September6th
beauty and the beast
the Rose – thanks to her T V viewing skill she is half the brains behind – AT FULL VOLUME – .
the wind and sun is non stop in Greece.
the only thing more beautiful than the view a top the cliffs of Santorini is my beautiful lady.
September6th
What would you get if you mixed one part MTV and one part Survivor? You’re about to get the answer courtesy of Johnny Colt and the Travel Channel.
Johnny Colt’s “At Full Volume” will chronicle the experiences of JC as he travels to various parts of the world and gives us an all access pass to lands and cultures that most of us have only read about.
Colt’s musical resume reads like a rock star’s wish list. Best known as a member of the Black Crowes, Colt has also played with some of the best musicians and bands in the world including the Grammy award winning band Train and Rock Star Supernova. Colt also co-hosts the Atlanta AM radio talk show Politely Disruptive on WMLB AM1690 (the Voice of the Arts). And much like Johnny’s music, “At Full Volume” will be devoid of borders, boundaries and will most likely appeal the adventurer in all of us.
In the show’s premier Johnny travels to Thailand. Click here to read about his journey and just a few of the experiences that awaited him there.
“At Full Volume” premiers Monday, September 7th at 9PM so make sure have your television sets tuned into the Travel Channel and let me know what you thought.
August20th
the desk that drives the show……….
mise en place of one LYDIA
i sit in the goddess chair, the mama that keeps these boys under control on the visual playground
when u have this combination of beauty and talent backing you…..well all i can say is , im making room on the mantel for my emmy
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rummaging through LYDIA’S desk as we speak
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looking around, i see my name on top of a script. 2 inches to the left is a bourdain show outline for panama.
amoung the…..
advil
sticky notes
tic tacs
treatments
location idea folders
books – graphs – 4 pair of scissors ?
piles of books and mountains of paper work
i feel in really good company
and looking down at the via spiga shoes i know im being taking care off
August13th
sweat pants and dress shoes – u know I’m over seas
coiled and ready to strike !!!!
the more i think about this scene, the more irresponsible i realise my camera man ( moe ) and myself were.
what ever it takes to get our freak on………… are the devils who will do it.
August11th
this is MOE
this rascal is a died in the wool no holds barred son of a bitch – just like me
he proved himself worthy of the FULL VOLUME life style when staying on my hip every inch of the King Cobra fight.
Death was a two fanged flash away for both of us. Moe put his full trust in me, proving his madman statues. Looking down i noticed MOE’s feet closer to the snake than mine, add the weight of the camera and he was asking for it. I had to ask MOE to back up – he F%@king ignored me like the GONZO bastard he is…………instantly it was love at first snake bite ( honk – yea i wrote it – u wanna make something of it ) between me and my new camera man. aspirin please……….
August9th
Jarrod the producer
cant believe how much money were making moving
drugs through the borders with THAI drug lords.
the whole were filming a t v show works every time.
August9th
us army propaganda poster style
new looks for a new show………………
August6th
these are the actually transcripts from my voice over sessions………….check how many takes it takes to get a solid line – ha…….im working to get way better at this but then what would we have to poke fun at !?
VO OPEN TAKE 01
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1:12 Johnny: You know it all came down to this, I woke up one morning and I found the bottom, what, sorry guys going again. You know it all came down to this, I woke up one morning and found the bottom half of the hour glass filling up quickly more sand behind me than in front. I spent the first half of my life – 1 – making music in various altered states it was a rather interesting mix of concer uggh, it was a rather interesting mix of concert halls hotels and bars, but this is my life act two, I want to see and hear the world anew, I want to experience it fully and authentically on my own terms, and if that means taking an ass whooping when I go to ahem, and if that means taking an ass whooping when I go to thai box then so be it, and by the way wisely, and by the way wisely doing it at the end of the shoot.
VO OPEN TAKE 02 Johnny: ok, You know it all came down to this, I woke up one morning and found the bottom half of the hour glass filling up quickly more sand. Hey Chris can you do me a favor, um if its not if it takes any work is there any way to get just a tiny bit of reverb, its so, I love how it, I love, I love how dry it sounds its almost like its sucking at the end of a word, I just need a little room.
