November 2011
2 posts
Man o man the writing continues
I am writing and emailing and guess what…growing tired of this blog. I have to admit to it, it is true. I grow tired of this simple, easy and generally over done platform. I have written in this bad boy for over three years. In these three years I have cataloged my man ups, downs and everything in between. You know more about me than most family or girlfriends.
But I don’t want to...
Have I disappeared!
No I have not dear readers. I have been busy.
What have I been doing you ask? Well how about:
Putting my videos up on youtube.
Finishing my website
Starting another book
Finishing my mailing to the cruise ship company
Starting a new business
Dating
And did I mention being awesome, I make a little time for that every day.
I am also doing other things which I should tell you about but the...
October 2011
3 posts
The ten dollar political machine and 2 steps to...
I am going to teach you how to make change through politics for ten dollars and teach you a two step method to do it, so hold on!
I spend a lot of time around politicians, lawyers and higher ups. Where I live makes it a certainty that I will run into them, talk with them (many are my friends) and through my constant exposure I have learned a 2 step process to beating politicians everywhere.
So...
A how to guide on how to avoid terrible products
Ok so this weekend I went on a haunted tour. It was Marie Antoinette’s haunted Alton tour. This is their last year for the tour as the lady that started it is retiring. The tour is four hours long and included a trolley we rode around in. The cost for the event was $45.00. Now I know that the cost wasn’t that great, I have spent more on drinks for many meals, but that doesn’t...
The time has come for work and hustle!
Well guys I won’t lie, I am down. Yep! It has happened, I have woke up these past few days and felt listless. I look around and feel that my accomplishing skills have lessened, that my drive has weakened and that I am a lazy bum.
BUT WHO CARES!
I get down, but guess what we all do. If you really wanted to look into it you would say I am down because I didn’t do any real shows last...
September 2011
2 posts
The Video!
I finally received my video for the show! It turned out pretty well and I will be grabbing a friend to edit it into place for me in the next few days! I am really excited about this because everything I have been putting out the entire summer revolves around how this video, brand, website, everything, will be perceived by the right people.
I am excited and nervous and incredibly happy to have...
Working!
Sorry I have been absent but I have been working! Things have been crazy since I finished the Wildey.
Things I have been doing
-Working on getting my website up
-Working on getting my video from the Wildey so I can edit and distribute it.
-Working on a cruise ship company to get on with them. I will release who it is soon.
-Starting the new book
-Editing the old book
-Booking shows for Oct,...
August 2011
6 posts
The week has come!
This is it gang! I have five days until I am on stage at the Wildey theater. I am too busy to be worried or scared (which is good because I just turned 26 and I assume if I remain busy enough I won’t have a quarter life crisis). The show is ready the only thing that needs work is me.
Rehearsals are relaxed but well and I look forward to the night I step out on the stage and sell it for all...
Posters!
Hey guys I have started putting up my posters!
I want to send a big thank you out to Parker Gibson who has helped me with them. He did a great job and used a little professionalism to draw out of me exactly what I wanted.
Rehearsals start tonight and I am excited and worried at the same time! It is always interesting rehearsing a show that takes place in two acts. Traditionally when rehearsing...
I finished it!
11:33 p.m August 16th I finished The Darkness at Trellis Hill.
It took three laptops
Two years
900 pages
And a bargain
To bring this book to an end. Now I have
wow
Thanks so much, more Wildey information coming soon.
Posters!
I will have some posters to post up here soon! Life last week was interesting but since most of you don’t know my past I can’t post about what it was I did. Suffice to say the following did occur (and not necessarily in this order)
-I drank pbr and Whiskey at the same time-
-I went to a place no one should go-
-I fell in love, but then that’s every couple of days…-
-I...
The Wildey anxiety, posters and life
So I will admit it right up front. I am anxious about my Wildey show. It is a big change for me to go from having to book shows where I show up and an audience is waiting on me to actually generating an audience to bring in and entertain.
This experience is unlike anything I have ever done and I am loving it. The fear is tough to deal with and I won’t lie, I have had some sleepless nights...
Rehearsals
So I have been rehearsing some new pieces I plan to debut in the show and I have been working hard! I won’t spill everything I am putting into the show, but there will be some pieces containing video, others that I will be doing for the first time on stage and alongside those there will also be old pieces re-worked to music.
