Getting My Shit Together

Hey fuckmooks,

If you couldn't tell from my last couple blog posts, I have been a little overwhelmed by life and especially the GooTube Conspiracy. Anycrap, yesterday I decided to try my hand at meditation to see if I could clear my head a little. I laid in the middle of my bedroom for about 8 hours and tried to hear the sound of nothing. My experiment was less than successful because I couldn't ever manage to turn off my brain. And now I feel like I lost a whole day of potential productivity. I did manage to think of an interesting mind bender. I started thinking about that old saw about "If a tree falls in a forest..." and, of course, that leads nowhere because it's deliberately designed to not have a correct answer. It's a specious argument. However - that got me to thinking about color blindness. And a more practical argument to ponder is "If you are color blind and cannot perceive the color red, does the color red even exist?" Now that is a question I can sink my teeth into! Don't really have a good answer for it, but it kinda rejuvenated my creative juices and helped me begin to form a plan to deal with all the shizzle going on right now.

As lame as it sounds I simply made up my mind to take things one step at a time and do what I can and whatever can't get done - don't sweat it. Sometimes it's the simple shit that eludes us, right?

I want to start a wiki about the GTC. Been looking around and found Wikidot and Wetpaint as potential sites. I doubt very much GTC will merit a spot on the actual Wikipedia. I know a lot of you guys out there reading this thing are A LOT more tech-savvy than I am and would appreciate any feedback you can give me regarding this. It seems this would be a better way to interact with the audience. Maybe 'better way' isn't exactly what I mean. Perhaps 'another way' is a more appropriate way to describe what I have in mind. Ideally I will start up a blog on Wordpress specifically for GTC and that site will also contain the wiki. Is that even a viable option? J? Jon (do you use the damn H or not)? Aeryk? Anyone? I have no intention of sinking any money into this endeavor so I'm just trying to brainstorm a way to build a completely free site that'll do all the shit I want in an organized manner using all the free tools available out there in the ether.

Enough of that. What's been going on with the GTC? Well, the newest episode seems to be generating quite a nice buzz. Thee feedback has been really positive. Which again send me into a tailspin trying to figger out how to top it. This is where the new 'don't sweat it' philosophy comes in handy.

Nalts was in town on Monday for business reasons and we managed to get together briefly to shoot an episode. Nalts and The Alpha finally meet! Unfortunately we're gonna have to sit on it for awhile while we shoot all of the eps required to get from where we are to them finally meeting. C'est la vie!

I met the guys from ichannel. If you haven't seen their show - you should. It blows ours out of the water! So professional. They were really cool guys. Maybe we might do some crossover shows if they are amenable to the idea. It turns out they only live a couple blocks from me! What're the odds of two of the producers of the most original concept shows on YouTube living side by side? Pretty weird! We'll see where it goes.

I'm still working on the "behind the scenes" vid. This is way harder than putting together an actual episode. I just feel like I'm leaving so much out or that it doesn't really show people what the process is like. I guess I should just post it and get some feedback and then if I do more I'll have a better idea of how to do it in the future.

Found this little tidbit floating around out there. So far, I've found about half a dozen blogs that talk about our show (mine excluded of course). She kinda has the info wrong. Nalts created the concept of the show. I just helped fine tune it and make it more of an actual 'show'. But, whatever. Nalts doesn't even watch our show anymore. I can't feel bad if he's not getting his due credit, can I? Sure I can! Anjelikka - if you read this, can you please amend your blog to inform people that Nalts is the actual creator and I am merely more of an executive producer? Thanks.

Well guys, I guess that's about it for today. I'll talk at ya later.