John Simonton, was a hero of mine when I was a kid he created the Paia electronic kit company in 1967, and he has just died after a battle with cancer.

If you were a teenager in the 1970s and couldn't get dad to buy you a Moog, the Paia kit was a way to get your own synth going. You had to build it and I did!

Paia became popular again when the current DIY trend built up steam. I began an e-mail correspondence with him and got to tell him how much getting his catalogs in the mail meant to me. He was so sweet and kind. If you ever had a problem with figuring out a circuit, he was always at the ready to give a helping hand.

Actress Wendie Jo Sperber, who starred opposite Tom Hanks on TV's "Bosom Buddies" and was in all three "Back to the Future" films, Steven Spielberg's "1941," Robert Zemeckis' "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," and Neal Israel's "Moving Violations" and "Bachelor Party," "Murphy Brown," "Private Benjamin," "Will & Grace" and "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter."

I was a big fan of hers and was so excited when my x-wife discovered Wendie and her were seeing the same therapist. They became fast friends in their time killing moments waiting in the lobby.

She contracted cancer and battled it for eight years, but now has died.

Okay, enough sad stuff!

It's been movie day for me and my eyes are sore!

I watched:

"Vincent Price: The Sinister Image"

I love Vincent Price. My best friend was named after him! Another friend made a movie with him!

His extraordinary career spanned over five decades, and covered every media: film, television, radio, theater. "Three Skeleton Key" (1958, 30 min.), a radio drama from the series "Escape," is amazing!

I also watched, "Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood"
If you are as much a fan of silent cinema as I am, you have to see this!

Women had a profound impact on early cinema, and this documentary demonstrates what a force these women were. I adore Mary Pickford's movies because she has such a wide range of personas. Now I can see that the complexity of her roles were also due to Frances Marion's inventive and iconoclastic screenplays.

Then:

"Spartacus: The Bonus Materiall"

This companion disc to Stanley Kubrick's epic masterpiece includes deleted scenes, vintage newsreel footage, cast interviews (from 1960 and 1992), behind-the-scenes "gladiator school" footage, the 1960 documentary The Hollywood Ten, archival blacklist documents, storyboards, production stills and promotional materials, Kubrick's sketches and the original theatrical trailer.

I had to see this!

"King Kong: Special Edition: Bonus Material (1933)"

This companion disc to the precedent-setting monster movie includes a trailer gallery, "The RKO Story: Birth of a Titan," "The Making of Kong, Eighth Wonder of the World," "The Origins of King Kong," "Willis O'Brien and Creation," "Cameras Roll on Kong, The Eighth Wonder," "A Milestone in Visual Effects," "Passion, Sound and Fury," "The Mystery of the Lost Spider Pit Sequence," "King Kong's Legacy" and "Creation" (1931 test footage).

Do not miss this, if you want to see how special effects were done and have affected the way movies are done now! Also amazing in this disc is Peter Jackson weight transformation! I loved his crew recreating lost scenes with new stop motion effects, but I would also loved to have learned his diet technique!

Also...

Everyone in the know, knows... J-Horror means...Jerry Horror! Yay!

Do a little compare-n-contrast between the trailer for the Weinstein Co's remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Pulse" and the trailer for the original.

They seem to have no qualms about the occasional lifting of exactly the same frames from the original...

The remake...

The original...

I think you should get this if you haven't already!

Here's a trailer for a new film my friend Aaron and I will be making in Thailand. This is a very fresh, new, sneak peek just for you!

You might need Quicktime to view it!

Several people brought to my attention that today is the anniversary of my first day on the air in Fresno! Yay!

I got no gifts, but still it was pretty exciting! I met new people that I had only heard about. They were very nice!

How did I spend it? My day that is?

Got stuck in my garage, because the roots of a nearby tree has pushed the metal track for the door to the point the door just froze in place. I sat in my car with the engine running just long enough to feel the lack of oxygen tell me to just lay back and sleep.

Didn't sleep long.

Pried my car free from the jaws of the garage.

Hooters.

Then I visited a radio station and met the many fascinating people it takes to create such a wonderful industry.

All this free time I've had thanks to Clear Channel has given me an opportunity to develop some long dormant mental powers that one could say, Will be used for Evil purposes.

I'm a good boy and I've carefully documented the experiments in video.

You might need Quicktime to view it!

Jerry Lentz Moves Objects with the Powers of his MIND!

I'm almost like Uri Geller!

Tomorrow I will be practicing bending spoons, however all I have is Plastic Spoons...

This is a video of a ghost. Turn up the sound really loud, because you can barely hear it whisper in the hallway. Look for the door. The image is small so get close to your screen.

Remember a ghost is a person no longer around. You need to be kind to them. Some cultures even give them money!

You might need Quicktime to view it!

Ghost Caught on Video! Shocking!

Now this is a Gawddamn Movie right here, buddy! I love Crispin Glover. I love him in movies and in person, Hell, I love his dad and even met him!

Crispin Glover's Movie

Remember when he was on Letterman and he was showing Dave how strong he was then, suddenly it cut to a commercial and when the show came back on Crispin was gone?

