- 6:58 PM, Monday,
March 17th, 2003:
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- I knew this would
happen... I'd be so excited about getting the house
that I'd write a quick note to everyone, and then not
write the entry until a week later when the excitement
had already passed. Oh well. I can sort've remember
how excited I was...
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- Totally depressed
now however. The tire-slashing bandit strikes again...
and again and again. I'm sick of not writing about it
anymore for fear that me writing may solicit more
strikes. I'm also sick of the constant "terror" Jess
and I are put through when this happens. I'm sick of
not being able to take video of my new house because
this person JUST may find us. I'm sick of not being
able to tell people where our house is for fear that
either they know who's doing it, might inadvertently
talk to someone who is, or are doing it themselves.
I'm sick of Jess and I barely being able to keep our
fuggin' jobs because of the insane inconvenience of
all the sudden having 1 car, and no time to replace
tires without taking off work. I'm sick of the police
telling us they can't do anything. I'm sick of somehow
feeling responsible. Like had I just shook the crazy
man's hand this wouldn't be happening. I'm sick of
looking at everyone as a suspect. And most of all, I'm
sick of counting tires. 10 now. 2 on back to back
nights, and 3 in two weeks. Here it is all over again.
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- I assume the
person who's doing it is reading this. And I have
absolutely nothing to say to them. Zero. Not even just
to avoid giving anymore satisfaction, but I truly have
nothing to say. Well I can say thank you...because it
was these events that made us get a house. Talk about
making a positive out of a negative situation eh? I'm
insanely proud of that. It's my life's goal to take
bad shit - and change the perspective on it. That dude
slashing our tires is actually now going to be a
"good" memory to me. Because without that, we would
never have a house in Los Angeles, CA. One of the best
financial moves we've ever done, is directly
attributed to him. I guess we can just consider all
the money on tires "closing costs". LOL.
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- The one fun part
in all this is scouring the city for the best deals.
Found a place that's giving me $15 used tires. WOOT.
I'm pretty much the tire king. I can also change a
tire like a mofo. Ahh well... 57 days and counting...
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- Yeah, you heard
right - it's a goddamn 60 day Escrow. There are worse
things I guess (like 90 days), but it was the only
thing the people wanted to change in their
counter-offer. For those who are unaware, escrow is
the transition period between the old tenants moving
out, and us moving in. It's also when you have the
home inspection and appraisal, and generally get all
the paper work done. It's usually 30 days, but in this
case - the woman wanted every day she could get. She
doesn't want to leave, but unfortunately has to
because of a divorce. Jess and I wanna bake her a
cake. Heh. But that's life I guess.
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- The home
inspection is this Friday at 9 AM. Totally stoked. We
get to actually spend a whole 2 hours in and around
the home. This may not seem like much, but when your
nightly free-time ritual is driving PAST the house to
ooh and ahh, this is the SHIT. I will try to take
video, but again the most impressive part of the
house; the neighborhood, will not be shown online
because of the chicken-shit tire slasher. That so
completely blows. Ahh well. Here's hoping the home
inspection goes good, and is worth the $355. Good lord
that's a lot. But compared to the 1/4 Million you're
risking if something's wrong - it's quite small. In
fact, 0.00142% to be exact. Heh that reminds me. I was
telling my dad on speaker-phone that our payments with
5% down were gonna be "Thirteen-Twenty" and Kenny was
in the room. He agreed that $13.20 was a pretty good
deal per month for a house in LA. ;)
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- While you're
smiling - get a load of this. So I'm at the dentist on
Friday. Man, I can't even believe this story. It's
this high-tech office with a TV and a flat screen
computer screen and stuff that you can play with.
Anyway - the dentist is watching the goddamn
television the whole time. And it's well out of her
view. Over her right shoulder. She's grabing for the
remote and changing the volume while cleaning my
teeth. Are you fucking kidding me? LOL. I was in such
shock man. And she kept POKIN' me. Then she'd hear
something about the war and mumble some distressing
comment about the impending doom (chill people, it'll
be over with in 6 weeks) - and then continue to do my
teeth. It was the funniest thing I'd ever seen...
