so i lied.. kill me

as you can tell from this entry’s title, i lied to you all, in a fairly big way. i told you i had a great story for my next post, which was supposed to be in the first week of september, but i got caught up with life and the paths that it has taken me in the past several months, so i failed to please you all. big deal. so i write to you all today, my people, to address some situations that i have experienced in the past few weeks.

first and foremost, congrats to psi deu, the pledge class of bitches and stoners.

secondly, i never thought in a million years that i would be doing this much school work as a senior. it sucks, really fucking much, but i guess thats what i gotta do to get out of this joint.

thirdly, allen iverson. that is all i have to say about that.

fourthly, yes i realize that fourthly is stupid and a dumb term but i like it so ill use it, so fourthly, i dont know where life is going. i know it will be across the country, but what will it be? i regret 100% the decision to not take a job, but also feel that i would have missed so so much if i had taken it. i cant seem to understand why things like that happen to me, all the fucking time, and not only with jobs, but with girls, and the bullshit that most guys get put through from them. sorry ladies, i am no asshole by any means, and maybe that is why all this happens to me, but for being so nice and everything, i always get shit on. always. im told to not be so nice, but i just dont work that way. i need to be nice, or else i feel like shit and like the asshole that girls shouldnt want.

fifth and final, i will keep this updated more frequently. i will do my best to keep you guys all interested in my stories and my writing. i will also use this blog now to post story concepts and ideas of my own, starting with the upcoming script for the pilot of a television show idea i have. its a classic one and i will promise to have that posted by new years.

i will speak to you, my people, soon enough..

peoples J

rambling and gambling

sorry for the long delay on another entry people.. it has been quite the hectic past few weeks since my good problem.. i drove across the country with three great people, did some crazy shit along the way, saw some crazy places, and smoked some funny things.. i moved into my new room/apartment which is now known as “the west wing” and i am known as Supreme Justice Peoples Jackson, ruler of the judicial board and overseer of the constitution.. our apartment is the shit, i have essentially become a babysitter and i do love to watch the business that goes down every day.. enough rambling, but school has officially begun, and my last first day of fall classes came and went.. it is a rather uneventful beginning to the school year, other than the season finale of weeds and the amount of weed being smoked, but like i said, rather uneventful.. i kind of still wish i was looking at a whole bunch of nothing along the interstates of nebraska and iowa or climbing all the way up to delicate arch in utah, or even feeling as if i would freeze in the 35 degree temperature of frisco, colorado.. i really never knew how great and beautiful this country is, until i drove through it 3 different times, in 3 completely different routes..my state total is now up to 27 states and 1 district of columbia.. i enjoyed the scenery of the trip to cali a little bit more than on the way back, but the journey back took us through some dangerous places, like sin city, where one of us (who is underage) couldnt get away from the video poker machines, and chicago, both great times and great cities.. we stopped at local breweries along the way, my favorite in de moines, the raccoon river brewing company, where i enjoyed there tallgrass ale and cheese soup.. one word = unreal.. anyways just wanted to check in.. will check in with a better post soon, actually a very good story for you all to enjoy.. so keep looking, its coming by the end of the week..

peoples J

is this a good problem to have?

