Monday, July 11, 2005
Glamour
So You Want To Be A Fire Eater?
Okay some days it’s the best life in the world – I just walked down the beach back to my top floor hotel room overlooking the Caribbean Ocean. As I left the beachside bar a group of bikers pulled up and recognized me from a TV show I shot earlier today. I’ve been on this island 24 hours and I’m getting recognized at the bar. Yep – it’s pretty fantastic – but let’s take just a moment and look at how we got here. Friday night I burned all the skin off my bottom lip at a rock show in NYC and today I had to peel the blisters off so I could eat fire on fresh burns between bikini girls before the skin has grown back on not one but two TV shows. I’ve barely seen my dog, and when I am in my own bed – I’ve only slept about four hours a night for the past two weeks. All the travel and lack of sleep has left me with a little summer cold – not too bad – just a little sniffle, a little cough, and a sore throat. No problem right? Sure – what do you have do to today? Maybe shove a powerdrill up your nose and then chew up and swallow broken glass and immediately swallow a sword after that. Then eat some fire and drink gasoline which inevitably touches those fresh burns we were just talking about. But it’s the American Dream – being on TV – it’s the universal hallmark of success in out culture – heck it’s certainly the break that helped my parents explain my “job” to their friends. And TV is cool – we like TV – and it’s fun to make – yet doing interviews, telling jokes, and even getting your mic put on and your stage directions in another language is a whole other world. It’s a wild whirlwind of people pushing you through the curtains and smiling at you while you wonder – what the hell is going on? What show is this again? And what did the host just say about me? But what the hell it is all fun – so I pony up and decide to plug my appearance at the tattoo show in Spanish. Oh yeah. What’s another risk at the end of all this?
It’s fantastic – I still can’t believe it’s my life – tonight I should be clocking at least six hours of sleep before my next TV show – Woo Hoo – that’s the most sleep I’ve had in days and I’m thrilled. Puerto Rico is beautiful and I can’t wait to see the rest of it.
Have Fun kids and kidettes – what the hell – play with matches – burn all your skin off – maybe it will pay off!
Okay some days it’s the best life in the world – I just walked down the beach back to my top floor hotel room overlooking the Caribbean Ocean. As I left the beachside bar a group of bikers pulled up and recognized me from a TV show I shot earlier today. I’ve been on this island 24 hours and I’m getting recognized at the bar. Yep – it’s pretty fantastic – but let’s take just a moment and look at how we got here. Friday night I burned all the skin off my bottom lip at a rock show in NYC and today I had to peel the blisters off so I could eat fire on fresh burns between bikini girls before the skin has grown back on not one but two TV shows. I’ve barely seen my dog, and when I am in my own bed – I’ve only slept about four hours a night for the past two weeks. All the travel and lack of sleep has left me with a little summer cold – not too bad – just a little sniffle, a little cough, and a sore throat. No problem right? Sure – what do you have do to today? Maybe shove a powerdrill up your nose and then chew up and swallow broken glass and immediately swallow a sword after that. Then eat some fire and drink gasoline which inevitably touches those fresh burns we were just talking about. But it’s the American Dream – being on TV – it’s the universal hallmark of success in out culture – heck it’s certainly the break that helped my parents explain my “job” to their friends. And TV is cool – we like TV – and it’s fun to make – yet doing interviews, telling jokes, and even getting your mic put on and your stage directions in another language is a whole other world. It’s a wild whirlwind of people pushing you through the curtains and smiling at you while you wonder – what the hell is going on? What show is this again? And what did the host just say about me? But what the hell it is all fun – so I pony up and decide to plug my appearance at the tattoo show in Spanish. Oh yeah. What’s another risk at the end of all this?
It’s fantastic – I still can’t believe it’s my life – tonight I should be clocking at least six hours of sleep before my next TV show – Woo Hoo – that’s the most sleep I’ve had in days and I’m thrilled. Puerto Rico is beautiful and I can’t wait to see the rest of it.
Have Fun kids and kidettes – what the hell – play with matches – burn all your skin off – maybe it will pay off!
