John Assaraf interviews... Dr. Brian Alman 6/17/2010 #SuccessManifestors

John Assaraf interviews... Dr. Brian Alman 6/17/2010 #SuccessManifestors

This is incredible

Opening Night @ the Movies

Hello. It's been too long. This may be a mash up, maybe not. [mash up is a now commonly used word, implying the combination of 2 or more different things, more like an ice cream sandwich, rather then a smoothie]

I've got a pal, he is a writer, he writes movies. He wrote one that got made. It opens TONIGHT! officially (unofficially-you know how they have the midnight screenings the night before).

Opening nights and the weekend box office are HUGELY important in the entertainment industry. Who knew numbers would play such a vital roll (haha, a freudian slip) -that's role, but they do, especially the first numbers that come out. It's like, is this going to avalanche?

But you see the people who make the budgets are investing in these projects and people and those numbers let them know 'you done good' and to keep investing in them. It also lets other investors know they are a good investment. (They being the actors, directors, writers, even producers...the list goes on) Its a win-win. Now it works the other way too, luckily you can still get a second try or even third, but if it continues to falter you are known as 'box office poison'. This usually gets pinned on the actors, but could fall on just about anyone as well. So it takes a keen savviness to navigate a career. Sometimes it's the choices we make, maybe not the best fit. Sometimes its simply timing. But it is all based on the numbers.

Now of course there are other factors involved as well. Marketing efforts for example. This pal of mine, had another great ensemble film that didn't get the attention it deserved, even having a huge cast full of known A listers. In that case the distributing studio rushed it through the theaters without having much of a marketing push.

This industry is ALL collaboration. It starts as one idea. Gets truned into a script. Gets cast. Gets made. Gets edited. Gets released. Each step, being handed off, partly to another. But when it works, it works so beautifully and can hit a nerve in the pop culture of the world - which is spectacular if you think about it! I mean movies literally bring humanity together in a shared experience. Not everyone is going to like everything, but when that magic works...it really is magical.

O.K. back on topic, if there are people you follow/ like to support or if there is a particular movie that peeks your interest please make the effort to see it opening weekend. As these are the numbers that count most for any film.

post script: there is also the occasional sleeper hits, and underground/cult hits, that make ressurections in dvd rentals/sales and special midnight screenings-but wouldn't it be even cooler to say, "I was actually one of the few who saw it when it first came out". I think so.

My moral for this blog: go see movies on opening weekend, so your 'vote' is counted!

Until next time (possibly in a few minutes or hours)

Joey-

Hiyah!

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I am looking forward to my shipment and getting my practice on.

Watch out world, Joey's gonna be wielding her might.

Crush

BY DEFINITION:

Noun-

5. Informal
a. A usually temporary infatuation.
b. One who is the object of such an infatuation.

6. A decisive or critical moment or situation.

v.tr.-

1. To press between opposing bodies so as to break or injure.
2. To break, pound, or grind (stone or ore, for example) into small fragments or powder.
3. To put down; subdue: crushed the rebellion.
4. To overwhelm or oppress severely: spirits that had been crushed by rejection and failure.
5. To crumple or rumple: crushed the freshly ironed shirt.
6. To hug, especially with great force.
7. To press upon, shove, or crowd.
8. To extract or obtain by pressing or squeezing: crush juice from a grape.

So you can presume all the joys that come along with the infatuation of a crush will inevitably end...well, not so good...and yet it is like an addiction. It doesn't always happen, but when a certain someone peaks my interest it takes over, floods through and overwhelms the system. Perhaps I am more addicted to the unrequited part. The thrills of imagination taking life in my head better left unsaid (well not directly). It is cause for an explosion of creativity, at least for me.

in·fat·u·a·tion
n.
1. A foolish, unreasoning, or extravagant passion or attraction. See Synonyms at love.
2. An object of extravagant, short-lived passion.

I don't know what it is, but when it comes around I do love to jump in the game. Roll around in all the made up possibilities, flourish in all the new found energies. Build up, then break down. The break down is a very important part of the whole experience. I mean CRUSH, the act of being crushed - it is the word itself. So the implications are built in. I always knew this going in, but it took a while to get use to it. To realize that it is not only there on the other end of the crush spectrum, but a one way track toward it.

Then there's the other factor when the tables have turned and I've become the object of unwanted affection. I suppose there is a fine line and mastery of executing a crush. For me I really do take it as an art, and though its fun to have a crush buddy to vicariously share in the game- the creative energy dissipates. So I do tend to keep it in art and jornals. That's my style, perhaps others fall prey to their own imagings. Thus it goes from friend to foe, where everything gets twisted and turned...and eggshells scatter everystep. Not fun, my pals, not fun at all. Who wants to edit every move and every word, it's no way to live people. So take caution in your crush. Do not ruin what could be just a regular ol' friendship. Live it up, revel in its delights, but be forewarned do not take imagination for reality. It is a fine line.

day job tips

Four Walls: Mon.- Fri.

So I work as a receptionist facing this tall wall of windows. In a disaster movie it would not be the ideal spot to be, but I do have a carved out concave nook under my sturdy dark wooden desk, and it's covered down to the floor-so no worries, I would certainly be safe in it.


This location is great for entertainment, namely eavesdropping. I can pick up just about anything within earshot. Deciphering cadence, tone and categorized by topic or people conversing I have built quite a web of interpersonal drama and politics. Being able to sit beyond the realm of immersion has helped me keep afloat and become all-seer so to speak. I'm at the center of the honey comb of offices that branch off to my sides, with the "kitchen" area behind - me, the lobby before me and the courtyard just beyond the front doors.


The courtyard is my secondary form of entertainment throughout the day. Quiet an array of characters stomp through on a daily basis as it is pretty much the only place in this downtown area to smoke without being bothered. It's nestled between the only two hookah bars around here, so even though techincally a smoke free zone, it has become the smoker's-open-air-haven. We get a sampler platter of regulars. A certain group of High schoolers and their homeless friends - which actually was cause for a continuing drama, but that's another story. Our own people taking their smoke breaks and lunches. And the passerbys, well, passing by. We're next to a parking garage so we get some foot traffic.

jiggle, no good

As I was walking to and from lunch, I noticed my belly was actually jiggling.

JIGGLING!!!

This MUST be stopped and reveresed and heeeeeellllpppppeed!