Several old friends coming back from business at the Sundance Film Festival have asked me if Jack Black's character "Jerry" in Michel Gondy's film, "Be Kind Rewind" is based on me due to my relationship with some of those involved in the film. I'm not saying anything other than, "I doubt it" and "I'm flattered."

I can't wait to see it!

With all the snow coming down now, I should be out there filming snow related "One Film a Day" projects, but instead I slept all day.

Yet, I'm catching up after being nearly a month behind!

People are really supporting it and sending in ideas for future projects. Most of them are far beyond the No-Budget realm in which I dwell, but still it's very nice.

Some are even sending in names of films they think I should see that require no budget and almost no cast members, you know, for inspiration!

One is called, "Paranormal Activity."

Josh emailed me:

"This is so you, man. Everyone I saw this with couldn't sleep alone. Perfect 1st date movie! Looks like a lot of the shit you've already shot, you'll dig it."

Watched the DVD of "Smothered" a nice documentary about The Smother Brothers and their fights with censorship during the run of their series.

Then the films "Tears of the Black Tiger," "Breaking and Entering," and "Science of Sleep" which I've already seen twice in the theatre. There was an excellent bit on the extras about the girl who desighned and made the soft animals like the birds and the horse. She was asked by Michel Gondry what he should name the horse in the film and she text messaged him:

"I call all my horses, "Heaven."

Stay Golden, Pony-Boy"

Signing off with a nod to "The Outsiders" but Gondry didn't catch the reference, so he thought she meant the horses name was, "Golden Pony Boy." Good Stuff!

I loved that since there was a time where me and my friends endlessly quoted "The Outsiders."

Quite a movie day, during snow flurries and the impending heavy snow that they say we'll get tomorrow.

I also had the DVD, "Fur" about one of my favorite photographers, Diane Arbus laying out ready to pop in the machine. My sis-in-law asked if it was about, "Trapping" as in the kind of fur... Oh, I'm sure you get it.

Can't wait to watch it, Steven Shainberg made it and he did one of my fav movies, "Secretary" so I gotta see it!

I voiced the commercial for "'Pure Combat ‘Lights Out’, the next generation of mixed martial arts, as Scott Lighty battles Paul Mince in the main event, also on the card, John Reedy, Martin Bautista, David Granados, and more!!!"

Sorry, I was just using my "scary voice," as Stimpy say, "Now I want to say the funny words!"

I was out to dinner with Relation-in-Laws who are huge fans of these guys, but they just wouldn't believe I was the voice! No one could convince them... It was kinda weird.

I drank Margaritas made with Triple Sec, got drunk, then sick, then fever, then passed out.

Glad I wasn't driving.

Speaking of drinking, I'm such a light weight, I want to start drinking, but I don't know what kind?

I want something like you'd see a guy in an old film noir pour out of his flask after he ventilated a guy who just shot his partner. Any clues?

I want something to warm me up and something kinda sweet. Oh, and the bottle, I want to be able to carry it in my back pocket, too!

My friend, Curt over at Groovy Age of Horror has posted my trailer/video that I made for his page and he has a great Nazi Pulp thing going now.

I hope you get to listen to this Dreamland Podcast before they change it, but I love this guy's work:

"Joseph Farrell, who has fascinated audiences with his research into Nazi secret weapons, returns with a riveting hypothesis: the remains of ancient disasters that scar earth and the rest of our solar system may be the results of cosmic war, not natural events."

His latest book:

"The SS Brotherhood of the Bell" this book ROCKS!

And he mentions how "Lightning" by Dean Koontz, with it's time traveling Nazis had it right.

"In 1945, a super high-tech Nazi secret weapons project code-named "The Bell" left its underground bunker in lower Silesia, along with all its project documentation, and a four-star SS general named Hans Kammler. Taken aboard a massive six engine Junkers 390 ultra-long range aircraft, "The Bell," Kammler, and all project records disappeared completely, along with the gigantic aircraft carrying them. It is thought to have flown to America or Argentina. As a prelude to this disappearing act, the SS murdered most of the scientists and technicians involved with the project, a secret weapon that according to one German Nobel prize-winning physicist, was given a classification of "decisive for the war," a security classification higher than any other secret weapons project in the Third Reich, including its atomic bomb.

