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Tim · Yancey
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Been a while since Ive gotten around to updating the journal... mainly because my site has been in a state of chaos for so long. There have been so many different things going on, that it's been very hard for me to find any time to do any web related work. My job is commanding most of my attention lately... lots and lots of overtime. something I need to change... and start realizing again that there is a life out for me somewhere.... Since the last time I've written, I've done a few radio interview here and there... Ghostly Talk was a fun one to do as well as WCAN Christian Radio. We rambled on and on about The amityville Horror case, and some of the strange reports that have been coming out of florida recently regarding the paranormal. was a lot of fun having a chance to talk with Doug and Scott again, and it's really got me missing doing radio. Podcasting is the latest craze these days - and I really enjoy a lot of them out there - probably my favorite podcaster of all is Mr. Poose. He is without a doubt one of the funniest people I have ever heard. Catch his podcasts at www.pooseradio.com. I've spent the last couple of mornings feverishly working on some kind of format for the website - and some content to fill it. I have this crazy idea in my head for a whole new thing... but I can;t announce it yet until I get everything in place. once it's up - its gonna be totally crazy : ) Just have to wait and see ; )
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Hey gang... One of the things that has made being without power so long almost tolerable is that we had a cold front move in right behind the hurricane. As a result... the nights aren't so hot and steamy, and you can actually sleep without your face melting into your pillow like cheese-wiz. Right after the hurricane the temperature was in the 50's, and I have to admit it was kinda fun for the first evening or two. You could actually see the stars at night cause there was no light pollution... all of the windows were open in the house, and I was huddled around a small kerosene lantern eating blueberry pop tarts and stale potato chips. It was almost like camping, except I didn't have to wear bug repellant. I had a generator out back... but it was impossible to get gasoline anywhere in the county. There was only two gas stations open within fifty miles of my house, and they had long waiting lines of up to four hours. On the third day of the great adventure, I finally couldn't take it anymore. I held up a gas station at gunpoint and managed to get away with about twenty gallons of gas, some fresh potato chips and a 12 pack of Pepsi (Okay... I lied, I sat in line like everybody else, behind some blue datsun with a George Bush sticker on the bumper. What a retard). After waiting half a day in line... I finally get to the pump. I go inside... tell them I want to fill up my car, and a couple of gas cans I brought with me. The snapperhead behind the counter says the state is only allowing customers to get 20 dollars worth per visit, because of the shortage of gas. That works out to about 6 1/2 gallons. The irony of this is that I sat in a line for four hours... using over a half a tank of gas to buy six gallons worth. Did I mention that Jeb Bush is our governor? No matter... I filled up my gas can. I could FINALLY power up the generator that had been rusting away behind the house since the last hurricane. I went straight home and filled up the generator (after stepping on a piece of plywood that had three nails in it), and cranked her up. YAYYYYYYYY!!!!! I was so happy with myself that I finally had power again... I was doing the 'Happy Dance' all over the back yard. This is when I discovered that the roofing tiles that blew off the neighbors house had tar on them, and they really stick to your feet. But I didn't care... It was getting dark, and I HAD A GENERATOR! YAYYYYY!!!!! I ran back into the house, and fumbling around in the dark promptly cracked my big toe into the kitchen table, tearing off what was left of my right foot. I ran into the living room all excited... and then it hit me. I didn't have any extension cords. Did you people know that christmas lights have a plug on one end... and an outlet thingy on the other end to plug the next string of lights into? It only takes about five sets of them to run from your back yard into your kitchen also. I have the prettiest yard in my neigborhood now. It's... festive. The only crappy part is that they are the blinky kind... so I can only read a book half as fast as I normally do. More later.... |
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Howdy gang! Man... Hurricanes are a pain in the ass. The good news is that power has been restored to my work site, and there is limited internet access to the point that I can get on here and finally update everybody on what's been happening. The bad news is that I still don't have power at my home yet... and probably won't until around November 13 at the earliest. Palm Beach County got slammed HARD by Wilma, a direct hit right on top of my house, hehe. The winds on this thing were horrendous - the worst we've seen here in several hurricanes. As a result, the entire county has lost power, suffered minimal to moderate damage in buildings and structures... and it has been impossible to find the basic things like gas, food and ice. In the last 48 hours... I managed to eat two pop-tarts, a muffin and some chocolate chip cookies. I'm way o lazy to actually go out and stand in the hours long lines that are here at the few grocery stores that are open. If it wasn;t for my little portable DVD player that I bought... i would have gone stir crazy and started killing people by now. For the last few nights I've been watching some of the older DVD's I bought, everything from Ozzy concerts to the "Insomniac Uncensored" DVD's I picked up a few months ago. i forgot how funny Dave Atell is... Insomniac is one of my favorite shows of all time. My DVD player will also display pictures, so I've been looking through a lot of the pics I had on disc from my North Carolina trip. The great Carolina adventure went very well! I'm really proud of the guys from Deadly Shoals Haunted Trail... they worked