Caveman Chronicle: It's Zanity

I'm dry where others could be wet.

2010-01-18T22:12:00.000-08:00

Travel with no sleep and walk in a backyard to think about what you just did.

2010-01-03T16:43:00.002-08:00

Look who got in in 2010...Beau Jim did.

2010-01-03T16:43:00.001-08:00

This Saturday 8 hours away: Episode Four

2009-08-29T20:54:00.000-07:00

Episode Three: 8 miles away now. This is Saturday.

2009-08-29T18:41:00.000-07:00

It's 1:30 p.m. 105 degrees outside. Not what I speculated, but this is all truth on Saturday.

This is Saturday. The chaos is 8 miles away...

2009-08-29T18:12:00.000-07:00

I wait for 6 more episodes to upload on my youtube page. Along with the two episodes from Thursday, here is today, Saturday, August 29, 2009. I'm in Glendale. 105 degrees. Can't imagine what the fire is hitting and taking away in such swift, delicate movements on film. Structure crashes. Earth turns to ashes.

I start the day documenting and carry on 250 feet up a trail in camp to document these photographs and correspond them with you.

This was Thursday, night approaching day. Still lit by fire.

2009-08-29T17:38:00.000-07:00

Episode Two:

Nicholas Jon

This was Thursday, 18 miles away and getting closer.

2009-08-29T17:06:00.000-07:00

Eventually, I'll take Los Angeles for granted, used to the scene. Getting further away from being a tourist or visitor to just an Angelino. First earthquake was february. This one started Thursday afternoon. First video in a series of Eight, currently uploading on youtube.com.

I'm still here watching Earth in front of me burn.

Nicholas Jon

7 months. In the path of withdrawal and silence, I find access to art's secrets.

2009-08-23T12:31:00.000-07:00

I wrote a few shorts recently and I went from start, The Chalet with my writing partner, Nick Robinson, to finish, his pink castle house in the Miracle Mile. All for the Fantastic Fest and the love of shock value. And I write those characters I'm curious about to explore just enough to get a taste...

My SKULL wrapped in FACES.

the art we produce must happen in unknown regions that the imagination controls.

I'm such a kid out here in Los Angeles with a little of home with me.

CZECH BAKERY: WEST, TX meets BEACH: SANTA MONICA

IT'S DIFFICULT NOT TO TOUCH REALITY HERE, EASY TO LEAVE PHOTOSHOP ALONE. LOS ANGELES, A GREAT PROGRAM IN NATURE AND BALANCE.

Make the behavioral changes that will take you forward in life. But I learned once again that work can only be conceived in fiercely stubborn solitude. Time mastered defines art. labor and perseverance are the only guarantees of a work’s authenticity. My strength and powers accumulate from the power of the works I produce in the course of my life, and my determination.

Nicholas Jon

Oh Christ! He's on Fire. Shay fills you up with Joy and with the other hand, I just don't know what he'll do next...

2009-02-02T18:21:00.000-08:00

Meet the Shay, the new personality when I don't want to be.

2009-02-02T18:19:00.000-08:00

New Headshots Brooks Institute Style

2009-01-30T23:26:00.000-08:00

My friend from our hometown of China Spring, TX attends Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara. I was told by my agent with The Atherton Group to have new headshots taken and Ty Colter has done that. Offer your feedback. Judge me. Casting Directors do and I give you full right to do what you will. Like my mentor Van Brooks says, "What anybody thinks of me is none of my Goddamn business." Have a good night. Good morning.

Look forward to the Super Bowl, Look out for BAD NUTs.

2009-01-30T22:14:00.000-08:00

In Hard Times, Look for Simpler Times.

2009-01-23T13:07:00.000-08:00

Growing up to be Mister Mom or just trying to find the right beer.

2009-01-19T00:55:00.000-08:00

Hello from 8 days ago. Yes this past week has been about acting classes, an audition for a lead role in a Robert Duvall film "Get Low" and repairing my computer, which had 57 corrupt files, Trojans, worms and Malware! What the F! Nevertheless, I repaired everything like a full time job. Now I bring you a production from an undisclosed location.

16 hours before the Golden Globes, One More film for Consideration

2009-01-11T01:18:00.000-08:00

From casting in August 2006 to the Director's Cut in April 2007, The Aviatrix has garnered several awards, world-wide recognition, and over 25 official selections in film festivals across the Earth. Enjoy more and more as the time goes on and our careers. The Aviatrix is how Jess and I met and we continue to capture more out of this world moments. Thank you all for your support and views. And the award goes to...my last name doesn't have an "r" in it. But that is me on the flying lawnmower!

The Aviatrix Film Festivals:

Tribeca Film Festival
SXSW Film Festival
Austin Film Festival
Newport International Film Festival
Hawaii International Film Festival
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
Hamptons International Film Festival
Cleveland International Film Festival
Rhode Island International Film Festival
Palm Springs International ShortFest
Woodstock Film Festival
Maryland Film Festival
Durango Independent Film Festival
Angelus Student Film Festival
DC Shorts Film Festival
Charlotte Film Festival
Newport Beach Film Festival
Reel Women International Film Festival
AOF, Action On Film Film Festival
deadCENTER Film Festival
Imagine Science Film Festival
East Lansing Film Festival
Raindance Film Festival
Kinoforum - São Paulo International Short Film Festival
Rockport Film Festival

Awards
Durango Independent Film Festival, Best Live Action Short
deadCENTER Film Festival, Best Student Film
Angelus Student Film Festival, Semi-Finalist

Nominations:
Action On Film(AOF)Film Festival:
Best Editing
Best Sci-Fi
Best Art Direction
Best Breakthrough Perfomance by a Female in an Action Film-Jessica Robertson
Without a Box/AOF Best Actor-Nicholas Yedinak

My First Earthquake Tremor!

2009-01-08T21:05:00.000-08:00

There I was, sprawled out on my bed watching the National Championship game on Fox. A curious look came across my face and the bed vibrated like someone pumping quarters into a motel bed. When it's the first time, you just lay there and think was that it? Was it the chunky tomato sauce disagreeing with my stomach and it twitched? Did I burp? Wait, Earthquake Tremors! Suddenly I said my prayers. Then, I sat up, fortunately my Pyramid Hefeweizen didn't spill, but I do have a Tempur-Pedic bed. However, I went ahead and finished my Hefe. And decided to grab another. Hell, I'm not driving, just preparing for another tremor. The tremor came from a 4.5 Earthquake and a 3.3 aftershock from the San Jacinto fault zone, which is the most active in San Bernadino county, especially for smaller quakes and tremors. San Bernadino is about 90 miles or so east of Los Angeles and it seems all so fascinating to experience my first earthquake tremor. The earth moved and my first time just flew by. And I wasn't even drunk. I rode out the experience with ease and standard performance. You know what I'm gonna do, celebrate with...another Pyramid Hefeweizen. I'd be really lucky if I had a Pyramid Apricot Hefeweizen, it's a southern tasting dessert brewed by the bottle in Seattle, Washington.

It's late, almost early.

2009-01-08T03:36:00.000-08:00

This is the time of night, day, morning, transitional phase in a date on a calendar where I think about my family back in Texas. It's a great state to be awake early in and traditionally we're known for that sort of thing. The sunrises come with fresh peaches dipped in dawn's dew straight from the tree. Johnny Cash faintly playing in the background while the coffee roasts it's flavor surely to impact a day. Dad snapping the paper open with warm, buttered toast and Mom toasting a bagel with peanut butter. She usually prefers a Diet coke.

