Saturday, September 3, 2011

Family BBQ

Today was my Dad's side of the family's Labor Day BBQ. I hadn't seen his side of the family for a few years. (They were supporters of Prop 8 - Anti Gay Marriage Bill here in CA) so we (Harry and I ) boycotted going to family events for a few years. But it really was only one of my cousins and her family. And they're not bad people just Mormons.

Anyways it was time to see them again and I really did miss them as we just found them five or so year ago (Dad was adopted, found Wally his half brother five years ago). So I drove to a park out in Lakewood (I think), got to meet alot of Wally's family, played some volleyball with my cousins kids as well as some croquet. Played with Kenobi at the playground. It was nice visiting with them. They always treat us like we've known each other all our lives. Can't wait to see them again at Christmas time.

Friday, September 2, 2011

KOTG CompanionCast S5E6

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 6 of season 5 “Revolving Doors”.

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 Felicia Day, Kim Evey, Sandeep Parikh, Jeff Lewis, Amy Okuda, Vince Caso, Doug Jones, Robin Thorsen, Jillian Armenate, Sean Becker, Greg Aronowitz, Maurissa Tancharoen & More.

I hope you enjoy a look behind the scenes of Season 5 Episode 6 “Revolving Doors”

Kenny
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Thursday, September 1, 2011

What A Day!!!

Well the day started off with an email from our EP just ripping apart one of the mixes of our show. Not the thing you want to wake up too in the morning. That's when I headache started. Drove into work, took Harry's truck as it was super hot and his truck as AC. Well about halfway to work his engine light comes on, great something else I have to worry about now. I make it work and it's as thought all the crazies was just waiting for me to walk through those doors.

I won't go into detail as many of you would have no idea what I was talking about and others would just find it boring. Needless to say that I can honestly say that this has been one of the worst works days I have had in a long time and that's saying something as I have had many bad works days as of late.

Anyways.. I was stressed out, still had the headache and my chest was hurting again. Not a good combination. I took a few minutes to calm down and remind myself that I don't care what happens here. I already quit once and if I would to be fired I would welcome it. I even considered quitting again as chest pains are not a good result of your work enviroment. But I mangaged to calm down and as the day went on I was able to get things under control so that by the time I left work things were back in order and I was able to enjoy my dinner plans.

Dinner was with one of my best buds Will. We hadn't seen each other in over two months which is way tooo long. We had a nice dinner and chat at Chevy's out in Burbank. He was working and took a dinner break so we couldn't hang for hours but we did get to spend some great time together and it's just what I needed after the horrible day I had.

So the day started on a low but ended on a high.. thanks Will

MASH 4077 Podcast Episode 15

Download from itunes http://tinyurl.com/MASH4077itunes or listen/direct download http://MASH4077Podcast.com

Kenny Mittleider from Knights of the Guild & Confessions of a Fanboy Podcasts, Simon Meddings from Waffle On Podcast, Al Kessel from Tales from the Mouse House, Fast Forward & Just Because Podcast and our special guest Harry Dauz discuss one of the most successful and longest running television series in history.. M*A*S*H

Today we cover Season 1, Episode #15 -Tuttle

Directed by William Wiard
Written by Bruce Shelley & David Ketchum
Production code J315
Original air date January 14, 1973

Set during the Korean War in the 1950’s

Plot Summary: Hawkeye creates a fake doctor (based on his imaginary friend from childhood), Captain Jonathan S. Tuttle, to give supplies to the local orphans. Henry wants Tuttle to be officer of the day, so Hawkeye creates a fake personnel file, and all his back pay is given to the orphanage. When General Clayton wants to reward his generosity by placing his picture in the newspaper and awarding him a medal. Hawkeye is forced to invent a story about Tuttle jumping from a chopper without his parachute! Of course, Trapper's new friend, Major Murdoch, obtained the fake dog tags and parachute...!

Hope you enjoy it,
Kenny

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Editing KOTG CompanionCast S5E6

After work today I headed home and jumped on my computer and started editing the next CompanionCast for my Knights of the Guild podcast. Once again I string everything out and it's over 2 hours long with 14 interviews. I worked on it till midnight but my Avid was acting funky and finally when it crashed for a fifth or sixth time I took it as a sign to go to bed. I did get about 3 hours of work done on it and about about halfway done. Figure I'll get up early and get some editing time in before work tomorrow morning.

Lot's a great interviews in this episode. Season 5 of The Guild has been pretty epic and the companioncasts have been chuck full of awesome behind the scenes information. I hope to finish it tomorrow night and have it ready for it's Thursday night release.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Grocery Shopping

Well it's been several weeks since Harry left for Austria and I've been doing really well. I'm getting use to coming home to an empty house, sleeping and eating alone and watching TV by myself. I still have my moments when I open the door and expect an excited Daisy there to greet me. But today after work I went to Stater Bros. to pick up some groceries. This was the first time I've gone shopping by myself in eight years. This was always a couples thing that Harry and I did. When I got home and started bringing in the bags this overwhelming feeling of loneliness hit me. It was strange because it was so unexpected. I have been doing so well and getting use to being alone but now the panic and depression welled up inside me and my heart started to ache. It only lasted a half hour or so and then things went back to normal (or as normal as they are for me).

I know things won't be "normal" for a while but I thought I had gotten over the desperate feeling of loneliness, but I guess doing something that I've always done with Harry by myself effect me more then I thought. This is a learning process..

Sunday, August 28, 2011

My Sunday

Since I didn't get done as much as I was hoping for yesterday I really wanted to focus on doing nothing but podcasting today. Got up at 8am and had to watched the last six episodes of MASH season one as I was having a skype call with my buddies Al and Simon so we could record episodes 19 to 24 of our MASH 4077 Podcast. Took a few hours to watch those six episodes and then I worked on MASH 4077 podcast episode 15 which is due to be released on September 1st. Worked on it a few hours before having to stop and jump on this skype call at noon. Took us 3 hours to record our six episode but it's always a blast recording with Al and Meds (Simon).

After the recording I headed out to grab a bite to eat. Got home and watched an hour of TV before jumping back on the computer around 5pm and at about 6pm I was finally finished with my first pass for the next MASH podcast. I then took a break to clean up my pantry/laundry room. Got back to work and did my 2nd pass on the MASH podcast (that's when I add the audio clips from the episode). That took a few hours and around 8:00pm I finished with it and finally was ready to do my final "polish" pass and that took me another hour or so. So at 9pm I had finally finished editing my next MASH podcast. I leveled the audio, converted the file and uploaded it in a half hour. Podcast #2 is done, finished Confessions of a Fanboy #1 yesterday and MASH 4077 Podcast #15 today. But I still had one more to finish. I knew it was hopeless so my new plan was to string out all the interviews for my next Knights of the Guild CompanionCast S5E6. There were 14 interviews and over 2 hours of audio and at 11pm I finally finished the stringout. Still got alot of work to do on it and if I wasn't so tired I would try to start editing but I'd rather get some much needed rest. I have a few days before this podcast is due so I'll be working on it the next few nights after work.

It was a Podcast kind of weekend. Launched a new podcast, got another episode done for my MASH podcast and got started working on my new KOTG CompanionCast. Also recorded audio for my MASH podcast episodes 19 - 24. Cleaned a few rooms in my house and visited family and got the best news I could wish for.... all in all it was a pretty good weekend.