Adventures of E. F. Magnuson
Chapter 15
Jun 27 2004 - Oct 6 2008 Jun 29 Start at Trendwest branch of Cendant Corporation. Old friend Carl Pendergraft from Quintus Marketing greets me as I enter. The boss lady Phyllis Tabaca makes me feel very passionate without even trying. Behavior is very important in these matters. Jul 13 Visit four resorts. Jul 15 Create Adventures of EFM website. Jul 18 Add stock photos to Adventures. Jul 21 8:45 AM Effect transfer to Starpoint branch of Cendant. Jul 26 Sell my first tour at Starpoint. Jul 28 Leave Starpoint. Not enough tours. Reno isn't Las Vegas. Jul 30 S+S Pork, Orange Chicken, Pork Chow Mein from HK Diner. Aug 3 Submit three books to publishers. Aug 6 Begin at TMCC Library. Aug 10 Enjoy sauerkraut at 711 Aug 21 Head south. Finally settle matters pertaining to Kenny [Criminal # 4] at Lighthouse. Visit my buddy at Ramada in Tonopah.
Aug 22 Second breakfast in Beatty. Arrive in Las Vegas. Move back into Paradise Hotel. Aug 23 Library. Begin casting update. Aug 25 Joy Sharp contacts me. Rush over to audition and find myself waiting with five really serious cuties ranging in age from eighteen to thirty eight. Feel like I'm at a beauty pageant. Many production people watching. Do very well as improv on-site television commentator for opening of new Wynn Resort. Arcane knowledge from Royal Vacation Suites about Donald Trump's constuction plans help me greatly. They say I'm to old, however. I tell them to think Walter Cronkite.
Aug 26 Sell Daewoo at Carmax. Aug 27 Create my first eBay auction. Aug 31 Visit Cancun Resort Sep 3 Create PayPal account. Sep 6 Visit Grand Canal. Kiss the hand of MeLady. Good to be home. Caesar's Forum Shops. Sep 8 Talk to the Katy Daughter and later Brian. They're roommates now. Sep 9 Search for apartments in the rain. Von's. Sep 12 Mike Rakvica hires me to work for Suntera Resorts at the Stardust Casino. Kim from Royal Vacation Suites works here now. Enjoy samples in the food court at Fashion Show Mall. Say hi to young soldier who thanks me for doing so. Talk with sexy Heather Locklear type girl wearing blue blazer. Sep 14 Get first paycheck loan. Move to Blue Harbor Club. Sep 16 Manpower tests me from 9 AM till 2 PM. They designate me a proficient user of MS Word. Sep 17 Create WLO Payment Page, Sep 23 Arrive at Stardust. Mike tells me I'm actually to work at the Desert Paradise Resort. Take the shuttle way out to south Decatur. Find more friends here from Royal Vacation Suites - Sam, Butick, Eric Jaker. Sep 25 Suntera boss Dick Brady [Criminal # 5] resents my talking with women. Besides, commute is too far at Suntera. Visit Jockey Club and Hilton. Neck ties. Sep 27 Visit Fairfield Showroom at Harrah's. Sep 28 Visit Summer Bay. Sep 29 Enjoy special beef hotdog at South Terminal. Oct 2 Apply to the Peace Corps online. The French Foreign Legion won't have me. Oct 8 Get hired at Everycontractor. Oct 11 Begin training at Everycontactor. Find out from Erin that agents make $300 not $3000. Oct 12 Register at Nevada Job Connect. Oct 13 Work taking down huge tent at the NLV Airport. I'm too old for this. Oct 14 Run into Maverick on the bus. He's doing private Kung Fu training and matches again. Oct 15 At bus stops on Pecos talk with Douglas, a young hepcat and disk jockey. We speak of many things - music, UFOs, government cover-ups and assassinations. Oct 16 See skinny blond with sexy legs on the LVB bus. Oct 18 Renew drivers license. Oct 20 Visit Periwinkle Publications in the rain. Oct 26 Visit Westgate Showroom on the Strip. Run into Brian. He really likes it there. Get hired as reporter by Periwinkle. Oct 27 Talk with two beautiful English girls on the Maryland bus and later a cute redhead in the real estate business. Oct 28 See Erica Caine woman on Swenson bus. Boner City. Nov 1 Sell the Timothy McVeigh correspondence to K. Lofton from Florida. Nov 2 Defrost refrigerator. Go up to Periwinkle to do the paperwork. Jo tells me I am to be the editor, not just a reporter. Enjoy prime rib at the California Buffet downtown. Nov 5 Decide that directories and links will replace message board submissions from here on. Nov 8 Begin as editor of Pulse Magazine. Work is pleasant. Meet Chris, the art director, who until recently worked for Stephan Speilburg in Hollywood. Nov 10 Meet the financier of Pulse at business meeting. Nov 11 Jo [African # 1] has figured out that she can save $30,000 a year by having Chris do my job as well as the art layout. Not surprising considering that recently Jo was thinking of having me learn MacIntosh so I could do both jobs. She pays me for four days. (Gap here until December 4 because entire apartment contents stolen from Blue Harbor Club). During this period do several days of link submissions. Get "Warriors of Heroic Destiny" linked with two of the top British WWII sites. Cannot find Pulse Magazine on the Web. No website. No autoresponse.