In another house, it's the sound of mumbling by my brother and his six year old son. His amazingly supportive sister-in-law of mine, my future publicist, deciphers their language, has whatever they mumbled ready to eat and drink, and walks down the hall to see what the other two kids are mumbling. But they're older, 13 and 18 and a little more predictable I suppose. They usually fend for themselves, but Tiffany still has every right to pick on them as mothers gently tend to do with such intention to have a little fun. After all, they brought us all here. Women are great like that. My girlfriend, by the way, doesn't snore, and if you try to tell her that, she'll snap at you like she sometimes can wake up like. I love you honey. It'll be two years, two months January 14th. Good night. Good morning. Wherever there's Johnny Cash playing. I just got a little mumble in my ear.

Going to the Beach today, well that all DEPENDS.

2009-01-07T20:22:00.000-08:00

Tonight did have a day of influences and signs and I couldn't find a Wifi coffee shop to save my line of credit. Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, packed. Insomnia Cafe off Beverly, no parking. Thank goodness for a 7-11 inbetween the two and a Trader Joes off Santa Monica Boulevard, which supplied me with fresh spicy California rolls and a bottle of Fat Wiesel Pale Ale. I was going Stir Crazy finding a place to get this issue of the Caveman Chronicle published, in the can, dunsky, finished, caput, over and out, fin. Suddenly I got a sign! And then it hit me at La Brea and 1st like three shots of espresso and a prize fighter, Stir Crazy!, off Melrose, just east of La Brea and Pink's Hot Dogs. Now they're no Gray Papaya's in NYC, but their decent and I already ate sushi. No longer am I Stir Crazy, just the coffee.

The influence today was a journey to Santa Monica. In the trunk of my car, I had three things I wanted to photograph and introduce to you all. Along the way around lunchtime, I was listening to the Tom Leykis show on 97.1 and he was discussing the topic of celebrities and having PR people, publicists to report what's going on with their clients, to spin the news to provoke readers and inform the public that a given celebrity is alright after a break-up, is really sorry for driving drunk, or taking way to many hits from a pipe. Pick your own pipe and just imagine. Tom continued to talk about how celebrities don't give the public everything. They are more reserve and want, need at sometimes, to be private and they only offer a slice of their life, a taste of what they are experiencing and reacting towards. With the proceeding photographs, I offer you my slice of life today, five blocks west of the Santa Monica Pier. The clock was my grandfather's, Robert Rudolph Veselka, a Master Sergeant for the United States Air Force. And he gave it to me as a symbol of life. When you gotta go, you gotta go. And you have to do what's best for you. That being said, I will say three things:

One. That is me as a baby, about four months old and that is my grandfather, Pop, as I called him, kissing the top of my head.

Two. When you go on road trips, it is always best to prepare yourself for emergencies, have a first aid kit with you and stock it well.

Three. when you gotta go, you gotta go. And what's been best for me on road trips has been to wear DEPENDS because whether your driving through the desert and rough terrain of New Mexico or in the vast mountains of Colorado, there are no gas stations and unsafe places to pull over so pull one on and let it go. Do what's best for you. And if you're going to the beach today, well that all DEPENDS...

Women wearing high heels in LA targeted. Baby Eeyore's Advice

2009-01-05T03:25:00.000-08:00

With the poor economy, people, I should say criminals have been targeting women in the Greater Los Angeles area wearing high heels. The reason: It is difficult to run in high heels as someone robs you! There is hope and there are ways to prevent the theft of your hard earned material possessions this holiday season and post season of shopping and dressing up the new year. And now a local service announcement:

By shopping in the daylight hours and keeping pepper spray at the ready, consumers in high heels can stay at the ready and be prepared for unwanted predators and thieves. I guess being conscious of your surroundings is always the best policy when it comes to these times of desperation and economic hardships for people seeking out inhonorable methods to make a living. Stay alert and keep an open eye in your surroundings. Pepper spray is an effective tool for protection and always call 911 in case of an emergency.

What's in the Meaning and Value of each Day.

2009-01-04T21:40:00.000-08:00

I was looking up the meaning of names today. In the last three months living in Los Angeles, I have been meeting such extroverted and interesting people. And I've been wondering how those people represent the definition of their names. Musicians, screenwriters, actors, acting coachs, casting directors, and clerks at 7-11 stores and Fresh and Easy. Especially at Fresh and Easy. I mean you do all the work selecting fresh produce and well-balanced prepared meals and then you go to a self-service check out. And if you select a bottle wine or a sixer of Pyramind Hefeweizen, the automated woman with a soap opera vixen's voice tells you you're in need of assistance. Because the computer vixen doesn't have eyes to see the age of a person, a Fresh and Easy clerk is electronically summoned to walk over to you and check your ID and override the persistent vixen saying you're in need of assistance. Two days ago, a young woman walked over to check my ID and said, "She's pushy isn't she." We shared a laugh and I was on my way to pay and walk out with some fresh sourdough bread, a package of pork tenderloins, crisp green beans, and a refreshing sixer of Pyramid Hefeweizen.

The young woman's name was Alexis and her name means helper. I thought to myself, no kidding. So I looked up my name Nicholas and what I discovered was the meaning, "Victory of the People." Well that's empowering and somewhat stressful. I mean it's the new year and I see my name is "Victory of the People." I have already made a few resolutions, one especially to reduce the amount of stress in my life, and now I'm thinking about more people? Deep breaths, deep breaths, where's the bottle opener? I mean, well I am only one simple guy who shops at 7-11 and Fresh and Easy, write this blog, communicate with people through my Blackberry, and write screenplays and act. I feel that my art goes through me to people at times I don't particulary know. And my life isn't so much for me, as for those who love me, respect me, support me, and will meet me. But what do I do for the people? I will start by offering one day at a time and one piece of advice at a time. That's the best I can do.

Tonight I was standing in line to pay for a play, "Curse of the Starving Class" by Sam Shepard. I know, I know, he was arrested on speculation of driving while intoxicated, but the guy is still an innovative and influential playwright. Back in line, I saw magazine covers reading, "50 Ways to improve your life, 43 green solutions for your home and life, How to Shape your body, those abs in 10 days for the perfect partner in 2009." I mean hell, lighten up. Like I said, one day at a time. That's too much stress at the check-out counter! I've already walked around for a while, read a few pages out of an amazing book "Catching the Big Fish" by David Lynch, walked up some stairs, bent over to tie my shoes. Now I need to sit down and catch my breath. All these big numbers to influence and change your life and I hadn't even eaten dinner yet. Don't those magazine tag lines just freak you out! It's like at the check-out counter at the grocery store and there are all those headlines reading, "The best ways to burn calories and work-out those holiday pounds," and I have a quart of Ben and Jerry's Cinnamon Buns Ice Cream. Should I feel guility, do I feel guilty cause I'm still adding on to those holiday pounds and I was bummed that the Egg Nog was already sold out. Haven't you ever tried to pour a little Egg Nog over the top of a quart of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, really any flavor, and take the best bite of ice cream ever! A sweet thanks to Missfit Styles for the photo. Check her blog out from my list: What REads as Humans in ACTion.

