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spartan final

4/3/07

It was close, but due to Florida's (overwhelmingly boring) repeat as national NCAA basketball champs, our old friend Sean Marier is the winner of this year's contest! Meaning, of course, he gets to write today's entry.

For those of you who don't know Sean, he was an indispensable PA for the Pink House movie shoot, hailing from Michigan State, of all places. He'll have to say how he ended up on our set, because he was just one of those quality dudes that seemed like they had always been there. Appeared out of nowhere to make things better for everybody, which was invaluable on such a disastrous shoot as ours.

During filming, he said he wanted to have a little part in the film, and I told him that we were planning a scene that required a bunch of campus right-wing Aryan Youth types. Jokingly, I told him to dye his dark-brown hair yellow like a good Aryan, and damned if he didn't show up the next day with almost lemon-platinum hair:

Sean is far right with some other actors, including now-stunningly-fantastic-artist Casey Burns far left; August 2001

By god, he got his scene. He was made ARYAN #1 and Casey became ARYAN #2. During the party sequence at the Pink House, a group of them bust open the front doors and demand payback for the LSD the residents baked into their brownies. Zola confronts them:
ZOLA: Ha. Well, you look like you survived.
ARYAN #1: I've been talking to my backpack all day!
ARYAN #2: I signed up for pottery class!

And for those 50 or so of you who saw that early cut of the movie - indeed, the only people who will ever see any cut of it - you know how it all goes from there.

So we remained friends with Sean, throughout his various travels, and he always keeps up with us on the blog. So, without further ado, here he is:

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Sean M's very first blog entry ever. And quite probably his last.

So, when Ian emailed this morning and told me that my prize for winning the NCAA basketball pool was my own personal blog entry, my first thought was "sh**!" My second thought was "what's going on in my head or life that's so important, so relevant to the times, that I need to make sure everyone in the blogosphere (or at least Ian's substantial corner of it) knows about it?" After determining that answer to be "nothing", I though I'd just share the first 10 random thoughts that pop into my head. And here goes…

Random thought #1 – Only in Ian's basketball pool would the gay guy win.

Random thought #2 – "Planet Earth" on the Discovery Channel... brilliant, addicting, beautiful, humbling.

Random thought #3 – Two words: Sanjaya Malakar. I feel so sorry for this kid. He's clearly not the most talented kid on American Idol, but he keeps moving on based on sites like VoteForTheWorst.com and schoolyard rabble-rousers like Howard Stern and Perez Hilton. If you don't like the show, don't watch it. If you don't like the singers, don't buy their albums. But to blatantly mess with the system just because you're able just seems so messed up. And for the show and his friends, parents, etc to have to keep telling him/themselves that he's there for the right reasons (America loves you!) saddens me, and I'd hate to have his therapy bills once this is all over.

Random thought #4 – Alanis' humps. Remember when Alanis Morissette was this dark, intense, angry little singer/songwriter from Canada with no sense of humour about herself, but with many very important things to say about relationships and the world around her? Well, she's back... minus the intensity but with added fun. Check out her (ironic? dontcha think?) cover of "My Humps":



Random thought #5 – GLAAD Media Awards Los Angeles, taking place on April 14th at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. In LA and want to support a cause/organization near and dear to my heart? See a great show, eat a fab meal by Wolfgang Puck, and help raise even more money by participating in the silent and live auctions (which I’m the co-chair of)? Go to this link for more info. If you're not in LA, but you get the Logo cable channel, the awards will be broadcast there on April 21 (and many many times thereafter). Check your local listings.

Random thought #6 – "Heroes" – I miss you. Can you come back before April 23rd? Pretty please?

Random thought #7 – 10 random thoughts is too many.

And that's that. Thanks to Ian for the forum. I don't know how you do it 5 days a week!

Thanks to Florida for winning the tournament.

And lastly, my apologies to anyone who comes here each morning for a shot of thought-provoking inspiration, but had to settle for this. If I had a cute kid, I'd end with a picture of him/her. Someday. Fingers crossed.

Adieu.

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