Everyone is leaving town for the Labor Day Weekend...

The roads were horrible Yesterday.

This morning at my local early morning hangout... Coral Cafe, It was kinda slow with only old folks who are staying put.

I've gotten to know a waitress there who I think is kind of cute. She's also into Frida Kahlo and art type things. She's very nice and seems interesting. She stayed as well to work this weekend.

At my local Sav-On Drugs store this morning while looking to by a new loofa made with 100% wild boar and nice gal introduced herself and pointed me to the best buy for loofas and sponges. I also checked out the Burt's Bees stuff.

She too was attractive and very friendly.

Things might be looking up for me. Though I still am not going out on any dates yet. I really am just having a blast on my own.

I drove by some yard sales today. Picked up a cool retro office chair.

I'm planning on doing some trendy tourist kinda things, like taking some tours and going to some theme parks on my own. I also found some great secret walking trails from some small press books I found about old Hollywood and Los Angeles.

I didn't even hear about this when it happened but, twenty-one people died in the explosion of a satellite launch rocket at Brazil's Alcantara space center.

The prototype launch vehicle was being prepared for Monday's launch into orbit of two Brazilian observation satellites when it exploded, incinerating the bodies of the victims and destroying the satellites and launch pad.

The space center in Maranhao state was in total lockdown, with soldiers barring entry to all unauthorized people. Journalists were instructed to talk to official spokespeople, while grieving relatives complained of receiving minimal information.

The explosion was triggered when one of the rocket's four main thrust engines was unintentionally fired up. The 36-meter (118-foot) platform where the technicians were working disintegrated.

Can you imagine that? How horrible.

The remains of only two victims have so far been transfered from the wreckage of the rocket to the Forensic Medical Institute in Sao Luis, due to the extreme degree of incineration of the bodies in the blast.

Victims will be identified by their dental records.

Burning up like that and drowning in a submarine are my two big fears next to falling from a high altitude or crashing into a tall building while traveling in a airliner.

A Russian nuclear-powered submarine sank in the Barents Sea this morning as it was being towed to a scrapyard, killing at least two of the 10 sailors on board.

That stuff really scares me. That's why "The Abyss" is one of my favorite scary movies, while others don't seem to find it scary.

Oh, also I can't swim.

There, I said it.

In other things that trouble me...

I can't believe that Letterman has spent 10 Years at CBS. It really doesn't seem to be that long ago, but then Conan's also got his anniversary... Doesn't that mean Jay will be having his celebration soon?

When I see examples of time passing like that, it just reminds me of how little I've accomplished in my life.

WooHoo!!!

A wet dream tribute to Madonna opened the show. Dressed in the same kind of white bustier wedding dress Madonna wore while performing "Like a Virgin" during MTV's inaugural awards broadcast in 1984, Spears and Aguilera sang a cover of the not-so-innocent tune.

Then, while Madonna sang "Hollywood" in a all-black groom's outfit, she shared an open mouthed kiss with both Aguilera and Spears. Later the three shared a moment of donut bumping. In my mind atleast. Glazed, just like my knuckles.

71-year-old Johnny Cash, nominated seven times for "Hurt," won once. It won for best cinematography.

Timberlake won best pop video for "Cry Me a River," and best male video, beating out Cash.

"This is a travesty! I demand a recount," he said, before paying tribute to Cash.

"My grandfather raised me on Johnny Cash," he said, "and I think he deserves this more than any of us in here tonight."

In more POP news... With days of delicate diplomacy shaken by North Korea's threat to test an atomic bomb, a six-country summit ended in time to watch MTV's Video Music Awards with the only success anyone expected... a commitment for more talks to resolve the ominous dispute over Pyongyang's nuclear program.

North Korea now has missiles that can make it all the way here in time for the anniversary of the Sept. 11, World Trade Center attack.

Washington authorities are investigating a teenager suspected of making a copycat variant of the devastating Blaster Internet worm and his arrest is pending. Who says teenagers are lazy and stupid...(?)

Chinese authorities have banned the second Tomb Raider starring Angelina Jolie after complaining that it portrays the country negatively. Still haven't seen it yet... But Now..

A Swiss father who searched for his mountaineer son's missing body for 18 years thought his quest had paid off this week when a glacier, thawing in Europe's record heat, gave up a corpse.

The Father starving and cold then ate his sons remains... Nah just kidding.

Turned out to be just another frozen corpse. Several other people have gone missing in the area over the years. The decomposed body was given to forensics experts for tests. I'm thinking, "CSI: Sweden"...

My hypnosis mp3's that I've been making are still doing the trick... You may remember that the guided audio directions take me through a movie theater to watch a film I've made up in my head, then asks me questions about it while the film plays.

Last nights dream movie was a real winner till the guy sitting behind me in the theater started talking and ruined the movie for me. Also, I stepped in gum in my dream and that just sucked!

This morning has already started off to be fantastic!

After giving myself the smoothest cleanest shave at 3am, I headed out to get me some scrambled eggs and an Ostrich patty. Very tasty!

I looked at the stars and Mars and watched the sun come up while listening to the repeat of George Noory's radio show with Richard C. Hoagland calling in from an observatory.

I made a list of movies that I'd like to one day own on DVD. Not just crappy everyday movies, but films that could fill the soul on sad rainy days. Films like Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast", Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon", and Tom Hanks in "Bachelor Party"... Stuff like that...

I feel sometimes to pick up ones spirits, it's nice to write up lists. Lists of things that make you happy. You could carry a list like that around and when you get in a foul mood, pull out that list and perk up. I keep just such a list tucked into my gun holster.

Schwarzenegger makes light of wild past as the Smoking Gun reprints an old interview in Oui magazine where he talks about being one of five bodybuilders who had group sex with a chick who wanted that kind of thing.

I know alot of people are freaking out over that, but really back in the 80's who of us didn't have sex with five bodybuilder at one time. Granted it was against my will, but please... Is this really damaging to a Politician?

14-year-old Iranian, Hana Makhmalbaf, whose first feature film debuted at the 60th Venice Film Festival, was barred from attending her own premiere.

Under Italian law, minors cannot see movies which have no rating... even if they directed them.

Makhmalbaf's 73-minute documentary "Joy of Madness" is one of 145 films screening at the Venice Film Festival. It is competing for the award for best debut film.

Organizers said they had never had to deal with the age limit issue before since Makhmalbaf is the youngest director to turn up on the Lido.

Needless to say she met Woody Allen and Roman Polanski at the Festival.

A Brazilian telephone company is offering a helping hand to Latin lovers who are lacking inspiration with animations of sexual positions based on the Kama Sutra flashed directly to their mobile phones.

For 33 cents, customers of Tele Norte Leste Participacoes' wireless arm Oi can download one of 40 animations which come with a short explanation and skill level needed.

Nothing turns me on more than wacky cartoon voices telling me how to do it...

Getting a new cellphone is on my list of things I need.

A gunman on the verge of losing his job opened fire at an auto parts warehouse today, killing six people. The attacker also was killed.

This job market is killing people... It really is getting tough out there... Employers better watch who they're thinking of firing.

People seemed so shocked when stuff like this happens... I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. How did all those Enron employees who lost everything not go target practicing?

In a way I kinda blame Science Fiction for all the troubles we have...

Back in the old days SciFi had people thinking the future was going to be all clean with robots and jetpacks... It really looked hopeful, then SciFi changed and we had a bleak future with nothin to look forward to but grime and crime and Solent Green... And that about what we have today.

We should have been living on Mars instead we are still looking at it with telescopes. Ray Bradbury just had his Birthday and we are still no more closer to living on Mars than we were when Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater did "War of the Worlds".

Everyone is so shocked about poor safety procedures at NASA when we lose some Astronauts... Everything just shuts down and no progress is made because we don't want people blowing up on live TV.

