A Convoluted Post About Comedy, Louis CK and Me …
I wasn’t willing to be mean during the legal divorce stuff. My advice to any nice guy is BE MEAN or get screwed. When she divorces you, loving her is irrelevant. I gave up pretty much everything I created in the last five years of my marriage in exchange for ideas not yet pursued. One thing I got to keep from the past is iYule.TV. It’s a 30-minute, beautiful film of a fireplace optimized for iDevices. You can get your copy here for $4.50 with much gratitude from me!
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Here’s my convoluted segue …
I WANT to be producing GeekBrief.TV. It’s my baby. It got taken from me and perverted by the most worthless man I ever met. Now my challenge in life is to want to want to do something else. That isn’t exactly easy, but I don’t seem to get a choice because I’m not rich enough to hire lawyers to make my choice an option.
I have this asset, iYule.TV. It was featured in the New York Times and on Conan O’Brian. I didn’t sell it last year because, after the torture of divorce, I just didn’t care. This year I’m working on wanting to want something else so I made it available. It’s beautiful. It’s a DRM-free film with a request that purchasers don’t give it away.
More convolution …
I feel expected to produce a tech/gadget show. I have one ready to go, but my gut says tech was the place to be at the start of podcasting. Comedy is the place to be in podcasting now. I listen to comedians like Marc Maron, Adam Carolla, and Joe Rogan talk about podcasting and it makes me feel like I’m back in the day when we were pioneers in this thing. The safe part of me wants to move northern California and work on tech shows. The innovator in me wants to move to L.A. and work with comics to do something brand new.
More convolution …
So Louie CK does this absolutely amazing show called Louie. You can see it on Hulu. It shows the future of entrepreneurial entertainment. That show made me a fan. A few days ago, Louie CK did an experiment that made me very jealous. Jealousy is one of my weak points. He released a concert on his website, selling it with Paypal for $5. That’s great and as a fan, I’m glad he found this route. My problem is he’s been on Fresh Air on NPR and the Tonight Show and covered on all kinds of blogs suggesting he’s done something first. He hasn’t. He followed the path laid out by geeks and it has worked for him.
He shared the details and any geek could tell him, he got screwed!
The video production shot over two performances cost him $170,000. Raise your hand if you live in new media and could have produced the same thing for $30,000? Then he paid $32,000 for his “robust, reliable and carefully constructed website.” Again, I ask geeks in the room, could you have not done the same site for $12?
Here’s my point …
The geeks have figured this stuff out. I can’t speak for others, but I look up to comedians and I don’t want to see you get screwed. Connect with us and let us help you revolutionized distribution!
Louis CK is selling a 1.12 GB video of a stand-up concert for $5. I’m selling a 1.13 GB film of a fireplace for $4.50. He broke even after selling 50,000 copies. I broke even after selling 30. That’s not the point though. His break even can sustain his life. Mine can’t. The crucial success point I learned about from producing GeekBrief.TV is to create an intersection between fame and geek. Fame + Geek = Money.
I could save a comedian huge dollars on production, but I can’t deliver the same kind of attention … not yet at least.
In the mean time, thanks for buying a copy of my fireplace for your pocket!
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U-Haul Moving Help is Awesome!
I’ve never liked asking friends to help me move … mainly because I don’t want to be asked to help a friend move. If a friend wants me to make them food, I’m the guy, but asking me to help you movie is kind of like asking your preacher to make you a martini.
In the past, I’ve done most of the work myself when I couldn’t afford help and when I could afford help, I tended to go with off duty firefighter moving services because I figured they’d be strong and reliable.
For my last two moves, I’ve used a service called U-Haul Moving Help. People don’t tend to know about this service so I thought I’d evangelize a bit. When you’re going to move and drive the truck yourself, go to uhaul.com/movinghelp. You can even do it the same day you plan to move. Enter some data and you’ll get a list of movers that are available for the job. Each mover has stared reviews submitted by past customers. Based on the available companies, you can get one guy, two guys, three guys and then decide how many hours you’ll need them. Check out and you’ll get a call from the company you picked to set up a time.
There are four reasons I love this service more than any other type of moving I’ve done.
1) It’s affordable. My moves have been half what I paid previous movers.
2) You pay U-Haul online, not the moving company.
3) U-Haul gives you a job code the mover receives AFTER the job. They don’t get paid without that code.
4) Positive user reviews lead to future work for the movers so they are motivated to please the customer.
The last team of movers packed the truck so well. After I picked up a few boxes from a different place, I drove off having forgotten to close the door. I drove six miles with the back door opened and nothing moved!
When you’re moving next time, remember this! I hope you have the same great experience I have.
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Don’t like that he used the word “cunt” to refer to a woman. That’s never okay, but I like a geek who stands up for geeks! This video is a response to this post on Gizmodo. Alyssa Bereznak should probably be blogging on a different site.
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