I may be wrong about this, but I think I am as sick as I have ever been.

Seriously, it has been the worst! There have been moments where I felt like dying. I'm not exaggerating. My chest hurts, my head feels swollen and its throbbing, my throat is raw, and the back of my mouth is marked with red painful sores. The pain when I swallow is so sharp I want to cry. My uncontrollable fits of coughing feel like a sledgehammer on the bottom of my brain. Dark brown and sometimes nearly black half dollar size prizes of mucus impact my Kleenex and leave me feeling like Camille, but without the good times.

Again, I am losing weight!

But this fever... the sweats, the nausea, the dull ache, leads me to believe that death is near.

I find myself without insurance, without a co pay, without an HMO, without a general practitioner...

I'm sure all I need is some sort of antibiotics, or penicillin, but where do I score those and from what street corner?

I know there are free clinics somewhere... I once dropped a friend off at one, but feel I am so far gone, resistance low, I would be too susceptible to all the other viruses killing time in the stagnant air of the lobby of the free clinic. It would be too much of a risk sitting there waiting my turn to see the doctor as my body, with no defenses succumbs to the onslaught of the various armies of viruses that have purged my castle's gate.

All that being said, if you are Doctor or have access to one in my vicinity and enjoy the work this Website provides, and feel it in your heart to help provide me with medical attention, please feel free to e-mail me!

This is the end of my week-long marathon of videos for Earth Day.

But as a special treat to me, I have decided to put up a music video of my favorite band, Dramarama, mentioning my name in the video. The "Lovely Lady" John Easdale is talking about was a wonderful girl who later was to become my ex-wife!

What a Lucky Girl!

I should have listened to the lyrics to the song more closely...

"Anything Anything" by Dramarama!

Pearl Jam's "Evenflow" is just an amazing song and it has so much energy when they do it live!

This video was a lot of work and included some images that were going through my head at the time. I remember when the film played at a screening during the Sundance Film Festival and the crowd broke out in applause at the end of this song!

Here is my video of a great band at a great time, and a great time in my life.

I hope you enjoy this!

"Evenflow"

I think I'm feeling so much older now that I'm flattened by the flu virus.

I am so sick!

I have a fever. Weird NyQuil dreams. Sweats. Shakes. Nausea.

But I'm losing weight!!! Yay!

This video is from... Guess!

That's right, it's from my film, "Angry Blue Planet" featuring the song, "Growing Old" by The Origin!

I think I may have missed Earth Day, but I didn't miss the flu virus.

I am sick!

But thanks to NyQuil, I am tripping!

This video like all the others, is from my film, "Angry Blue Planet" featuring another one from one of my favorite bands, Dramarama.

Watch closely to see Dramarama cofounder and producer of a great documentary, "Mayor of the Sunset Strip," Chris Carter catch a lit cigarette throw from the crowd! It's was amazing, because it was lit and he caught it with the filter end in his mouth!

Watch for it! Rock History!

The song is, "Last Cigarette" and it too was shot on Earth Day.

"Last Cigarette" Dramarama!

The Earth Day Videothon still continues!

This video is once again from my film, "Angry Blue Planet" featuring Psychefunkapus.

"Surfin On Jupiter" is such a silly song! Imagine Dick Dale on guitar and spaceships with fins colonizing another world because it just got too tough to surf with all the oil spills and medical waste.

These guys were so sweet and funny behind the scenes and backstage. I had set up a food tent just for my crew and these guys crashed it and ate all the food and drank all the booze. Booze I snuck in for the crew. As you can see from some of the footage, many on my crew were drunk and high while shooting.

Here is my video of Psychefunkapus.

I hope you have taken the time to visit a park, touch a tree and imagine how it would be if all of it was gone.

Please relax and enjoy this video!

"Surfin On Jupiter"

The Earth Day Videothon continues!

This Pearl Jam video is from my film, "Angry Blue Planet" featuring one of my favorite songs.

"Alive" has a very special meaning for me and I wanted to focus on the kids in the crowd because of that. I also received many complaints from conservatives after the film had been shown in a few film festivals because of the Bush and oil statements Eddie made.

There was a lot of pressure on me to cut it, but I refused and it possible damaged my chances of finding more work.

Speaking of oil, and because of it, I painted on the actual film with a petroleum paint. There a bit of useless trivia for you!

Here is my video of a great band at a great time.

I hope you enjoy this!

"Alive"

As part of my Earth Day Week-long Marathon, here is another video I directed.

