April Fools' Day with a Knick

Yes, it's been awhile since I've posted something here and I vow to be more consistent.

While I'm continuing to figure out this new layout... I'll leave you with some video of a recent gig. I was hired to play an April Fool's joke on Tracy McGrady of the NY Knicks! Apparently, he's played one too many jokes on his wife and his assistant and this year it was payback time.

He thought he was doing an interview for the paralympics. Instead he was slowly being suckered in by a bumbling camera crew, an interviewer who asked inappropriate questions and a producer who was cranky and looking for a fight - especially one where she gets to knock over a guy in a wheelchair.

Enjoy!

Santa Fe Film Festival Recap

I'm happy to report that the 10th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival was a blast!

I arrived Wednesday night and met the people from Dream that were able to come... the director, Rick, and the cord blood ladies, Anne and Charis. Half-hearted schmoozing in the VIP lounge and then off for enchiladas covered in green chiles!

Our film screened at the New Mexico History Museum on Thursday morning. It was well received by the people who saw it and there is potential that it will be brought back in February 2010 for it's own screening!!

Thursday afternoon was spent deciding we couldn't wait in

line for our interview and running off to eat chicken mole, marvel at the fact that it was snowing and make plans for where to eat for dinner!

The party that evening was at a venue where the upstairs was the 45 and over crowd dancing to badly sung cover songs and the downstairs was the 30 and under crowd too cool for school rocking out to traditional Balkan music. Seriously. I had a hard time getting into the groove in either section.

Friday I saw a ton of movies (My Tale of Two Cities, Girls on the Wall, Becoming Eduardo) and Charis and I finally waited to have our 15 minutes of live, streaming web fame with our official SFFF interview!

Another party, another movie and as many sopaipillas as I could eat and soon it was time to catch the shuttle back to Albuquerque. (sigh) All in all it was fabulous and I'm very glad I went!

Countdown to Santa Fe: 2 days

48 hours from now I will be arriving in Santa Fe for the 2009 Film Festival!

Our movie, Dream, plays on Thursday morning at 10:00 am. Will anyone besides the 4 of us involved in the film be there? I certainly hope so. But at least I know we've got 4.

Planes, hotels and shuttles are all booked. Now my time has come down to a mix of mundane tasks like laundry and finding a plastic bag for my liquids and overwhelming tasks like trying to reconnect with what this dream of mine is anyway, how it's changed since the filming in 2007 and what my vision is for 2010.

Hmm. Sounds like a perfect time to go looking at other people's Thanksgiving pictures on Facebook. But no. I will press on with all tasks and get myself psyched to visualize the possibilities.