ok, I am going to finish my update to you about the job interviews in a bit...

Well speaking of job offers, Frank has been busy as a bee with music projects working 7 days a week, so this time will have a bunch of stuff to report to the MOMA Q&A.

For one thing Frank is down there in the studio with Rick ("Borderland"), finishing up another song for the a NEW biker movie. Rick is actually a very talented lyricist and they work well together on projects like these themes. And I almost forgot, I think they just wrote a SMASH HIT with this other project by the way. Everyone who hears it is shocked! Maybe they will let me put it online but I doubt it, since they both are sures to hell sure, it is already sold to this record company that "wants to sign them up right now..."

Which reminds me, did Frank ever tell you about the exclusive record contract he signed after he went solo from OXO? (when he left Geffen Records... knowing full well if ever there was a hit solo guy... let alone that he even played ALL instruments to begin with.. say no more.)

So he sent his demo to this ad "looking for new artists" he saw in the back of Electronic Musician Magazine. The next thing you know he got this big record contract in the mail! "Its less than 2 weeks later... already?" He was excited, period. This was big he told me... "a major record company" (that I personally never heard of) called "Columbine Records, Inc." I saw him in there with the dictionary filling out extensive forms and paperwork they sent.

And then he (elated) asked "Do you have fifteen hundred dollars?(!) That's all I need and I will be getting thousands back in the mail. I don't even have to leave the house ever again! It's all done by mail."

What did you say just now? I asked to read that contract since I was a little curious to how much he was going to get, but I meant money at the time.

Well I know you guessed the rest by now. How it works as follows:

He was to send so much per month for the "Record Co." to "promote his music," them promising to get it heard by probably every big shot to kingdom come. And when (not if) it was sold, he would collect untold amounts of royalties. No "if's" about it either…they were "100% sold" on Frank Garcia as a this surefire solo star along with his fail proof writing "talent" likewise their plans to invest countless hours of promotion in him non stop… so all he would need was that piddling token amount to "get the ball rolling.."

You might imagine that I put the kibosh to this Record Deal and I don't think he secretly ever forgave me to this day, and still talks about what "might have been if she hadn't," and "the big offer from Columbine", etc. But he had to move on.

Actually, Frank has four separate music projects he is working on right now - now watch the Q&A'ers won't ask about what, if any, projects he's done since the film, like they usually do.

So anyway about the latest job/ interview experience

Incidentally, I don't understand why after the interview, anyone would say to you "good luck on your job search"... oh yeah?... I see... that tells you right away that you didn't get the damn job because otherwise why would you need luck on the search?

I always want to say "No, good luck on YOUR job search because you are going to need it more than me because you don't have any brains or you would have picked me and I am already pretty lucky some dumbass like you didn't."

... or something to that effect... sniff... and remind me to go over those standard interview questions with a little feedback that all HR depts. need to hear. My personal answers to stuff like "what are your three greatest strengths, what were your greatest achievement on your last job, why do you want to work here, what are you looking for, where do you see yourself in 5 years, blah blah" okay? I have some answers all right... I have decided to address each one with the true answer and then the "correct" answer they want to hear - just so they can see where they went wrong.

Oh I almost forgot about this other interview I scheduled for an entertainment job... another "Receptionist for TV Network."

Well that sounded good... and it a was a TV job wasn't it? This one turned out to be a network all right, "The Retirement Network" (?) - (not kidding) yeesh. I sat there just imagining Erik Estrada infomercials galore for seniors looking for property like those retirement villages in Arkansas, and ads on how to buy motorized chairs and other "how to's" like get a good pair of hearing aids & some discount prescriptions... but what if I would just maybe take orders for polygrip and get into fights "oh go get some teeth like I did!." (Ay Carumba! if that's how you spell it)

But this time for some reason I didn't even feel like practicing on them… just up and walked out and drove away.

I do however plan to tell you about my actually legit entertainment interview experiences though - like the ones at Paramount and Raleigh Studios. I certainly have a few choice words to say about that.

