Went out last night an met up with three old girl friends of mine from grade school/high school. One of them actually an ex girlfriend of mine from way back (Italicized to indicate difference between girl friend and girlfriend). Which was somewhat awkward because i’ve never been known to keep in touch or even be on speaking terms with any of my ex’s after breaking up (even if on good terms). Do grade school ‘relationships’ count as actually relationships? I know they can’t compare with high school ones or even college ones.. being of that young an age and not knowing better about what ‘love’ really is.
To date, i can say that i have so far been in 10 relationships. With only 3 of them being what i would say ‘serious’ ones (with my 2nd, 7th and 9th.. two of which ended on bad terms). I never really knew what to think of Nikki. Was she ever an ‘official girlfriend’ of mine? Was she my first (ex-) girlfriend? I never really knew because in retrospect, it all happened during grade school (awww… it was during 5th and 6th grade fyi) all those years ago and after we ‘broke up’ i didn’t speak to her until after like 5 years later (OMG EMO).
So all this time, i’ve always been wondering what she thinks of me. Because i sure as hell didn’t know what to think of ‘us’. Maybe she could confirm it all. So of course, instead of just calling her up and asking myself, i go and get Tim (one of the other girls that i met up with last night. don’t ask about why she’s called Tim) to try to get that piece of info from her. Because i didn’t want Nikki to know i was asking around about her. Plus it would’ve seemed weird to have just brought up the fact of me and her having once had a ‘thing’ together after all these years. Probably something she isn’t too proud of maybe? And i also doubt she ever even thinks about that old ‘thing’ we had. So bringing it up would probably be kind of weird. If it weren’t for the fact that she saw me on TV about 2 months ago.
Yep. Me on TV. Acting. On this locally produced show. I don’t really know what the proper translation of the title would be in English but i guess it would be something like ‘True Story’? It’s a series of shows that are basically reenactments of events based on… (wait for it) true stories. I’ve been in 3 episodes so far. Playing bit roles (and getting paid for it too. woo hoo). So far, i’ve played a ‘serial rapist’, and a drug addict twice. Okay so i wasn’t really a ‘serial rapist’ but that’s what Nikki thinks of what my role basically was (on that one particular show).
I played this guy who picked up these two drunk girls wandering the city streets with this other guy and after a while, we both get pretty well aquainted with said girls and i end up bringing the girl to the beach, sweet talking her into coming back to the apartment and subsequently taking her into a room to bump uglies with her (implying of course. it’s a strictly PG rated show so you don’t get to actually see anything beyond the door closing as the both of us walking in. BUMMER).
That one epsiode is pretty much like the storyline of Thirteen. Good girl gets influenced by bad girl. Good girl becomes bad girl. Bad girls do bad things. Bad girls do bad boys. Bad girls goes into rehab at the end. Something like that.
I haven’t seen Thirteen yet but yeah, it pretty much mirrors some of what goes on in that movie. I think.
So how in the world did i ever get into television acting? Well as some of you might know, i’m working over at this production house place in the city that occasionally gets contracted to go out on shoots for TV shows, cooking shows, documentaries, etc etc for the national TV station here in Brunei. Just so happens that i’m usually one of the crew members that goes out on shoots for ‘True Story’. And occasionally, there aren’t enough actors to fill in the bit roles so the super cute MILF of a producer for that show occasionally casts myself to fill in said unoccupied bit roles. Which are usually pretty seedy roles. Which really is no biggie for me since it’s only like a coupla hours work for a nice sum of money. Plus i figured nobody in Brunei ever watches the local TV channel (most people have satellite TV anyway) so nobody would ever see me on those shows.
So far, i’ve been in 3 episodes of that show and i’ll be in 2 epsiodes of this as of yet unaired show called ‘Fate’. Playing some business guy dude. And i’ve also been in a couple of TV spots for some E-Goverment thing and also this one documentary where i had to pretend to be surfing the net in some cybercafe. w00t.
Of course, for some crazy crazy reason, people actually DO watch the local TV channel (RTB) and i got a whole lot of IMs and phone calls from old friends and crap right after the airing of that show where i was a ‘serial rapist’. One of whom was from Tim. Who told me that Nikki saw me on TV.
Which all led to us somehow talking about my past ‘relationship’ with Nikki and whether it really was a relationship at all. Because as i said, i never really knew if i could count her as being my first ex. And if that weren’t the case, then i could only say that i’ve only ever had 9 ex thus far instead of 10.
Yeah pretty trivial but it’s just one of those burning questions i guess. For me at least.
And so we’re back to me asking Tim to ninja some info out of Nikki about whether she ever saw me as her boyfriend. As opposed to us just having some dumb childhood puppy love thing way back when. And wouldn’t you know it, Tim got the info and called me back the next day to tell me the news. As stupid as it was (and come on it really is pretty stupid… grade school ‘relationships’ pshaw), she actually does think of me as her boyfriend. In fact, she even told Tim that i was her very first boyfriend. Which is pretty neat considering that she was my very first girlfriend.
Fact: she was also like the smartest girl in the school and also one of the most popular too. Score!
It was nice to see her again. She looked really good. The last time i saw her was like in December 2001. And the last time before that was like in… 1998 or something. Ah well. At least it’s nice to finally know that she does consider me to be her ex. Her first ex at that. Despite how ultimately silly it is anyway. Grade school exs.
By the way, *I THINK LIZZZZ IS HOTTTT WITH FOUR Ts. She’s so hot. And she keeps getting hotter. It’s either that or she’s better at taking pictures.