Dec 4 Pack everything at Blue Harbor Club. Move to storage room. Become homeless. Visit Flamingo Library. Food 4 Less. Caesar's to eat. Forum Shops. NY. MGM. Dec 5 Seek shelter at the Las Vegas Rescue Mission. Attractive woman singing Christmas songs. Meet two real hobos who ride freight trains. One is Nathan Knowles who I come to regard as a good friend. He is a person of heroic spirituality trapped in the intellectual quicksand of societal deception. He is only 26 and I cal him "Puppy Dog". He was an ordained minister who was defrocked for womanizing. Another friend is Raymond an airforce career man and alcoholic with one tooth from LA. Another is JD from Texas, a male prostitute, who drinks, fights, and gambles his money away. The third night here the guys in charge carry out a dead body in the middle of the night. Dec 9 Get good haircut outdoors from nice lady at Salvation Army. Dec 11 Try the North Las Vegas Library. Dec 12 Next the West Las Vegas Library. Get online for four hours.
Dec 13 Max "future bus" to Food 4 Less. Caesar's. Bellagio. Luxor. Desert Passage. Dec 14 First night at St. Vincent's. One friend I meet here is Joe from Kentucky, a very smart but burned out timeshare OPC. Another is Mike Cheney from Cape Cod who misses his wife. Another is Oscar a production assistant from Hollywood who helps me with my sales pitch on screenplays.
Dec 15 Delighted by my first lunch at Salvation Army, fried fish with potato and peas. Get on a wrong bus. Meet Kimberly Mann, who jerks me around. Will not stay at Salvation Army. Max to Food 4 Less. Caesar's. Bellagio. Squirt at Bellagio. Venetian Convention Center.
Dec 16 Another night out. Caesar's. Bellagio. Paris. Venetian. Mirage. Dec 19 Salvation Army for lunch most days from here on. Become friends with good humored, well educated chap named David. Dec 21. Lied Library. Begin Hollywood cating files.
Dec 22 On the town again. Forum Shops. Caesar's. Paris. Meet two blond whores, Courtnay and Kiley. Dec 24 Coffee with Marcus. Nice chicken dinner across from Sally's.. Dec 25 Explore NW corner of city by bus. Turkey dinner at St. Vincent's. Dec 26 Fashion Show Food Court for early breakfast. Dec 30 Lunch with Doc Springer at Stratosphere. 2005
Jan 3 Visit Blue Harbor Club. All my possessions have been stolen. Jan 7 Lied library. Begin screenplay sample scene. Jan 8 Out again. Forum. Paris. Jan 16 Nathan leaves for Alabama. Jan 18 Run into JD at the Mission. Jan 19 Dry my laundry on a fence. Jan 29 Am attacked as I sleep by a poor schizophrenic boy Pedro Vargas. Feb 2 Run into Joe at Sally's. Feb 7 First breakfast at St. Vincent's. Very good sausage. Feb 8 Chinese food across from Sally's. Feb 9 Vinnie's security carry some guy out in the middle of the night. Feb 10 Guy hit by car at Sally's. Heart attack victim at Vinnie's. Feb 13 Doc and I go over sale. Back too late. Caesar's. Forum Shops. Paris. Meet cute blond whore. Feb 16 Visit Courthouse. Out again. Forum Shops. Paris. Many cuties. Feb 18 Clinic. Have lost 50 pounds. Blood pressure has normalized. Being homeless agrees with me. Should mention other friends. Brian Myrich who spends a lot of time in jail for open container and trespass. Noel who was CEO at a local plastics factory until his eyes gave out. Jerry from Poland. John from Switzerland. Frenchie from Morocco, then France, and a former biker who made the cover of Easy Rider magazine on two occasions. Jerry from the USA who likes his beer. Feb 22 Excellent breakfast at El Cortez. Feb 27 Visit futuristic library at Community College of Southern Nevada. Mar 6 El Cortez. Mar 9 Visit Doolittle Senior Center where the loud members do very little indeed. Mar 10 Visit East Las Vegas Senior Center (ELVSC). Large and beautiful with good lunches. Begin profile submissions to dating websites. One day Oscar visits. I teach him a few computer basics and we go over the Heroic Destiny Productions promotional pages with a fine tooth comb. Mar 13 Breakfast with Oscar at the Opera House. Best hash browns in Las Vegas. Mar 15 Mike-ie is back. In jail for beating up ex wife's new boyfriend. Mar 17 Splendid corned beef dinner at ELVSC. Mar 18 Another friend Charles, a Karate Brown Belt, in the middle of the night has an epileptic seizure and they take him to the hospital. Mar 27 Visit the Franciscans with Oscar. Good food. Visit intermittently hereafter. Apr 1 Visit Walnut Community Center. Nice but noisy. Apr 6 Chicken Chow Mein at Peking Express. Make it to St. Vincent's too late. Food 4 Less. Dula. Caesar's. Paris. Apr 15 Run into Frenchie and Bob at DTC. We go to MacDonald's and then the Stardust where they play Sports Book every morning. Frenchie and I go to Wells Fargo and DTC where he gets me a discount bus pass. Apr 16 Ham and eggs at Binion's Horseshoe. Take half the ham in a doggy bag. At DTC run into Brian Myrich who hasn't eaten for awhile and give him the ham.
