Art is a wonderful yet squirrely event. I love art, I am an artist, I enjoy seeing art. What had spoiled art for me in the past is all the other people who are around me when I'm enjoying art in public. My film festival experience aside, what ruins art is the "art crowd". I seethe with disdain when I'm in a gathering with "artsy folks". I can't really put my finger on why, but a lot like gaydar; you know it when you see it.

That being said I attended an art exhibit tonight. It was for Eric Joyner, an tremendous artist with a style and subject all his own. I highly suggest taking a look at www.ericjoyner.com and enjoying his works. The crowd at this art show was not the typical art people. I think it was the donuts being served in the open bar. That really seemed to keep it low key. You can't take yourself too seriously when your eating a donut looking at a Rockwellesque painting of a 1950's era robot riding an Indian motorcycle.

I did get to meet my first Internet celeb and friend tonight. Steve Sneeds operates his blog www.thesneeze.com. I've been a fan of the sneeze since my junior year of college and in a not so weird sense Steve was my only friend I had on the West Coast. Having read 4 years worth of Steve's blog and finally getting to meet him tonight at the Eric Joyner show was surreal. He is a gracious man with a gorgeous and equally gracious wife. I highly recommend that his blog to any adult who enjoys crude, whimsical, absurd and sublime humor.

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Music of the week is Pink Floyd's first album Piper at the Gates of Dawn. It's really kooky and I loved it. Checkity check the new fall series coming up. Heroes hopefully won't suck and The Office hopefully won't disintegrate into whiny breakup melodrama.

This is an actual craigslist posting.


"I HAVE A 1995 MO' VAN THAT GOT TRANSFORMED INTO THIS CATBUS. I BROUGHT IT TO A SHOPS AND I WAS LIKE HEY, CAN YOU TURN THIS INTO A CATBUS? SO THEY DID. THEN THAT DAY I DROVE IT HOME. THE CAT BUS ONLY HAS 50K, WHICH ARE ALL HIGHWAY MILES AS I DROVE IT TO WORK 2 DAYS A WEEK AND THAT WAS IT. IT'S IN REALLY GOOD SHAPE AND ALL THE FUR IS STILL ALL THERE. THE STEERING WHEEL HAS A CAT ON IT. IM ONLY ASKING 2900 FOR THE CATBUS BECAUSE ITS REALLY FURRY AND SOMETIMES PEOPLE GET SICK ON IT."

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Entourage is a pretty cool show. It bills itself as a hyped dramedy about a 20something east coast guinea and his three childhood friends up and coming in Hollywood. It's a foulmouthed and sometimes sexually explicit HBO show that doesn't take itself too seriously.

What it really is though is a too close to the truth slice of life in the hills here. From my limited interactions with the talent side of things, Entourage is pretty much it. Not safe for the kiddies and anyone who is offended easily, but I highly recommend it.

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Production comes in waves here in California. You must first pick your quarry then get in with it's work flow. Here is the breakdown so far:

Commercials
Short Films
Music Videos
TV - Reality
TV - 30 minutes
TV - Hour
Feature - Indie
Feature - Studio

There is some cross over like in Reality and Music Videos or Commercials and Music Videos or Feature Studio and TV - Hour. But each has it's own nuances and work seasons. When you get out here you pretty much need to pick one and go for it. Spreading yourself across too many channels will take too much time and effort.

And as I was told yesterday. Your going to start at the bottom unless your some rich dads kid or are a totally hot babe with no scruples.

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Music of the day is probably Metallica, especially the symphony version of Battery (NSFK). Entourage has dethroned Mad Men as the show of the week. Albeit Mad Man is a thousand times cleaner and better shot.