so this morning, upon arrival to the glorious warner brothers studio lot, i had a little one on one time with THE showrunner.. after normal conversation, “what’s goin on in the world today?,” i was floored, not because of something bad, but because of something i didnt really want to happen, that happened.. ill get to that “happening” in a moment, but throughout the summer, i wondered if this might happen.. wondered if i would be confronted by this HUUGE conundrum/decision that would befall me in the morning hours of work today.. i was offered a job with the television show that i have been interning for.. WHAT THE FUCK?! every thought that i wondered about this summer, came crashing down on me.. would i take it, would i forego my senior year of school to jump into the real world, would i leave jersey/philly without any closure? i didnt know where to look, and i sure as hell didnt know what the fuck to do.. never in a million years could i have thought that i would actually be offered a job on the last day of my internship.. never in a million years would i have guessed that i would have to make a life changing decision in just a few short hours.. i immediately thought that this was almost as good of a problem to have as a baseball team having too many starting pitchers.. i sat there in the office, in a complete state of shock, wondering and consulting with family and friends about what i should do.. do i take the job? or do i go back to school? and more importantly, would this opportunity come again, when im graduated in less than a year from now? i sat and sat and sat, and listened to the advice from each and every writer on staff, about what decision to make.. now, mostly everyone gave me the support that i needed to go back to school, how could i miss my senior year and all of my friends and family on the east coast.. but others told me that it was a win-win situation regardless of the decision i make.. but i guess it wasnt much of a decision, as the answer really sat in front of me.. after the consulting and talking to THE showrunner, it became clear to me that i was well liked, and would have an opportunity pretty much whenever i wanted one, if that was next june or even in the next few years.. it destroyed me to sit there and decide about this altering event, and really pained me to have to make the decision that i did, but ultimately, i decided that i need to return to philadelphia, and need to return to school and the friends that i love and miss, and to graduate and then, after i graduate, then decide to come back out to the unparalleled land that is los angeles, and give it my go into the business that i have wanted to enter for years upon years. so i will be back.. my trip into hollywood is just a little delayed at this point, but i know that the opportunity is there and i know that me being me helped me out quite a bit this summer, and that in the next 9 months, i might just have a job, working in the same office, building 36, in burbank, california.. only time will tell at this point.. but i want you all to know that this is by far the hardest decision that i have ever had to make in my life.. no lie, no lie

peoples J

the reality of reality television is that there is not much reality to it

usually, i am a person who loves scripted television. i am addicted to weeds, have watched entourage since the beginning, cant wait for californication to come back, and just started lost, trucking thru the first season in a day and a half (23 episodes).. i love scripted television, and as a writer, i rarely venture into the world of reality television. the only show i religiously watch is survivor, and i have watched since day one. so this summer, i live with the infamous Rando, a man i have mentioned before, and will mention again and again. he is absolutely addicted to reality television, and i mean addicted to shows that no one in their right mind would ever have an interest in. this post is going to take a look at the shows that he has subjected me to this summer, and while i cant explain each and every show, i will explain the ones that have sometimes left me feeling borderline retard.. so without further delay, he is the list, with some explanations, in no particular order.. here goes:

• the real housewives of new jersey
• so you think you can dance
• intervention
• obsessed – basically intervention but about ocd. these people are so nuts that they pull out there hair and scratch their skin until they bleed.. pretty fucked up
• ice road truckers
• bridezilla
• kendra – holy shit, i actually like this one cuz she is slammin
• denise richards: its complicated
• kathy griffin: my life on the d-list – unreal show, she is incredible and so fuckin funny.. check her out hosting the roast of joan rivers on comedy central
• top chef masters
• shes got the look – a project runway for people 30 and older.. fuckin weird
• 16 & pregnant – just have a fucking abortion dammit
• nyc prep – the most fucked up kids you will ever see on tv.. money is all they think about
• big brother 11 – i actually like this as well.. similar to survivor with voting and shit, and the backstabbing is insane
• battle of the bods – 5 girls rank themselves in areas like boobs, face, butt, etc. and 3 guys rank them as well, if they match rankings the girls win money
• pawn star$ – three family members run a pawn shop in vegas.. most ridiculous reality concept ever
• dating in the dark – unreal.. it is an experiment to see if personality matter more than looks, but looks win most of the time
• hells kitchen – this show is intense, and people are fucking terrible at cooking
• the colony – another survivor style show, the contestants are put into a post-apocalyptic world and have to start from scratch, creating power and energy and such.. pretty cool
• making his band – puff daddy wanted a new band, so he decided to get a free one
• operation repo – a fat family owns a repossession company and fight people to take their assets

so these are just a few of the shows that i have been subjected to this summer. at times i think i might go brain dead, but i really dont have much of a choice of what we watch on tv. it is an interesting array of shows, some that make me want to kill myself, others that feature great eye-candy and somewhat interesting concepts, but i definitely feel the need to stick to scripted shows, things that actually make you think and not sit there and wonder why a 16 year old thinks she can raise a child instead of getting an abortion.

road trip to hell!! nah, just kidding, road trip back home

updated 8/3/2009 @ 12:34 PM (pacific time)

so this isnt exactly what i thought my next blog would be about, i thought i would be writing about my experiences with reality television this summer, but that will have to wait to be the next post. anyways this is an email that i sent to BC and Mandelbaum, my two cohorts for my road trip back home to philly/freehold, nj.. so here is the email, not too funny but it gives you an idea of what ill be doing on my way home, give or take a few drugs here and there and alcohol, oh alcohol.. vegas, here i come..

