Another great party you aren't invited to - Baker Boys Dist. 1 Year Anniversary

Next Friday we will be reporting from what will certainly be a party of mayhem and hijinx with the Baker Boys crew. We will be filming for and there will be probably 300 kids skating their hearts out while we drink face fulls of Transphusion Energy Drink and Vodka's.

You can't come but you can get first hand commentary and pics from yours truly.

Happy Friday...I'm plopping out.

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RPRT x TLFI = Watch the hell out

Long time Plop readers will know one of the brands I worked with closely and extensively to grow was True Love and False Idols. When I quit BWR and left the product placement business this was the one brand I was sort of bummed about leaving hanging...anyways...long story short. TLFI recently dumped their old shitty partner for a newer, bigger, better one and shit is popping. The Buckle, Macy's, Nordies, Metropark are starting to order and test deep (when they are cutting back everything else) and we have come to terms and I will be back in the saddle with the Alex's to blow this shit out of the water again.

SOOOOOOOO...stay tuned for all the successes we have. We haven't even started and already I am doing American Idol for next week...keep your eyes peeled.
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Archived Celeb of the Day - Jay Kenneth Johnson

Don't really know who he is but we placed this soap star (who was also on Scrubs and North Shore) in a former denim client and TLFI top. The pics from the shoot were used for his press shots. Read more!

I had a meeting with some people about a thing

Part of the frustration I have with this blog is that a lot of the stuff I am working on that might be considered "interesting," I can't write about until they happen. I truly do have so many cool things in the works but they are just that...in the works. That being said, I can give you all a little insight but it frustrates me to not be able to pour out the sordid deets to everything because it would make this blog a shitload more interesting.

Anyways, my boy Alex Vaz from TLFI hooked me up with some friends last night who had a project they wanted me to check out. One of the cats has a really interesting past and somehow (actually from being a damn good writer) got a Sundance Foundation fellowship and grant. We talked for about 2 hours and he gave me a script that I may be able to work on by helping raise funds and placing some of my clients in.

Everyone in L.A. has a script (hi Joe, hi Belenardo, hi Uncle Bob), but I knew from the premise of the story that this potentially could be the next Kids. I was going to read it this weekend but couldn't sleep last night and breezed through the 110 pages effortlessly and was blown away. That is all for now, other than to tell you a documentary tv series is also potentially in the works with this guy and myself and I am excited about that as well.

On another note, Vaz, in true form, came to Mao's in full finger wrap and showed off his new 24kt gold meat tenderizer ring. This mofo is dangerous and if you see A.V. in the pit at Chain Reaction please for your face's sake turn around and go home.



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RPRT Welcomes new client Ten2One Entertainment

Just got back from a signing meeting with a new client and wanted to be the first to welcome them to the RPRT team. Some of you may have seen director Paul "Coy" Allen on the Plop in the past. He is a talented cat and a great friend. Well...he has a new venture with partner Marcus Spence, who is president of Timbaland's label and media company Mosley Media Group (Timbaland, Nelly Furtado, Chris Cornell, etc.).

Paul and Marcus will soon be announcing a pretty exciting new venture that they will be spearheading and they picked my company to be the mouthpiece. The great part about this, besides getting to work with my friends Paul and Marcus, is that I was able to usurp PR genius and Plopculture talent Alfred Hopton, with whom I used to work at BWR. Alfred will be spearheading this account and making sure all of Hollywood and beyond knows that Ten2One is coming to make some waves.

The new website will be launching in about 2 weeks but in the meantime the URL is:

http://www.ten2oneentertainment.com/

More on all of this soon...
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Concert Shirt of the Day - Absolute Madness

So my friend Alex Vaz (True Love and False Idols) just started up a new thrash band and they have been doing shows around the southland. Always one to try not to offend others with his tees (look up CrewXfied), Alex came up with this shirt to sell at their upcoming two shows. If you like old school thrash metal than you may want to send this link to grandma:

www.myspace.com/absolutehardcore


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I'm a manic blogger...

So yesterday I pondered shutting the Plop down again. I don't know what it is, but if I get 10 less readers (half my readership) for a day, I get all down on blogging and want to quit. I don't really know why I do this anyways. The Plop started as a way for me to try and step back and view my mundane life from a third person perspective. People always thought my job, friends, comings and goings were so "cool and fun" but to me it was all a big bore.