I have been putting a lot of work into the show along with a lot...
July 2011
4 posts
Monday at the Wildey
Today I got my update from the Wildey and tomorrow I will be writing a check to them! I am excited and I also have begun to collect sponsorship money. I am doing my best to cut my costs on what I will have to pay out myself to get everything for the children’s show. I hope that I have enough sponsors to break even and I would like to thank the following people for already sponsorsing me.
...
The Wildey begins!
Guys if you have not heard the news then listen closely, I am doing a show on September 3rd for the Wildey!
That’s right I have booked the space and the time. Tickets will be 12 dollars and the show runs from 7-8:45. The show is for fifteen and up, no kids allowed. But worry not. If you have children then I have good news. From 1-145 on September 3rd you can bring your children and they...
Hot Hot Heat
So for those of you who do not live in the mid-west currently you should know that it is hot. I am not talking about the kind of hot that you get when you have been working out and need to cool out, or the kind of hot you get when you have been in the sun to long. No, I wish it was that kind of hot. This week we have the kind of hot where they tell people not to go outside.
WHAT!
Seriously, if...
So busy!
So I have been so busy! Let me make a list for you.
-Booked the Wildey
-Opened my sponsorship account for my Wildey show
-Shot my demo
-Getting my demo edited
-My best bud from the way back has returned and I am showing him around town
-Writing, cause you know, I do that
-Handing out the last edition of Fritz and Petersel Eleven Magazine (Welcome Tara!)
-Wringing my hands and hoping that...
June 2011
10 posts
Video
I am shooting the second of my demo videos this Wed! I am excited because this will be my last shoot before everything comes together and the website goes live!
This has been a long process. Between performing, working on the site, writing and generally trying to fit a life into that time I have been putting this website up.
Now that it is so close it is crazy to sit back and think of...
Videos
Tomorrow I will be shooting my demo video!
I am excited and I hope this will be the first step in a long series of fortunate events that lead me away from my home town and out into the world to perform more!
I have fallen slightly off the diet wagon and gotten back on again. This isn’t too bad because I haven’t really gained any weight but I have stalled the weight loss and that is...
A day in which Father's honor comes into question
Hell yeah I heart me some father’s day. On one hand it totally allows me to enjoy my dad’s awesomeness and weirdness without having to back track to comments on stuff that he has done and hoped to have forgotten about (aka years 11-38 of his hipster life).
That and I get to munch some brunch, hang out and generally be awesome. So today is for you pop guy. You born and bred these...
Sim-Sala-Bim
This is my favorite song from the new Fleet Foxes sound track! I absolutely fell in love with the harmonics coming together in this song. The singers connect with their voices in a way that makes my body tingle!
In other news I did an awesome show at Grant’s Farm. While there I was lucky enough to realize how awesome lucky I am! I get to not only do what I love for a living, but I also get...
Grant's Fun tonight
Can’t stay long today guys, show tonight, lunch soon, and tour after lunch! Busy fun day and after last nights beautiful heat lightning and pulsing storms I welcome the day!
Brunch tomorrow!
See you guys then
JG
Technicality catch
Okay so this post is technically coming in on a Saturday morning, but it counts as Friday’s because I was busy today! On what?
Well I started up some great work on The Darkness at Trellis Hill and am preparing for a show at Grant’s Farm.
I have not been to Grant’s in a long time, and if you are a St. Louis person and have not been or have been but that was a long time ago, then...
Taming the Shrew
I saw The Taming of the Shrew a few hours ago. It was amazing! The play was set in the 1950’s and in spite of its terrible and rabid anti-feminism the story still plays well to an audience and I commend the actors for their effort!
Today I got some writing done, it feels good to get back on the Darkness at Trellis Hill finishing first draft project! Crazy thing though, while I was writing...
TV shows and NPR
So I am at my dad’s house right now and I am watching him watch a show called Ice Road Truckers. The show is pedantic and a blatant rip off of Toughest Catch. These two shows (and all of its subsidiaries such as Lumber Truckers) serve as a great economic models.
What! You cry, “Not economic models!” Stay with me readers. These two shows will make a great example to compare...
Shoots!