Somehow at the moment I am only trying to recreate all the details....what I found so damn interesting and amusing right afterwards it is all slowly coming back to me... and I will sure get back to you on it... considering It was a month ago I will think awhile on it okay.. stand by though, really....Got to go get some food but mainly face and eye crème, I am out.. be back soon.

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Well I am back but not ready to describe those two interviews just yet - mainly because I just got back from returning something and this crap going on at stores is getting me all worked up right now.

What the hell IS going on? Am i the only one who resents those people who park their crooked asses in front of markets and drug stores. With those folding tables and chairs. Damn lying good for nothing cons asking for money for "clothes for the homeless school children" and for "school supplies for homeless children." They are all over town right now, at every store I go to. Right smack in front of the entrance, this one guy just now said would you like to donate blah blah homeless children... it's for the children"… and I said right back, "No but would YOU like to donate to a homeless program I work for?"

Then I asked him "and how do we know the kid's are getting the money?" ...he said "I am just a volunteer maa'm, and I have no money to give, but I have time to volunteer"...so I said, "so do I... sign me as a volunteer."

I think I will go undercover and investigate and "get these crooks off the street" like AMW. I don't know why they infuriate me so, so much, really but they do. Probably because it is straight up robbery. For instance we have to go EARN our money, and still the IRS is on our backs keeping us awake at night and so on – and these guys are plain robbing us out of our HARD EARNED cash by laying this guilt trip on us... lying that "it is for innocent victims… little homeless helpless kids," while they rake in (our) money every day without having to lift a finger – and do you think they are laying awake worried about the IRS may I ask?

I have asked them why don't you ask for clothes.. or school supplies... "No, we don't accept that, only cash." Sure thing, that makes sense too you bastards.

This last guy i told off just now said.. "Well can you just give me 50 cents for a coke?"

I thought he said he was collecting money for homeless school children?

And by the way these supermarket lot guys always look homeless themselves. But I notice lots of cash being given to them anyway. This one guy was always transferring his full cash jar to a cash box he carried with him – and always trying to lay the same guilt trip on, of all people... me? This one guy at Von's got me so mad I went gunning for him the next morning. And I noticed he wasn't there until afternoon so I said, "I noticed you weren't here this morning, to hell with that noise huh?"

It just pisses me off that they have to pounce on you every time you go to the store when you are trying to concentrate...Like just now. I had this used jar of face cream already to transact until he came along and shook me down…and shook me up too which changed my professional demeanor.

Which reminds me.. I would like to recommend this cream stuff called "Derma Freeze 365" if you know anybody who could use a quickie face lift appearance

It works damn well and takes ten years off - but lasts only about 6 hours before reapplication is necessary, but when it's free, who's complaining? It costs about $32.00 with tax, so a little pricey for me if I was ever interested paying for it.... So this is what you do: You go and buy one container and go home and empty it into another empty container of whatever. Go straight back after refilling it with anything cheap like hair conditioner & repackaging it - and say I just bought this and I noticed it says it contains Ginseng and I am allergic to that. (if you tore the pkg.. then you say I tried it and got a rash, blah whatever).

But still, what is the difference between this and any other of my cream returns you ask? Well the difference is they are finally getting a little suspicious of me at my local Rite Aid, so now I eliminate all doubt and have my empty container in the car ready to go - so I do the switch in less than 3 minutes… you know, like I just went out to the parking lot and read the label. Or for all they know, (it's so fast it's dizzying) I could have just walked out the door and right back in... and which is WHY I say these phony rip off bums in the parking lot piss me off and change my thought processes.

But well no matter about that but wait! what about those damn little kid shysters.. ugh! I know you have seen them at stores.. The ones who have those butterfingers & candy bars for sale for $5.00 each? hah!.. I especially like the ( and I quote):

"Would you like to buy some candy to help keep me off drugs?"

So exactly what I say to them is "No. But I want you on drugs. Drugs are good for you." (you should see their little faces) Believe me it works and they remember you next time. Except this one kid actually yelled to me "grow up!" Excuuuse me? What f..ing nerve. So I said "but why, I don't LIKE grown ups," and that shut him up for awhile.