Are you a writer with folders full of unfinished and/or unsold work?
A filmmaker with an unfunded project? Boxes of footage that you never finished editing?
Or a creative freelancer who finds themselves squeezed by unemployed cube dwellers who are saturating your profession while they look for their next full time job?
Filmed with a Sony HDR-UX10 High Definition Handycam Camcorder using normal room lighting. Audio captured with a Sony ECMHW1 Bluetooth Wireless Microphone. (Am I the only one who thinks the audio sucks? This is a new mic — maybe I’m not using it correctly.)
Last week I spent a few days in New York City. I asked my friend, Tom, what he wanted as a souvenir and he replied, “A photo of the Naked Cowboy.”
Even though I haven’t been to NYC in ages, I knew exactly who he meant. For 10 years, Robert Burck (aka the Naked Cowboy), has been 100% focused on building his personal brand — and lining his grippies with cold hard cash.
He can be found strolling Times Square in his underwear and strumming a guitar. Why would anyone do this? Maybe because tourists love to take photos with him and he nets $1,000 in tips A DAY.
On July 20, Burck announced his candidacy for Mayor of NYC. His campaign is founded on the mantra that, “No one knows how to do more with less than yours truly, and that’s the kind of thinking I plan on sharing with my fellow New Yorkers when you elect me.”
I’m sure Burck isn’t running for Mayor because he wants the job — he’d be taking a serious pay cut — instead, it’s a genius publicity stunt. When I Google Naked+Cowboy+Mayor I get over 1,000 news stories from the last week.
What I took away from NYC and the Naked Cowboy is that persistence DOES pay off. In fact, for Burck it paid off big last year when he received a hefty settlement from M&Ms after they used a candy likeness of him in a commercial without his permission. Can’t you see the resemblance?
I’ve been operating on a “cash only” basis for over a year so I can better monitor my spending. I do still have credit cards (1 AmEx and 3 Visas) but I only use them if I absolutely have to. “Have to” meaning online purchases, buying plane tickets, etc… Daily expenses like groceries, gas, restaurants, etc… are all handled with cash.
So, today I had to decide between taking $40 out of my NYC travel fund to get a mani/pedi, or doing it myself.
“Myself” ended up winning. (Or losing — depending on how you look at it.)
No matter how hard I try, it doesn’t look as nice when I do it…
It’s just not the same when you rub your own feet.
This isn’t as drastic as some of the other cuts I’ve tried in the last couple of years, but once again I let my stylist, Laura, do what she wanted with my hair. This is what she came up with:
What do you think?
I’m heading to NYC for vacation in a few days and I needed something that said “Manhattan modern.”
As always, I’m behind the times when it comes to pop culture, so I’ve only now finished watching all 7 seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD (six years after the last episode aired).
Although Angel is depicted as brooding and tragically heroic, and Riley Finn is the all American boy next door, neither of them do it for me.
But Spike! Oh William! (Guess I love a bad boy.)
It’s been a long time since I’ve had a tv/movie star crush, and it made me think about my past on-screen loves…
The very first love of my life was “Hardy Boy” and teen popster Shaun Cassidy. As an adult, I see that Parker Stevenson was actually the hottie, but as an eleven year old girl I only had eyes for younger brother Joe Hardy.
As a teenager my loves were musicians. In particular, I remember digging Stewart Copeland, Adam Ant, Brian Setzer and Rick Springfield (what can I say, I’ve always had varied taste in music — and men).
The only movie star that I’ve ever lusted over is Harrison Ford. Harry in the 1980’s was the height of hotness. Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner, Witness, Working Girl – he was rugged and handsome and a hero and I loved him.
But now I have a new crush — on an old television series character. I’m not sure if I’d like the actor, James Marsters, separate from the character of Spike. Luckily, I still have a couple of seasons of Angel to watch and I know that Spike makes an appearance in several episodes.
(Who thinks I need to start dating again and stop drooling over a peroxided television vampire from 2003?)
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Last week I spent a few days in New York City. I asked my friend, Tom, what he wanted as a souvenir and he replied, “A photo of the 
