My friend Rowan went to an auction and won two tickets for "Farenheit 9/11". He got one for himself, and one for me. So, last night we went to the Directors Guild Of America to watch the Los Angeles screening. What a Hollywood star-studded night it was for me! I'll start from my immediate left then move back. To my left was Jesse Bradford, I regonized him, but I couldn't remember from what (I think he didn't like that). Directly behind me was Jason Isaac, you may recognize him, I did. Moving on there was Ethan Hawk, Samuel L. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Edward Norton, John C. Reilly, and many more. It was a truly surreal experience, and each one of them shook my hand. Not. Although the film was biased to say the least, I enjoyed the film immensly. Michael Moore did an excellent job of presenting a case to the American public in a way that I could understand. There were times that I laughed, cried and got very upset at times. One thing that caught me as funny is that Bush spent 42% of his time in office on vactaion. That's four months of vacation. He spent the entire month of August in Texas or something like that. That's insane. Afterwards, Rowan and I went to Denny's to chat about the film and life and stuff. I'm going to visit home this weekend. I'm going to bring my film, "Fatal Illusion" so everyone can watch. I'm also going to take Danielle with me. We'll visit my Dad, Mom, friends, the beach. It's going to be fun and relaxing.

Many things have been happening in my life. Season three of Action House TV is wrapping up this week, we are working our next film which will be shot in July, I'm going to start on Clay's website, and I've met a wondeful girl. Her name is Danielle and we've been dating for one week. I can truly say that she is my best friend. We met around two months ago and started hanging out. She works and lives here at the Dream Center doing Accounting and Marketing. She's from Kansas City. She's also a woman of God, which is awesome.

So, in a few minutes I'll be meeting with a girl I've met here at the Dream Center. We've been hanging out for about a week and a half now. I really enjoy spending time with her and we've developed a relationship. Her name is Danielle. I'm praying that God's will would be done in our relationship. I haven't dated anyone in about 4 or 5 years I think. It's been a long time, one way or another. So for me to say that I'm a little nervous is being maligned. On another note, we've started working on our next film. We'll be shooting in July around the 12th. This film is going to be around 20-30 minutes. Last night Lars, Clay and I went to the "Cat and Fiddle" off of Sunset in Hollywood to start the writing process. It was actually a really cool place to meet. We felt like kings of the film industry. This one should be interesting.

So, tomorrow is the big concert. But first, I went to "The Magic Castle" with my Dad on Thursday. I had a fantastic time! The highlight of the evening for me would have to the Irma, the resident ghost. She played the piano and even took requests. Dad apparently stumped her, so he rocked her face off. In order to enter The Magic Castle you have to wear a coat and tie, or a cocktail dress for the ladies. In addition, you must also be 21 years or older to enter. Ever since I had heard about the Magic Castle when I was around 16 I've been waiting until I was old enough to get in, so going on Thursday was a treat. The shows were outstanding. We went to a pre-show in a smaller room. The magician who performed had been on "The Jerry Lewis Telethon", but despite that he was awesome. After that we headed to dinner then the main performance. There were two acts in the main performance. The first was a comedic routine, the other was just pure magic. After that I went to the close up show, which was my favorite of all the shows. The magician who performed was from England and has performed for the queen. He did some of the most amazing slight of hand with cards I have ever seen. I practiced the bass yesterday night. I plugged in, turned on Steve's CD practiced my little heart out. I was pretty happy to find that I could do almost every song of the top of my head. I'll be rehearsing this afternoon into the evening with Steve and the band. I'm really excited about the concert. I have a few friends coming, so that'll be encouraging. We may even have a special guest musician come. The past week only Anna and I have been the resident Staff at Action House. Well, Cliff and Craig have been here, but we work down on the 2nd floor with the interns. It's been a tough week for Anna, and I can understand why. I've been burning the candle at both ends but as this week winds down I look forward to next week. I'll be meeting with Clay on Monday so we can start hashing out the next script. As I've said, we start shooting our next film in June. In the mean time, I'm working on about four different websites at the moment. Fun times.

Remember when I mentioned all that equipment that was dropped off? Well, here is about 1/4th of it. These are four of the five beta decks.

I've been meeting with Stephen and the band the past two nights to rehearse for the Sunday night concert. I expect there will be at least a few hundred people there. The process of learning a song on the bass guitar and learning a song on the drums are very different endeavors. On the drums you learn rhythm and sections, on bass (or any other non-rhythm instrument for that matter) you learn notes. So, I have to learn to memorize music now, which I never even did while playing guitar for worship because I had the music in front of me. All in all, I'm really glad I'm learning to play bass. The thing that makes it all easier is that the music really rocks out. It's rockin', fun, purposeful music. Stephen has been really patient with me and even called me on my way back from rehearsal tonight to tell me I did a great job. He even mentioned how impressed he was that I'm learning so fast. Tonight is going to be a long night. I have to get the Plus One show finished so I can dub tomorrow. Thankfully I know what I'm doing and it should be a fairly painless process. I just finished the intro montage, which was going to take a long time. Now I have to add B-roll to the interviews, music then adjust the audio. After that is titles for the music videos, the AHTV logo. Finally, I master the audio then put a filter on the video so the networks can accept it. After all of that is said and done, I'll goto sleep, dub it onto DV in the morning then begin the dubbing process for the networks. Wish me luck!

