This is the interview of Billy and Me by Ashley Perryman of Carolina Week. It aired 5/31/06 @ around 8PM. I didn’t get a chance to see it on the tele, but thankfully Ashley was able to provide an elec-tronic version I could put on the internet for everybody to enjoy! Thanks, Ashley!

So here’s the dilly, yo: Billy and I were interviewed by Carolina Week so we’re going to be on the tele-vision machine! In Carrboro/Chapel Hill the channel is 24. It will be on this next Wednesday (5/31) at 8PM. It will be mildly entertaining.

I’m very proud of my sister, Julia, and my life-long friend, Lance for seeing it through. This song is for you.

Welcome to Reality

I think it’s obvious I spent quite a deal of time on this.

It is here! The It’s Carrboro video is yours for the viewing! Watch it on this website or at YouTube. (If you go to the YouTube site, feel free to rank it 5 stars. I’m sure higher ranked videos get watched more.)

If you want to get it for your iPod, you can download it here. Fresh.

Having problems with the iPod download? Yeah, some browsers don’t yet know what a “.m4v” is and so they try to display it as text. What you want to do is download it to your disk and then try to open the file you just downloaded.

Here’s what you do: If you have a mouse with more than one button, Right-click on the link to get a menu and select “save to disk” (or something along those lines). If your mouse has only one button - Mac users, I’m looking at you - click on the link and hold down the mouse until the menu pops up. Let the file download to your computer. Then try to open the file you just downloaded with Quicktime.

…More like after the Flicker Film Festival, because the video is digital and Flicker only takes “real” film submissions.  Still, Nicole and crew have agreed to show it at the end of the show so it isn’t technically during Flicker.  Jason and I have been hard at work editing this piece and we are still on schedule to get it done in time.

So mark your calendars for Flicker Film Festival at the Cat’s Cradle, May 8th.  Doors open at 8PM and admission is $3.

My phone is not cool enough for this, but if your phone has Bluetooth you can download this tone to your phone and be blowin’ up C-bro style!  Leave comments if you do this or have any tips on how to easily get it to one’s phone.
Carrbro Ringtone 

(Photo by Colin Hicks)

Yesterday wrapped up our shooting for the video. It was a great time

Friday Night Billy and I performed at DSI Comedy Theater. The crowd response was great! I then had to go straight to work the Shockwave II hip-hop show at the Cradle - still dressed as the It’s Carrboro rapper. A man introduced himself as “Uzi” [sic?] and said, “do you know me?”

Me: No.
Uzi: I’m the guy that brought hip-hop back to the Cradle.
Me: Okay, do you know me?
Uzi: I’m sorry, I don’t.
Me: I’m the guy that brought hip-hop back to Carrboro.

Saturday morning Meredith and I went to CostCo to buy food for Sunday. Again, muchas thanks to our sponsors as their money went towards feeding all the talent! Also to Meredith for helping out with the whole thing.

Later that night while I was working at the WXYC 80’s dance a young lady named Ashlee (”make sure you spell my name with two ‘e’s“) requested that I autograph her breast. This, I admit, was a personal first. I also got a chance to invite to the shoot two local police officers who were watching all the kids born in the 90’s queue up for the 80’s dance. One of them later pulled both me and Meredith over when she picked me up after work that night.

Sunday went pretty well I think. About 50 people showed up and to my delight it appeared Meredith and I bought just the right amount of food. I think most had a good time and I’m sure we got some really good footage.

Meiling Arounnarath from the N&O did a piece on the shoot with photos for the article by John Rottet. Read it here, it’s great.

Sunday night Jason and I began editing the footage… There are so many great shots it is going to be difficult to cull them. We are shooting for the 8th to have it edited. That’s a short week from today. We hope to finish by that date as that is when Flicker Film Festival will be at the Cat’s Cradle and they have agreed to let us play the video at the end of the show.