MMM Jack Daniel's

I love JD! I love everything about it. When I was on the National Players Tour 57 we were near Lynchburg Tennessee. Me and a few other guys from the tour decided to take advantage of a little early morning free time and went on tour of the distillery. It was one of the best experiences of my life! During the entire tour you smelled Jack Daniel's in the air. They have a life sized picture statue of him. he was a very tiny man.

I recently made a Jack Daniel's skinless fried chicken which was very delicious. I am currently perfecting the recipe. Once I figured it out I'll post it online. Until then I have a few favorite recipes from the Jack Daniel's website. I will periodically post some of the recipes on here. This is the next recipe I plan on trying out. With any of these recipes I like to put a little twist on them. Sometimes it takes a few tries to get it just right.

Jack Hot Wings

Chicken

¾ cup all-purpose flour

1 ½ teaspoons salt

¼ teaspoon black pepper

2 pounds chicken drumettes

Vegetable oil

Sauce

½ cup (1 stick) butter

½ cup Jack Daniel's® Tennessee Whiskey

¼ cup ketchup

1/3 cup hot pepper sauce, or to taste

Combine flour, salt, and pepper in a shallow bowl. Coat the wings with the flour mixture. Heat 2 to 3 inches of oil in a fryer or heavy pot to 365°F. Fry wings, a few at a time, until golden brown on all sides and cooked through, about 10 to 15 minutes. Drain on paper towels.

Combine all the sauce ingredients in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil. Dip cooked wings in the sauce. Serve with blue cheese dressing and fresh celery and carrot sticks. Makes 6 to 8 servings.

To bake the wings, place them in a roasting pan. Brush wings with melted butter and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake in a 450°F oven until lightly browned and cooked through, about 30 minutes. Don't forget you can grill the wings over medium heat for about 30 minutes, turning frequently.

I hope this works!

I would say that I'm glad that things are changing with the Redskins. As a Life long fan I have seen a lot of change mostly during Dan Snyders reign as Owner and guy who runs his franchise like a guy whose played too much madden... This is probably the one time during all this change that I actually feel like good things might be happening.

The reason for this really has nothing to do with adding Bruce Allen or Mike Shanahan. That would be to simple. To just say hey we got some new guys, they've got experience they've won before. Most people that we bring in have won something before or they wouldn't be in the NFL. The reason I believe that things actually my change is Daniel M. Snyder did something this year I have never seen him do... He apologized!

If you're a true redskins fan...shit If you're a sports fan of anything you know that owners rarely if ever apologize. They usually place the blame on so many people besides themselves. So when Dan Snyder apologized I was shocked! I watched the video several times. He took blame for basically the fact that the Redskins have sucked for so long.

This is why now I believe in the change that is taking place. How can you truly change anything when in your mind you don't see anything wrong? Don't Fucking let us down guys!

Christmas with the friends!

The Holidays are great. There are the obvious reasons to love the holidays to many to name right now. For me the reason I think truly love this time of year is the camaraderie, spending time with your friends and family. Being from the East Coast (and might I add the best coast) I don't get to see my family as much as I would like. Once you add in the cost of a freakin plane ticket it usually works out to me staying in L.A. for the Holidays. Being a person that strongly values family and friendships, this time of the year could easily suck. I should say it would suck, if I didn't have the best friends in the world. I often times fashion myself as a loner, and do enjoy hanging out by myself I really do. Though sometimes, you can't beat a good game of Apples to Apples.

Cablevision Commercial!

The commercial I worked on today was for Cablevision, which I found out is like a New York equivalent of Time Warner Cable. I think thats kinda what it is. The idea behind the commercial is that Cablevision allows you to use your remote to click on an ad on the TV, then you are sent information about whatever it is you clicked on. So the people in the spot I shot are so used to using it that they use it in their everyday lives out of habit.