So cool stuff. Just next to me are four beta decks, valued at $10,000 a piece. This is good for a few reasons. 1. We'll be able to dub the show and take 1/4 of the time to do it. 2. It's just so cool to have $10,000 worth of stuff to play with! Just knowing that I'll be able to dub the shows out in only three runs is SO awesome. We dub for eleven networks at 1/2 hour a dub. That adds up to alot of hours. Now, we can run four copies at a time. My Dad called today and said "okey dokey" to the Magic Castle. I'm stoked! I hear they have great food and it'll be great to spend some time with my Dad. It sounds like we'll be visiting my Grandma before we go, which is awesome. I had a great time when I visited last. Today I worked with Mallory on getting her show out. I let her do most of the work by herself. In other words, I didn't hang over her shoulder and poke around what she was doing. She did really well! We ran into some snags around the finish of the show, which is natural. It happens every time. Tomorrow I have the big rehersal with Stephen and the band. I tried to get some practice time in today, but got pulled away to fix the show and the beta decks. I'll try to pratice tonight.

Tonight I met with Stephen again to rehearse. In case I forgot to mention it, I'm in Stephen's band now and we have a concert on Sunday the 23rd in the evening. If you are reading this, you should come. Moving on. I learned a new song called "Walk The Waves". At first, I wrote down the chords for all the different parts. Eventually I wasn't even looking at the chords, I was learning it as I went. I realized that I enjoyed this way much more than I did the other. I began to feel the music rather than just read the chords. I do have to say that my brain hurt afterwards, though. Tomorrow I go running again. I'll take it kind of easy since I ran pretty far yesterday. I love this trying to be healthy thing. Tonight for lunch I had a grilled chicken breast with brocolli, cottage cheese, fruit and water. It was freakin' tasty! Then, on my way back to the Dream Center from Steve's church, I picked up some "Propel" energy water and a protien bar of some kind. I could have gotten a Coke and Snickers, but then I would have ruined what I'm working towards. Earlier, while having dinner with Sally, I went to reach for a roll that was lefter over from our meals. "No! You don't want to eat that" Sally exclaimed. "What for?" I asked. "You'll ruin all the healthy stuff you just ate." She explained. I hadn't realized that by doing that I would have ruined it. It kind of changed my perspective on things. We'll see how it goes. My Dad is going to take me out somewhere on the 20th of this month. I'm really excited, but I haven't thought of a good place to go yet. Now that I think about it, I haven't been to the Magic Castle yet. On the other hand, I don't have a Divers license 'cause I lost my wallet recently. I'll check the DMV website tonight to see if I can get a new one. One way or another, I know we'll have a good time. I hope he lets me use his camera without being all anal about it. Alright, enough. I'm going to finish this movie and goto bed.

Just a quick post. Dear me: you ran 4.some-odd miles yesterday! More to come.

I go running around Silverlake in about an hour. I have to say this so that my mind is prepare for the journey that lies ahead of me. I'm going to be taking a friend of mine along. Hopefully I'll be able to round up another person so I don't have to wait with Kristina if she falls behind. Kristina is a cool girl, she's from Europe and will be staying at the Dream Center for a year. The whole reason she is here is to check out the various ministries and go start a Dream Center on her own. More work today. I finished the AHTV promo for Cliff. It's due tomorrow, so I'm glad I finished it in time. Now I burn about 10 copies so he can hand them out to various people. If we don't get sponsorship for our show, we'll have to put it on hold. So, I'm not sure what that means for me. I realized again the other day that this is what I'm doing with my life. It's not a bad thing, but at times I forget. I mean, most people my age are in college right now or have some kind of a job that pays a ton better than mine does. But I don't care about the money or anything like that. I get to do what I love to every day. It does get stressful and overwhelming at times, but I do love it. Sally went off a little bit today about how she's really tired from working and other stuff. It was kind of hard to listen to since I'm at Action House every single day of the week. I live here for goodness sakes.

    Oh yeah, I also ran around Silver Lake again yesterday night. I beat Anna and Pastor Manny (only because he was keeping pace with Anna). I ran it in about 20 mins this time. After we got back from running, we went to the gym and worked out for about 30 mins. It felt really good and I'm looking forward to running again tomorrow.