What was "The Bell"? What new physics might the Nazis have discovered with it? How far did the Nazis go after the war to protect the advanced energy technology that it represented? In the SS Brotherhood of the Bell, alternative science and history researcher Joseph P. Farrell reveals a range of exotic technologies the Nazis had researched, and challenges the conventional views of the end of World War Two, the Roswell incident, and the beginning of MAJIC-12, the government's alleged secret team of UFO investigators."

And of course, If you like UFO's, you'll love my other website, "Area 69"

Got another email referring to my "Ghost Hunting" work:

Subject: Billings mo
To: jerrylentz

"Hi Jerry,

I was surfing You Tube when I saw your film of Billings, Missouri. My husband and I are considering a move to Missouri and have been receiving e-mails from real estate agents with pictures of houses in the Springfield area. One house which has really piqued my interest is an older house in Billings. I believe this is a haunted house.

Go to the website (She sends me website info, Jerry) View the room with the tiled floor where there is a tile missing. I see a skinny blond girl sitting in the corner of the room. She appears to be a ghost!

I would like to research this house and know its history-- who lived and died there and particularly any young girls or women. I become very sad every time I look at this picture. I wonder was she abused, lonely? Was she forced to stay in that room?

As a media expert, I was wondering if you could give me any advice on how to obtain information on former residents of this house?

If I lived there I would tear out all that yucky paneling and paint the rooms in bright happy colors like Pink, blues, and greens. Most important, I would like to help this poor soul find her way back to God. E-mail me back if you have any advice and your opinion of the ghost picture. Thanks! K."

I was unable to find the House listed. But as I told her, I get a lot of Haunted House email from and about Billings, Missouri.

At the library, I found a multi-disk DVD of one of my favorite shows, "Most Haunted" I haven't seen that show in some time, so it has been nice to revisit it.

Watched, "Infamous," not long ago I watched, "Capote" again. Didn't think I could go through all that stuff one more time, but this movie was so much better. And I loved, "Capote!"

Started thinking about a girl I used to know who was my best friend until a series of unfortunate events ruined the relationship. She ran an awesome bookstore and gave me a copy of Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" to read and it really changed me in some way.

She changed me as well.

There were so many things I would never have done if it wasn't for her. She really expanded my horizons and I was too cocky to let her know just how lucky I was to be able to know her.

I lived on Knox Street in Dallas at the time and Capote's main character in the book was named, Joel Knox. The Knox Street Pub & Grill was walking distance and my roommate, Phil and I would go to On the Border for Happy Hour where they had a free buffet at 4 and eat. I mean EAT. Everyday we were there. Drinking free water and eating free food.

They hated us!

Then we'd go to the Knox Street Pub and drink. We spent money there. All the Dallas Theatre Center actors hung out there and they'd entertain us. Once Robert Duvall was there and later Jerry Seinfeld, too. I even acted in a short film written and directed by Tom Sime, shot right there in the pub.

Once I was asked by an Irish bartender if I could marry his sister so she could stay in America. I met her. She was so beautiful. But nothing would happen, it would be just for money. It never transpired. Sometimes I wish I would have taken the money, just for the possible IRA Adventure.


The movie, "Infamous," sure stirred up some stuff.

To be honest, I'm not having much fun lately.

Maybe it's the "Blues" but it could be me coming off the flu, or depression, or it could be just what it is and that's simply...

I hate it here!

I've tried, but so many of the folks I encounter on a daily bases are two teeth away from being cast members of "Deliverance: The Reality Show"

And it's just draining...

Today's been pretty great!

A great big pain in the ass!

But because of kindness of some friends, I survived.

I got an American Express Card in the mail! I was like, "Whaaa?" But then it was "only" a $25 Gift Card.