This video is also from my film, "Angry Blue Planet" featuring another of my favorite bands, Charlatans UK.

The song is, "Only One I Know" and it too, was shot on Earth Day.

I hope you enjoy this and go plant a tree, or at least some kind of vegetation!

"Only One I Know"

"Only One I Know" on Google Video

I think I may have missed Earth Day.

But as a special treat to those who may care, I have decided to put up a music video every day until I run out in honor of Earth Day. This video is from my film, "Angry Blue Planet" featuring one of my favorite bands, Dramarama.

The song is, "What Are We Gonna to Do?" and as it was shot on Earth Day it is sort of a montage that includes snippets of other bands that played that day in concert. There are also a couple of shots of me when my hair was long and embarrassing looking.

I have pleasant memories of making this video and hope to be making more music videos as I think there are some fantastic new bands out there.

I hope you enjoy this!

"What Are We Gonna to Do?"

What a crazy day it has been!

This morning, on the 101 I had the pleasure of sitting in my car, unable to change lanes, trapped behind a burning bus. Even my car filled up with smoke.

As I watched the rubber and plastic drip and melt, I thought there has to be a better way to live than setting in traffic behind a burning bus.

I don't know if anyone was injured or even killed, all I know is that I was concerned I was going to be late for my pride swallowing, humiliating, kick in the crotch kind of day.

It actually turned out to be a great day!

WPBZ in West Palm Beach, one of the radio stations that I happen to be on, sent me a whole lot of work, because CBS is replacing David Lee Roth (who replaced Howard Stern) with Opie and Anthony!

The funny thing is, Opie and Anthony are on XM Satellite...

Stern is on Sirius, but is not on any terrestrial station.

David Lee Roth is back on EMT duty.

As I've said before, there is a lot of excitement going on in the radio industry, however it is all behind the scenes.

The FCC is not giving up on its payola investigations of major radio corporations. So soon, my prayers for revenge will come to fruition.

More people are listening to podcasts than ever. Unfortunately, almost everyone has a podcast.

So where is mine? You may be asking... it is on its way, I swear!

In other exciting news!

I received my 1st check from GreenCine for coverage of MethodFest the Independent Film Festival!

I was so thrilled I carried around the envelope without opening it for several hours. When I finally did, a wave of potentiality washed over me, drowning me in a sea of all that can be. It was like I realize, I can make a living doing something that is fun, creative and not like work at all.

Since I made those little short videos they have appeared on MySpace, Google Video, iFilm, IFC Media Lab, Veoh and many other sites, and I have been approached by no less then 9 other film festivals wanting me to do the same for them.

I could be very busy. Travel is involved. And since, according to a recent survey, there are 23 film festivals going on every day somewhere in the world, I would have to pick and choose.

I predict in the not too distant future everyone will have their own film festival, and they will interview themselves on their own podcasts.

I can feel summer is already here. I am already sweating.

I looked at an apartment that was on the top floor of a building near Melrose and Western Avenue that had been turned into a crack house that had no air conditioning, no parking, no safety, no security, I'd be putting my life in danger every moment, but the price is right!

I think it sucks that there is no place for the crack addict to park, but I assume management feels that their customers may have already sold off their vehicles for cash.

My friend, Steve is trying to convince me to learn After Effects so I can do rotoscoping and do nice things in my own videos.

I went to a bookstore to looked for an After Effects manual, but since it was an adult bookstore I had no luck.

Something wonderful happened to me today!

It didn't happen when I woke up with a backache from the intense manual labor I find myself lodged in these days, dropped the soap in the shower, bent over to pick it up and heard my spine crack and felt all my vertebrae line up perfectly like a beautiful stack of Pringles potato chips.

It didn't happen when I was merging onto the 405 and a man in a black Humvee politely offered the space in front of him.

It didn't happen when I was eating dinner alone and a very attractive waitress asked if it was okay if she sat with me while she ate her dinner before she went home.

Those were great things to be sure, however this was a simple act of kindness by way of e-mail from a man who greatly influenced me.

But let me backup a bit...

When I was doing the morning radio at KDGE The Edge in Dallas, Texas I was talking about the rerelease of the film, "The Manchurian Candidate" and a listener that was a fan of the show later introduced me to the author of the novel as well as "Prizzi's Honor" and "Winter Kills."

Richard Condon turned out to be a really cool guy. We had nice talks and I believed we were going to be friends for a long time. Things don't always turn out for the best and he passed away in 1996.