Boys:

in light of our upcoming trip, only about 10 days away from now, i have decided, per request of mandelbaum, to create a small itinerary for it. keep in mind that this is completely subject to change and i will not be labeling overnight stops, as that is also based on how much driving we do per day and when and where we feel like stopping. so without further ado, i will list the major cities and the landmarks/things to do along the way to these places. here goes:

we start on thursday morning/afternoon exploring the l.a. area. i will take you guys around and show you some of the cooler places that this city has to offer. we will do breakfast or lunch and when we have had enough of the city, we will begin our first leg of the trip to LAS VEGAS! from here it is about a four hour drive, and leaving on a thursday should help us avoid the weekend traffic there. there is not much on the way to vegas, so we will head straight there, crash with desantis and pesach, and get fucked up haha.

we should leave vegas the next day at a decent time, i think no later than 11 am. from vegas, we are heading towards the next major city of DENVER. it will probably be very hard to make it to denver in one day, being that it is about 750 miles. but the cool thing about this is that we get to also go through arizona and utah, while in utah, i would like to stop at the ARCHES NATIONAL PARK. an amazing site to see, and also to smoke blunts at, we can spend some time there cuz it is closer to vegas than anything else. the national park might be a little off the route, but it is definitely worth the stop. after spending some time there, we will continue on our way to denver, stopping at some point to sleep. i figure that denver will probably be a good lunch place the next day, and we can also explore the city a little.

so from denver, we will head towards our next major city of CHICAGO. there are a couple of states in between colorado and illinois, obviously, so we can drive and see what there is to do along the way. im gonna guess that there is not much, as we will be driving through the states of nebraska and iowa. we will pass thru the city of OMAHA, where we can stop and check out, grab some food, etc. from omaha, we will also drive thru DES MOINES in iowa. this might be a good place to stop over for the night, but like i said, it depends on time. from there we will head thru IOWA CITY, and then on to chicago.

while in chicago, it is very possible that we will be staying with BC’s cousin or something like that, and mandelbaum and i pretty much know chicago after last summer. we can explore, and do what we want, then head out that afternoon or whenever we feel like it.

from chicago, the next place i have us hitting is CANTON, ohio, for the football hall of fame. we can decide to do this if we would like to. we also pass thru GARY, indiana, the birthplace of the KING OF POP, and then past SOUTH BEND, the home of notre dame. then we head thru TOLEDO and along the great lakes. we then begin to make our way a little south past AKRON and into canton.

from canton, our next destination is PHILADELPHIA/FREEHOLD! we drive due north from canton and then straight east towards philly, driving thru the hickest parts of pennsylvania. we drive right past STATE COLLEGE and the penn state biotches, and then down the 476 past ALLENTOWN and into PHILLY! depending on when we reach school, i might crash the night, or head home to jersey to do some shit. then ill be back.

it looks like a good fun time, and i am positive we will find things along the way to do. at the motels, ill use my laptop to search local landmarks and great eats and we will have a wonderful experience. if this sounds like it sucks to you, too bad, cuz this is what we are doing motherfuckers haha. looking forward to it, and like i said, these plans are very much subject to change.

peace peace y’all

guts

… i realized i didnt really explain much of this, but this is the itinerary of my road trip back home and there doesnt seem to be much fun to it. but trust me, this trip will be epic, and i have a small surprise.. it will be videotaped and edited into a nice fun video for all to see. depending on the size of the video, it might or might not be posted on this blog, but will definitely be posted on some site.. ill check in later today with my reality tv post…

