The slut you don’t take to dinner…
Remember her? Or him? That person who would come over at 11 and screw your brains out and then leave. Different than a booty call because she thought that if she hung in long enough, you’d finally see how cool she really was. You’d realize that just because she was available and nice to you… because she actually liked you and thought you were a good guy… it didn’t mean she was less than some idealized girlfriend you had in your head. She was actually one of your most successful relationships, but you never thought about it that way because you were waiting for something *shinier* or something. You thought that it was important that you won a girl over… If a girl was available and ready to hang out, there was something wrong with her.. or she wasn’t impressive or something.
Showbiz is like that.
The people you know and are friends with aren’t good enough to work with professionally. If you’ve worked with them before, that’s all they can do. There’s someone better, otherwise, the person you’d worked with wouldn’t be available. Plus, “The Studio” or “The Producers” have “a guy” they want to work with. Maybe you’ve actually heard of that person… Maybe not. It really just means that their agent has been working really hard to get them a gig and has been calling the head of the network every day for a week. “The Execs” wants you to work with that person because they don’t want to be wrong; It’s the path of least resistance. They’re “excited” about that guy, which could mean any of the following:
- they’ve heard his name more than some other name
- one of their wives thinks he’s good
- the least amount of people don’t not like him
- their boss likes him
- there was just a thing about him in that thing the other day
- he is the most talented person who has ever lived and will change art as we know it
- they have a holding deal with the guy
- they have a development deal the guy
- they’re trying to get a holding deal with the guy and want to prove they mean business!
- someone sent a clip of the guy on youtube this morning
- they think he’s someone else
- he’s fucking someone’s secretary
- “um… i have a lunch in one hour across town… if you say he’s fine… “
Summer School
Last year, I did an interview here at the house for the special features for the 20th anniversary of Summer School. The bride and I watched it and I didn’t come off like a dickhead, which is always my biggest fear. Pompous or pathetic. They didn’t use the “funny” stuff I did like show the thing Carl Reiner wrote that said “If you don’t become a big star I don’t know anything…” and offering to take him on a walk around my estate here in North fucking Hollywood.
That was probably a wise move on their part.
This weekend, the bride went to a wedding in Le Vegas…
digression
Another reason to hate weddings – “Hey, we’re getting married!!! Why don’t you ruin your long weekend, drive in horrible traffic and pay inflated hotel prices on a holiday weekend and give us some gifts!?!?”
/digression #forgive
…so after she left, I figured I’d watch the commentary Reiner and Mark Harmon did.
About 5 minutes in Reiner says “everyone thought he’d break out and hit it big… shame… someone should have done something with him” or something to that effect.
As I shut it off, I couldn’t help but think “Um, Carl Reiner, you know *you* could’ve done something with me.”
Ah well.
That’s fucking showbiz, innit?
I wonder if people would be interested in audio commentary from me and the other people who were in Summer School. I wonder if people would pay for it.
I will be finding out within two months.
oooohhhhhh how very cryptic!!!
Nerds on Rails
It’s no secret that I do web developing in my spare time. Last year, a friend aksed me if I knew anyone who would build a small site for him and a friend who had a dream…
Colin Summers, the genius behind tightcircle.com and my mightycheese email address, had been wanting to do something in ruby on rails and when we work together, he ends up buying me lunch, so we figured we’d whip up the site in a month or so.
I’d almost built it in php/mysql last rocktober or something. it’s been so damned long.
irregardlessly…
between feature creep and incompetence it took nearly 8 months to finish. i’m not going to build stuff for anyone else anymore. i’m not good at it. i’ll work for a company who has a buffer between me and the clients, but i’m not a people person.
so… the site is up. i’m sure they’re not thrilled with it, but there is some really cool technology and nice content management and a screamingly cool ruby on rails back-end.
http://www.comedyfilmnerds.com
Chris directed me in a short film – Rainbow’s End and is a good egg…
His pardner, Graham Elwood, travels to Iraq to perform comedy. Seriously. He actually lands where there is sniper fire unlike that lying scumbag.
They love movies. They love comedy. What’s better than that?
Lucky?
I enjoy watching shows like Video Justice, Shockwave, World’s Wildest Videos and other real crappy crap crap crap t.v.
Why in the hell would you call a helicopter pilot whose helicopter crashes lucky? Why do people thank god when their houses are destroyed and say they are blessed? Do they not realize that their house was fucking destroyed?
I consider myself lucky. I’ve never been in a plane crash (if you don’t count that foaming the runway thing) and have never had my home destroyed. I’m lucky. Not a guy who has been hit by an 18 wheeler and been through a year of rehabilitation in the hospital.
Next caller.
free money
A million years ago, before you were born. PayPal was handing out 10 bucks for every referral one sent them. I know someone who paid their rent that month with the money.
This is a service from Steve Case, the man who brought you AOL.
Sign up, you’ll get $25, I’ll get $10 and we’ll all be better for it.
entendre?
Great tits cope well with warming
Dog Park
Chronic unemployment gives me the opportunity to take my dogs to the dog park every day.
Sometimes, I’m lucky enough to capture something like this:
The thing to realize is that I had enough time to:
- watch and think “this is going on a long time”
- put my phone in video capture mode
- stop laughing long enough to capture said video on phone
Sylvia Brown
Why the fuck didn’t one psychic predict the 20k dead people? Sylvia Browne says she picks up vibrations about the future.
I’d like to kick her in the balls.
RoR
So cool when stuff works.
This past year, I’ve been on a mission to learn ruby & ruby on rails. i keep hitting dead ends as books screw up or tutorials don’t deal with the current version or i just get lazy and bored.
regardless, this site: http://www.buildingwebapps.com/LearningRails/ has excellent webcasts if either of you are interested in learning.
That’s all.