Apr 17 8:30 AM. Play High roler in Warner Brothers flick "Lucky You" at the Horseshoe. Background for scene with Robert Duvall. Exchange greetings with Drew Barrymore's pretty young understudy at lunch. Finish at 10:00 PM. April 19 Breakfast at the Market Street Cafe. Try the Chile at Wendy's. Mm Mm Good. Apr 21 Jack n Box. Potatoes with melted cheddar and bacon. Mm Mm Good. At St Vincent's Brian Myrich tells me that he knew both Charlie Manson and Serhan Serhan in prison. May 2 Can't get into paid shelter until tomorrow night. Pay for six days. Prime Rib at the Market Street Cafe. Eat four times more than I'm used to. Forum Shops. Caesar's. Bellagio. Paris.
May 9 Visit new Wynn Resort. Forum Shops. Caesar's. Bellagio. Paris May 11 Visit Barry Levinson. Bigelow sent him a letter in March denying everything. Barry wants $3000 up front to sue. Says we can win. Can't afford to do it. May 13 Finally see the Ferarris and Masaratis at Wynn. More at Caesar's Rotunda plus a Saran, a Lamborghini, and a new Aston Martin. May 17 Visit Brian Holder in Summerlin. Set up Reality TV segments for CBS on his computer. Jun 5 Visit Poker Palace for eggs and bacon. Cute little blond waitress.
Jun 6 6:30 AM. Arrive at Santa Fe Station. Talk with actors Derek Eustice, Brian Burke, Izzy Osman from Hollywood. Play rock fan in new movie "Siren". Erin Gray is the star in this one. Hear some good music. Get back too late. Forum Shops. Caesar's. Bellagio. Paris. Jun 7 Poker Palace. Jun 15 Register "Warriors" with the WGA. Jun 16 Poker Palace. Jun 26 Poker Palace. Jun 28 Visit Coleman Senior Center. Jun 30 Visit ELVSC. Chicken sandwich for lunch. Jul 1 Back to noisy Doolittle. Jul 4 Veteran's Barbecue. Jul 6 Get Bigelow legal process going at Court and Constable's Office. Jul 7 Poker Palace. Jul 12 Meet with David Scholler at UNLV to discuss "Warriors". He says networking is the answer. Jul 13 Open P O Box downtown. Jul 14 Visit NW Las Vegas Senior Center. Suggest necktie party at St. Vincent's.
Jul 26 Guy named Brian in the next bunk has a seizure so intense that it looks like an invisible entity is dribbling him like a basketball. Jul 27 Have confrontation with yelling dirty-mouth African on the Rancho bus after he curses and insults the lady bus driver for no reason. This sort of thing happens about three times daily. Integration has failed. Affrican savages and Europeans are simply not compatible and there's no reason why they should be. No amount of Socialist propaganda can make a lie into the truth. Jul 28 Loud African just released from prison, drunk on the bus, nearly sits in a girl's lap because he "doesn't see" her. He grabs my arm for no reason. I shake him loose, tell him not to touch me, and he backs off. Jul 29 Because of bus problems, Jill (from England) and I spend the afternoon together. Jul 30 Crazy African in the donut line tries to start problem with me then with a big fat guy who comes along. Finally he freaks out and leaves.
