The Freedom Tray

My good friend Gary Smith, over at Empties Crushed, just recently purchased his own set (2) of "Freedom Trays" (note the video above) after a few of us were at his house watching college football, when this extremely entertaining commercial came across ESPN about 3 or 4 times.

Highlights on the commercial, the graphically animated "Freedom Tray" with digital food/drink being placed into the tray, that lasted about 15-20 seconds, this company paid someone for at least 5-6 days of design and execution of a digital "Freedom Tray" - that alone makes purchasing your own set worth it.

Actually going to a fast food drive-thru and handing your own tray for them to place your food in, let me ask this, how do you approach that scenario...

"Excuse me, I have my own tray, yours are flimsy and all of my fatty food will spill and ruin my Escelade's leather seats"

-or-

"hi, is it ok if I give you my own tray to put my food in, it's not that I don't trust your trays, mine is just better, and I paid a lot of money for it. Also, please don't spit in my burger, I'm not a cop."

This isn't a joke people, the "Freedom Tray" or "FT Awesomeness" as the kids are now referring it to on the streets, is real and will be arriving in at least 1,063 homes, individually numbered, for their new owners to enjoy.

Pre-production for the "Freedom Tray Owners" commercial is under way, it will most likely be a joint venture between myself, Brian Tirpak, Daniel Yost, Gary F. Smith, Jess A. Cooper, and potentially other professionals with lost of money. We will be putting our freedom trays to use, at the drive-thru, at the ball-game, and maybe..just maybe, at a picnic, all caught on film and for your viewing pleasure, so stay tuned to Orange Cupcakes and Empties Crushed for when the commercials hit the airwaves.

If I were from NY...

Alica and Jay-Z would def be the anthem, if I were from NY. Great song.

Hova with that line, "I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can," now that's swag.

The Wonders of Early Morning Call Times

It may only be about a half-hour, eh...forty-five minute difference, but it's never fun when you get an update on your call time, that comes six hours too late.

Originally I was supposed to go into work at 6am, but most likely because my producer was still putting together our equipment late last night, he sent me an email pushing it back an extra half-hour, to 6:30am. No problem, minus the fact that when he sent the email, at 12:43am, I was already attempting to convince my body that it was in fact, "bed time."

Doh!

It's already felt like I never fell asleep to begin with, from the fact that I had about four hours worth of dreams, never falling into a deep sleep, it almost seemed as if I shut my eyes and opened them, to go, "well, time to get up."

If only I still had email on my phone, it would have buzzed as I was lying down and I could have reset my alarms....damn it.

Moral of the story kids...pay the $10 a month to Verizon (if you have Verizon) for the damn internet to avoid losing 30-45 minutes of extra sleep, on rare occasions.

The water's fine.

I began a thought about a day ago, thinking about the idea of being human and constantly searching for something higher for one's self, even if it was just on a surface of wanting to be greater for the purpose of image and nothing less.

I'll get back to that.

I just finished watching "The Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind" where Jim Carey and Kate Winslet, meet, potentially multiple times, since the memories of the two of them have been erased, at least once, because their relationship has flattened out, and the two have began to hate each other, driving Winslet's charachter to seek having Carey's charachter erased from her memory.

Only we find that while Carey's memory is being erased, he attempts to hide her inside other memories that never related with her. Only, he is not successful.

As the story continues, we pick up at the beginning of the film, the two meeting the morning after his mind is erased, by chance. Only to pick up a little further and find out that they both recieved tapes letting them know what was going on/what had happened, thus each hearing for the first time, why they ended up hating each other.

Oddly enough, they both agree, even knowing that they will utimately come to despise each other, to advance further into an intimate relationship.

This got me thinking on two levels.

First - If you already knew, what would be your motivation to become love-sick and heartbroken? Could you learn anything about yourself with her/him, or even change the course of action that will occur (or has already occurred in their case).

Second - I'll take myself as an example...If I still have not finished learning all there is to know about myself, or myself involved in personal relationships, more specifically, and intimate relationship, what becomes the driving force to understand "growing" an intimate relationship at a young age, when I only know so much?

When I say growing - I decifer this as the fact that I am less likely to find someone at my age now that is willing to put up with my own personal BS, and include it with their own, because as two seperate individuals, aren't we both still figuring out how to make that work?

Just a lot of thoughts, with no real answers or any forgone conclusions.

I guess what my thoughts boil down to at the moment, are that you're never going to figure any of this out unless you give yourself the chance to screw up and try to correct your mistakes. If you hold back on your life, fearful of looking foolish, how much might you miss out on?

In the end, the water's fine and you should just get in.

...and yes, I noticed the multitude of spelling errors in this post....it's 4am.