very hard this year. The trail just gets better and better every year, and the lecture presentation stuff was fantastic. They rented the Broyhill Center, which is a huge lecture and convention hall in Lenoir... everything about this trip was just fantastic. I managed to grab about fifty zillion photo's and will post them on the internet as soon as I can. So... here's my current status. I can get on the internet by sneaking online at work... but can;t make any updates to anything but THIS blog. Power is off at my home until the 13th or so... and my internet provider says it will be quite some time after that before I get access to cable and the net. so for now - this is my only means of communication with anybody. I CAN read the replies to my blog... and the phones are working. No email access however, so any email you send I will not be able to recieve for a month. Any important stuff you guys need to get in touch with me about... call my home phone at (561) 642-9968. I'm usually home and able to chat from about 6pm to 11pm (eastern standard). Tim |
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Just a quick note to everybody that the hurricane has passed... and I'm alive. The whole city is without power, and estimates to restore electricity will probably take up to two weeks. Dammit.... I hate cold showers. Was a real nasty storm, but I'm alive... the house is still standing and I got all my fingers and toes - more later when I don't have to type text messages on my cel phone : ) Tim |
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Some days I think about you and smile Once in a while I think about you and I hate you Today... I miss you. |
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I told myself I wasn't gonna buy the thing. I had already seen it in the theater... and I wasn't really happy about how they portrayed the Lutz family. So I told myself a few months ago... when the DVD comes out, I'm not getting it. My own little personal protest against MGM, hehe. Well that lasted a total of 28 hours... and I ended up at Walmart at 9am this morning. The video department had it plastered all around the front... $14.99. COOL! I thought to myself, I've GOT to get it now... it's on sale even. I grabbed a copy (no, I didnt get the killer clowns from outer space 2-for-1 deal) and headed for the 10 items or less aisle. As I approached the checkouts, I put the DVD on the counter and whipped out my last 20.00 I had been saving for taco bell. The lady rings it up... and says 'That will be 22.99, sir'. Hey.... wait a minute, I'm no rocket scientists here... but that's a lot of tax for a 14.99 DVD. I explain to the lady that the DVD is on sale, and there's signs plastered all over the video aisle saying it is 14.99. So... she grabs the DVD out of the bag, throws into a little return bin behind her counter and says, 'That's okay... if you don't want it I'll return it for you'. I politely say 'No... I want to buy the DVD, but I want it at the price it's advertised for'. The lady SLAMS the DVD down on the counter... and walks back to do the price check. She's mad as hell... and I'm thinking to myself - 'Why does this ALWAYS happen to me EVERYTIME I touch anything with the word amityville on it'? I could have been the webmaster for 'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory'... or 'The Sound Of Music" but NO!!! I hadda pick Amityville. Few minutes later, she comes back... and has to overwrite the price in the register. She's banging on buttons like no tommorrow, but no luck. The faster she hits buttons, the redder she gets... and the more the cash register screws up. Out of nowhere... I hadda go and giggle like an idiot. Oops... bad idea. People... I'm telling you the GOD's honest truth... the lady GRABS the dvd, and yells 'THIS IS A HORRIBLE MOVIE"!!! She slams the thing down on the counter, then she begins biting herself in the arm. Did you hear what I just typed? I mean she starts BITING herself. Hard enough to draw blood. She does it like three times... and suddenly slaps HERSELF across the face harder than a mike tyson knockout punch. I TOTALLY freak out... immediately almost urinate on myself and start backpeddling across the store until I'm VERY far away from her AND the friggin dvd. At this point she's going Emily Rose on me, and I dont want nothing to do with either one of them until somebody calls an exorcist... or a DVD demonologist. She's biting herself... I'm screaming like a 12 year old girl with a cricket loose in her shorts. All the Walmart employees come running over trying to calm her down... they grab her and make 'nice talk' to her. They escort her off down one of the aisles back into the nether regions of the store, leaving me standing at an empty counter... all the other people in line looking at me like I just farted. Shaking like a leaf, and looking down at a really crappy picture of Ryan Reynolds... I throw the twenty dollar bill on the counter... screw the change at this point, and try to run out of the store before an anvil falls off the shelf and hits me in the forehead. Now... I have the only Amityville DVD in history that kills people. Don't type stupid replies to this... or I'll mail it to your house. Tim |
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I hate birthdays. Tonight I rolled over in bed, and looked up at the clock to see that I had to be at work in 14 minutes. I exploded out of bed... hit the shower at hundred miles an hour and slammed my big toe into the laundry hamper, almost killing me instantly. I was still half asleep... so somehow I managed to miss shaving one half of my face. I decided I would just go into work with a wrinkled shirt... cause I wasn't even gonna attempt to handle an iron in my condition. Ya know... there's something that's just fun about driving 80 miles an hour with a cel phone in one hand, a Pepsi in the other while looking for your employee identification badge on the floor of the car. Hustling in the door at work, I catch monsta grief from the idiotic moron that I relieve each night... I routinely show up 20-30 minutes early every night, cause I have no life and just like to show up early.... giving him the chance to cut out of work early. Tonight he gives me attitude about being 15 minutes late. I forgot to bring Pepsi. I hate birthdays.
