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10/25/2005: "The new blog (with 15% extra funny!)"

Hey everybody,

First off I want to apologize for the quick blog yesterday. Clearly it disappointed all three of the people who read this blog.
So again I continue to find this blog writing confusing. I'm not sure what to talk about. Should I discuss the mundane things I did today? Or rehash the exciting six (yeah SIX) days of shooting gamers? I could take this opportunity to shamelessly promote my other film "Twixter". Yes, yes, before I shot (or should I say performed) "Gamers" I was working on another feature film. But that is another story. You don't want to hear about...oh? Oh you do? You do indeed? Well then here we go!
The film was originally called "Living With The Rents" (Alas the website still has the old title. Check it out: http://www.livingwiththerents.com/) (Alas I used alas again!). (Man the grammar in this blog is atrocious)(As is the spelling.). This film is a funny little film about a guy named Rob turning 30 and coming to realize he still lives at home with no prospects for the future. I play his best friend Stevie who runs a hot dog stand. The film is directed by David Tybor. And it was a lot of fun to shoot. There was only one director. There were no women going into labor. And nobody forcing the actors to write blogs and then publicly criticizing their blogs and demanding better work. But best of all we had a full month to shoot the film...ahhhhh. It truly was an experience.
But then I was cast in "Gamers"! (For more details please see my "Ten Questions with Dave Hanson). And the rest was magic!
I did have a cool thing happen on the night of the screening. After the movie finished and people began congratulating me and women tearing off their clothes and Meredith Zealy asking me out on a date (you happy now Chris?) two young men (and I'm not into that) came up to me. I'll be honest. They were nerds. But nerds with pride. Which means to themselves they were normal but the rest of us call them nerds. These guys came up to me to say the liked the movie. We shook hands and introduced ourselves (I don't remember their names. I'm far too big for that at this point. I mean Meredith Zealy asked me out!). And then they looked around in a shifty way, as if to pull out bastard sword and kill me like an orc baby. And they leaned in and one said, "We're WOW players too." The other just nodded.
WoW? WoW...oh yeah. World of Warcraft. Which is my favorite game at the moment (again refer to my "Ten Questions with Dave Hanson". Come on people catch up!). Real gamers. I'm a video gamer myself but I'm new to this game and I date women like and similar too Meredith Zealy. So I am not a real gamer in the strict definition or description of that kind of person. The silent one leaned in even further and said, "What level are you?" and for a second this seemed a lot like the conversation I had with the guide for the free tour of the L. Ron Hubbard museum and intelligence test last Friday (Trying to further my career and as it turns out I'll sell out anything for it. Even Jesus).
But Alas (again!) it wasn't Scientology but World Of Warcraft and when I squeaked out the messily number 24 to these gaming nerds they laughed and both said in full voice "Level 60 Bitch!" and they knew that in their world they were cooler than the guy who dates women like and similar too Meredith Zealy.
God Bless America.