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AHHH!!! DUDES!!! Totally not kidding. I, of course, asked for someone to take a picture ...
Um yeah.
Dude, my arm is SOOOOOOOOOO bruised from my 2 hour, moved the bed 3 feet, sponsored by Effing Gear, sex session last weekend with the International Badass (click here to read more) - and it was funny, Friday, I said to my roomie, I had this SUPPERRRR gnarly bruise on my arm from last weekend. I showed her, and freaked ... and I said yeah, I kinda don't wanna post about it on the site. Some things are just better left unsaid.
Cue 12 hours later, I'm sitting at lunch during the StyleLife Neil Strauss event (AH-MAZING BTW!!!! One of the BEST nights of my life!! More to come later ...), and this dude offers to show us how he can light someone's arm on fire as a seduction technique.
My friends and fellow wing chica Nicole, and organizer/ head wing girl Marni said OHHH HELLLL NO!!!
He then turns and says, what about adventure girl over there?
Who, me? Or @adventuregirl on twitter?!?!?!? omg is she here!?!?!!?
Yeah, way to be a fucking nerd, Jen.
You game? He said.
Alrite! Let's give it a whirl!
The girls look at me flabbergasted.
He then took out alcohol on this little stick thing and explained that fire on the arm for 1 second can be sexy ... as he lights the flame, places it on the alcohol and then immediately puts it out with his hand.
2 seconds can tease ...
... as he lights the flame, places it on the alcohol and then 2 seconds later puts it out with his hand.
3 seconds can be hot ...
... as he lights the flame, places it on the alcohol and then 3 seconds later puts it out with his hand.
BAM! That was it! I couldn't look at the fire on my arm while he was doing it out of fear of some irrational reaction that could have caused something freaky to happen. I stayed alarmingly calm, although I was turned on after. So. So. So. Hot. Kinda felt like hot wax. Didn't burn at all. And the girls were so impressed with my reaction, Marni offered to try next ...
Yep, those are flames on her arm.
And yep, I was trying not to tell you all how badly I got sex bruised last weekend, and then I decided to just light the arm on fire.
Amazing.
SOOOOOO much fun!!! OOOOOOHHHHH LIFE!! You're fucking fabulous.
Gotta jet to the Summit Series brunch - but expect a post either tonight or tomorrow. I sincerely had the BEST night of my life. Faith has been renewed in men 100%
AH! BAH! and YAH! I am so excited nerderinos for what is shaping up to be like the best. weekend. evveerrrrrrr.
Effing Gear logo men's shirt in black. Click my tits for more info
Not the show, the best week ever, not that I'm mad at it or anything ... but this is bestest on a whole new level.
First off, still editing this TV project if you can't tell by the funky hair and thinking glasses. Again, I'm not a perfectionist - I just don't know what is WRONG with my brain. My ADD is super bad ... I've been listening to dub all day and even that didn't help. UGHHHH!!! This is so not my style ... like ever. Snap out of it Jen. Here do jumping jacks ... LETS GO!!!
K ... I feel better.
Alrite, so tomorrow I am going to be spending the day with Neil Strauss. Yes ... the Neil Strauss ... aka this duderino ...
... the guy who wrote this masterpiece ...
Yes. "The Game"
Translation: The shit I fell for back in 2009 when I dated the mentalist, which btw was one of the reasons I started this blessed little website. Read an exerpt here.
Crazy small world ... one of the tastemakers for the Samsung Droid Charge thingie I was involved with earlier is friends with Marni from The Wing Girl Method, and she is teaming up with Neil to take her wing girls out in the field with his students for the night.
Yep, I'm gonna get paid to take a group of 5 dudes to some bars in LA and teach them how to pick up women. How AH-MAZING is that?!?! Plus too, I get to go to the conference during the day, so I'm going to learn LITERALLY straight from the horse's mouth how he does what he does, and hopefully gain some personal insight.
I can't talk about The Wing Girl Method directly, nor can I post exactly how they do what they do - but totally have mad respect for both. Their teachings are going to be incredibly informative and help me understand a lot of what you guys are going through so I can at least be helpful when it comes to the advice I offer.
It's pretty cool, and again, I'm totally honored to have the site associated with Neil and Marni - so thanks guys!!
THEENNNNNNNNNNNN ... on Sunday, I'm going to be going to a brunch with the folks that run the Summit Series.
Um, do you guys know what that is?? Here ... watch this video ...
These are LITERALLY some of the smartest people in the world that are very literally game changers, and are doing something about it!!!! Amazing. Amazing. Amazing company, and I have no words for how humbled I am to be fucking associated with them, man.