However, it was just what I needed with a nice break at RibCrib for some Smoky Chicken Griller and Fries! I needed that and the Ice Tea in a BIG WAY! So it was the best of gifts!

Then, today I became the Voice of a National Tee Vee Commercial for, United Steel Building!

I'll post the TV Spot when it's finished!

Now if they could just build me a cool Metal House/Workshop! I love rain on a metal roof! I don't know why, but it's so romantic... Maybe they can throw in someone to be romantic with, as part of the package.

Got confirmation today of something that was buzzing through the Family Tree/Grapevine recently, that I should register for membership in, "Sons of the Revolution."

Because; "Henry Lentz, aged 81, a private and sergeant, N. C. Militia enrolled on June 14, 1833, under act of Congress..." info was just unearthed.

Imagine going to War at 81. My dad is going to be 81 next month, I can't imagine him going through Basic Training!

Don't know what I'd get being a Member of the "Sons of the Revolution," but it might look cool listed on my Myspace page!

Today, as we were dealing with my dad in the "Home," talking with his Doctor about increasing his Percocet, one of the other Members of Dad's Club wheeled into me and let me know she was Ready to Go!

As my friend, Tracy said, "I think you nabbed a Drugstore Cowgirl."

Then later I was at Dad's empty apartment and under Doctor's orders was removing all old medication from his place. I popped the TV on as I was working hard flushing really good strong dope down the toilet, I heard on CNN that one of my favorite actors, Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon in an apartment in SoHo from both prescription medication and nonprescription, he was only 28!

He has the same initials as my dad, weird.

Hey, I'm the voice of yet another Video Game!

It's called, BoomBox!

If you like Tetris and my sexy voice, you'll love this! I'm heard all through this game! Game On!

Here's some other cool stuff:

I love these cars!

I wouldn't mind living in these vans down by the river!

My Perfect Pet! Move your cursor around the screen and see what happens!

So cool! I'm Famous Again!

As I was reading Ariel Gore's book, "How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead" and having a great time in it, I got this email:

"From: "Concerned Friend"
Subject: Web Site

To: lentz2001atyahoo.com

Why do you constantly tell lies on your web site instead of telling the truth? I know your family and heard about you having a web site so I looked it up and I'm ashamed at all the garbage. Surely your brother and his wife don't approve of it? Start telling the truth once in a while, stop trying to make your father look so bad and tell everyone your unemployed instead of a film maker/radio man. Your life isn't as impressive as you attempt to make it.

It's a joke..."

So after getting that, I wrote back:

"Dear "Concerned Friend" ashamed to reveal your name,

How about you go fuck yourself!"

I thought I'd ask some friends about how they deal with stuff like that from anonymous people. Then I emailed Ariel Gore:

"I've been reading your book, "How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead" and feel I know you well.

Just got a horrible email from a reader of my website and it really knocked the wind out of me. Mean, mean, mean! How do you deal with negative comments? You're so strong, I thought you could help.

I told the e-mailer to "Fuck off!" but now think I should not have responded at all.

Thanks,

Jerry"

Ariel Gore wrote me back immediately:

"Ha! I think "fuck off" is just fine. But I just delete them. I mean, they do knock the wind out, but less and less.

Thanks for your kind words,

Ariel"

She's so cool!

Just the other day, I was talking about getting a van, or camper and driving around the country doing my Acting Workshop, making and showing my films, then one of my favorite magazines, MAKE posted this video of Jake von Slatt giving a tour of his refurbished Thomas school bus, with much of the interior materials scrounged from the dump or scored through Craigslist.

So I thought I look for one for me on eBay that you could buy me!

Here it is! My new home!

Picked up the neatest book!

This really smoking hot chick named, Abigail Gehring wrote it and it's called, "Odd Jobs: 101 Ways to Make an Extra Buck" I totally enjoy this book!

She's very funny and knows a lot!

Checkout her page!

I failed to even mention the New Look for this page, but I wanted something cheery while I've been in the dumps, so I lightened it up a bit.

