reminded
Someone commented about the evil “lose/loose” travesty.
It hurts me so much I couldn’t put it in the pedant post. Sorry.
But you are sooooo utterly right. (Udderly!!!! aaaaahhhhhhgghhh!)
Seeing “I hope the writers don’t loose too much money during this strike.”
Speaking of plurals.
AN APOSTROPHE DOES NOT INDICATE A PLURAL!!!
Oy.
Remember: I don’t think that people are more stupid than they used to be. I just think that we’re seeing more writing from people than we used to. So the same number of spelling mistakes are being made; we just have access to them now.
7-11
I go away for a week and 7-11 raises their coffee price by a dime, throwing everything off, change-wise.
on elvis’ bday
There is a pbj & banana sandwich with "TCB" written on it.
Joost
https://www.joost.com/download/3UwSnEGhql8ELg1L9naLihgSWM6Qzpn9A.html
This is a link to Joost. Apparently, it’s cool. I don’t understand.
I recall days, months and even years where I had so much free time I’d sit around and read the paper and hang out with friends and do stuff.
Really. I remember that. It doesn’t seem real. It doesn’t seem like that is possible. And I’m not really that busy right now. I’m not even really doing all that much, though I have this sheet of paper with all the shit I want to accomplish before the end of the year and it just makes me laugh and then want to take a nap.
No, really… I’d call up a friend and say “i’m gonna be at 4 & 20. Stop by. I’ll be there for a couple of hours at least.”
Hmm.
I don’t remember
the movie channel busts my balls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbnpYXt4pGE
As a negative person, I think I sorta have to be insulted. “B-Movie Footnote”?
Hmmm.
As my old friend Gordon Sumner used to say:
“Truth hurts everyone.”
Or, as my old friend Russ Parrish used to say:
“The Truuuuuuth Hurts”
Indeedy doo!
testy
This is the penis who was in front of up at the cemetery screening this saturday. I nearly began a riot after i began yelling at the couple next to me who were on a 1st date and couldn't stop saying "clever" and cute shit during cukoo's nest. My point was that if you're going to in through life as a clueless, self-centered moron, a crazy asshole may start screaming at you & call you & your date stupid cunts.
intervention
christ in a handbasket.
i’m drawn to the show intervention on a&e. it’s the same show every week yet I still enjoy it. I spend quite a bit of time watching with my hand up to the screen blocking out injections.
the chuckie negron episode broke my heart. kid never had a chance and his dad just wants to look like a hero and make his ex wife look bad. he was doomed. doomed. amazing that his brother was so cool.
it’s an odd thing, they don’t show the functioning ones. i’ve watched a couple and the only problem the person has, other than wanting something, is supply and social acceptance. you don’t hoard shit that is available.
i believe that if hard drugs were legal, they’d be a problem like alcohol. the world surrounding the drugs wouldn’t be as destructive. the abuse would destroy people and families the way alcohol and cigs do now.
The fact that it’s easier for kids to get drugs than it is to get cigarettes gives you all the information you need.
The other thing to remember is that hard liquor is readily available yet beer and wine are the most popular alcoholic drinks. If we can transfer this to pot and heroin, then we could safely say that since folks aren’t drinking the shelves dry of Jack Daniels, they probably wouldn’t destroy society by shooting up all the god damned time.
Of course, maybe we can’t transfer it. But if it does fail repeal the laws.
The new treatments for opiates and alcohol are going to make the AA cult people nuts. There’s another one for cocaine in the works, ass well.
It’s a crazy mixed up world, Arthur Brown.
300
When I begin to lose faith in the world, a movie with the main theme being “we will die to save the world from mysticism and tyranny” is the #1 movie and I feel all gooey inside.
holy jebus
quite a bit going on. but not much time to get all the stuff out that I want to. soon.
i’m really enjoying the gig at legalzoom.com. there is some stuff that is just beyond my abilities so i’m challenged and learning and that’s fun. then there is drudgery cut/paste stuff. which becomes a nice break in the slamming my head against the wall.
i think i will have full on carpal tunnel within a couple of years. my hands are sore when i head home.
speaking of heading home, i ride the subway many days. i have an ironic parking pass for the north hollywood station where i park and ride into hollywood. the trip from noho to ho is 6 minutes. sometimes it takes an hour to get there by car. some days, i have v.o. auditions at cesd, and then it’s just hellish. when i got hired, i told lz that i would be late every day, so it’s quite like the situation i had at iWin the last couple years; i show up around 10:30 or and work until i’m done. some days i’m out of there at 9.
speaking of voice overs….
since i’m “working for the man”, i record many v.o. auditions here at home and send them in via mp3. it’s how i booked hyundai and a couple of other spots. i’d rather do them at cesd, but…
occasionally, it’s obvious that a copy writer hates their job. so i was having lots o problems doing this one spot tonight and after I did my opening “this is dean cameron…” etc., i started ranting. fortunately, i had the good foresight to not throw it away and i’m going to share it with you, my two readers.
most voice over auditon material has some direction that the writer or ad agency people want you to go for. i usually get either “wry, likeable” or “earnest, likeable”. it always says “non-announcery announcer”, which is a robot killer because if one only reads for announcer spots, they are then an announcer. I know what they *mean*. One would think that a writer might be able to come up with a better way of expressing their wishes.
This particular writer requested:
What the hell? The copy is your basic copy that would accompany this product, but instead of this person just accepting that he (write me, you sensitive females!!!) is writing copy for a radio spot for something not that cool or exciting, he decides he wants the person to sound like someone on NPR.
It’s really funny. It’s really, really funny.
But, I got frustrated with the copy and after trying it for or five different ways, i started from scratch and “hilarity ensues”.
Hmm.
it’s competely raw, but i would actually like to book this gig (i won’t because you can hear the hatred in my voice in the audition) and i also don’t want any fallout if, by some crazy internet thing (hi, narcisist!) the writer or ad agency should hear it.
early on in the rant, you may wonder “is dean talking to the copy writer or himself? i wonder…”
it makes me wonder…
sure does…
I’m not really that bitter. it’s just an affectation. a sort of totemistic symbol thing…
if i was really cool, i wouldn’t have plugged in me saying “censored” over the product name. I’m not that cool.
boy do my forearms hurt.
here’s the file
never sleeps
We did our two shows and they both went really well. The audience at 10:30 was a bit tired and were just listening, which was a bit disconcerting. Especially after the first show which went so well.
I am, however, cautious… What a surprise for me. Hmmm.. I fear that the folks booking shows may want something a bit safer than the spam scam show. I don’t mean that in a condescending way (that means “talk down to” ), I mean that you don’t really get what’s going to happen in spamscam from the title.
Victor, however, did some of his best stuff tonight. Really solid an schweet!
Dunno.
I do know that I had a whole bunch of stuff to do for legalzoom.com and did not do one single thing. I will try to pack it in tomorrow when I get home… but wow. I did not do well. Hmmm.
It’s cold here. Did I mention that?
The really nice thing is that I edited the script down to 1/2 hour, and it’s inspired me to begin adding the stuff from the other scams in… try to figure out some sort of structure. I have my russian bride, my hussein guy, mister ebay and the lotto all going through perry mason, but it’s so unweildy, but this has given me confidence that i can pare that stuff down, too.
We shall see. I need to get back in andy’s studio and make some calls to the former soviet union.
Hmmm.
Wacky.