Hard Rock Hotel audition for America's Best Talent Awards. Perform Shakespeare type monologue. Lynn, the casting director, seems very surprised that I've had no training. She says "You're good - not great yet - but you will be if you take lessons". She gives me a script for a short scene and twenty minutes later I deliver it. Says I need coaching to smooth rough edges, but that it would be a real mistake not to pursue acting as a career. Aug 3 Insane African comes into the breakfast line cursing and hugging people who don't want it. Security escorts him out. Later the police arrest him out front. Aug 11 Raymond is back from LA looking very tanned. Aug 12 Enjoy fine breakfast buffet at Terrible's with Larry Metheney. David Aubrey rides there with us but goes off to play slot machines. Starting with fresh strawberries, Larry and I eat like pigs and discuss my "Warriors" project. He hopes to hook me up with production people in Hollywood and possibly help with funding. Aug 13 Police pick up some guy at Sally's for pulling a knife. Aug 14 Splendid roast pork at the Franciscans. Aug 16 Hear that a friend of mine, Mark, died in the hospital about three weeks ago. He was tall and wore a jaunty looking Australian style hat. He looked like what he was, an adventurer involved in smuggling operations all over Cenral and South America. I admired his detailed knowlege of classic films. Aug 18 Enjoy good breakfast at Sally's. Will eat here from now on. Aug 23 Good roast pork at Sally's. My friend Chris, the Alisaurus, enjoys this very much too. Aug 24 Finally connect with Roman at Creative Image Casting. Sep 16 Lose my lawsuit against Bigelow Properties, but in the process of hearing defense testimony, find out that Joeseph Vargas [Mexican # 3] stole all my things. Sep 17 Begin film acting preliminaries with the Actor's Gym at Sandy Hackett's Comedy Club. Solemn skull decor for Halloween. Classmates are Nicole, Scott, and Chris. Phil is a very smart man and I expect to learn a great deal from him. Sep 19 Attend special invitation premiere of Siren. Run into Randall Robinson on the bus. The film is good, but too short. Much of the good music wasn't used. Length 1 hr 45 minutes. Get back too late. Strip. Sep 23 Pleasant visit up to Hollywood Avenue. Finally meet Marilee Lear and grandson Damien. She gives good advice about pruning down my resume. Sep 26 Visit Big Picture Studios to find nobody home. Oct 8 Tubercular chap spits on floor all night. Security says they will "86" him. Oct 9 Bald African insanely roaring insult at passers by. Police cars converge on area, but I'm around the corner and see nothing. Oct 10 Move into a small private room. Big improvement. Quiet. Sleep well. Oct 25 Audition as bartender for "America's Most Wanted" with Marilee Lear. Do poorly. Realize that to act without putting on an accent is harder for me than just using my own voice. Nov 17 Give HDP card to cute young girl Jesse on the Civic Center bus. Dec 8 Pop into Mandalay Bay Events Center where they're shooting "Rocky Balboa". Stay just long enough so I won't feel guilty about putting it on my resume. Dec 17 Go to an audition on Alta. Turns out to be a donut commercial for no pay. Give them my card and leave promptly. Dec 20 Visit Linda for open casting call. Very beautiful young blonde Ashton helps me quickly. See young chap there who looks like Leonardo DiCaprio. Saw him also at the premiere of "Siren" and last time I visited Marilee. Dec 22 Interviewer at Nevada Job Connect says that with my eyesight I should forget employment and just live on SSI. Ironical that I can edit a magazine but not work for one at entry level. Dec 24 Walk down to the Mission for dinner. Run into my friend Joe who is wearing a handsome business suit. 2006 Jan 3 Get stomach pills from Isaac at UMC Pharmacy. Jan 4 Magickal early morning atmosphere on Freemont. Enjoy breakfast at McD. Jan 6 Run into chap I knew at Royal Vacation Suites.
