There are times that I wonder about some people. The rush to judgment or lack of intelligence on a subject be a place, person or thing, leads to a bunch of caution. Too much caution, but by then the damage is done, opportunity is thwarted and you look back and think, maybe there are a few that need to dig a bit deeper than just the web to find the real answers. Like Flash digging for a bone, there are folks that only look at a very limited shallow well called the Internet.
The thing is there are tons of things that were out there, that never caught the web. If they did it was at the tail end of something.
Example; Mike Parkhurst, if one digs on the Internet you might find a mere cover shot of Overdrive that had gorgeous models with trucks>
but little else. Information on the now redone version that is the United American Independent Truckers Association one of our parent organizations, is so covered if at all shown that many would never find anything. So they look, think is kaput, put us in the “when I Get around to it” file and its cat and mouse to pin someone down on a project.
Like our associated agency out of Denver. The Castro Agency, says he wants to be our one stop talent agency. Would like to come up, with a couple of the gals, have a meeting. Fine he pays to fly, drive whatever, the club covers meals and lodging. If it’s a full shoot once talent and all is approved documents are inked we cover all expenses but not before.
So Mike says, he’ll call to set dates, no call. Then can’t even post anything on his Facebook so he can see some of what we have in mind so he can pick some of his talent that might be right for us.
So a bit heated I email, says he wants to talk on phone, no problem, but I do not dig delays, money is in the bank, projects are on the stove about to boil , time to act is now.
Considering the 50 models and product demo models we’ll need in 2014 at DukesFest West, our commercials for that, that will be aired nationwide, our local ads for the club, and the radio gig HazzardAyre, plus the website to name a few, for a upcoming talent agency this is gold, ready for the mining. But I also remember the fuss we gave Emma Leigh, as well. Thinking she was the hottest new country singer , that does have vocal chords that melt a heart far better than Taylor Swift or Carry Underwood, giving a full weekend to run only her music, a call in interview although partly one sided as our phone hybrid was having a headache, but all of that. So I pitched the idea of putting Emma in Sutter’ SOA for fall. Guess what? All of a sudden, no communication, no phone calls, even to the point her manager defriended us on Facebook. Usually I’m not alarmed, but I paid for rooms, and a limo or two on the 29th. Thanks to the limo company they refunded the money, not so much the motels. Which means the club is out $800.00 for accommodations. This is what makes me jittery when your working at booking talent or anything, and get dropped like a hot spud.
If these people only thought of how much influence and how much on screen and media power we generate, many might be a bit more open arms and willing to jump in the pool.
Granted Idaho, and Twin Falls might not be Hollywood, but remember out of Twin Falls’ back door is Sun Valley, home to Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, and good old Arnold , former Governor of California as well as the Terminator, and one can see that, be seen in one place, a name dropped or two and an upcoming talent and her agent/agency goes gold. Couple that with DukesFest West, HazzardAyre and our movie coming in 2015, to begin production, if I were Castro Agency, I’d be finding my way to Twin Falls, and not be so damn worried about the money and more concerned with the craft.
So we now need to tuck tail, go to Salt Lake mine what agencies we can, and if I need to, put stuff up again on Craigs List etc. Maybe a trip to Hollywood is required to find our agency.
Maybe book through who ever EasyRiders Magazine books through.
L8R Ya’ll
Quote of the Day:
To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
--Theodore Roosevelt
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