I loved that!

Think that's something checkout this music video he directed for the movie Willard

I also love Paul Giamatti and Sea-Monkeys! And this film has both!

Paul Giamatti rocks! It's about Sea-Monkeys, I just know it!

The wind has been so bad here that I woke up and blew my nose and I swear it looked like a coal miner blew his nose...Gross! Maybe that's why I haven't been feeling well, hopefully it's not a virus again, just dust... I hope.

This is a cool site and it reminded me How in love with Yvonne Craig I was and still am! Just look how hot she was! I met her not too long ago and she still looks great. I'd still do her!

Retro Crush!

He's set up his podcast with iTunes, too!

I was in Sam's Club the other day and I think we could make a cool war movie with this. It's HUGE and looks authentic with rivets and stuff. I mean it, It's HUGE!

I got a few cameras, if you buy me 3 of these, we can blow some shit up and make a War movie!

Seems I always measure events by 9/11. I was watching the new trailer for "King Kong" and the awesome scene of him jumping up from the top of the Empire State Building and bitch-slapping that wing off that biplane.

It really takes my breath away and I thought about it and wondered if Kong was really around he wouldn't let no terrorist fly a plane in any of his buildings.

Kong don't mess around!

Okay now; I got back from the clusterfuck of Fresno Retards out stumbling in a shopping gangbang called, Black Friday!

Found the Canon Printer I needed, the PIXMA IP6000D for $48.99 on sale great! The sales-guy found it for me in a sea of HP crap.

I had to get it at Best Buy because Costco ONLY had HP left. So suffered through the Costco unwashed and then Sam's Club... Nuthin' there...

Finally Best Buy.

Get the stuff and walked to the checkout line and found that it wound through the whole friggin' store like a line to a ride at Disneyland!!!! TWO HOURS! in line.

Get to the cashier, all sweaty from the body heat and fresh viruses I picked up from people rubbing up against me and guess what?

The price is $139.99!!!!

AM I WALKING BACK TO COMPLAIN?

No!

I buy it and suffer...

Maybe I'll write it off or take it back after all I need to do is done.

Life sucks and I think I'm sick again. I give up!

It's like, UFO Day on TV. There was some HUGE yet stupid story on Fox News which I can't stand watching but my remote was lost in a throw blanket. Former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer now UFO Activist was being interviewed by one of those talking puppets for the "Right" and the "Reporter" was acting like an ass pretending there are no such things as a cover up or conspiracy, then after the segment does 20 minutes on why NBC COVER UP-ed the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon disaster! He actually said, "What are they trying to hide?"

Unbelievable!

History Channel is doing a really cool documentary about Real Government built UFO's. Mainly Nazi built types, great archival footage and even a Canadian Aircraft company and John Frost a designer that Dan Ackroyd played in a real good movie once. Mike Wallace, I think is doing the narration.

They had a piece of old film footage from I'm guessing the 50's of a UFO that looked like a coffee can hovering above some powerlines. Suddenly it shoots off into the sky.

Ever see any Craig Baldwin films? He did "Tribulation 99" and he's from Berkeley. Cool nice guy! That's all he does is take found footage and weaves stories out of them like Ed Wood did when he got stock shots for free.

I wish I had Tivo or my VCR worked to record this!

Oh, Now there's a Bigfoot show on!

I think they call this Black Friday, right?

It's a big shopping day I think. I need to pick up some things. I need a new printer. Not that I print much, but maybe I will!

I need some deli meats and cheese.

Gotta get some new t-shirts.

Could use some muscle relaxers!

I want my own copy of the "Firefly" boxset.

Need some more trash bags.

Underwear would be good as these are getting pretty holy.

I remember as a kid when the Spiegel Catalog would come out and I had to get on the floor and look for the toys I needed Santa to drop for me. Those were the days!

My Thanks was uneventful, but that's okay. I had a lot to be thankful for... I'm sure of it. If I put my mind to it I bet I could think of a couple of things.

I had a turkey sandwich and some Wild Turkey!

Then I had a great dream about meeting a girl who died many years before I was born. She found me sleeping under a tree and took my hand to show me how she knew to find me.

She had been a friend of my mother's when she was young and they lived in the mountains of Tennessee. They played together and went to school together. Were best friends actually. She died in a cabin fire when she was 21 years old. She kneeled over her grave and plucked the toadstools that grew there.

Hand in hand she walked me through the woods and down to a creek that sparkled wildly in the moonlight. She reached into the water and pulled out a smooth stone that she said was a rock she found when she was 7 years old and because it was heart shaped she left it in the water because she was afraid the creek would die without it.

She handed it to me and it glistened in the light of the stars and moon. It was heartshaped. She leaned over and kissed me on the cheek. Her eyes were big and very pretty. She was barefooted and the white dress she wore was ragged and dirty where it dragged the ground.

"I've been waiting to find you," she whispered.

"I've known you for years and years before you were born," she put her hand on top of the rock in my palm, her fingers messed through mine.

