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I submitted this to Dube Juggling, a German-rooted juggling equipment company who has supplied me with props for years (big ups to Renegade, Santa Cruz based, still my favorite clubs inj the world). They had a world-wide contest, and I guess I was a winner; 20% off my next order from them. Yay for capitalism!

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This was the mockumentary Behind the Scenes look at a PSA I shot a couple months back for the America Humane Society. Great cause, funny stuff...enjoy!

Just found out one of the pilots I shot this year got picked up on iT-BN (Internet Television Broadcast Network)! 

It's been a long month of work work work - renowned director and good friend Jim Dziura just arrived into town, and we are heading out on Sunday to a cabin in Big Bear to continue writing our trainhopping flick. The Daily Sports Show pilot is still being pitched, and I'm flying up to the Bay to meet with a possible investor mid-June. There are some great pictures up from the Powder show at the Key Club in early May that can be seen at Stills from Key Club Powder Performance (click on "Latest Gig Gallery") Been auditioning up a storm - went in for the third time for Entourage, and I am really enjoy reading for the show. It's mad well-written, despite its obsession with celebrity/$/everything un-Bay. And thee most excited news...drum roll, please...I'm going to the Laker's game, TONIGHT! I saw them win their first ring under Phil Jackson (Game 6 Shaq/Kobe domination of the Pacers), and now I am honored to go see them take their first step towards solidfying Kobe's legacy. Finally, I really appreciate all the fan letters I got the last month. It means the world to me that people are responding to what I'm doing done here in LaLa, whether it be my own art, tv/commercial world, and now juggling. Your support keeps me fueled on those days where I'm stuck in bumper to bumper, wishing I was anywhere but on the 405. And if I haven't written back yet, I will, I promise! Summertime, and the living's easy!

So I always bash the corporate and commercial world for its lack of heart, its obsession with the dollar bill, for subliminally selling us shit that for the most part is not good for us spiritually, physically, emotionally. And the irony of this is not lost on me - it is my tv and commercial work (yes, tv as well, for unless it's HBO, the whole REASON for episodics is the advertising in between - those are the fools that pay for the shows themselves) that has given me (at times) the financial freedom to work on my true art. My heart projects, so it were.
So when my manager called me this morning and told me I booked the job, I was excited, but on the financial or career level. I thought it was Entourage or this Disney pilot I went out for...to my surprise, it was neither. It was this little PSA for the Humane Society I had forgotten I had even auditioned for! The premise is hilarious, and it has a simple message of treating animals the way we'd want to be treated.
So despite being a Berkeley Boy, I can honestly say that I am fucking proud to do this commercial - because it actually has a social and political message, despite being expressed through a comedic filter. I feel like I'm writing a college essay at UCLA. And no one uses MySpace anymore anyway, but fuck it - I'm the son of a librarian. Words are my road marks.
Word ;)

They just posted the Axe Body Spray commercial I shot in Vegas last winter on-line! You can check it at -

Finger.Rub.Spread. (Axe Hair Crisis Relief Campaign)

Yes, like the Sprint commercial a while back, I'm one of the dudes in the back hooting and hollering. The importance of doing this type of acting job (if you can consider it that), is that it gives me a bit of financial freedom to work on the projects that really matter...which leads us to the exciting news...

Mike and I, along with our manager, Mitch Stein, are going in late next week or early the following to pitch The Daily Sports Show (DSS) to a company called Animax! They seem really hyped about the idea, and if all goes as planned, DSS will be up on the web (and possibly the tele) with corporate sponsors to boot! Mike and I have been writing our asses off, and I've been really proud of the bits we've come up with.

If you haven't hit us up on MySpace or YouTube, just type in "The Daily Sports Show" on either search engine, and we'll pop up! It's important for us to get as many hits/friends/comments before next week, so please please spread the word!

My good buddy Jim Dzuira is in town shooting a commercial (with Jessica Biel of all peeps), and we are in the midst of finishing a feature we've been shooting around for the last couple years. Life is so good right now - and I plan to keep it that way!

