KTLA College Audition

I just returned from the first cut of the KTLA College Audition challenge. I didn't make it to the top 8, but I did make the top 16 out of 2000 entries. It was a great experience and I met a lot of really neat people. I say neat, because they were just that, neat. We had two fun filled days at the KTLA studios with the crew of the Morning Show. We rode in the stretch hummer to Highland Park and shot the entry for the show on the helicopter landing.

Although I wont be moving on, there's a certain reverence when you move throughout So. Cal and everyone just seen you on TV. I love life.

West Coast Issue of True Magazine

An image of my first cover story on my favorite artist The Game. It was an experience.

Review's You Can Use By, Rukiya (Sussy) Hite

Running Scared
Running Scared (Starring Paul Walker)
Rating B+

Do I recommend seeing it: Definetly!

When browsing the new release wall in my favorite video store I take as many precautions as a doctor performing open heart surgery. OK maybe I'm not that careful, but I do take such things seriously. That's why I was extremely pleased when I rented Running Scared, which from the cover, looks like the "B" movie from hell. What caught my eye even more than the fine ass white boy on the cover (Paul Walker) was a quote from a critic which swore that the movie "makes Kill Bill look like Sesame Street" (or something to that nature). I personally thought that was impossible, but since I was in the mood for a little blood and action I decided to take a risk on the film. Life would be so good if all risk taking promised the same reward.

If the mob was a game of chess, Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker) would be the pawn of his crew in the feature film Running Scared. When a New Jersey drug deal goes wrong, he and his crew find the blood of dirty cops all over their hands. The only physical evidence that connect them to the murders is a "snub-nosed .38" millimeter gun that Joey, the mob flunky, is instructed to dispose of. But because he can't wait to get home to his beautiful wife Tessa (Verma Farmiga), he heads straight to his house where secretly he hides the gun in the basement. Or so he thinks, little does he know he is being spied on by his son and his son's best friend Oleg (Cameron Bright) who takes the guns and ends up on the run with it. To sum up the plot, the cops are chasing Joey, Joey's chasing Oleg, Oleg's running from the mob, and Joey's trying to ensure his bosses that the gun has been properly disposed of. And that's just the begging of the movie.

Outside of the way they did the brotha's in the beginning of the movie, I would have to say this movie was superb. Not only does this movie deliver overwhelming amounts of violence, as promised on the front cover, it also holds the audience at insurmountable levels of suspense and evokes emotions of disbelief, and at times, disgust with the human psyche as a whole. And I loved every minute of it. I mean, if your going to give me vulgarity give it to me straight with no chaser. I want to see dirty cops, disguised abusers, sensitive whores, and a pimp in a Cadillac. Those are the exact elements that made this a movie that I definitely recommend seeing. I was also impressed by the style in which Wayne Kramer (The Cooler) wrote and directed the film. He seems to have captured the elements of immorality degeneracy right through the lens of the camera.

So the next time you're at the video store, and you're looking for something that will be entertaining from start to end, rent Running Scared. It is a movie you will never forget.

Director: Wayne Kramer
Starring: Paul Walker, Cameron Bright,
Run time: 122 minutes
Release date: February 24, 2006
Rating: R for pervasive strong brutal violence and language, sexuality and drug content.

Crazy Interviews

This particular entry was saved for a time in which I came off of my all time high of appreciation for what I'm being blessed with by the good lord. I have been so busy beginning this career called Journalism, so much that I don't get much time to put ink in my journal unless its to take notes from one of my subjects. I have, in the last month, written four articles for major publications. I am currently writing an additional three. I have never written so much in my life. It's not much that I haven't written to this capacity as I haven't been challenged to use this much brain and creative power. I guess this is what this game is all about. I have mad admiration for creators in any craft. I see now that this game is no different from when a rapper pens his rhymes, or a director scribbles notes on the script he has revised and revised and revised. It is a tedious job, but I love it.

My favorite interview this month was with Buffie The Body Carouth. This chick was just like I thought she'd be. Cool and down to earth as hell. Every guy I know that I mention her to looses it! They all adore Buffie, I guess that's why she's accelerating to fame at light speed. When she called in to do the phone interview my line had the worst static that I'd ever experienced in all of my (cough)-enty years of life. Instead of rolling on with her busy life, when I told her I'd contact her publicist when I straightened things out, she continued calling back periodically for about 30 minutes until she got ahold of me. Now take notes future models, vixens, etc. check Buffies science. That really impressed me. We had a great conversation and I hope I can write an equally good interview.