I say, let's put disgruntled employees into space before they go shooting their co-workers and don't worry so much whether the hatch is so airtight.

By losing a few air-breathers in the pursuit of progress we can live a better life in the future.

For 13 nights, Annie Lewis slept on the street just feet from the area's first East Lansing Krispy Kreme store, setting a record ahead of its opening.

The East Lansing resident smiled as her son, 12-year-old Gregg Pullano, cut a ribbon, signaling the opening. Gregg, who is autistic and is obsessed with Krispy Kremes, was the first customer through the door.

Sometimes it takes an autistic kid with a sugar rush and an obsession with Krispy Kreme donuts to wake me up to just how great my life is...

I can't think of a bigger fan of Bob Hope than me...

But this morning while stuck in traffic caused by his Memorial Service, I wished I had been his only fan. Traffic was really backed up and streets were closed. Plus, I get a flat tire.

Thank you Jesus!

Just for that, I hope they move those Ten Commandments from Alabama to Iraq.

Mars makes closest pass in 60,000 years and after waiting twenty minutes in line at a huge telescope at Griffith Park at 2:20am, I get to see a red blurry smudge.

Planets seem so much clearer watching Star Trek.

A priceless Da Vinci-thing gets stolen from some Scottish Castle... Think it might be a big plug for that book The Da Vinci Code? I see so many people reading that book. Is it any good?

Woody Allen's latest film is warmly received at Venice festival where they just love him. I was listening to a repeat of Howard Stern's interview with Mia Farrow and she discusses how Woody could write scripts on shopping bags and Hotel letterhead at a moments notice. That is pretty cool to be able to do that... I have 5 computers at my disposal and I can't write shit!

As I was mentioning in an earlier post, I've been making some cool hypnosis tapes, well actually mp3s and they really rock!

I made one that guides me into a crowded movie premiere where a movie I made is being shown. I sit in the darkened old art deco theater and the movie begins... But I make up the movie in my head and it's different every time. There are questions I ask myself along the way about the movie and that seems to really make this a lucid sort of dream where I'm in control. I remember everything about the dream/movie afterword and some of them have been pretty good.

One was about troubled teens in the South who end up in a foster care kind of program that teaches them how to work on cars. From that they start working for a local stock car pit crew and the team becomes their new family. They all gain self esteem and skills with each guy falling for the same girl... That takes one on to become a successful driver at the track, while his best friend ends up a getaway driver for a Bank robbing crime family.

I'm telling you this hypnosis mp3 is awesome.

Sunday I slept 18 hours straight without getting up to go to the bathroom, or going in the bed. I lost weight too!

Poor Paul Schrader, he's been castout, he's been exorcised...

Writer-director Paul Schrader has been fired from helming The Exorcist IV: The Beginning by the film's producers because he failed to throw in scenes of vomit, blood and gore to go along with the requisite holy water.

Schrader, wrapped principal photography on the prequel in Rome and Morocco, was booted this week by Morgan Creek Productions after reportedly turning in footage that was devoid of the kind of demonic bloodletting that made the original, 1973's The Exorcist, the most celebrated horror flick of all time and one of the top-grossing films ever at the box office.

The whole movie is done, Paul went to turn it in, and Morgan Creek refused to give him his post-production money because they hated it. Paul had given them what was in the script... a creepy psychological thriller, with no gore.

Exorcist IV stars Stellan Skarsgard as the young incarnation of The Exorcist's Satan-battling priest Father Merrin. The prequel chronicles Merrin's missionary work in post-World War II Africa and his first epic clash with Pazuzu, the demon that later possessed Linda Blair's Regan, in the first movie. Max von Sydow played the aging Merrin, who was killed by the devil in the original.

The Schrader firing is the latest in a series of setbacks that could lead some to believe the project is cursed. The film was initially suppose to star Liam Neeson in the Merrin role, with John Frankenheimer directing. However, the helmer died last year.

They might give the movie to the director of "Freddy vs. Jason"...

The filmmakers at the center of HBO's "Project Greenlight" say they thought the show portrayed them negatively.

Kyle Rankin and Efram Potelle are the subjects of the series that chronicled them creating, "The Battle of Shaker Heights".

They could have been on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" instead...

I thought we here in America had crazy lawsuits...

But I just read about how a group of Egyptian expatriates living in Switzerland are getting ready to sue "all the Jews of the world" for taking Egyptian treasure with them when they escaped during the Exodus.

Won't see that on Judge Judy.

I've been making some great guided hypnosis meditation tapes lately...

They make sleep so much more worthwhile.

So much fun, the dreaming that is, that waking up is not only a drag, but nearly impossible.

I'm really getting to enjoy traversing the rugged and dangerous landscape of my inner most mental geography.

I'm meeting new people and old characters from my id.

I really need to find a Doctor who is Jungian student, so I could have some discussions on just how fucked up I am...

I set out today to see a whole bunch of movies, buy decided to go under hypnosis instead.

In fact, I'm going under right now...

I know it's all so silly but I'm happy about all the hoohaw regarding...

A federal judge in New York ruled that Saturday Night Live's Al Franken does, too, have the right to use "fair," "and" and "balanced," in that order, in the title of his new book.

In siding with Franken, the judge rejected an argument by Fox News that the comic was infringing on its trademarked slogan, "fair and balanced."

"I addition to thanking my own lawyers," Franken said after the ruling, "I'd like to thank Fox's lawyers for filing one of the stupidest briefs I've ever seen in my life."

Fox News had sought an injunction to stop the publication of Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, a slam of rightwing personalities, including President Bush, pundit Ann Coulter and Fox News' own Bill O'Reilly.

Two weeks before The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King wraps things up on December 17, New Line Cinema plans to unleash in theaters special extended editions of the first two installments in director Peter Jackson's epic adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy trilogy. I'm standing in line now!

Cinephiles who couldn't get enough of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring special edition DVD, which clocked in at 208 minutes and included scenes not in the theatrical version, will be able to see the epic on the big screen in all its glory starting on December 5 in about 100 movie houses in the U.S. and 20 in Canada.

A week later, on December 12, New Line will unspool the special 214-minute extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. That version is slated to premiere as a DVD first on November 18 (the DVD of last year's "official" theatrical release is due out on Tuesday).

But wait! There's more!

For those longing to venture into Middle Earth for more than a few hours, New Line plans to screen all three films back-to-back-to-back on December 16 in a daylong marathon that will carry over with The Return of the King's global release on December 17.

New Line sent memos out to exhibitors across the country this week informing them of the reissue and suggesting various screening strategies to maximize promotion leading up to The Return of the King.

The goal, according to the studio, is not simply monetary, but it's intended to refresh moviegoers' memories of the good-vs.-evil saga that has been lording over the box office and critics' lists for the past two years.

"The release of the third film affords us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to give audiences a compelling new theatrical experience of Peter Jackson's sprawling vision for this trilogy," said Rolf Mittwg, New Line's head of worldwide distribution and marketing.

The memo lays out guidelines for theaters calling for Fellowship to begin screening at 3 p.m. on December 16, Two Towers to follow at 7 p.m., and the first official showing of Return of the King kicking off at 11 p.m. and concluding early in the wee hours of the 17th.

The final installment is going to be the longest in the series, coming in at over three hours.

I'll be wearing Depends!

Jackson promised fans in a recent USA Today interview that the climactic clash between Middle Earthlings and the fiendish Lord Sauron and his minions at Pelennor Fields will surpass Two Towers' Battle of Helm's Deep in breadth and scope.

Jackson says the most satisfying part of Return of the King will be the emotional climax, something he had to bring the entire cast back for additional shooting this spring and forced him to even rework some key scenes.

Don't forget, "King Kong" is on the way!!!

Magician David Blaine will try to last more than six weeks without food in a plastic box suspended high over central London.

