oh vanessa hudgens, i bet your mother is so ashamed of you.

I can honestly say that when I grab hold of a creative idea and wrestle it to the ground, I never feel more alive. Today a suggestion was made for something to be done for the character of Christian in LAN'ded. Currently, the past 9 hours Kyle and I have been writing, scripting, and organizing a team to be brought together for a small yet difficult project we hope to complete by the end of the week. Though, because of the nature of the project, I cannot discuss it very deeply. I know I'm beginning to sound like a broken record saying that but I'm sure if people just snooped around YouTube by the end of this week then they'd see the fruits of our labors. Or labours if we are using Shakespearean prose. Also, it involves me rapping. Yep, rapping. T-Pain style.

Hopefully, if all goes as planned, you're reading this on ImAaronJ.com. If so, I hope you're enjoying it. If not, well...trust me, it's pretty nifty. Kyle and I bought a flurry of domain names last night in an attempt to secure our virtual real estate and I feel as if we came out on top. You'll now be able to access our personal sites and company information at www.thisguyandi.us (cost 50 cents) and www.thisguyandi.com (cost $10). We bought the dot-com out of peer pressure and bought the dot-us to appease our penchant for thrifty shopping. In the end, everyone wins.

The grim realization that this job in New Hampshire will be done soon approaches us with more aggression with each passing day. This has been a haven for creative freedom as far as our work is concerned. We've made some good connections and have even found some new colleagues but a change of venue is necessary. I've always said that my father was the best source of comedy I've ever had and as fate would have it, I'll be heading home next. We have set up a mobile postal service on the internet though. A feasible way for Kyle, our fellow colleagues, and I to exchange ideas, videos, and upload our work to the series of tubes and connections you're navigating through now. We're very excited about the prospect of recording and releasing a podcast every so often, perhaps a fortnight, and getting feedback on our work instantly.

Getting away from all of that professional news, has anyone else turned into a 13-year old again due to the fact that a new video game about The Dark Knight is coming out? I sure have, and the fact that the collector's edition comes with a batarang does nothing to further my personal responsibility or well-being. I expect band-aids to be bought in bulk when that weapon is unboxed.

I just received an update. It's a negative, we won't have the URL site up by tomorrow, maybe tuesday though. GoDaddy.com likes to make their site as slow as possible, and when you combine that with the [sarcasm] always reliable [/sarcasm] internet here you've got a winning combination.

Guess that means it is time for bed. Peace out cub scouts.

"someone is crazy" - jonathan coulton

just some cowboy bebop

So, I've got about a month or so left in my contract here in New Hampshire (unless I get an extension) and things are winding down a bit. I never thought I'd be in the position to say this, but I actually bought a game console for work. I won't lie about it and say that I am buying it exclusively for work. Anyone that knows me would know that's an outright lie. However, in looking at the projects I want to complete in the next year, an Xbox 360 will surely help and fuel alot of fires I have burning right now. Due to the nature of the project I am currently working on, I cannot really talk about it much, but I can say that it involves me having to play alot of new games being released. What a life. :)

I'm currently designing and building my first real website in three years. The last website I designed was for my last improv group and after we disbanded I deleted the remains. Jumping back into it though has been fun. The little bits of HTML and the like have coming back to me like Squall's flashbacks at the end of FFVIII. (Yep, just went there.) I feel like I am cheating a bit though by using iWeb '09 but if every other actor out there is doing it, why not me? This time I'll conform, but we'll see about next time...

The very daunting thing about making this whole website business is how much it makes me feel like I'm running just that: a business. I realize that in the entertainment industry, you, being the actor/writer/whatever, is the product but man, how do you make a dork marketable? In real life we're relegated to being the funny best friends (on our lucky days) but in the real world? I hope there's alot of casting directors out there who play Halo.

And in that case, hit me up on Xbox Live.

Til next time.

"spirit in the sky" - norman greenbaum