I haven't
written a blog in a long time so I thought I would tonight! Right now
the sounds of Shriek the movie are playing through my house. No I am
not watching Shriek, the sound is coming from behind my house where the
community club house is and they are watching it on a big screen out on
the playground. Right before the movie started, and I sat down here to
blog, I walked my dog Chrissy and one of the kids n the hood asked me
if I was coming over to watch it and I said no I have to get up early
and I have seen it before. He said “Mr. Carey it need to see it again
it is really good!” I laughed and said I wish I could but can't so go
and enjoy Shrek! What I was thinking in my head was I was at the world
premiere Of Shrek in Cannes, France. I saw it for the first time with
Cameron Diaz, Michael Meyes , Eddie Murphy and the rest of the crew.
But if I told that kid he would not understand what I was talking about
being at a world premiere with the voices because I don't want to take
away the magic of a movie to him! You know I been to dozens of world
premiers and it was quite a phenomenon watching a movie with the cast
sitting next to you. And they are seeing it for the first time as
well. You know movie making is such a long tedious process shot
normally with just one camera and shooting each scene over and over in
different angles. You really don’t know what you got until editing is
all done so that’s why after working on a few films I just don’t have
the patience and most films lose lots of money! I think that is why I
just don’t watch movies or any sitcom or dramas on TV. I am looking at
them from director point of view and don’t get into them like most
people. When you know the characters in real life it just doesn't have
that magic like it did when I was younger. I have not seen a full
episode of Seinfeld, Crosby show, Friends (even if my Mt. Brook
girlfriend Cissy is on there), any really any big show in the last 20
years because 1.) I get sick of watching TV when I have been doing it
all day, just a little news or music for me please. 2) I can’t get out
of the director mode and totally missed the point if the story. Pretty
sad fate I guess…
I guess my highlight this year was seeing U2 concert in 3d premier in Vegas with all the crew. I was blown away! Then I watched a basketball game in 3d and was mesmerized! I hope to be doing some 3d events next year and this technology will happen much faster than HD took to start to get into place. By the way, most of what you watch on TV is really not pure HDTV. Most of it is compressed and other various elements are dropped to save bandwith on transmission. The only way to really see something in pure HDTV 1080p 60 frame quality is buy either a 100k tape machine or a big hard drive that capture a true 100k camera uncompressed to it and play back via HD/SDI cable not hdmi. Now if you can do that you will see how beautiful the format is especially 1080p, 60 frames, 120 cycles. Otherwise you are getting a compressed mess that still looks a little better than 4:3 480 NTSC. My long term bet…Satellite TV! Right now there just is not enough infrastructure to transmit true HD or 3d via internet or fiber from point a to b. That is the same opinion from Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavs owner, who I work for at HDnet from time to time. He is the guy who started streaming on the internet. A little crazy but knows his stuff. So get ready for lots of 3d coming to you soon! Yes without glasses. There are some great 3d monitors out there that are amazing just very pricey right now!
Speaking of Vegas when I was there I board my dog at local boarding place and they have web streaming so I could watch my dog 24/7. I loved going to bed at night in Vegas and watching my dog sleeping on my computer next to me across the country. But I have a revelation! While watching my dog I think I kind of know how God feels about us! I wanted so bad to love on my dog and play with her but I couldn't I just watched her laying around. When she would just sit around during the day I wanted her to get up and go out and play with the other dogs and have fun but she just sat there all day long. I called the boarding house and paid extra to have someone go in and play with her a bit and she enjoyed it but went right back to laying around when the attendant left. I kept yelling at her via the webcam to get up and get out there you will have so much fun! Then it hit me that is how God looks at us! We waste so much time when there is a great world out there just wanting to be explored and enjoyed! Get up and do it!
