snubbed by the emmys

if you watch any non-battlestar galactica or non-harmonica related vlog/video podcast for the rest of 2006, please make sure it's battlestar harmonica. okay? mostly because it's my own vlog/video podcast. today is the offical launch of the vlog/video podcast, and the pilot episode is online.

and be sure to stay tuned after the show, mostly for a trailer to see what you'll expect in future episodes of BSH.

lemme know what you guys think!

paolo.

okay, so you can probably tell, but i've been having trouble naming my show. and i think my problem is two-fold, i can't seem to find a suitable name to fit both the name of the website and the name of the actual show itself.

something like battlestar harmonica or escape to/from fuck mountain, would be a great name for a website, but questionable name for a show show. whereas apaolocaypse now would be a wicked name for a show, but shitty name of a website.

just trying to find that perfect balance, i suppose, and it still is the only hurdle keeping me from going forward with this whole vlog thing. well that, and then composing a theme song to it (i can probably use the rough one i did) but i think having the bridge being "WE'RE ALL ON THE BATTLESTAR HARMONICA WE'RE ALL ON THE BATTLESTAR HARMONICA WE'RE ALL ON THE BATTLESTAR HARMONICA"

and i just came across another problem. the way i name my show will kinda dictate how the show will become. i can name it like a website, and that will kind of dictate my vlog being more of a blog, but the show is more of a programme, and such and such. now i'm babbling.

here is a dumb list of names me and my friend james came up with. most of them are totally out of left field and will never come close to contention to be the name of my show/vlog. as you can see, i was trying to come up with puns using my name to name my show, but i realize it could possibly be a bad idea, as people always tend to spell my name wrong, and using something complex like apaolocaypse now could just confuse would be visitors even more.

water paolo
apaolocaypse now
return to paolo moutain
ride of the paolyries
the marriage of paolo
paolo of seville
paolo in d minor
birth of paolo
return of the chosen paolo
escape to [or] from fuck mountain
stranger than you
paolo with strangers
fun with manic depression (trivia: name of my former/current/hiatus'd podcast)
sunset paolovard
battleship paolokin
battlestar harmonica
final cut paolo
lock, stock, and nonsmoking paolo
vag-a-tarians (only a notch less offensive than paolocaust!)

i like escape to [or] from fuck mountain, fun with manic depression, and battlestar harmonica.

kiss me, i'm newly unemployed!

hey guys.

still nominated.

still need your vote.

voting ends this friday, this is a friendly reminder.

go to the vloggies voting page
i am nominated in the following catagories (click the star in each catagory i'm listed in to vote for me)
-best male vlogger
-comedy vlog
-kids & teens vlog
-funniest video

a vote for me and this show is a vote for believing, and not stopping in believing. thanks again.

as far as i can tell i haven't asked you guys for much, and i think that's good, but this is one time i could totally really truly madly deeply use your guys help.

my former show (that's another story) commercial free paolo is nominated for a vloggie, which is like webby, only for online video content. in other words i'm up for an award, in the whole field of excellence of whatever and ever.

i'm up against some established competition with wide audiences, great marketing, and a slick production. the good news is that there are two ways to win a vloggie, either though the judges' choice or though the people's choice. and this is where you guys come in. i need you guys to vote for my show, in the pissant chance that i can win a people's choice award.

here are the instructions:
go to the vloggies voting page
Pull up your browser's search function and search for "Paolo Sambrano"
click on "vote for me" for every instance of my name you find (except on funniest video, vote for the first one)
OR
more specifically, i am nominated in the following catagories (you can just click here instead and find my name and vote)
-best male vlogger
-comedy vlog
-kids & teens vlog
-funniest video

this is a total grassroots campaign that will probably fail. but if you don't mind telling one or two of your friends to vote for me that'd be great. and if in the off chance i do win, it will be because of you and i promise to dedicate the award to you. besides it'd be a giant coup to beat out some giants in the vlog community.

feel free to contact me or comment if you have any questions.

thanks so much.

PS: voting ends on Oct. 27 (next friday, a week from now).

i'm not sure how i feel about jeffrey winning project runway 3. i thought uli had a stronger fashion week collection personally, although i could appreciate jeffrey's work, i wasn't a big fan of the green striping. reminded me of a candy striper's get-up at a hospital. and the best week ever blog dismissed it as hot topic caliber. maybe i'm just letting the douschebaggy clips i've seen of him before i started watching influence my decision. he has definitely shown his humanity though towards the end, whatever that means.

but then again what do i know, i started watching project runway 6 episodes before the season finale.

we're winding down 2006, and i remember new year's eve 2005. (that new year's eve went into 2006, right?) hell you can read the entry here, on my old live journal. but the long-short of it, is that i went to some rave in west oakland with friends, and it was my first rave, and it was one of the worst experiences of my life/exercises in aloof awkwardness ever. and i sarcastically mentioned that i hope this rave was not a barometer for how 2006 was going to be.

i sure hope i didn't self-sabotage myself with that statement, but despite 2006 having it's moments, 2006 will mos def not go down as one of the greatest years of my life.

...and that was as far as i had planned out to write. the rest will probably come off as incoherent, self-indulgent, and badly-badly-badly written. the only reason i'm writing this, well, i'm depressed right now if you couldn't tell. it's about of being bipolar. and my therapist was talking about how sometimes being depressed is just the depression talking, that the thoughts i'm having are nothing more than the product of screwy genetics and a wicked chemical imbalance.

i kind of want to test that out. see when or if i'm feeling better i can look back on it and laugh about it, "oh, i was a being such a stereotypical angst jockey". you see, once you get to know my internal patterns and workings i'm always sniping at past decsions i'm making, for fear of being called on it by others. and that's why you notice the perpetual self-deprecation. it's to protect myself from being called out by other people due to my short comings.

anyway, tangent. and i don't know where to start. so should i end it? yeah, probably.

What are your weekend plans?

Firesale

I wish everyone woud stop comparing heroes to the 4400. it's a different mythos people. that's like saying the wire is the same as law and order. butitsnot.