The First PITCH (L.A. Trip)

7/8/09
Trip to LA was absolutely crazy. Connor and I had some possible shitty situations thrown at us, but we persevered. When we landed in LA, the rental car we had reserved had their lot closed, and it if wasn't for another bored traveler we probably would have waited for that bus for an hour. We went to one of the only open places, Avis, and managed to get a car. Only after Connor's two credit cards wouldn't go through and I had to put it on mine. People who were renting at that time were having problem with their cars, but we lucked out ... except for the fact out XM radio had only one channel and our GPS was so old it was like a game of Pong powered by D batteries . But it's fine, we made it to Connor's boy's place and crashed.

We woke up early and got some breakfast/lunch at Chipole, a really good burrito chain. Kind of kicked the crap out of Viva and That Burrito Place in Ithaca. Really good, fresh tortillas too that made a big difference.

After breakfast we took our friend "Stash" back to the place and plugged our bootleg GPS in and made it over to Twentieth Century Fox's movie lot. We arrived with about two hours in which I dragged Connor around the whole goddamn place being a dork like "Look at all the shipping palettes they have!" "Oh shit imagine if we had that many C-Stands!" Got some Coffee at the "News Cafe", practiced our pitch a little on some nice benches and arrived 15 minutes early to the Executive Building, to be led upstairs to the 3rd floor.

To wait for 20 minutes. "Oh, sorry guys, Mike is in a meeting, it'll be another 20 minutes." That's cool, the chairs were comfy, we could wait, but in 20 minutes the same lady came out and told us our guy was too booked today and couldn't meet with us. She asked us if we were available tomorrow. I sure as hell wasn't, I had to get back and earn last months rent. But Connor worked his magic or something because she found us another guy to meet with: The VP of Digital Marketing. Very cool, he is also in charge of finding talent (like us!) and working on Internet based promotions and projects. Super awesome luck out. He was impressed with out pilot, we gave him a DVD and a pitch book. We also continued to chat with the lady, who turned out to be pretty high up on the corporate stepstool or stairs or whatever. A huge South Park fan, she gave us a list of other networks she thought were a good fit for Olympus Burger.

We left the meeting feeling really good. We chilled for a bit then headed over to Connor's friends workplace, an education center for medical cannabis patients. Then I don't remember what happened. Oh yeah, my plane got delayed, but it allowed for the following awesome fun: A drive through the upper class neighborhood, some crazy trees and bush... grooming... whateveryacallit.

Korean BBQ! Holy shit, this place was amazing. We met up with Connor's old friend Han Jin and headed to Korea Town to an All You Can Eat Korean BBQ. I ate so much awesome beef, and a bunch of other things. I'm a little meat-drunk right now, andit's awesome. I'm going to crash so seriously on the plane. Which is good, because I haven't had a good night's sleep since the day before we left.

Dad picked me up at the Airport and drove back to Ithaca, slept in the car a little... i think. Dad got to check out the studio, which was cool because he hadn't seen it. Gave me some advice about the recording studio, very helpful.

I posted some pictures on Facebook.

Oh yeah, Tony Glitz

Tony Glitz has me to thank for who he is.

I have the best job ever

Today I went on a two hour photoshoot for Jack's Grill photographing hamburgers. I got three burgers for free. They were extra big burgers too for the shoot. I've never been on a shoot before where I got to eat the models. I've never been on a professional photoshoot until today either. I didn't tell my client that, but I borrowed a friend's Canon Rebel digital camera and the pictures came out awesome.

Look at 'em.

Now I'm making notes about a cartoon at the studio with my friends and my cat. I can smoke in the back room. I have the best job ever.

Now if only I work like this everyday...

Awesome Birthday

I had an awesome birthday weekend. It warmed up a lot. On my birthday Joe bought an HDTV and an XBOX 360 for the studio, it's awesome.

Had a killer party catered by Taste of Thai and thanks to Chris Kush and Top Shelf Liquor we had plenty to drink. It was a great crowd, the house stayed clean, and I think everyone had a good time. Jesse got me a pimp-tastic chopstick set, which I'm useing it now to shovel leftover Pad Thai into my face. We had wine, whiskey, rum, tequila, and gin, and a ton of great thai food. Ill post some pictures.

All and all, totally sweet. Saw Watchmen at midnight on the 6th, Xannie and Asia saved us awesome sweats. I did a logo that paid in cash, so I was able to like...by stuff for the past few days. Totally sweet having money.

hell yeah insurance!

Best Saturday night ever, not really, three sober hours at the bowling alley will do that, but I got my motherfuckin new york state benefit card in the mail. Thank you New York State, CHRISTOPHE DAVIDSO is deeply honored. Still super cool, going to get some inhalers so I can get back to running! Which is also good, because I've been feeling like I've had a lot of pent up energy not getting out.

I was probably too baked to proofread this post

Freestyle Saturday - Beat Boxing

I got to make a post about what went down last night. I met up with Josh and Ryan at a The Gunpoets show at Castaways. There were three acts, a nervous white rapper with a good voice, a solid black rapper who sampled and shouted out everything from Stevie Wonder to Mortal Kombat, and The Gunpoets. I didn't see the headliners because I was out side, where the real talent was.

I met a fancy-dressed guy who called himself Beat Dweller. I was a little drunk and I started beat boxing and he started freestyling. He was good. He was a weird dude, kinda looked like the guy from Jamiroquai , but he rapped tight and had a great voice. Before I knew it, there were five other rappers freestyling while I kept the beat, guys named stuff like Duce Wayne. I took the name Beat Police, after an animated skit I thought up in the shower before the show. It was awesome. I we threw down for the entire headliner's set, and from what I heard we didn't miss much. Really buff tattooed white guy rapping, I don't know about that. Anyway, it was awesome. It's nice to know that people respect my beatboxing, enough to holler at their friends to come spit. Josh even got down with my on the beat towards the end, it was good too because my throat was starting to get tired. Beat Dweller's boy filmed some of the freestyles, I'm going to try and get the footage from him.

Anyway, it was awesome. Totally what I wanted from the show, and it's nice to hear some of the local flavor. It was also reasuring to know I could hold my own in a cypher, not only my own but the backs of anyone willing to rhyme. We even got some cool hippie girl in the mix. Totally awesome.

I didn't proofread this post.

running

On Black Friday this year I got a pair of Asic running shoes, and they are the shit. There's some bubbly crap in the heels that makes running so much more comfortable. I talked to my sister a bit about running form.

Today I ran about 10 blocks. 3 blocks straight, last time I tried to run I could only do 2. Two weeks ago, I could barely do 1. Progress!

I was stressing out about some things and drinking Maté. I noticed it stopped raining and I just got dressed and went for a run. As soon as I got going everything just blew away. All I could think about was my body. Ah catharsis.

Now my body is sore as shit. I guess i didn't stretch enough or just not used to it, because i can barly walk around. It's pretty rad I guess, cause it means I'm gonna be huge. hoo ray.

kind of lost my focus while writing. I'm going to go work on the Moving Box Facebook Group

I did not proofread this post.