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Hey Gang!
Thought I would update everybody on what the latest is from the swamps of Florida! things are really ramping up, and I've been sooo busy I haven't had much time to do anything really. Somehow I managed to volunteer myself to print up all the tickets for the Deadly Shoals Haunted Trail... but this is no easy task. the tickets this year are being printed to resemble I.D. badges from "Blackwell Laboratories", complete with name, picture and photo. I have to personally sign each one, then the ID Cards are laminated to give them that 'official" appearance, hehe. This is a lot of work, when you consider that they need a minimum of 2500 of the things. My printer hates me : )
I'm also working on about 22 CD's that will provide all the sound effects and ambient background noise for the trail. This is no easy task either, as over 22 different tracks are needed. Each track plays anywhere from 30 seconds to 60 minutes. Everything from hissing zombies and mad clowns (I HATE clowns) to locomotives, and full blown military battles are needed. It's quite a chore... and Im on a tight deadline to get it all completed. It's a lot of work... After this vacation, I'm gonna need a vacation : )
My buddies Jeff and Lynn are going to renew their vows this year as well on the trail... 15 years of marriage. Wow... the longest relationship I've ever had was like nine years, and by the end of thing the girl hated me. She decided that an unemployed garage-band wanna be singer was better than putting up with me. Hehe, she was probably right : ) I honestly can't imagine being together with somebody for 15 years. But come to think of it, I've got socks that old. Anyway, I wish them the best of luck, these days it's rare to find two people that can get along together and stay friends that long : )
Back to the North Carolina thing... So far I've heard that my buddies Jason Gowin, George and Mary, Jen and me are going to be there. Add Johnny clontz, Jason Dentino, Jeff and Lynn, Bobby and John Boy... and guy named psycho into the mix, and ya got one hell of a good time. Can't Wait.
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Wow... guess it's been a while since I've updated my journal : ) September is ALWAYS a hectic time for those of us in the paranormal community... because it's the month before Halloween. At least it's a hectic time for me, cause that's the time that I get the most requests to make appearances and do talks about ghosties, beasties... and things that go bump in the night. Add to this a new day-time job... and you have the perfect recipe for high blood pressure. Work has been rolling along pretty smooth - I enjoy the job, cause I get to work nights. It's too friggin hot in Florida. Like most of you, I've been watching the news... and have seen a lot of the devestation and complete horror caused by Hurricane Katrina. Our weather experts have predicted that this is going to be a cycle that lasts for the next 25 some years...??? My buddy George called the other day, and we were discussing this on the phone. This is something that actually has me a little scared, especially after seeing what happened to Louisiana. I nice little house somewhere around Santa Fe would be perfect... the weather doesn't melt your eyelids together.... no hurricanes blasting down on you five times a year... God, I hate living in a swamp. Anyway... back to the whole Halloween thing. This year is an interesting one, because I have a new daytime job, and don't qualify for any vacation time whatsoever. In the past - I've always been able to just take off any days I needed for doing lectures and talks about ghosties. This year... I practically had to threaten to kill people to get a week off. So with such a tight schedule this year, I'm unable to attend a lot of events I had hoped to make... and a lot of haunting investigations I had planned to attend. I guess the biggest event I will be going to this year will be held at the J.E. Broyhill Civic Center in Lenoir, North Carolina... I'm scheduled to introduce George Lutz and Mary Downey there for a talk about Amityville. In the same week, I'll be in Hickory N.C. to shoot another little film about the "Deadly Shoals Haunted Trail"... every year they host this huge haunted attraction to raise money for charity. George and Mary will be there, and they tried to schedule the Jason and Grant from T.A.P.S (The ghost hunter show on Sci-Fi). In an episode of their progam last week, it's been told to me by several people that Jason made a negative comment about the Warrens. So... I advised the event coordinators that If Jason and Grant want to attend the event.. they can pay for a ticket like everybody else does. Geeks. I'll also be doing a little lecture while I'm up there for a private audience about the paranormal... I've been editing video for a DVD that I'm producing with my buddy and video guru Bob Keber, the new "Graveyard Shift" DVD is out... is a very busy time. I have done very little... okay I havent done ANY promotions at all for the graveyard shift DVD, and I feel really bad about that. Soon as I can get some time clear to do that... that's the next big project. I am going to be showing it to an audience in October, but I need to call all the radio fella's I know and get this DVD some air-time... it's actually pretty good. More later... now that I finally got all the webpages in place, I can actually try to spend some time filling up the pages of it. |