So I met up with a great group over on the corner of Cherokee and Jefferson. They are a video production company, and I am looking into getting quotes not only from them but from a handful of people to possibly shoot a video at the Wildey during my show.
Just to be clear I am still not sure about putting a show on at the Wildey. I would love to, but the price needs to be right, if it is I would...
Seven summer posts!
Hey guys I know the past couple of weeks posting has been a come and go thing with me.
I HAVE BEEN BUSY!
But that is okay, you guys deserve the best so I am going to give it to you. This week I will be posting EVERY DAY! That is right, every day this week, starting today, I will post on the blog. I have plenty to talk about so I will tell you what has been going on, going up, and where I am...
May 2011
3 posts
Where I have been and big news!
I have been everywhere! I have been doing so many shows I have not had a chance to blog! The reason I have not had a chance to blog is that I still don’t have a new laptop! I know. I should get one, and I plan to either this week or next. It has just been wild with all of the work I have been doing. But I promise to be more diligent in the upcoming months.
In other news I am buying a Ford...
Questions of content
I am home right now, as is my sister, and I wonder at the quality of content and expectations of it.
You see my sister is brainwashed by shows on a certain television network. I won’t say which but suffice to say it carries the same three shows.
Show number 1-Shows about people either having babies or people having way to many babies. Why the hell are these shows interesting? They take...
200!
So I have made it to the awesome 200! It is crazy that I have made it this far, and it is crazier to think about how much I have gone through, how much I have posted, and how much I still have to post!
In these past three years I have done the following
-Finished one and a half books
-Made new friends
-Dated and broke up with an amazing girl
-Covered my first music festival
-Started a...
April 2011
3 posts
Photos!
Okay so don’t get to excited. There are no photos for me to post today, I apologize. What I am excited about is that I got my photos took yesterday in a cool house with a friend. We took about a hundred pictures and got about twenty I think we can work with. I loved it, the process was easy, quick and fun. The only regret I have is that one photo I wanted of me having put a key in a tiny...
The week and some cheating!
So I have been cheating a little bit on the diet lately! I am ashamed to say it but the past couple cheat days have really been binge cheat weekends. I don’t know why I do it, but I do. I have decided to counteract their negative hold on me by setting specific and awesome goals for the next seven weeks. My thinking is that if I put these goals into action I will have a lot more to show for...
Long love weekend
So I had an EPIC weekend. It began early Thursday with late rehearsals, cooking a horrendous dinner (don’t ever mix guacomole, under cooked beans and latent-and best left unexplored-dreams of being a mexican chef) and meeting some people I slept, woke up, drove a bajillion miles for a one night, guys only fishing trip.
The trip was fun, drank some beer, ribbed the family, then got up the...
March 2011
8 posts
Why I missed posting Monday, the secret of the...
I title this article, The Things I did this Weekend: A journey, by Jesse Gernigin
So this weekend I went to Las Vegas. WoW! You may say, that is so cool? Did you do magic out there, did you gamble, did you see shows?
The short answer
Yes
Yes I saw a show, The Blue Man Group, it was fun and wild.
Yes I gambled, I won enough to pay for the entire trip minus cab, coffee and bottled water...
Mid week catch up
Been a while since I did a mid week catch up!
I just wanted to drop in and say HI to everyone. I have been packing up mentally and physically for the upcoming slew of shows, writing, publishing, traveling and awesomeness!
Shows coming up:
Two dozenish afterproms-looking forward to doing the new hypnosis show!
Psychic parties-I have finally started booking them and I am excite bike for them!
...
Shoes!
So random note, I found a pair of shoes gifted to me over the gift giving season and I have till today to take them back. Weird timing. So I am going to swing out and try to score a sweet new pair of kicks, and in light of that maybe get some money back, not sure.
So update on my court information. I do no think the other company agreed to be on the show-which sucks-and I also think that the...
Update glory!
So I got a call from Mr. Pitts about my case being on Swift Justice with Nancy Grace. I am excited and I hope the other side decides to join in the fun. I am not sure about how any of it will turn out but I would like to do the LA thing.
If not then o well.
In other news I have a couple awesome articles lined up to post on here, I did some awesome magic yesterday, I might be shooting a short...
Neat news!