Jan 9 Beautiful young production lady allows me onto the set as an impromtu extra for "CSI" episode called "Killer". Right across from the Plaza. Jan 27 Strange breakfast at Cambridge Center. Run into Tally Ban. Jan 31 Have medical exam in connection with SSI application. Feb 18 There will be no further compromise at the Dullard Gymnasium. Feb Oscar and I visit Wynn Resort and Forum Shops Feb 22 Visit West Flamingo Club for first time. Feb 24 Another first at Parkdale Avenue Club. Mar 1 Do very well on psych exam for SSI. Mar 5 Visit Venetian Mar 8 First visit to Paradise Club Mar 12 Fashion Show Mall Mar 25 Oscar and I audition for "The Sopranos" Dinner Theater. I do very well but am amazed by his acting ability. Others, however, do even better and look more the part. I went thinking it was for TV, but enjoyed it anyway. Apr 9 Fashion Show Mall. See many paintings by Ron Wood. Proprietor met him recently. Invites me to a special gallery opening two weeks hence. Says it will be a good occasion to promote screenplay. May 7 African asks me for tobacco. When I don't help him with this he calls me filthy names which I reflect right back on him. This infuriates him. Later I see him raging around shouting at me from across the street. May 8 On the bus yesterday's tobacco savage starts fight with a young African who seems to be winning when a big oriental guy breaks them up. May 16 Sunnyside and bacon at El Cortez. May 18 Everything omelet at Terrible's buffet. May 28 Explore Freemont and Neonopolis. Jun 7 Young African clobbering piano keys in full computer lab. Supervisor asks him to stop. He refuses and keeps on. I suggest she call the police. She says she will if he doesn't stop. Jun 10 Conversation with Don. First tale. African named Demetrius complains that Grant "the damned white man" is on the computer again when he wants it. Situation escalates. Violent struggle ensues. Demetrius throws Grant to the ground giving him a black eye. Second tale. Husband of Korean woman catches his wife in kinky scenario with Marylin who has declared that she is really a man inside and loves the Korean woman. Don has a tape about it all which he sends to city officials on the pretext that their concern about customer service will make this relevant information. Jun 11 Visit Poovarata where Brian Myrich cuts my hair. John gives me some snazzy Oscar De La Renta socks. Jun 14 Visit Vitamin World for DNA and SOD. Eve: Drunken African threatens me as I wait for the bus. He's about twice my size. Finally I warn him that if attacks me, he'll be dead in three seconds. Bus comes. I tell the driver and she phones the marshall. Jun 21 On Sahara at Paradise insane African woman approaches bus stop yelling at me and a Mexican not to disregard her special dispensation as God and her very special privileges. She speaks bitterly and viciously against "the white people". She points to the gutter and and tells me I must go there. I informed her that eventually she will have to go to a concentration camp, be put in front of a firing squad, then thrown into a pit of quick lime. This calmed her down and gave her a thoughtful demeanor. Once again saved by the bus. Jun 22 Three sunnyside with cheese at Terrible's. Buy new Academy ring at the Hilton. At Las Vegas Library an albino African with African accent refuses to get off computer reserved by a cute little white woman. Calls her "idiot bitch". She complains. Security asks him to leave. African denies it all very forcefully. Looks like the security guys believe him so I tell them that I witnessed it and the woman is not lying. They get him on another computer. Later I meet the cute lady outside and we have a very pleasant few minutes together. She is an astrologer from San Francisco. Wish she were staying. Jun 23 Sitting with a Jewish doctor, enjoy a very good hamburger at the UMC cafeteria. Jun 26 6:00 AM Two sunnyside and very tender ham at Binion's. Jun 27 Move into nice little apartment without bedbugs. My legs will heal eventually. With the novels I am about to write my situation has never been better. Must find some way to get a car. Jun 28 Food 4 Less. First normal grocery shopping since 2004. Jul 12 Visit Gothic store. Talk with cute girl named Candy. Jul 22 Monte Carlo. Register with More Casting from Hawaii.
Aug 1 Interesting thirteen hours in the Mystere Theater at Treasure Island shooting "Knocked Up". Spend the whole day with a cute girl named Amy who was asked to be the Drew Barrymore stand-in for "Lucky You". She refused because she had to take care of her child. Awesome elfish looking acrobats from Russia. Paul Rudd from "Friends" is on hand and does a scene with us. Aug 3 Register for Introduction to Acting at CSN. Aug 4 Get desk lamp for studies. Aug 15 Excellent lunch on Hamburger Tuesday. Aug 29 Register at Vegas Casting. Sep 16 Do Elof II Monologue in Little Theater. Do well but nervous Sep 23 Do it again in Horn Theater. Less nervous Sep 14 Flooding makes it impossible to cross Las Vegas Boulevard. No electricity in Little Theater. Do "Wall Street" monologue in the Common Room. Need to learn coordination of body movements with lines.
Nov 4 Do "Wall Street" again in the Little Theater. Ed Gryska, our teacher, says this time he would cast me. Now if I can just get him on the phone with agencies all over town....
Nov 14 African hitting child on bus. Old white woman speaks up to him about it. He threatens to beat her instead, then tells the kid that her behavior is white supremacy. See neurologist about getting MRI. Nov 26 Insane African comes bellowing out of Las Vegas Library shouting that all white men are fagots. This is a common theme with African males in America who seem to be the most self-deluding group of people on Earth. Dec 2 In the Little Theater, do a scene from "Hello Dolly" with Amanda Blake, one of Las Vegas' dearest little sveethearts. Dec 7 Finally get rid of sore toe problem at special clinic.