    What a way to start the day! I had rehersal with Stephen and the band last night because we played at a Christian High School this morning. For my first time playing with the band, we had a crowd of about 1,100 students. Every grade from Junior High up to High School. I had a great time, and did pretty well considering I learned the music just the night before. We played six songs back to back. After we finished playing, kids came up and asked me to sign on Stephen's CD, this was a weird thing for me. Such a cool experience. The weird thing was we were "it" for the high school's chapel. Meaning, we played then chapel was over. We thought there was going to be someone coming up to say something, but he just came up and said "Ok guys, thanks for coming let's head off to class. Be sure to say thanks to Stephen and his band." We're also going to play on the 23rd at Stephen's church. It's going to be a full on rock 'n roll show.     Yesterday I went to the Foursquare Media office to finish the Life Pacific College commercial. I did the rest of the VO's and headed on my merry way. I really hope I'll do some more work with them in the future.     Before I take a break to visit home for a few days, I have to get some of the DOVE award shows out, which should be a challenge, but not much of a problem. Apparently, John Ineno is brining over like seven Beta decks for Action House to use. That means we can get the show dubbed off in half the time. No more super long dubbing sessions. Praise God.     I met with one of the interns yesterday. He's pretty much taking over alot of what Billy did. The great thing is that we've asked each other to help keep ourselves accountable. We're going to meet on Sunday evenings and pray, as well as check up during the week. I think God is going to start some really awesome stuff. We've been talking about prophecy and healing, because we feel God has laid it on our hearts. This intern is from South Africa and has had the privelege to be used by God to prophecy and heal people. I can't wait to see what God has for me.     I spent a good two hours on Monday worshipping and praying. I had such a hunger for God after I had met with my accountability partner. It was awesome to take some time out of my day to connect with God and get into his presence. He's making a change in my heart.

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.

I've been up for 22 hours, but it's ok. And then suddenly it's not. I should explain. We're trying to get a show out today and I've been up working on it. It's taking so long only because I went out last night, which I'm going to write about because I don't want to forget. Tuesday was a typical Tuesday. Staff meeting at 8:30, then work until forever. I was working with Mz and Mallory on their shows. Mz's show is the one I'm working on dubbing right now. But Tuesday was also different. Shannon wanted to meet up with me at 4:30 to go visit her college for some kind of suprise trip. Thankfully it was a crazy busy day so 4:30 came fairly quickly. I met Shannon at the girl's home that she works at. We took off with her friends Andy and Liz, both of which I am good friends with now. We arrived at the college. This was a weird thing because I had stayed at the very same college about a year ago because I was shooting a documentuary on a ministry. I stayed at the very same college we were visiting that day. Small world. Anyway, we headed to the cafeteria and grabbed some food. As we ate I met Shannon's college buddies. Everyone was very friendly and outgoing, it was cool. I was really just enjoying watching everyone and being quiet. From the cafeteria we jumped into Shannon's car and headed out. It turns out we were going to a church where Hillsong United (a worship band/youth group) was having a concert. Unfortunatley all of the seats in the sanctuary were full so we went to the overflow areas. The worship was awesome! I only knew a few songs, but I really enjoyed myself. After the show we headed back to the college. Shannon had a dance class so I hung out with Andy in "The Cove". "The Cove" is the hangout spot of the college kids. It has two pool tables, a air hockey table, foosball, a Xbox, Playstation 2, a Gamecube and more stuff. I played pool with Andy, Tom and some other guy who's name I forgot. We had a great time. My team ended up winning and I didn't even know it. It was great. While I waited I got to talk with some of Shannons friends which was awesome. They are all really great people. When Shannon got back Andy, Shannon and myself headed off to Denny's for some food. After we were done there we dropped Andy off and headed back to the Dream Center, but first we made a quick stop. This is where things got really awesome. Shannon brought me to a place where she had brought some of the girls from the Teen Discipleship home. Apparently one of the girls was quitting drugs cold turkey and needed to get out of the house, so Shannon brought her another girl to this cliff overlooking San Dimas. When they arrived the girls got out and just started to yell at the top of their lungs. They would just scream and pray and scream and pray. It's really what they needed apparently. Shannon told me that the four of them really became close that night. So, she brought me to her favorite of places in all of Southern California. There we stood, overlooking the city in all it's splendor. Our little legs chattering in the cold night. Then, suddenly, the sprinklers hissed on. It was awesome. I started laughing as we bolted for the car. I was running down a path when I saw a sprinkler up ahead and changed my course. Shannon yelled at me asking what I was doing, but I just kept running. She headed down the sprinkler path and got nailed. It was great. We had a really good laugh. I won't forget it. Now I'm stuck in the Sub room TRYING to dub off this Rj Helton show. I'm running into time issues and technical difficulties again. Hopefully this show will get out in time. Thank God that he's on my side. Forgive me Lord for not placing my trust in you.