Starting Sept. 5, Blaine will live in a plastic box 7 feet long, 7 feet deep and 3 feet wide for 44 days without food or contact with the outside world.

The street magician-turned-endurance performer previously spent 35 hours standing atop a 100-foot-tall pole and three days encased in ice. Both of those stunts took place in New York City.

Unlike Harry Houdini, this latest challenge for Blaine won't be to escape, but to survive. All he'll have in the box is a tube for water and a tube for urine.

Don't stand underneath...

But he'll also have a good view of London. The box will be suspended 40 feet high from a crane next to the River Thames and near the historic Tower Bridge.

The 30-year-old said performing the stunt will give him a chance to search for his "truths."

Like how gullable we all are?

I have nightmares about this kinda thing...

An old Vietnamese dude thought to have died in a hospital revived after spending the night in the morgue.  

Nguyen Van Quan, 73, was declared dead and taken to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital morgue but was found alive by his daughter the next morning as she was retrieving the body for the funeral.

"I was shocked and frightened when I saw the blanket that covered my father moving," Quan's daughter was quoted as saying. "When the morgue's officials pulled back the blanket, my father's eyes moved, brightening with joy."

A doctor at the Nguyen Tri Phuong hospital, where Quan had been admitted after complaining of chest pain: "He is now still in the emergency section."

After Quan's heart failed and he was declared dead, the man was placed in the morgue where he was laid for seven hours among corpses.

I would go to the Ho Chi Minh City hospital for a zit lancing... But then where else there would one find care?

There are some films I really need to see ...

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (Limited)
Set in the modern English Midlands, but told in the style of a spaghetti western, this is the story of a small-time crook (Robert Carlyle) who returns to his hometown to win back the heart of his ex-girlfriend after seeing her turn down a marriage proposal (from a man played by Rhys Ifans) on national TV.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Nationwide)
Antonio Banderas and Director Robert Rodriguez return in this final installment of the El Mariachi/Desperado trilogy, as El Mariachi is approached by a CIA agent (Johnny Depp) who wants him to assassinate a powerful drug cartel leader (Willem Dafoe).

Cabin Fever (Nationwide)
Five friends from college retreat to a cabin in the woods for a weekend of drinking and carousing, only to find out that the woods is plagued by a flesh-eating bacteria which puts them through a horrific experience that redefines the word 'monster.'

Still want to see...

Open Range
Kevin Costner directs and stars (along with Robert Duvall) in this western drama about four free-grazing cowboys who come into conflict with a powerful rancher whose grip over a small town allows him to run an anti-free-grazing outlaw state.

American Splendor
This Sundance award winner is based on the critically-acclaimed comic books by Harvey Pekar, and the working-class life he's led as depicted in his comics. Mixing formats and approaches, this movie combines elements of both film and comic art, as well as drifting between being a drama and a quasi-documentary (Pekar is played by both Paul Giamatti and himself).

Might be a busy time going to and sneaking into theaters.

There's a new robot suit that the Japanese have created that is kinda cool.

It straps on like a backpack and it assists your legs in walking and running.

They say it's a new idea, but I remember watching that old TV show, "That's Incredible" or was it, "Real People" I don't know, but it showed an inventor that had a contraption like this that helped him run at over 50mph!

I'm ready for things like this after being stuck in traffic for so long yesterday.

I like the Segway thing, but you kinda look like a dork riding it. I've seen a few of those machines in my neighborhood, they look cool until you see someone actually riding one.

I've been talking with some Swedish friends who sent me pictures of their city and everyone is beautiful looking and seem to have clean transportation.

It would be so cool to live in a city where you could walk to work and not need a car.

Then of course you're trapped in the city if a disaster ever happens.

The Swedes were telling me how nice the people are and I could make my little movies there and people would welcome me.

Yesterday while shooting some footage in an area of Hollywood for a documentary on the history of one certain street, I stopped a girl about being on camera for some quick questions... She said I would have to talk with her agent first.

If there had been a disaster and a News crew were shooting interviews... She's say, "Talk to my agent first."

An actor who thought he was handed a gun with harmless blanks has been arrested after shooting and killing a colleague during the filming of an action scene.

Actor Flavio Peniche was arrested on suspicion of homicide, according to the attorney general's office of Morelos state, just south of Mexico City. He has been released $40,000 bail.

The incident occurred on Saturday during filming of a low-budget movie, "Juana The Scorpion," at a hotel in Cuernavaca, the state capital.

"I was handed the prop gun, and did the scene as I was instructed," Peniche told The Associated Press Thursday. "When I saw the blood come from his chest, at first I though it was fake blood."

Peniche said he quickly realized actor Antonio Velasco, 42, was unconscious and called for help and tried to stop the bleeding.

Velasco died shortly afterward at a Cuernavaca hospital.

Peniche said Velasco was killed by a blank that contained too much gunpowder. But Morelos state prosecutors said it was a real bullet.

If convicted, Peniche could face a prison sentence of 8 to 20 years.

Stuff like this always gets me...

When I was a kid watching, "Tora, Tora, Tora" with all the mayhem, my older brother told me that whenever a movie has people getting shot or blown up, they use deathrow prisoners and really kill them.

Sometimes they use people with fatal diseases who volunteer because through the film they will get a bit of immortality.

I believed him. But then I was probably 6 years old.

I wish we could get some of that rain that the flash flood areas were getting...

Las Vegas was slammed. I saw Firefighters being rescued by being airlifted off their trucks. You know that must have pissed them off having to be rescued themselves.

Barstow was hit fast and furious by rain. But do we even get a drop?

My lawn needs water bad. The ants that are hanging out in my shower waiting for me to clean myself so they can drink, need rain bad.

I was hanging out shopping at Ikea and noticed how many hot looking ladies were shopping there as well. I was excited, but then some how the overkill of beauty passing by me put me into a slough of despond. It was also somewhat empowering that after a bit, I felt no desire to be involved with not a single one of them. Every beautiful woman that walked by, I could feel would only be trouble even knowing as a friend.

Any woman walking by, there was someone somewhere who had grown tired of that...

That empowered me somehow.

I needn't waste my time trying to get to know them. I could focus on myself. Take care of my needs. Buy my own crap.

Ikea is a store that sets up these displays to show you how great your space could look if you bought all their products. If you've seen "Fight Club" where Ed Norton walks through his apartment as it becomes the Ikea catalog, you know what I'm talking about.

These little displays are very seductive, but I know it wouldn't look right for very long in my place. I'd get tired of it very fast.

My place is very dirty and crappy. I'm a real pig. I have piles of trash everywhere. I'm easily overwhelmed by the thought of cleaning up the space. That's why I regularly just haul the stuff to the alley way and dump it all. Sometimes I can even get a charity to bring a truck and haul it all away.

There's nothing more refreshing than an empty apartment.

I remember when my friend Aaron bought his house and we were laying on the carpet real early in the morning while it rained outside. Rain was hitting the windows and shadows of rain pouring down was cast onto the walls and floor of his empty living room. We were in the dark as the electricity hadn't been turned on yet. It was so soothing. There was a slight echo on the walls as we talked.

Couldn't I live like that full time?

Do I really need furniture?

Couldn't I get by without bringing in anything that would clutter the space and clutter my mind?

Do I really need to purchase anything?

Do I really need this Imac? Can't I just write on a notebook, or use the computer at the Library?

Isn't there enough free entertainment out there that I have no need to purchase any?

I've started this routine where when I check the mail, I walk immediately to the trashcan and dump the piles of junk that I get. No need to carry it up to my apartment.

Last week, after several piles of insurance fliers that were being stuck under my cars wiper blades had been collected onto my floorboard, I carried all those fliers over to the insurance office and dropped them into their mail slot. If I had known the car the owner drove I would have dumped them onto his windshield.