Hey guys I wrote an article for Antonio Centeno’s Blog
http://gentlemenstandard.blogspot.com/
And it will be up soon! You should swing by, check it out, and also check out what he is doing for men’s fashion! Antonio has set up a great source for great suits and I am totally excited by his standards and desires!
Well it has snowed today in the midwest. This place never stops...
So I will be adding some new things to the blog!
I am doing some new work with the blog! I wanted to bring in all of the stuff that I have been doing on my travels and work!
I have been working on writing a new blog and a new book to go along with it. I will explain more about it and how to make you a Compliance Connoisseur! The next couple weeks I will be working on getting it set up and letting you guys have peeks into it!
So this blog will...
The weather has warmed O Wonder!
Hey friends and readers of this blog! I hope that life has become well and well kept on your side of the screen!
I am sitting here right now, typing away, and preparing mentally, physically and talent-wise. The shows are lining up and I am excited to really sit down and write out the new show.
The new show is for the hypnosis shows, and although it will contain some of my favorite hypnosis...
This is the sentiment I want to express
Last night was fun! I met an old friend who I have not seen in a while. He was with his wife and I committed a few acts of awesomeness which was a good old time. Afterwards me and his wife talked business and I might be getting onto the Ronald Mcdonald House. It would be for charity, but it would still be pretty awesome to help people out!
After that I hung out with some people, some...
February 2011
8 posts
Welcome March~!
Okay…it is not March yet. But it is close enough for me!
Feb. was a tough month! Jan was too! The tides have changed and things are rolling back into favor for me. I am excited for this. For instance I have been booking a lot of shows, which I am excited for. I have also been able to secure not only a trip to Vegas but a possible place for me to stay, FOR A MONTH in San Diego. I hope it...
Week eight!
This is week eight on my diet! I have lost about forty pounds and feel a lot better! I appreciate all of the support everyone has been giving me and I look forward to the next eight weeks as I drop the rest of the weight!
So the weekend was a good time! I met a lot of new people, did some magic and handed out some business cards, saw The Illusionist (incredible! go see it if you liked the...
My music weekend
This weekend is beautiful arleady! I have been out on a half dozen walks already!
So the work on the show has been going good. I have managed to edit my thirtish ideas down to about ten. I will spend the weekend writing scripts, going over blocking and editing out another five or so routines.
After that I will go out and begin to perform these routines for random people to figure out their...
Today I am working on new material
Today I will spend a couple of hours dishing through new material for the show. If you don’t spend time with me you don’t know that I try to invite 3-10 new ideas for shows every week. After I have amassed anywhere between 20-35 good ones I sit down with my pad and begin to work through them.
Sometimes I end up with awesome routines that I put in the show, sometimes just lines that...
Forecast:Busy!
Hey guys how are you? Missed out on this blog part of last week. I have spent a lot of time catching up on everything that was lost and I feel that I am getting some inertia. Last week was interesting. I won’t go into all of the things that happened but here are some bullet points.
Did my first psychic fair
Found most of my missing book on a random file
Cheated an extra day on my diet
...
Forecast: Busy
Hey guys how are you? Missed out on this blog part of last week. I have spent a lot of time catching up on everything that was lost and I feel that I am getting some inertia. Last week was interesting. I won’t go into all of the things that happened but here are some bullet points.
Did my first psychic fair
Found most of my missing book on a random file
Cheated an extra day on my diet
...
Forecast: Busy
Hey guys how are you? Missed out on this blog part of last week. I have spent a lot of time catching up on everything that was lost and I feel that I am getting some inertia. Last week was interesting. I won’t go into all of the things that happened but here are some bullet points.
Did my first psychic fair
Found most of my missing book on a random file
Cheated an extra day on my diet
...
This week in spectrum retro
So this week was pretty great! What? You may ask, “Haven’t you been trapped in the hell hole of your home town unable to escape because your car is in the care of a faded and somewhat helpless mechanic?” Why yes, dear readers, yes.
But that aside I have been pretty happy. The diet is going well-and this is a big thing for me-so I am going into my sixth week of weight loss. I...
The snow is meeting us at the end of time
Okay that title was a bit wacky. Not much to say really. Abandoned in my house waiting for news.
Doing shows very soon.
Writing a lot.
Waiting to get the hell out of here.
That’s all for now, hunkering down till the shit ice and snow pass.
JG