Cool how the
numbers worked out wth the entry and subject, right?
Yay Journey Gods. Anyway...
Annnnnnnnnnd in
the end...
Gotta dig the ol'
Camry in the background with the 4tvs.com
plates...
So I guess
the only surprising thing about this is that it
happened in 2012. Other than a surprise set-up in 2006
for America's Got Talent, they hadn't been used since
2004. When it came time to do 4tvs in 2009 for Comedy
Central, I went HD... but to say these TVs meant
something to me is to say the very least. A story
I've told several times has to be told
again...
When I got
the idea for 4tvs it stayed in idea land until I just
handed a credit card over at Sun TV in Columbus in
late 1998 and spent more money than I had buying these
4 TVs. It was such a vivid moment that when the
cashier grabbed the card I held onto it just a
little bit longer (ha, just like Jordan held onto that
shot earlier in the year) and finally let go. I knew
there was no turning back. It was the first $1000 of
what would end up being $10,000 I put into the idea of
4tvs that brought me to LA a year later. For a
newly turned 23 year old with a very stable job in
radio, this was a huge risk and I sunk everything into
it. Incredibly, only the second time the TVs were even
turned on I was making $250 a night (Christ, I'd
love to make that playing out now) and soon I gave it
all up to move to Hollywood. Just, wow. This is why
I set them up in the corner of my house and
smiled when I walked past them every day. They
were the embodiment of pursuing your
dreams...
...and are now
death traps hanging from the sky as I imagine a kid
running around. Clearly we have time before that, but
I need to replace the windows and, well, it's
just time. So here it is... the end of the original
4tvs:
And that's the
wonderful thing about The Journey. As long as there's
a video of it? I'm happy to let them go. Really. I
really am. I'm totally cool with it.
(sigh)
I honestly am. I'm
so goddamned excited and appreciative of having a baby
that I'm getting rid of everything. Nesting is fun. As
I've said before I just never thought I'd get to have
a family so some outdated TVs that could literally
kill a grown adult don't seem too hard to let go
of...
...but make no
mistake - they brought me here. I'm glad I sawed off
the backs of 'em. It'll make a cool framed-type
thingee.
And now for the
rest of the windows in the house (sigh).