That made me feel pretty good.

I don't know if this message will even be seen because of this New 'Sobig' virus going around the internet. My server and computer was slammed today.

I got my electric bill today and couldn't believe how expensive it is to run your air conditioner 24/7.

I had an interesting couple of hours today when while eating dinner at a restaurant I noticed a pretty woman smiling at me. She was smiling I thought because I was reading a book about film and maybe knew the book. I can't say why I think that, but anyway...

Later I was at the store buying some supplies and she was shopping right behind me. We talked abit. She said she was stalking me. I told her to save her strength and that I'd give her my number and address...

But I didn't. She said stalking me would be the fun part, not actually having me.

I know how to meet women now... Chinese police arrested the director of a psychiatric hospital for drugging female patients and selling them off as wives.

That might work.

I'm thinking of starting some sort of treatment with cholesterol-lowering "statins" drugs like Zocor or Lipitor they seem to be good not only for the heart but also for depression, researchers say.

Also I heard about that fish oil pill being good. I need to eat more fish, but it's kind of expensive to get. I need to move to the country and live on a river like Huck Finn. Then I'll be less depressed.

But then something could happen to me like what happened to Lim Vanthan, 17, when his family were planting rice at the weekend near their home on the outskirts of the impoverished Southeast Asian nation's capital, Phnom Pehn when they decided to go for a swim.

During his dip, Lim Vanthan caught a prized eight-inch fish, called kantrob in Cambodian, with his hands.

But the high school student's excitement was short-lived when his catch squirmed out of his hands and jumped into his mouth, where it became stuck because of barbs running down its back.

He died of suffocation before he could receive treatment at a local clinic.

That would suck to die that way. Or even with those tiny eels that swim up the small opening of the penis and lodge themselves up in there where it's warm. That would really suck!

I think I know what I'll be doing Sept. 20...The Cure, Duran Duran, Violent Femmes, Echo & the Bunnymen and the Psychedelic Furs will headline the third annual Inland Invasion concert in Devore, Ca..

Also on tap for Inland Invasion III, which will take place at the Glen Helen Hyundai Pavilion, are Hot Hot Heat, Dashboard Confessional, Bow Wow Wow, Interpol, General Public, Fountains Of Wayne, Soft Cell, Berlin and Dramarama.

You might remember I produced and directed a concert feature film with Dramarama and a lil' band called, "Pearl Jam"...

Oh those were the days...

I again have been having horrible dreams of airliners crashing into homes and buildings...

Last night I dreamed of bombings I could see from my patio up on the hillside overlooking Universal Studios...

It seemed so real. I guess that's what I get for sleeping with Talk Radio on next to my bed. The U. N. Bombing at Baghdad HQ Blast kills at least 15... and it must have seeped into my dreams.

The dreams seemed so real that I just know that my day will be shot.

Oral arguments have been scheduled for the Fox News Channel's lawsuit against humorist Al Franken. I hope cameras will be allowed in the Courtroom...

I saw jockey Gary Stevens, who was great in a leading role in the hit film "Seabiscuit," was in fair and stable condition after suffering serious injuries following a weekend fall in the Arlington Million race. He comes off the horse and basically turns into a Raggedy Ann Doll... Getting trampled and sliding around... Very unnerving.

I in the process of completely cleaning out my apartment and getting rid of nearly everything I own. I go through this pretty regularly. If I need to split, there will be no trouble packing up.

One never knows when one might have to leave quickly and just keep on driving.

I saw a documentary over the weekend about the great depression... The dust bowl swallowing everything up... And I thought... That could all happen again very easily. How would I be prepared?

Is eBay going to help me keep the dust from burying my house and farm?

Is having the latest cellphone going to help when the bank takes my home?

Is American Idol going to protect me from locusts?

Maybe...

While waiting in line, in the heat, to see, "Jason vs. Freddy" a girl standing in front of me started vomiting all over the place. The crowd dispersed and knocked over the ropes. Two or three other people began to vomit as well. Some sort of chain reaction began, I too began to gag. I looked down and on the tip of my boot was a tomato slice.

I didn't get to see, "Jason vs. Freddy".

I headed back to a place I spent some time at last night, "Hollywood Thai" in Hollywood of course.

Last night a friend from Disney got me drunk... He was buying so why not.

I should say, I dont drink, so I reached drunkness very quickly and later went home with a beautiful Thai waitress who displayed to me her talents in art and old Thai folk tales.

I thought my apartment was small... Her place was a closet with candles. Her bed an air mattress with a slow leak. I noticed tire repair kits sitting next to the bed. I thought she might have a bike, but was told it was for the air mattress.

She pulled out a bag of something like pork rinds, but it must have been Thai Pork Rinds, cause it was spicy.

She had an amazing collection of bootleg DVD's and VCD's and to top the night Marilyn Manson Karaoke Discs. I never would have imagined there were any Marilyn Manson Karaoke Discs, but she did the coolest candlelight, t-shirt, flip-flops, and thong version of "Beautiful People" I've ever seen. Then there was gunfire outside of her building. It was 4:45AM and I had a bad feeling about it all.

We watched the Police pull up from her 10th floor window. I could see my lil' car sitting close blocked in by the ambulance. My car looked lonely and scared. I suddenly felt like it could easily be a Honda version of Herbie the Love Bug, but one that really needed some repair and a major wash.

I wasn't feeling well. She wanted me to stay. But I couldn't stop thinking about my x-wife. I can't seem to get rewired.

She said she understood. She said she thought it was sweet that I wouldn't just try to jump her after just meeting her. She said I should try and think of only myself from now on, and I should just relax.

Then she started to rub my shoulders and neck. She pulled me down on the rug and rolled me over onto my stomach. Kicked off her flip flops which I see were Hello Kitty brand. She stepped up on my back and I could tell she couldn't have been more than 90 pounds. My spine crackled into place with her every step.

She was telling me something about a monkey that used to come to her window every night when she was a little girl and watch her while she slept. Then one night she woke up and the monkey was sitting on her chest staring at her. She screamed and her father chased the monkey off and ran outside and shot it. She cried and cried because she thought the monkey was her friend or a sister... She thought the monkey spirit was slipping into her body at night to see what it was like being a human.

Then she jumped off me and started making monkey sounds. She was hilarious. We laughed alot. But I was still sad.

So I told her I had to leave.

I drove back home.

Alone in my car.

I saw a falling star shooting over the Cahuenga Pass.

I was reading about Bruce Dern, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's final film "Family Plot," and a situation where Hitchcock got a case of shyness.

Dern said during filming of "Family Plot" in 1976, a young Steven Spielberg appeared on the Universal lot, hoping to meet Hitchcock.

Spielberg, who had made "Jaws" the year before, stood at the back of the soundstage and begged Dern to help him get a 10-minute audience with Hitchcock.

Dern went to Hitchcock, who asked, "Bruce, is that the boy who made the fish movie?"

Dern replied, "Yeah ... He just wants to kind of let you know what a fan he is."

Hitchcock started shaking and said he was too nervous to speak to him because he felt "like such a whore."

When Dern asked why, Hitchcock said, "I'm the voice of a 'Jaws' commercial."

Dern told the anecdote while promoting "A Decade Under the Influence," an upcoming documentary about the 1970s generation of filmmakers.

IFC is really becoming a good channel. I say that in the hopes of getting back on the air... There.

Sizemore faces jail for abusing Fleiss... Guess we won't see him in another War movie for awhile. See, this shows you women like bad boys. I've met Heidi numerous times and we always had a great time, but never got the feeling we could take it to the next level. Course, I was married at the time... But, even so I was just not her type... The abusive type, I guess.