Also, people wanting to hear my interviews past and present with writers seemed tired of sifting through this huge archive I now have here, so another page was made for a segment I do on the radio called, "Books That Kill!"

You can view it here:

Books That Kill!

Enjoy!

Had the MOST terrifying dream just now where I was being stalked by this woman in a torn and rotting vinyl raincoat who was going to stab me with a huge knife.

I was in an old town. Warehouse district. Abandoned. Night.

Tried to lose her by running down very narrow alleyways that kept getting tighter and tighter.

It was drizzling rain and the knife's blade was rusting and I knew the tetanus I'd get after she dumped my dismembered torso in the gutter, would be bad.

The fear of it all seemed so real and I woke up wet.

Once I did a show on a radio station and a segment called, "Area 69" it was VERY popular. I did some podcasts that are still out there propagating through the vines of the web like some itchy STD.

I still get new emails about it.

Every once in a while I get nibbles from some dirty Book Publishers asking if it might could be massaged into being?

I decided to set up a page to post the past emails and the new ones for anyone who might enjoy reading that sad tales of young girls being sexually molested by aliens.

Maybe I will turn this into a book.

Read it for free while you can:

Area 69!

Was out driving. Thought the fresh freezing air would make me feel better. The Flu sucks! Don't get it!

I had to pull over and throw up in a ditch. Nice! Like I'm a drunkered. Like I'm Amy Winehouse.

Earlier I had to pick my father up from the Alzheimer Facility, or as he called it, "The Lockdown." I had to drive him to the lab and then up to some room where they put an IV on him and pump him full of some kinda lube to grease his joints.

I was sitting there for an hour sweating. Shaking with chills. The nurse thought I was there for my methadone cocktail.

Dad goes in and out of some slight dream state. Everyone else outside the family thinks he's fine, but we know better.

In a moment of clarity he tells me he's hidden some Viagra in a box under his bed back at his apartment that he no longer lives in but we still have available. He tells me how he started getting it 10 years ago just because Medicare pays for it. Then he tried it and loved it!

I said, "Why did you need it?" because, like he's old and scary and I don't want to think of my dad bending some old scary floppy skinned bitch over his walker, slipping his stones to her dusty vajayjay and slapping that ass. You know?

He says, "What the hell do you think I was using them for?"

Eww...

Then he tells me in the same Viagra hope chest he's hidden some cash and wants me to go get it for him. He goes on to tell me the cash is wrapped around the Viagra, so bring both of them. Like he needs either of those things where he is now.

"Dad, I guess if the money is wrapped around the Viagra, That makes it Cold Hard Cash, right?"

He laughs so loud over this and for a nice sweet moment we share something good.

Just two minutes later he forgets who I am.

I drop him off at the "Lockdown" then driving away, pull over and puke in the ditch.

Whenever I'm sick, sullen, or sad, I find it's good for me to read or watch something about George Lucas.

I don't know why.

It just makes me feel better to fall into that George Lucas World. I'm not talking about his films. I mean just him.

I've read everything there is, heard all the stories too many times before, but there's some sort of comfort there. It's like Sunday School to me. It's safe.

BBC Omnibus: George Lucas Flying Solo

This is a BBC omnibus special edition documentary with interviews with Lucas, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Francis Ford Coppola and many others. There's a bunch of these broken up in bite size morsels scattered around YouTube.

I was thinking while watching these that I would love to see a Celebrity Filmmaker Edition of Donald Trump's "The Apprentice" with George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, Kevin Smith, Michel Gondry, Brett Ratner, David O. Russell...

Oh forget it. It's a stupid idea! I'm too sick to delete what I've already written. Sorry.

Been thinking again.

It always comes back around; This thought. Again. But it always seems fresh and possible.

The idea of having a van, or truck with a camper, to drive across this great country of ours making films.

However, with gas being what it is...

My car gets about 40 miles per gallon. It's got a Ten gallon tank. Costs me a chunk to fill it up, but I know others who don't get the mileage I do and they're hurting, too. How are we going to make it? Life is getting too tough?