I know we all get into ruts. Some of the crazy things about me and ruts is that one is I have eaten 2 bean burritos and either a dr. pepper or mt. dew nearly every night, yes nearly every night, for 30 years. I just recently quit when I started getting acid reflux! LOL! Now I eat fruit at night with an occasion trip to taco hell. My childhood friend Randy Underwood got me hooked on those we would go and get a sack full back in high school and bowl all night or go to a drive-in and watch Billy Jack triple features. It was cheap and I figured it had lots of fiber and low fat! Having a dad who died in his 50’s with colon cancer I thought this was a good thing to do having lots of fiber! LOL! I am such a man of routine. Monday is Bar-b-q day, Tuesday is seafood, Wed is wings day, Thursday is Mexican, Friday is Chick fil-a, Saturday is home cooking day and Sunday is brunch day at the TPC club or Casa Monica brunch. To look at my desk for the most part it is usually messy and to see me in person I usually pretty messy but look in my desk drawer, drawers at home, closets, and I am a organize compulsive freak. Everything has its place and order. I believe in order. Being on the road for 30 years I have accumulated several hundred pairs of underwear! I used to have 4 walk in closets full of clothes but since moving to the beach I took all my Armani suits but the funeral one, alligator shoes, and 90 per cent of my clothes to the Salvation Army and man were they excited to see me! When I first came to the beach I wore something different everyday for 2 years and finally noticed nobody even knew! I though how silly of me owning so much clothes so now I keep a few Tommy Bahama pieces and some Brook Brothers shirts one Burberry tie and let it all go! My dry-cleaning bill went down to $50. A month from $500. A month! Simple and in order is a easier life for me! We get so wrapped up in stuff and it robs us of money and time! Keep It Simple Sweetie!
One good thing from this past year is I got to spend a lot of time with my sister who came down and hung out with me at home a couple of times this year! That was the first time we have really been alone in 30 years and we had a good time sharing and hanging out! Say a prayer for her health is tough but she is hanging in there. Again at this time of the year I am so thankful for God’s blessings like my family, dog, friends, a great job, church, and yes for the doors God shut on me back in Alabama and in relationships developed here and there.
The small mindless, pettiness jealousy from little basement people l who I thought were like family to me and others folks who spread such stupid crap on me but helped me get the heck out of that hell hole and find paradise here at the beach I am thankful for now looking back! Sometimes God has to push us a little to get us out of our comfort zones like my dog I mention on the webcam above!
I love my Bishop PD Zink so much and what a Man of God he is!!! I really would die for him! My immediate boss Jimi is the best! He understands me better than anyone and what a relief that is because I am pretty strange creative type! He has been in production all his life and knows what it takes to do it right! I am so use to hitting my head against the wall with non-creatives and this is a breath of fresh air! You know I am not prefect and these men of God let me be me and love me and give me room to grow in God’s grace. It’s wonderful and they really care about me! Thank you Jesus you found me faithful for such a blessing in my life!
I do miss teaching at UAB and maybe one day I will go back and teach again and finish my PhD. They have open the door for me to finish on line and I hope to do that very soon.
OK the dog wants to go to bed! Let me leave you with a nice letter I got from a friend in Savannah. We all need to tell folks, in writing, how much they mean to us every day! Life is short! Where did the last 30 years go...? I got to get married and settle down soon so I can still play with my kids!!!! Shalom! Here’s to you and me having the best year of our lives in 2011! GOODBYE PAST! HELLO FAVOR!
Dear Carey,
I am embarrassed that I have been so remiss that I never got around to sending you a thank you note for bringing me over to see the production of Paula Deen’s show several months ago. I’ve had it on my list of”to do” items since our meeting but kept pushing it to the next day, each day since then.
I am very appreciative that you took the time to allow me a peek behind the scenes of such a large and well organized and executed production. It was great to see and was really an inspiration for me that I have carried back to my work at WSAV.
I’ve been involved in a lot of large productions over my 35 years in broadcasting, but working in a small market TV station and having to make do with what I have to work with for so long, I had forgotten how fun and exciting such a well orchestrated BIG production can be. I relearned a lot with just the brief exposure that day.
It was also a heck of a lot of fun to see how nice all the new technology can make pictures on TV look too. HD rocks!