“terrors of the night”.. not nightmares

LIKE I SAID IN THIS POST.. I WAS NOT UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ANY MIND ALTERING DRUGS.. I WAS SLEEPING.. sorry for the caps, just had to set the record straight for some people

so from out of nowhere the other night, i had some dreams, and trust me they weren’t nightmares.. they involved this so-called creature, the “terror of the night.” i know what you are asking yourself, “what the fuck is peoples talking about? a terror of the night IS a nightmare!” ummm sorry, not in my world. these “terrors of the night” were introduced to me by someone named Rando, a close and important confidant of mine, and it was all in my dreams. as i slept, my mind wandered elsewhere, let’s say down to the coast of hermosa beach, and into the water, yes into the water. remember, this is a dream, so nothing has to be real in these things.. anyways, these “terrors of the night” were the most hideous looking things i have ever seen, and ive seen some pretty hideous things. to begin to describe it would make you think i am on drugs, which im not and wasn’t at the time, at least i don’t think i was. but i can’t begin to describe these things..

ok you win, ill try to describe the hideousness of these creatures..

• as large as a whale
• a blackish-blueish colored skin
• a tail that had these fang-like spikes
• a dorsal fin that had the same fang-like spikes
• and a face that looked like a cross between a thestral (harry potter) and a nazgul (lord of the rings)
• this “face” also had fang-like spikes that came from a mouth?
• the mouth opened up in like four sections, basically able to grab anything in sight
• and last but not least, it was eating humans! your average beach-going humans!

now this all was going on at night, and i shit you not, i thought that i was really there, wading in the water, watching these things devour human after human, while me and the fearless Rando watched on, with several others, not attracting the slightest bit of attention from the “terrors.” now i learned later on in my dream, that these creatures will not attack any native to hermosa beach, and i guess i pass as a native because i have resided here for over two months now, and was only introduced the other day to these things, so i assume they think i am a resident. enough rambling, but anyways, these things were fucking insane.. tearing people to shreds left and right and up and down and there were bloody messes floating in the water, and it was gruesome. so it turns out, as i later found out, that these creatures are completely controlled by the city of hermosa beach. yes, the town harbors these fucking “terrors!” and apparently they like to use them to rid the town of its tourist infestation, a huge problem here in hermosa, and no one that has ever encountered these creatures has walked away alive, which means i don’t even think i should be writing about this at all. its a pretty fucked up situation going on down here in hermosa, and i can gladly say that i am on the other side of the problem. now when this goes public, it might be a small, minute, tiny, problem. so with that, i leave you to ponder these “terrors of the night” and if you have any questions, please contact me, as i might not want to stick around much longer in this place, if all that i have heard is true..

peoples J

i lost the battle… quickly

tell me if this is a problem.. so today i received a “package” from a buddy in illadelphia.. it contained a check, and a long awaited green grape game dutch. (that’s a mouthful to say, so if i reference the green grape game dutch again, it will be simply be as 3G.) i knew it was only a matter of time before i wanted to use this for a blunt, something which i have had seldom out here in la la land.. the pressure was building as i sat here at my computer, after a day of work at miami trauma on warner brothers lot. it was staring a hole into the middle of my forehead, that clear tube with purple labeling, and that aroma that smelled of fresh grapes and dutches. i was cracking quicker than humanly possible, my craving undeniable. so i rolled it.. quickly and precisely, like i have with many dutches before. my skills still there, i relished in the accomplishment and the anticipation to try this new 3G was about to culminate in a glorious stoning. you see, this is my first 3G. this is something that us blunt smokers rarely get to do, we rarely get to try a new flavor. i was envious when i heard about this so-called 3G and ever since, have longed for one, searching high and low throughout the non-blunt world that is los angeles. i would be mocked in smoke shops, for people don’t smoke blunts here. as they say out here, “only east coasters smoke blunts”, and boy are they right. so after these thoughts and my time looking, i got one, and i am currently smoking its gloriousness, stoning myself silly on the west coast of this country, looking at the waves roll in and already longing for another 3G..

pretty good first blog post huh?

peoples J