She kissed me on the lips and I felt her tongue slip into my mouth. Her body moved up to mine. I felt how cold she was against me and just as I thought that she warmed up. My knees were getting weak and she pulled me down onto the moss on the bank. She fell back and her hair spread out on the ground. She pulled me up on top of her. Her hair was auburn and I laid my head on her breasts.

I listened for her heartbeat but none was there.

"I'm waiting for you," she sighed.

I've been eating lots of bread lately. I stopped eating bread about 5 years ago, not completely, but I never bought loafs.

I recently have been making sandwiches, so I have been getting Oroweat with 7 Grains or something. I love it! I had missed it. Now my old friend carb has returned. Of course I've gain more weight, but who cares!

Makes me more Man-like!

The funny thing about the bread is that you open the bag and then you hit a layer of wrap that has been shrink wrapped around the loaf. Damn, it's hard to open that sometimes!

I always damage the first slice, but then that's always a heel and I don't eat the heals. Sometimes I save the heels to feed the birds, but lately I think the mice have been feeding on them.

The garage has mice galore living and cavorting around in there. Everytime I go get into my car they scurry away. I am afraid sometimes that as I pull away, I'll hear the crunching sound of my tire rolling over one. Or that they'll figure out how to climb into my car. And drive away.

I think the mice that live near me must be pretty healthy. In the garage a box of vitamins has been chewed into.

Took some left over heels and put some creamy peanut butter on them real thick and set them down to let the mice have their fun. Later, The mice were stuck to the bread unable to move. It was like quicksand to the lil' mice. Poor little things kept smacking their lips like Mister Ed trying to talk.

Sad, but funny!

I'm watching Michael Almereyda's, "This So Called Disaster," about the Sam Shepard's stage production of his play "The Late Henry Moss."

I really dug this and want to put on a play right now just from watching this.

When I was younger I worked for the Dallas Theatre Center and got to see several Sam Shepard plays. The dude is just so cool! And he hung out with Patti Smith!

Really, What's more noble than to take an experience from your life, write about it and find a group of people that can identify with the pain, laughter, whatever you went through and get them to portray these feelings to an audience that will also learn, just like you, something about living life?

I'm gonna do that as soon as I finish with all the, "Firefly" DVDs I rented over a month ago. It really has been too long in watching these all. Every episode, I have to stop and think about how good the writing on it is.

I watched, "Trekkies 2" during a slow spell and seriously, How can you ever be sad or depressed after you pop that into the machine?

I think I might have a crush on Denise Crosby and I don't really know why. She just seems so sweet, I guess.

My friend Doug who teaches filmmaking in Japan and I have got back in touch after some time. It's great! It's like we just picked up after no time at all.

He seems to be having a great time and he deserves it!

I want to go visit him as I love Japan and the culture. He even suggested I come and teach. I was so excited about that idea! The schoolgirls as you can see, got excited as well! So excited that they had to be spanked to calm them down.

I would love to do my 1 Day Feature Film Workshop there and with the students create, maybe a cool horror film, or some sci-fi thing.

Then after that go to Thailand and see Aaron and make another film there. We could be like the Pang Brothers!

And have our movies remade my American directors...

The responses from my posting about my feature film one day workshop in which we make a full length movie in one day...Hence the name... Has been pretty big!

However, many, if not all notified me that Thanksgiving was the weekend I was thinking of doing it.

That's true!

I forgot. Don't use a calendar that has holidays listed on it. I should.

Okay; We'll reschedule then.

Many are readers from Los Angeles and want to know when I will do it again in their vicinity... I will be coming to LA soon! I will be in town for the screening of Aaron's movie "Bangkok" and will scout locations when I'm there to see it's premiere.

I've been talking with a few radio stations and there is some interest in me, Thank Gawd! However again, they are in other cities...

But that's okay, I guess. Nice to still be wanted. I'm moving out of this apartment anyway. I just hope contracts are signed before a new lease is signed.

One radio station that stepped up to inquire would be so awesome to work with, they are in a great city that every airline has discounts to fly to and everyone I know goes there at least once a year. Living there would really be great knowing friends and family would be more likely to visit me than they did in Fresno. The station also is very supportive of my filmmaking and asked about the feasibility of making that part of the show.

For some reason there has been a rash of Watts Valley Wolf Ape e-mails coming in to me. I wonder if there have been more sightings? I have about ten letters I have yet to post from listeners and readers that have been researching on their own. Every one of the letters involved asking a relative if they have heard of it, seems it was a big thing back in the day that has come around again and I am the conduit to today's resurgence.

We all need to be something, I guess!

I got a call today on my machine from a publisher who once considered publishing a book based on my website writings and things not yet posted. She suggested the idea of me doing a lecture tour of schools and bookshops around the country where I would read from that days posting incorporating my impression of that particular city and it's people. Jerry on the road...

Sounded great! Chance for me to travel! I have the time.

Then came the bubble popper; They wouldn't cover the cost, I would do it and then they would publish the results of the tour.

So out of my pocket, huh?

And where does this idea sound good?