I was happy to be able to tell him, how it was to grow up with my oldest brother serving in Vietnam and how his space at the dinner table had been replaced by Dan Rather reporting from the war, in our TV set on casters, wheeled up next to the mashed potatoes and fried chicken.

I was very young and my parents informed me that "the News" was a real because it was in grainy black-and-white and hand-held and shaky and that "Mannix" was fake because it was in Color.

Being young at a time when my older brothers didn't trust anyone over 30, or anyone in the government, hearing their music, seeing their films, seeing the arguments in the streets and in our home instilled in me a distrust of everything. To paraphrase a Star Trek episode, even my brothers to me were, "Grups."

I saw the film, "Winter Kills" and it changed my life. I had to find out what kind of a madman/genius could make this movie!

It was what I wanted to do.

My mother found an article in a magazine that talked about the director and how he funded the film himself with credit cards at a time when some cards had no limit.

I don't believe I knew the term "independent" then, but I knew if you could pay for it yourself, you could say whatever you want no matter how dangerous the ideas were.

This film is made of dangerous ideas.

I can't see a large billowing flag today without thinking about man falling through and slicing it in two like John Huston does in the film.

I followed, as much as I could in those days before VHS, this director's career. There are images that he's created that still stick with me.

A conversation between the male and female lead when the female is sitting on the toilet. That was the 1st time I ever saw that happen.

A male and female lead go to a swanky restaurant and the maitre d informs the female, who happens to be wearing slacks, that she is not allowed into the restaurant with pants. As the host is dealing with some other customers, she unzips and removes her trousers entering the restaurant in just her panties.

That rocks even today!

Today, I received a wonderful e-mail from that director, William Richert.

Dear Jerry,

Enjoyed your recent story about driving in the early morning dark, testing the last of night with the lights off, which I used to do myself in the mountains above Malibu, in an old convertible I had, with the top down, the ocean spread out below. What a rush.

Cheers,

Bill

It may not seem like a lot to you, but this is the artist in a small group of about 5 that truly influence to me, and in a sense, screwed me up by making me believe that making films could be a comfortable way to live and that the world would reward you for being creative.

After work tonight, I stood outside in the dark, cold, empty parking lot of a restaurant that had just closed talking with a friend about, How all the great ideas for cults have been taken.

It's no secret that several times in my life I've attracted a small cluster of sycophants that were willing to do my bidding, no matter how bizarre.

I always sabotaged myself from going all the way. I would become embarrassed for them, for myself and the whole idea. Still, it lingered and sizzled on the back burner of my mind as I would lay in bed wondering how my life could be better than going to a job I hated.

I used to want to have a cult that worshiped some sort of UF0 alien that only I spoke with, but I believe that's been done several times over.

I thought about having a group that worshiped the orgasm, or at least the one they would have with me. I even wrote several pages of prayers, but could never read them aloud without breaking up into giggles.

The idea of a sex cult still excites me, because what's the point of having a cult if you're not getting any? So then, it makes it necessary that my group consisted mainly of women... If not completely.

The sad thing is, the kind of woman I'm sexually attracted to would never fall for it, but the scary freaky ones jump in head first whether they believe your scam or not. They are just bored and looking for a good time.

I have a box somewhere, with years and years of writing and plans dealing with recruitment, income generating, church and the compound building, and wardrobe and ritual performing.

I should publish it as a how-to manual!

Tonight I was telling my friend about all this and he asked me if I had any good, new ideas for a cult? I mentioned that I had been working on the idea of a sex cult that worshiped Bigfoot!

He laughed so hard he snorted. He didn't believe it was a good idea. What sexy woman would worship Bigfoot?

I was hoping to attract the kind of Sexy woman that would like a hairy guy and Snuggles the bear. But I had to admit that I was still working on the idea.

I love driving at night when there are only truckers, serial killers, and random wildlife on the road!

Something soothing about rolling the window down, sticking your head out, the rushing cool wind roaring in your ears, the stars spread out across the sky like spilled salt, and the occasional fright of being jarred awake as the car has veered off the pavement and onto the gravel shoulder, or into oncoming traffic.

There is no sleep like the sleep you get behind the wheel while going 80 mph at 4am.

You do things to keep awake. Little games. Maybe you flick the headlights off to see if the ambient night light is enough. You scan the radio to find a song that you can sing along with in your loudest voice. You zigzag between the reflectors that separate the lanes without hitting them with your tires.

