Jan. 4 American Greed: This a TV show that Patrick watches. They covered Lou Pearlman, the guy who created Backstreet Boys and Nsync. I remember in summer 2008 I read that he got arrested for embezzlement and fraud. This episode went really in depth. It was unintentionally funny.
At first LP did a career in blimps, by putting advertisements on it. Then he veered into boy bands. He did make an airplane company, then expanded to a record company. He had a restaurant called Pearl Steakhouse. He said that he had 80 planes, millions of dollars, when really he had one plane.
The highlights were old boy band members Take 5 were there. Jeff (went by Clay) and his brother Ryan were in the band. They said something about how they were getting $500/month at first, and then $2000/month. They can interview these guys, and only show footage of Backstreet Boys and Nysnc. These boy bands may not be making any music right now, but they are still really famous. They talked to Dana Wright (former BSB manager).
They discussed BSB lawsuit against LP for $10 million. Nsync lawsuit to be freed from the contract. They settled out of court by paying $30 million to LP. It was all over the entertainment news that LP wasn't a good manager in 2000, 2001 if his bands are suing him. In 2006, I remember Lance from Nsync did an interview with 20/20. He said he was performing every night, but really making $35/day.
They showed some unseen footage of the O-town auditions like Dan Miller singing. It was funny to see FBI at LP's mansion taking boxes of evidence out of it.
Flashback: Yesterday, I was brainstorming ideas on how to write for Danijel Mandic and this scene came to me. It was from the comedy show Weird Science in the 90s. I had to look up the characters name. Wyatt and Gary are computer nerds. There was a scene where Wyatt's big brother Chett reveals that he hides guns in the home.
Outside there was gravel. Then Chett lifts up this rug, and all the gravel is removed, and there were these big machine guns lying there. I was like: "Whoa. I didn't expect that. That's a good hiding place, but at the same time you should have those guns locked up."
Gary: Is this safe?
C then said something about war.
Danijel Mandic: I looked up my blog, and it turns out I wrote about this guy 3 times already. Get ready for a 4th post. I was imagining him in different roles. I re watched Flashpoint's episode "Between Heartbeats" the other day. His character Petar became a sniper to protect his village. I also saw him play a soldier being reunited with his family in Degrassi goes to Hollywood.
I can see DM playing a special- ops guy, soldier, security guard, cop, private investigator, police informant, vigilante, paramedic, and karate teacher. He did pretend to be part of the Strategic Response Unit (SRU) to gain access to a building to get more sniper shots. I can see him being a serious, tortured hero. A sympathetic bad guy who's tough.
I did see him in the mini-series Guns where he plays a DJ. I can imagine him being a bartender. It's kind of hard to imagine him other than law enforcement roles.
Jan. 5 Dollhouse: I was thinking about the episode where there were a lot of plot twists and surprises. It was unpredictable and clever. It's where the senator played by Alexis Denisof (Wesley from Buffy and Angel) was with Echo. At the beginning you think AD's wife is a doll because AD says: "It's like she was made for me."
Then later it turns out AD is the doll, and his wife is his handler. Psych! I wouldn't have thought of that. There's something about Law and Order: SVU always trying to throw in plot twists, but I can often predict them. Mainly because they usually have to have a dark or bittersweet ending.
Charity: I was reading in 24 about how the Youth Emergency Shelter needs money. Here's a New Year's resolution: donate money to charity. You can send like $5/ month to any charity of your choice. It kind of annoys me that everybody donates in Nov. and Dec., but not of money goes to charities the rest of the year.
Or you can donate time by volunteering. Donate what you can afford.
Bridge: Here's a mild rant. They're closing down Dawson Bridge and it's going to add 10 more minutes to my bus route. It's going to be closed to Nov. for renovations.
News: In 24, the Canadian Hiring Forecast said that 29% of employers are going to hire more permanent and full-time employees. That's good.
In Metro it said:
2009: 27 murders, 15 solved
2008: 35 murders, 10 solved
The numbers say less murders, and more are solved.
Script: I emailed John Kerr updating my progress in the script. I emailed another producer if they're producing movies this year. I contacted 7 producers in total to see if they want to produce it. I contacted a couple of them 6 months ago, and maybe things have changed.
Josh Miller has rejected The Fighter. However, he said that he will read another script from me that's a different project. That should motivate me.
Jan. 6: I read in Metro that 52 unmarried Muslim couples are facing charges for sexual misconduct and possible jail terms for being caught alone. They were arrested by Malaysia's Islamic morality police. I didn't know there was that kind of police. Y
ou can be arrested for being together with your boyfriend/girlfriend. Fortunately in Canada we don't have that kind of police.
Joke: That also reminds me of that joke on the Jamie Kennedy Experiment. There is guy wearing a stuffed alligator suit. It had on a baseball cap and sneakers. He was selling drugs, and the police caught him and arrested him.
Alligator: Oh what? It's against the law to wear an alligator suit? You wouldn't treat Barney like this!
Graham Wardle: I told one production company for what it's worth is that I see Graham Wardle playing the lead in Fighter. GM plays Ty on Heartland. I typed him up on my blog twice already.I can also see Daren Kagasof (Ricky from Secret Life of the American Teenager) playing the lead. I will say both the characters Ty and Ricky are bad boys with good hearts. That is how I describe my lead Shawn.
Rant: I talked to one of my supervisors at work. I was told Jan. is going to be really busy at the call centre, and this week it wasn't. He said in mid-Jan. it will get really busy. I got 12 hours scheduled, and then one of the shifts was canceled and I got an hour cut off. That's about 7 hours I'll be working.
Jan. 7 Flash Gordon: Here's another rant. I bought the Flash Gordon dvds from HMV. I took the discs home and watched the pilot. Then I saw the second episode was skipping. Then the 3rd, 4th episode didn't read at all. Then the 5th episode was skipping.
I went to downtown and told them about it. HMV said they'll call me when they get the new dvds transferred to the store. I then watched the 6th episode on a 2nd disc, and it worked fine. Then it had trouble reading the 7th ep.
Time to Win: It's just like the song from Down with Webster. I just did a survey for McDonald's so I can get a chance to win a weekly prize of $1000. The other day I filled out a survey to win $10,000 from this funeral home. They asked questions about if you have ever planned a funeral before.
At my call centre, they created this reward system. If you get the most completes, you win some sort of mystery prize. That's good because ever since I started the job, I kept track of how many completes I had per day. Then I add it up to per week.
As Virgil said: "New year, new rules." That means were not allowed to use the internet for fun during our breaks or at all there. That's fine. I'm not angry. I am at the lack of hours. It sure makes me appreciate working at retail. At least I'm guaranteed hours.
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