I guess that's not the most encouraging thing I can say to all of you who have started working out and getting in shape and I'm supposed to be encouraging your victory, but really every once and a while, egg nog...But not to worry, things will be changing greatly for us this year. I can't wait to see what will be new and updated in the world around us in 2009. If we're at a low point, we will raise up and figure those hazy aspects in our lives out. I'll just start with one thing at a time and what I started with today was a Vanilla Cupcake Cappuccino from 7-11. Don't put so much pressure on yourselves in those check-out lines and especially not so soon, it's only January 4th, the new year just started. Like my girlfriend Jessica always says, "Life is a marathon, not a sprint." Not that I'm saying you have to start running in any stretch of the meaning, but pace yourself, stand by your own instincts, and make strong choices to maximize your happiness and only you can do the best things in life for you.

Now I don't have a magazine for you to curl up with tonight before you go to sleep or the bathroom, wherever you like to read, but I do have a great book to check out. "Catching the Big Fish" by David Lynch. As an artist in screenwriting and acting, this book got me energized to write out a few scenes tonight in a feature I am writing. It's a book about meditation, consciousness, and creativity. Even though it is considered a self-help book, it reads like a conversation with David Lynch and he talks about the importance of art to himself and it had me thinking about the importance of art to me. And that importance of art is yours every time I post a blog, write a screenplay, or work on a scene for an audition or in my acting class. I hope what I devote my life to will be a victory for myself.

If you can do it 4 times in one night, you can make a video about it.

2009-01-03T02:12:00.000-08:00

Thank you for visiting the Caveman Chronicle. I appreciate your visitation hours and there will be greater efforts like a prisoner trying to rehabilitate himself to get out into the world. Not that I'm writing out of prison, but I can empathize. Have a great night and beneficial days that will drive you forward into your successes and sandwiches. Wait, sandwiches? Yeah, sandwiches. They are my favorite meal.

Got some Vodka left over from New Year's Festivities? I've got some recipes for you.

2009-01-03T01:43:00.001-08:00

That's right. Don't worry about having to find things to mix that Vodka with that could just make you sick at this point. Whether it be Red Bull, cranberry juice, or straight up at room temperature with slices of lemon like the Russians do it, you can find the perfect uses for Vodka below. And don't thank me so much as reply with what works and believe me, it will clean the tile grout in the shower. It's what I love in 2009, Cosmos and showers. I'm clean and drunk. Thank you Vodka. I will be the best maid in Los Angeles with the greatest intoxicating influence. Follow these 21 steps to utilizing the Vodka, take a shot.

1. To remove a bandage painlessly, saturate the bandage with vodka. The solvent dissolves the adhesive.

2. To clean the caulking around bathtubs and showers, fill a trigger-spray bottle with vodka, spray the caulking, let set 5 minutes and wash clean. The alcohol in the vodka kills mold and mildew.

3. To clean your eyeglasses, simply wipe the lenses with a soft, clean cloth dampened with vodka. The alcohol in the vodka cleans the glass and kills germs.

4. Prolong the life of razors by filling a cup with vodka and letting your safety razor blade soak in the alcohol after shaving. The vodka disinfects the blade and prevents rusting.

5. Spray vodka on vomit stains, scrub with a brush, then blot dry.

6. Using a cotton ball, apply vodka to your face as an astringent to cleanse the skin and tighten pores.

7. Add a splash of vodka to a 12-ounce bottle of shampoo. The alcohol cleanses the scalp, removes toxins from hair and stimulates the growth of healthy hair.

8. Fill a 16-ounce trigger-spray bottle and spray bees or wasps to kill them.

9. Pour 1/2 cup vodka and 1/2 cup water in a freezer bag and freeze for a slushy, reusable ice pack for aches, pain or black eyes...

10. Fill a clean, empty jar with freshly packed lavender flowers. Fill the jar with vodka, seal the lid tightly, and set it in the sun for 3 days. Strain liquid, then apply the tincture to aches and pains.

11. Make your own mouthwas by mixing 9 tablespoons powered cinnamon with 1 cup vodka. Seal in an airtight container for 2 weeks. Strain through a coffee filter. Mix with warm water and rinse your mouth. (DON'T SWALLOW!)

12. Using a cotton swab, apply vodka to a cold sore to help it dry out.

13. If blister opens, pour vodka over the raw skin as alocal anestheic that also disinfects the exposed dermis.

14. To treat dandruff! , mix 1 cup vodka with 2 teaspoons crushed rosemary. Let sit 2 days, strain through a coffee filter, massage into your scalp and dry.

15. To treat an earache, put a few drops of vodka in your ear. Let sit for a few minutes, then drain. Vodka will kill the bacteria causing pain in your ear.

16. To relieve a fever, use a washcloth to rub vodka on your chest and back as a liniment.

17. To cure foot odor, wash your feet with vodka.

18. Vodka will disinfect and alleviate a jellyfish sting.

19. Pour vodka over an area affected with poison ivy to remove the urushiol oil from your skin.

20. Swish a shot of vodka over an aching tooth. Allow your gums to absorb some of the alcohol to numb the pain.

21. If all else fails, just turn the bottle upside-down and drink it. Then nothing else will matter anyway!

Join me for a teaser trailer of a film that never was finished, Words.

2009-01-03T01:12:00.000-08:00

But the trailer was. How back ass backwards. Nevertheless, that is me. I am...the Word Monster. Good luck to the crew and my friend Billy in hopes he'll find the footage. Happy New Years from myself in white tights. I got to keep the tights. Yeah, that's right, I'm a sexy boy.

My Kind of New Year, CELEBRATION!

2009-01-03T00:01:00.000-08:00

A glass of Freixenet champagne, a beautiful girl, and some flowers. That's my kind of celebration. Hats off to the new year.

Not two days to recover, two days to discover.

2009-01-02T15:31:00.001-08:00

No, no, no. This is not me on New Year's Eve ringing in the new year. No, it's not! The flash was too bright from my girlfriend's Blackberry Curve. It was...really. This moment was at the Shortstop Bar in Silverlake after eating dinner at NOBU in Malibu. From Tribeca to Malibu, we eat sushi. And NOBU is amazingly tasty and the Shortstop Bar has Pabst Blue Ribbon on tap! The look on my face represents my curious focus just before the New Year was born. What went through my head before a little Advil, was what will be gone once 2009 starts and it was coming whether people were prepared or not. It's like a game of Hide and Seek. Ready or not, here I come!

When I opened up my laptop this morning to the AOL homepage, I saw a list of products and people who we lost in 2008 and few seemed surprising. I couldn't help but to extend from those losses to other products and people that will be affected in 2009. Jolly Ranchers for one, I mean I used to watch girls pack those into Zima to give them more of a fruity flavor and appeal. But still one hell of a headache in the morning. And with that hangover, they could all go to Whataburger or Taco Bell and fill their bodies with greasy foods such as items comparable to the Volcano Taco(which is now gone) to help ease the pain of dehydration and way too much sugar that went through the body into an unbalanced state screaming for Advil and the delicious salt that seems to be in every drive through window for sure. But people are caring more about what they put into their bodies, like the disappearance in 2007 of the McRib and the rise of fruit salads and fresh vegetable selections instead. Slowly, people are getting the idea, but we afford what we work hard for. I mean, 2 tacos for 99 cents from Jack in the Box? Damn those things are addictive.

And even Starbucks, and I'm not saying it is near the best coffee around (7-11! and the stores are 24 hours...) but even Starbucks has to cut back in this economic time to reflect on how glutinous and flippant we are with spending. I mean really, Starbucks,$3.50 for an average coffee drink. 7-11, 1.49 for an average coffee drink and you can mix and match the way you want. And there are even tasty sandwiches, fruit bowls, and fresh donuts and pastries delivered daily. Don't forget that you can find a 7-11 on a street corner close to you in LA and I know Austin, TX.