HAHA DUDES!!! You guys should see how hot all the guys are that run the thing. HOLLLYYY FUCKKKKKK!!!! Mama likes!!!! Seriously!! Gorgeous doesn't even come close! That was honestly my problem with my OKC experiment - out of 103 there were less than 10 that really genuinely enjoyed what they did for a living. Everyone had the LA answer of, well, I do this - but I really wanna do this one day. I am currently living my "one day." I live every day doing only the things that I enjoy, and only furthering my creative process. Dudes, even in the last month I flew back east to film a TV show, got a book deal, AND am currently being considered to tour with a legendary rockstar helping them out with social media. Like are you fucking kidding me?!?!?! Tell me there's a dude in LA that I can date that can relate to that shit. And remember, it's not like oh - I'm doing cooler shit than you, frankly, if you like it - that's all that matters. But this is what I LIVVEEEE to do, and I'm doing it. I can't wait for someone to start a journey that I'm already on. Total downer. Dude, let's go jump out of a plane together and then contemplate how we can break world peace down into doable actions. I'm just stoked for fucking life, man. And these people seem equally as bat shit!!!!!!!!
Humbled doesn't even begin to describe it. Even just being invited to kick it with these peeps is going to be amazing. I'm not craazzyyyyyyyyy I just see things differently. Thanks be to the god I don't believe in. YAHOO!!!
So, busy weekend. HAHAHA!! The place the Summit Series meets I can't even get to by city bus. It'll take me about 2.5 hours to get there. The first 1.5 by two buses, and the last hour will be spent on foot. FTR, I can't WAIIITTT to get my car back! But either way, ain't nothin stoppin this chica!!! City bus or no city bus - it's time to get 'er done!!!! So so so many blessings, and so so so much good stuff to tell you all about!!!
SOOOOOOOOO ... yesterday was filled with all sorts of awesomeness. I totally started tearing up on the bus ride home at an incredible opportunity that was presented to me. Just ... incredible. incredible. incredible.
For reals - first up though, I have to preface this post by saying I am also still balls deep in editing the TV project. I adore it, totally an honor ... but editing to me is an art. If I put my name on something ... it has to be done to my satisfaction. I'm about as FAAARRRRRRR from being a perfectionist as humanly possible - I like to think of myself as more of a gett 'er doner, but either way, I am totally in hardcore producer/ editing mode.
See ... look at this hair ... this is editor's hair cause like I'm in a cave and no one can like see me ...
And I perpetually shove the hair from side to side as I work - it's weird, I know ... but the constant movement helps me think. Well, that and crack, but I've been doing my best to lay off that shit.
CRACK IS WHACK!!!
I digress ... so within the span of one week, this chiquita banana kept popping up on my radar screen. Literally - one week, three different people told me I needed to connect with this person.
Fortunately, one of the people that had contacted me about her had told me about a job opportunity. I'm not actively looking for work since we've gotz a lot of awesomeness going on that keeps me afloat - but I at least wanted to submit and see what was going on since it sounded like a super rad opportunity ... dudes, it was getting to do social media for literally a legendary rockstar. I kid you not. EPIC!!!!
I submit my thingie to her, and then I started connecting the dots saying, omg - this is the chiquita banana that my friend totally met with the other day. I emailed him and asked if it was true, he was all - yup!! And she's AMAZING!! You guys need to connect.
He then writes the RADDEST intro email EVVEERRRRRR .. and seriously man, this dude, I respect more than ANYONE in the tech industry. To like get an intro email the way that this dude wrote it totally made my life.
Incredibly. Incredibly. Incredibly. Humbling.
So, she and I go back and forth ... and then I get an email from this dude in her department and he's all hey! we wanna meet you, let's schedule a time to come in.
I say amazeballs - prolly literally hahaha ... and yesterday at like 8am I get an email asking if I can come in this afternoon.
PERRFEECCTTT, I thought. Way to be your own boss and just be able to accept opportunities like that.
So, then I hop on the city bus and head over to Beverly Hills to kick it at UTA.
UTA is one of THHHEEEE most powerful agencies in the world. Like for reals ... big. big. big. deal ... and I was going to meet with their digital department with people that had a whole lot of google-ness to their names.
I get there, and meet with the duderino - and he starts telling me about this amazing opportunity. I kinda scratch my head though saying this wasn't exactly what I thought it was. Albeit super super super rad, I'm a nerdy hippie - and this just wasn't really my speed. I then showed him the email I got about the job with the rockstar and he goes OOOOHHHHHHHH!!! We also wanted you for something else ... I then told him my spiel, and he just kept scratching his head. Wait, you crashed the Grammys? Wait, you barter social media? Wait, you are a personal brand? What?!