You push the cigarette lighter in at ever increasing intervals to see at which point it actually will burn your flesh.

Just fun stuff to kill time on the road.

I was just listening to the first hour of Coast to Coast AM, Art Bell shared the story of how he met, fell in love with, and married a very special Filipino woman, Airyn Ruiz.

Art also announced that he will be moving to the Philippines on April 29th to be with Airyn, but will continue doing weekend Coast programs from that location.

Must admit that I was a bit shocked. I seriously doubt his recently deceased wife Ramona's body has reached room temperature yet. I could be wrong about this, but it seems like it was just days ago that she passed away.

Oh well, a man has to move on!

A dude only has only so many years left in him, you have to keep going, the heart wants what the heart wants, you only go around once, if you don't use it you'll lose it...

There is nothing at all suspicious here...

She looks to be almost 20 and he looks to be in his late 70's and I can't even get a date!

But I would like to thank Art for introducing me to new things like:

C Crane Radios
Remote Viewing
Alien Abduction
Poleshifts
After Dark
NewsMax.com
Demonology and EVPs
Shadow People
Hutchison Effect
Icke-Media
The Quickening

Art went on to announce a major yard sale!

He is getting rid of everything here in the U.S. and will do his show from "the sauce."

If I can't find a woman to love, I too may be forced to invade a small third-world country!

Do you know any third-world countries where the temperature is not too hot, have high-speed Internet access and art house cinemas?

If so, please let me know!

As you know, I like to notice the small things in life.

I eat out quite a bit and I've noticed that every time the check arrives, the pen used to sign the bill is always from a pharmaceutical company.

When you are talking to a woman, she will find any segue possible, no matter how much a stretch it is to mention her boyfriend, even if you could care less as to whether she was in a relationship.

When you are talking to a guy, he will never mention his wife or girlfriend until you press him on it, interrogate him, or hit on his girl.

Acquaintances complain about you doing the things they do themselves.

People who are not in relationships always offer you relationship advice.

People who are gayer than gay, are the first to bring to your attention some innocuous pleasure you are enjoying and proclaim that in is in fact gay, as if because they are gay, they have the patent, schematics and Bible code to the DNA strand that provides them with the all powerful, all knowing, "Gaydar!!!"

I'm watching Abel Ferrara's "The Funeral" and loving it!

Takes place in the 1930s, Christopher Walken and Chris Penn deal with the death of their younger brother played by my hero, Vincent Gallo.

I forgot to even mention how I celebrated Vincent's Birthday the other day, but it was fun! I even got drunk and that is kinda sad, but it was important to me at the time to numb myself.

Anabella Sciorra and Isabella Rossellini is in it as well as Gretchen Mol, I can't wait to see her play, "The Notorious Bettie Page!"

Paul Hipp is in it and I had a great time videotaping him during MethodFest! I just wish I had seen this movie before I met him, so I could ask him what it was like working with Abel Ferrara?

Tom and Katie are getting more and more press and somehow I feel they're stealing all the attention away from the fact, I'm moving and need to either make 4 times what I'm making, or find a few roommates!

"You can be Catholic and be a Scientologist. You can be Jewish and be a Scientologist," Tom Cruise told Diane Sawyer in an interview scheduled to air Friday on ABC's Primetime. "But we're just Scientologists."

From this new M:i:III Trailer they seem to be playing the "arthouse" "indie" card to get us in...

I for one have things to do on 05.05.06

...like there's a Thai-Chicken Pizza at CPK that has my name on it!

I have some reasons why I'm concerned about the new movie, "United 93" but I'm not going to go into them.

I will say, I have a problem with corporations profiting from the tragedy of 9-11.

I enjoy disaster films like the next guy, but feel some time should pass before someone makes a film on this, like maybe the time it took to make, "Titanic."

Here's my version of a trailer for the film! I hope you enjoy it and help make it a viral video!

Documentaries are a different thing, I believe, if they try to uncover some truth as to who to blame.

Maybe this will be well made and everyone working on it had their heart in the right place, but we live in a world where the News is sponsored and every channel has a reality show and everyone is punked with a hidden camera and it's all fun and games and we laugh at the fools who are hurt and the camera in the nosecone of the smart missile makes all the people that are about to be taken from their families and friends look like funny little ants...

...Where are you and why can't I see you and why can't I feel you hold me?

It looks like I am moving again.