Paris Hilton was at 7-11 while her license was suspended. Nothing can keep people away from 7-11, not even the license to drive. 7-11 drives you. A special thanks to mrsjrewing-gossip.blogspot.com

In memoriam-2008 People, products, and entertainment.

"Arena Football League (AFL)
Founded in 1987 as an American Football indoor league, the league grew in popularity through the years, but the increase was accompanied by greatly increased expenses and debt that led to the league to announce in December that it was suspending operations for 2009. The future of the AFL is questionable.

Zima
In Oct. 2008, MillerCoors LLC announced it will discontinue the clear malt beverage Zima, introduced by Coors Brewing Co. in 1992, due to "challenging malternative segment sales and declining consumer interest." Production of Zima ceased Oct. 10 with remaining orders to be filled on a first-come, first-served basis using available inventory. The last orders are expected to be filled in December. MillerCoors is asking distributors to replace Zima on store shelves with its Sparks malt beverage brand.

CD Sales at Starbucks
The firm revealed that the amount of traffic flowing through its U.S. stores fell during the fourth quarter -- its first dip since the company began disclosing the figure three years ago. As a result, it has now scaled back its once-grand ambitions to turn itself into an entertainment hub, getting rid of all of its CD offerings.

The Kinko's Name
In June, FedEx Corporation announced it would change the name of FedEx Kinko's, the world's leading provider of document solutions and business services, to FedEx Office. According to a company spokesman, "The FedEx Office name better describes the wide range of services available at its retail centers and takes full advantage of the FedEx brand long recognized for excellent customer service, quality and reliability."

Diet Cherry Chocolate Dr Pepper
Diet Cherry Chocolate Dr Pepper was introduced as a limited edition flavor on November 21, 2007. Although it had its fans, and was credited as tasting exactly like you would think it would, the flavor was discontinued in April 2008.

Taco Bell’s Volcano Taco
According to Rob Poetsch at Taco Bell, the Volcano Taco was a limited time offer which is a common way Taco Bell markets new products. Taco Bell customers loved the Volcano Taco so much that it was one of its best selling limited time offer products. Alas, all good things must come to an end and the fast-food industry’s spiciest taco has been discontinued. [Editor's Note: It was not discontinued based on poor public response as we previously reported.]

Sharper Image Stores
Sharper Image filed for bankruptcy protection in February, with plans to shut about half of its 184 stores and reorganize. The company put itself up for sale in April. The new owners announced in June that they plan to close all of its remaining stores. It has instead developed a licensing strategy for wholesale, retail, direct-to-retail, e-commerce and catalog businesses.

DHL in the U.S.
DHL, the German global shipping giant, will stop shipping within the United States on the ground and in the air, effective Jan. 30, 2009. All of DHL's 18 U.S. hubs will close.

Deceased Food Pioneers
· Rocky Aoki, Benihana Founder
· Wilbur Hardee, Hardee's Founder
· Irving Robbins, Baskin-Robins Co-Founder
· Al Copeland, Popeyes Chicken Founder
· Herb Peterson, Egg McMuffin Inventor
· Carl N. Karcher, Carl Jr.'s Founder (Paris hand her hands on one of these as well.)
· J.R. Simplot, Billionaire Idaho Potato Farmer

Losses in the Recreation World
· Betty James, Named the Slinky
· Gary Gygax, Dungeons & Dragons Co-Creator
· Richard Burke, Trek Bicycle Founder
· William Modell, Modell's Sporting Goods Chairman
· Richard Knerr, Wham-O Co-Founder

Deceased in Wine/Media/Fashion
· Robert Mondavi, Billionaire Winemaker
· Paul Newman, Actor & Co-Founder of Newman's Own
· Yves Saint Laurent, Legendary Designer
· Clay Felker, Founder 'New York Magazine'
· Sid Craig, Co-Founder Jenny Craig

Deceased in the Business World
· Andrew J. McKelvey, Founder Monster.com
· Sir John Templeton, Legendary Investor
· Geoff Polites, Jaguar and Land Rover CEO
· James Sorenson, Billionaire Businessman
· Douglas A. Fraser, Former UAW President"
courtesy of AOL.

Tomorrow, I plan to take a seat on a park bench and breathe in a memory with a Baskin Robin's ice cream cone, and probably buy one of their ice cream cakes as well. And for exercise, I'll throw around a Wham-O frisbee at Griffth Park. Today is time spent thinking about those who have passed away before me and remembering how they affected change and altered lives into new states of survival and lifestyle choices. Perhaps a glass of Mondavi Reserve. Cheers to 2008. I'll take a shot at 2009.

A little uplifiting spirit for the holidays

2008-12-22T16:46:00.000-08:00

This is a letter one of my mentors gave to me when I needed to be inspired. There's two days now before Christmas and I hope this gift will bring you the inspiration that will lead you into the new year audaciously and focused.

"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there in only one fo you in all time, this expression is unique. And, if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.

The world will not have it.

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor hw valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.

No artist is pleased...there is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the
others."

Martha Graham to Agnes Demille

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Cop sirens BLAST the brick walls of Downtown LA.

2008-12-21T22:52:00.000-08:00

4 LA transplants stand in an alleyway. James, Steven, Matt, and myself. Wool trench coats and leather coats adorn us. We stand there in the cold on a breezy December 20th evening in this alleyway loaded with production trucks and a tour bus. The tour bus of My Chemical Romance. And that alleyway is a piece of the decorum of the music video, the back drop for an 80s punk video chalked full of mohawks, leather, tight pants, skimpy short skirts, and chuck taylors. The essence of the video is directed by Zach Snyder, the prestigiously genius director of 300 and Watchmen. How he relates creativity to art is delicately explosive with epic echoes of time travel and societal commitments to an exact moment in history, and how today's artists relate from where they came, eras of protest, corruption, and coming to terms with it all and moving on.

The Tower Theater at 8th and Broadway was an innovative location into the mind's eye of Zach Snyder, the mind blowing Director of Photography, Guillermo Navarro, and the expressive song of My Chemical Romance that injected grand influence. Watching the two communicate with one another about music and vision carried on for hours of energy and fulfillment. There were so many conversations among the group of about 75 extras and 30 or so crew members and family. The security guys were awesome and the bus driver Dave can really strum on the guitar as if he spent some time in an old blues club as a teenager in Harlem. And the craft service workers and the caterers were incredibly endearing and had such an array of snacks, finger foods, fruit and raw vegetables, and unlimited coffee and green tea. The specifics of the shoot I won't get into, but it was an observation of the products and supplies that amplified this experience into a marketing component for the Caveman Chronicle.

Recently I acquired a position as a sponsorship director for the Beverly Hills Shorts Festival, February 27-March 1, 2009. The film festival will be held at the Fine Arts Theater, 8556 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. My job includes finding corporations and companies to sponsor our film festival and connect with their community of consumers and guests who share in their products success and distribution. The distribution of ideas and comments on products spread rapidly, not only with our Blackberry phones, but with the Internet capabilities they have, and the websites such as Yelp.com that basically, tells it like it is. Businesses not only have to please just the health inspector anymore for the longevity and success of a company, but message boards that reach consumers and their 10 friends who know another 10 friends, and so on. And I love having my Blackberry phone. I can get out of any jam with the GPS and google map connection. If I'm on, say Melrose, and I want to pull over and take a break from the city, I pull up on my Blackberry and type in my address and it pulls up all the cafes in my local area. The Blackberry is ready to go before I even know where I want to go. My Blackberry to the left. It works miracles and I am able to email myself all my blog entries from anywhere on the streets of Los Angeles. From my eyes to yours, thank you Blackberry.

