On The Pages of In Touch Magazine?

For those of you keeping track, it's now official....the second the October 6th edition of In Touch Magazine hit the stands recently, I guess my picture has in fact been in every major celebrity magazine there is! lol  I'm curious though, just because Brad Pitt is in the foreground of each and every one of the pictures, does that mean that technically I still haven't been in any celebrity magazines? lol

Exposure in the media isn't exactly something I have had very much of over the years which is why maybe I find it so hilarious to be in all these Brad Pitt pictures appearing in all these magazines lately. I guess I finally found a way to get a little ink! Last year at TiFF I somehow got a couple minutes with Brad Pitt on the red carpet, and then ended up getting featured on Entertainment Tonight, I guess because I made the most famous guy in the world laugh. This year after getting to spend a few minutes with Brad Pitt again on the red carpet at TIFF, because of where I was positioned to get to talk with him briefly, I ended up in a ton of the pictures that were taken of him. The pictures have been showing up everywhere I've been told.

Check out the In Touch magazine picture(lol)Brad PiTT is awesome!

Aaron Allen in the Van!

This weekend on the show and in the van, Aaron Allen is my very special guest! Aaron contacted me a few months ago about recording and sending some original JR DiGS Man with a Van music for the show. I had mentioned on facebook that I really needed some original music. Unfortunately, unlike "Be REal with JR DiGS" which still airs on Tv Tropolis Saturday mornings and was a network produced series with a big fat network budget, my latenight show has almost no budget and is independently produced by big fat me!

I guess that's why I appreciate so much Aaron's contributions to the show these last few months. He is an amazingly talented guy and his music has become the entire sound track for the show. Its incredible to see how quick and how hard he works at getting new music to me each week so I thought maybe you guys should meet this guy. He deserves as much recognition as I can give him without a doubt so make sure to tune in this weekend guys.

Thanks again Aaron, you are awesome!

IN The CAn with JR DiGS (Tuesdays@ 9:30pm)

Hi guy's, thanks for all the emails and facebook messages lately. Its so awesome to know so many of you are still as interested as ever in what I'm up to these days. Its cool to hear that their are a few of you who have been watching In The CaN with JR DiGS on one of Globals digital channels (mentv) over the last few weeks. I haven't blogged a ton about the series being on the air again I guess because I have been so consumed with so many other things lately. Plus originally, the series was scheduled to go back on the air in January but partly because of all the buzz about TiFF ect. the series went back on the air a few weeks ago. I'm glad that the series is getting a new life on television for sure. It airs Tuesday nights at 9:30pm. Hopefully I can find a way to get the network to create a bit of a budget for me so we can make a second season next summer which would be awesome.

Just because I haven't been blogging about the series going back on the air, it doesn't mean that nobody has written anything about the show. I've posted a link here to an article by Amy Bonin that was written and printed in her college newspaper. 

Check out the article and read what she wrote......click here

Without question, the hottest girl in Hollywood?

In one of the episodes we shot over the ten days of TiFF that ended a week ago, I jumped out of the van at the end of the episode and onto a red carpet to have a quick and very candid conversation with Kevin Smith. What I didn't know was that the hottest girl in Hollywood would also be on the red carpet. Turns out she is in Kevin Smiths new Movie and was there with most of the cast helping to promote the film. After meeting Elizabeth Banks I realized that its not just how she looks that makes her so friggin hot. Its tough to know what people you have only ever seen in movies are actually like. Just because they seem like they might be cool, it doesn't mean that they are. Well she 100% is!!!!!!

She is the hottest and coolest girl in Hollywood I tell ya. Next time you see her in a movie and she is being funny, know that in real life she actually is. How can a girl this hot also be so friggin funny. If you don't believe me then just wait until I post some of the footage we shot with her. Did I mention that she is funny and very very cute as well ?

Oh and as much as I like Kevin Smith and find him to be a very interesting and an amusing person to talk with and interview, Ivan Reitman for me was the Director I most wanted to meet at some point in my life. It was a thrill, I gotta tell ya! Ghost Busters, Meat Balls, Stripes, Private Parts....are you kidding me! The guy has directed most of my favorite movies of all time!

