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Published: July 27th 2005
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You know I'm not one to toot my own horn but if you happened to be watching The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last Friday there's a good chance you may have seen my hat. Yes thats right! I was there in the audience, front row center, I even got to shake his hand...actually it was more of a hand pat but I'm sure if he had more time it would have been a full doublehanded shake. Actually I'm not a huge Leno fan, I'd rather take a nose-bleed seat at a Conan O'brian taping or better yet John Stewart but the tickets were free and it was a new experience. The guests that afternoon- er, "night" were William H. Macy (Fargo, Pleasentville, Magnolia) and some dude from that new documentary Murderball, there was also an outdoor concert featuring Led Zepplins Robert Plant as musical guest. He's a crusty crusty man but he gave a good show.Perhaps most amazing about the entire affair was how good our seats were despite the fact that we were probably the last group to be let in. We got there late and arrived to find a line that was as long as a football field. They must have let in 300 people before we got there so we were expecting seats somewhere in the stratosphere but when we got in the Lobby some P.A. took us aside and said he had some special seats he needed to fill and he took us directly across the Studio floor (which is nowhere near as big as it looks on TV) over to a group of four seats right in front of the stage, a mere 10 feet from Leno's desk. They had been roped off and looked as if they were meant for some special V.I.P.s. Later we found out that these were the seats they would have normally reserved for the band playing that night but because there was an outdoor concert on the backlot the band wasn't going to be there so they gave them to us. Now I have a few theories as to why we got special treatment and I think the most plausible answer is that we were just lucky enough to be in the right age bracket. If you pay careful attention to the people seated in the front rows of the Tonight show you will have a hard time picking out anyone older than 30. evidently Leno's producers are trying to make the Tonight Show seem as if its the preferred choice of the the much coveted 18-29 year old demographic. So let the be a lesson to ya, old people crave the attention of the world's youth. Now we just have to figure out a way to turn the tables on them and then this world will be ours muhahaha...
Anyway that wasn't the end of that day because after the Tonight Show we continued on to the Sunset strip where we caught some live Stand-up at the Laugh Factory (if your a comedian of any worth in L.A. or anywhere on the west coast this is the Holy Grail). They had an interesting line up that night, the center peice was probably Dane Cook, if you haven't seen this man or heard his routine then you're missing out on the next Robin Williams. Look him up on Comedycentral.com and watch some of his clips, if you don't laugh then you're a soulless demon and should return back to the dark depressing hole from whence you came. Anyway as good as Dane Cook was he couldn't top the sheer oddity of seeing Bob Saget do stand up. For those of you wondering whatever happened to "Full House's" Danny Tanner, or the horrendously wholesome host of America's Funniest Home Videos well I can tell you: Years of family television twisted the man so horribly that he emerged a deranged lunatic bent on reversing his good natured image with that of a bitter, curse spewing, coke sniffing, mad-man. I don't think I've heard the word "fuck" used so many times in a single sentence since I was in the 3rd grade. And that was just his word choice, his topics included the sexual promiscuity of his teenage daughters and what he'd like to do to the Olsen twins now that their over 18....yikes.
Well I've got to get back to doing some sort of work. Keep an eye out for some more pictures to be posted soon, I may not post for awhile as these are the final weeks of my course and things are getting pretty nutty. Robert Zemeckis is coming to campus this sunday to do a creative seminar (Director of "Back to the Future", Forrest Gump, Cast Away) so I'll be there front row center. I'll post something on that next week , its supposed to be the crowning piece of the whole summer program so I'm expecting good things. I'm also shooting on 35mm for the first time this week. Stay tuned, thanks for reading and as always, keep it real on the flip side, word to my peeps.
Evan in L.A., signing off.
Oh and I forgot to mention, my film "The Thought Pulse" will be priemering in Yokohama, Japan this Friday for the Microsoft Short film Finals, hope everyone can make it!
Directions if your coming from Ontario:
- Cross the Continent of North America until you reach the Pacific Ocean
- Head west across the Pacifica Ocean, keep an eye out for a big island.
- If you hit China you've gone too far.
cheers
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