Idol Worship....

I receive a great deal of email pertaining to celebrities. Yes, I know quite a few, and most I met long before I ever got published as an author. From the bent of most emails, there is quite a bit of idol worshipping going on. Not just kids, I get emails from adults wanting to know everything I know about so and so....Well, ain't gonna happen, not specifics anyway.

I do want to let those of you who persist in asking know, no, I am not rich, and no, I do not hang out with a bunch of movie stars. Did I used to? NO! Mostly, it was my job to protect them. I still honor those non-disclosure agreements I had to sign, even though I was a cop most of the time.

I will tell you one thing to remember. Most of the folks you idolize are miserable, especially the screen actors. They have all your warts, and then some that are much larger than yours. You might also be surprised to know that many of them, even the prime "A" list movie stars, are always in need to gather more money. When you have multiple homes, a large staff, lots of expensive habits, it takes boatloads of cash to service all that stuff. When you own multiple homes, and you are a celebrity, you cannot just leave the house locked and only unlock it when you are staying there. People can and will break into your home and steal anything they can, especially if you are a celebrity, ergo, they have to have someone living there.

I do want to say one more thing. The celebrities I know can be broken down into two categories of actors:


Those who will work on stage as a preference, and do the big screen once in awhile, and those who desperately work on maintaining their status as a screen actor. I have found those who work on stage have a much firmer grasp as to what really matters in life.

Rock Stars? Known a bunch, worked for a bunch, jammed with a bunch, and they have their own world they live in. There are good and bad in all different categories of celebrities.

I know a large amount of celebrity types who are always broke, always needing an infusion of cash. They never learned that their hedonistic habits create situations whereby they can end up broke. This is more prevalent all the time. There are pawnshops in the Hollyweird area who specialize in lending to movie stars and such. Believe me when I tell you those pawnshops are making a great deal of money right now. When you can loan a thousand dollars on a wrist watch containing three thousand dollars worth of gold......well, you get the picture. This is the last time I will address this subject on this blog. I am too busy to answer all the different emails I receive, and no, I am not being stuck up...I just do not have time to answer all of them. I try specifically to answer the ones I know are from a kid, the rest I usually do a mass mailing as way of an answer. I have to get off this infernal machine now, and tend to business.

PEACE!

Why Not to Drink Booze.....

I am trying to keep this blog kid friendly, I think the following can be viewed as a public service....


It was a very convoluted path I took, to get to the point that I actually have a large number of celebrity friends and contacts. The process was too long for me to post on here. Me? Nope, I ain't rich, and am just a tad famous. Most of my celeb friends I have had for years and years. Only one of these folks displayed in this posting used to be a friend. Now? I won't elaborate, but we no longer speak, write email, or anything else. The celeb knows which one I am speaking of.

I also have many friends in the papparazzi business. Hope I spelled that right. They send me their latest photos, after they have been published, and are in the public domain. You notice I am not attaching any names to these photographs.

Any one of these folks could buy and sell me out of their petty cash fund. However, even with all the worldly goods these folks have, they seem to have this drive to get drunk at times.

I guess they all have their own demons to quash. I mean after all, alcohol makes one appear so glamourous!

Do any of these folks ever read this blog? I know that at least my old friend does. There is an obsession there, the need for control. Alcohol and drugs, can and will, destroy personal relationships. Not just with family and friends, but also with business partners. Just push away from that bottle and things will improve, I promise they will. I have prime examples of this being true in my own family. Nuff said...

PEACE! IT'S GOOD FOR YA!

Dining at Bill's.....

One of the best kept secrets in southern Oklahoma, is a small restaurant, tucked away in the town of Davis, named Bill's Chester Fried Chicken.....



Bill Mayo and his wife Julia, work really hard at providing the best meal you ever put your mouth around. Their menu is so large, they have to post it in sections around the restaurant.....

Today, March 24, is my marriage anniversary, so yesterday Linda and I went to Bill's to eat a steak, we always celebrate early. The salads Bill brought out were huge, and we had the run of the buffet if we wanted it too. Incidently, the un-named (due to request) celebrity couple in the background were thoroughly enjoying their meal. Bill seems to draw quite a few "A" listers when they are in southern Oklahoma. Word got out I guess.....

Everybody was giving me a hard time about my personal eating "bib". At least my sweetheart loves me anyway.....

Then my KC (Kansas City) strip steak arrived. Makes me hungry just looking at it.

All joking aside, this summer when we are filming, I will most likely get even fatter than I already am. Bill is gonna do the catering to the film set....

PEACE!

Yesterday, at Bill's Chester Fried Chicken Restaurant....

