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Monday, June 26, 2006
Thursday, June 22, 2006
...of this show. I have been producing this cooking for the last 2 years and it seams like there is no end. we started shooting the first two seasons in the fall of 2004. it was great, sponsors donated food, cabinets, stove, sink, preety much everything that you need to build a kitchen inside a TV studio. after the first 26 shows have been shot, they have to be edited. I had to experience the joy of editing 26 cooking shows by november. you would think that that would be the end of that. far from it. next thing was that johnny wanted to make and marked a DVD from his program. producing a cooking show like this is a full time job, year around. that would be fine and dandy if that would be the only project i would have to work on. but since my department consists of a skeleton crew and a couple of interns, it can get pretty overwelming and frustrating. the efford is paying off though. last fall, we pulled the cabinets back out of storage and reassembled the kitchen in our studio to shoot 13 more shows. this set of shows came out alot better than the first set. New the show has been picked up by some mayor markets in Texas. I am proud of that, but we pretty much commited to produce more shows now. In september, the show should be distributed nation wide through PBS. But now I am busy dublicating and producing promotonal material for the program and the DVD. I can't hear that song anymore (paying my dues blues, from the Killer Tracks music Library) off coarse, everyone has to be happy. I don't know how many photographs we took. how many times johnny changed his mind about the picture he wants on the cover. Then I misspelled Cheese on the artwork for the DVD cover. Luckly I noticed that when Discmakers sent me the Proofs. (Setup charge down the drain) Now we have 1000 DVD's that we are trieng to sell. My boss does not like the quality of the "web quality video" we have on the website. I told him that i would resample the clip from 400k to 800k. well the frustration that prompted me to rant on the show was to discover that there is no visual difference between the 400k and the 800k clip.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
just like all the othe myspace loosers, i decided to do a face lift my myspace space. it was simple. really that is all i have to say about that.
CTC bought me a new I-mac that i wave been waiting for for the last 4 weeks. now it is on campus, but i can't set it up yet, because they need to add it to the inventory. what a pain in the ass. I really need to get started on this project, but i refuse to use my personal computer to do work related stuff. just like work does not like it if i use work stuff for personal use. i guess i have to set up the i-mac tomorrow. it is going to take like 4 hours to install final cut studio, photoshop, and stuff.
chris is back. he spend 6 month in saudi to defened our freedom. yesterday i took a personal day off from work, so we could watch the world cup (germany equador 3:0) it was a great time. this weekend, sheila is off, so we are going to visit chris in san antonio
chris has a new apartment, and he wants to buy a new TV. he wants me to set it all up so we can watch worldcup on saturday.
Saturday, June 17, 2006
...or maybe not. I have been working on the video from our trip to new york. I made alot of progress, and i like how its comming together. Ther is something missing though. I realized that i apear in only one shot. and i dont have many sound bits at all. so the video is going to be just a series of montages with great music. this is not going to be the bast thing i have been working on, but it will still be fun to watch.
Chris is going to be in town on tuesday. we are going to watch Germany vs Equadore WM game. He has been in saudi since december. before he left, i asked him to bring be something back that was middle eastern, but he was not able to leave base during his entire time there. I wanted some middle eastern music, but he did'nt get me any. does anyone know any good middle eastern music that i could download from I-tunes? I think middle eastern music is soo cool.
last wednsday Poland and Germany were playing in the WM. man, that was a fucking awsome game. you had nose bleeds, yellow cards, red cards, gernies, and 150 soccer holigans arrested. germany was the only team to score in that match during the 3 min injury overtime.
it is raining today in central texas. i hope it clears up tonight. because i want to go to the boat. I am thinking about surprising my mom by buying a new canopy top for it.
Friday, June 09, 2006
...i had my first volleyball class. man; am i out of shape. i have not had a "side-sting" since i was in middle school, and all we did was practice the "forarm pass" and the "set". it was alot of fun, but i do dred doing a real match. another middle school flashback i experienced was when we all had to get a volley ball out of the bin, I ended up with no ball. I am just glad that i am not the fattest person in class. and i do not mean the phatest, because that's what i am.
Texas is hot, and summer has not officaly started yet. tonight, sheila and i and some friends are going to have a little party on the boat. we wanted to do it tomorrowe night, but mom wants to use the boat on that night.
what a game. i left work early today to catch the first game of the 2006 world cup. I have all right to do that because i am german, i would be commiting a mortal sin if i were to miss any german game. germany played costa rica, and germany won 4:2
Sunday, June 04, 2006
on our resend trip to NYC we decided that we wanted to be part of a morning show. sheila, mom and i went out early to chatch fax and friends. I Programd the DVR to record us when we get one. enjoy....
Thursday, June 01, 2006
...That my mother and I immigrated to the US. Spending my child hood in Germany, I had envisioned that America was just like the movies. Everyone had a pool in their back yard. People had fast cars. Everyday was like Disney world. Of course I quickly realized that I was very much disillutiond. First couple of weeks in the states was fun. We visited my aunt in south Carolina. They had a boat, and my cousins had mini motor cycles and go-carts. Off coarse that supported my illusions of the states. A week after that we went to meet the "new" relatives in abopca, Florida; that is where my step father was from. Ironical, most of my new step aunts had jobs at "Disney world". That was cool, because I got to go for free. There is nothing more exciting for a 12 1/2 year old boy, than to be able to go do Disney world for free, further supporting my disillution.
The reality started to become apparent that America was not jolly-jolly-gum-drop, when we arrived at our final destination in Fort Riley, KS. That is where my stepfather was being stationed. My first years in the states were horrible. We lived in the ghetto of Junction City Kansas on North Calhoun Street. Middle School was the hell of hell for me because I had trouble fitting in with me being the weird German kid, who was more mature than most other kids. It also did not help that I hated my step father. He was a fucking asshole who cheated on my mom and never payed attention to me unless I had to be grounded. I wanted to move back to Germany within that first year.
I had finale made a group of friends in my 8th grade year. That's also the year I started smoking and getting in trouble at school. Mike, Will, Tim, Tony, and I were the "Heavy Metal Group" during the 92-93 year at Fort Riley Middle School. Those were fun times. In the fall of 93 my mother got divorced after stationing at Fort Hood Texas. By that time I had pretty much mastered the English language, I liked Killeen High School, and I started to get excited about living in the states. My mother had proposed on moving back to Germany, but she did not want me to change schools again.
Today I have pretty much integrated myself to a point that I consider living in the states to be my home. When people ask me if I prefer Germany or Texas, I tell them that "my love for Germany is like the love to a mother, my love to Texas is like a love to a wife" I pride myself of being a native German, and being able to retain my mothers toung. On the other had pride myself of being able to adapt in a foreign country to a point where I have a great wife, a good carreer, and a great potential for the future.
