Honing in on a Music Video concept for this weekend

First I'd like to thank everyone who voted on the poll or expressed your preferences to me in one form or another for the upcoming music video shoot this weekend. As we are drawing closer to the call time, I've been working on getting a script together / picking a song to use.

Oddly enough, I'm now drawn to a song that wasn't even in the voting. It's called "That's Not My Name" by a band called "The Ting Tings". It's a fun goofy song that's got a good beat. The concept will be centered around a softball field, which is perfect for Saturday. We can shoot the video, then play dodgeball. Perfect sunny afternoon.

In addition, we can film a "How To Play Dodgeball" video for our new and future players. Not 100% on the "That's Not My Name" video yet, but it's the only one I've got an idea for and I'd really like to email the plot to my dodgeball peeps and start casting for the vid by tomorrow night (wednesday night). Adam's working on some of his own ideas as well. Might be able to film two videos this weekend. w00t!

Process Release Party at Standard (Buckhead)

Adam and I produced this short video after attending the Process Release Party at Standard in Buckhead. If you're into boutiques, they've got some neat stuff. Not really my style, but Adam loves them.

Music Video Poll - What Video Should We Make?

Getting back into video production and what better way to relight the fire than with a music video. I have a bunch of ideas for videos, but I thought, why not get you all involved as many of you will probably be the cast and crew of the video. Select one of the songs below that you'd prefer to make a video for. Also, feel free to leave a comment explaining why. Or if you like several of the options, leave a comment. You don't have to sign in, just leave it anonymous, but leave your name in it so I know who you are :)

What Music Video Should We Make?
	"Born For This" - Paramore
	"If You Seek Amy" - Britney Spears
	"Waking Up In Vegas" - Katy Perry
	"Human After All (Deranged Remix)" - Daft Punk
	"Ice Ice Baby (Dance Remix)" - Vanilla Ice
	"Rock Star" - Hannah Montana
	(Song To Be Determined) - Rammstein
	"Rock Star (Blue Crush Remix)" - N.E.R.D.
	"Faster Kill Pussycat" - Paul Oakenfold
	"Hammerhead" - The Offspring
= see results =

Adam found most of these on Songza.com;
Paramore - http://songza.com/z/wpfflv
Britney - http://songza.com/z/y3zvqv
Katy Perry - http://songza.com/z/eq09lp
Hannah Montana - http://songza.com/z/lz3dp3
NERD regular version, not blue crush:( - http://songza.com/z/h0jkls
Couldn't find the others, but they exist.

A Rebuttal to Time Traveling to the Future

This is a rebuttal to Titus' post regarding time travel and the benefits of traveling into the future. The original post can be seen here: http://flyasakite.blogspot.com/2009/03/time-travel-is-future.html

Per Holden's Back To The Future 2 theory, he suggested that time traveling to the past is boring/useless. Read his whole argument for a better idea of his theory. While Holden made several great points, after thinking about it, I've come up with some thoughts opposed to only time traveling to the future.

Time Traveling into the future would only be profitable if you could go back to your original time. Marty McFly had the delorean which was able to carry him back to 1985, but what if this jump was only a one time event. In such a case, going into the future may be unwise.

To begin with, there's the obvious plot that Blast From The Past, Encino Man, and Brenden Frasier in general has taught us. You will be uneducated about the world events that have occured since you time traveled. You would just be that guy who knows the same thing as old people do. Go on and on about how in his day, facebook and google ruled the world.

But maybe you decided to go far into the future, after laptops and desktop computers had gone the way of the dinosaur and cellphones were now old technology where everyone gets everything you need is in a chip implanted in you (Mulder was right). Man continues to evolve and get smarter with every jump. But you're still set in your old ways, now having to catch up to the faster world.

With out that delorean, you won't winning any horse races. The only way to use time traveled knowledge to make the dough is to travel back to 2004 and bet a hard eight when you know its coming, bet on the RedSox to win the World Series, and 4 8 15 16 23 42 to win the lottery. Maybe while you're in 2004, start up a website called Twitter and make even more bank. Oh and do us a favor and tell congress that GM, Ford, Chrysler, and AIG will sqwander any money they give them, and you should know, you're from the future.

The Veronicas at Six Flags Over Georgia?

Just heard some super exciting news through the grape vine. The Veronicas may be booked for a concert at Six Flags Over Georgia in the late summer! It's down to either Lady GaGa, Veronicas, or Brandy. (I know right? Brandy? Who is that? What year is it?).

The Veronicas are not extremely well known but they are definitely my favorite band of 2008 and thus far 2009. I'm torn as to whether I really want them to catch on just yet. I need to use a lot of their stuff for Breaking News: Channel 2. If they are already big stars by then, it will just be lame.

If you haven't heard of The Veronicas, you should definitely check them out. Look up these songs:
- Untouched
- 4ever
- Hook Me Up
- Everything I'm Not
- Revolution
- Revenge Is Sweeter Than You Ever Were

Also, if you've ever heard of Everlife, then you probably know the song "I Could Get Used To This". That was originally released by The Veronicas in 2005. Nearly the entire "Hook Me Up" CD was solid gold. Check them out. Let me know what you think.

