August 5th, 2007 12pm
HEALTH UPDATE
First off, Doctors can suck my dick. I think JFK said that once?
I'm going in for more blood work, but here is what I got a couple days ago from a visit to my doctor.
"The third test showed a little bit better results. Now the only thing is this. We are not sure if it's Leukemia or a blood disorder, but more test will be one to determine."
WOW! Thanks for telling my family that the doctors were SURE it was Leukemia! I have had more test done and more WRONG results in the last three months than the first twenty five years of my life. I know they have to work hard around this stuff, but don't tell me one thing when you are not sure about it.
I am not out of the woods just yet, and I will know more very soon. Overall is very simple. I feel great, but still tired most of the time. I will fight what ever this is.
Can anyone tell me why Doctors like to tell you what you MAY have?
Vince
July 28th, 2007 9:00PM
YOU CAN'T KILL ME
Leukemia is what the doctor says I have. I'm anywhere from Stage 2 or Stage 4, 4 being the worse. I might have been living with this cancer for over a year. I've gotten this far without treatment, so that is a good sign. I always said I was strong and now I'm proven it and must keep on proven it.
The worst part of it all, and this will really kayfab my character Troy on the show.
I will still do the show. I love the show. I am not the show, cause the show is Mike, Dave, Jason, than me. We are a team. I love my team and now I love my life and friends more than ever. For the past couple of months I really wanted to make a postive change in my life and I'm glad I wanted to do that before getting bad news. Cause it was something I wanted to do when I didn't know I was this sick.
One last thing. FUCK CANCER. It ain't shit to me, I will beat it. The funny thing right now is on my Rhapsody playlist Journey's "Don't Stop Believing just came on! That isn't my theme song through this. My them is going to be Monster Magnet's "Live for the Moment" and Motorhead's "Born to raise hell" Cause that's what I do best. I love you guys and you people who watch this show and are into it. You guys make it worth fighting. I may feel alone cause I don't have the women I love by my side, but I know I'm not cause I have you guys.
OK! That's enough for being a sap. Love you all, and RAISE HELL!
Vince
July 4th, 2007 11:30 AM
WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE!
Music really helps me get into any type of movie and short film. One of the first ideas I had for the show is to really put music into some of the shoots. I really buy into the fact that music can make a shoot so much better. Just think how Halloween would be if you didn't have that score to the film? Or any Horror movie for that fact. Music really works well when it's used right.
With all that being said, I really have this vision for one of the last shows. I don't want to give anything away ( I really do, but I've been told that people who watch like the stuff and want to see it with out knowing what's going to happen. Makes sense.)
All I will say is this much; I am going to take as long as it may for myself to know all the lyrics to Billy Joel's 1988 hit "We didn't start the fire." I love the song and I never seen it used in anything before.
Vince
July 1, 2007 10:00 AM
Shooting Day
Today, we will be shooting the sixth show of Horelick. After I get done writing this, I will be writing out the show. This will be a first. I've been very busy as of late trying to do shows (comedy) writing for other projects, being sick and not getting any better and other crap.
I have a good vision of what today show should be. It's going to be a long day. It should be a long day because it has to look good. The last show was better than I thought it was. The thinking should be, every new show should be better than the last. Today should be very fun and I can't wait. Now I must get back to feeling like crap.
Vince
June 30, 2007 5:40 PM
The following is a blog by MC Chris (the guy does some music for Aqua Teen) it was sent to me via MYspace and after reading it, I feel that it basically sums up my philosophy of how Horelick will get out there and eventually start reaching more people.
Mike
music head the week did not match up to the creek. i will say that. i had fun the first day, less the second, and that continued until thursday. i did sound on thursday and finally felt in the pocket, so much so we finished early and i recorded the first song on the new album. it soon became obvious that i needed more time even though i liked everything i did. one spot did get approved and it's got some modd music all up in it, other spots were made with maddawg, optimiss and the unlovables but those were a little too different for air, i was told. cest le vie. maybe i'll be able to post my efforts. we'll see. i went out to lunch with my bosses, fogo de chao, a golden coral for the uppercrust, with guys in pirate pants offering you filet mignon on a stick in the thickest and most gypsy of accents. i asked them, my bosses not the pirates, how do i flex my cartoon muscles and proceed with my recording career? if i have this long term goal of a show down the road, how do i make sure i'm totally ready and i'm not just overstepping, assuming everything will go like clockwork. i then answered my own question by saying, videos, i guess i have to start making little videos. and i guess i was putting it off because of this utube boom, i figured it would lump me in with everyone else and there'd be that dreadful alleyway anonymity, ready to swallow me up. but no, it's true, if i want to make a pilot i best make a lot of tests first. little tests. video tests. and since i can't afford to animate quite yet, i need to start thinking live action (ur two favorite words!) good thing i already started talking to people like dave, kat and tv carnage about it. maybe i'll just make something quick this june to get started. i asked my bosses for advice and they both seemed to say, looks like ur doing just fine. and that is true, the music is going better than i ever could have hoped. if only that frustrated sealab animator could've seen a glimpse of me on stage in texas in front of seven hundred smiles. i think my trip to the atl was an eye opener to say the least. things have