Don't want to spend another hot glacier melting summer in the valley, so I'm going to do what it takes to live in Santa Monica.

I don't know how I'm going to be able to afford that, I placed an ad looking for roommates, but had zero response. Who wants to live with me anyway?

I thought I would rent one of those four bedroom, one and a half bath, ocean view apartments that run about $8,000 a month and see if I can find some people like me to share the expenses. All I need is a couple dozen Ikea bunk beds and 25 roommates to make it affordable.

If you know any creative and financially stable friends that would like to move in with me in Santa Monica feel free to e-mail.

This is very sad.

Vilgot Sjöman, one of Sweden’s most controversial film personalities, passed away in Stockholm at the age of 81. He will be remembered mostly for his 1968 documentary, "I Am Curious (Yellow)," which documented the Swedish sexual revolution and politics in a way that was revolutionary.

I just rented Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie, then purchased it. I went back in my rental history to discover I also just watched "Solaris" and two and a half weeks later, Stanislaw Lem dies.

Not weird enough? Okay more...

A friend's daughter studies dancing, so I wanted them to see, "The Red Shoes" and I find out last week Moira Shearer died in January. The strange part is when I told her about "The Red Shoes", at first she thought I was talking about "Reds," and I pulled that out and watched it with her the next night. A few days later, watched "Interiors" then Maureen Stapleton died.

Maybe that's not weird, maybe I just like old movies and those that worked on them are dying off now.

Still, it is kind of troubling to me... What if I'm like that guy in "I Bury the Living" and whatever DVD I rent, someone from that film DIES!

Has this ever happened to you?

If I have the power over Life and Death...

Is there any DVDs you think I SHOULD rent?

My life is in flux right now.

I was so busy making my little videos for the film festival, editing and posting one everyday. Want to keep that up. I have so much footage that I've shot over the years for different things that I never completed, that would make nice little shorts for this page.

Going through some of the unedited video footage today was very much like going through boxes before and after a move to another house. Sometimes you find an item that takes you back to a time and place that either makes you happy or sad.

When you hit a scene that gives you joy you feel unstoppable, you could edit all night.

Then there's the object from the past that grinds all momentum and retards any motion forward...

Watching the monitor as scrambled digital puzzle pieces of images shot years ago scan by as you fast forward through an old tape, you can still see that beautiful person you used to know and used to love fractured by cubist chunks of colorful video artifacts looking at you, smiling, laughing and blowing you a kiss through a pixilated veil of static that separates the two of you in space and time.

Like a ghost doomed to repeat its ritual in haunting, that brief happy moment measured by a time code becomes corrupted by painful emotions projected on it from a future time line.

It would be so easy to edit it all away, but I know a phantom pain would linger.

When I was a little kid I had a dream, in it an older man told me, that if every night before we went to sleep we should think about those little moments in our lives where we were thankful for going left instead of right, stopping to tie our shoelaces when just around the corner a piano fell from the crane... And concentrate on those right choices we made, we would be sending a message back in time to ourselves that we would interpret as hunches.

He then told me, if you think back on a time when something bad happened to you and imagine something wonderful happening instead, that we could change the past.

What if that old man in the dream was me in the future thinking about that as I typed my thoughts in a blog?

Here is my report for GreenCine Daily if you choose to look at it.

This also is a quick one. A fun one. One about sex, selling, and promoting your film.

I was was going to see the film at the festival, but I was put off by the people behind this film. I thought they were kinda rude, maybe they were just goofing and I didn't get it. When you watch my little video, you can see when I was harrassed and thrown to the ground.

Meeting Shauna Macdonald, who is in the movie "The Descent" a film not unlike "The L Word" of horror and "Love is Work" was, I hear, a lot of fun. I think her and Paul Haggis are friends, if you know what I mean. I think, anyway...

You have to see the film, "The Descent" I loved it!

MethodFest! Love is Work!

Here is my report for GreenCine Daily if you choose to look at it.

This is a quick one. A happy one. One about winning, success, and humility.

For me personally, I was saddened by the end of the film festival, I was worn out, spent, but I wanted it to go on.

I met so many cool people! People I hope I stay in contact with, but know that I probably won't.

Meeting the boys that made the movie "Bangkok" and following them around with my camera has been a lot of fun. So when they won the big award I was very happy for them, but I knew that even though it was because of their hard work, I feel they won because of me.

MethodFest Day 8! Maverick Award

Here is my seventh installment as a reporter for GreenCine Daily if you choose to look at it.