Dec 17 Arrive just in time for early morning shoot at Piero's as dinner guest in "Player 5150" for Azurelite Pictures. Involves singer playing piano. Staring Kelly Carlson, Kathleen Robertson, and Elaine Hendrix. Really serious blonde production cutie present on this one. 2007 Jan 6 See Marilee Lear at her new mountain location. Visit Belagio to check out costume. Jan 13 Audition for small speaking role in "21" the true story about MIT students who practiced card counting to twelve decks and took Las Vegas for millions. Feb 12 Do "Elof II" monologue at CSN. Doug Baker says I'm powerful. Feb 24 Go to audition for "Identity" but lack needed information to complete the forms. Feb 26 Kim at Cool Blue Talent calls saying that Marriott Hotels wants to use me for a magazine ad. Am very flattered but decline. Mar 3 Audition for reality TV show about decaying marriages. They have to use actors because they can't fi"nd real couples who will do the show. Can't remember what it's called. Mar 5 Do "Elof II again. At one point I do really well when I get mad because this immerses me in the character. Mar 13 Write "The Bluff".
Mar 14 African # 2 at bus stop starts calling me dirty names when I won't give him fifty cents. Threatens to have me killed. Starts throwing stones. Finally throws drink with ice and showers not just me, but bus driver too. Hope I catch him alone someday. Mar 26 Do "Wall Street" sitting down as before. Fairly well recieved. Mar 29 After MRI go to Paris for lunch. At La Creperie meet girl from Michigan who looks like Sandra Bullock. Give her a business card just in case. Crepe Forestiere for the first time with spinach, mushrooms, Boursin, etc. Very good.
Go to the V Theater at Planet Hollywood as per my invitation to enjoy a good show and help out as background for Nathan Burton's sitcom pilot. Get into the VIP line but enter instead as guest of entertainment critic Judy Thorburn, a very fetching woman who I at first naturally assume is an actress. Nathan does amazing feats of magic which I find impossible to explain.
Mar 31 Eve: Indie producer calls wanting me for a role as a pilot who crashes his plane in the desert for a science fiction movie to be shot near Redrock Canyon. Sounds very interesting. Special effects. Giant spiders. Reluctantly decline because of recent knee injury. Recommend Oscar.
Apr 2 Run into Oscar who I haven't seen for months and tell him.
Apr 15 Very proud of my friend Adam Shaefer as George Raft in play at the Horn Theater directed by my teacher Doug Baker. All about Ben Seagal and the Flamingo.
Apr 16 "Wall Street" again. Doug and I disagree about the character, but I tell him that I'll use it as a constructive challange to my acting ability because in the field a director might also ask me to do it his way.
Apr 18 Do scene from "Hello Dolly" with Phylis. Doug spends a lot of time with us on it.
Apr 22 See play again.
Mar 30 Do very well at audition for a role in "The Forbidden".
May 2 "Hello Dolly" again with Phylis then run way across town to a call-back for "The Forbidden". Read with the producer. Much better than last time.
May 15 Sign up for IMDb Pro.
Jun 6 Arrive about 6:00 AM on the set of "Yonkers Joe". Finally meet Julie Goldman after three years. I never realized she's such a dear little cutie. Enjoy excellent breakfast buffet. Begin shooting about 9:00. It's all guys today unfortunately because were playing a bachelor party. Make many new friends: Will Roya, Joe Alexander, Eliot London, Ben Watts, and Stu Chaiken to name a few. Chaz Palmanteri arrives. His car stops right in front of me. As he gets out we say hi to each other. Facing camera do five takes of scene with two stand-is as background for Palmanteri. Fine lunch of Talapia fillet, baked Acorn Squash, and tomato with Monterrey Jack and basil. Late in afternoon on camera again with Palmanteri. Hope to see it all. Beautiful day. 85 degrees. Slight sunburn. Finish at 8:15 PM.
Jun 13 Write "The Disgrace of Ling Fong".
Jun 19 Write "The Kitten".
Jun 23 Write "The Story of Ham".
June 25 Write "Top Sow".
June 26 Write "The Torso".
Jun 27 Ad lib for "Stripper" at Rainbow Bar and Grill.
Jun 30 Finally meet producer Christopher Hood at casting for his new movie "Falling Angels".
Jul 2 Strange Day. Arrive early at Howard Hughes Center to perform monologue as per casting for "Stripper". Elevators don't work. Front doors lock down. Little blond cutie named Mismo comes back downstairs. Talks like Eva Gabor and calls me "Darling". Tells me they have moved the audition to Arvil Street. She and I hitch a ride with big sexy blond actress named Lisa. She knows Doug Baker and tells me he's doing a show on the Strip with Pam Anderson. Many friends at the audition. Unbearable pain from sore muscles as I wait in line. Do uninspired job on monologue and get home just in time for dinner.
Jul 8 Muscle pain doesn't cease. Go into hospital for three days. Turns out to be damage to rarely used muscles from excess push-ups.
Aug 8 African bull dyke on bus calls me white trash and then goes on about it for half an hour because I try to protect my hearing by blocking my ears when she yells past me to the driver. Says I'm a white instigator. There will be a reckoning.
Aug 20 Tell Jennifer about her options with me.
Aug 30 First class in Independent Filmmaking. See "American Movie".