Are we going to hope on trains like Woody Guthry? Hitchhike like Rudger Hauer?

I passed a couple of young guys the other day thumbing it. I could have picked them up, but how scary is that?

Why does the idea of hiking across Asia or England seem better to me? It's like, vagabonding overseas you're a tourist, vagabonding in the good ole' U. S. and A, you're homeless.

It's already 11 Days into 2008 and I'm overflowing with video that still has to be edited. My eyes are blurry. I ache. I cry. I moan. I bitch.

I have such great ideas for 2008, but how can I get them to me? I see them floating out there teasing me with their possibilities, yet I call to them and they flicker and bob and weave at a distance.

I need to be mobile. I am finding that it may be increasingly difficult to find enough people here locally who want to partake in my movie-making adventure. I know every city has it's small pocket of actors. I believe if I could find a way to move around from city to city I could find more choices of people, stories and locations.

There needs to be a way that I could make my "one day" film and then clear it off my computer. The hard drive storage I'm carrying around is cumbersome. Everything I need should all fit into one backpack, with clothing, too. So far, that isn't happening.

How do those folks carry everything they need on "The Amazing Race?" I think my backpack is heavy when it's empty!

Watched "Hard 8" from "Boogie Nights" director Paul Thomas Anderson. It's his first film and it's got Phillip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow and Samuel L. Jackson.

It was pretty slow moving at the beginning for me, but I thought maybe it's the NyQuil I'm taking, so I stopped it and waited awhile.

Emptied a few Kleenex boxes later and went to it again.

Much better, I think it was just me.

Still, I think maybe PT may have known what he was doing, but it could have been the Sundance Lab messing him up. Maybe they were screwing with his confidence, or maybe the studio was...

It didn't seem right. I wonder if there's a director's cut? Feels like it was fiddled with.

I could be wrong. I still dug it.

Then I watched, "Creature from the Haunted Sea" directed by Roger Corman. Starring Robert Towne as Secret Agent, XK150.

How Robert Towne went from this to "Chinatown" must be a great story. I'd never seen it before.

Then I watched, "Nightmare Castle" starring Barbara Steele. I'd always heard bad things about this film, but I enjoyed it as I sipped my NyQuil. Steele is gorgeous with her dark hair, cat eyes and pale skin... Just beautiful!

Then I dreamed.

I attain World/International Cinema Press/Fame again!

You have to scroll all the way to the bottom, but I've been told by those more famous than I, "Save the Best for last..."

Still feeling sick.

But now another problem arises: MONEY!

I'm nearly broke... Who am I kidding? I AM B R O K E !

I don't get it? No one can be doing "The Secret" lifestyle more than ME.

Was watching the Jerry Seinfeld documentary, "Comedian" and Chris Rock was on there talking about seeing Bill Cosby do an incredible show and it reminded me of Rock's A&E Biography where he talked about one point being really famous and being flat broke at the same time and how awful it is.

Went to Borders today still sick and all, but 4 out of 5 Doctors say "You can't get over the flu until you pass it on." It's like a chain-letter!

I picked up Steve Martin's autobiography and read it sitting in the cafe. Read the whole thing! Didn't even buy it. Wow, it was great!

As soon as my ship comes in, I'm buying that book!

Waiting for, "Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography" to become available. I for one can't wait to read it! In the Cafe at Borders with no cash exchanged; Just for stuff like this:

Page 171-172: By 1993, Morton says Tom "progressed to what Scientologists call 'the Wall of Fire,' or Operating Thetan III, where the secrets of the universe according to Hubbard [are] revealed." Allegedly, "Tom found the knowledge he had just received disturbing and alarming, as he struggled to reconcile the creationist myth with the more practical teachings contained in the lower levels of Scientology. … It was recalled that around this time relations became 'ugly' between David Miscavige and the Hollywood actor, Tom complaining that he had studied all these years and the whole faith was about space aliens."

