuff overseas. They take a lot of American
shows, start them on the BBC in the UK and have had
quite a bit of success. Vince has the DVD to give
to them, and I hope to sit down and talk to them
soon. Again, having a completed pilot that
I own, sure makes initial meetings easier. Far
less to "sell".
"The Journey"
show in NY -
Gordon, the web-wunderkind, is trying to make this
a reality for his college (Queens in NY) and with
that show I hope to put together a bit of a
promo package. Oh, this may be confusing to you -
the #1000 show? I want to do that in a college
setting with a Q&A about blogging and how it's
fuckin with the way our brains process events, etc.
I think I've mentioned that. So Gordon is helping
and I will bug him a bunch. This hopefully leads to
a bigger "lecture circuit"...
"The Journey"
show, across the country, college
style -
Doubling up this effort, Gary Helsinger (longtime
friend out here, and works at Universal Music
Group) has a friend who is a manager. Among other
things, one of his friend's client's does the
college lecture circuit. So this guy has managed
that type of thing, and I'm telling you - the right
contacts? This is a shoe-in. You don't need to be
famous to pull this off as long as you have an
interesting angle/moniker. "World's first and
longest running video blogger" is certainly one of
those monikers. So I gave Gary a DVD of the show as
one long documentary adding some voice overs to the
parts I left "open" during the performane on the
2nd, and he too will have to deal with my annoying
ass. :-)
Tammy Caputo
(woman who ran "Living Room Live" at CBS)
- Man, CBS
just makin' a comeback huh? Tammy left CBS last
year and is kinda taking a break from all things
"TV" for a bit, but I know she'll find
her way back in soon enough. I sent her "The
Journey" documentary DVD as well, 'cause 1) I
just want her to see it, but 2) 'cause it's one of
those stories that is just meant to be spotlighted
in some way. It's a little hazy now, since not a
whole lot has come of it other than my own
self-spinning, but the pieces are there.
What's
coming:
Jim Sharp,
Comedy Central
- I have
stalled on this a long time, but he said he'd take
my copy of the pilot and I wanted to make sure
I explained the Weller-Grossman debacle better
before I gave it to him. Then the holidays
hit, and now we're staring at February. In
actuality though, it was probably better to let
time pass here. The opening is still there to
reconnect since he said he wanted the DVD, and I
will use this week to work on the letter about how
things went down with W/G. It really was a
nightmare and I labored over the choices ad
infinitum. As we all know, to the detriment of the
entire process. Should've called Jim directly,
immediately. Lesson learned. I will knock out that
letter to him, and deliver the DVD. If anything, I
believe I'll be considered for something on that
network this year.
Finishing From
1 to 1000 -
Lost in everything at the moment is of course
finishing the Adam 2000 / Adam 2010 portions of the
movie (where I show Adam 2000 the entire
Journey) - to complete the docu-drama. It's just a
lot to wrap my head around right now, but I'm sure
the inspiration will hit me. I really want to have
it done for the April 1st premiere in Columbus, but
with the whole "Ravi Situation" blow-up (conclusion
soon, along with the unlocking of that entry), it's
all left a bad taste in my mouth. Meh. The bulk is
done however. Nothing an ambitious weekend can't
solve... though I'm at a loss on how to find that
right now...
The Journey
from 1990-1995
- I've
hinted at this for awhile now, but it just may be a
reality. Although unbelieveably graphic and
embarrassing - I'm probably going to piece together
1990-1995 in "Journey Format" with my high
school tape journal that I kept. Those 230 entries,
plus plenty of video and pictures, should make for
an interesting documentation of those years. As for
the really cringe-worthy audio entries? Lock 'em.
You all have to be asking why, and all I can
say is - it just helps me. It's pretty much all
I have left in a sense. My life, in this
format, keeps me going. If I'm gonna be a guinea
pig, I might as well give everything...except
all the graphic sexual things I did as a
teenager. And how wonderfully excited I was
about all of them. HAAAAAAAAA. I mean, it's
slightly endearing, but maybe when I'm 70.
Video-wise, it's full of nice little gems like
this...
Nearly 20 years
ago, certain of my future. Pardon me while I go find
some crack.