This one is with Director, Producer, Writer and Actor D.B. Sweeney, who you may remember from, "The Cutting Edge," with the beautiful Moira Kelly (who is also in Dirt Nap all sexy) but I thought he was great in, "Fire in the Sky," here in my video he is talking about, "Dirt Nap" and how it came about.

This is a long video I've put together, so be aware of the download time. It's about 9 minutes.

But 9 Minutes of pulse-pounding joy!

MethodFest Day 7!

The audience loved this film! I sat next to the Mayor of Calabasas, he laughed all the way through it, even the dirty parts.

This is a small film, but in the best sense. It reminded me in parts of the movies "Diner," "Fandango" and "The Big chill." It's three childhood friends dealing with adulthood in different ways. Music plays a big part and in one scene the three of them are walking a deserted road at night as one character has a guitar strapped to his back.

I was thinking of how much I like movies where there are a group of friends that are very close and how the best bands that stick together are like that. One band popped in my mind as an example of how I wish my life with friends would be and that is U2 and just at that moment a song by U2 began playing.

After the movie and just before the party I told D.B. that I'd think I like these kind of movies because I've never had a group of longtime friends. Moving around so much as a kid, losing contact and basically being anti-social whittles away at people and that only leaves those few, those precious few that can put up with me. He looked concerned, but once I had a friend who also had the look of concern and when I asked him about it, he replied, "Nah, I'm just bored."

After the movie, I hung out with D.B. Sweeney, or as I've learned to call him, D.B. Sweeney, and by saying I hung out, I of course mean, I videotaped him while I conducted an interview. I haven't included any of that footage in today's installment only because the relationship he and I share currently hasn't grown to a point where I felt comfortable sharing with you my intimate conversations without getting his OK by calling him on his cell phone and asking if it's OK with him, because he's my friend. And by friend, I of course mean, acquaintance that I hardly know, or person I've just met.

Still, he is a great guy even if the cell phone number he gave me is wrong.

Ed Harris is one of my favorite actors and he plays a one armed carney guy that made me think that there is a little Lon Chaney hidden in him and maybe D.B. Sweeney, maybe all actors.

The cast is just great and you know they must had had fun making this movie. When you watch my video I think you can tell they all got along.

A lot happened last night at MethodFest and I would tell you about it, however I drank a little too much last night at the after party at The Rack and later at the house of a new friend I met at the Film Festival, so I feel like shit now. But before I sign off to unconsciousness, I wanted to let you know that a music video I did for the band The Amps is getting considerable play on the Web. If you'd like to see it, go to the band's myspace page or just look below and let me know what you think.

Here is my sixth installment as a reporter for GreenCine Daily if you choose to look at it.

This one is with Director Gary Yates and Actor Tom Barnett, who you may remember from, "The Boondock Saints" talking about, "Niagara Motel" and how Craig Ferguson had to make a "late late" night visit to a methadone clinic!

MethodFest Day 6!

Juicy stuff you need to hear! How am I able to get people to just open up so?

As many friends have told me... I'm Magical!

To be honest, and I hate being that, I really didn't like, "Niagara Motel" the sound was weird, it was episodic, there was drama, violence, mixed with slapstick... But you know what?

Something happened:

First it has Two incredibly HOT BABES in it!

Wendy Crewson, Is so sexy to me! She's a wife that is tempted to whore herself so she can afford to eat out.

Anna Friel, is a strung out teen mom trying to get her baby back, but losing the battle with herself. Powerful performance that includes her in her panties and a booby flashing segment that I feel turned this film around for me. I think she's amazing! I want to see more of her! I mean her ACTING! Come on, don't be such a perv!

She was in a film called, "Watermelon," or maybe, "Irish Jam" one of them was Directed by John Eyres, I caught it one day on the Oxygen Network when I was feeling gay. I LOVED that movie! She's just FABULOUS!!!

Okay, Whatever! I even wrote her a Fan Letter... Ewwww!

So because of those two things and the content of the video I shot, I believe Director Gary Yates is a genius! I can't get the film out of my head!

But I'll try...

Some cool things!

Nice mention of ME! on IFC!

Sam Friedlander Director of the film, "Lucid" wrote to me:

"Thanks for the kind words.

It was nice meeting you.

What was the name of the doc you shot with the Pearl Jam concert and others?

-Sam"

"Lucid" has a great song by Pearl Jam and "Angry Blue Planet" is a concert film that includes them, that I directed.