I get e-mails all the time wondering if I get any responses to this site... Yes I do! But, I hardly ever post them cause I don't know how to make it seem non-egotistical... But maybe I'll make a separate blog someday to archive the letters I get.

I got one Yesterdaythat I really liked:

Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:43:53 -0400

Reading your news is very entertaining. More if I live very far, in Chile, South America. I like love your sense of humour and how you tell everyday's life things and turn them into something somewhat poetic, somewhat transcendental, and funny.
I imagine (or try to) you in your environment and how you're doing everyday things. My day starts checking emails, reading Chilean news, google news, and then....www.jerrylentz.com    the perfect combination to start the day.
So please keep going with the site! I hope a day there's a movie about Jerry Lentz, Soderbergh's style (sorry If you don't like it, I saw full frontal and liked it.....weird).
 
Bye!
 
Rodrigo
Santiago
Chile
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I liked that one! So there I posted it for you to see I do get nice letters.

I had some very intense dreams last night. I don't remember much yet about what they were, but I woke up... Wide awake! I had the strongest sense that I had completely wasted my life during the years of my marriage. That it had been the biggest mistake ever and I wasted my energies trying to make it work and severely damaged my self image in the process, leaving me depressed and angry at myself. Those years are never coming back to me and I can't erase the memory of them.

I'm a different person now, and I miss who I was and who I could have been.

I must try and start again somehow to create a way to live better.

I can't sleep it's so hot...

I was thinking how hot it would be if we had a blackout here like in New York.

I turned on the lamp next to my bed and picked up a new book I'm reading. It's about Frank Herbert who wrote the novel, "Dune", his son wrote it and so far it's pretty good. Herbert was a complex man and there's lots of stuff in there about how hard it is to deal with someone you love who just happens to be a genius, or even an asshole.

The air is on full blast and my balls are still wet.

There are spiders and ants all over my house. They're hot as well. The spiders are too hot to make webs. Too much work. The ants are picky about what crumbs to eat, they're like, "Any ice-cream or anything cold?"

Saw "Queer Eye" tonight for the first time... Not as good as I thought it would be... Not as good as the Brit "Trading Spaces" or even as Gay.

I just knew that any day Jude Law and Sadie Frost would be divorcing after that rumor about Nicole Kidman... Not that I believe that one, but it's hard dating a star with a better career than yours. That has happened to me... Many times over.

Medical Reality Show for Roseanne... She's getting her pooter snipped on TV. I think...

I watched a bit of, "Extreme Makeover" and still haven't heard back about my entry. They make you fill out so much paper work for that show. I'm still wanting to do it, but they want people who have big families and lots of friends so you can have that big reveal at the end of the show. They obviously don't want a divorced dude who hangs out in his apartment all day and night... Alone!

I keep checking my Yahoo! Personals ad for responses but not getting too many... Looser!

Christianne Carafano, who uses the stage name Chase Masterson, starred as the alien character Leeta on the TV series "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" has sued Matchmaker after learning that an online profile using her photos had been created in 1999. The profile included her home address, phone number and text stating she sought a dominant man with "a strong sexual appetite."

Carafano received calls and e-mails from would-be suitors, who believed the actress was looking for a date online. She said she felt unsafe in her home and moved to hotels in Los Angeles for months with her son.

I was wondering why I never heard back from her. I always liked her, but I have to many x-girlfriends who have acted on Star Trek and its various spinoffs... It sucks to like a series then have to see an old flame on the show right when you were enjoying it. It takes you right out of the story when you see an alien who you've heard fart in her sleep and then she denies it.

I had a Gay friend who had a thing with an older actor who once was a "REDSHIRT" on Trek, and after they broke up he would watch his death scene over and over... It supposedly made him feel better.

I received a nice e-mail and an invite to speak at a gallery showing some Swedes have set up for a festival of the Ingmar Bergman Exhibit after my posting about how he and Jung influenced my life. The translation was really bad in the e-mail and I don't know what to say about it. I would love to fly over there and hang out, but I just can't get in the mood. They seem to appreciate that even more. Maybe someday. Hopefully someone will offer to pay again as well.

Talk about French Fried...

France's worst heat wave on record has killed an estimated 3,000 people across the nation, as the government faced accusations that it failed to respond to a major health crisis.

I guess I shouldn't complain about how hot it's been here.

The personal papers of the notoriously private Ingmar Bergman, which got their first public airing, show how a stumbling actor and writer grew into one of the greatest film directors.

Just turned 85 and mostly ensconced on the remote Baltic Sea island of Faro, the director who rarely gives interviews handed over a jumble of notebooks, diaries, photo albums and film and theater scripts to the Swedish Film Institute for posterity.

The doodles and snapshots give a glimpse into the youthful imaginings of the creator of "Wild Strawberries," "The Seventh Seal" and "Fanny and Alexander," which won him an Oscar in 1982.

"Somewhere in the depths of my foolish soul I nurture one conceited notion: One day, perhaps -- one day -- something shining will be prised out of all this wretchedness," reads an excerpt from a black oilcloth notebook dated 1938.

"Ingmar Before Bergman," previewed for the media in the same cavernous studios where he shot much of "Fanny and Alexander," will accompany Bergman retrospectives in Helsinki, Paris, Rome and Turin until October. The huge archive will be available to researchers, and on the Internet.

I've been reading alot of his writing lately and remembering how as a kid he really influenced me.

Embedded reporters brought war zone action up close and personal, but a new video game series will bring it right into the living room.

Kuma Reality Games first title, "Kuma: War," integrates licensed "hot spot" video footage from the Associated Press, Reuters and ITN into the gaming action.

Additionally, through a relationship with the Department ofDefense, the game also will incorporate exclusive raw video shot by U.S. troops stationed in the relevant regions.

Former ABC News producer William B. Davis, who worked on "20/20" and "Peter Jennings Reporting," serves as Kuma's director of video services. He'll oversee the production of the game's TV news-style introduction to each mission, which will mirror the style of an MSNBC or CNN broadcast segment. An anchor will introduce the licensed video from a troubled area like Iraq, while retired Maj. Gen. Thomas Wilkerson of the Marine Corps will serve as one of the on-air military advisers, giving the player detailed information, as well as KH-11 satellite imagery, on the area and the mission. During Operation Desert Storm, Wilkerson was the special assistant to the commanding general, Marine Forces Central Command in Southwest Asia.

A subscription component keeps the action up to date with events in the real world. The initial PC game, due out in February, will come with eight to 12 missions in a traditional retail package for about $40. After that, players can choose to download an additional mission every week for a monthly fee of about $10.

Don't you think it's getting to be like "The Last Starfighter" where these games will actually be training tests for future warriors?

Hammer has Risen from the Grave...

Legendary horror production house Hammer Films is set to shoot its first film in almost 30 years under a joint venture with one of Australia's most prolific filmmaking outfits.

Under the deal, announced at the Australian International Movie Convention, six low-budget films are due to be made over five years, each targeting younger audiences and "designed to have strong potential in other media, especially DVD", said Hammer and Queensland-based Pictures in Paradise (PIP).

"A lot of people have tried to talk with Hammer about remakes, but I'm interested in working with them to create horror films in the 'new gothic' style, and that's what they've found interesting; that's their roots, their trademark. We're not talking about making slasher films," said PIP principal Chris Brown, an expatriate British producer.

Hammer chief executive Terry Illott said: "This deal gives us a terrific opportunity to deliver highly commercial, low-budget, English-language horror movies for a worldwide teen audience."

Development costs will be shared, with PIP taking primary responsibility for production, while Hammer will oversee financing and distribution. The majority of the films are expected to be produced in Australia.

While there are a few in-house projects under consideration, Brown said the search is on for other suitable titles to make up the slate. "Our doors are now open (to scripts)," he said.