Today I found the Cafe Muse in LA, off Santa Monica Blvd, about six blocks west from Paramount Studios. With their free WiFi and free neighborhood parking for two hours at a time, I sat their and did research for companies based in Beverly Hills who can sponsor the BHSF. Curiously, I pulled up Yelp.com to read the reviews of Cafe Muse, and a few responses had been posted within the hour and many more within the last week. I am able to be effectively active with my time thanks to the connections the Blackberry and the Internet provide. My time is spent resourcefully and how I need to, so exact to get the jobs done. I'm working on getting a Storm, but I have to focus my expenses elsewhere. Blackberry and AT&T are great providers to people like me, filmmakers, screenwriters, and sponsorship directors of film festivals. Blackberry usage was highly exhibited on set of the My Chemical Romance video; I would see the lit up faces across the Tower Theater in between takes and I would send myself emails with all these notes you have read thus far and notes I typed on my memo pad feature in Applications. I asked extras and crew members which services they had because at times, while we were getting make-up in the basement of the theater, service was cut. A few would get a brief signal but one heart beat would throw it off it seemed. More than half of the room had AT&T and that, like mine, was the strongest signal, with at least one bar to check email or voice mail.

Viewing the life cycle of this music video in two days, most of us got by on ice cold Coke products, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf coffee, and Trader Joe's hummus. Green tea with Trader Joe's jalapeno hummus and Ritz crackers made for a great snack for being outside in 55 degree weather. It was light food and refreshing caffeine, with fresh bananas and Peter Pan extra crunchy peanut butter. I love the craft services. There was great satisfaction to our hunger and break times at the craft services tables, especially with the Red Vine licorice. It works really well to bite off the ends of the red licorice sticks and use them as straws in a can of Diet Coke. The cool caffeine goes straight to the brain and the softened red licorice stick is great to chew on once the Coke goes down. And take it from me, Red Vine red licorice and Peter Pan Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter, give it a shot next time your on set of a film, commerical, or music video. Send me a message on your Blackberry. We'll share our signals.

Ten feet I sat away from Jay Leno on my birthday.

2008-12-17T17:25:00.000-08:00

On my 30th birthday, I sat ten feet away from Jay Leno. My girlfriend, Jessica, and I did our part to sign up for ticket reservations a month ago for December 15 and monday morning we received an email that we had two tickets reserved. All we had to do was show up an hour early for taping, 3p.m., present our IDs to check the guest list with, and go in...sit down...applaud. There was no list.

Suddenly we had 30 minutes to fashion a plan to get inside with our Blackberry phones, Internet access, and quick wits. I took to the Internet. With Blackberry's 3G technology, I uploaded fast to http://www.tvtickets.com/to find a customer service hotline. Jess was the quick wits with the other Blackberry who booked it to Guest Services on the NBC lot. There I stood in line, pacing, especially now since I was kicked out of line for not having a ticket or a clue. The operator said I should have printed out a ticket confirmation slip from the email and that I shouldn't have relied on the guest list. I'm telling you folks who may attempt to go to the ever entertaining Tonight Show, don't rely on the guest list from http://www.tvtickets.com/. They are a separate entity from NBC and NBC doesn't receive that list. Www.tvtickets.com was a good resource and we should have printed out a ticket confirmation slip. But hold the phones, I got a phone call from Jess.

"Nick, turn around and walk away from the line." Just turn around and leave this line? "Yes, turn around and walk the direction I went. Proceed down to California street and make a left. Go, run 100 yards to the studio lot entrance. We don't have much time. Run inside the building with Guest Services in big block letters above the door and get inside. There are some people who want to meet you."

Posted below is a letter to Chris and Deanna...

Chris,

You and your wife Deanna have been in so many stories to Jessica and I's parents, friends, and emails. What you gave us I hope you gained in return a fond memory as we did. When I walked into the Guest Services building, I didn't know what was happening. I was in this different kind of situation, but I know when Jess gets her mind and persistent into something, there will be an extraordinary pay off. And there you were with your wife Deanna, hearing Jess on the phone with http://www.tvtickets.com/ saying it was her boyfriend's birthday and if I can at least get one ticket, get him in, I will find another way to make this work. You gave us the two extra tickets from a raffle you won and let us follow in behind you with two tickets and sitting in the second row of seats on the stage floor, ten feet from Jay Leno, with guests Kate Winslet, Dame Edna, and the christmas music of Sheryl Crow. I can't believe all that happened. And then when Jay came out to warm up and during a Q & A, Jess raised her hand and said it was my 30th birthday and we got to go on stage with him and be interviewed with a polaroid now in hand, the proof it was not a dream and you and your wife were incredibly generous and giving to two strangers now connected through a memory.

And as promised, here is the link to our film The Aviatrix, www.youtube.com/user/FlyAFilms. Of course if you have any problems, use the search option and there we will be. I appreciate you wanting to see our film. It's been exciting and insightful with the exposure and comments on the film. The film was shot the first week of November 2006. We started dating after the film, we sustained professionalism on set and yes, two years later and we're aiming towards more. Especially days like May 1st, featured to the left here when we made it to the Today Show in NYC and we were featured in a segment with Al Roker and Meredith Viera during our festival run at the Tribeca Film Festival.

I'm reading about your communications company, I have been. There's a lot of information to obtain and I've looked up all the acronyms for my own clarity. The specifics aren't there yet, but I am a persistent screenwriter and specifics are fascinating to seek out, the objectives within the human experience. With my own marketing, I provide insights into marketing components for film and social media. I am curious how you found your path into computer technology, which is the backbone of today's social media. It's not letters much anymore but they still hold a strong sense of nostalgia for writers who like to write and people who like to express themselves in a more physical manner. I journalize a lot and I plan on giving my kids all the journals so they can learn from my mistakes and thoughts and then create their own voice. Emails are printed out as well for my archives because I'd hate to loose something special. Just imagine the world of communication when your girls are adults, but I bet you've got a pretty good idea about that.

You know, when my grandmother passed away, my dad's mom, in July of 1997, I was a recent graduate of high school. I had a choice of Texas colleges and Brown University. I wanted to travel, I wanted to leave home. Of course, homesickness would set in and communication and how I did that was going to be vital to my survival as an expressive and healthy college student. Two months out of leaving for college, my grandmother dies and my dad, my brother, and myself drove from Waco, TX to Chicago for the funeral. My mom had to stay behind because she is a phenomenal teacher and had to work in some classes at Baylor University. Along the trip, my dad unfolded stories as if he had had a box of notes tucked away for just this occasion with his two sons. I realized I really didn't know much about my dad's past and how he came to be a great dad and working for the government as a painter and engineer. After being in Chicago for a week, I met all my dad's old friends and relatives I didn't know I had. And that's when I realized my grandmother passed away for the specific reason to bring us all together, and that reason was to communicate with one another. To be introduced, reacquainted with one another.

It grounded so many of us from the hectic and cumbersome daily lives. And then at my dad's childhood home, he sat me down in his parent's bedroom and handed me a brown paper sack completely filled and taped up with package tape.

