Archive for January, 2007
31 January, 2007 | 1 comment
OMG I’m so Excited
Yeah! Good news the new season is about to begin and I’ve already started recruiting guests. I try to wait until the week of (right like my procrastination is part of the plan), but I just had to get the phone and reach out and get the N1L season started again.
So much has gone on over winter break. First, I got a camera. Here watch the video my cats made, and really watch it. Unfortunately some people MISSED the part where Sergeant Johnson points at star with his tail - but it’s sheer genius…. that and the fact that my cat is blogging. Here is his video Sergeant Johnson is a supa sta
Oh and ps in kittygarden he’s learning final cut pro this semester, right after butt licking in public 101, so his video skills will only be getting better!
10 January, 2007 | No comments
Scarcity and Fear
So I am working on my papers (yes it’s break and this is what happens kiddies if you ask for extensions… they haunt you like the New Year’s resolution you already broke) The entertainment industry is built around scarcity and fear… the two key factors that lead to war… Jobs are scarce and job security is nearly impossible to come by (dude Dave Chappelle left his own show and his show still went on with his name on it… I always liked Charlie Murphy but what’s that guy doing hosting the show without Dave… there are no friends in this industry… no one’s got your back even if you gave them a piggyback ride to fame)
We aren’t going to see a war anytime soon, or any sort of revolt for that matter and it’s too bad because the stratification of this industry and the industry professionals is the core of the problem and the groups which get formed inherently are based in alienating other people in the industry (DGA, SAG, AFTRA etc)… It’s a fundamental problem this industry has got to figure out and solve or you don’t want to be living in hollywood in thirty years when these 30 somethings are 60 somethings and unable to retire because they have no 401k, no health insurance, etc…
The industry is based on contract work. The only thing worse then part-time work (which many a feminist critic did critique as part of the scheme to keep us women folk down) is contract work. Imagine the health care system if it was BASED on contract work, you can’t… you can’t imagine how that could be possible… but the perverse way the entertainment industry got established you probably have an equally hard time imagining how the entertainment industry could function without contract workers, seasonal employees etc - It’s a totally backwards messed up abusive way of making something work, it’s like a dictatorship BUT TOTALLY different because there is no dictator…
No one wants to bite the hand that feeds it but let’s face it if the hand that’s feeding you is feeding you crappy fast food then bite the hand because you are being fed crap that isn’t healthy… Contract work is NOT healthy.
speaking of unhealthy I have to go to the gym now because it’s either that or clean… and neither task sounds too appealing but at least with one there is a chance of seeing some cute boys… omg I totally ranted alas that’s what blogs are for…
2 January, 2007 | 1 comment
Funny Email From Newly TVless Friend
OK how funny is this email… and thought provoking too. There is a campaign once a year called turn off your TV week. I think I blogged about it before. I think we should get weaned into things like that perhaps I should shut off my tv while on the computer… oh no wait that would just SUCK. —–
Dear Trusted Local Friends,
As you all know, I love television.
I love the flicker of a newly lit screen, the feel of a remote between my fingertips, the utter laziness and dare I say Americanism I feel while engaged in the mindless pursuit of escapism bliss.
The rest of my loving family at xxxx Fulton St. feel differently about the TV and have as a result decided to cease payment of our Comcast bill, effectively staging their own “Coup De Television” to begin 2007.
For the next several months I will be in a state of mourning and will be turning our television into a shrine of sorts by lighting candles and leaving unopened tv-dinners in front of it as sacrifice to the television gods.
On the plus side I will probably be far more productive and may learn a thing or two by engaging in actual conversation with my roommates.
I am asking the members on this list to bear with me as I struggle through the certain pain and withdrawal I will be feeling. I also ask that you invite me over to each of your respective television sets no matter how big or how small for any viewable material that you feel appropriate to share with a friend (my show list ranges from HBO hits to MTV smut and all cable and broadcast network sports, series, and specials in between…there truly is nothing I do not enjoy watching).
I’ll always be glad to bring a bottle of booze, some of the afore mentioned unopened tv-dinners and any other television watching accoutrement you can think of.
Thank you in advance for keeping me in your hearts, your prayers, and most importantly your living rooms.
Happy New Year to all.
Cold Without Cable,
Mike