changed in every way, in a sense it felt like the gilded age. new buildings, empty lofts everywhere (hence dr. weird's castle being turned into one) expansions, lots of changes, new people, infinite snacks at soapbox studios where i did the sound stuff. my friends were even different. the bars and eighties night at masquerade were fun but still weird, mainly because i was sober and wait a minute... that's not eighties music, thet's gay opera disco... exit stage right even. so i learned that if i want to produce anything it would take longer than five days, like a month seems more appropriate, or a few weeks. that i need to maybe take my producing energies and apply them to myself. and that may sound obvious, but i just realized it this week. i guess i needed to be reminded that i did produce and kinda still do with all my sites and songs etc. it's just weird growing up, i think these are growing pains and why i was kinda verklempt at the end of the process. it's like visiting ur highschool while ur on thanksgiving break and the school has built a million dollar expansion in ur absence. the halls aren't the same. ur locker's definitely gone. and it would take real commitment and lots of work to get back into that groove. i can't just swoop in and think i'm gonna rule. the good news is i made the first song, and recorded it with top of the line folks that were eager for me to come back and do more and i just may, because it was the opposite of every song i've ever made. i was in charge, i was producing, not the dj and for that very reason i'm beyond stoked for the new record. it wll really be my creation, my thing, what would happen if i was given complete control. i think it's gonna be good if the song's any inclination. it's called falynn, pronounced fallin. named after a friend that likes to hook me up with free baseball caps. it's about being too nervous to talk to someone. i think i will return to the atl in august not to do any cartoon stuff, but to record my masters and sweeten and mix. i'm so excited and i'm gonna just chill and tour and take my time. make the bestest mc record in forevers. i is making raps in ur dirty souths. speaking of free, im about to head over to celebration. kat's gettin me a car, and then i'll be getting my badges (starwars.com got me a badge, as did cartoon network, as did kat, so i'm hella badged) and heading over to the robot chicken symposium. i'll be walking around for the rest of the day trying not to buy anything. i'll be hoping to run into pop candy whitney and billy dee. im stoked to see anything new, like their new cartoon or their games. i've said that already. thanks to everyone that helped me this week, jennifer stephens, kim manning, jessica teal, pete, keith, cj and soapbox and johnny lang in brookln for breaking into my apartment and sending me notes off my desktop. thanks to my dj's and music friends, sorry if i built up ur hopes. didn't mean to. tv's tricky. thanks to mikey jenkins for cleaning up my tats. i was listening to the tattoo song on my way home from the buzz session. funny. i now know all the new hip hop on the radio. i need to get a radio for brooklyn. totally dewwwwwwd. last nights flight was all fucked. missed my connector, missed all flights to LA, was sent to santa anna and then driven to LAX where thank god my bag waited. kat told her security to take care of me and they totally got me into her place and i crashed, happy that the week was over and that all the growing pains and learning experiences could come to an end, and celebrating starwars could come to a begining. oh and on sunday after ucb, i'm staying at the chateau marmont. that's unbelievable to me. that's where overdoses and interviews happen. exciting. well... i'm off. congrats to the nurse for getting a dope new job. hopefully they won't work u on the third. proud of u as always. ;)
June, 20, 2007 - 8pm
Porn saves my life and makes it worse at times.
It should come to no shock to anyone who knows me that I love adult films. So does 99% of men my age. The thing that makes me different from some other people who view porn is simple. I have a social life and I don't spend hours at a time stroking it and watching it. Granted, I do have well over 200 Gigs of adult films on my computer. It's all on external hard drives. Which means, there are no traces of movies on my computer. I store my filth in hard drives that I can take with me.
With the title saying "Porn Saves My Life." Let explain that one. I would not kill myself if I couldn't watch it again, it just means it keeps me from robbing a bank or doing anything else that is criminal. Adult films levels many people out. It's an escape from reality.
After working for well over a year an adult video store and writing reviews for adult movies for five years I've come to learn somethings about the people who watch this stuff.
The Creeps.
These are the people that don't know shit about adult films and want to go out and buy the cheapest shit they can find on DVD. These are the people that will never understand why most DVD's are priced at $29.99. These people are just flat out Creeps to the adult buisness.
The "WOW! Never would of guessed it." guy
I have never laughed or judged someone who buys adult films or a certin type of film. There are times when a man wearing a nice suit will walk into the store and a half hour later will hand me two gay titles and a tranny title. Sales wise, this is great. But you MUST keep the poker face. When I would buy adult films when I was 18 I would get scared and would think this person is judging me. Now that I'm the one behind the counter I just want the store to make money. Hell, I don't care what anyone buys as long as they are buying. The overall point is, you can't judge what a person does in their life. Unless that person fucks kids, kills people or rapes. Other than that, just try to understand or just don't even think about it.
The "Why was I ever nice to this guy" Guy
When you rent to customers you will get the Good, and The Bad, also the OK. The Good and OK are fine. The Bad, well that just makes you want to close down shop. When you rent that means you will see some of these people two times maybe four times a week. The good are cool people. They take care of the DVD's and they are just overall nice people.
