So last year I worked on another podcast for my good friend Larry Stanley. His site, larrystanleyshow.com is still up but the show has long since come to an end after a ground breaking four episode. I wrote a blog for the show on 9/24/2014. I thought I would repost it here for all of you guys. Enjoy.
What's up Blueroof. . . wait this isn't the Blueroof Nation. No! This is the Larry Stanley Show! So what's up Stanleylites? Uh no. Well we can work on the name, no worries. So I figured since I'm new to the show and don't know you all I'd take a few minutes out to tell you guys about myself. I'm Jonathan Gutheinz, the man with far too many nicknames so for now you guys can just call me JG. I was born and raised in San Diego, California till I was about 15. I grew up in a neighborhood nicknamed The Blueroofs. I have many crazy stories from those days, I'll have to fill you guys in on them at some point. So I started High school out here and that didn't really take so I spent a few years chilling before starting high school at 17. During this alone time I discovered the works of Joss Whedon and learned that what I really wanted to do with my life was write. TV is the end goal, with films, short stories and novels along the way. Because uh yeah that's not too much work for one guy. Not at all. At 17 I started going to college at North Lake and finished there before going to UTA, then deciding I hated broadcasting and wanted to find a real film school, which somehow got me back to North Lake where I met Larry. The NLC/UTA/NLC years are full of crazy exes, always the best way to spend the collage years, am I right? It's also during these years that I fell in love, and I do mean love with Kevin Smith and Ryan Higa. Ryan Higa got me into making YouTube videos that you can check out on my YouTube page, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA9Ws04n3fvC6PONW9VynCw. Now Kevin Smith, the second best writer I have ever seen, after Joss Whedon who is of course my master, got me into wanting to write films. Oh and not only did Kevin Smith get me into writing films, but he got me into Podcasts! The Smodcast network is one of the few things I can't live without. Right behind Dr. Pepper. His shows got me into wanting to do my own, so me and my homeboys started Wolfcast, needless to say we were big fans of the first hangover movie. Don't Judge. It went on and off for a bout a year before it stopped and turned into Blueroofcasting, a podcast I did while trying to make my first film. That film is still in development hell, but it will be made. At some point Wolfcast came back and Blueroofcasting became separate podcasts and Blueroofcasting has become more a fun podcast I do with my best friend Elizabeth (Zelda) Khan. For some reason I thought I should add two more podcasts so I started a new one with my Ex Miz Ink called Miz Ink and the Cracker, it lasted two episodes :/. The other new podcast that was started was It's Not my Fault. This one was filmed with my other best friend Ashley and my homeboy Darrell. This is the second podcast on my network to come to an end, it lasted 12 episodes recorded over a year. Darrell became less and less involved and was more or less replaced with Esau. The Podcast was rebooted as Clean Jeans with Me and Ashley as hosts and Esau comes when he can. The last Podcast on our Channel is Paranormal Investigation that I do with Saul and Pancho from Wolfcast. On it we talk about supernatural stories that we have been through and hear about. So my second stint at NLC is where I met Larry, we had studio class together and hit it off. He invited me to help out on crew and even act in his short film The Gospel of Thomas. It was a great experience and a lot of fun. This led to him inviting me on board with this podcast and thus to me boring you all with a bit about me. I can't wait to get to know you all. So I just found out that a documentary I worked on called Missing Moon Rocks has just won an Emmy for best Historical Documentary! How cool is that! I was assistant camera on the film. It was so cool walking around NASA to get the footage. As a child all I wanted to do was grow up to work for NASA so this was both of my worlds coming together. I could not have had a better experience on a first film! I'm so proud of everyone I worked with on the film.
Every time I make myself a schedule it starts off great! I stick too it and get things done. The second that something comes up and I have to change it, even for a day messes me up good and I never seem to be able to get back on track. What the hell is wrong with me? It is just so hard to keep on track. I think I just need a kick in the ass to get back on track.
Any takers? So I just finished watching Jurassic World and I have to say, that movie was amazing! One of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Chris Pratt delivers a great performance as he always does. I mean Guardians of the Galaxy anyone?
What made this movie so brilliant is the way they toyed around with nostalgia. While watching it you felt like you were back in 1993 watching Jurassic Park. There was even a character wearing a Jurassic Park t-shirt! He had some lines that were pure genius. The man talks about how great the first "park" is and how nothing could live up to it. How the first one didn't need stunts or tricks to make it great. It took the fire out of people who would say the same thing about the first movie. I you make fun of yourself than no one else can use it against you. The line about all they needed was dinosaurs, not all this extra shit, or well I'm paraphrasing. But what they were getting out was how much of the first one was practical and how much effects were used in this one. Even though the first one changed effects for all the movies that came after it. If you haven't gone to see it, go see it! It is the best movie I've seen in a while and well worth a watch! Writing is hard work when done right. There is nothing in this world scarier than a blank page but once you find the story and get into it there is nothing more fun. The words just flow out of you, almost as if someone else is writing it and you are just the dictator. It's sometimes hard to keep up when the story flows so well. You'd be amazed how many typos that you'll have when you go back to reread just because you were typing so fast and not paying attention.
As fun as it is, it does take a toll on you. When you write, you're taking a piece of your soul and sharing it with the world. It's an incredibly personal thing. I once dated a girl who told me that all my stories sounded like me. That even my scifi and supernatural stories seemed to have me in their DNA. She meant it as an insult but it was really a complement. What she was trying to say was that I'm self-absorbed and can't write anything that doesn't relate to me, because I've had a few run ins with vampires and once served on a spaceship. Long stories. But what she was really saying was that I had a strong voice. And for a writer that is a good thing. You need to have a voice when writing. When people tell you to write what you know, they don't mean personal stories, although if they are interesting go for it. What they mean is the personal sides, if you know what it's like to be in love, write that, if you know about heartache, write that. Whatever personal stuff you have been through you can write about, you can put them through genre filters if you want but at the end of the day it is still a piece of your soul you are showing the world. And be honest, you wouldn't have it any other way. That's what makes it art. Jonathan and Ashley talk about how the police are starting to go a little crazy.
I just found out that my friend who started on Youtube after me had over 200 subscribers while I'm pushing 30. True I took years off and he comes out every week with great stuff. What makes it worse is the last couple videos I made have gotten no views. It seems that if you go away for a while, people will forget about you. It's a sad thing to say but an important one to hear. You have to bring new content to people all the time or they will move on to the newest thing. There isn't much brand loyalty, at least until you make it big and earn it. While starting out it it's really all about word of mouth and if that word is that you're inconsistent than you have lost them. Every time you lose them you have to start over from step one. Don't start over! Just keep moving forward and don't let anything get in the way of your dreams.
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