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*She told me to say this.
i am the love of everyones lives.
muhahahahaha.
that was long, justin, but i read it. we have a true stories show like that here in canada. i’m surprised you would be on tv. are you any good at acting? ok. the end.
#1 | Comment by liz — October 26, 2003 @ 3:14 pm
10 ex’s and none u banged? maybe you did i’m too lazy to read after "With only 3 of them"
#2 | Comment by P. Orno Rocks — October 26, 2003 @ 3:55 pm
um. the post isn’t about ‘banging’. plus, there’s more to relationships than just ‘banging’. i hope you know that.
then again a comment like yours is to be expected when one doesn’t even read the post. not that i would blame you because
1. it’s a boring post. hence the warning.
2. i already expect people not to read the post. hence the warning.
maybe i should’ve put up a picture of a naked woman somewhere in there eh? /sarcasm
#3 | Comment by Justin — October 26, 2003 @ 4:42 pm
R-E-L-A-S-H-I-O-N-what? And what’s this about "more than just banging"? What the hell else are you suppose to do with girlfriends/girl friends/girls? Talk to them? Share ideas with them? CUDDLE!?! Who ever heard of such nonsense. Blah!!!!
(BTW – read it. Cute. Liz = Sultry. Too damn depressing for "Hot")
#4 | Comment by matt — October 26, 2003 @ 5:01 pm
Hey J-man could you post up some screens of you acting? or maybe a short movie? would love to see you in action!
#5 | Comment by WP — October 26, 2003 @ 6:52 pm
i don’t have any copies of the episodes on tape. i never even saw them when they aired on tv. but i did manage to check out all the dailies and stuff while they were editing the shows together. trust me, it definitely wasn’t oscar worthy performances. i pretty much just winged it.
i had a coupla lines of dialogue but you couldn’t really hear any of it anyway since there was this voiceover narration thing over the parts where i do get to speak. had to improvise most of it since my character didn’t have any scripted lines.
i didn’t have any lines in the other two episodes where i played a drug addict. just had to be there with a bunch of other druggies pretending to smoke up methylamphetamines.
#6 | Comment by Justin — October 26, 2003 @ 7:13 pm
Matt if you think ‘Liz = Sultry. Too damn depressing for "Hot"’ Then I’m glad to say you don’t know her well, then. Why glad? Simple. More Liz time to myself if you don’t talk to her.
#7 | Comment by smash — October 26, 2003 @ 8:04 pm
Justin man, I’m glad you are making some mad cash doing the gigs but you should stop to realize the roles you are being cast in:
1) Serial rapist
2) Drug addict
3) Drug addict
4) Some business guy dude (probably slimy, evil)
Stop and wonder what this MILF producer thinks of you, if she considers you perfect for these roles!
#8 | Comment by smash — October 26, 2003 @ 8:10 pm
haha. yeah, it’s called typecasting. maybe it’s because i sort of look like a drug addict? don’t know about the ‘serial rapist’ though. hahaha.
besides, there aren’t that many ‘good guy’ roles to play in these ‘true story’ type shows. most of the episodes are based on things like drugs, corruption, bribery etc etc.
btw, i have like two scenes with the pretty hot actress chick (damn nice ass) playing that business guy dude in that ‘Fate’ show (sort of like a poor mans BH 90210 at best). so it was pretty easy to just sit there, looking into her eyes and saying my lines.
what i really hated though was having to go through the makeup process. i had to endure this butch woman putting makeup on my face and this gay hairdresser dude doing my hair. personally i thought i looked like shit after they put all that gunk on me. i’ll probably end up looking like a geisha girl on screen. didn’t have to wear any makeup being a ‘rapist’ and a druggie though.
#9 | Comment by Justin — October 26, 2003 @ 8:57 pm
Back when I was at college orientation, I was approaced during a break by one of the other guys in my group, a (sometimes I hesitate to cast stereotypes, but not in this case) geek. He sat down next to me and nervously asked me if I had anything. A few confused questions later I determined he thought me to be a drug dealer. You see, I look evil and untrustworthy, and we stereotyed each other. It’s just like a moral of a story or something.
Also, everyone knows that the whole rising action of the relationship is over as soon as penetration occurs. Yep. I say this to girls, I say "You do know that, now that we’ve bumped uglies, the whole ‘getting to know you’ thing and the ’emotional bond’ thing, yeah, we can just dispose of that, cuz, what’s the point? Right, slut?" And sometimes she’ll look up from filing her nails to nod assent.
Yep.
#10 | Comment by Seriously — October 26, 2003 @ 9:31 pm
Nikki was the smartest girl and one of the most popular!? Dude, what kind of freaked up grade school did you go to?
#11 | Comment by Banana — October 27, 2003 @ 8:21 am
See, when I go off and type up stuff like this for Fubar, people complain and say they’ll never read the site again. When Justin types this up, people say, "Wow, I really empathize." When, Lord? When’s it gonna be my time?!
#12 | Comment by Ben Affleck — October 27, 2003 @ 12:06 pm
You should have demanded free FUBAR advertising as part of your salary package.
Damn, you are a media mogul. You’re almost like J-Lo, with different media outlets. Let me know when your boyband CD comes out. I’m just whore enough to buy it. 🙂
#13 | Comment by grud — October 27, 2003 @ 7:09 pm
I’m not.
Now a Matt Damon CD on the other hand…
#14 | Comment by Seriously — October 28, 2003 @ 12:15 pm