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Lucky me... I got the job. They started me training the last few days, teaching me all the cool login codes... how to gain access to the building and where I'm supposed to be at what particular time. So far things have been going fine... I haven't shot myself in the foot, and I didn't break anything yet. Now the building I work in is right next door to the local prison. The Armory is located right next door, and there is a huge public park on the other side. The fela's had been telling me that over by the park is a little nature area that is really cool to take breaks at. So... after a day or two I decide that during one of my breaks I'll go check it out and see what the fuss is all about. Off I go, Pepsi in one hand... peanut butter and jelly sammich in the other. The little nature area they told me about was indeed pretty... lots of native plants and trees, a small lake in the middle surrounded by all kinds of flowers. I sat down and started munchin on my PB&J sammich... when all of a sudden GODZILLA steps out from behing a tree. There was this huge ass Iguana lizard, who suddenly for no reason decided he wanted to eat me. He bolts out of the tree's and comes running over towards me... and I totally shit my pants. For those of you who have never seen an Iguana Lizard... they look like alligators, but they are green... and can climb trees like a monkey. This one was a biggggggun... and for no reason he decided he wanted my peanut butter and jelly sammich. So he charges down the trail towards me, and I'm thinking Jurassic Park. Come to find out - the woods are loaded with these friggin monsters... and the fella's thought it would be funny to pull a trick on me. They had been feeding them, so the lizards are now quite comfortable in walking up to people and ripping their arms off trying to get whatever food they might have. As i ran screaming like a girl from the nature trail... about three more of these monsters had picked up the scent and were chasing me too. One of them climbed up a tree, and sat staring at me from across the road. I left my peanut butter sammich as a decoy while I ran back to shoot my co-workers.... more later! Tim |
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A few weeks ago I decided... that I didn't really like my job a whole lot. For the last few years I had been making some really decent money bouncing in nightclubs... doing some bodyguard work and general security related stuff. The nightclub stuff was cool cause it was always chaotic... insane cash and ya never get bored. Bodyguard work sounds like it's all mysterious and dangerous and chit... truth be told it's kinda boring standing behind somebody while they sign autographs. Once in a while you get an over-zealous fan who doesn't know how to act... a few serious looks and perhaps a comment to back up, and they usually settle down. Once in a while in the nightclubs you get into some deep chit... I got a few stab wounds, busted knees and a bullethole or two to prove that. For the last year or two however, I've been sitting in an office. Staring at monitors and trying to find something decent on TV to watch. Sitting behind a desk, the most fun thing I've done all year is make fun of the janitor. One time.. I got a paper cut pleying with the fax machine. I've been itching to get back into the action a little bit... but I'm gettin a little older now.. too old to be fighting every night in clubs... so i decided what the heck, let's go apply at a couple of places doing this newfangled homeland security stuff. Get out from behind a desk and at least walk around. Occasionally I might even get to shoot sumthin. So... bout a month or two ago I started preparing for the adventure. I wrote up a resume... and attached lots of eye candy to it in the form of old certificates for stuff like "Street Gangs: recognition, prevention and diffusion". I went back to school a while back, picking up some training at Florida Atlantic University, Childrens Saftey Council... Agression Control with the local Detention Centers... all kinds of stuff. I started writing up my background with the Police Department, Ambulance and Rescue work... Aircraft Crash Rescue... Disaster Team stuff, and I had to admit.... it looked kind of impressive. So... I thought I'd hit the bricks and throw a couple of the resume's out. I hit a few executive protection services (a classy way of saying bodyguard services), the first one I went to was reallllly scary. When I pulled into the parking lot, I thought it a little wierd that most of the vehicles in the parking lot were Hummers. The chase car's were black Camaro's with flashing lights on top. I walked in the lobby, and they had a store mannikin propped in the corner wearing a flack vest... gas mask and a riot helmet. Behind the secretary's desk was two girl's dressed to the nine's... they were these bombshell 'charlie's angel' types that looked like they had barely gotten out of high school. The place looked more like a Commando Training Camp than any executive protection work I've ever done before. I quietly turned around and walked out... I didn't feel like being 'Rambo' in the field and going to Bolivia on the weekends or sumthing. So I did a little research, and found a company that provides security and patrols things like