by dino | 'thatguy', acting b.s., Getting Fired for the first time, revealing too much, the "good old days", the bad old days
HISTORY Thanks to the magical wonder of divorce, I’d spent summers with my dad in Santa Barbara and the rest of the year with my mom in…. um… wherever we were living at the time. The “formative years†were spent in Norman, Oklahoma. I do not mean...
by dino | 'thatguy', acting b.s., coreyoke, half-cocked ranting, revealing too much, seemed like a good idea at the time, the "good old days", the bad old days
There’s some whining here, but it’s worth it. I play in a karaoke band. Coreyoke. Originally, we wore “80’s†wigs and played 80s tunes and the conceit was that we were the “Coreys from the 80s, Feldman, Haim & Hart†and that Michael Jackson, as...
by dino | acting b.s., revealing too much, the "good old days", the bad old days
I always said I would never commit this story to anything permanent until all the parties involved were dead. I suppose this makes me a liar. I apologize to those involved later in this post. It was almost thirty years ago. I think we’re all okay. Alf. aka Alien...
by dino | acting b.s., half-cocked ranting, revealing too much, the bad old days
yet another audition nightmare from my youth At a certain point, casting people and producers got it into their stupid heads that all I could do was act like a crazy person. Helen Sugland, my manager, and my agents at the time fought like hell to get me in for the...
by dino | acting b.s., seemed like a good idea at the time, the "good old days", travel, web stuff, webophilia
Thanks to the Jesse Hawthorne Ficks I went to the Alamo Drafthouse in San Francisco for an evening of people just digging on me. Â I’ll write more about that later, symptoms but there were buttons made and, since I’ve returned, people have been wondering...
by dino | 'thatguy', acting b.s., Movie Sneak Podcast, podcasting, techishness, web stuff
Some people who have a hand in my career believe that the key to me getting roles in movies and television is having a hit podcast. Okay. I think that getting people to see me for roles in movies and television or come out and see The Nigerian Spam Scam Scam makes...