Hammer's return to production -- its last film was the 1974 horror kung fu release "The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires" -- is part of a plan by Illott and partner Peter Naish to rebuild the entity as a production, distribution and finance label for genre horror movies.

Hammer was bought from previous owner Roy Skeggs at the beginning of 2000 by a team of investors that includes advertising guru Charles Saatchi, British Film Commission chairman Larry Chrisfield and former Warner Music UK chairman Rob Dickens.

Will it really be the same without the wonderful old Bray Studios?

And in Australia?

I picked up the video of "Chaplin", the Attenborough movie at the library. I've seen this film probably 6 times.

I'm looking forward to seeing the new documentary that's on the DVD set of Chaplin's films. It's playing in the theater here in Hollywood this week.

He really liked the young girls back in his day, but seemed to find a winner in Oona. I read her biography and really liked the way she was discribed.

Maybe young girls were more mature back in his day. I couldn't think of spending too much time with the teenage girls I know. My head hurts just thinking about having to listen to them.

Have cast members lost that lovin' feeling for Raymond?

Production on the eighth season of Everybody Loves Raymond started with two actors missing from the first table read.

Patricia Heaton called in sick, Brad Garrett stayed away because his character, isn't in the season's first episode.

Garrett issued an ultimatum to CBS a few weeks ago, demanding a salary hike before he returned to work. The move came on the heels of his Emmy nomination.

CBS, has temporarily written Garrett's character out of the series.

He's under contract through 2004, pulls in between $150,000 and $200,000 per episode, less than any of the other regular cast members.

Ray makes something like 50 Million Dollar$ now...

Brad Garrett's my favorite on the show.

Peter Jackson is set to collect a whopping $20 million to helm a remake of King Kong.

It's the most lucrative paydays ever for a writer-director.

Jackson is currently cranking out a script for the Kong redo. The payday catapults Jackson into the ranks of Tinseltown's top moneymakers, putting him on par with such such mega-stars as Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, and Tom Cruise, who regularly command $20 million or more per picture. The Kiwi filmmaker's Kong-sized salary even tops those of other A-list directors like Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis and M. Night Shyamalan. While those directors might eventually make more than $20 million on a monster hit, they typically forfeit most of their upfront salary and instead to clean up on the back-end.

And he wears shorts year round...

He really deserves his success, he is so nice and smart. He works hard at making his films and has fun doing what he loves.

Maybe if we all find something we love doing we'll make 20 million dollar$... I love sleeping, eating, playing with myself and watching tee vee...

Where's my check?

Another really hot day has already begun...

Even in London it's hot and people are soaking in public fountains, because they don't have air conditioning over there, unless it's in their cars.

Britain's heatwave, which has claimed dozens of sunburn and heat exhaustion victims, has now produced its first case of frostbite.

A motorist was diagnosed with the condition after driving with his toes too close to the air conditioning vent on the 250 mile journey from London to Manchester.

One of his toes started to turn black and another went blue.

"It was incredibly hot," Mike Ball, 46, told the Guardian newspaper. "I slipped off my shoe and sock because my car is an automatic and I don't need to use my left foot.

"I didn't realize anything was wrong until the next day when my foot was extremely painful."

Ball went to his doctor and was prescribed a cure for mild frostbite. He is expected to make a full recovery.

Thousands of nude Hindu priests in Trimbakeshwar plunged into a river pool in western India before dawn for holy dips that were repeated during the day by more than a million devotees at the religion's holiest fair.

"Our information is that 800,000 people took a bath in the town of Trimbakeshwar and equal number must have taken bath in Nashik," said Trimbakeshwar superintendent of police, Ravindra Singhal.

He said nearly 4,000 policemen stood guard from early Tuesday to control the crowd and monitor the festival.

Hindu priests and devotees have been arriving here since July 30 when the Kumbh Mela commenced, but the holy baths in the Godavri river only began Tuesday -- the most auspicious date of the holiest of Hindu fairs.

The streets of Trimbakeshwar were overflowing with people wearing the traditional Hindu colours of saffron and white.

Holy dips during the month-long fair are scheduled for August 12, 27 and September 7 in Trimbakeshwar and August 17, 27 and September 1 in Nashik.

The fair is held once every three years, rotating through four different locations in India where Hindu mythology says drops of nectar fell from the pot of Jayant, the son of the Hindu god of war Indra.

The fair was kicked off on July 30 by powerful priests and right-wing Hindu leaders along with nearly 500,000 devotees, as a saffron flag was hoisted amid the chant of sanskrit prayers.

The smell of curry, feet and ass was everywhere...

Wine producers are among the few people in France who are not grumbling about the severe heat, predicting a fine vintage for 2003 as they make an early start on their harvests.

In the Beaujolais region, near the eastern city of Lyon, wine makers began their earliest ever harvest on Tuesday, picking their first bunches of grapes already ripened by months of high temperatures.

Weeks of hot, dry weather have positively affected the grapes, with the drought improving their quality and taste by reducing the amount of water in the tiny fruit -- leading industry experts to bank on a banner year.

Some 4,000 Beaujolais growers who normally go on holiday in August ahead of the September harvest were rushing back to the region to prepare their fermentation vats and hastily recruit field workers to help pick grapes.

The grapes must be picked by hand across the region's 22,500 hectares (55,600 acres) of vineyards, and the growers usually employ 40,000 laborers to do the job.

In Rivesaltes, outside the southern city of Perpignan, makers of muscat -- a sweet dessert wine -- kicked off the year's harvest last week, a week ahead of schedule. The sunny weather across Europe has also led to early harvests in Germany and Italy.

I need a bottle right about now...

It's official, Mike Newell's making "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".

Steve Kloves, who adapted the first three Potter tomes to the big screen, is once again on board and, this time, is charged with translating the Goblet of Fire's hefty 734-pages into a script befitting a two-and-a-half-hour movie.

Afraid of alienating die-hard Muggles by cutting scenes, the studio and scribe initially had talked about breaking the book into two separate films to be released in the same calendar year, à la "The Matrix Reloaded", "Revolutions", and "Kill Bill", but Warners has now opted for a single movie.

Actor Don Knotts Celebrates 79th Birthday... Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Convicted Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski wants the U.S. government to return a pipe bomb and other items seized from his Montana cabin so that they can be used for "research,". Weapons of Math Destruction?

I finally saw "Seabiscuit", I liked it alot. I love movies with talking horses... And that Disney mule movie... The one that played football with Tim Conway... Oh never mind!

"Seabiscuit" was really good. So good I didn't use glue all day in his honor.

It has been so hot and miserable the last couple of days.

It has been too hot for me to care about doing anything fun. I don't like to sweat.

Last night I visited Thailand...

Well, actually Thai Town as they call it here.

On Hollywood Boulevard there's a cool place run by a hot looking Thai Lady called, Hollywood Thai. Good name right?

I met my friend Paul and he was so cool he bought my food and drinks. The food was great. There were two girls singing. The place was loud. You could barely hear anything.

Paul's friend John from Disney showed up with his friends and they drank and drank. Then John wanted me to get up and sing, so this drunk Chinese guy jumps up on stage and tells everyone I'm a professional singer. Everybody calls my name, but I didn't know any song they knew that I could sing. But it was fun...

The Thai girls are so cute and nice. It feels weird being Caucasian there, you feel like you're in the military and you're on R&R.

The drink I had was a strong mix, and since I haven't been drinking lately, it went right to my head. This morning I have a lil' headache from it. Or maybe from all the noise in the restaurant.

Paul has a big Basketball game today... We stayed out late... I hope his coach doesn't kick him off the team.

I'm still thinking of going to the movies today, but need to find a film to inspire me. The New Beverly is playing a Stanley Kubrick Double Feature of "Lolita" and "Dr. Strangelove", so I might see those again for fun.