Water Treatment Plants... Nuclear Plants.. the types of places that Osama Bin Laden would love to get his hands on. These are facilities that are considered high-risk for terrorist attacks, that kinda thing. So I popped in and threw a resume on the desk. They were impressed... next thing I know I'm up to my eyeballs in psychological profiles and personality tests, FBI background checks... physical exams and drug tests. I had to go back to school the last few weeks and pick up all kinds of licenses... shotgun training, concealed weapons permits... hazardous materials... I was beginning to think that perhaps my little desk job was pretty cool : ) The guy walking me through all this is a military guy that used to make a lot of jumps for the army... Since I'm into skydiving we get along really good. He laughed and told me not to tell anybody I once worked in a topless club as head of security : ) Anyway - training is all done.. and tommorrow I go and meet the folks at my first assignment. We go through an interview process - and if they are happy... then I'm once again back in the world of sleepless nights and cofee binges. I get to shoot anybody that doesn't have a secret de-coder ring and doesn't know who the pitcher was for the New York Yankee's in 1956. I get outfitted with flack vests... laser guns and my very own attack robot. Hope I get a radio... I love saying "Red Dog One to Green Falcon"... But the worst part is... tommorrow I gotta wear a suit and tie for the interview. Now THAT's embarrasing. : )
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Wow... it's hot in Florida. Today I went out and decided to wash and wax the old car. Like a total moron, I waited until 2pm in the middle of the afternoon to do it. There above me, was that great glowing orb of death known as the Sun... by the time I finally got water and soap on the car, I already knew what it must feel like to be a french fry. On the first application of wax... my ears had melted, and dripped onto the paint. I got halfway through... and buzzards were circling. I remember when I was a kid... the sun used to be yellow. Remember back in grade school when your teacher used to make you bust out the crayons, and draw a picture of your house? Mine always had a cat in the yard.. and a little fence around it, even though we didnt have a fence. I used to like drawing fences I guess. But I would always bust out the yellow crayon and draw the sun up in the sky... next to three stupid V shaped birds. These days, the sun is glowing white... and really damn hot. Talked to my friend George out in Vegas... he seems to pick the times of the year to get all energetic. For the last week, he's been out in the back yard pouring a big concrete pad. He told me it was like 120 - 115 degree's out there... what in the world is he doing outside? Probably trying to hide all the bodies of MGM execs he's been slaying, hehe. Welp... that's all for now... it's so friggin hot here my fingers keep sticking to the keypad. Tip Of The Day: If your going to use a colored wax on your car... use gloves. My hands are now the same color as the Incredible Hulk's.
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Tonight, I was working on the new website when my buddy Shaun Jones from the South Florida Ghost Team called. She is the co-host of "Phenomenon", a radio show about paranormal phenomenon that is aired on WCAN, a Christian radio station here in south florida. Explaining that her guest had canceled for this week... I asked her how I could help her. she advised me I had ten minutes until I was on the air as her guest for the evening to talk about the Amityville Haunting. hehe... nothing like short notice. So... a few minutes later, there I was talking to Shaun and Pastor Wayne Fitzpatrick, and a gentleman by the name of Eric. Now, I have some pretty radical views on religion, but these guys made me look like I had been sleeping in the back row on Sundays. We began talking about the Amityville case, and eventually this led into all kinds of discussion regarding religion, demons and my views on Satan. As I was talking on the show, my buddy Robbie Newman and Lisa Marie were typing me messages on Yahoo, and through email... correcting me on all the mistakes I was making about the Amityville case as I went along. Robbie was the director for "The Graveyard Shift", so he was hinting for me to plug the movie as we went along as well... hehe. Gotta love that guy. Now for some reason.. every time I talk about Amityville I tend to get really nervous. I'm always worried I'm going to do a bad interview, and George will end up chasing me around with an axe. But all in all it went pretty good, barring a few mistakes I made regarding the priest that performed the house blessing (he actually did stay involved in the church, and wound up out in California), and I mentioned that I thought George Lutz was an ordained minister (actually he was an Extraordinairy Minister, which means he distributed consecrated Host during Mass) but it could have been worse I guess. I even got a plug in for the movie. I enjoyed having the chance to talk to Pastor Fitzpatrick, who I think had fun hearing my strange views on religion. He invited me back next week to talk more about paranormal phenomenon... so if you guys get the chance, check the main page (If i ever actually get the website finished) for a notice ofthe whens, wheres and what times.