Go.A's.Better.Than.Dodgers ;)

My friend Mari Heller in NYC just told me that my episode of the Gilmore Girls is re-airing tonight on ABC Family channel, 8 pm PST. So you have about 45 minutes to read this, and then decide to not watch what you want to watch but instead a canceled show in which I have about a minute of air time. And because everyone uses Facebook now and MySpace will probably be canceled soon, its pointless to be writing this. Seriously, it's a pretty funny episode, and it was my first TV gig, so it holds a nostalgic piece of my heart.
MOST IMPORTANTLY, the Oakland A's signed Orlando Cabrera and Nomar Garciparra...can anyone say AL West Champions. Yeah, Graber, I said that shit!

I'm shooting an Avon commercial this Friday, which is described as "hanging at a party with Reese Witherspoon". Now, Ms. Witherspoon is by far one of the most talented young actresses in Hollywood - she has been a heroine of mine for quite sometime. But this job begs this very obvious question - what does it say about our economic times that Reese Witherspoon, Oscar-winner and perennial movie star, is shooting an Avon commercial? Furthermore, what exactly is Avon? I should probably figure that out before I get paid to sell it in two days. It's a party scene with god knows how many partiers, so hopefully I make the final cut. Also, hopefully Reese does NOT remember when we met at UCLA. Because if she does, I will be thrown off the set, and shunned forever from the presence of Reese (Sully, don't say a fuckin' thing!).
Also, I booked a music video for Ayumi Hamasaki, who is in essence the Madonna of Japan. I was super-hyped because a) she and her music rock, and b) I was hired to unicycle around her and cause general circus mayhem. Lo and behold though, despite telling the producers and casting director that I was a unicyclist, I assumed that they would provide one. Which was a very silly assumption because, well, not just everyone has a unicycle lying around. I did have one, but someone stole it last year. Now, who the hell would steal a unicycle? An evil clown. Or possibly Casper Vandermei. But my money is on the former, so thanks to this damn clown, I wasn't able to shoot the music video. Harlequins - always rigging it up for the working class!
On the personal project front, Mike and I have finished writing The Daily Sports Show pilot, and we are doing a table read in March for Rebel Entertainment, CAA, some potential investors, and, hopefully, YOU! I'm really excited about what we've come up with, and to share it with people who I love and respect. And yes Wavy, there are puppets! ;)
Finally, still working on a couple feature ideas with my friend Jim Dzuira & Brian Satz, as well as the genius words of Paul Fontana. The Oaktown script is alive and kickin' after a brief hiatus, so stay tuned all you A's/Yay Area fans...
The most exciting news since my last blog is what my crew(s) have been up to...Marjan Tehrani (a good friend from NYC, and wife of one of my oldest B-Town/EqOp friends, Gabe Noble) just screened her incredible documentary, "Arusi Persian Wedding" at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. I saw it last night, and it was truly epic. Powerful, painful, and surprisingly funny, it tells the story of a couple, Alex and Heather, who plan a Persian Islamic wedding in Iran. Alex's Iranian-born parents and Heather's conservative American father cause for a scene I won't ever forget. Just a great source of information for the incredibly complex relationship between our two countries, as well as a modern day Romeo & Juliet love story. BIG UPS MARJAN!...Gabriel Sunday, my former camper from Winnarainbow, just went to the Berlin Film Festival to screen his feature, "My Suicide", an independent film he's been working on for the last two years. Well, he won the whole damn festival! Mr. Sunday shows that you don't have to wait around for Hollywood to come to you - if you follow your dreams, and you are creating something you truly care about, good things always happen. So, BIG UPS GABE!...finally, Jorma & Andy (old school BHS crew) and Akiva just released their first album, "Incredibad". It is the funniest music comedy I've heard since Bill McCullough from The State. They are balling big time, and they are a true inspiration to me. That you can play the Hollywood game as much as you like (and hopefully pay the bills while doing so), but that true art (and in the end, happiness) is found in the work that you create on your own, by your own, and for yourself. They never stopped believing in themselves, and they are now the hottest young comedians in the world. BIG UPS JORM & ANDY!
2009 - we makin' this shit happen!!!!