I'm the Voice of a cool Video Game!

The deep cool voice you hear before the game begins, is me.

I know it's not World of Warcraft, but hey I dig ass kickin' rabbits!

I'm so FAMOUS!!!

I feel sick. I can't breathe well and I ache all over. The Flu?

I think so.

Damn, This might slow me down on my "One Film A Day" project. I hope not!

I've talked about this before, but there have been so many TV Shows wanting me to licence one or more of my videos. They see them on YouTube, or Google and since there's a Writer's Strike feel they can get around it by coming to work like mine.

I got an email from a really beautiful girl that works for "The Maury Show," Yes, I've seen her myspace page and I can attest, that's she's beautiful:

"My producers and I are currently putting together a 'Ghosts Caught On Tape' show, and would love to see if you would be interested in licensing to us your Ghost Caught on Camera in Burbank Cafe video for our show! We think it is incredible!! Is it real?

Please contact me if this is something you are interested in at your earliest convenience! (our show will be taping Jan 11th)

Look forward to hearing from you soon,

Meredith Frost
The Maury Show"

I could go on and give you the play by play, but let me just say, These shows want the goods for free and they want to give you nuthing. They want you to do all the work. This leads me to believe that those poor people have to pay for their own DNA tests to find out who the baby's daddy is...

I think standing out in the rain during the tornadoes that hit the area, wrangling the two goats whose shelter washed away in the flood that moved across the farm, has given me a cold.

Power has been out and because the water pump here is electric, that means no water and no flushing the toilet.

Great!

I found a bottle Nestle Pure Life Water under the seat of my car and was able to wash my entire body and brush my teeth and still have a little less than half a bottle left.

It made me think about a space shuttle video where an astronaut showed how in zero gravity a tablespoon of water could be enough to wash and shave with in space.

Man, I slept so deep last night!

Never have I slept so well, I don't think. I went to bed about 8PM, dead tired and played an mp3 of Dr. Wayne Dyer's "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem" and there is one part that I love and it's where he's talking about negative people and how it's like being giving a Million Dollars and going to the mall and buying everything that you hate, just so you can complain about it.

He says it way better than that, but you get the idea, I hope.

I woke up about 8am, so THAT's some quality time there sleeping! I was bushed!

Got up and recorded a commercial for AMF Bowling Equipment and stuff for KFRR, then got an awesome message from The Maury Show about my Ghost Videos! I guess they want to do a DNA test on the ghosts to see it they're the "ghost's baby daddy."

Maybe I should do it?

I love Maury, maybe I'll tell them I'll do it if only I can meet his wife, Connie Chung. I think they're awesome!

Been running more ads for Actors so I can get some warm bodies to make films with, but it's hard to get people to perform sometimes.

People are busy trying to make enough to cover their bills, they ain't got time for some silly movie-makin'!

Today I have to get out and hustle.

Looks like I got a long term paying writing gig thanks to a dear friend. Thanks, Jessica! You always have ROCKED!

I sign contracts today about the writing job.

Just watched "Barton Fink" again for the millionth time, so I'm ready for living, "The Life of the Mind!"

Watched it with my brother who seemed to enjoy it. At the end, I thought about the similarities to "Se7en" and wondered if anyone else has seen them?

Started my monthly Fast and boy is it exciting!!!

A lot of people are sick and they are always coughing and sneezing around me, so I hope I don't get anything now that my resistance is low.

Exchanged some gifts that were faulty for better working models and used a Borders gift card that my brother Donny got me. Awesome!

The $25 gift card went to "Legends of Literature: The Best Essays, Interviews and Articles from the Archives of Writer's Digest Magazine" by Phillip Sexton.

The book was scuffed and the hardback covers were slightly bowed. It was the only copy they had so I asked for a discount and without hesitation they gave me 15% off. SWEET!

It's a cool book and I've only perused it ever so briefly, but it has quotes from all my favorite writers.

It's like Christmas is everyday when you have gift cards to use before they start expiring!