"I'm not
married to this idea, but..." Adam said to his
manager as he stuffed more raw fish into his mouth.
He was speaking of his script and at this exact
moment became immediately aware of his surroundings
and the words just uttered from his mouth.
From his
"only-in-L.A." skin tight black shirt, to the
"surf-walker" shoes, to going over a script in a
sushi-bar in L.A. - to the incredibly cliched "I'm
not married to this idea..." - Adam realized the
old addage: You can't go home again.
That's indeed the
cool thing about "The Journey". The ability to
pinpoint where the changes occur, so when
I become the total prick celebrity in a few years
- we'll know where I got it from. LOL.
I mean is that the
most "L.A" thing you've ever heard? How did this
happen? Where's the Adam we used to know -
JESUS I'M EVEN TALKING ABOUT MYSELF IN THE 3RD PERSON!!!
AAAHHHHHHHHHHH!
Ha ha ha ha. Well
the true reason for this entry was to explain my
recent addiction to sushi. And I do mean addiction. I
want to eat sushi everyday for the rest of my life
now. I can't of course, because sushi is FUCKING
expensive, but when I have the money -
I will eat it everyday. This I swear to you. And
how did this come to be? What WHACKO place in
LA did I go to that turned me so "Woody
Harrelson"?
Restaurant
Japan...in Columbus Ohio.
See! You can't
call me too LA. I come all the way back to Columbus to
try my first sushi. Nothing more ironic than that.
What got me was the day before my family and
I went I had eaten soooooooo much fattening
greasy food from the "greek easter" Sunday dinner. So
much that I was full and sick the entire next day
and couldn't eat until dinner time Monday evening. I
was doubting the sushi would fill me up - but here was
the amazing part: not only did it fill me up, but it
was the most pleasant I've ever felt after a meal. The
feeling of being full but not stuffed. Having lots of
energy. Not having the "heavy" feeling after you eat.
It was amazing. And I was satisfied. I didn't
feel like I used to after every meal: "I could
eat that again"...I was full, and felt
great.
So I come back to
L.A. and all I can think of sushi. Before
I go though, Jess and I went out with the
Director of "Pep Talk" Marshall, and his girlfriend to
Calendar's and I think I tried red meat for the
last time. I know that Sirloin Chili Nachos is not
what you should judge all meat on, but sweet jesus did
my body react. But goddamnit I was pissed at having to
be the weird guy that won't eat anything...ya know?
Always getting the fuckin' diet food when freinds are
chowin' down. So I thought I'll still order the
fish and rice, but I'll split with the table the combo
platter. Little did I realize that I would be so
full that I couldn't even touch my dinner...or that I
would need to excorcise the demons from MY ASS
later that night....LOL. I know what your saying:
"Don't swear off meat because of some greasy
nachos..." but the truth of the matter is...other than
in Columbus, I've barely had any red meat since the
year 2000. So it's not as if I'm making some big ass
change here...I already did. The
sriloin-chili-ass-explosion EXTRAVAGANZA!...was just
the last straw.
And
then came Sumo Sushi. A sushi bar within
walking distance with sushi rolls for
$2.50. I know, sushi is dangerous
enough without going the "discount route",
but it's got a big "A" from the
health department - so what the hell.
After a Sunday meal with friends and
having the same content, but not stuffed
feeling...I was officially hooked. The
only problem now is of course, I can't
possibly afford it. So it's still a
"treat", but believe-you-me the day that I
can...whew. Watch out. And here's proof
that I am actually eating wiggling slabs
of raw fish and enjoying
it...
Jess on the other
hand...she's not diggin' this too much. In fact it's
safe to say she freakin' hates it. Actually she says,
goddamn this is funny, that she likes sushi...except
for the seaweed (which holds the rolls together), and
the raw fish. LOL. I keep trying to explain to
her that she doesn't like sushi then. Although some
sushi is cooked, and some has no seaweed...getting
both together means basically ordering a bowl of with
some cooked fish over it. And well, that just ain't
sushi. The thought of raw fish absolutely makes her
skin crawl, and I'm not sure why it doesn't do the
same for me...all I know is it's incredibly good
and I could honestly eat it everyday for the rest
of my life and be more than happy. It's healthy, light
and amazing.
On The Trinitrons
front, it's actually much better than I had
thought. The first draft is officially done, and I'm
rewriting a few things, finishing up one of the songs,
and punching up a few lines. I hope to have all
of that done this week and then do final mock-ups the
rest of this month amazingly enough. You gotta
remember that there's no going back once it's
completed. So the script has to be analyzed over and
over and over. There's also a special guest star we're
hoping to get for the end of the one-man show that
would absolutely rock. It's perfect and amazingly,
Charlotte has his home phone number. Of
COURSE I'm not saying who it is now, so don't
even think of emailing me - but it'll make you laugh.
We want to get the script to him as soon as possible
and cross our fingers that he's willing to help us
out. Not sure why the hell he would, but Charlotte
said he's got such a cool sense of humor that she's
confident he'd get a kick out of this. And we'd only
need to tape about a 20-30 second little monologue and
edit it into one of the tvs. Goddamn this would be
perfect. But anyway, though it's taking too damn long,
everything is going really well and the end result
should be an amazing one-man show. I'm still unsure
about the 5-7 minute comedy club bits, but Charlotte
said there's a chance that we can get more time in
those clubs. So all focus now is refining this first
draft and getting "____" to say "yes".
Giddy-up.
And finally,
though I dare not even mention it for fear of
getting off track, I met an animator a few days ago
and The Boyles have of course come into mind again.
This guy's worked on South Park, The Family Guy,
Dilbert, among others...and is working on his own
pitches during his down time. Yet again, The Boyles
comes to mind because there's 60 freakin' finished
episodes all with the voices SFX and music COMPLETE.
Of course everything would have to be edited, and half
the freakin episodes wouldn't work because they're so
"inside", but there's so much already done. And the
relationship of a Grandfather and his grandson getting
into all sorts of trouble is a cool premise for a
show. Lester and Johnny's voices are dead-on and with
a great animator...wow. I have yet to play him
all The Boyles Episodes, but it's coming. It seems The
Boyles just won't go away, and I certainly don't want
them to...but I need someone to get as excited
about them as I have been for 5 years now.
So to all The Boyles fans out there, Lester Lives
on...and I may just have to give you this guy's email
address and let you slam him with a barrage of
pleadings: "PLEASE ANIMATE THE BOYLES!"
- heh.
So wow, life rocks
man. This whole losing weight thing has done wonders
for my well being and it's happened at a time when the
rest of my life is kicking ass too. I no longer feel
out of control here. As if it'll all fall to shit in a
day. In fact I just renewed 4tvs.com for 2 years
instead of 1 because well...ya just gotta believe that
in 2003 4tvs will still be kickin'.
