One of our best friends back in the day was on REAL WORLD London. They came and shot footage of him at home here in Portland with his girl and with us playing hoop. We were all excited thinking we were going to make the show, nope, left us on the editing room floor.
Good luck to you man, I think you should do it. Counting bottles at Plaid Pantry will always be there for you. This would be a great experience.
That was with like teams of 3 or 4 right? I remember that one. My favorite moment of the show was when the rednecks decided to go to Burger King because they were hungry instead of finishing their leg of the race.
My band was playing a show in downtown Portland. We were waiting to play since we were headlining and a couple of guys from Real World Portland walked by with their camera crew. My bass player yelled at them, "Get out of Portland you twats!!". That surprisingly didn't make the cut either...
...good ole Jay "The Slacker" Frank?! You still keep in touch?! Sounds like he was robbing the craddle back then huh?!
Haven't seen him in a few years. Ran into him at a friends wedding. Last I heard he was a Sports guy on local news in Bend. Had some real bad health issues, but heard he's doing better. Ya he didn't do anything on the show. Probably the only guy not to get into fights and yell at people. Said it was lame though, there would be a fight and if the producers and camera people missed it, they;d ask them to do it again! What the hell. Not so real he said. Funny thing about Jay, he was COLD in basketball. Played like JWILL aka White Chocolate. Can't help but be good in ball growing up in our neighborhood back then.
Just make up a fake history, with "problems" you wouldn't mind getting out there, like "I've always been self-conscious about my gigantic penis. I was always insecure--my girlfriends assured me that they liked me for me, but I kept wondering if it was because of the mindblowing orgasms...oh god, I'm tearing up again. Hold me."
Your character could talk about a troubled past he didn't actually have? Like the time you spent a year in the mountains living among a herd of mountain goats. Or the time you spent a year in Paris living among a herd of mountain goats. Or the time you sailed from LA to Pago Pago on a raft with only mountain goats to keep you company. barfo
Ok, Minstrel and I had the same idea - just interchange mountain goat for gigantic penis in each post. barfo