Sep 6 Run into Stu Chaiken at the Las Vegas 48 Hour Film Project Awards. Also Ben Watts who plays a demon in one of the thirteen films that we see.
Sep 30 Morning. Finish main MySpace friend requests with several top fashion models.
Oct 4 See "Stranger Than Paradise" in Indie Film class.
Oct 11 Look for Reno landmarks in "Hard 8".
Nov 1 Enjoy Steve Buscemi in "Living in Oblivion".
Nov 20 Excalibur Thanksgiving dinner at St. Vincents. Talk with archetypal pretty daughter.
Dec 1 Enlist four helpers with truck and get moved easily into new apartment.
Dec 3 Big grocery bill at F4L.
Dec 5 Get giant Toaster Oven.
Dec 18
Have Crepe Du Soleil at Paris. Visit Mandalay Bay. At Luxor am told they are going to tear down the Sphinx as part of the program of de-Egyptianizing Luxor. Visit MGM Grand.
Dec 19 Buy furniture on Cheyenne.
Dec 21 Shepherd EC. Hawaiian Barbecue. TV pricing.
Dec 22 Buy lamps finally.
Dec 24 Chicken Chow Mein and Barbecue Pork at Amanda Express.
Dec 26 Prime rib and world's largest potato at Poker Palace.
Dec 28 Visit CSN Charleston Campus for first time.
Dec 30 Furniture arrives
2008
Jan 19 Get "Unfinished Tales" and "Gormenghast" at Barnes and Noble.
Jan 22 See "Hearts of Darkness" in Film Directing class
Jan 29 "Lost in LaMancha" in class
Feb 5 "Jacob's Ladder"
Feb 12 "Raging Bull"
Feb 19 Shorts on production of "Raging Bull". See "King of Comedy"
Feb 26 "Children of Men"
Mar 5 Visit Venetian and explore the new Palazo resort. Nothing but top designer stores upstairs. Nice waterfall inside.
Mar 9 Begin reading "Unfinished Tales"
Mar 11 Midterm then "No Country for Old Men" in class
Mar 12 Get new class ring at Starfleet
Mar 25 "Stranger Than Paradise" again
Apr 1 "To Die For" in class
Apr 3 Go to "Billionaire Mafia" audition. Sit talking with production people. Turns out this is a comedy show. One chap tells me amazing stories about Frank Dux being able to function blindfolded just as though he were not. This show stars really serious cutie named FiFi who I am privileged to meet before the shoot [Frenchy Angelique of VH1]. As I watch I realize the concept is really not right for me. Get hungry and leave but I'm thinking I should get back to this for a supporting role in one or two episodes.
Apr 15 Visit new dentist Dr Benny. See "Amelie" in French.
Apr 22 See "Pan's Labyrinth" in Spanish.
Apr 29 "The Descent" in class.
May 6 "Evil Dead II" in class.
May 13 Film festival in class. Enjoy claymation and Sandy's French New Wave film shot at Wetlands Park.
May 19 Long hike to PO to retrieve Gemstone Globe.
Jun 8 Attend first Film, Television, and Theater Artists of Nevada Meetup. Talk with Scott Anderson, one of the Xanadu people, and with Stage Left producer Gene Kelly. I'm going to start doing principle roles in small indie films until I build a good reel or two.
Jul 6 Finish Tolkien's "Unfinished Tales" through Aldarion and Erendis.
Jul 8 Visit La Creperie. Enjoy hearty Crepe Bayonne. Luxor. Get last of the Lapis obelisks at the Pyramid Store.
Aug 25 First Movies and Media class. See "4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days".
Sep 29 See movie "Unusual Suspects" in class.
Oct 2 Visit pool area at Caesar's Palace to be considered as stand-in for one of the principals in movie "The Hangover". This intrigues me because it will require beard and wig. My youthful physique keeps me from getting the role. Beautiful women in bikinis, however, make it worth the trip.
Oct 3 First comedy movie "The Hangover". Start shooting about 5:50 PM Friday and finish at 7:00 AM Saturday. Then David Anthony calls at 1:00 PM. I'm fast asleep. Car hits my bus on the way. Find new bus and arrive on time. We shoot from 6:00 PM to 8:00 AM Sunday. Meet interesting people. Little brunette who looks a bit like Finola Hughes. Singer / Guitar Player Jamie Valle who knows most famous metal musicians from when he was DJ in Salt Lake. Actor Mark Polo from LA who was body double for Rutger Hauer in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". His wife is tall, very cute, and writes songs. Meet beautiful tall young redhead who seems to like me, but loose track of her when shouting pig invades the desert line. While doing close background as Three Card Player in between scenes one of the stars Ed Helms sits next to me to rest. Tell him about "Billionaire Mafia".