One of my filmmaking heroes, Fred Olen Ray has let it be known that I have credit in his latest masterpiece of cinema, "The Unliving" which may change names. I actually have liked that title since I first heard it, but you know Hollywood. The film has been screened selectively around the world to critics and clergy to calm any fears that it is too intense for the public. The Vatican may still pass on the film. We wait to hear.

I need to continue to get more work in film. It seems to rain and pour work when I get a part I want. There are always conflicts in scheduling. Just not enough hours in the day for me to reach out to all my fans from the silver shadows of cinema or the pixels of digital video.

I was thinking maybe this is the weekend to see some movies!!!

But, I'm not really in the mood.

I have to start thinking about editing some of the footage of stuff I've already shot. I got so much stuff.

Editing is tough, I get so lost in some of the images that I can just keep going. I remember all the feelings I was having when I shot the stuff. It is always an emotional roller coaster.

I've been shooting some actors in Hollywood in some cool locations. We have been playing games. Making up scenes. Playing with emotions. Some cool images. I don't know if it will at all go together, but we are having fun.

I've had the offer to stage a screening at a Gallery when the works are finished. That could be fun. Or not.

I dreamed that I was working at an old movie theater last night. I was putting butter on the bottom of the popcorn box. Wassatmean? I don't want to know. I think it's bad.

I met a guy today who self published a book for his family and then after giving some away, his brother came to him and told him he sold his copy on eBay and needed more. So at first he was pissed cause this guy sold his gift, but then he is now selling a bunch on eBay. He said he sold over 500 copies. I think it's just photos and poetry. That's kinda cool.

Let's see...

Roses are red...

Wait where's the camera...?

Lightstorm Entertainment purchased the movie rights to a Sports Illustrated cover article by Gary Smith called "The Deadly Dive". It's about Free Diving. Remember Luc Besson's "The Big Blue"? This one's real.

A well-known science buff, used a specially crafted Russian-built submersible to shoot footage of the real Titanic for his 1997 blockbuster as well as his 3-D Ghosts.

He will have at his disposal plenty of SCUBA gear as well as two submersibles he's used on those previous efforts.

Meanwhile in other news, the director is developing a new scripted top-secret feature film that will use the 3-D technology of Ghosts of the Abyss.

Those who have seen Mel Gibson's film about the final hours of Jesus Christ have called it beautiful, magical, a great and important work.

Those who think "The Passion" could fuel anti-Semitism, however, haven't been allowed to see the film. Seven months before its release, this extraordinary vanity project is stirring passions over Gibson's exclusionary screenings and the potential for a negative depiction of Jews.

Not just Jews are concerned,the film was first questioned by a nine-member panel that included Christians. Gibson is a member of an ultraconservative Catholic movement which rejects the Vatican's authority over the Catholic church.

Gibson has said the film is faithful to the account of the crucifixion in the four Gospels and is meant "to inspire, not offend".

Still waiting for the film on the life of L. Ron Hubbard... I was thinking of casting on that film, who would be a good LRH? I'm thinking that one guy from "That 70's Show"... No not Ashton Kuchter! That guy with the sunglasses.

Anyway...

While trying on some expensive designer suits and perusing GQ magazine, I realized that the clothes I look the best in are clothes that I cannot afford. My Chinese friends say that all I need to do is get my measurements and tear out the pictures of the clothes I want and they can have them made for me.

That's like downloading mp3's of clothes.

There needs to be a Napster of clothing.

I think I'll start one...

I've gotten in this mood of wearing the same style t-shirt that Wal-Mart sells for $4.00. Everyday the same gray color and jeans. I like the look and comfort.

When I was in Beverly Hills trying on these suits today, I had the worst zit on my chin and another one right between the eyes. But when I stepped out of the dressing room wearing a cool outfit from Jean-Paul Gaultier's haute couture fall-winter 2003-2004 fashion collection I lit up the room. I swear chicks were looking in my direction. One Paris Hilton lookalike who later said she was on "The OC" told me that I was made for that outfit. Huh?

The suit was over $4000. I think was what I was told.

To think I sweated in that suit and didn't buy it.

I need a new look.

Or atleast the money to buy the new look.

Schwarzenegger Announces Calif. Gov. Bid on Leno... I was by NBC this afternoon and it was pandemonium. I think people who've never had an interest in Politics will come out for this...

Springer Says He Won't Seek Senate Seat... I was kind of saddened by this, I would like to see that happen. I'd also like to see Oprah run for Queen of America.

Jennifer Connelly Gives Birth to a Son... I unfortunately had nothing to do with that.

Film Critic Roger Ebert Faces Cancer Treatment... If he dies that will suck. I still can't stop calling the show by the old name... That I have just now forgotten.

Carly Simon reveals 'You're So Vain' mystery for 50,000 dollars... Now it will be available on eBay by the guy that found out. It was Warren Beatty wasn't it? Or Mick Jagger? Or Carly herself?

I had the strangest dream about a volcano, lava, water being drained from a lake, devastation, supersteam, horror... I woke up in a real sweat. If something like that happens soon you'll all know that I'm psychic. Then I can charge for my abilities and live the psychic life.

Things are really happening...

A lot is going on...

Non stop action over here...

Excitement at every turn...

Okay, the balls in your court.

I'm watching McG's and Doug Liman's "The OC" and I'm really enjoying it. I don't know why.

Today was a weird day and it's nice to find something to sap my brain for a while.

Earlier while doing laundry I saw a flash of light catch my eye. Way up in the sky I saw a rotating shiny object reflecting the setting sun. I watched it spin around for probably ten minutes. I'm thinking it was either space junk or maybe the international space station... It's still up there isn't it?

I got the final papers to my divorce today. Woohoo!

This morning I was interviewed by a reporter from Telemundo TV about the stabbing next door. I spoke my best Spanish. About three words... Then the reporter started English and I was slightly better.

In Hollywood driving I hit a discarded metal car bumper laying in the road. I just put new tires on and just knew I had a flat coming, but no. The plastic support under my fiberglass bumper broke loose from the impact and drug the ground for several miles. Nice.

There's something I can't get out of my head... The other night at Wal-Mart I saw a twin domed tent that was pretty cool looking. I was thinking how I could get a truck and just runaway and sleep in the tent. Watch the stars at night. Watch falling space equipment from another location... someplace where there's less light pollution.

Maybe I can meet a country girl or a hippy chick who won't mind living a nomadic life.

Remember me telling you just how violent the 'hood where I live is?

I came home a little before 10PM last night after visiting a new Wal-Mart near Panorama City (I think) I was eating a late night snack of Wendy's Salad (very good) driving back home listening to Matt Drudge on KFI... Good Time... I pulled up outside my place and said, "Hi!" to this kid that lives next door and always asks me for money. I even expected him to ask me this time, but no. We talked for a bit and then I went in my place.

A couple of minutes later there was a knock at my door. I figured it was him so I ignored the urge to answer the door. Then I hear a comotion outside. I go look and there are Police all over the place.

In that short span of time, another kid in the same place as the other one gets stabbed, a baby is knocked out, blood everywhere, knives flying.... Horrible.

I spent about a half hour being interviewed by the Cops...

Tired and slightly scared about living here. This place really sucks.

Can't sleep.

But I did get some nice new t-shirts from Wal-Mart cheap and a new toothbrush. This Wal-Mart was fun because even though the place was packed with people, I was the only non Hispanic/Latino/Mexican/Spanish/Salvadorian in the joint.

I loves the Latino ladies...

Maybe I can dream of the Latino Angel who floats down from the Heaven and does a fan dance for me...

Sleep lil' Pedro...

I'm up a little late tonight...

I was watching a great documentary called. "Summerstock" about a family in Kentucky who run a theater company... But it was really more than that. I was very moved by it and it made me wonder why aren't more people in this world bored by our current state of entertainment and why don't they start their own community theaters.