Anyways, yesterday our readership was cut in half and I have to ponder if this is just a giant waste of time or if it really is a good marketing tool to promote myself and my projects. Maybe it is the recent addition of those annoying Google ads that show up under each new post (don't know how to rid of those but if I don't make enough from adsense to at least buy a 40 then I am going to cut it out of the Plop). I am still pondering if my time could be better spent elsewhere (way more people follow me on Facebook). In the mean time, these women are incredible (and the lady in the hat has to be manic as well) and I so want to make a music/film review show with them:

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Awww shit...here comes video. Paris has nothing on us.

My new phone, which I was up playing with from 1 am til the gym opened at 4:30 am, can shoot video (even in the dark it has a light that you can have on full time...naughty). So, Plop-o-fans, expect me to start to add a bit 'o video blogging to the Plop. We are getting robust! You have been warned.

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The Plop loves free stuff but today's free stuff makes us jizz our pants

So I am a FREAK about two things...Facebook and my Blackberry. Both are digital handcuffs I can't live (or do business) without. Well, when I left my last gig in order to keep the cell number I had for years, I had to buy the T-Mobile plan the number was on from my company. I did and was stuck with a sort of not so hetero white BB Pearl. It served its purpose but T-Mobile didn't really have any better options...until now.

I have a friend, who I can't disclose, who works with BB on some activations and I had sent her and her staff some gear a while back in exchange for a new BB. Problem was, there never was a BB I wanted to spend the favor on. Just recently T-Mobile released the new Curve 8900 and I messed myself. Well, two weeks after it came out, my girl came through for me and lo and behold, a nice new BB showed up today. As a thank you, I sent her about a grand in jewelry from a jewelry company that stiffed me $6,000 (you know who you are). Slowly but surely I have been using their merchandise to gift people and hope my girl likes what I sent.

Anyways, over time I will review the phone. I LOVE it but see two small problems already. It is not 3G and they are now using a new connector (a micro-USB) rendering my car charger obsolete :( Otherwise, I know I am going to LOVE this damn thing.

Tomorrow, when the battery is charged, I will be in bliss orgasmic jubilistic techdork heaven.

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Meeting at Transphusion Energy Drink

So the cat's behind Transphusion Energy (http://transphusion.com/) and I met up today to talk a little story and see if we can't get something going with one of my clients. Things are looking up. The product tastes great, the brand imaging/marketing plan solid and Shepard Fairey did the can design...you can't go wrong there.

Look for more updates soon on what transpires. Also went to look at office spaces in Beverly Hills and if something else goes down, which I think it will, it looks like I am saying adios to home schooling and going back to college!

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IPATH and Bill Byrne hook a brother up with some new kicks.

So those of you that follow the P-to-the-lop know that I don't Twitter or Tweet (or do anything else with a stupid name)...I Facebook...and that is that. I am constantly updating my status, as if anyone cares. One day I posted that I was actually wearing a 15 year old pair of Uggs, at my desk, and wasn't ashamed because it was so cold.

So...my boy Bill Byrne from BBPR happened to read this status update and immediately said he couldn't allow me to do this any longer. He was ashamed for me. So yesterday I get a package from IPATH shoes with a sick pair of 3/4 top shearling lined skate shoes that will keep my feet warm without me looking like a t-bag. For good measure, since Bill and I are aging and aspiring former skaters, he sent me a pair of all black skate shoes as well. I have never had IPATH's but they feel great on and nobody will stone me for wearing them.

Thanks to Bill Byrne (now send over some of that Primo Beer) and IPATH for sorting me out since I have yet to get a shipment of Supras from Ellington...hahaha.

P.S. Thanks Bill for the suggestion today that I should do a column on the Plop making fun of hipsters. Just for you I am going to go back in time and start a post called COOL/NOT COOL that actually does just that...look for it to show up over the last 2-3 months of the Plop. Thanks for being an avid reader...yes, I am a smart ass.

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Today's COOL/NOT COOL - Old hipsters

COOL - Aging gracefully. Being yourself but not trying to do "what the kids are doing" and try and blend in. You just don't.


NOT COOL - Trying to be down with the 20 year old hipsters when you are 60.