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YAYYYYYY! For about the past ten years now... I've been involved in a number of media projects, radio shows... and once in a while I get to lurk around on a movie set and wish I actually had some function in the movie. I remember being on the set of "The Last Marshall"... a movie that was filmed here in West Palm Beach. A friend of mine was a stuntman, who's only appearance had been as one of the bad guys in a Bobcat Goldthwait movie called "Back To Back". He had called me one day, and said that he was coming to pick me up... they were shooting this movie in town, and he knew some of the people that were going to be working in the film. Now I should probably mention right here... my friend is one who is a little prone to exaggeration. Okay... he lies a lot. So he shows up at the house - I pile into his car and off we go to the movie production office. Once we get there, he strolls in just like he owns the place... the casting agent is looking at him like he's an alien. I find a nice comfortable place to hide behind a large plant. My buddy goes on to tell the casting agent that he has done stunt work in the past, including the movie "Back To Back".. but then has to continue to explain he was also in the movie "Water World", and "Batman". To listen to him talk, you would have thought that he was Steven Spielberg. Now there are other actors there who are trying out for parts.. all of them have these cheesy headshot photographs in hand, acting resume's and SAG cards in hand... but my buddy drags me in front of the casting director and says he brought me along to be available for any little background bit-parts they may have. If it were possible to climb up my own ass and hide from embarrassment, I would have. The casting lady was a veteran of the movie industry.. and a really nice lady who could tell right away that I would rather be trapped inside a microwave oven that be standing in front of her at this moment. So... she stands up from her desk and states to my buddy, "Wow... you have some pretty impressive credentials... let's go have lunch. She looks at me and says, "You're coming along too". So... off we go into the elevator, and downstairs to the little food court that they had. Over lunch... the lady sits down and explains to my friend Tim that casting directors have pretty much seen it all in this business when it comes to actors. They know when a person has talent... and they can tell when someone is bullshitting them from a mile away. She lowers her glasses down on her nose, and looks out the top of her eyes right at my friend and says.. "You sir, are bullshitting me". I laughed so hard I thought I was going to spit Pepsi out of my nostrils. The lady went on to explain to my friend that there is a database on the internet that is by casting agents to verify credentials... known as the Internet Movie Database. The entire time that my buddy has been boasting about all these movies he had been in upstairs... she had been looking at the database on her laptop on her desk, and KNEW that he had only been an extra in one movie. I always wanted to have a listing on that damned database. Today my buddy Robbie Newman messaged me to tell me that "Ghost Hunter's Inc. Presents: the Graveyard Shift" has FINALLY been listed on the databaqse, and I know have my VERY own webpage on the IMDB! Wheeeee... I'm listed as a Producer. So to my friend out there.... Eat Ya Heart Out :)
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Many people that I have met over the recent years have always wondered why a 43 year old ugly guy like me has such long hair.
My mother and father thought I was just crazy, and constantly asked me to cut it. I've been asked a zillion times by my friends if I'm going through a mid-life crisis. Last year... I was asked by a friend to cut it in order to continue working on future projects with her. I would just smile and say, "We'll see". On Thursday... I'm going to a special salon to have it all cut off. Now, let me tell ALL my friends why I spent the last eight years growing it. Eight years ago, I was employed by a company called "The Fischer Mark"... the company was started by my friends Mark and Trish Fischer. Mark was a huge advocate for our marine world... and was the head of the South Florida Science Museum's Aquarium Department. Every day, hundreds of kids would crowd into the museum... and cruise past the huge fish tanks that were there. Mark would watch the kids... and finally one day he had a revelation.
He simply realized that there was a whole group of people out there in the world who never have a chance to experience our marine world. Kids who had disabilities... old folks in nursing homes... kids in hospitals. He formed 'The Fischer Mark', a company that brought the marine world into these people's environment. His love for people, and the environment was so great - that he found a way to bring these two groups together. Every morning we would load up everything from an Octopus or perhaps a Shark... one day a lobster and another day a hermit crab.... into small mobile aquariums. Off he would go into hospitals and nursing homes, and those people who could not reach the ocean... he brought it to them. While I was working with them, I would take these animals into the children's oncology ward at St. Mary's Hospital. A group of about 10 - 20 kids would all gather into the main foyer, and I would spent 30 - 45 minutes showing them the animal I had brought that week. The kid's loved it and would gather around close to see what was in the tank that day. It was a fun event for them... and a learning opportunity that they would otherwise never have.