Oh, they would set up the appearances and radio interviews... Nice. Let me think on that a while.

Of course just these last sentences I am writing here will cancel her enthusiasm as it did before when I mentioned the book proposal in these pages months ago.

I'm a real thrill-killer!

In a very weak moment spurred on by a caffeine high induced by ice tea from Hooters, I walked over to Barnes and Noble to spend money I shouldn't on two cool books.

Podcast Hacks by Jack Herrington so far is pretty cool! O'Reilly Media is one of my favorite publishers just for putting out Make Magazine.

I also bought Mark and Michael Polish's Declaration of Independent Filmmaking and in it I read the story of how Stanley Kubrick's daughter Vivian was helping them with music. I used to dream that somehow Vivian would fall in love with me and we would have a great creative life of music, film and art.

Later in their story Vivian's older sister called the brothers looking for Vivian. Her father had died.

They drove to her apartment not knowing the exact address and as they walked up to her door through an open window they heard her answer the phone call from her sister giving her the horrible news.

They didn't bother knocking on the door.

Some time later Vivian gave them both Kubrick's personal copy of Cinematographer's Handbook.

I was so moved by that story. I also then realized I had read the book all in one sitting. My eyes were sore and swollen.

With all the knowledge contained in these two books I should be able to create a wonderful world for myself. But I should probably sleep first. Then nap. Then move out of my apartment. Then leave to parts yet unknown to me.

Then...

I hate cable tee vee! I need the Dish, or Direct TV something awful!

I'll tell ya why; It seems every cable company I know loves to place a channel ontop of another channel after a certain time. Say, how my Comcast puts some home shopping jewelry thing on Discovery at night. I'm not talking about an Infomercial which I hate!

Why can't we have quality programming at night and over night without infomercials on everywhere? I know they make money with them, but please... If they are making so much money, shouldn't our cable bills be lower?

I'm pissy I guess...

I was flipping through channels, couldn't sleep and there on HSN getting her hair done with some new fangled home salon thing was a girl I dated when I was in my pre-married/divorce era.

She was a cute, actually beautiful model/actress/secretary that I dated for maybe a year. We had fun! Her family was really cool, great sisters, dad and mom very funny people. I remember her always complaining about her dad wearing these silly Yellow sweaters all the time and one Xmas her mom got me the exact same sweater. I put it on and he was wearing his, we looked so funny.

I remember when she first introduced me to her parents, they asked what I did, so I told them I worked on the radio and about a week later her dad asked me to fix the radio in his car. He thought I worked ON radios!

We got along really good at the beginning. She was so sweet and pretty. She was very silly too. Mainly and maybe sadly, she was great to be seen with at company parties and events because she was so friggin' hot!

But also, that was our downfall. I couldn't go anywhere without dudes hitting on her. I'd be in a club and see her walking toward me from the Ladies Room and she'd have to pass through a gauntlet of horny guys grabbing her. I'd even be talking with her at say the bar and guys would slide in between us to ask her out! It was like, "You can't be with HIM..."

She was always good about making it clear we were together, but a few times guys would try and beat me up when they were rejected by her.

Guys would just swarm her!

When we were alone, It was fantastic!

I came up with some lame excuse to break off our relationship. I lied about something. She left for school in England. I ran into her about three years later in a mall when I was with another girl. She saw me first and ran over. She seemed happy, there was a boyfriend standing by her very upset to meet me, but maybe he was just wornout by all that I had to put up with...

The girl I was with later cried because she said, "She was so beautiful, how could you ever love me?"

I think I want to get Direct TV...

I love Thai people!

In Hollywood I would spend much time in the Thai community and restaurants. Here in Fresno, there is also a huge Thai contingent.

An evil friend who listened to me on the radio, sent me a link to the most beautiful Thai girl on the internet... Saying I should put her in a movie.

Don't go here if you are afraid of nudity.

Or if you are afraid of Chicks with weeners!!!

In a few weeks I will be heading back down to LA to see my friend Aaron's new film,

Bangkok

I for one will Not miss this movie! Since I have no family (or friends) to spend Thanksgiving Weekend with anyway...(hint...) I plan on driving down for the Parties and Premiere.

Speaking of Premiere, check out this months issue with Jake Gyllenhaal on the cover for a great bit on Aaron's dad and how the "Zodiac" movie may be over 3 Hours long!!!

"David Fincher’s Zodiac, in which he’ll play the author of the book of the same title, Robert Graysmith. The story tracks Graysmith, then a newspaperman, through the investigation of the San Francisco area’s infamous Zodiac killer. She’ll have her hands full, he notes, as will they all; the script is 190 pages, which could easily make for a three-hour movie and which will certainly occasion a lengthy shooting schedule. This doesn’t intimidate Gyllenhaal, who’s what athletic coaches call a gamer: “Hey, it was two hundred pages,” he deadpans."

Aaron who is producer for this (Bangkok) film as well as one of the actors spent a little under 3 million on this film isn't stopping there... He has many projects in the works!

