Betterstuff

Baking

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:45:36 GMT

Hot damn, I baking a loaf of wheat bread!

6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16/365

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:31:55 GMT

6/365 Wed.

Up the elevator to home.

7/365 Thur.

Blurry palm trees on the way to class.

8/365 Fri.

Lone Sailor Memorial -shooting an IE News Segment

9/365 Sat.

Beach from Bluff Park. A dirty lens forces a 2nd day of shooting.

10/365 Sun.

In truth, this was probably more early Monday morning. Shot of a winamp video of UFC68 playing on my laptop.

11/365 Mon.

Stumped. Emergency supplies in my trunk.

12/365 Tues.

Coming back from the parking lot for editing class.

13/365 Wed.

Vinnie and Duron (Club Moxie) faffing around in the tv studio.

14/365 Thurs.

My bag of recyclables...that's about a gallon o' gas, or a pack of smokes worth of cans/bottles.

15/365 Fri.

I did leave the house, if only to snap a pic of our flowering balcony.

16/365 Sat.

Another cheat 'cause I needed today's pic. My iTunes library -building Monday's playlist. (4-6pm PST, Tabla Rasa on KLBC.org)
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5/365

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:12:56 GMT

Hat01 -saturated color

It was cold this evening so I put on my winter hat. Haven't worn this hat in a while. The heat finally kicked in.

Hat02- neutral color

Hat03 -Black and White

Hat04 -sepia

Kodak EasyShare DX6490

4/365

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:32:46 GMT

Music94-Beginning Recording Techniques. Today we broke out the drum machine, compressor, mic pre-amp *and* the reverb rack!

Courtyard behind the G Building. Bonus points if you can guess why I was hanging out in the courtyard today.

3/365

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:34:35 GMT

Radio show prep in my car between classes.

New Project

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:05:36 GMT

Mr. Bunderschaft

Miss Belladonna, stuff on my bookshelf, the Staples Center after the WWE ppv, No Way Out.

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:44:48 GMT

You Are Dr. Pepper

You're very unique and funky, yet you still have a bit of traditionalism to you.
People who like you think they have great taste... and they usually do.

Your best soda match: Root Beer

Stay away from: 7 Up

What Kind of Soda Are You?

Your Brain is Purple

Of all the brain types, yours is the most idealistic.
You tend to think wild, amazing thoughts. Your dreams and fantasies are intense.
Your thoughts are creative, inventive, and without boundaries.

You tend to spend a lot of time thinking of fictional people and places - or a very different life for yourself.

What Color Is Your Brain?

'Tis February and that means update

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:12:49 GMT

Missy, today, I feel good. The wrenched back followed a week or two later by a fucked knee has all healed itself. I've never used as much Icy-Hot/Ben Gay in my life as I had last month. It is teh suck to grow old.

Of late I've been the queen of school projects:

Dreamweaver website build
Two active radio station websites to admin
Preproduction on a 3 minute short film
Editing of a news package
Scripting a :30 PSA for the Boys and Girls Club
Recording/Mixdown/Mastering of a 3 minute 4-track recording
Researching for a now 2hour new music radio show

...Hmmm, that's it for immediate projects. There's a shitload of reading and homework to throw into that mix too.

I'm using time-management logs this year to track my productivity. It's a smidge OCD but I do know I get more things done when I'm working "on the clock". What I'm working towards is being able to do all my stuff within a nice 12-18 hour day. This week past saw me pulling two 48hour days back to back with naps in between. I finished projects but I feared for my health at a few points in there.

One of these days I need to sit down and reevalute my academic/career plan. I hadn't thought I had a passion for radio but I notice I spend the majority of my time doing radio stuffs. *a moment of self-love* If my current classmates are any indication of the competition out there for media jobs I think I have it made.

I have shown far more eBay restraint than I thought I had in me. On the whole, I'm not into WWE that much. I tune in for my pretties, a lot of the rest just pisses me off. No Way Out is in town this Sunday. I want to go, just on principle, to see the pretties live. I don't want to go because, while ticket cost isn't a problem, I guess I could save that money for something more practical. Bah! to my love-hate relationship with WWE!

What American accent do you have?

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:13:47 GMT

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The South
Philadelphia
The Northeast
The Inland North
The West
Boston
North Central
What American accent do you have? Take More Quizzes

Live in 16 hours!

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:54:35 GMT

My first show is tonight, 5-6pm PST. "The Smart Fan" radio show can be heard online at KLBC.org every Thursday night!

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:43:15 GMT

:( It vexes me that the cute Mac (vs PC) TV spokesboy has such a bad haircut.

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 03:40:52 GMT

Missy!

Thank you for the birthday card, it truly meant a lot that you remembered.

Groundlings Review

Sat, 20 May 2006 11:54:02 GMT

Cooking with Gas, May 18 2006.

This past Thursday found me once again at The Groundlings theater in Los Angeles to catch Chris Jericho's performance in the improv show "Cooking With Gas".

Thursday's show featured Mindy Sterling, Karen Maruyama, Jeremy Rowling, Jim Rash and another actor who was also part of the April 6th show and who's name I missed (gotta' take notes next time).

I should mention here that I wanted to get as many cast names as possible because the two Groundling shows I've seen so far have been fantastic. Watching these guys and gals go at it without a safety net reinforces just how hard comedy is. I have to give mad props to Jericho for getting involved because this improv stuff is serious work and shows just how dedicated he is to learning the art and craft of acting instead of just coasting on his name value or looks.

Ok, back to the show.