The OK are just that OK. Not bad, just you want them in and you want them out.
The Bad, well that can just be the worse. There is this one customer who I was, just like them all nice to them. That's how I really am, I'm a nice guys and I want everyone to feel comfortable in the store. Well, you can't be nice to everyone cause they think you are their new best friend. Sometimes, when they are talking to me about god knows what. I have to wait for them to look the other way so I can make the phone ring than pick it up and fake a conversation. Sometimes that doesn't even work.
The worst part about these types of people is very simple. Sometimes you have to go out of your way to make them feel special. And how much do they spend? maybe TEN BUCKS! That pays the rent.
In closing, I'm hungry.
Vince
June, 19, 2007 - 9:30pm
Time for a change
When it comes to this show, at first I jus had fun doing it. Now, I still have fun but I want more out of it. After watching the last show as I stated in the blog below. I was happy with some of the content, but not the overall look. It is amature hour, which makes sense cause we are amatures.
For the past two months I've been looking and reading about cameras. I've now decided to save up my money and spend Four Grand on the Cannon XL2. This camera is made for movies. Not for church events or the local news. This is what I want.
The downside about getting this is not so much about me being broke for a little bit but it's about taking our time. NO MORE one hour time to film the show. With a camera like this, we MUST take our time and I'm going to have to find the right guy to handle this when I'm not behind the camera.
I know I must come off as a jerk or someone who knocks the show. My view is simple. If I'm going to be in something that I'm writing and creating it must be perfect. That is very tough to do but it's something I want to try and create. A show with no flaws when it comes to the look of it.
I want to go to different locations and really get a new look for the show. With the Cannon XL2, everything will be doable.
Vince
June, 18, 2007 - 5pm
Thoughts on the latest show
I watched the last show we did again. After watching it for a third time, I'm still just blah about it. I thought, once again the content was there, but the editing wasn't. It's tough to cut this show, so with five shows lacking that full effect, it's time to really take our time in filming.
When we start, it gets really fun but we forget to take our time. That is my fault for the most part. Almost every show is just one take. That's why at times it's painful to watch for myself. I just think, "FUCK! We should of done that again and did it this way." We are still learning as we go and this is going to take time but we are getting there.
Vince
June, 15, 2007 - 2:00pm
My Character Troy - How Horelick Started
When the idea first came up of all of us (Mike, and Dave) doing a show, I came up with the name of the show being "Horelick" Dave, playing the character "Gary Horelick" is something I didn't create.
I do stand up comedy, I've been in doing it for the past six years. In that time I have meet some great comics and some really wacked out people. One of the first people I meet when starting out at the open mikes was a guy named Gary Horelick. His set was not my cup of tea. I only met the guy two different times, but the stories I heard about the guy really made me laugh.
A friend of mine told me these stories about how one time Gary showed up to do a set at a club in a PURPLE SUIT! No lie, it was all PURPLE! His opening joke would be, "My name is Gary Horelick, that's not my name, that is my job." Then you can add the crickets. The show is not at all about him, it's just a name I wanted to use.
Troy is only a character, somewhat. When I was 18 I had a really good friend who was a real dick. This guy would cheat on his girlfriend one night than the next he would go out with her and tell her how much he loved her. I was more pissed off at the time that this guy was getting laid left and right and I couldn't land a girl at the time. The character of Troy is a little bit based off of this friend that I had. The other part of the character is just me playing someone that I wish I could be like at times. Not really giving a shit about anyone but himself. Always thinking about himself and no one else. It's fun to play but I don't think I could do that in my regular everyday life.
When my girlfriend watched the first show that I was in, she was pissed off and even said she "Hated" my character. She was shocked that I could play someone like that. I was really proud of myself. Cause if I can get someone who loves me to hate me when watching this, then it looks good for people who don't know me. The overall thing when you film any story is, you want the people to be into the characters. Love them or hate them. If they just sit back and not care, then you are doing something really wrong.
That is it for today. Take Care, have a great weekend and look for the latest show that should be up very soon.
Vince
June, 14, 2007 - 5:00pm
I just gave the website a new look. I'm too tired to write anymore. Still sick and I have a lot of work to get better. More to come on that.
Vince
June, 13, 2007 - 9:00pm
This is the first blog I'm doing. For the two people that are going to read it, I say thank you and please use the internet for what I use it for. Downloading adult films.
I was happy to find out that we (Horelickshow.com) have fans. And I was very happy to find out that people really took my character serious.
Well, it is just a character, but beating up on a guy who can't walk is betting than jerking off to me.
Overall, this project will really get better over time. I'm looking into getting a better camera. I want to go HD so the picture will look more like a TV show than just a home video look. I'm happy with everything right now and I can't wait to get to more stuff to do for the show.
I think the overall goal of this show is just to try and do the best we can and have fun with it.
That's it for now. I want to download porn and fill up my computer with filth.
Tomorrow, I will blog about how much of a dick I was in the past. I'm still a dick, but years ago I did some really awful things.
Later guys. Mike, DON'T KILL YOURSELF, YET.
Vince