So many exciting things for me to write down so I can remember them later!       I'm in Nashville right now at the Dove Awards (now known as the Gospel Music Associate Awards). We are on our last day of shooting and it's been an exciting and sometimes frustrating ride. Before I write about my time at the doves I want to talk about events leading up to it.         A few days before I left for Nashville Lars and I auditioned for a role over at FourSquare Media. It was for the part of "Jonathan Allen" the host of a tour of Life Pacific Bible College. I felt I did pretty well with the delivery of my first line, but I botched up the second paragraph. It was a first Audition for Lars, which was pretty exciting. I think Lars has amazing potential and will make it really big someday. Regardless, we left and I almost forgot about the audition until I got a call back about two days later. They told me that I got the part and they were going to pay me $300 for the shoot! Although that sounds like a quite a bit for a few hours of work, it's actually really low for this kind of job. One snag was the shoot was on the 28th (today) and I wasn't getting back from Nashville until the 30th. Well, I informed Sally about the problem and she was frustrated like I was, but helped me make the nessicary changes. It cost $100 to change the ticket and that set me back a bit. Sally got on the phone with the people from FourSquare Media and had them cover the cost of the plane ticket, I was so stoked!         So I head off to Nashville and I'm doin' my thing when I get a phone call that they changed the shoot again to the 30th (which is the day I get back from Nashville). So I tell them all the flight info and they go ahead and change the flight again for me and cover the cost. How awesome is that? The cool thing is that I had recently gotten my car towed and the amount they are paying me covers the cost of the tow, I serve a very big God.         Now, I'm in Nashville at the Holiday Inn Express waiting to interview Jill Paquette. When we are done with her we'll probbably do another interview or something then head off to the Awards ceremony to shoot all kinds of backstage stuff. If I remember correctly, Michelle Williams will be co-hosting with Sally this year so that'll be a blast.         Last night we went to BB King's to see (to name a few), Toby Mac, Rachel Lampa, Natalie Grant, Michelle Williams (who was AMAZING), and this awesome jazz group. Today we interviewed "By The Tree" in the hotel lobby at 9:30 am. After we had finished the interview one of the guys said "So, you want to make our music video?" Which was kind of a shock to me because when she was talking about it I was playing around with her and pointing at myself as if to say "Drop my name, yo!" Because they don't have a video yet. For a group to have four CD's out and no music video is no good. So, when I get back I'm going to listen to some of their music and pick a song to do, or maybe get in contact with them and start talking about what song they may be interested in. I hope that works out. I also got to see Eric Welch (he directs music videos and I admire some of the work he's done). I talke with him and told him about the movie I shot with Action House. He gave me his contact info and asked me to send it to him.         This year we brought a lighting kit, boom mic, two cameras, wired lavs and plenty of tape, so it's been nice working with all this equipment.         That's enough for now, I'll write some more later.

The show I was dubbing got out just fine. We ended up getting the five networks that MUST get out to the post office just in time. Good times. We leave for Nashville in four days. Just four. We'll be there for the entire week and do about thirty interviews. It seems like alot, but it's actually going to be a great week. Fun times. I'll be sure to bring my camera so I can remember stuff. I slept today after this mornings staff meeting until 2:30 pm. I feel much better now. Tomorrow I plan on getting all the things done that I've not been able to do because of all the shows we've been working on. I'll install the RAID on the new server, prepare for the Dove Awards show, get Michael working on editing his first show so he'll be ready for the Dove shows, and much more. In fact, I think I'll make a to-do list. We got new desks for our offices today. Lars built mine and I just finished setting it up. It has a shelf above the main work desk and little baskets along the frame. They also got this cool box thing to put stuff in. It's a box with shelves in it. It has (from the bottom up) one long shelf, another long shelf, and a row of three smaller box like shelfs. I have no idea what I'm going to put in there.

So, crazy times. We went to "The House Of Blues" to shoot Skillet, Pillar, Big Dismal, Grits and 12 Stones. I parked in the 7-11, which is where I parked last time we went to the House Of Blues. So, we shot the concert and had a great time. I accidently ended up in a mosh pit and I tweaked my neck a little bit, which leads me to this next point. I woke up the next morning (Sunday) and was barley able to move. My neck and back hurt pretty bad, so I called Stephen to tell him that I wasn't going to be able to play bass that day. He laughed and said "that is the lamest excuse I have ever heard!" I couldn't believe he said that. I've been playing at his church for about a month now and haven't missed a single Sunday. Also, I've only ever been late because of traffic, every other time I'm on time or early. I can see how it's a problem to not be able to show up and call the day of, but bottom line it wasn't like I didn't go because I didn't want to. I've pulled another all nighter with the TV show. This time, however my effort has been in vain. John Ineno brought a different beta deck over, and I was told it was better than the one we rent so I used it. Well, I came to find out that John's beta deck wasn't recording the tapes properly so we had to start all over again, which sucks. Hopefully we'll be able to get the shows out the MUST be to the networks by this Wednesday. Last night wasn't so bad though, Shannon came by and we hung out while I finished up editing the show. Good times. She brought me some "Morning Glory Carrot Muffins" and they were by far the greatest muffins I have eaten in a long time. Now I'm having Michael, one of our interns, re-dub the shows. I'm sticking around to help him out in case there are any problems. I did find myself getting frustrated, but God is good and faithful.

