Man, you'd think
it was January 2000 with all these entries. What can
I say, things keep happening. The productive
streak that just won't die.
So I awoke
yesterday ready to go take on a Seacrest once again
when I noticed the name of an MTV Producer
I had emailed last week jump onto my AIM list.
Jess was lookin' on Craig's
List last
week and noticed a listing: "Presently shooting new
MTV pilot “Egos” seeking people with crazy
wacky and unusual talents for their 1-2 minutes of
fame. Please e-mail us a description of your
“talent” phone number and
e-mail."
(sigh) Slightly
made me cringe only because I actually
have talent and I don't want to be lumped
in with the whole "Reality TV - 2 minutes of
fame" horseshit...but it was worth an email.
Especially for a show entitled EGOS. How can you deny
that 5 of me onstage doesn't fit THAT bill. Heh. So
I sent off a quick email on Thursday and never
thought of it again. Wasn't the first time I'd emailed
things like this. Never heard back. Because it was an
AOL address I threw the name onto my buddy list. Once
again, something that usually never works because most
people block themselves from anyone not on their list
- but I thought what the hell.
So the name pops
up, I say "hey there" and he replies: "the
boyband dude..." Word. Guess I don't have to
introduce myself. It turns out that they've gotten
hundreds of submissions from LA, and all but 8 of them
(including mine in that 8) have just sucked. They're
doing the auditions nationwide and LA has been
the weakest city. Doesn't really suprise me actually.
Hell American Idol couldn't even get anyone from LA.
Take that as you will.
He thought the
idea was really interesting and was checking the site
for videos but couldn't find any of the show.
So immediately I'm pissed because damnit - what
did I just spend a month of my life to avoid?
This scenerio. So I start directing him to videos
within the journey and he can't watch any of them
because they're .wmv files and he's on a mac. Damnit
x2. It occurs to me at this moment that the rest of my
day (and most likely week) is GONE. I will be redoing
the Trinitrons section now to include a myriad of
quicktime videos so mac users can easily watch them.
As well, including a tutorial of how to watch .wmv
videos because many of you are having trouble with it.
By the way, mac users can download windows media
player for mac too, but I want them to only do that if
they want to read the journey and whatnot - but for
straight up show clips - man, you gotta be able to see
it right away.
Luckily, the
original Trinitrons Chronicles were done in .mpg
format and he could see that. He dug those and said he
had to get his staff to see this show as soon as
possible. Thought the idea was great, said he even
worked with the Backstreet Boys and 98 Degrees and was
impressed with the parodies. So he said he would
forward the links to his staff and I told him I would
set-up anywhere, anytime for them to show it live.
It's on wheels, with the help of another guy
I could set it up in 5-10 minutes easy.
I figured just a two minute run-through of the
music, say "Come To" would be appropriate for TV.
He signed off and
I was off to work on the site. I needed pictures and
video up of the show ASAP. This shit can't happen
again. The chances of this guy being online and me
being able to personally direct him is oh so lucky.
Just irks me that I could've been so careless as
to not have quicktime up for clips of the
show.
Well all day
Monday I worked on the picture
gallery.
Click around on it and tell me if it makes any goddamn
sense that those 5 pages took over 10 hours. Isn't
that crazy? I mean just placing pictures and what not.
Had to recreate quite a few, but still. The best part
is that now there's specific shots of the show LIVE -
which was missing before. There's even the only shot
of "The Comedy Store" in existence before they yelled
at my dad. Always wanted a place to put that.
Word.
Then of course
came the video
gallery
which was a complete other pain in the ass because
I just could not figure out how to design
it. I still don't LOVE it, but it'll do. Got the
quicktime compression down very well, in fact better
than .wmv, but there's a slight quality loss.
I would change all the video from the Journey to
quicktime if it would run like windows media. Windows
Media brings up your player and starts to stream it
right off the bat. Quicktime embeds into the browser.
At least by default - who knows.
Anyway,
so now all 16 Trinitron Chronicle videos
are in one place including 6 brand new
videos simply for quicktime format. For
the first time we now have full versions
of "Come To" live, the two
"Backstreet
Boys" songs
live, hell even "Lock The Taskbar" and
"Ooh-La Oh-La". So even without any
upgrades to a current mac, someone can se
some clips - and they can see more if they
want to by downloading windows media
player for macs. Can't beat that.
I still may scour the whole site for
ALL related Trinitron videos and
throw them on that page as well - but it's
already a mess...who knows.
So when's all this
gonna happen with MTV!? Believe it or not, they have
so few good entries right now, they can't even hold
auditions. They need at least 20 and he said they were
stretching in LA with 8. Probably only 4 strong
considerations. So it's gonna be postponed from this
week to next. No biggie, I'm here, and he's obviously
interested so I'll at least get to show 'em my
stuff....I hope - who knows really. My biggest
concern is that it will be out of place. Ya know? You
imagine a show of people with wacky talents and you
see the "guy who can twist his arm backwards" or
some shit. Like Stupid Human Tricks. Where does a full
5 piece boyband come into play? It's not a perfect
fit, but I have to think he'll find a way to get it on
if he likes it as much as I think he
does...
...and yes it has
indeed occured to me that this could secure my entire
goal of 2004 within a couple weeks. Heh. Kinda like
2001 when I said I wanted direction by the end of
the year and got it in February. Nothing is official
at all yet, but man, how do you not put "Adam &
The Trinitrons" on a talent show called Egos? LOL.
Come ON already.
Finally, because
of all this, Seacrest will obviously have to wait
awhile. My next opportunity barring something with MTV
will be next Monday the 2nd. For now, send out some
good vibes because things are lining up
again...