As I opened it up, he sat next to me and said, "I know you are an artist and sometimes I don't have the right things to say or know enough about what art is to talk to you about it. But this is the best way to show you I was a writer once too you know. These are the letters your grandmother saved for me, she saved for you son. This brown paper bag holds every letter I ever wrote home from Vietnam. It's the best way I can think of to let you know I support you and love you. Read these letters and find your own voice."

I held those letters and cried to each one. It was the communication of my family, my dad, and the hope we have for all of our memories together. I stayed home in Texas for college and bridged a relationship with my dad that would fill a thousand brown paper bags. It's the connectivity of the mind and heart that will bridge us all. Thank you for connecting with Jessica and I. And now we have the technology and the innovative spirit of companies like yours to ensure that communication that inspires our lives to grow. Thank you and Merry Christmas to
you, your wife, and your three little girls.

What fascinating people I have met here in Los Angeles. I am a fortunate person and I have an amazing girlfriend who makes ideas reality and loves me. People trust their instincts and the smart ones really trust their instincts. Positive attitudes and the persistent to achieve will be recognized in this life. And the little things will always add up to one big thing. Even an invitation to one of the best memories of my life.

And believe that there is a Z Tejas in California! The restaurant chain is based in my home of Austin off 6th Street and there is one in North Austin by the Arboretum. The New York Strip wit gargonzola cheese and onions with mashed potatoes and green beans. You will feel as light as the cornbread as you eat it, so warm, ah butter...And they had queso! Melted, overwhelmingly decadent cheese. Californians don't know what queso really is; Jess asked a coworker if he knew what queso was. Puzzled he look at her and said, "Yeah...uh...cheese. Just cheese in a bowl." He didn't know it could be melted and served as an appetizer. I guess some people just don't have a clue and need to know about the delights of life. Yep, melted cheese and steak. And don't forget about the original Sixth Street Margarita and the Chambord Margarita! Oh, it was like we were sitting in Austin again, not Costa Mesa, CA in a product of one of the greatest ideas in Austin, Z Tejas.
And our waitress, Danielle, even brought out a dulcet birthday present, a slice of Ancho Chile Fudge Pie. Oh my goodness, that flavor will last days.

I turn 30 in less than an hour, so my opinion about turning 30 is valid.

2008-12-14T23:05:00.000-08:00

I turn 30 in less than an hour, so my opinion about turning 30 is valid. I've been thinking about high school. That girl on her parent's front porch waiting for me to pick her up. Palms sweaty, gripping the steering wheel tightly thinking about how I will kiss her. What will that look like in the rear view mirror I wonder. I hadn't even kissed a girl and I was worrying about what I would look like. People are funny about what they look like. Wanting to have control over their appearance, better yet wanting to have control over what a person will think. What other people think of you is none of your business, but people like other people's business. The tabloids, the entertainment industry out here, and the world watches. Does knowing who kisses who really matter? We entertain ourselves with each other all the time. Making things matter raises the intensity, the stakes, and that competition is what we play for, the acknowledgment that we want.

At a crosswalk waiting to cross Robertson Boulevard, I stop and stare at the people surrounding me. Their laughs are light and youthful. An old lady's tan is as smooth as the baby's head held in his mother's arms with her nanny helping out with the three year old screaming for a coconut. The old lady with the tan smirked at the little boy and winked at me. "I'm young enough to be your grandson," but she didn't care, she still wanted to give me some attention. Old ladies have great bread recipes in the South, I'm from China Spring, TX originally. In Beverly Hills, I see old ladies' Starbuck's cups and how they take their frappucino. And I bet this old lady wanted me to treat her to one. Because hell, after all there was one right across the street. She walked into the Starbucks and I politely look right through the window as she approached the counter and I walked off. Gone old lady forever. Tear.

Living in LA makes me think of things I would see in movies as a kid, curious about the texture of Dots candy as I used to roll them in my fingers when I watched movies at a local two screen movie theater, Diamond Point Theaters. When the summer season came about, I would ride my BMX to the theaters. I was 12 years old. Movies hooked me instantaneously. The romantic comedies were always my favorite to observe and rightfully so because I was only 12. My decision was already made for me until I was 13 to watch something else, and so it would be romantic comedies that would influence my mind. I think about all the actors and writers, we get to read their minds from the Greenlight to the Exit sign. I see something shine, I want to shine. I reflect my place and my place reflects me.

Instantly, when I moved to NYC, I started writing on the Subways. Life is all "look and listen", what's in front of you is the most important. That notion took the pressure out of the task of writing and my pen recorded on paper what I told my hand to think. The Subways would shine like subtle diamonds. All those people going somewhere and giving me all the clues on how they're going to get there. The Subways and Hardware stores are the backbones to my reality. I rode Subways for a while and have worked in many small hours in Hardware stores, ranging from Payless Cashways in Waco, TX to Breed and Co. in Austin, TX. That was my last job before I moved to Los Angeles. It was my little twist of fate I found myself remaining connected to people in various ways of customer service and friendships. It's like I talk about, the observations and mental notes of creativity that come from people around products, fashioning their lifestyles and styling their appearance right down to the specific design of fashion and which products attracted their needs.

People in action is fascinating to watch, especially now nearing closer to Christmas. Writing is more fluent out of my body around so many people in motion and it's why I have to live in big cities. My home is now is in the land of Hollywood and magic. All of this zanity is in my life because I want to find better days. And really, fate worked out the way minutes add up to a day. All those days as a kid dreaming about the world beginning for me. All those trips to the theater constructed this larger perspective on life and how other people respond to their surroundings and the people who provoke emotions and pivotal changes in life. Who are all of our witnesses? Who sees you? Who sees me? I wonder if the people that appear in my dreams, people I don't know, are the people I see randomly throughout my life. As though looking at them made them extras in my mind's movies.

Money and availability make things happen in these departments of our lives: where we grow up, how we grew, what influenced our lives and/or demanded our attention, what did we grow up listening to in the rooms of a house and a school, how did we play outside? What will contribute to a stronger mind? Today I turn 30. I wonder about what my opinions will become as I check things off my goals and commitments list and reducing the stress in my life. When it comes to focusing, you can explain yourself well and act out even better.

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."-Albert Einstein

It's Zanity to the "T".

2008-12-14T19:28:00.000-08:00

It has been some time since I have shared. The profile picture indicates my place at Astoria Boulevard. I used to live in Astoria, using the N, W train to Astoria Blvd., and then I would walk about ten blocks home. Passing along the way home was a Dunkin Donuts, I had my first dunkin donut at that very location, a local market owned by a Greek family who sold 25 cent ice cream sandwiches, and a liquor store for those cold nights inside. None of these stores extended impulse buying, I mean I could walk by each one and not feel like I had to get it then. I could get anything in New York City any time of day. Time doesn't exist there. Well, the local market would close but I don't really need ice cream in the middle of the night. However, it is awesome and dulcet to eat when it is snowing outside. Snowflakes trickle down onto the chocolate cookie. The coldness tickles my tongue and my mouth is forewarned by an overwhelming appeal to feel like a kid and eat this ice cream sandwich. Fall back into the powder of sensual snow and make a snow angel. Yes, snow and ice cream sandwiches. That's heaven.

And now to the city of angels, Los Angeles. It's Zanity to the "T." Zanity is moving out of your comfortable zone, thinking your crazy with an ultimate zest for life, and taking control of your own destiny. You'll read about the elaboration on the word Zanity as it strikes my days with informative matches that'll burn ideas into my head and force me to express my experiences within those realizations of self-worth and confidence promoting my purpose here in Los Angeles. Out here, I feel like a caveman, I even did an oil painting of this caveman in his cave with a puzzled look. I could've looked in a history book for the painting's model, but I just looked at myself in the mirror on my 29th birthday and said, "In a year, I'll really have something to be expressive about."