-
- ...had this been a
MOVIE. I mean goddamn this was my friggin' mouth. I
still can't believe it. I mean, if it were 9/11 or
some shit - yeah, it makes sense to be watching the TV
every minute. But come on people, we know what's gonna
happen here. And besides, constantly listening to the
"War Talk" (this coming from an ex-talk show host)
isn't gonna do a damn thing but stress you out. Didn't
we learn ANYTHING from 9/11? Life is too short. Let it
be. Not to deter the anti-war protesters, but this one
truly is out of your hands. If every country in the
whole goddamn world can't talk Bush out of it, 40% of
the population being against it ain't changing
anything. It's not like he gave a shit about the
percentages when he was elected. LOL. If you don't
like it, don't vote for him next year. I personally
ignore it all. I learned my 9/11 lesson. I have enough
stresses in life - this is entirely out of my control.
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- It sure makes me
want to make alternative fuels my life's work though.
If there was just SOMETHING the people could do on our
level to not use petroleum - we'd be in such amazing
shape as a country. You take the oil companies out of
the mix and the whole world is changed. They have such
a stranglehold on our lives, and certainly the
plotician's lives...whew. Oh well, until then - I just
don't watch. It's kind of like baseball. Until there's
a salary cap of some sort, or even revenue sharing for
ALL markets - baseball is utterly worthless. 1/2 the
teams have ZERO shot. Same with politicians. I wish
they could wear ad-space on their suits like Nascars.
LOL. John Kerry, brought to you by Exxon. Heh. I
digress...
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- ...to actually
exciting news career-wise. There are now, offical
shooting-dates for T2:
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- Saturday,
April 26th - G
- Monday,
April 28th - Dewey
- Wednesday,
May 7th - Cameron
- Sunday,
May 11th - Spencer
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- There it is in
black and white. Well, gold, green, blue and red - but
you get the point. These dates don't have a whole
helluva lotta wiggle room either. Because of some
seminars Doc is attending May 7th- May 12th, and of
course MOVING and E3 right after, those are pretty
much final. So in the period of a month, I need to
finalize the script - get all the costumes and prepare
everything for the first shooting Saturday night,
4.26.03. Although scary, that's hella exciting. It's
also uncanny how close to the dates in 2001 we are.
Now normally the whole thing would be edited in a
week, but again the week following is incredibly
tight. I have to build a friggin' wall in our back
yard, most likely create the entire Planet GameCube
DVD, and oh yeah - move in. I will most likely not be
able to touch the footage until June. Which would
leave the first possible show Mid-June.
-
- ...and could that
show be in Columbus? Whew... this is a tough call.
There is nothing I'd like more than to premiere it in
Columbus. The crowd response would be second to none.
As well, shooting the DVD that night would be
brilliant. I could have all the "extras" done. The
whole DVD in fact could be finished, other than the
actual show. All the graphics and everything. I could
bring my DVD-burner and actually put the DVD together
in Columbus and have it ready within days. Financially
though, that's insane because I miss out on a shitload
of opening night sales. I could just sell the case
with the insert and deliver the discs a few days later
or in the mail... most of you know me. Maybe even do 2
shows in Columbus? 1 show when I first get back, and 1
show right at the end to deliver the DVDs? (sigh).
Nothing seems right. I may just have to premiere it
out here, do 3-4 shows and then have the DVD
completely ready for a fall show in Columbus. I dunno.
I'd appreciate feedback on this from the folks in
Columbus. I absolutely want you guys to see it first,
but not at the expense of selling 50 DVDs. I may be
loyal, but I'm not crazy. But either way - this puppy
is happening, and it's really, really, funny. I cannot
wait to start shooting.
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- And although I
"could" promise more career stuff in the next entry,
come on people - you know it's gonna be pictures from
inside the house during the inspection. We're on the
"service-road" of The Journey right now...roll with
it, I sure as hell am.
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- Adam
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