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Totally unrelated picture. Just made me smile.DUDESS!! So, today kinda made my life. I got a call from the peeps over at the Ford Focus Rally, and found out that my audition time is this Wednesday!!! SUPPERRRR stoked!!!! I immediately called Lindsay completely tripping, as I had to make sure she was available as well.
And AHHHH!!! So excited!!! Talk about SMART!! Even though I was technically hired by Bertram for his bio, I never accepted a paycheck, and he never even published what I wrote. Don't get me wrong ... I take pride in that 7 page masterpiece of bio-ness. But, after reading the contracts they sent over, if I had actually accepted payment and been an official employee, it would have effected my participation. HAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAAH!!!!! That = epic. So this man just got to inspire the bejesus out of me, and I got to have all those meetings with him telling him what I knew ... I mean come ON!!!! Life is so illogical. I kept telling my parents, and friends that I couldn't invoice him. Even when I was HOMELESS I could have sent that man an invoice and gotten out of it. But, it never felt right. Two things to follow in life: Feels good/ doesn't feel good. I knew there was a bigger prize. It made no sense to me at the time, and trust, everyone thought I was bat shit crazy ... but now, I'm pretty grateful. It presented itself with yet another pretty awesome opportunity, and I'm just gonna go with it. Cause that's what I do ... andddd yah! AND!! OMG OMG OMG!!!! Production runs from January 2011 - March 2011 tentatively. That means 3 months of a stress free place and or car to live. YAY!!!!
Dude, its HIGH-LARIOUS I am totally the mayor of the casting office. Now if that's not some SERIOUSLY epic usage of social media, I don't know what is.
W00t! W00t!!! Time for the happy dance!
OH and PS. My partner in this movement has both jumped out of a plane and milked a goat. This is why Lindsay is on my Zombie Apocalypse list. AHHHMAZIINNGG!!!
WHHEEWWWW!!!! My replies selectively must be turned off now, cause holy moly ravioli!!! The emails they are a comin more than a sex addicted trickster at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch!
This guy sounds like a trip. His default pic absolutely cracks me up!
But this one????!! Not so much ...
Dude, are you asking if I am female, or if you can fuck me. Begging for sex is not sexy.
Either way ...
AHHHHHHH!!! Feels so good to be back in the groove!!
Oh good lord, so a weird side effect of running your own site and constantly posting your thoughts all day, is that when you step away - you still speak the truth.
I was just on the unofficial Control TV podcast. It was their first episode, pretty cool ... but @tristancouvares isn't very pleased.
First off, this is why 25 year old men and 25 year old women are entirely different creatures. I said absolutely nothing hateful. I am a nerdy hippie with Love and an enso tattooed on my wrist. Hate is not in my vocab or my heart.
Furthermore, I stand by EVERY BIT of EVERYTHING that I said. I'm being honest! Deal with it! Tristan, RIGHT NOW you have this INCREDDIBBLLEEE opportunity to connect with thousands, and hopefully in the near future MILLIONS of people ... and I just felt sitting there that you had this entitlement attitude towards you. When I asked what value you added to twitter to get people to follow you, you said, what do you mean value? I add value? (paraphrasing, of course) - as if one is to believe just by you being, you are adding value. WRONG. WRONG. WRONG. WRONG. WRONG.
Given, yes, I know what you are doing is weird - I was totally freaked out by it in 2007, and dude, I totally made some of the same mistakes. However, the only difference is I am female. We dominate the livestreaming world, through and through. People are more likely to forgive you for being a bit of an elitiest because it is such a male dominated world, they kinda dont want you to be mad at you as you may be their last female friend. I know, totally sucks ... total double standard. Get over it. Working for LiveVideo changed my life. I couldn't even wrap my BRAIN around how many people I was able to connect with. The troops in Iraq used to play my show - and it literally brought me to tears. Here I was this 23 year old with a macbook pro sitting in my apartment, hanging out with the men fighting for our country. Yeah ... super heavy.
Be thankful for EVERY.SINGLE.VIEWER. you get. I know you were cast into that position, so I certainly think it does come out differently being placed in a scenario versus creating one ... but I just think you have SUCH an incredible opportunity right now in front of you. You may not believe in social media like I do, and that's cool man, it gives me a bigger platform!! Totally not going to hate. But at least open your mind a bit more, that's all I'm asking. This has more to do than having people pick what you eat, or what pet you have ... its all bullshit at the end of the day. You won't remember what they told you to do ... but some of the tweets you'll get and the people that watch you will follow you FOREVER.
I have been living for the last 7 months because of these people. Food, water, clothing, all because of social media. Think that has value now?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 2:10AM
