Birthday Extravaganza - Saturday

Woke up around 6:30am, guess I was too excited for the day to start. I did some last minute cleaning (but there wasn't much). Jes woke up around 9ish and helped clean a bit. We had some breakfast and then waited for guests to arrive. Only thing we had to do was move my big screen TV to the dining area where I had set up all the seating. Around 11:30am my friends Aaron and Anne showed up followed shortly after by my buddy Chris. I had Chris, Jes and Anne help me with moving the big TV. Once that was done we prepped the BBQ and sides and got everything ready.

As the hour passed more friends showed up. Andrew, Scott, Luis, Jen Michele and Brian. I had planned to start around 1pm but since we had a few stragglers we opted to get the BBQ going and with the help of Chris we had burgers and hot dogs cooked in no time. It was finally 2 and we needed to get started on the Star Wars Blu-Ray Marathon. I opted to watch the movie in release order Episode 4, 5 and 6 and then 1, 2, 3.  So we all grabbed some BBQ and stated with Episode 4 "A New Hope". While A New Hope was going on a few more friends arrived Rupert, Greg and Alynne (Red 5). The blu-ray picture quality is incredible and the re-edited sound track was amazing. We took a quick break and Michele had to get to work, so Jes who makes plushy version of people had made some for Team Unicorn so she presented Michele's with hers.

After we said our goodbyes we moved on to Episode 5 "The Empire Strikes" Back. While this was going on my friend Michael arrived. Another amazing looking video quality. And honestly I didn't notice any major changes to the actual film. Of course I read about the big ones but nothing really stood out to me, I was just in awe at the crispness of the picture. I was seeing things I'd never seen before in all my hundreds of viewings.

After Empire we ordered some Pizza and my friends Teal and Ali were going to pick them up since they were on their way. So we waited until those guys got here before starting Return of the Jedi. During this down time folks started chatting about the Wars, their likes and dislikes. I then suggested while we wait that we watch Star Wars Lego the Padawan Menace, it was a one off TV special back in July. It was just released on Blu-ray as a Walmart exclusive and my good friend Rick sent it to me for my birthday. I don't think anyone had seen it so I popped it in. After it was over it got high praises from everyone. Just as it was finishing Teal and Ali arrived with the pizzas. So we ate dinner and then started Episode 6 "Return of the Jedi".

We finished that around 10ish and folks started to leave. Greg, Red, Adam, Teal, Ali and Brian all left and Andrew a half hour later. But my best bud Will showed up. During this time I opened presents and we did shots, hung out and wand dueled on the back patio.  I figured we did the 3 episodes today and we would do the next 3 episodes tomorrow. But after an hour or so of just chatting and hanging out we voted to do one more episode so we popped in Episode 1 "The Phantom Menace". In hindsight this was a mistake as towards the end, about half of us were sleeping. Around 1:30 the movie ended and Aaron, Scott, Jen, Chris, Jes, Anne, Luis, Rupert, Michael and Will opted to sleepover. We figured out where everyone was going to sleep and by 2:30am everyone was in bed fast asleep.

I had this posted on my front door :)

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Happy Birthday To Me!!

Well today is my 41st Birthday. Wow.. hard to believe I am into my 40's. I know I don't feel 40 and I think that's because of the geek in me.. keeps me young. I got hundreds of facebook posts and tweets wishing me all kinds of Happy Birthday. It's a pretty incredible feeling having a few hundred people wish you a Happy Birthday. It made this day so much better. I didn't really get to celebrate as it's my "official" last day working for MTV and was extremely stressful. But every time I would get a tweet or a facebook post saying Happy Birthday it made the day better.

So THANK YOU ALL, who made this day just a little brighter for me. This weekend is going to be EPIC!!!

Last Day at Work??

Well today is "officially" my last day at work.  I say "officially" as I will have to come in a few days next week to finish some thing off. But it will as few hours as I can possible manage. Today was stress filled as expected and maybe because I was expecting it, it didn't effect me as much. And the fact that I knew I was coming back for a few days helped me not panic about not finishing everything.

Also tonight is the night before my big Star Wars Marathon / 41st Birthday Extravaganza. Though I was uber busy all week I did manage to get everything done during the week, which makes me very happy. My friend Jes came down from SF area to join us in the festivities. She got to my house around 10pm. We chatted but both were extremely tired (her seven hour drive, and my stressful work day). So we called it a night. Can't wait until tomorrow and this, what I hope to be, fun filled weekend.