You are very lucky to be involved in such a production. Best of luck to you in your individual pursuits and may you be blessed with health, wealth and happiness.
As much as seeing what was going on with the production it was a pleasure to finally meet you in person. You have always been nice to me and very fair in your dealings with WSAV. Getting to know you a little better was a nice touch to an already solid professional relationship. Seeing you and putting that “regular guy” face on what had only been an electronic relationship gives me a much better perspective on who I am dealing with, and I sure did like you.
Regardless of what the future may hold I hope you will count me amongst your friends in Savanna, Georgia, and if there is anything I can do for you please do to hesitate to ask. I will be there for you.
Best Regards
Jerry Perlman
WSAV-TV
Thanks Jerry! Also thanks to all you who from time to time send me nice notes and messages on FB and email. It keeps me goin'! Get it Goin.... Shalom Yall!
I guess my highlight this year was seeing U2 concert in 3d premier in Vegas with all the crew. I was blown away! Then I watched a basketball game in 3d and was mesmerized! I hope to be doing some 3d events next year and this technology will happen much faster than HD took to start to get into place. By the way, most of what you watch on TV is really not pure HDTV. Most of it is compressed and other various elements are dropped to save bandwith on transmission. The only way to really see something in pure HDTV 1080p 60 frame quality is buy either a 100k tape machine or a big hard drive that capture a true 100k camera uncompressed to it and play back via HD/SDI cable not hdmi. Now if you can do that you will see how beautiful the format is especially 1080p, 60 frames, 120 cycles. Otherwise you are getting a compressed mess that still looks a little better than 4:3 480 NTSC. My long term bet…Satellite TV! Right now there just is not enough infrastructure to transmit true HD or 3d via internet or fiber from point a to b. That is the same opinion from Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavs owner, who I work for at HDnet from time to time. He is the guy who started streaming on the internet. A little crazy but knows his stuff. So get ready for lots of 3d coming to you soon! Yes without glasses. There are some great 3d monitors out there that are amazing just very pricey right now!
Speaking of Vegas when I was there I board my dog at local boarding place and they have web streaming so I could watch my dog 24/7. I loved going to bed at night in Vegas and watching my dog sleeping on my computer next to me across the country. But I have a revelation! While watching my dog I think I kind of know how God feels about us! I wanted so bad to love on my dog and play with her but I couldn't I just watched her laying around. When she would just sit around during the day I wanted her to get up and go out and play with the other dogs and have fun but she just sat there all day long. I called the boarding house and paid extra to have someone go in and play with her a bit and she enjoyed it but went right back to laying around when the attendant left. I kept yelling at her via the webcam to get up and get out there you will have so much fun! Then it hit me that is how God looks at us! We waste so much time when there is a great world out there just wanting to be explored and enjoyed! Get up and do it!
I know we all get into ruts. Some of the crazy things about me and ruts is that one is I have eaten 2 bean burritos and either a dr. pepper or mt. dew nearly every night, yes nearly every night, for 30 years. I just recently quit when I started getting acid reflux! LOL! Now I eat fruit at night with an occasion trip to taco hell. My childhood friend Randy Underwood got me hooked on those we would go and get a sack full back in high school and bowl all night or go to a drive-in and watch Billy Jack triple features. It was cheap and I figured it had lots of fiber and low fat! Having a dad who died in his 50’s with colon cancer I thought this was a good thing to do having lots of fiber! LOL! I am such a man of routine. Monday is Bar-b-q day, Tuesday is seafood, Wed is wings day, Thursday is Mexican, Friday is Chick fil-a, Saturday is home cooking day and Sunday is brunch day at the TPC club or Casa Monica brunch. To look at my desk for the most part it is usually messy and to see me in person I usually pretty messy but look in my desk drawer, drawers at home, closets, and I am a organize compulsive freak. Everything has its place and order. I believe in order. Being on the road for 30 years I have accumulated several hundred pairs of underwear! I used to have 4 walk in closets full of clothes but since moving to the beach I took all my Armani suits but the funeral one, alligator shoes, and 90 per cent of my clothes to the Salvation Army and man were they excited to see me! When I first came to the beach I wore something different everyday for 2 years and finally noticed nobody even knew! I though how silly of me owning so much clothes so now I keep a few Tommy Bahama pieces and some Brook Brothers shirts one Burberry tie and let it all go! My dry-cleaning bill went down to $50. A month from $500. A month! Simple and in order is a easier life for me! We get so wrapped up in stuff and it robs us of money and time! Keep It Simple Sweetie!