And:

Beverly Gray saw the posting of my interview with her about Roger Corman.

"Thanks so much, Jerry. I hadn't listened to it for a very long time, and it was a joy to revisit our chat. In fact, I trust it's OK with you if I post this on my own site as a kind of birthday tribute to Roger. May he live long and (of course) prosper!

Beverly"

And she did! And she said nice things about me, too!

What have you done for me, lately?

Here is my fifth installment as a reporter for GreenCine if you choose to look at it.

I have seen a bunch of great films at the festival and this film, "Lucid" is one of them. there are some stories that I'm just a sucker for, time travel, ghosts, teen sex comedies, barely legal porn, and the stories about Dreams.

"Lucid" had the audience in its grip, in fact after the screening, one lady complained to the filmmaker, Sam Friedlander, "Why isn't this a longer film?"

That brought a huge laugh from the audience.

That is something Sam wants to happened! He wants this to be a feature and so do I!

I want to tell you everything about this film, but its basic premise could be spoiled by just describing it, suffice to say, everything cool and not cheesy about the "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Dreamscape" movies is in its potential.

"Lucid" Is on the festival circuit right now, do what you can to see this! Sam is a go getter, find him, get to know him, he's the future of Hollywood!

To learn more about the film, its future as a feature and Sam Friedlander, watch my latest installment for GreenCine:

Jerry Live from MethodFest! Day 5

I was reading the Daily, where I get all my info on the world of cinema, and I see this:

"Roger Corman at 80. On Monday, Tim Lucas, announcing "Roger Week" at his Video Watchblog, called for a Blog-a-Thon to celebrate the 80th birthday of Roger Corman."

So if I was having anything the offer, I needed to book! I dug around in my files, went through all my CDs, unpacked and plugged in my old iMac, to finally find this gold nugget of audio.

Quickly, I loaded up the mp3 and sent it off to Lucas. In a matter of seconds, this:

Go to:

Video Watchblog

At the bottom of the Post:

The Jerry Lentz Radio Audio interview with Roger Corman biographer, Beverly Gray

Adding my part to the Roger Corman B'Day Party is my Radio Interview with the lovely Beverly Gray! Please listen to it!

Also, back in March 2005 I was in Fresno... In a Hooter's... research of course and this caused me to write Gray this note and send the photo above:

"--- Beverly Gray,

I had to send you this. I found a Fresno State student
in Hooters reading your book.

I had to take a picture!

I think Roger might like the idea of Hooters Girls and
New World together.

Anyway, I know it's silly and you probably don't care,
but I thought it was cool someone else here is
enjoying your work."

I sent this picture.

--- David Hudson, my boss at GreenCine wrote:

She's great! I'm still listening.

You didn't see anyone at Hooter's reading Kracauer?

Kaputt for tonight, more tomorrow,

David

You mean, Adrian Cronauer the DJ Robin Williams played in, "Good Morning, Vietnam" ? ...No, the only thing similar to Kracauer in Fresno is Crack!

Beverly Gray will be appearing at Rocket Video, speaking on the book Roger Corman: Bloodsucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating
Cockroaches, and Driller Killers. The date is Thursday, April 20 at 7 p.m. The store is located at 726 N. La Brea, Los Angeles, 90036, and the phone number is 323-965-1100.

And as a bonus, tell them that Jerry Lentz sent you and they will let you rent and purchase items at the regular price!

Off to get more Meth... I mean Method Fest! Cinema is my hallucinogen!

Here is my fourth installment as a reporter for GreenCine if you choose to look at it.

Well, it was a busy day. Raining. Editing. Flirting.

I could give you a nice clip of interviews, which I did, but with the power of Digital Video and the power of the Internet, why not uncover stories that impact our daily moviegoing lives?

Hard-hitting stories! If Sam Fuller was covering this MethodFest, This is the kinda crap his hard-boiled Newspaperman sensibilities would uncover!

Personal Freedoms are being whittled away right under our theatre seats while we are entranced by the flickering picture show!

Okay, I'm tired... Please enjoy this installment:

Jerry Live from MethodFest! Day 4

I'm so exhausted!

I slept something like 13 hours yesterday, but not in a row. I would convert my raw video to iMovie HD, edit, compress and wait... and wait... and wait...

So I would sleep a bit. Wake up and see that it looked wrong, was the wrong kind of file, try again, sleep, wake up, look and try again... Then get it right! It looks good! Start to upload to iFilm, IFC, Veoh, Google Video, YouTube, MySpace Videos, or CraiglistFilms, or something and find all the requirements are different for each website... Aarrrg!