VO OPEN TAKE 03
0:45
Johnny: Yes, Um ok, let me find the line, it all comes, whatever you need baby, oh yea monster truck, um its uh wow it sounds really cool, I sound sexy I need all the help I can get believe that. You know it all came down to this, I woke up one morning and found the hour glass, ahem. Going again on three. You know it all comes down to this I woke up one morning with the hour glass half full, more sand behind me than in front I spent the first half of my life making music in various altered states it was a rather interesting mix of concert halls hotels and bars, but this is my life act two, I want to see and hear, I want to see and hear the world anew experience it fully and authentically on its own terms and if that means taking an ass whooping when I go to thai box. if that means I take an ass whooping when I go to thai box and by the way wisely doing it at the end of the shoot.
August4th
I woke up one morning and found the hour glass was running out. You know I spent the first half of my life spinning around the globe in a rock and roll band moving from the submarine of a tour bus to the enclosed hotel room, spending most of my time at the hotel bar, it’s a very insulated lifestyle, I’ve been around the world more times than I can count yet I’m not sure I’ve actually seen it. You know I want to spend the second half of my life, You know the act two of my life seeing the world anew seeing the person that I am today, hmm, hold for me, hold on just hold for me. After spending the first half of my life in a blurry mix of hotel rooms, tour busses, hotel bars never seeing daylight, I want to move into the act two, the second half of my life anew, fresh open on my own terms, I want to experience life fully and authentically, and if that means breaking a bone, sorry, that gives it away, and if that means taking an ass whooping thai boxing in, let me check this one more time, and if that means heading to Thailand and putting my whole self on the line in a Muay Carat fight so be it,
August4th
He was a tanker captain with the breath of a rotten corpse.
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I considered pulling the dead tooth, for what else could produce such a vile and consistently fowl odor
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Above all Argie was Greek.
He was friendly
He was loud
And all to happy to fill me in on whatever crossed his mind
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Judging by the Greek’s surrounding me and my new friend argie ( short for some Greek name straight out of my middle school mythology book )
, I’d better get used to people
Crashing through my personal space barrier and talking so close it almost ends in a kiss
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According to argie, his wife was angry that he missed the birth of their child while out at sea. Apparently to pay for the lifestyle she demanded was hard work. Argie found his wife’s attitude bewildering and explained ” only an American women would act this way – spoiled “
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Seat 18B, 11 hours to Greece.
The land of Odysseus is waiting.
my imagination is stabbing the eye of the cyclops. Between peanuts I’m wondering how Odysseus had the balls to sail the sea when Poseidon was furious at him for blinding his son ? Would Gordon Gecko’s
Son open a competing firm on wall street? Damn right he wouldn’t because As products of these modern times we are mentally soft as marshmallow’s.
Hat would the men of classic Greece say about the modern man ?
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Argie captains one of those huge tankers that run into bridges and spill oil or perhaps traffic humans in shipping containers……the photo on his phone proves the size of his boat. ” I think he may be compensating “
After many sweeping and negative comments about Filipinos, I sort out that he runs a band of 25 cut throats made up of mostly ” those people “.
Its at this point against my better judgment, I decide to share my food with this mad man. As his stubby hands tear into my snacks I realize I’m breaking bread with a Greek slave runner
Who, judging by his breath, ate the cargo that didn’t survive his last voyage.
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I scan the man closely for an off button but to no avail.
I have 7 more hours in the air And I’m afraid the air marshal is gonna take this lunatic down.
Like a lightning strike hits me, you never know when u may have move sensitive material across foreign shores. If rock n roll and a stint as a D list t v star don’t pay off, I’m perfect for the smuggling business.
A huge smile on my face startles the stewards into asking me if I’m O.K.
O.K. ?! I’m more than O.K.,
I haven’t even touched the earth of Greece and I’m already glad I came
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