October 27, 2004
Time Flies. Having Fun?
Well, it's certainly been a busy couple of weeks!
Two weeks ago, I was involved in a spectacularly beautiful wedding ceremony. My good friend, Thomas, got himself hitched to a lovely gal named Nikki. I was fortunate enough to be one of the groomsmen. Hopefully, I will get to show you how stunningly, drop-dead gorgeous I looked in the tux when the pics come back.
The day after that event, we began the final week of rehearsal for our show at the Calhoun Little Theater. Then we performed the show over the weekend. A tremendously huge THANK YOU to Ginger, Nicole and Lorinda for coming to see me. I LOVE AND WANT TO MARRY ALL OF YOU!!!
This week has seen me thrust back into the hunt for a job. It looks like I will be doing some temp work for the county board of education starting tomorrow. I also have a gig waiting tables lined up for next month. At least I'll finally have money coming my way again. It's been a month and a half since my unemployment benefits ran out. Thank God I moved back home when I did. Otherwise, I probably would have been out on some street corner begging for food.
In other news, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is one the most awesome games ever made. It's less cartoon-like than the previous entries, with an even larger library of songs on the soundtrack, and it has an intriguing new RPG-like system to maintain your character (i.e. appearance, stamina, etc.). I'm only about 2 hours into it, but I can already tell that this will be an amazing adventure.
October 11, 2004
October 06, 2004
R.I.P. - Rodney Dangerfield
Rodney Dangerfield, world-renowned comedian and movie star, died yesterday (Oct. 5) at 1:20 p.m. He had fallen into a coma after undergoing heart valve replacement surgery on August 25 at the University of California Medical Center in Las Angeles. Last week, however, he had awoken from the coma and showed signs of improvement. Unfortunately, his heart was still not strong enough to keep going. He was 82.
Rodney was a comedy god. His signature phrase, "I get no respect!", still echoes through every household in this country. His performances in films like Caddyshack and Back to School are the stuff of legends. There is not a single comedian who has worked over the past 30 years that has not been influenced by him in some way...many of which even got their start thanks to him. Rodney introduced the world to comedians like Tim Allen, Roseanne Barr, Jim Carrey, Jeff Foxworthy, Sam Kinison, Bob Saget, Jerry Seinfeld, Rita Rudner, Robert Townsend...the list goes on.
Personally, he is the reason I wanted to be a performer. It all started with Caddyshack. Here's this goofy, bug-eyed fat guy that's only in the movie for about 20 minutes, and he blows everyone else off the screen. His timing, his delivery, his facial expressions...they can't be topped. I saw him, and I said to myself, "Self", I said..."If this guy can make it, so can you!" It was the final line of the movie that would begin my idolitry of this man. He has the last line in the movie, and when he said it...tears were streaming down my face. Don't remember it? Click here to listen.
Read more about his life here, or visit his website - www.rodney.com
October 04, 2004
R.I.P. - Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh, the Hollywood movie star best known as the slasher victim in the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller, "Psycho," has died.
She passed away at her home in Beverly Hills on Sunday afternoon (Oct. 3) surrounded by daughters Jamie Lee and Kelly Curtis and her husband, Robert Brandt. Leigh had been battling vasculitis -- an inflammation of the blood vessels -- for the past year. She was 77 years old.
Read more here.