I think making my feature is gonna be much easier than making these shorts! I don't know why I think that... I JUST DO!


Can't wait to see Nicholas Jarecki's "The Outsider" I've been obsessed with James Toback for some time. Once, when my ex-wife left her job as a publicist at Universal to become a Flight Attendant for American Airlines, she was approached by Toback on the plane in the galley. She was very excited to meet him and tell me all that he said.

Now that I've read Neil Strauss' "The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists" I know for a fact he was hitting on her!

Can't blame him, I still dig the guy!

Getting some great feedback on my work for GreenCine. Some job offers too! Nothing feels better than when someone, or a corporation wants to give you money and control you, your vision and your hopes and dreams through economic means!

Got a nice e-mail from The Dibs!:

"Hiya Jerry

Chris Hanlin here from the DIBS. Thanks so much for your enthusiasm and compliments. I really appreciate you including us in your video report for Greencine. Unfortunately, my ancient computer can't open the file. I'll try it somewhere else on a better machine.

I hope you are enjoying yourself in Calabasas. My wife and I have already returned to our home in Sonoma County, but we should stay in touch. Methodfest was fun for us, and we made a lot of new contacts. I hope you'll forgive me if the whole thing is a bit of a blur...the performing conditions were really rather miserable for us, and there were so many people to talk to.

I'm glad that you liked the music, despite the weather conditions. We really had no idea what it sounded like out front. We were winging it.

Thanks again so much and enjoy the festival.

Chris"

Seems many people don't have the latest version of Quicktime to view my work! What's with you people? THIS is the 20th Century or something like that!

Got an e-mail to "Please do a Story for AIVF/The Independent" that's Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers! They saw the GreenCine stuff! The funny thing is, my one time bestest friend, who I haven't seen in ages, Dana Harris was the Editor there back in the day for a few years... How funny!

MethodFest! Day 1 Coverage in the Daily

MethodFest! Day 2 Coverage in the Daily

MethodFest! Day 3 Coverage in the Daily

Off to shoot more video of MethodFest!

Or you know, Bandwidth clogging video that those folks that have dial-up connections and TRS80 Radio Shack PCs will have trouble viewing!

Here is my third installment as a reporter for GreenCine if you choose to look at it.

Jerry Live from MethodFest! Day 3

I dunno, It's a weird one, at of all places a car dealership?

I am completely exhausted and loopy now. I was trying to do something cool with the idea that people don't walk anymore here in LA...

There are some gags that I liked, that may not be funny to anyone else, but made me giggle as I was shooting and editing this thing.

Again, met some really cool people and again, I think I fell in love twice and one of those was with a car. I'm not sure why it took place at The Auto Gallery and what that has to do with any of the films at MethodFest, but fast cars bring out fast women and guys with supposedly small penises...

There's nothing more exhilarating than leaving a party like this in an old Honda and taking off the driver-side mirrors of a Rolls and a Lamborghini when trying to pull out of your parking space.

Here is my second installment as a reporter for GreenCine if you choose to look at it.

Jerry Live from MethodFest! Day 2

As you can see we were in the rain!

Met some really cool people, as you can see in the video! D.B. Sweeney is very cool! The band The Dibs played in the rain.

They Rocked!

The cast from "Dreamland" were great to look at and talk with. It is the first film for director Jason Matzner. It stars Agnes Bruckner, Kelli Garner, Justin Long, John Corbett and Gina Gershon.

I met a girl who I completely fell in love with, who let me take her aside and videotape her helping me pull off a gag. It was just pouring down on us. Her White dress soaked and see through. Skin chilled with goose flesh. I held her to warm myself. At the end of the evening she kissed me. I watched her walk through the rain illuminated by the headlights of oncoming traffic.

After the movie, I walked across the highway from the Motion Picture and Television Fund's Louis B. Mayer Theatre to where my Honda sat in a parking lot of a stripmall. I stood at the crosswalk waiting for my light to change, as rain came down on me, it looked like a halo in the light of the streetlamp. A car pulled up. A girl in a beat up Red Ford Escort quickly rolled down the window and yelled to me, "I don't even know who you are?"

A truck behind her laid on the horn to get her to move. She couldn't hear me. Scared by the road rage of the driver she drove away. I watched her taillights as they banked onto the ramp to the freeway and fade away.