One day a nurse pulled me to the side and asked me if I would please wheel the tank into one of the rooms... one of the kids was very ill and couldn't make it out to the foyer anymore. His name was Daniel... and he loved the ocean. Of course I wheeled that Octopus right into the room... and my heart broke. There in front of me was a small seven or eight year old boy... curled into a fetal position on his bed. Severe pain racked his face... but when he saw the special visitor I had wheeled in for him... he smiled. Over time... I would come and visit Daniel after work, sometimes we would just sit in his room and watch Disney cartoons. His favorite was Cinderella... he liked the two little mice in that film and would laugh hard when he saw them. Even though his condition was deteriorating rapidly, he would still laugh every time he saw those two little mice.
One day I went up to the hospital to see Daniel... and ran up to his room, and his bed was empty. Daniel had passed on in the middle of the night. I literally couldn't walk that day... I was mad at him for leaving me, but at the same time I was happy that his suffering was over. Today... I measured my hair length and it is finally past the minimum ten inch requirement for donation to children with cancer. Tomorrow I go to a special stylist who will clip it... wrap it carefully and donate it to a boy or girl who has lost their hair due to their illness. If any of you live locally and would like to go with me, of course your invited.
It always embarrassed Daniel greatly that he did not have any hair. That's why I've grown my hair for the last eight years.... and now I appeal to all of my friends out there around the world for help. Locks of Love is a non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to children who have lost their own. Please make whatever donation you might be able to afford at http://www.locksoflove.org . And if you have long hair... please consider donating it.
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Wow.... The movie is finally released, and the floodgates have opened. In the last few weeks, the amityvillehorror.com website has been absolutely flooded with email requests for interviews, Filmmakers who want to produce documentaris... letters from fans (and foes). I've been asked at least thirty times this week if George Lutz really killed his dog. I declined requests to appear and speak in San Antonio, New York and Dallas. Inside Edition called my house... The New York Post didn't appear thrilled when I said George wasn't granting interviews at this time. Suddenly out-of-the-blue... my personal friends who thought I was nuts because I had an interest in The Amityville Haunting all wanna come by and hang out... three weeks ago they would run the other way. Everybody wants to know if Mr. Lutz is REALLY that crazy... I usually laugh and say that the REAL George Lutz is much meaner. This week, the amityville websites have had in the area of a million hits alone.... which have resulted in crashes to the server... we had to move the thing three times, finally paying for a dedicated server. It's a crazy time... but I am thrilled to see that soooo many people are interested enough in the haunting that they are taking the time to research it a little bit.
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The people at WalMart think I'm a total moron. There I was last night, at 11:59 pm... standing next to the video guy while he unpacked the boxes of new DVDs that were being released today. I kept trying to peek over his shoulder to see if they had the Amityville box set in the piles of boxes. I didn't see it. Finally I thought the guy was going to spray me with mace... so I explained to him that I was waiting for the four DVD box set about the amityville horror. He replied that they had the Amityville Horror movie... but it was only a single DVD, not a box set. I bought the unit they had, took it home and resigned myself to the fact that I have to go to the super-duper WalMart in town to get the set that I wanted. that's a job for tommorrow. For now.... pop the DVD into the video player, sit back and get ready to watch the new special features that are included on the disc. The first thing I watched was a new feature called, "For God's Sake, Get Out!"... a video in which actors James Brolin and Margot Kidder recall what it was like working on the original motion picture. Their recollections of the film were very interesting to hear, even though it was apparent that the two actors didn;t seem to get along during the picture. I found Brolin's comments regarding meeting George Lutz and the Lutz family very interesting... Brolin needs to remember that the Lutz family by that time had been pounded into the dirt with questions... and I'm sure that their replies about the haunting seem 'coached'... they had only answered the same questions a zillion times. The featurette was very interesting, and I'm glad I purchased the DVD so I could see it. Then... I decided to listen to Hans Holzer's audio commentary, another special feature included with the DVD. That's about the same time my headache began. Now don't misunderstand me... I appreciate Mr. Holzer's wonderful career in paranormal phenomenon research. But... I think he left his notes home when he did this commentary. Mr. Holzer's audio commentary is at best.... flawed in it's reportings of the facts. Many of his statements regarding the facts of the haunting are in contradiction to what the Lutz's have reported... what other investigators have discovered... and what I have discovered in my own investigation of Amityville. It is my opinion that Holzer's audio commentary will do nothing but further confuse the public about what actually happened in Amityville. I think I understand now why Mr. Lutz has worked so hard to fight this entire project... and I hope that Mr. Holzer does a little better job of researching a paranormal case, and reviewing his notes before he comments on them in the future. In my opinion, Mr. Holzer has set all the hard work we have tried to do to get accurate information out on this incident back to ground zero.
