Wow, any of you
remember Brushes With Fame from the WTVN Late Show?
The streak ended on 108, and we lied and said it was
125. That was a funny song...It's called "Brushes With
Fame Farewell" on Late Show Anthology 1&2 for
those of you with Napster. Feel free to download
it...or of course you could be supportive you little
fucks, and buy the CD from me. Just
kidding.
Well, as you all
know, I have quite a problem with people "Talking
Shit". I pride myself on being honest and BLUNT. I
simply do not fuck around. I don't have the time
to waste on things of that nature. If it isn't
substantial, I don't mention it. On the other hand,
I made this "Journey" to show...well the journey.
So it included me talking about things that were NOT
substantial, but certainly felt like it at the time.
Thus is life. You think something good is happening
and POW, it gets knocked down. In my defense of course
I always made known my "feelings" and my "reality".
I am now struck with what I "feel" is the best
news I've ever had in this city, and there is no
"reality". It's all based on faith in another (which
you all know I just LOVE to do), and my own skill
and talent.
I also have a
strange feeling NOT to tell anyone about this and let
it ride a bit more. Simply so I don't look like a
buffoon down the road. I've struggled with this for a
day now. I'm starting to see just how difficult
keeping this journal is. I'm SOOOO out there -
you know? But I've realized that's the charm in "The
Journey". Complete honesty and emotion. You the reader
know exactly how I feel from entry to entry. So much
so you email me with suggestions. A nice interractive
story. So I will stop beating around the bush and just
tell ya what's going on. So you can see why I'm so
excited, and marvel at the fact that my last entry was
specifically saying:
PLEASE GIVE ME A FREAKIN' DIRECTION ALREADY.
The "Journey" Gods have answered.
(this is
also a great lesson in "do FREE shit" for the
experience and contacts)
So as I stated in
the last entry, I'm doing the movie score for a short
film that Paddy's roomate Marshall is directing. He
saw a bit of my performance at the Christmas party
here at the apartment complex, and also heard the
theme song I did for "BITCHES" (Paddy's
web-cartoon). While working on the music for the
movie, Marshall and I got to talking about 4tvs
and how completely scatter-brained my goals are now.
I cannot for the life of me pick one avenue and
go with it. I tried to explain that that was the
entire POINT of 4tvs that I wasn't choosing - I was
showing all, but it kept coming back to: "You have to
pick something...can't be the jack of all trades and
master of none." He told me the producer of the movie
was a good person to talk to. He said he'd have her
come to the show and see what she thought was the best
course of action.
I'll admit now,
that I thought Marshall was fucking CRAZY. RIGHT, I'm
sure she'll come. I think I even said that and he
assured me she would. OOOOOOOOK.
Well, she indeed
showed up and stayed the entire 2 1/2 hours and loved
it. She thought there was a multitude of things that
could be spawned from 4tvs and was excited to talk to
me. She emailed me her number and we talked for a good
2 hours about everything. She was completely adamant
about 4tvs eventually being a sit-com. I thought she
was nuts. ROFL. We decided to meet at Calendar's for
lunch on Sunday, and we ended up sitting there for 3
hours.
The end result is
I have a amanager who has one immediate goal for
me and that is the Aspen Comedy Festival. The Cannes
for comedians. It's the biggest industry event with
absolutely EVERY person that matters there to
find new talent. From Lorne Michaels to every agent in
Hollywood... It is the goal and aspiration of every
comedian to be able to play this festival. The
exposure is immeasurable, and many sit-coms and
development deals can be traced to Aspen. Now, there
are 4 "one-man show" slots that are a bit tougher to
fill than the regular comedian slots because it isn't
bullshitting for 5 minutes, it's a 60-90 minute SHOW,
and she feels if we create enough buzz around town
before the auditions in November, it should be
completely attainable. Yeah, November - (sigh). The
auditions are in November and the festival is in
March, but it seems we will need that time. My oh my
are we gonna need that time...
4tvs as you all
know it, will most likely cease to exist by April. It
is going to become a true one-man show. An hour show
with 5 seperate characters all intertwining
highlighting the comedy aspect of the previous 4tvs
shows. Not a completely new idea, but NOW there's a
reason. When I recorded the Rhythm Set in March
of 1999, it was obvious characters were starting to
form but introducing them would mean losing all
I had done up to that point. You can't have 4
seperate cahracters introduced, and then do a set
where they're all generic. I decided to keep all the
tvs "basically me" with the top tvs hasslin me every
once and awhile. I was also paying quite a bit of
money for these sets if you remember. This was before
I was told "see ya" by ABOT who decided they
didn't like my humor, and I bought all of my OWN
equipment.
The show will be
centered around the concept of Live Adam delegating
his bandmates to TVS and all 5 being an actual BAND.
I'm toying with the idea of it all being a "boy band"
spoof, but still unsure on how it'll all work. It'll
be geared as an hour + show, but the beauty (and the
ultimate difficulty) is each segment within the hour
will be performable on it's own. I'll have 5-8 minute
segments that occur throughout the show, that
I can edit out and use in comedy clubs that have
a tight time limit. I can do all these different sets
all around town, and a few places do the
WHOLE one-man show. The idea being getting a buzz
about the whole thing so that by the time the
auditions come up in November, it's already
known.
What is really the
"pants-pisser" in all this (that's a good thing by the
way), is there is someone else out there putting time
into 4tvs because they believe in it. They saw it and
said: "I want to be a part of this, I know
I can take this to another level." And with her
contacts, I don't doubt it. I won't list a
life story here, but rest assured she's been involved
with some incredibly big names, she's starting her own
company now and is hungry to get new talent. She's now
in the process of calling the clubs around town and
seeing if they can make the exceptions 4tvs needs so
I can perform. This is what I could simply
not do. Getting the favors to work around my set-up
when I'm a complete nobody.
So my proceess
now, is watching every single 4tvs set, stealing every
funny moment, and creating a one-man show with a
definite beginning, middle, and end that will have
segments within the show that can be played
ON THEIR OWN in 5-8 minute segments. Talk
about a challenge. Let alone coming up with the 5
distinct characters. I'm about THIS close to making
"Lester" be part of the boy band. He should be the
manager of 4tvs in the show - LOL! That ROCKS! Hell
yes. Ok, I need to do some brainstorming now,
glad you could be a part of that one.
And there you are.
I'm not jumping up and down (on the outside), but
I can't begin to express what it means to have
direction and a plan of action. I feel like I can
RELAX. It's funny, I have one of the biggest
writing, performance, and good god
TECHNICAL challenges ahead of me (maybe cd101
will lend me their production studio? LOL), and I
finally feel like I can breathe a sigh of relief.
I can't stress enough what the past 6 months have
felt like to me. In fact, this may be the first time
in my LIFE I've ever had this much direction. Even
during the best moments in radio, I just kept
thinking "stepping stone". And when 4tvs came along,
even though I knew it was the key, I still didn't
know how to get anywhere with it. On top of that, the
success of this plans rest solely on my shoulders and
my ability to create an entertaing show with 4tvs for
an audience willing to watch - BRING IT ON. If I
had known this even existed before, I'd have been
working towards it all along, but no matter - it's all
good now, and I've got a billion ideas I need to
write down.
I may not be
jumping up and down, but I'll be damned if
I can't get this smile off my face...
Adam
Oh the
video, almost forgot. I realize that
lately the video and entry have
NOT corresponded for shit, but
there's just been some cool videos to show
you, and this is no different. You will
not believe what your eyes see.
Enjoy.