I too, have been casting my new improvised 1 day film. By casting, I mean anyone who shows up and wants to be involved will get something to do!

I got a very nice e-mail from one of my favorite people! Filmmaker Doug Campbell:

Subject: How are you, amigo?
Dearest Jerry,

You icon of wonderfulness... I hope this missive
finds you well. Your website is quite cool!

How are you? Please update me when you have
a moment -- of course, your website tells all,
doesn't it?

I happened to visit the Bob's Big Boy website to
get an address, and lo and behold there's an entire
page devoted to you and Jackie. How splendid is
that?! Without question, the best wedding I have
ever been to, topped by nobody else!

Yes, I would LOVE to act in your film, for free!
Problem is I'm in Japan teaching writing and
directing at a new film school and doing a bit
of directing over here, too, so the swim would
drown me.

FRESNO! How are you liking it? You've been
there for a while now, I take it. A woman heard
you recommend "The Tomorrow Man" on the air...
rented it... watched it... and gave it a review
on the imdb.

THANK YOU.

Bless you, for all you have done, and for the
inspiration that you are to all of us!

Cheers,
Doug
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I love getting e-mails like that! Why don't you write me one?

I swore I would never do it! You couldn't get me to do it if you paid me! I can't tell you how many girls have tried to get me to do it... Wait, I think I can... Okay, 11 girls have tried to get me to slide it in and watch it! Several chicks even offered to put it in for me and force me to watch what happens! Many had already seen it, but wanted to see it again to see me cry!

Evil bitches!

Okay, I'm talking about, "The Notebook."

Finally I was weakened by this one girl who has a great capacity for wearing me down and we watched it.

Yes, I got choked up.

Yes, I got waterery eyes.

Yes, later that night I did spank it to my fantasy of Rachel McAdams.

You know I love Gena Rowlands, and director Nick Cassavetes is her and John Cassavetes son, so it's like getting a John Cassavetes-lite film... Maybe?

I hope seeing this film makes me sweeter to the ladies. Like I'm all sensitive an shit. I had to run home after seeing this so I could pop in a Eon McKai film to get the taste out of my mouth.

I got into some controversy sending this link to see William Shatner's sex tape! Years before his weekly Star Wok in North Hollywood visits:

Shatner's Vulcan Dickmeld on Angie Dickinson!

"Big Bad Mama!" I loved this flick, but didn't remember seeing this scene in it! Kirk is like Tommy Lee in Space, bitch! Seriously, I don't understand why anyone wouldn't wanna see Shatner's pubes? You saying you don't dig seeing this? You wouldn't want to see Spock banging a Hobbit girl, or something? Uhura jackin' off Chekov? Bones bone'n Yoeman Rand? Sulu... Well, ya got me there...

All that time I put in watching, "Police Woman" dreaming about what was under all those clothes... MMmm, Pepper!

Another exciting TV promo for Jerry Lentz Rocks! has been released...

People are slowly becoming aware of my looks and are learning to deal with the horror of it. That's a good thing!

Been watching some great videos and here's one I really like. It brings back memories of going through the record bins at the local music store, or thrift store. I think it's kinda genius!

Morningwood!

I want that record player in the worst way! But more than that I want Chantal Claret! I think she's so hot!

Here's some promos for Nick TV that I like... I wish mine were as good...

Insanely Twisted

I am getting ready to post some ads for a one day feature film workshop and I'm looking for about 15 actors to get with me and make a 90 minute movie. If you are cool, have a unique talent, easy going, funny, and even slightly attractive... E-mail me about spending a whole day with me creating a flick right here in Fresno.

Should be happening in about two weeks, on a weekend... Oh, no money... It's free! But should be fun!

I mention it here first for you, but will run some ads, so it will fill up fast... E-mail me quick if you want to do it!

I think I need to get my PowerBook G4 waxed!

I found a lil' Black hair poking out of the left speaker grill. I thought it might be one of my strays from the goatee, but no... I pulled it and like a magic trick, kept pulling and pulling. I watched it slowly slither out of one of the small needle hole size perforations in the Mac's titanium plate left of the keyboard like an ingrown hair ripped from it's pore.

This hair has to be two feet long! Not one of mine! I fantasize about CSI-ing it via DNA to some hot single chick assembling my machine and how the Universe could bring us together as lost souls reunited. A perfect story for us to tell on Oprah!

Later I watch a DVD on the Mac because the Green Cine rented disc wouldn't play on my DVD player. I thought it would be a silly and quaint documentary about sex in cinema called, "The Subject is Sex" by Stephen Parr of Oddball and Other. He pulled this collection from his own extensive 16mm film archives, perverse home movies, hillbilly porn, cartoon smut, commercials, trailers, educationals, hygiene films, burlesque bits, peepshow loops and a trailer for the very first X-Rated film I ever saw, "Memories Within Miss Aggie!"

Gerard Damiano's "Memories Within Miss Aggie" tripped me out when I was a kid. I was 13years old! Messed me up for life! Very David Lynch and one shocking scene, there are many, includes a chick stabbing a guy right in the eye with a knife at climax!!!