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Hey Gang! Been a while since I have been able to update my blog thingy... the result of a hard drive crash where I lost a bunch of my programs. I've reinstalled all of them, including my little blog write program... so I'm back! It's been a frustrating week. Probably the biggest event of the week was Mr. Lutz asking me to come to Vegas and hang out with him and all the gang to see the new movie remake of "The Amityville Horror". Lee and I have been fighting over this because it's something that is important to him... having friends and family around him when this fictional version of his family's haunting comes to the screen. I've felt pretty crappy about the whole thing because I really can't afford to make a trip to Vegas. I feel kinda like I'm letting him down by not being there. So... he calls me the other night, and offers to wire me down the money for a plane ticket... so I can have the opportunity to go. Now.. I REALLY feel like shit. So.. I wrote him a letter which I wanted to post here... because I think it truly shows some of the reason why I am so against this film. Hey Lee, I have thought about the Las Vegas trip all weekend... there's probably nothing that would be more fun than getting kicked out of a movie theater with George Lutz for laughing our asses off during an Amityville movie. That's one for the history books.... hehe. Your kind offer to put me up for the week in your own home... handle dinners and entertain everybody for the week just goes to show that I was right in my thinking... you have a kind heart. Your one of those rare people who value friendship, laughter... all those good things that make you who you are. The decision isn't an easy one, because there's so many things I have to consider... mom and her medical bills, being away from work for a week....etc. Your a nice guy Lee... and if I took you up on this offer, I would feel like I was taking advantage of your kindness for my own entertainment. Dude... your friendship has been a blessing in my life. Just the mere fact that somehow I was important enough for you to make such an offer is pretty... far out : ) So for this trip... I'm going to politely have to bow out. Going to Vegas would be pretty irresponsible on my part right now, since I'm THISSSSSS close to getting my head above water. I got a decent car for a change... real close to getting all my bills and debts paid off, and managing to put some cash away for the NEXT convention/lecture... wherever that may be. Mom and her medical situation is doing pretty good... there's a lot of positive stuff that I can say I've been working hard to get caught up on. So when your in the theater on April 15th, I know that there will be times when this movie might make you upset... it may make you feel a little embarrased... and it's probably going to hurt your heart. But like you said on the phone the other day.... even though the character on the screen is named George Lutz, it's a cheap imitation of the guy I know... and a far cry from the friend that I have who has done so much for me. So please pardon my french when I say FUCK this movie anyway... it's not about anybody I know. Please be proud of the person YOU are... not that moron on the screen. Tim
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Hehe... I got the last of the graphics that I needed for producing the amityville CD I've been working on.... and am in the process of submitting all the audio tracks and artwork to the manufacturer... watch for a new CD available on the website soon : ) . |
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I have this really cool program called WINMX that my buddy Bobby turned me onto a while back... it's one of those 'horrid' file sharing programs that the recording industry hates. Users all connect together in WINMX to share mp3 files, and mpeg movie files. The recording industry hates it... because they feel that they arent getting their fair share of the profits. I personally love it - because it allows me to find cool paranormal radio archives and related movie files. Well.. the other night I was on WINMX, and I found this little TV program from England called "Most Haunted". I downloaded a program about the Chatham Dockyards... on the show a paranormal team was investigting the dockyards for evidence of ghosts. What a great program! I really enjoyed it a lot - and so I got back on WINMX to see if i could find some more episodes. I eventually got kicked out of the Most Haunted chatroom because I tried to download like 87 episodes at the same time, and almost blew up the internet. hehe.... I burnt the show onto a DVD, and took it into work to show another freidn of mine, who is a paranormal enthusiast. We watched the show, and both of us are addicted to it. Well.... I get home that night, and check my email like I usually do... and low and behold, there is an e-mail from a guy named Dean Maynard. Dean just happenes to be a paranormal investigator over in England... and he just so happens to be on the paranormal investigation team of "Most Haunted". It appears the "Most Haunted" team were planning a trip to America, to do an investigation of the Amityville Haunting. They wanted to know if I would be available for an interview. I wrote him back, stating I just saw the show for the first time that day... and am currently in negotiations with Them and George Lutz about this project. Sometimes you just gotta love the way the paranormal world works. |

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