Horse Racing and Speaking German

I spent the weekend in South Carolina betting on horses and learning German. I won $3 (balla!) at SteepleChase during an afternoon of hanging out with friends, drinking, playing beer pong, and watching horses race around the tracks while dressed up like the Great Gatsby. Going into with low expectations, I was really impressed with how much fun I had. While one of the horses I bet on won, another didn't even finish the race. I was wondering where it went and a few seconds later we heard the announcer call over the intercom, "Horse Ambulance to the track. Horse Ambulance to the track."

The word "Horse Ambulance" is code for "Truck to ship horse to glue factory".

On the way to and back from South Carolina, we watch movies and I inquired as to what all my favorite Rammstein songs where actually about with some new friends from Germany. I learned several new phrases that should be fun to put use to:

"Mutter" - Mother
"Benzin" - Gasoline
"Buck Dich" - Bend Over (typically said to a girl before mounting)
"Keine Lust" - Not tonight, I have a headache
"Mein Herz Brennt" - My heart burns
"Ich Will" - I want
"Du riechst so gut" - You smell so good
"Links 2 3 4" - Left 2 3 4 (as in a military march)
"Zwitter" - Hermaphrodite (this one was a lot of fun hearing the girls explain what it means)
"Tier" - Animal
"Spieluhr" - Music Box
"Seemann" - Sailor (a lot of confusion while they were explaining this one. I believe the phrase "Oh, I love seemann" was the highlight of the explanation)
"Rosenrot" - Rose color
"Feuer Frei!" - Fire away!
"Sonne" - Sun

Now I need a russian friend to explain to me what all these t.A.T.u songs mean.

No Dice on No Doubt

As it turns out, I will be out of town during the concert I was most looking forward to this Summer (No Doubt and Paramore). It's The Veronicas all over again, haha. At least I haven't bought the tickets before discovering I'll be out of town.

The good news is, I seem to have attracted enough interest for Lady GaGa and Katy Perry. Fall Out Boy is still on the maybe list.

Lady GaGa: April 9th @ 9:00 (Center Stage)
$20 - Currently Sold Out (of course)
Going to still see if I can get any of these tickets.

Katy Perry: April 15th @ 7:30 (Center Stage)
$18 - Also Sold Out ... Awesome
Workin on this one too

#FAIL

Hopefully more concerts will pop up further in the summer. Maybe I'll get really lucky and Evanescence, Green Day, The Offspring or The Veronicas will schedule a tour through the ATL.

Atlanta Concerts

My goal for the summer is to hit at least 3 big concerts. I've hit kind of a weird wall over the past 3 years where either I don't buy tickets to a concert until a week before the show and end up not getting tickets or I get tickets and then for some reason can't go. I've missed The Veronicas three times now because I've had to travel during their concert in Atlanta and ended up just throwing the tickets away.

So, I decided to take the law of nature into my own hands and plot out a plan. Below I've listed several Atlanta concerts this summer. If you'd like to go to any of them, let me know and we can grab tickets:

Lady GaGa - April 9th ($20)
Katy Perry - April 15th ($18)
Fall Out Boy - April 23rd (?)
No Doubt / Paramore - June 5th ($10)

(MORE TO COME)

Girls Aloud

Thought I might share little known music group (at least in the US) with all you drunk internet surfers who somehow stumbled across my blog at 4 am at night. (I recently got a traffic analyzer and my key demographic seems to be people hitting the site between 1-4 am and surprisingly a couple hits from Guam).

Girls Aloud is a pop group from britain, very much in the Spice Girls fashion. As it turns out, they've been around for about 7 years and were a pretty big hit in England despite their speech impediments (british accents). They were formed on a television program similar to American Idol. They've got 8 CDs and 7 DVDs. To highlight some of their hits, I've found a great megamix that presents a lot of their big hits:

After they released the megamix above, Girls Aloud had another CD come out that has this great song called "Sexy No No No" on it. I really love this music video , got kind of a Marilyn Manson meets September vibe to it. If you don't know who September is, don't worry, that'll be a post for another day. Here's Girls Aloud's "Sexy No No No":

My Future Home

I've been doing some research on Michael Vick's old Mansion. It is required to capitalize the word Mansion when referring to this house because it is grande!

They recent had an auction for the house with a minimum bid of 3.2 Million Dollars. Neither of the two attending parties bid the minimum; therefore the house did not sell and word on the street is that the bank will lower the price to 3 Million before foreclosing on the house.

This house has 8 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, and tons of extra rooms such as a library, game room, billiards room, lake side patios, porches, and balconies. It is incredible!

I got excited and called up Adam to see if I could get a mortgage loan for 3Mil. He was optimistic about it, hell- the mortgage industry isn't one to turn someone away from getting a mortgage they don't need.

Well, a little more research with a mortgage calculator showed me that I'd be paying 21K a month under a 30 year mortgage. Twenty-One Thousand Dollars a Month. That means, after calculating what I can only imagine the utilities and taxes will be, I'm looking for 7 roommates willing to pay $3,000 a month for rent to live in Michael Vick's ex-Castle.