It was great!
I was like yeah dude, I know what you're presenting me with is something awesome - but literally I was made to handle the social media for a rockstar (mind you, this includes going on tour). I said I've already been doing it! It's my thing!! See last year's video with Billy Gibbons below:
I'm really good at breaking things down for people and helping them understand the value of social media versus just saying, oh you have to use twitter because the world is on it. This is my passion man, and I view it as an art not as this thing that twists most peoples arms.
He was intrigued, and I told him I would at least put out to my network to see if I can find him the right fit. Dudes, there is nothing worse than knowing you are GOD AWFUL for a job, and you take it out of desperation. Could I have taken that job and done it? Absolutely! But I don't have to take a job ... I really just wanted the experience of being around someone as creative as this rockstar and sort of coming up with cool shit to tweet out, and help the team execute this person's digital strategy in the field and grow their base. I can talk about social media for forever and ever and evveerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, but there is nothing better than having such a creative mind and having a SUPER SOLID knowledge on how to break it down for that kinda brain.
I then met with the chiquita banana, and she couldn't believe my story either. She's like this is NUTS!!!! I was super humbled but just kept telling her flat out that I just do it because I love it. It doesn't really make sense to me either, but it keeps working ... and because I'm following my joy and bliss opportunities LITERALLY fall at my feet. I just dig it, man!
She then told me she loved even my intro email for the position, because I didn't even attach a resume. She goes, that's the kinda brain we need - outside of the box.
HAHA resume? Dude! I LIIVVEEEE online! I just sent a series of links, and said there ya go! Let your work speak for itself, like energy will always align.
So yeah! Now I'm pretty stoked. I have to meet with the rocker next, but I'm a huge huge huge fan of their music, and you guys are gonna freak if I get it and you hear who it is.
But no matter what at the end of the day as cool as this opportunity sounds - it's just my passion. I really fucking love social media, and I have headphones in my ears 97% of the day because it's just how I think. I'm going with the flow of it all, so of COURSE opportunities like this would present themselves. It's going to be a lot of work, but I LOVE it!!! I don't ever feel like I'm working - I just cannot not be connected to social media or the internet in general. I LIIVVEEEEE in this space!!! It was my home for a year when I was without one. You all are my heart and my soul ... and I just like BAHHHHHHHHHH wanna make out with you all.
So thank you again TNTML for all the love and all that you all do. Should this opportunity come to fruition I will prolly pee my pants, but I can very happily say at the same time- it feels REALLY GREAT to have gotten this far!!! =) =) =)
Do what you love. always. always. always.
Peace love and lollipops! =)
PS. They also connected me with the people at the Summit Series. UMMMMMMMMM are you SERIOUS?!?!?!?! I didn't remember their name when she first said it, but DUDES!! That is like the most EPIC invite ever!!!!!!! Wow. Wow. Wow.
Totally humbled. Totally ... just ... fucking grateful. I'm not crazy, I just see things differently. Score 1 for the misfits!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxxoxoxoxoxox
Yeah. I'm def running off of 3 hours of sleep ... ANNNDDDD this has been the busiest week of my life.
No, like for real.
I am a pretty busy chick, this week = WHOLE NEW LEVEL.
Crazy. Crazy. Crazy.
Have 3 more episodes to film today, then I head back to LA tomorrow.
Found some pretty rad gems that I wanted to share ...
Yeeaahhhhhhhh bitcheesssss!!!!
Truer words have never been spoken.
You can check out more of the adventures from my album over yonder. This trip has given me Phenomenal perspective. Like crazy, awesome perspective. Once I can unfry my brain from working this fucking hard, I have a very heartfelt post to write on what it's like revisiting your hometown 10 years later.
Alrite, now I'm off to stalk a radio host, and who knows - might even end up on the radio.
I totes just got done filming today in a haunted cemetery. No ... like literally.
Today I got to scope out Union Cemetery in Easton, CT - and hollllllyyyy mother of a snail in a pale about to get eaten by a whale ... I had the bejeepers scared out of me.
I've always wanted to go, so when it came time for this new show that I'm working on to have a "haunted place" mission - it was at the top of my list.
Dudes, do you guys remember the episode of Unsolved Mysteries where they talked about the lady in white? That was THIS place!
I totes wanted to stay and try to conjure up the spirits into the night, but after a few hours I was just doner than done. You are DEFINITELY not alone when you go there - even during the middle of the day.
Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 10:47AM