Oct 6 See strange movie "He Loves Me. He Loves Me Not" in class.
Nov 5
9:00 AM Leave. 12:15 Beatty. Death Valley. 4:00 Big Pine
Nov 6
8:30 Leave. 2:00 Colfax. Braunsweiger and Monterrey Jack. 3:00 PVMS. 5:00 Grass Valley
Nov 7
8:30 Leave. 12:30 World's Finest Pastrami and Cheese. 3:30 Big Pine
Nov 8
8:45 Leave. 12:30 Beatty. 2:30 Home. Unpack
Nov 19
Visit LVIFF Headquarters to pick up assigned films for review
Nov 29 Sort Old papers
Dec 3 Return films to LVIFF Headquarters
Dec 26 Remount ski patches
Dec 27 Put commemorative quarters into 50 state album.
2009
On winter break talk to Campus Police about computer policy and find out that CSN doesn't mind kids spending six hours a day killing people in virtual reality. If a grown man looks at pictures of women for thirty seconds however, they will initiate strong punitive action. Are the school officials sex perverts? What are they promoting? Why are we always expected to attribute rightious motivation to those who behave wrongly?
In the 1960s we explained the "Make Love Not War" philosophy to these idiots but they just haven't gotten it yet. All this reflects the proliferation of morally inferior people on the campuses because of Socialist Affirmative Action programs. Wake up America! Socialism doesn't work. Don't subsidize inferiority, destroy it!
The sickness pervades not just the schools. At both city and county community centers it's common to find bull dyke supervisors who routinely persecute men for looking at pictures of women. They want public funding, but give back parochial lesbian viewing policy in their never ending battle against human normalcy. God damn them to their graves! I'm proud of the public libraries, however, who base their viewing policy on the Bill of Rights.
Jan 24 Prime rib at Market Street Cafe on the way to Frank Sinatra Avenue nightclub where producer is screening Detective Douchey Episodes 3 and 4. When I asked NFA about audition they forwarded letter to my friend Stu Chaiken. He wrote and told me I should come to see this. When I arrive I find out he is the star and I must say he sure looks happy. Talk with Sean Webb but see very few other movie people that I recognize. When they start to run the film the volume is too loud so I leave.
Feb 17 Run into Stu again as I enter Silverton Casino for the premiere of "The Casino Job". Chris Hood sent me an invitation to this and a large portion of the Las Vegas Film industry is here. Talk with Stu, Joe Alexander, and Phil Valentine who I haven't seen since 2005. Recognize Dean Mauro from link he sent regarding my film projects and we talk briefly. When the movie runs I see that Dean is the main star and a very good actor besides. Curtis Joe Walker, another project respondee, is in this and also very good.
Mar 17 St Patrick Day Dinner at my East Club. Talk with Trina. Mike Smith is present and I'm happy to see him. He works here now. When the dinner is served there is cabbage in great abundance and potatoes as far as the eye can see but... the tiny little piece of corned beef given is fit only for the Wee Folk you know. Never again I tell Ye. Elsewhere next year.
April 9 Greaser cop gives me a 190 dollar ticket for crossing the street with nobody coming in either direction. The CSN Campus Police didn't have time to investigate the theft of my wallet at school but this joker has plenty of time to harass and rob older people for common-sense pedestrian behavior where it will save walking an extra thoussnd feet. The cop could see that I was limping from a knee injury. What goes around will come around... Gas Chambers. Ovens. Ash for our fields.
Hereabouts finish my review site. There are now 168 all linked in the IMDb. Will add more as I see new movies.
May 6. Breakfast. Eggs Benedict at the Market Street Cafe.
May 19 4:30 PM Arrive at Casting Entertainment to audition for movie "Swallow the Sun". Run into Phil Valentine. Dean Mauro tells me that he quotes what I said about his acting in my review of "The Casino Job". I'm thinking I should write a part into "Warriors" for Benvenuto Mussolini. Perfect for Dean. He says he thonk he could do it. Stop for prime rib at the Market Street Cafe on the way home.
Jol 10. Breakfast. Eggs Benedict at Market Street Cafe
Jul. Visit Poker Palace. Pulled pork sandwich. No more prime rib. Place taken over by loudmouth monkeys. Never again. Within twelve days make up for it with prime rib at the Market Street Cafe.
Aug 27. Finish first feature screenplay "The Future: Liberty or Death?" Going to write a second one, then get an agent.
Sep 25. 3:45 Mack Casting. Two monologues. Robert Radin wants me to join SAG. Says he can get me speaking roles. 6:45 Staryeyed Films shoot. Should have worn a suit. Meet the director.
Oct2. Balermo for lunch at Phillipine Restaurant on Maryland. Tour Boulevard Mall. Terriaki Chicken at foodcourt.
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