I have seen more dead bodies that I care to remember...but the
one I remember the most is seeing the dead guy washed up on the
shores of Bali when I was out doing surfing lesson with long board.
It was rough water... seeing that dude lay there, made me lay my
surfboard down and go get a strong cocktail. yuck, he was all bloated
and just, yuck!
In 1990 I was doing my graduating video (just dated myself, heh)
and I chose my close friend who got diagnosed with AIDS. He was
a big time partier and we had a ton of fun together, but this hit
hard. I did documentary on the L-train/subway in chicago and train
ride represented his life, ...peeps at the school thought I was
making porn film cuz I had guys sucking each others toes in the
video...I had to put a black cloth over my edit bay window cuz of
the controversy. But I won first place! Remember this is back in
1990 when AIDS was taboo and gay not as widely accepted. And here
comes Ms. Lori shocking the hell out of the school.
Why did I get kicked out of the sorority?... I went to spring break
at South Padre Island and entered the 'tan line' contest. well,
needless to say it was showing more than tan lines in order to win.
I was as dark as could be but needed to show a bit more.... I won
3x, got too much exposure, the Pi Phi Sorority sisters were not
happy with the attention and I didn't 'represent' the sisterhood
appropriately. It was the buzz of the campus and was on a ton of
videos...so I turned in my Pi Phi sweatshirt - but it was cool,
too clicky for me anyway. and I had so much fun. My two other sorority
sisters entered the wet t-shirt contest and it became a topless
contest with whipcream - they tag teamed (I was the one squirting
them with the whipcream cans) it got so out of control, we had to
be put up on 3rd floor balacony of hotel for the contest. Needless
to say they got kicked out too! Now that I think about it...I guess
I was content.
Keanu Reeves is straight, he was doing my neighbor and she was
hot. He drove a Norton cycle up and down our road, his band sucked,
they use to rehearse in the house and you could hear it across the
canyon. When he moved, me and my roommate when into his house and
scored stuff he left behind like his hockey stick, My Own Private
Idaho movie sign and other stuff. hehe the Mansion had 8 of us in
it, all walks of life. We had some wild parties. Mark Cuban was
one of my roomies - he started Broadcast.com and sold it for billiions
now he owns the Dallas basketball team you may have heard of him!
When I worked at cable channel back in 1996-1999, couple of guys
were working on something in an office in our space...turns out
it was porn...I was like very interesting...it was original owners
of Paycom...they grew in our offices and took over our space when
we all left cuz some peeps lined their pockets and we tanked after
all that hard work. And poof, paycom is what it is today.
Playboy....I worked for a master merchandising licensor of Playboy.
Used to work out of his huge house in hills of Beverly Hills...I
worked poolside making deals for Playboy licensing deals such as
watches, clothing, etc etc. Had nice two hour lunches on the veranda
that his housekeeper cooked for us and guests, he was French so
they are used to the long lunch thing. I also did a big presentation
for Britney Spears at the time with this guy and they got her perfume
line I believe. I called it World Britney.
WHAT DID I DO FOR XBIZ?.... I think the post would be shorter asking
'what didn't I do for XBiz' haha. I was brought on board to build
up the brand, exposure, sales, presence, promotions, marketing,
events, and create a publication to launch... I believe I did my
job...
I broker content and media buys across all resource sites. and
I partner strategic relationships for new business ventures that
I cannot discuss at the moment. a few in the works People hit me
up all the time looking for certain things, I put them in my network
pool and I help them find their match if I can. Maybe I should start
singing...."Matchmaker, Matchmaker, make me a match, find me a find,
catch me a catch...." I'm a Jew what can I say...I know the words
to that song. I'm corny too, did I mention that?
Thought I would be in LA for a couple years, it's been like 12~
Time to go....heh. I'm ready to head back east, maybe NY. I hear
there are a lot of cool webmasters there too But my daughter, (I'm
a single mom) has a commercial agent and LA is where that stuff
is at so thought we'd test it out... speaking of, she has an audition
for Wells Fargo commercial in an hour.