And there's plenty to respond to out here in Los Angeles. The stimulus out here revolves around attitude and identity. Who are you and what do we care. I have to adjust to Los Angeles, Los Angeles doesn't have to do a damn thing for me. It's not what you know, it's who you know. It's not who you like, it's who likes you. You could look at LA anyway you want, but there are truths out here to penetrate and knock down to see what it means to the "T." I know I'm excited. I can walk down Sunset, into Beverly Hills on Wilshire, and through West Hollywood on Melrose. I'll close my eyes and all I hear are the tips of shoes. Everyone here is on there toes; I don't here any shuffling of the feet, even if a person is wearing flip-flops. People are persistent here and are serious about their identity and attitude. My friend Wes said keep a positive attitude out here. My acting mentor Van said don't let in the negativity, it'll be there all the time and it'll disguise itself to convince you of it's good nature and intentions. Don't do it, it'll get you eventually if you don't believe in yourself with positivity. Well, I'm just the top of a battery. But it does get hard, family and friends missed, and no 25 cent ice cream sandwiches. But there are donut shops on every corner and statistically there's a liquor store right next door. A bottle of something and some maple iced donuts. It's the official snack of the caveman if negativity does set in. Dewars and Winchells are two positive recommendations for that experience.

"And another thing, poor people invest in "things" that give them instant gratification, like plasma screen TVs and flashy cars. Rich people invest in themselves. Rich people don't invest in things they don't understand. I see that out here. Einstein is often quoted as saying, "if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." Rich people risk their capital to start and grow businesses. When these businesses succeed, they plow the profits back into their ventures because they believe in themselves and in what they are doing.It's not easy for poor people -- or even for people of moderate means -- to emulate these habits of rich people. But being frugal and believing and investing in yourself is a good start." This is the Caveman Chronicle, a good start. It's Zanity.

Those in the "moment"can't leave a message...

2005-09-14T20:35:00.000-07:00

Man knows nothing with this life. He knows little of truth. The most money comes with preserving such ignorance, a lack of wisdom distracted by such plots created by artists. Not supporting artists is sacrificing imagination, not believing in life where such endeavors exist. Business men, gatekeepers, take it upon themselves to delegate and distribute what the masses want, those eating still from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. "Be careful," the Gods told Adam. "You will die if you eat from this tree."
Teachers, those who don't, get paid the lesser. Doers are paid more to extend away from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil; we haven't known life as mortals any other way. To deny this is to be poor, to die without wisdom, to starve by the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. It will dehydrate. Such a cause effects, to die. That is the only truth, inevitability.
I have no other choice. Do you still? Philosophy is not evolution, it is a circle spinning. An arc joins with another arc to create a path. Which path is taken? Replicated or Brave?
Path of the Brave ends with solitude, peace. I will die alone. Exquisite refers to selective taste, a specific appreciations that comes from quality. Solitude presents quality. Population presents quantity, nothing more than redundant observations that engages you with timing, quality, pitch, and volume. The inner critic is a composition of culture with a subjective response. Throughout our history, what has been left behind from each generation is how to produce something, the knowledge and methods to survive and to others, to simply survive and then some.
Questions of why we are here, what caused us to be here, and who caused us to be here are covered up and left by years of this continuation of methods, this knowledge left in wills and projected plans. Our parents, their parents, and so on have widdled down what works for them and progressively push into sons and daughters the hope of finding what they didn't, some I would declare reproduce children exactly for such a selfish purpose, to live out or finish what they started with the knowledge of good and evil, trying to decide what goes and what stays, old times are changing. It is as inevitable as death. For anyone, an act, a purpose has to be practiced, rehearsed. It has to become routine to become second nature.
It is either to create an observation, or be receptive to one.
My inner critic dwells in between the creative and receptive. There's a risk. Creative is selective. Receptive is the masses. My friends and family are receptive. My life is creative. I choose to be creative without them near because otherwise I'd be receptive with them. It's that platform in which you choose to stand on, stand for.
To pay bills, to assemble responsibility comes from a job, a career. Most decide to negotiate their lives with labor by the body, instead of negotiating with thought by the mind.
A decision has to be made throughout observation after a hypothesis is proposed, an educated guess of career choices, a decision based of your knowledge and awareness of gifts and endeavors, and then experimenting with such hypotheses, collecting data and observing the outcomes and focusing on the range of emotions and voice, that optimum pitch, brought through with this method, a scientific method if you will.
When a theory is declared, a choice is established, your path of a brave begins. Action.
The brave leave behind what matters to the weak, what they truly may think they love or who loves them to stay. Brave parents will understand. My dad went to Vietnam and my mom is a fifth grade teacher. Their teachings, their good wills rapture.
There are jobs and there are hobbies. If it is to be profound, original, worthy of attention, then art cannot be a hobby. Art: acting, writing, painting, etc., has to be practiced, rehearsed. It has to become routine to become second nature. All relationships have a sense of love. And if anything else, virtue should triumph in the end. Where there is will, a will, there will be a way. Until you understand the objective, you will be inevitably dying.

-Graydon Howe

Don't ever stop; I will always find you.

2005-08-16T14:54:00.000-07:00

In a world I create by receiving such individual stimulus on a daily basis, it is also about "to look for a few key significant images and concepts that let people understand what the world is about."

Such a unique and logical world fits on 100 pages, 2 hours of creation and condensing, screenwriting. It's about making a film adapted from a television show that doesn't exist because how easy is it to understand the created world for the fanactics. Nielson's ratings can be for the gatekeepers, but it is a guide to this company, Starving Artist Ltd., to see what works and how the artist can create something spectacular from statistics, speaking to the masses already tuned in; it's about showing them something they cannot fashion themselves, unlike REALITY T.V. It isn't screenwriters and artists at work, but producers seeing what is the grossest or most explosive thing to test someone's fears and self-consciousness with, films do not deliberately toy with someone's emotions, there is no interactiveness involved, no pool of people waiting to participate. That is the process in our world called "CASTING." It is a test of competency with experience as the cheat sheet, the resume, presenting an impression and a physical presense between the ears to portray a conflict within a content. The key to a great film is to make the idea and the rules of the 'world' clear.

Dr. Hans Gross said, "In regard to human actions, not one of them happens by pure chance unconnected with other happenings, none is incapable of explanation; they are the fruits which must of necessity develop under the influence of nature and individual culture, fruits whose formation is explanind by the organism producing them. They are attached to the individual as naturally and surely as the fruit emanates from the tree. We do not look to gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles.
Thus the only line of approach to a mystery such as this one is through an intensive examination of the antecedents, background, temperament, and development of those concerned in it."

"I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends." -King Richard II, Act II, Scene III.

-Graydon Howe
Performing with a body containing a substance in the rules and with the laws...
imagination.

Starving Artist Ltd. Makes Pitch to Mercedes Benz

2005-07-06T15:40:00.000-07:00

"Once you are born, you are committed to the race of your life. Mercedes-Benz"

To those with guiding hands,

The further I grow with complexities, the foresight it will take to see this company grow, and the moment we become an entity, is when I can look at my fellow locksmiths and say, “It wasn’t the keys, but the key chain that kept us all together.”