Also, in the documentary is a silent film from the 20's with three really cute girls and a guy who looks just like Leonardo DiCaprio called, "On the Beach" where he has glory hole fun with the girls, but the girls have used a goat on him. Early fun in daylight on the beach before any of us were born!

I don't know why, but to this day if I see a film where there is sex and the film is made before I was born, I am amazed... Like people didn't have sex before I was born? What causes that feeling? It's also weird for me to see a film where people are shown having sex and I know that they are no longer living today.

I wonder if their ghosts are hovering behind me as I spank it to their young live bodies on grainy film?

It's no secret I totally dig Conan O'Brien and his show, or filmmaker Michel Gondry...

...checkout what Michel Gondry has been up to:

White Stripes Video with Conan!

This is so cool! Meg looks so hot! The video works so well while I'm on NyQuil...

I might be stretching but, I think me doing my own TV show and seeing Conan in the video by one of my fav filmmakers with one of my fav bands... Well, it has to be a sign!

The buzz on the TV show has been great! The timing has been right with people wondering what happen with radio going bad in the F' No...

Like Sarah Silverman say's, "When God gives you AIDS, you make LemonAIDS!"

Zach from "Scrubs" when things looked bad for him personally went and made, "Garden State" and that success helped the TV show. But then in "Chicken Little" Zach won the role when the original actor Xzibit (from "Pimp My Ride" and "Derailed") was deemed too "Urban." I think we all know what that means.

Did you know Paramount originally wanted Jeff Goldblum to play Howard Stern in "Private Parts?" And Alan Alda to be the voice of Howard in an animated version of "Fart-Man?"

William Conrad (who played, "Cannon" on TV) was Sheriff Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke" when it was a radio show, but the studios wanted James Arness in the TV show. When the studios wanted to make the biography of James Arness into a movie, they wanted Matt Dillon to play Arness.

Matt's brother Kevin Dillon was to play Peter Graves, Arness' brother... One time Host of A&E's "Biography."

The mid-level studio executives who know nothing of art and culture and concern themselves with only climbing to better offices... They suck!

I love NyQuil! Anyone else on it now? I'm high as a kite right now...

...these would be great to build. Maybe I could make one and wrap it with a logo for the new tee vee show and get press for it!

Checkout the new promo! "Jerry Lentz Rocks!"

Make Rockets!

The Launch of a TV show! I remember Arnold Schwarzenegger did it once for some movie... Maybe it was, "Last Action Hero" that had a logo on the side of a rocket for some spy satellite.

Oh well, it was a good idea for a little while...

I was watching CNN, Fox News and MSNBC today covering the bombings. I hate getting all caught up in it, but I can't help it. I get so depressed.

Then I found out Arab film director Moustapha Akkad died in the hotel bomb attacks in Jordan.

Akkad was executive producer of the "Halloween" films and I met him once and thought he was so cool. I was spending one of my many times walking around Century City years ago thinking about all the movies shot there like, "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes," and, "Valley of the Dolls." This one day I was wearing a t-shirt that had the poster of, "The Wild Bunch" on it and this guy walks up to me and says, "Sam Peckinpah, great man!"

"Oh, so how do you know him...?" I asked as he walked past me.

"He gave me my boost in movies."

"I'm sorry should I know you?" I thought he was very handsome with a great kind face so he must have been an actor.

"Nah... Well, I am Moustapha..."

"Akkad??? "Lion of the Desert?"" I knew instantly before he finished. How many Moustaphas are there in my World?

"Oh my, I was going to say "Halloween" but very good you know this?" he had a huge sweet smile.

I told him "Lion of the Desert" was a big favorite of mine and he said, "One day we'll eat, talk movies and I'll tell you about getting money to make it from Moammar Gaddafi."

He shook my hand, winked and walked away. I never called him. Was too shy I guess.

Looking at the shattered glass of the hotel on TV and thinking how a suicide bomber can walk into a wedding party and do what they do...

I remember seeing Michael Meyers in "Halloween" for the first time and thinking how scary he is, he just keeps coming... The "Boogey Man" just doesn't seem so real any more in this World of real horrors we find ourselves in.

Can't give you too many details but thanks to Joel and Shawn at All Access getting the word heard, I'll let you get a sneak at the promo.

Jerry Lentz Rocks!

...from Allaccess.com:


"Former CLEAR CHANNEL Active Rock KRZR/FRESNO morning
man JERRY LENTZ is seeking Alternative/Active Rock
video service for his new TV show, "JERRY LENTZ
ROCKS!" LENTZ, who also previously logged several
years at Alternative KDGE/DALLAS, will air CALIFORNIA
bands mixed with the best in Alt/Active Music Videos."

Well, not just music videos...

It'll be that plus a mix of stuff I was known for doing on IFC and Bravo, you know, that funny, goofy, weird ground-breaking interviews and crap that got me kicked off...