I talked with my friend Marshall in Texas who is a Playwright and musician and the theater he uses to audition and rehearse just closed down. He's not sure where he's going to take his performance and rehearsals to next.

I recorded the narration for some Turkish Movie last night. That was fun! The money will be even more fun!

I love when I do voiceover gigs for foreign language films in languages I don't understand. Sometimes they have me read it phonetically.

I heard that Laurel and Hardy used to do Spanish versions of their movies that way.

I finally saw the "Three Stooges Movie" tonight that Mel Gibson Produced. I liked it, but it makes me sad to think how they were treated. I drive by Moe Howard's house everyday just to make me smile. It's not far from me, though it's a little bit off the track for me, but it makes me feel good to see his house.

Today I saw a car on fire bigtime, I talked with a Hungarian woman that can speak five languages, I saw a woman that was a dancer in Esther Williams movies, I saw a neighbor at the supermarket though she didn't recognize or acknowledge me, I got shocked by screwing in a bulb in a faulty lamp, I saw my friendly stray cat fall asleep after brushing him and then I saw him roll down the stairs... He woke up after hitting the ground... silly kitty.

That was a pretty good day.

What's next?

Cartoon Network is doing something that might be cool...

Unlike the Animatrix animated shorts, which included key plot points referenced in The Matrix Reloaded, they are doing The Clone Wars' story line from Star Wars but, it will not necessarily set up Episode III.

The story will feature Chancellor Palpatine putting Anakin in charge of a clone regiment over the protests of Yoda and Obi-Wan.

The Cartoon Network is also talking with Lucasfilm about extending their partnership to include the possibility of creating a stand-alone Star Wars animated series.

It'll be like little mini-features.

Clone Wars is expected to debut November 9 and each episode will arrive at regularly scheduled intervals.

It's going to air from 8 p.m. to 8:03 p.m. and probably rerun at 10 o'clock or midnight...

Britney Spears to be the next Daisy Duke the short-shorts-wearing character in "The Dukes of Hazzard".

Ashton Kutcher of MTV's "Punk'd" and Fox's "That 70s Show" has expressed interest in the role of Bo Duke. Paul Walker of "The Fast and the Furious" is eyeing the role of Luke Duke, with Anthony Anderson as Boss Hogg.

Hey this sounds like it just might suck!!!

I wish there were more original crappy movies...

I could make some crappy movies if anybody would give me half a chance.

Hell, I don't need anybody! I can make my own crappy movies! I'll prove it!

As soon as I wake up from my nap, I will!

My phone has been ringing off the hook the last couple of days. Don't know why? I'm not one to actually answer to find out. I like the machine to record the click and dialtone of the hangup.

Did you see that guy with the flying wing fly across the English Channel yesterday? How cool was that? I just know that'll end up in a Jackie Chan or Mission Impossible movie real soon.

Will he or won't he? Schwarzenegger delays showing political hand until he appears on Jay Leno... That's weird that we live in a world like this...
Larry Flynt, Hustler Publisher is thinking of running for Gov. in Calipornia. Couldn't be any worse that it already is...

Things are bad in Cape Coral, Florida, utility workers mistakenly hooked up four homes to the city's treated wastewater instead of its purified drinking water. Mmmm gooood! Chocolate water!

French actress Marie Trintignant, part of one of the country's pre-eminent film families, died of a cerebral edema, succumbing to severe head injuries sustained nearly a week ago during a fight with her rock star lover at a Lithuanian hotel. She was 41. She was the daughter of veteran French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, known to audiences around the world for his star turn in Claude Lelouch's "A Man and a Woman" opposite Anouk Aimee in the 1960s.

Girls, you don't always have to date Rock Stars...

"Gigli": Is not only hard to pronounce, but it looks like it sucks. I heard from two people that have NEVER seen a film or even seen Television before... They should atleast be awed but the technology of film, yet they said, "Ah, not good, no chemistry between Ben and J-Lo." Then they headed back to the jungle for the good life.

A&E is planning to scare up several new original horror movies adapted from classic literature. The cable channel will develop screenplays based on the spookier work of legendary writers like Charles Dickens with five indie filmmakers.

"A&E's Ghost Tales" will likely debut in 2005.

Nastassja Kinski, Dan Aykroyd and Carla Gugino were among the actors. No directors or actors are attached yet.

The modestly budgeted series will save money by filming them back-to-back in quick shoots without cheaping out on production value. The films won't all necessarily be period pieces either, with some expected to be retold with a distinctly modern spin.


This would mark A&E's first stab at the supernatural realm, drama and performing arts programming at A&E.

A&E has gotten aggressive about taking its slate beyond the typical mix of historical pieces, including an upcoming biopic about New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Also very scary!

Someone needs to bring back "Tales from the Darkside"... Oh, okay maybe not.

Saddam Daughters (who are kinda hot looking) says 'Betrayal' gave U.S. Victory. Can't trust anybody anymore.

Liz Taylor got slapped with Sex Suit... Can you imagine having that paw you?

Rap Mogul 'Suge' Knight got sent back to Prison... Damn! There goes all the good music then...

A black Baptist minister looking to diversify his church wants to pay white people to attend his sermons.

For the month of August, whites who go to Greenwood Acres Full Gospel Baptist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana, will get $5 an hour on Sundays and $10 an hour on Thursdays.

Caldwell said his 5,000-member church has been almost exclusively black since it was founded in 1958, which he thinks was not the way Jesus wanted it. Do they have Heath Insurance, or any benifits? Sign me up.


I caught a little of that Fox show about weird Medical stuff. It really grossed me out. I thought I'd share some of this...
 
INNER SKELETON----- A 63 year old widow was admitted to the hospital in Recife, Brazil, suffering abdominal pains. X-rays showed that she was carrying a 20 inch long skeleton of a fetus which she conceived a decade earlier. It had become lodged outside the womb and was never expelled from her body. 

FEMALE SOFA----- A 500lb. (35.5 stone!!!) woman from Illinois was examined in a hospital. During the examination, an asthma inhaler fell from Under her armpit, a dime was found under one of her breasts and a remote control was found lodged between the folds of her vulva. 
 
PRICKLY PAIR-----OUCH! In Michigan, a man came into the ER with lacerations to his penis. He complained that his wife had "...a rat in her privates..." and it bit him during sex (not the first conclusion I would have drawn I don't think). After an examination of his wife, it was revealed that she had a surgical needle left inside her after a recent hysterectomy. 

PING PONG ANYONE?----- A 20 year old man came into the ER with a stony mass in his rectum. He said that he and his boyfriend were fooling around with concrete mix, then his boyfriend had the idea of pouring the mix into his anus using a funnel (as you do)?!!. The concrete then hardened (no shit!), causing constipation and pain. Under general anesthesia, a perfect concrete cast of the man's rectum was removed along with a ping pong ball. (Boy we live sheltered lives - thank goodness) 
 
BLIND DRUNK----- A drunk staggered into a Pennsylvania ER complaining of severe pain while trying to remove his contact lenses. He said that they would come out halfway, but they always popped back in. A nurse tried to help using a suction pump, but without success. Finally, a doctor examined him and discovered the man did not have his contact lenses in at all. He had been trying to rip out the membrane of his cornea. 
 
OUCH AND DOUBLE OUCH!----- A couple hobbled into a Washington State emergency room covered in bloody restaurant towels. The man had his hands around his abdomen and the woman had hers around her head. They eventually explained to doctors that they had gone out that evening for a romantic dinner. Overcome with passion, the woman crept under the table to administer oral sex to the man (Classy or what??). While in the act, she had an epileptic fit, which caused her to clamp down on the man's penis and wrench it from side to side. In agony and desperation, the man grabbed a fork and stabbed her in the head until she let go. 
And you thought YOU were having a bad day!!!