Jericho's first skit of the night featured Chris propositioning the always hilarious Mindy Sterling (Frau Farbissina of Austin Powers fame) at a bar with the cheesy pick-up line "If I could rearrange the alphabet, I would put 'U' next to 'I' ". He tries to impress her with his English major skills, she remembers him from his last visit to the bar with a truckload of men during his 'gay phase'. The skit ends with the smitten woamn offering Chris some of the pot she has stashed in her shoe. Great skit, Mindy makes everybody on stage with her look great.

Later he was teamed up with Jim Rash as a pair of brothers. The scene starts off with them building a bike together and ends in a funny turn where Jericho goes into the story of the day of the "Big Debate Team Loss" where he went from highschool debate hero to zero. If only Chris had entered the Eric Estrada...um, no, Larry Wilcox Look-a-Like contest instead of the Moby contest. He would have ended up as the local celebrity his brother went on to become.

In another scene, Chris plays a boyfriend who takes his scaredy-cat girlfriend, played by Maruyama, to the movies to break up with her. As she winces and shudders through the showing of MI:3, Chris breaks the bad news. Still frightened out of her mind at the "dialouge in a car at a stop sign" scene playing on the movie screen, Karen manages to squeak out that she's been afraid of the boyfriend for a while too and agrees, they should break up.

Funny, funny scene here because the rest of the cast, kneeling just off stage acted as the audience of this fictional movie theatre and helped support and get the skit back on track when it took an unexpected turn with Chris introducing "moving" movie theatre seats.

The Groundlings do Shakespeare in Chris' next skit. "The Dust Doth (and Doest) Fall" Paired with the rubber faced Jeremy Rowling, Chris plays one half of star-crossed lovers meeting one last time before throwing themselves over a cliff because society won't accept their love. Jericho has this Shakespearean improv down pat, it's one of his strongest catagories because he gets to let go with that crazy vocabulary of his.

Later, Jericho, Mindy and Guy-Whos-Name-I-missed go ontstage for a round of the popular game show "Who's That Assasin". 17 years the two contestants have been on this show and tonights the finale. Chris and Mindy do a funny sound gag routine of testing out the buzzers. Chris' character ends up smoking Mindy's, buzzing in and rattling off answers after only hearing the first two or three words of the Assasin clue.

Chris and "He how shan't be named -at least not in this review" team up again. The audience suggestions are following a trend tonight as the director fields through all of the scene suggestions of "Gay Bar" to finally find a "K-Mart". We're introduced to the two characters who meet again after having met five years ago in a car crash....outside a gay bar. Not only was Chris' Gremlin (you can't find good ones these days) destroyed, but so was his life as the car wreck apparently made the news back then. Chris' response to all that drama is now to go to the Martha Stewart section of K-Mart and throw things from the shelf to the ground. Kudos to Chris in this skit for nailing a reference to their not being a Martha Stewart section five years ago instead, those ailse were Jaquline Smyth territory!

Oddly enough, Chris was left out of a group skit featuring a troupe of "dancers" putting together a dance contest number to polka music. Methinks The Groundlings don't know Fozzy invented polka.

I've left out the other skits of the night that didn't feature Chris. At the April 6 show I had the fortune of having a front row seat right behind the off-stage cast. Between featured skits, the cast sit on the floor right by the stage and watch the actors who are on stage. From the first row you can hear the watching actors making observations on the on-stage action. In the case of a skit just finished, you can usually catch the actors still laughing and feedbacking themselves as they come off stage.

Intermission then back to the theatre where director Deanna Oliver prompted the audience for some real-life experiences growing up in a small town. She found a girl who'd grown up in Jonesboro, Arkansas, best known for it's rice fields, movie theatre and Arkansas State argricultural college. Jonesboro being in a dry county was the icing on this comedic cake.

The second half of the show will be dedicated to the sweeping musical, "Jonesboro!"

All cast on stage, they welcome the audience to Jonesboro with a sweeping "Oklahoma!" -esque opener and finish with the cast coming out into the 99 seat theatre to personally shake hands and give us all a "howdy!"

Jim Rash plays a Jerimiah, a young man who wants to break out of the life his mother has planned for him in the rice fields. His dream, to become a shark wrangler. With the support of his hand model want-to-be girlfriend and his sake swilling best friend, Pumpkin ("They call me Pumpkin 'cause I like girls and I like to carve 'em up and put a light in 'em!" Jeremy Rowling stole the show right there! ), our hero decides to visualize his mother as a shark and wrangle his dream back from her.

Chris comes into the action as Wyatt, the one-armed celebrity shark wrangler from the prairie lands of Ontario Canada. Starstruck, Pumpkin and Jerimiah sing back up to Wyatt's rock epic solo, "Imax".

In the end, Jerimiah convinces his mother (and recently re-discovered father) that he'd make it in the world of shark wrangling and the show ends with a musical send off.

Did I mention just how hard this improv stuff is? Two and a half hours of thinking-on-your-feet comedy.

After seeing Chris in his first appearance, I was struck by how much of a big fish he'd been entertainment-wise in the small pond of WWE. Still, he held his own through most of that first show, where, in comparison to this Thursday's show, he was surrounded by a stronger cast of just flat out funny people.
Three performances later, Jericho seems more at ease and more open to the rapid-fire exchange of words, gestures, and nuance.

I'm not sure how many more guest appearances I'll have the pleasure of seeing before Chris goes off to star in "Opening Night" but I will put the Toronto audiences on notice. Don't expect to see Y2J on stage this summer, instead, look forward to seeing the debut of a seriously dedicated and talented Chris Jericho who's ready and set to take on the acting world head on.

Unrelated squee, I saw former pro-wrestler Zeus at the gas station today. Apparently he lives a few blocks from my house.