::Sigh::

The dream is dead. Until the house goes into foreclosure, and gets as low as a $1 Million price tag, I won't be buying the Mansion. But just in case a couple of you have an extra 3K every month burning a whole in your pocket, here's some eye candy for what could be yours:

Watchmen and Free Movie Tickets

Going to see Watchmen tomorrow and I am superstoked despite all the bad reviews I've heard from a lot of friends. I'll post my own review after seeing the film, but I'm glad that some of the momentum of the previews has been extinguished so to lower my expectations of the movie.

Speaking of movies, I've got a pair of free movie tickets for a pre-screening tomorrow at Parkway Pointe at 7:00 PM. The movie is Race to Witch Mountain. Let me know if you're interested. You'll need to be there at least 30 minutes before the movie starts. Leave me a comment if you are interested.

Oh, and good news about the web development side projects. The DUI lawyer emailed me tonight saying he is satisfied with the site and we are going live tomorrow morning. I'll post a link after it's live. If you end up with a DUI in Kansas, this guy is your man.

Finishing side projects just in time for Dodgeball

We started Dodgeball up again this weekend and I am sore all over. The warm weather comes at a great time as I am finalizing my biggest side project this week. I have a meeting tomorrow at which I collect a nice check (all of which will be going to the mortgage payment - trying to pay off as much of the mortgage as I can now to make the interest take as low of a toll as possible). Sadly, I still haven't gotten paid for the DUI lawyer website. I'm not sure what is holding us up now, but as soon as I get the check, we'll be going live with it. I also started another small Atlanta DUI Lawyer project that will be ready by the end of the week as well.

With all of these projects coming to an end, I'm going to have plenty of free time for Dodgeball and I'll be picking up a couple more side projects as well, including some video projects. Speaking of which, be on the lookout for 2 new President Evil videos coming to YouTube soon (I'll post them on here as well).

Britney Spears Circus Tour in Atlanta

Was anyone who reads this lucky enough to see Britney in concert in Atlanta last night? I'm so mad that I didn't get tickets when they first went on sale. I found a great deal- $28 for Britney tickets, So stupid to have not jumped on that! Two weeks ago, I finally decided that I wanted to go. The only law abiding tickets I could find were $575 each. For the first time, I made a commitment to trying to win tickets from the radio, which of course was a bust.

When she made her first come back attempt in Spring 2006 with the secret concerts, I was actually lucky enough to be in San Diego where the first two occured. I heard about the first one the day after it happened, so I visited the gas lamp district and looked for tickets to her second show that night under the same fake name as the first. Tickets had skyrocketed from $15 to $200 for the cheapest. I found out later that tickets got as high as $700 right before the concert for a 20 minute show.

As it turns out, I ended up getting really sick last night anyways, so I guess its for the best I didn't get BritTix.

As a general poll, does anyone ever really win anything off the radio?

Goin Places!

They say "Jed move to california, it's the place you oughta be!" A quick shout out to three friends who are doing great out in the California, official state of movie magic and wildfires.

Liz is on IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2774639/
(Speaking of Liz, you can now find her here on BlogSpot at http://melizabethhughes.blogspot.com/)
Liz has done an incredible job producing movies, web series, even reality shows for E!! (The first exclamation point is part of the channel name, the second is for excitement) You'll be seeing her name next to Jerry Bruckheimer's in no time!

Kevin is a Lawyer - WTF?!
For those of you who know Kevin Thomas from my childhood (and that's not likely many of you), you'll be very surprised to know that Kevin is now a lawyer out in LA. I'll hold my judgement on a lot of it, but it's good to see that Kev is now on the opposite side of the court room.

Baron plays with PlayStation all day at Work
Baron moved out to Cali earlier this year for an amazing opportunity. He designs this: http://playstation.com/ - I actually can't see what it looks like right now, because work has blocked nearly every site on the internet, but from what it looked like a couple days ago, this site is amazing! All done in .NET also - Word to MSoft.

I still plan on moving out to California one day. Hopefully soon. I can sell my house starting in October, but we'll have to see what the real estate market looks like then. Also, I've got a pretty great job right now, so that will be a factor as well.

Excitement at the Office

Today this guy came into the office and tried stealing some stuff. One of my employees was cool enough to question him when he walked by an office and saw the guy under a desk. He asked the guy what he was doing and suddenly the guy took off running outside. My employee ran to our Operations VP's office and told him about it. The thief had already gotten to his car and was speeding in reverse out of the complex parking lot, so not to show his license plate. Our VP was running him down on foot- this guy should be an olympic sprinter. Sadly, he couldn't beat the car's engine. But some guys from our customer service team were already in their car hot on the trail. They followed him towards the highway, but the guy was slick enough to evade their car in the lunch time traffic. As it turns out the guy stole one blackberry phone box. He'll be upset to find out later that the phone in the box is actually a plastic model for tradeshows, and virtually worthless. Needless to say, they've already started beefing up security. Exciting day at the office!