Concert, Band, and Movie Star

We had another action packed week. We just went to to a tribute concert to Fats Domino last night which featured BB King, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Wyclef, and a few other artists. It was a lot of fun, and ever more fun because I recieved free tickets from work. We even got into the box suites at the arena for free food and drinks!

Tracy Morgan was the host for the night, he was pretty funny. We also sat right behind his girlfriend in the second row for part of the night.


Here's us in the 2nd row! Lindz was so pumped to get this close for Wyclef, it was a lot of fun.

I was so glad to get to see BB King, he's about 82 years old and could still smoke on the guitar. I just wish he had played longer.

I didn't really expect much from Little Richard, but the show was great! He had a huge band and they sounded awesome.

A few weeks ago, Lindsey and I were supposed to be in a movie it was going to be a brothel scene and we could have made out, but Lindsey ended up getting cut from the scene so we both dropped out. We didn't really know why Lindsey was cut, but I think I found out this past week. I signed up to film in a different scene where they had asked for 'tall, bearded, skinny, scarred, or amputees'. There were a few women in the scene as well, dressed in the corset type outfits that Lindsey had been fitted in, but these girls were certainly not very cute. I came home telling Lindsey that the girls were all pretty 'broken' and that it was no wonder she was cut.

The movie I was hired on as an extra for is titled Jonah Hex. The movie is about some cowboy superhero...not sure if it will be very good, but it has a huge budget and stars Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, and Megan Fox. My scene had Josh Brolin in it and it was cool to see him do a lot of stunts and just joke around with all of us. The best part of the whole experience was seeing how Hollywood works and how movies are made, but it sure was boring a lot of the time! I spent two of the three days just sitting around for probably 14 hours doing nothing.

My scene was a gambling scene where there were about 80 other men, all bearded and dirty, in a big tent watching a dog fight, cock fight, and a monster fight. So, all we had to do was wave money around and yell. I was on camera a few times, but who knows if I'll make it into the movie. Now I'll just have to wait until August 2010 to find out...bummer.

One of the things that was pretty bizzaar was that the extras were seperated out from the rest of the cast and crew. We had our own seperate food and drinks. They also kept trying to corral us into this large back room away from everything. In summation; good food, 14-15 hour days, funny outfits, one girl passed out, I looked like Abraham Lincoln, and made about 300 bucks.


Here's my buddy Christian and his brother John behind me. We've been playing together on Sundays in a little band. Its been a lot of fun.