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Everyone needs a good excuse for a surf trip

This flier was sent to me by a friend Monique Evans who gets to go to Nicaragua and surf while doing some good. This trip looks like an insane good time if you are into charity/eco/adventure travel. Go to the website for more info if you are interested in going along:

www.nicaraguaadventure.weebly.com

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This is high-larious

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Today's COOL/NOT COOL - G Speak by Whitey

COOL - speak like you would normally speak. Like they taught you in school.

NOT COOL - grown ass adults saying things like "Whoot Whoot/Woop Woop" and "Holla."
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Why I don't go to Venice Beach later than 7 a.m.

So yesterday I had some free time and decided to head to the Venice Breakwater to check the crappy surf and do a bit of people watching in the sun. As you can imagine, the amazing weather brought out all the freaks and geeks and in about 30 minutes I saw so many bogans (Aussie speak for hicks) it was amazing. I took some pics of the fabulousness that I witnessed, which is a testament to why I can't go to my own beach if it isn't on a dawn patrol. Please forgive the crappy pictures but they will get better as I am getting my new Blackberry Curve 8900 today. Here we go:

This is a series I had to document.

The Family that spins together...should be shot. So this couple and a baby stroll on to the beach. First strike against them...they are in jeans and biker boots. Anyways, they have a baby girl and the mom is like 15 and dad looks like Dimebag Darrell and is having a heated convo on his cellie. Mom puts baby girl out and then proceeds to bust out a set of bean bags on a string and starts to twirl/spin them. If any of you have seen this it is what ravers did in the 90's with glow sticks on a string and makes you want to hit them in the face. So baby is going all over and teen mom is too busy to notice as she spins and dad talks on his cell. Mom interrupts dad to watch baby and he makes like he is going to hit her upside the head. Classy. Then he gets off the phone and busts out his own leather bean bags and spins too. The best part comes next...mom gets a small set of mini bags and gives them to baby to try and get this kid who can't even walk to spin with her. Amazing!!!

So this lame ass charade continues for a few minutes and these two complete d-bags walk up and talk to the girl. Dad walks away and what do you know, the guy busts out his own high performance bean sacks and begins to show off all the rad tricks he can do with his tossers while his cool aloof dork of a friend sits back and watches.


This goes on for a while and the cool aloof friend (you can't see it here), gets sick of his tall dorky friend getting all the attention from pre-teen married mom and he comes around and puts his bright orange bandana over his nose and mouth like a bandit and proceeds to stand on the beach like that while the girl and guy do spinner tricks. Vomit.


Here is a super awesome group of stereotypical hipster kids. Nothing worth blogging about besides the tall one with the fedora. He was awesome..a mix between hipster and candy raver. He had on hipster pants, tee, glasses without lenses and a fedora..but his arms were covered in candy colored beaded bracelets. Let's go rave to the sounds of Kings of Leon dude.

Speaking of hipsters...no day at the beach is complete without a group of guys on fixed gears, with 80's bike hats, cut off jeans shorts, low top chucks and handlebar mustaches. The only thing missing from this is a BB gun to shoot them in the ass as they ride by.


I love when hicks come to the beach to cruise for chicks on the BIKE ONLY boardwalk and block the entire fucking path. I guess they don't teach you to read back home?


This family comes walking up from the beach and everything is pretty normal except Mom's outfit is 100% WRONG. She was wearing an old baseball hat, a man's tee, a super short skirt, knee high tube socks and these black leather cheese boot heels that she was rocking on the sand. Those poor kids must be so embarrassed by mom's whore outfit.

Can someone please tell this guy the Village People have left the building? He had the most amazing double leather shoulder holster/fanny pack thing, tight jeans, 70's skates, little leather sailor hat and handlebar moustache. Must have been coming home from a wild night at the Roosterfish.


The kid with the worst rhymes in the world has his grandpa directing his music video. I am sure that video is going to be amazing. Make sure to re-do that shot of you on the sand singing into your Virgin pay as you go cell phone again. I think the Village People skater rode through your shot.


Finally this old dude lays down for a nap practically in my lap and the smell of Aqua Velva was making me sick (along with all the people) so I had to leave.


But this makes me happy. They are building a huge skatepark right by the Venice Breakwater and it is meant to be good. Haven't seen much action on it in the last month or so. I am hopeful that the funds haven't run out already.
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