One Big Blurrrrr

This entire week has been one big blur. It's my last week at MTV and that means way to much stress to try and get everything done that needs to get done before I leave on Friday. Besides that in all my wisdom I decided to have a Star Wars Marathon / BBQ / 41st Birthday party this coming weekend so I've been working long hours and then coming home and trying to get things down around the house. Oh and I'm still editing podcasts to get them out on schedule.

So far I've moved all my furniture around to accommodate as many people as I can. I cleaned the entire place and went grocery shopping. All I have left is to get my Birthday cake and move my 60" TV into the living/dining room (which I can't do by myself). So I've done pretty much everything for the party.

And though tomorrow is my Birthday I expect I'll be so busy at work and stressed out that I won't be able to enjoy it.. but then again I have the fun weekend ahead of me and I'll be able to relax and have some fun with some friends.

KOTG CompanionCast S5E9

Download from itunes - http://bit.ly/KotGCast or listen, get direct download at http://bit.ly/2CrYxk 

 

Show Notes:

 

It’s time once again for the next CompanionCasts for The Guild Season Five. First of all be sure you watched Episode 9 of season 5 “Invite Accepted”. If you haven’t seen it yet watch it HERE

Our Season 4 CompanionCasts were a huge hit so we thought we would do them again for Season 5. So what is a CompanionCast?? It’s a behind the scene look at the current episode of The Guild.

I was on set everyday while they shot Season 5. As actors and crew were finished with scenes I would try and speak to them. Get some inside info about the scene they just shot. I also interviewed Felicia Day and Kim Evey about the storyline and Sean Becker about the directing. Each one of these CompanionCasts will be episode specific and will vary in length depending on how much guildie goodness I am able to gather.

In this CompanionCast I interview Sandeep Parikh, Jeff Lewis, Amy Okuda, Vince Caso, Greg Aronowitz, Marissa Cuevas, Adam Grumbo, Devin White & Felicia Day.

I hope you enjoy a look behind the scenes of Season 5 Episode 9 “Invite Accepted”
Kenny

Jones Soda... The Guild

Got my Guild themed Jones Soda's today. They were extremely well packed but I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed as when the place the bottle in the cardboard cutout at the bottom of the box some of the bottle labels were torn up and as a collectors and the fact that I paid $25 for six soda bottles, it's kind of disappointing. But they are cool and I plan to get mine signed by the cast (since they are my friends). Now to figure out where to display them!!!

Family, Emmy's & Goonies

Today was a fun day, got up around 8am did a little editing, I cut in the Greg interview I did last night so now Knights of the Guild companioncast S5E9 is done. I'll do one more polish pass just to make sure everything sounds as good as it can and then will create the shows notes and release it on Thursday.

I then went over to my brother's house to visit my Dad, we talked about his health, no sign of cancer, but still have two more chemo treatments just to be safe then they work on getting his red and white blood cell numbers back up. We had lunch at our favorite Chinese restaurant Hong Kong. Then I took him food shopping. When we got back to the house my brother had left and locked up and as always my Dad didn't have his key so we were locked out. Texted and called my brother but no response and finally half hour later I got on the roof and broke in through my Dad's opened window.  All in all it was a nice visit.

After the visit I headed over to my friends Leo and Andrew's new house out in Van Nuys. They were having an unofficial house warming (real one will be in a few weeks when the other two roommate arrive) but for now it was a small group. When I go that Leo, Andrew and Scott were upstairs watching the beginning of the 2011 Emmy's so I joined in. About half way into the Emmy's another of Andrew's co-workers joined us and towards the end of the Emmy's. The Emmy's were fun and entertaining. It was fun watching them with a group of friends. There was some surprises and some obvious wins, but over all they are good.

Scott who just moved here from the east coast is in his early 20's and hasn't seen really any of the awesome 80's movies, like Last Starfighter, Princess Bride, Original Trilogy Star Wars (which we will fix next weekend) but also Goonies (both Andrew and I got the 25th Anniversary edition blu ray that came out a few months back. So we watched it after the Emmy's. It looked incredible in all it's HD glory. It was fun to watch this classic move from my younger years with someone who has never seen it. Scott seemed to really enjoy it and is up for watching other classic 80's in the future. Gonna be some good times. I had to head home as it was late and I live about 45 minutes north of them and have to work early tomorrow, but the guys stayed to play the Goonies board game that came with the boxset.

It was good day... got to spend some time with my Dad and with good friends.. couldn't ask for anything better.