Long day! Long and awesome day. I picked up at Nikon D1h from a guy named Ernie on Wednesday. I did a shoot for Ernie a few weeks back at a Latin Christian music thing. I hated the shoot, but because of it I met this guy. And because of that I was able to do some photography for Dream House. I didn't really mind using a digital camera. It was nice to be able to see my shots as I took them, but there were some funky things about it. Overall, it was a good shoot. I did the shoot for Dream House after Church. After that I was suppoused to meet up with Sally to film some behind the scenes footage of Michelle Williams music video shoot. When I got back to my car I found it with the battery DEAD. LAME! I do that SO often! I called up Sally to let her know then I got ahold of Kathy to jump the car. While waiting for Kathy I tried to get the thing into neutral, to no avail. So we tried to get Kathy's car manuvered next to mine. After many tries and the help of "momma" (the parking lot security lady), we found ourselves about a foot short for the jumper cable. I jumped into Kathy's truck, went to an auto parts store and picked up some jumper cables. I'll pick up one of those portable battery things soon too, but they're like $80. Thank God for the Dream House shoot (I got paid for that). So I finally get the jump and meet Sally at the shoot. She takes off and Billy and I stay. We ended up gripping for the shoot and I still shot the behind the scenes footage. I'll never forget this one thing. It was a late shoot and at one point a guy in the apartments near the shoot starts yelling at us because of the lights and music. At one point he yells "Selfish empire!" and that's it for him. So funny. Time for sleep.

Today, with Pastor Manny, I ran 2.37 miles in under 19 minutes. :D

So much to say. I haven't been writing because things have been busy lately. First, work.     We're meeting on Thursday afternoons to talk about and plan the "Action House TV Awards". Yes, we actually want to start an awards show. It will be for Movies, Music and Entertainment. Now that I think about it Movies and Music are forms of entertainment, so it might be time to re-think that slogan. Anyway, we're going to go all out for this, invite artists, actors, directors etc. We're going to hold it at Angelus Temple here in Los Angeles, so that covers a tremendous amount of cost. I'll probably end up directing the event. I'm excited because this could be very awesome.     We are leaving for Nashville in two weeks! So exciting! This year should be a bit more relaxed than the year I went as an intern. We have around 30 interviews as opposed to 50. We also submitted an equipment list for the trip which includes a new light kit, wireless mic/receiver, and boom mic. If we get those, stuff will be awesome. We've interviewed everyone that is going to be there, so they know us and love us which is very good. I've also come up with an ingenious plan for preparing to edit the shows we shoot. I'll bring Sally's external hard drive, and my laptop to import the footage for editing while we are STILL in Nashville! YAY! That will save us tons of time. Plus, Sally's external has plenty of room for doing something like that.     On another note, the DV deck we got back recently is busted already. Lame lame lame lame!! So frustrating! Hopefully, we'll have a solution soon. Thankfully the other deck we sent away for repairs came back the day we had problems with the first deck. Now, let's head over to the film making portion of my life.     I sent off a script to Maggie so she could put together some conceptual art. Thanks Magz! You seriously rock my face off! The script isn't completed yet, but I have enough to bring to Lars and Clay so we can start writing some more for a 30 min screenplay. It's a pretty good story, I think. I'll post the art when I get it from Maggie. Other than that not much is going on with films right now. I need to just start writing and shooting stuff. Let's tune in now to Brian's personal life.     I saw "Dead Poet's Society" lately. After watching, I seized the "Carpe Diem" concept. For example, there is this girl named Katie who lives here at the Dream Center. I've seen her around and said hello every once in a while but haven't gotten to know her. About a week ago, I was sitting in the cafeteria with some of the Action House crew when I saw her at another table eating alone. I said, "Excuse me boys, I need to go carpe diem." So, I got up and sat down with her. We had a great conversation and I got to know her a bit. So, that was good.     More recently, I took some interns out to lunch. While we were eating we saw a cute girl sitting at the counter in the restaurant eating. I called the waitress over and told her that I'd like to buy the girls lunch (got that one out of my Dad's playbook, you rock, Dad!). So the waitress let her know. When she was done eating she came over to the table, introduced herself and told me she worked in the evening at the that restaurant and that I should come in sometime. So, I will. Good times.

God has been opening up the flood gates of blessings on me :). For some reason, God has decided to bless me financially lately. Tithing.. I guess it is important. I did a shoot today at a Christian Spanish concert. I was told I was only going to recieve $80 but the guy gave me $125 instead. I was there for about 8 hours, so I guess I did pretty well. It's been a pretty crazy couple of days. We got the "RJ Helton" show out, which is good. Michelle Wiliams is next. Our next shoot isn't until the 16, I think. Skillet, Grits and a ton of my other favorite artists are going to be at the "House Of Blues", so that's going to be SCHWEET. I played bass again at Sally and Stephen's church this morning. We rocked out and had a good time. I'll be playing bass again on Easter Sunday and possibly getting paid for it. I'm so busy so much of the time, it's crazy. I was lying in my bed last night and having another "This is what I'm doing with my life" moment. I just stared at the ceiling and Tonight I go to see "Hellboy" with my friend Charlene. I hope it doesn't suck.