When I went into the audition last week, it was for a "bank clicker." The idea was that I walk into a bank and click on some info near the bank teller cause I like what I see. However I guess they figured that they were gonna have different scenes then what I actually auditioned for. So what I ended up shooting today was the role of a "bar clicker." Which put me in a bar with some friends clicking on the TV. Thats pretty much what I did for about two hours today. I guess it makes more sense that i'd be drinking in a bar than hanging out in a bank, unless I'm planning to rob the place...

The cool part about today, would be that I was listed as principal. Which basically meant that everything in this portion of the spot was geared towards me and my reactions. It was really cool to basically have the director just talking to you in the scene and direct people based off what you were doing. That being said I was clicking an imaginary remote at a blank tv...Not a ton of acting involved it was more having to get the timing down and making sure my hand was in the best light. I felt pretty good about what I did though and the director and client seemed happy as well. I apparently do a good job at looking satisfied.

If you live in New York or New Jersey, you will be able to see the commercial. If you don't, I'll find it and post it on my website. I'm completely clean shaven though. I think I look a bit different but I'm not sure.

Am I doing enough? Part 1

With almost everything in my life I ask the question am I doing enough or not. There are two areas in my life which I am currently asking this question. My relationships and my Career.

The relationships part is beginning to get on my nerves. Past relationships current relationships or possible relationships. When I had a girlfriend it was easier. Not that things were simpler, because they weren't. You get comfortable though which is one of those good and bad situations. You realize what your partner likes or dislikes and you can anticipate things about them. You can also take them for granted. You can get lazy and thats when things breakdown. When I was in my last relationship, I'm not sure if I asked myself if I was doing enough as much as I should have.

Now that I'm single, I am still dealing with that same question. Its just a bit different now. Before I would ask the question in regards to the relationship itself. Where as now I asking if doing enough for Lonnie (I realize I just referred to myself in third person and I am as disgusted as you are). Seriously, life's too short to not be fucking happy.

This idea isn't finished...

Kojis bar is so dead!!!!

If it were any slower here at my job I would be moving backwards. I'm not sure how thats possible but if it were thats what I would be doing.... Moving backwards. The best part about all of this has to be that I know I'm not making any money. I can't get good tips if there's no one here to leave a tip.

I guess technically this is my first official bartending shift, considering I was just picking up shift beforehand and for a first this is horrible someone please help me. Maybe I should start drinking I am behind a bar. Its the daytime tho so that might not be the best idea. I have one hour to go...

The most difficult drink I made today was a Bloody mary, and it was not difficult to make...

Audition to be Derek Jeter's Body Double.

So today I auditioned to be Derek Jeter's body double. It was for a National Gillette commercial. I had to do some basic stances, run around the bases and slide head first into home plate. Then just a couple intense looks into the camera and I was done. I was able to see the guys before me doing the same thing, which can be good and bad sometimes. When your actually reading lines watching someone else do it can throw you off a bit. At least i've noticed that. However for a physical audition like this, seeing someone do it gave me some good pointers on what to do and what not to do.

Now I'm not sure if that sounds simple but it's definitely not. First I am not nor have I ever been a baseball player. That being what it is, I feel that I am physically capable of doing what was required. I did watch a couple how to slide into home plate videos. I'm not sure if they helped at all. Mostly cause it was videos for little league players. Its all I could find...

For me this audition was a good mix of mental and physical preparedness. Stretching warming up getting my body ready and telling myself just do it. I might not be a pro at sliding into home plate but I can at like I know what I'm doing. Which was one of the comments that was made to me before my audition. The auditor pretty much said don't be afraid to act a bit. Even though it is involving something physical, try to show the emotion of baseball. I think that part came easy because every time I slid into home plate I crushed my balls. Why you ask did I crush my balls? Well they only had medium size cups at target at 9:30 last night so I went cup less. Not the best of ideas...

I am proud of myself for this if nothing else, I was able to put aside my hatred for the yankees for the betterment of my career.

Wish me luck!