One good thing from this past year is I got to spend a lot of time with my sister who came down and hung out with me at home a couple of times this year! That was the first time we have really been alone in 30 years and we had a good time sharing and hanging out! Say a prayer for her health is tough but she is hanging in there. Again at this time of the year I am so thankful for God’s blessings like my family, dog, friends, a great job, church, and yes for the doors God shut on me back in Alabama and in relationships developed here and there.
The small mindless, pettiness jealousy from little basement people l who I thought were like family to me and others folks who spread such stupid crap on me but helped me get the heck out of that hell hole and find paradise here at the beach I am thankful for now looking back! Sometimes God has to push us a little to get us out of our comfort zones like my dog I mention on the webcam above!
I love my Bishop PD Zink so much and what a Man of God he is!!! I really would die for him! My immediate boss Jimi is the best! He understands me better than anyone and what a relief that is because I am pretty strange creative type! He has been in production all his life and knows what it takes to do it right! I am so use to hitting my head against the wall with non-creatives and this is a breath of fresh air! You know I am not prefect and these men of God let me be me and love me and give me room to grow in God’s grace. It’s wonderful and they really care about me! Thank you Jesus you found me faithful for such a blessing in my life!
I do miss teaching at UAB and maybe one day I will go back and teach again and finish my PhD. They have open the door for me to finish on line and I hope to do that very soon.
OK the dog wants to go to bed! Let me leave you with a nice letter I got from a friend in Savannah. We all need to tell folks, in writing, how much they mean to us every day! Life is short! Where did the last 30 years go...? I got to get married and settle down soon so I can still play with my kids!!!! Shalom! Here’s to you and me having the best year of our lives in 2011! GOODBYE PAST! HELLO FAVOR!
Dear Carey,
I am embarrassed that I have been so remiss that I never got around to sending you a thank you note for bringing me over to see the production of Paula Deen’s show several months ago. I’ve had it on my list of”to do” items since our meeting but kept pushing it to the next day, each day since then.
I am very appreciative that you took the time to allow me a peek behind the scenes of such a large and well organized and executed production. It was great to see and was really an inspiration for me that I have carried back to my work at WSAV.
I’ve been involved in a lot of large productions over my 35 years in broadcasting, but working in a small market TV station and having to make do with what I have to work with for so long, I had forgotten how fun and exciting such a well orchestrated BIG production can be. I relearned a lot with just the brief exposure that day.
It was also a heck of a lot of fun to see how nice all the new technology can make pictures on TV look too. HD rocks!
You are very lucky to be involved in such a production. Best of luck to you in your individual pursuits and may you be blessed with health, wealth and happiness.
As much as seeing what was going on with the production it was a pleasure to finally meet you in person. You have always been nice to me and very fair in your dealings with WSAV. Getting to know you a little better was a nice touch to an already solid professional relationship. Seeing you and putting that “regular guy” face on what had only been an electronic relationship gives me a much better perspective on who I am dealing with, and I sure did like you.
Regardless of what the future may hold I hope you will count me amongst your friends in Savanna, Georgia, and if there is anything I can do for you please do to hesitate to ask. I will be there for you.
Best Regards
Jerry Perlman
WSAV-TV
Thanks Jerry! Also thanks to all you who from time to time send me nice notes and messages on FB and email. It keeps me goin'! Get it Goin.... Shalom Yall!
Technical Directing Paula Deen show on Food Network.
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