Have a has-been call you for 300 bucks
My friend Lydia sent me this:—
You can order a phone call (19.95) or a “telephonic appearance” by Brandon Cruz of the Dead Kennedys for $300.
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There’s a bunch more people who ain’t getting much other work these days who will call you on the phone for money too:
http://www.hollywoodiscalling.com/
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I find that so incredibly sad.
MWD
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
One of these kids is not like the other ones:
http://www.hollywoodiscalling.com/index.php?page=0#10
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Which one? they all look like old has beens to me.
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Dear MWD
I want to be the next quenin tarantino. I don’t know what to do though, I have this really amazing idea about a low intensity zombie war, and I read (50 pages of) your book, “30 dollar film school” but still don’t have the resources to be a director. Apparantly you need to know people in hollywood to make it big in hollywood. Who would’ve known…
Anyway, my name is Robbie Cunningham, and I’m 15 years old. I live in portland, OR and the most famous person to come out of my high school is celeste dinucci, who recently won a vast amount of money playing jeopardy. My sister, Katrina will be famous very shortly because of her dancing. She goes to Purchase College in New York, which is similar to Juliard, just more prestigous when it comes to ballet. It would mean the world to me if I could be able to put you on my list of contacts because I have pretty much no shot if I can’t bind to SOMEONE in the public eye.
sincerely,
team_planet@yahoo.com
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Fuck. I’m a neverwas and I’ll call you for free but I’ll call collect.
Good to see you, Mr. Dean. I hope all is well with you. Cville has turned into the air-conditioned, money-fueled nightmare that was always in its little cowheart to be. It’s like every other place with more pomposity than heart, IOW.
love,
Jamie
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Yeah, I liked living there, but noticed that last time I was there (last year.) When we retire, we may move to the little TINY cowtown in upstate New York that I grew up in, which is STILL a cowtown. In twenty years, when we’re ready to retire, it may be as modern as Charlottesville was 20 years ago when lived there. It probably won’t start to suck until I’m just about dead of old age. And land is CHEAP there. Like a house and 20 acres for 100 grand.
But progress marches on…..never forget, Charlottesville Virginia is where The Waltons lived.
And before that, Thomas Jefferson liked it because he could grow weed and bang his slaves and no one would notice like they might have in Philadelphia.
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
>Fuck. I’m a neverwas and I’ll call you for free but I’ll call collect.
I’m kinda offended by the whole “call for money” thing. It’s sad, sad, sad.
I do charge money for in-person appearances, but more or less just airfair, hotel, and reasonable per-diem. I’ll do an telephone (or skype) interview with **anybody** for free (as long as they agree that I can record my end of it and use it as I wish). And I wouldn’t call someone I didn’t want to talk to for a grand. The idea seems icky. Imagine some aging alcoholic depressed motherfucker who was on TV 30 years ago calling you and pretending to care. How horrible for the people on BOTH ends of THAT call.
MWD
January 4th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Its so L.A. I hate everything about that place.
January 4th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
That’s why I live 35 miles away, 5 miles outside the “thirty mile zone” or “TMZ”, i.e. “Where ‘it’ all happens”. (There’s even a Hollywood gossip and paparazzi show now called “TMZ”.)
January 4th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
I live in a room. 10,000 light-years from home.
February 4th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
How depressing. Brandon seemed like sort of a “nice guy” until after a few conversations I realized he was a homophobe.
When Dr. Know played Gilman a few months ago I downloaded and then burned to a cd the theme from “The Courtship of Eddies Father” and played it over the P.A.
February 4th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Sorry, forgot to sign that post.