8 Episodes in 10 days & 1 night oFF!

On Friday I finished shooting eight new episodes from my van over the last ten days with each one ending in Toronto at TiFF where I stepped out of the van and onto a red carpet to chat a bit with A List celeb's who maybe would be a little tricky to convince to get into the van and on the show for an interview!

The last ten days have been far more exhausting than I predicted they would be for sure. I pretty much had to shoot all these new shows in a row while TIff was in full gear if I wanted to be able to have major A list celeb's like Jeremy Piven and Brad PiTT on my show. My access to the red carpets these guys have been on at TiFF ha given me access to them and with some luck and a few publicist who have grown to kinda like what I'm doing here in Canada, I've been getting to spend some time with the biggest A listers in Hollywood. I'm independently producing and shooting the Countries only latenight talkshow and even though I have no budget,a crew of one (Patrick the co-op) and I'm shooting the show from my van (lol) I need to have celebrities on the show because well, its a latenight talkshow!

That being said, It's kinda nice to be done shooting finally. Lost of good stories to tell for sure but right now I'm just going to pack a bag, fill the van up with gas again and head up north to the cottage for a couple days. Didn't have a ton of time or energy to do anything other than work on getting these 8 shows shot these last 10 days. After shooting the last episode we did kick back a little at a TiFF party finally which was fun but like I was saying, mostly what I am looking forward to doing right now is nothing for a few days.

More pictures and video still to be posted so stay tuned.......

Yip, thats me with my new Pal Brad!

After years of being almost completely ignored by the media, finally a little hype about good ol DiGS! (lol) Well not really hype I guess but a ton of pictures were taken of Brad PiTT this year on the red carpet at TiFF and guess who is clearly visible in the background of a ton of these shots. Its hilarious!(lol)

Last year on the red carpet I got to spend a couple moments with Brad PiTT that ended up being featured on ET and a few other places as well. The really awesome thing about that is it lead to getting a few more moments with him again this year even thought he wasn't doing hardly any interviews with people on the carpet. Its amazing how big a star Brad Pitt is right now.

What's funny about some pic's that have appeared in magazines ect. so far is that I am so much in some of these shots that they clearly had to blur my face a bit to make me look out of focus making sure the pic was all about Brad Pitt. Here is me and Brad in people magazine for example..... http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20224015,00.html

I'm even on one cover without Brad which is kinda cool. View Magazine had me on their cover this past week along with a nice little article about me, my van and the show. I'll post a link here for you guys to check out the article if your interested... http://www.viewmag.com/viewstory.php?storyid=6374

Its been a crazy bunch of days in a row at TiFF this year for me and although I had planned on blogging each and every day, I guess I just didn't realize how exhausting and all consuming it was going to be to shoot eight new episodes over the ten days of TiFF with all the celeb's in town. I'm in the middle of episode number seven right now and on Friday I will be hitting the road in the van to shoot the 8th and last episode I planned on shooting.

I'll have to wait to tell you guys later about my brakes failing and almost crashing the van the other day. I gotta get going now to continue shooting this episode.

DAY FIVE or SIX I THINK?

This great idea I had to do a daily blog hasn't worked out so good as of yet. I thought I would be home by around midnight each night and could reflect on the day and blog about it but I'm not getting home until the wee hours every night and knowing I might only end up getting four or five hours of sleep I haven't quite been so diligent about blogging every day.

Shooting eight new episodes in ten days is way way crazy! Feels like my left eye is starting to twich for some reason. I gotta jump in the shower here and get going, I'm running late already. The brakes went in the van and I almost crashed and died! I gotta go pick the van up this morning from Cam's garage, fill the tank up and getting the show literally on the road. Today on the show and in the van will be Kevin Smith which should be awesome. Then I gotta finish up the day again on another red carpet at 9:00pm, rap the show up on the road and hopefully be home before midnight for the first time since TiFF started.

I still have three more new episodes to shoot yet this week.