A friend who is tired of me being sick and not getting to spend quality time hearing me talk about myself in person took me to get Thai food at Thai Royal Orchid Restaurant. I like that place plus, one of the owners name is Jerry. A good sign of quality!
The idea was for me to get the very hot and spicy Lemon Grass soup thing. You know, to open up my sinuses.

I didn't get that. I'm too delicate for spices. I had Pad Thai Noodles, Spicy Peanut Satay Sauce and Chicken Satay! Yum...

After that I treated my bored, full and gaseous friend to the DVD, "Suspiria 25th Anniversary" it's a documentary featuring Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi, Cinematographer Luciano Tovoli, the band Goblin, Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini and Udo Kier.

I love "Suspiria" and watching this documentary made me want to see the film again.

I remember seeing it in a theatre in LA and when the blind dude's seeing eye dog rips his throat out, I saw about Two rows of people jump out of their seats! Awesome!

Then later, I had to pee real bad and walking up the aisle to hit the loo I saw a dozen people standing in the back too afraid to sit down, but still mesmerized and unable to leave.

Really love Three Strip Technicolor blood!

Still sick! But something amazing changed in me today, like a Dark cloud lifted away.

Funny, because it was very cloudy with some rain today. I'm ready to move to Portland or London.

I had to get out of the house, but was just as happy getting out of bed. I hate being sick. I have cabin fever on top of the fever I have. Ate at Hooter's to lift my spirits. Got sick and threw up in Barnes and Noble's bathroom minutes later. My fever faded. Felt amazingly better and as I walked around the store with puke breath and an empty stomach I saw people in a different light.

The old Black man by New Arrivals I imagined would look better in a thick knit sweater not unlike Bill Cosby wore on "The Cosby Show."

The young thin tall White kid in the Music section shouldn't be ashamed of his height. He needn't slouch anymore.

The short round Hispanic lady in the Self Help area shouldn't be afraid to be seen looking at Sexual Relationship books.

It was like I could see auras or something. It was like I knew what was best for everyone. It was like I had the answer to everyone's problem.

I felt my own spine straighten. Vertebrae separated and fluid pleasantly flowed free between them. Aches dissolved.

Something told me my life was better. I was going to make a difference. I was mutating in a perfect way to what I was always meant to be.

If someone was to ask me, "What should I do with my life," I would have the perfect answer for them. I knew. I know. I do.

I certainly have flooded my brain with that question aimed at myself so much these last months. Looking in a mirror in my mind, I have the perfect answer to that question now and the Sun has shown through the Dark clouds.

I should throw up more often.

I just watched, "Secret Tears" directed by Ki-hyung Park.

I am now actively searching out his other work. I really like the feeling his images give me. Granted I was heavily dosed up on NyQuil while watching it, but as the story moved along I imagined the guys from Radiohead playing this film in their tourbus.

Starring Keung-woo Kim, Mi-jo Yun, Hyeon-woo Jeong, Eun-suk Park, Ye-jin Son. It's about an insurance agent who is tired of his everyday life. I identified with him in this film.

At dawn one day, after a night of drinking, he hits a young woman who has no identification and cannot speak. Slowly, he becomes aware of her ability to communicate with him in other ways.

He finds out that she has paranormal powers and after a while he is able to communicate with her telepathically. It's such a dreamy film and the guy looks to be on the edge of tears throughout.

Korean cinema really rocks with artists like Ki-hyung Park driving the car. Watching this film just now on AZN made me not only want to make films, but also I want so badly to be Asian.

Asian now, is the New Black.

I wanted to be Black for so long, but gave up when people like Quentin Tarantino ruined it for me.

Now I want to be Asian with a hot Asian girlfriend. A girlfriend who also is an artist, or hairstylist who has killer skills in making cool clothes out of thrift store items. Maybe she's in a punk band and is a fetish model, but she loves me and would kick your ass hard if you said a discouraging word about me.

Korean girls can be pretty awesome!

I have to hand it to NBC, they are pretty cool! This whole Live TV thing with "The West Wing" and the debate between presidential candidates Arnold Vinick and Matt Santos moderated by Forrest Sawyer was just great!

Republican Vinick, played by Alan Alda, and Democrat Santos, portrayed by Jimmy Smits, both were great. I don't know who I'd vote for.

It was LIVE and I wish and hope more TV was Live like back in the supposed Golden Age of Television. There is such a neat energy when you know anything could go wrong.

If TV wants to go one further than Reality TV, they could do more Live TV stunts. I would love to see shows that normally couldn't work Live, like "Star Trek" where all the effects had to be done Live. Spaceships would be hung from wires in front of Black velvet and transporter room effects would be like a magician's trick.

NBC is also doing a "Medium" in 3-D!

How about a "CSI" in Scratch n' Sniff?

I completely wrapped myself in a NyQuil coma and slept the whole day away!

I love it!

I dreamed I was offered a wonderful job in New York. I was very excited to be back! The energy of the city, getting up before sunrise and buying fresh bread at the market. Central Park. The Guggenheim. Chelsea. Greenwich Village. Walking past Stanley Kubrick's old apartment. Seeing Trump walking in public. Getting tickets to Letterman or Conan. The Algonquin Hotel.

