April 15, 2008 Day Journal

INTERESTING day!! Was outside doing stuff nonstop for 10.5 hours basically. Woke up noon. immediately did 6 circuts, showerd, tie, jacket, etc. Then drove to Michael Zanuck Agency. cool as!! Met katherine she said a lot:
I shouldn't squint during interviews
my glasses looked good
I looked thinner around the cheekbones than my 2006 picture
that my 2006 headshot didn't look professiona (I said because of my shading/coloring lol)
that I should email them for representation (and I did) in commercials if offered and I did LOL

Realized all the movie posters up was like MY room (austin powers, music stuff, world mape etc. cool as!! Funny wild! lol!!).

Michael zanuck also looked REALLY cool. He looked a LOT like Alan Arkin haha!! Hawaiian shirt, the office was the size of my dad's office which was interesting, so...pretty interesting stuff. cool!

Then I drove to 1514 gower off hollywood freeway. Where I got the 2006 headhots was near the "Roscoes Chicken n' Waffle House" haha!! Seriously the most peculiar combo of food, but hey I think it's some kind of one of those weird landmark diner places haha! Anyways, I knew the headshot place was near the waffle-chicken house. I found the restaurant, checked it out and then walked up gower (and it was cool seeing the hollywood sign from there again. Last time I saw it, it was from the Graumann's mall when I was locked out of the car after (never again) doing valet before meeting up with the acting friends at saddle ranch and walking around for 24 hours until could get car back haha) ) and saw that where the hollywood headshots place was, it was replaced and the building was up for lease LOL!! So that kind of disorientated me, so I walked around the blocks a few times, Called aunt sally, told her about life update -- lifecoaching, acting on the backburner, etc. she was doing a kind of class tutoring thing -- and I said I'd likely go out of the country if I didn't have some work set up in 6 months, which is good! I haven't had work in like 4-5 years!!! And I've been trying like crazy! Soo....yeah then I called matt and we talked about him coming out to cali and he said (this was astonishing) that he'd NEVER been out here! crazy!! The guy WORKS for an airline too! haha! We discussed seeing a dodgers game, going to new york, seeing the hollywood sign...everything I had just done basically haha. Anyways, strongly considering driving somewhere, but where (new york?). Then I drove a bit and called headshot places and felt a bit disorientated after not finding that one after it had gone. I think I found the hiking park area where you can climb to the top of the hollywood sign and by that time I was on the phone wiht Ron Finley who said he'd directed a lot of tv. I just looked him up and imdb shows him as "writer" for tales of the crypt (which he mentione,d and also mentioned sesame street haha!) so I don't know if hte imdb credit is innacurate or if he really did/didn't direct those shows, but whatever the guy sounded awesome, highly intelligent and was an awesome convo! He talked about using blue screens as backdrops for photography now!! I hadn't realize they're so high-tech for photos, for film I was aware of the massive technology, but that's wild! He mentioend how he went to italy and wrote some books and was doing massive high-tech photography with different backdrops (like an actor backdrop of a rugged new york street) or some kind of white screen for lifecoaching and the various images I wanted to portray. Definitely professional ones lifecoaching and acting ( and maybe a comedy one). But he asked if i was doing one for eharmony LOL! Apparently people get professional photo touchups for eharmony haha!! Hysterical! Anyways we talked about the "steve jobs" turtleneck book which was DEFINITELY not me and I joked how he was kind of the preacherrole more than the computer guy and he said he was the wheeler dealer and I agreed saying wozniak was the computer guy and jobs the business hound. Anyways it was a COOL convo. So like older retired, NON-JERK (I meet a LOT of jerk director-people in the film/media business that had the mentality of "get out of my face, dont' have time for you" or something. and I laugh now, that's such a ridiculous attitidue!) So basically yeah, it was pretty refershing and awesome to talk with a cool director dude and hear all about these backdrops for photos and cool to talk to someone in a relaxed mode who had experience in the media/film world.

Phone calls:
Aunt Sal
Matt parsons
Jeff smith (voice message)
Dean Smith (voice message)
Mom (about needing "play place" after hard work, lifescribing, older women thing)
Three headshot places
Ron Finley photographer-former director dude
A ton of self-recordings too (especially after the vacuum thing lol!) glad I didnt' pay for that repair, can totally repair it myself! and I don't even want ot use that vacuum! lol. I got a way better version more efficient, much more industrial sized sturdy one cool as.

Errands
1245 --MZA AGency
1514 Gower chicken and waffle place near old headshot (now gone)
Base of hollywood sign hike place
440pm -- Vacuum store on topanga (picked up vacuum)
545pm -- Costco -- got a bromeliad plant, berries, cibatta, juice, peanut butter, capers, paprika haha!
Citibank deposited check
Church (across from citibank -random for like 2 minutes exploring)
Got back immediately did trails with henry 2.87 miles at like 745pm
Then gym and talked with steve about how he knew brett michaels and actually played with him haha! wild! And about meeting women and talked about how I was into math and music now and we caught the tail ind of the Dodgers San fran (CA v CA! lol) game and I lifted did some pulls and did too sub-6 mile half miles on treadmill and then .5 miles at like 20 elip. cool! Intense good awesome workout! Cool beans!


anyways then I drove to the vacuum place then to costco talked wiht mom a ton. then to citibank to deposit a check on topanga heading south and stopped ina place that I thought was a school, but it turned out to be church with a spanish service. i'm not too big on christianity, but I had a HUGE realization: any form or religion is JUST an application of NLP. It's applying all these clarity, faith, hope, belief etc anchors to an idol! So that then when people see a cross of jesus, or of buddha, or mention allah, they connect all these positive emotions of belief, faith, hope, clarity into the service! Now THAT type of anchoring I can respect. So while I, personally, do not believe in religion, I seriously respect any type of positive anchoring, and if someone does that in a religion, I can respect that. I of course recognize that for what it is, just a manifestation of anchoring -- which was a shocking very cool realization! -- so I respect a bunch of people congregating in a place setting (unconsciously most likely) uplifting anchors for themselves sure! And if they want to slap those anchors to a buddha statue or shiva figurine or christ symbol or koran book, hey, I don't care. I've been critical of religion in the past because it discourages doing your own 50,000 foot thinking and identifying what's valuable to you individually spiritually and your core beliefs (because people will just typically get force fed biblical or buddhist orwhatever the religion is, those tenets when they're fully capable of extracting and deciphering what is valuable to them!). So yeah. Interesting stuff. In many ways, things that make people feel good and "okay" be them bad things (addictions, overwatching television, self-destructive behavior) or "okay things" are all just utilized because of their anchor effect!

So it was a shocking realization to see NLP at work in religion. Here nlp, there nlp, everywhere nlp, nlp!!! haha!

Then at 8 did like night run with henry, he was wild, then hit up gym for an hour.