is coming together nicely. Today I got up at the obscene hour of 5 a.m. to go be an audience member for an infomercial. We all met in a mall parking lot and were driven in a really nice bus to San Antonio where it was shooting. Much to my surprise the infomercial starred THE infomercial guy. The English guy in the red bow tie and suspenders. If you haven’t seen this guy, then you must not have seen many infomercials. Anyway we clapped and laughed, and acted like we had just seen the miraculous ways of The Brookshine Automotive Surface Treatment System until about 11 a.m. and then they didn’t need us for a while so we ate free food, and lounged around the studio. It turned out they didn’t need us at all for the rest of the day so we just hung around until 3 p.m. when we loaded back on the bus and came back to Austin.
On the way back I got a call on my cell phone to tell me that I will be playing a policeman in the new Luke and Owen Wilson movie “The Wendell Baker Story” so that is mega cool (hi Bettie! Oh, side note: I made Jess watch “Kung Pow: Enter The Fist” the other day and was extra amused every time they called the bad guy Bettie).
Craig Davis and I are doing an acoustic duo show tomorrow night at The Pier, which should be interesting, fun, and by the seat of our pants. We also continue work on our upcoming CD.
I got another call about a real job yesterday, also. They are supposed to call me back later this week for an interview. It sounded like the best job so far, but we’ll see. I’m still waiting to hear about the other job that was supposed to call me back as soon as the hiring manager got his stuff together. I also have a third (and least attractive) job possibility I could probably take if both these others somehow fall through. I’ve determined that I am going to put all my efforts tomorrow into finding Jess a job so that I can do my best to render these points moot.
03
Sep
2003
17:36
Heath! That is excellent news.
Good luck with your show 🙂
Kick. ass.
But … wait. You mean all those people in the infomercial audiences are just faking their enthusiasm? My world is askew!
Today, Heath said the word “infomercial” so many times that it eventually became random noise. I love when words do that.
Doh! How did my name get wiped out of the boxes? That was me.
Fabulous news! Be sure to give Luke my number. Or is it Owen I want to have sex with? Eh, give it to them both, tell ’em I’m hot *and* easy.
This was supposed to be about you. Congratulations!
The blond one with the weird nose is the one that I find attractive!
I want Owen’s underpants.
I know it probably doesn’t feel like it as you’re doing it, but it soumds like things are coming together for you. Huzzah!
I am too tired to have 14 heart attacks right now. Maybe I will see if I can get an invite to the premier and have my heart attacks there. That would be WIZARD!
can you PLEASE tell me what the informercial guy with the red suspenders name is??…i have been looking everywhere????
After getting that last comment I went slightly insane trying to remember the guy’s name. Surprisingly he doesn’t have much of an Internet presence and Googling my ass off came up fruitless. I posted on a message board and a poster there along with my Googling confirmed my vague memory that his name was “John”. Several days later, and several more Google investigations finally yielded my answer:
John Parkin is the man’s name!
wow….thank you sooo much….i know…he doesn’t have that much of a presence on the internet…Thanks again!