One of my best friends, a guy named Bill Mayo, owns a restaurant in Davis, Oklahoma. I hide there some times when I do not want to be bothered. I will turn off my cell phone, sit at a table, and become enjoined in conversation with another close friend of mine, a guy named Sammy Kiser. Yesterday evening, Bill, Sammy, and I sat discussing how all three of us are severely technologically challenged. None of the three of us would qualify to be a nerd.



The particular issue yesterday evening was the fact that I do not understand cameras. More specifically, my digital camera. I like Bill's digital camera much better, it uses 3&1/2 inch floppy disks to download the pictures.

I went to the local Walmart to buy some floppy disks to use, in case Bill would loan me his camera to take some pictures with. I like storing the photographs on the floppy disks, then later I can put them on this blog, or email them to somebody.

The helpful lady at the Walmart store began to laugh, when I asked here where the floppy disks were. She promptly told me, "Nobody uses floppy disks anymore, you need to get a flash drive for storage."

I got frustrated and drove to Bill's Restaurant to seek comfort and reassurance from my two buddies. They were absolutely no help.

I will be glad when I am rich enough that I can just hire somebody to do all this tech stuff for me.

PEACE!

To Kevin, Kathy, and Natalie....

Howdy Y'all,

I decided to give you a greeting on this blog. You guys are really kewl. I am glad you enjoyed your meal at my buddy Bill's place. Just think about how good that food was, and that is the food which will be getting served three times per day on our movie set this summer. Stay in touch, you have my personal email address, and I will give y'all an invite to come up from Tejas and watch us film. Once again, blessings upon your family and all those you love. TwoWolf

PEACE Y'ALL!!!

Answers on camera questions.....

I get an unusual amount of email, for somebody who is basically a professional grandfather... One of the questions that many recent emails seemed to want to know is, what kind of equipment we use to do our filming? The answer is kind of complicated....



My family and I, sold off some belongings, and real estate, and basically just came up with money to make equipment purchases. We began collecting motion picture equipment years ago, we knew we would end up being in the business due to my being an author, and due to my sons also being writers....

On the camera end of things, we started out buying the bigger cameras that have been used for decades to film movies with. Most of those cameras are still in storage. We tried Arriflex, Panaflex, Bolex, and a few other larger cinematic cameras. These dinosaurs have to have a great deal of other equipment to get a good product together. We then decided to use smaller, digital type cameras. We chose two brands to experiment with, JVC, and Sony.

We do a lot of night filming, and Sony seems to fit the bill on everything we are trying to do. This is not saying JVC makes a bad product, we just like our Sony cameras a lot more. The equipment set up is much easier, and the end result when editing is greater. We are still using our JVC cameras to film daytime shots on OUTDOOR SURVIVAL SKILLS, WITH DUSTY COUNTS, but on all night shots, we shoot with the Sony cameras. I hope this answered the questions I have been getting.

One final answer, no, we will not be giving any equipment away to film students, or other interested parties wanting to become film makers. My simple reason for this is that we always keep extra equipment as back up, in case we end up needing it for a project. We do not view other companies as competition, we view ourselves as competition.

PEACE!

To my family, friends, fans, and readers of this blog....

I know I have not been posting on this blog like I said I would. You need to cut me a bit of slack. I also have not been answering the avalanche of emails I have been receiving. I need to give a few explanations, but will give no apologies. I had two close friends, and one of the women who raised me, die recently. I have been in mourning, and have not been in a good mood. I reasoned that I needed a bit of down time from life, and everything else that goes with life.


You folks need to understand another problem that has been approaching me on an ever increasing tempo. My sons own a motion picture company. They own it in name only, I put up the money, I make most of the decisions. Yes, it is a real company, and being such, it has to be fed on occasion. Well, right now we are feeding it to make up for the down time we have had recently.

We are currently involved in three projects that take a great deal of attention, and an even greater amount of time. The first project is titled, OUTDOOR SURVIVAL SKILLS WITH DUSTY COUNTS. This project has been on the boards for awhile now, and we have finally begun to film in earnest.

Filming takes a great deal more than just a four person crew doing the video and audio capture on site. We have to not only get raw footage, we then have to send it in to our in-house editing department, then after editing, we view the dailies, and if it is not right, we go back and do it all over again. This takes time, and it takes a lot of money.

Our company also has two immediate projects we are involved in. One is titled I AIN'T SKEERED, this is a comedy that is basically about folks sitting around a campfire, and telling each other scary stories. The second comedy is titled, MURRAY COUNTY WEEKENDS. I am not at liberty to disclose the content of this program, but it is very funny. This summer, 2009, we begin filming our first two feature length motion pictures. Yes, real live, big budget, movies. Replete with theater presentation, DVD sales, and everything else that goes with it. So to say I am busy right now is a major understatement. I am fairly well over my grief, and will try to put uplifting things on this blog from now on. I love all of you, and love the emails, keep 'em coming.

PEACE!