Wednesday, April 06, 2005

The Ulcer

I woke up this morning with a weird kind of spaz-tick thing happening with my left eye. I actually shot some video of it that I was going to let you guys look at, but after I watched it myself to see how freaky it looked, I realized that it just kind of looked like boring video of my left eye. The crazy spaz-tick uncontrollable movements of my lower eyelid obviously feel way more intense and huge than they actually look!

It probably has something to do with not getting any sleep last night again. This ulcer I’ve got has been killing me these past few days and the pain in my stomach wakes me up every couple of hours. I eat some cereal, the pain goes away kind of and two hours later it comes back again with enough intensity to wake me up again. This sucks. I’m a total suck when it comes to stuff like pain!

To kill a little time at 4:00am, because I couldn’t fall asleep, I started looking again at a bunch of the old footage we had shot back in the days before I realized that getting this kind of stuff on television for people to see would actually be possible in the future! 1989 was the first year I ever held an actual video camera and was allowed to use it. Shit, that’s a long time ago! Check out the picture:



All this looking back stuff seems to have motivated me to start writing about it for some reason. After meeting with this big shot television producer recently, I’ve realized that I need to start working on my writing skills. So why not start by writing a little about stuff I know about, right? Click here if you are at all interested in what I’ve got so far.

By the end of next week, I’ve got to have a new pilot episode put together as part of a last ditch pitch to the network in the efforts of getting my show back on the air. I guess I’m hoping that all this writing about and looking at the footage I was shooting back in the beginning when it was all for the fun of it, will inspire me somehow.

Thanks again everyone for all the emails which have definitely been inspiring! I’ll start posting some of them on the contact page, okay!

Stay loose,

JR