Entry #100
 
12:30 AM, Sunday, December 31st, 2000:
 
Wanna see somethin' crazy?
 
 

Entry #1 - Talk about moving in the 21st Century...

Entry #2 - Snow in Texas?

Entry #3 - Greetings from California...

Entry #4 - We're finally here...

Entry #5 - Despair comes quickly on the 4tvs front...

Entry #6 - The Moose-less saga continues...

Entry #7 - As if I needed more emotion right now...

Entry #8 - No more moping. Happy news...

Entry #9 - Boredom has made me mischevious...

Entry #10 - What the hell is that?

Entry #11 - 4tvs coming to a comic book near you...

Entry #12 - A bigger night than you can imagine...

Entry #13 - 2 Diet Cokes, and 4 dollars...

Entry #14 - Ahh, this will really help...

Entry #15 - Back in the saddle again...

Entry #16 - News so good, we went to McDonalds...

Entry #17 - Tiny backpacks are so rad...

Entry #18 - Palaur: Redefining Multimedia in May...

Entry #19 - Man, my life takes historic turns...

Entry #20 - Karaoke will haunt me forever...

Entry #21 - I will haunt Karaoke forever...

Entry #22 - Grammy Party 2000...

Entry #23 - And so ends February...

Entry #24 - Being Adam Kontras...

Entry #25 - You have to be kidding me...

Entry #26 - And so it goes, and so it goes...

Entry #27 - Saturday Karaoke CANCELLED...

Entry #29 - Karaoke is now my NEWMAN!

Entry #30 - ? My name's not Charmaine...

Entry #31 - How can this ever work?

Entry #32 - I confront the manager...

Entry #33 - Palaur is officially released

Entry #34 - Sam Ash P.I.

Entry #35 - Jessica went back home...

Entry #36 - Your Reactions...

Entry #37 - Radio Killed the Video Star...

Entry #38 - Behind The Music 3...

Entry #39 - A bubu at lulu's...

Entry #40 - 4tvs on Mtv?

Entry #41 - Childhood Dream Realized

Entry #42 - Adam Kontras - 101

Entry #43 - Siskel & Kontras & Kontras & Kontras...

Entry #44 - What an Incredible Month...

Entry #45 - I WILL BE ON MTV! If...

Entry #46 - Freak Accident Kills TV

Entry #47 - TWO WEEKS HAVE PASSED?

Entry #48 - First round extended through June...

Entry #49 - The end of May? That's incredible...

Entry #50 - You've devastated her...

Entry #51 - Freezer Defrosting Tip...

Entry #52 - I whine like a woman sometimes...

Entry #53 - VEGAS BABY!!!

Entry #54 - Finally: Enter Drama & Despair!

Entry #55 - A Shaky, Expensive Solution...

Entry #56 - God dies, and a new site is born...

Entry #57 - 4000 HITS! I need to start gambling...

Entry #58 - Video Napster?

Entry #59 - Introducing: Movie Minded - Pilot 1

Entry #60 - Introducing: Movie Minded - Pilot 2

Entry #61 - Introducing: Movie Minded - Pilot 3

Entry #62 - Introducing: Movie Minded - Episode 1

Entry #63 - Our blinds actually melted...

Entry #64 - Man, I think I've been duped...

Entry #65 - 1 Day, 2 Hours, 3 Minutes...

Entry #66 - Hearing My Thoughts...

Entry #67 - Like Heaven on a Sunday...

Entry #68 - I wish we had a switch...

Entry #69 - Ostrich for your birthday...

Entry #70 - Two HUGE Announcements...

Entry #71 - Strike One...

Entry #72 - Only 168 more hours to go...

Entry #73 - SteeeeRIKE TWO!

Entry #74 - Making it in LA...

Entry #75 - The 4tvs Network...

Entry #76 - Balance...

Entry #77 - Home Again...

Entry #78 - The Beginning of a new show...

Entry #79 - A year long "to do" list...

Entry #80 - I WON!

Entry #81 - J-Dog launches his site...

Entry #82 - If 25 sucks, I can't imagine 30...

Entry #83 - Hollywood Screendead.com

Entry #84 - NBA Fantasy.net

Entry #85 - 4tvs - The Magic Act...

Entry #86 - An Adam Kontras Film...

Entry #87 - At least I have a new set...

Entry #88 - HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Entry #89 - MOOSE is comin' back to LA...

Entry #90 - Vera, Puddy, and Foley...

Entry #91 - A Truly Historic Day...

Entry #92 - Hanging Bob Protest...

Entry #93 - Ordinary Joe...

Entry #94 - Parody CD Defeats The Boyles...

Entry #95 - RELEASED: Star Wars Blew...

Entry #96 - Letters To Lennon...

Entry #97 - FREE PALAUR! FREE PALAUR!

Entry #98 - Believe it or not...

Entry #99 - 4tvs - The Final Piece...

Entry #100 - 2000: The Year of My Life...

That list simply amazes me...
 
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. :-)
 
Love,
Jess, Adam, J-Dog, Bob, and Marty MOOSE...
 
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DECEMBER 2000