I didn't even know what the job was, but the people seemed nice, caring, giving and welcoming. The workplace was in an old flat iron building and the offices was like something you'd imagine the writers of The New Yorker worked in back in the 30's. In fact everyone was dressed that way. As I questioned my boss about these things as he showed me around and it became very weird and the people began fading away. Suddenly I was in an empty building where squatters and crack addicts were living in until demolition took place.

I had been hired by ghosts. Hired by people that didn't know they were dead. Now what was I to do?

I woke up wondering what it all meant. Is my ideal job, history? Is the kind of employer I want no longer around? Is the industry I love dead?

Dreams are so amazing sometimes. It's like puzzles. But who is the puzzle-master? Who makes these puzzles up? Why are they puzzles? Why aren't dreams just straight forward? Do they have to mean anything? Do they predict anything? If they do predict things, why can't I dream up the winning lotto numbers?

It really is worthless to be a germ phobic person when you still get sick after washing your hands so much. I can't stand being sick!

A friend stopped by with some Sonic treats and it was so sad, cause I couldn't taste any of the magic.

Still have no idea what I'm going to do with my life. I let a few jobs in other states that were offered to me slide and get filled with others because I was waiting to see what would come my way locally. Well, nothing local.

It's very easy to slip into panic when wondering where the funds are going to be coming from to pay bills and food needs. People always just offer, "Oh, you're so talented I wouldn't worry. You'll get another gig." Well, it's nice to hear, but nothing changes.

Some ask if I'll stay in Fresno, but without a good job, what's the point of staying in Fresno? Just because The Cheesecake Factory is coming to town, doesn't make this a cool place to live.

I was just typing that last sentence while E!'s 101 Most Shocking Moments talked about Anne Heche going nuts and frightening a family by telling them she was God. Know where she was when she went crazy? That's right! Fresno!!!

It's a sign from God!

A friend has been asking me to show him some stuff I've shot for a TV show idea I've had, but it's hard for me to show him because he's so critical of other people's creations that I am afraid of what he'll say about what I've done. He's a very talented producer and his opinion means a lot to me, but in many ways I don't want his opinion because I'm scared.

He just finished a film and it's premiere is coming up and he too seems worried about people's reaction to it. I guess it's never easy for anyone.

I need some cheesecake...

In another Fresno Bee article that came out today:

Bee aware that the ratings mentioned are 12 plus "All
numbers are based on listeners ages 12 and older and
cover 6 a.m.-midnight for the week." as Rick says.
Even so, you can see we beat Howard Stern.

In our target Men 18-34 we were Number 1!

With a sore throat from this horrible bird flu I have, I watched a documentary called, "Inside Deep Throat."

Check this film out! It has to be one of the best things Ron Howard has ever been involved with.

It's amazing this film, "Deep Throat" was made by a hairdresser for $25,000 and grossed over $600,000,000!

Imagine what one, say a guy with a nice severance check could do with a movie people could pay to download off the web. No prints, no DVD duplication, no advertising, no studio interference, no ratings... Just word of mouth and the need to see it.

Seems so possible!

Pam and Tommy Lee's vacation movie made millions and cost nuthin' to make. Then again, how many times have we seen that Hindenburg footage of it burning up? Whoever shot that must have made bank on that... If I could just get hot looking people having nasty sex inside a dirigible blowing up, I'd have it made!

Just rented "Pie In The Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story" a documentary about this goofy broad in Andy Warhol's Factory whose father was a salesman for Hearst Publications, very wealthy, but she hung out and did the whole Warhol scene. Crazy, funny, chick, now in her 60's.

Somehow I found her very inspiring and very talented.

My day has been much happier... I drank some Bacardi, but found some NyQuil to mix with it. I totally forgot I had it. After drinking this cocktail, forgot I forgot...

I rented, "Firefly" from Netflix... Dude, This show fuckin' rocks!!! I will definitely buy the DVDs. I think the writing is just fantastic. I guess I should try watching "Buffy" now.

Check it out!

The Call of Cthulhu. I used to be obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft as a kid. Looks like someone is a fan of Guy Maddin and Lovecraft with this film.

Has anyone noticed the big influx of man-hating music videos out there lately?

Lindsay Lohan and Kelly Clarkson both have videos about how horrible daddy was...

I thought my dad was mean to me as a kid, but I guess he was the wrong kind of mean, cause I never became a celebrity.

Not one stinking kid came to my place for candy. Good! Didn't have any anyway. None that I wanted to share.

I thought if some did I'd drop a Klondike bar in their bag and think of the fun when they open it later and it's all melted.

Sad, isn't it, that a big kid like me could find enjoyment out of some child's pain.

Well, that's what years of thinking you're getting candy, but "surprise!" You got a rock! Just like Chuck Brown...

Actually, my place would have made a great stop, cause I have a ton of Lean Cuisines that I would have dropped along with a few Hot Pockets for Mom and Dad.

I was and am still sick, with back pain and all woozy from medication, so it's best I didn't share in the spreading of the Bird Flu.