Friday, October 07, 2005

Well the Fresno Bee article came out and it was pretty good. Not too many inaccuracies. My name was spelled correctly.

The number of calls and e-mails I received after the paper came out shows you the power of the media.

#1. Just imagine the small percentage (let's just say 1%) of KRZR's listeners (who knows how small that is? Let's make a guess and say 10,000 people) realizing they can't get the story of what happened to the Front Row. They are not going to call the General Manager, the Sales Manager, the Vending Machine Manager, or even the Operations Manager... You don't call them to request a song, do you? No! You want to hear about the tragedy from the victims, just like Fox News! The listeners search online and find...

#2. My website. I have my home number post on the left.

#3. They call and leave wonderful messages of memories, laughs and sadness.

#4. Then others, they read The Fresno Bee, they search online, find my website, they call...

Awesome! Power to the people who surf and question authority!

One of the things that have cut into people's time spent listening to radio...

"Halo" the video game.

I'm so excited about Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, the creative duo behind the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and the upcoming "King Kong," they will serve as executive producers of a movie based on Microsoft's blockbuster "Halo" video game.

Microsoft hired Alex Garland ("28 Days Later") to write the screenplay and Bungie is involved.

"As a gaming fan, I'm excited to bring 'Halo's' premise, action and settings to the screen with all the specificity and reality today's technology can provide," Jackson said.

The movie will be shot entirely in the New Zealand capital of Wellington, with a budget of more than $100 million. Universal will handle domestic distribution and Fox international.

I was thinking I might like to buy one of these Home Automated External Defibrillators so I could stop my heart and do that whole Flatliners thing and leave my body and experience my After-Life!

But then, I might need a trusted friend to revive me!

I always liked that part of The Frightners when Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) who has seen spirits and apparitions ever since the car crash that killed his wife. Now he operates an amateur "ghostbusting" operation that is supposed to exorcise ghosts from people's houses -- the problem is that the ghosts who haunt those houses are in league with him.

Then Doctor Lucy Lynskey (Trini Alvarado) has to kill him with a defibrillator so he can at one point chase down Dee Wallace-Stone and Jake Busey, as homicidal young lovers.

"Frighteners" wasn't liked by a lot of my friends but I think it's Peter Jackson's best, goofy, splatter-gore.

I have some free time to watch movies, Hell, I have enough time to make some movies!