Graham, who is one of the co-founders of Cadence Corp. and senior editor for the Starving Artist Ltd., stood up and spouted, “Well can I borrow your key chain, maybe you are the one I gave my spare too.” He recently purchased a Mercedes-Benz CLS 500 Coupe and began developing an advertising campaign for Mercedes-Benz, recording the way he felt when driving the divine intervention on I-95 to his home in Connecticut. Graham is an idealist who chooses his own direction and product to gain insight on what a consumer may want in an automobile, composing the ideal situations to get a goal completed. He and Phillip Killian work so well together because they both started out as classmates together at Cadence Play Care some twenty four years ago and stayed in touch through the years of puberty, high school in the Mid-West, and smack into college with the same energy they shared in Driver’s Ed.

Roommates at the University of Tennessee, they volunteered their time with the Drama Department and Reach-out programs in Knoxville. The Reach-out programs where a part of their community service and as for the Drama Department, Graham was in love with Rebekah Graham for unusually obvious reasons, what, did he want to use her last name and be Graham Graham, G 2 like some kind of robot, G squared like some kind of equation? I still don’t have all the details, and Phillip always wondered if Rebekah had a sister. Rebekah pretended to have a sister Jane so she could keep Graham around by encouraging Phillip to come back for another fictitious update and a counting of the ways. She communicated through manipulation and that is where Graham became overwhelmed with female innovation and began mimicking her style, a fine actor in his own right cast as Benedick in Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” and Petruchio in “Taming of the Shrew.” He was more than prepared for that role, so I’ve heard a few stories about Rebekah from Phillip.

Extending from the University’s proscenium, Graham stayed focus in his fresh, found world and came up with Starving Artist Limited his sophomore year. Limited was changed to Ltd. his junior year for copyright purposes. Actors can be so demanding and anal about their mark. Around Thanksgiving, Graham and Phillip went to Walgreen’s to pick out some cards to send back home and to their surprise there was not any cards to speak of for the collegiate level, homesick child or the traveling artist who had come great mile-marked distances away from family and friends to pursue their dreams. Graham had learned to channel the energy of the lonely and I will say the hungry to capture an inexpensive greeting to those who may be concerned about their son or daughter, someone’s best friend, or significant other who maybe thought of in passing or missed dearly. Outside of scholarships, grants, and financial aid, there was not enough money to go around for Graham and Phillip. When Graham likes a girl, she gets to eat more than he or his roommate. Thank God Rebekah was a vegetarian, but boy could she put away some broccoli and hummus. Staving Artist Ltd. would be their project over the long holiday, compiling quick experiences at the grocery store and epiphanies when hallucinating from hunger. Rather convenient and perfectly timed where the greeting cards for Phillip’s advertising professor, Dr. Noloy Jenkins who had just transferred from Columbia University that Junior year, 1999.
Dr. Jenkins had encouraged his students to identify and examine any advertisements luring consumers to spend more money on food over the holidays they didn’t necessarily need and watching too many football games asleep from Tryptophan during commercial breaks. Where’s the irony? It certainly wasn’t on the powerless television in Graham and Phillip’s apartment and the only way they scored a turkey dinner was convincing the stocker at Walgreen’s to buy two of their cards so they could pay for, not steal this time, dinner. Thank God for salary employees without vacation, otherwise I think Graham might have had a hard time paying for graduate school at Columbia and now driving a Mercedes-Benz CLS 500 Coupe to his house in Connecticut coming up with a new campaign for Mercedes-Benz, daydreaming about his wife Rebekah and their twins expected in January and that inevitable day getting dropped off at the University of Tennessee where there parents began their life of love and mimicry and creation.

“Regain Self-Esteem. Get Back onto Your Race Track. You can Start Here and You Will Never Have to Finish Again. Mercedes-Benz. Remembering You Were Never Lost.”

The commercial Graham wants to shoot in January is with his wife Rebekah, and footage of them waking in that rush in the middle of the night, grabbing the suitcase and book bag from college, racing down stairs to the garage, well carefully with Rebekah, raising the garage door during breathing exercises, on life’s race track to the hospital and into the Emergency Driveway, calling out for a Doctor and a wheel chair and Graham watching on as he wipes his brow while his wife enters the hospital through the sliding glass doors. The caption reads, “Once You Are Born, You Are Committed to the Race of Your Life. Mercedes-Benz.” A season of other "races" sits on Graham's desk, but I don't have that key on this chain.

Regards from the “Road Less Traveled,”

Graydon Howe

“I would like to thank Robert Frost for inspiring this once starving artist to see his ideals and dreams come true on the same day.”

Passed Over Independence

2005-07-05T13:26:00.000-07:00

To those who saw the light,
Sweet firecracker, I hope Independence Day for you all was spent with those who share the same tastes in beer and bum the same smokes. I'll take an American Spirit if you can email me one and a Guiness sounds fulfilling. I haven't eaten today. Nothing like a course meal in a can, Guiness Draught. The commercial would be a series of chrome serving dishes covered in stainless steel half-domes and the captions says, "Take a Hint and get to the Point, you're Mouth is just watering for Dessert. Trust what the Chef is getting at. Guiness Draught, nothing like a course meal in a can."

From a "Road Less Traveled,"

Graydon Howe
...however blurry it can be. But you're leaving town with an anonymous designated driver and something out therel just wants to get you home...

Caveman Chronicle First Edition

2005-07-05T12:24:00.000-07:00

To those I cannot envision,
An inventor never knows who he is creating for. The Caveman Chronicle is a periodical dealing with the primitive issues: gathering food, providing shelter, mating, and breathing. I have come a long way with innovative ideas concerning fiction and realistic screenplays to interact with on camera, the latest purchase of a man familiarizing himself with technology. I had to agree with Radiohead and say, "O.K. computer", introduce me to the world. This is Graydon Howe reporting for the Caveman Chronicle, based out of Tribeca and owned by Killian Inc. To travel to truly distant places, thus extending trade and moral and political views with Murray Sinclair, the President and C.E.O. of Killian Inc, and his nephew Sullivan Sinclair, Vice President and President of Strategic Affairs. Sullivan's second act as President of Strategic Affairs was to hire me as a freelance writer. I would appear as any other writer and/or blogger on the World Wide Web, but the story I submitted to Sullivan earned me the priviledge to be a journalist for the Caveman Chronicle with the freedom to publish elsewhere.
The Faux Pas Syndicate has the interest of another journalist here at the Caveman Chronicle, one Fisher Amous, yes he prefers to go by F.Amous. He's confident like that, but his unusually obvious invention allows him to do so. I'll get to Sullivan's first act as President of Strategic Affairs and F.Amous's invention next edition, but for now I'll leave you with the title of my piece that wound up on the cover of the Caveman Chronicle, Sole City. F.Amous got a kick out of my British intentions and I could testify I inspired him to take an American influence in the title and embellish my title a bit. Murray Sinclair found it as pure genius and I thought it was just an obvious collaboration of detail and meeting the needs of women everywhere.
To those who I can't speak for, enjoy the Caveman Chronicle for what it is saying not what it manipulates into truth. It is all a part of a plot folks and I didn't write this role, but I will play it on your screen. It is all about the expressive capital the Caveman Chronicle is providing, offering entertainment, value, meaning, and expression for the end user whoever you maybe taken into consideration when I am inventing. Focus your attention on human differences in all their glory. Behavior is all relevant when understanding yourself. "Farewell Angelina," Jeff Buckley said once.

Regards from the "Road Less Traveled,"

Graydon Howe
"I could hear the world and no one could see me."