Atop the Fourth Blog: Day 6

First day with Joe on set! Was it amazing? Were there a lot of guns? Yes and yes. Joe can instantly brighten up any room, but do you know what brightens up a room even more? Tequila and Bonetti. And what brightens up a room more than Tequila and Bonetti? Joe watching Tequila and Bonetti. To answer the question, yes, many of us watched a lot of Tequila and Bonetti today. A lot of questions were answered. Does Tequila think people can hear him? Is there anyone who can hear Tequila? Is there an episode with Rain Man? All of these will be answered in future episodes of DVD-R Hell. I don't even know why I consider Tequila and Bonetti to be a part of DVD-R Hell, because that show is just heaven. Even more confusing is that our E.T. The Porno episode of Demo Reel is listed on imdb as an episode of DVD-R Hell. Sure, it was an episode of that for a day, on April Fools, as a gotcha. I love my role in this movie. I just get to say random smarmy lines out of nowhere, and with a shit eating grin. Lewis is great at making my character such an out of nowhere comic relief, with random things to say at any given moment. Something serious will be going on, and I'll chime in with a reference to cocaine, and "that's what she said." Now, I hate "that's what she said," but when the point here is that that is so out of nowhere and a comic relief spoof, that was fun to say. Filming went pretty quick today, we seemed to be pretty ahead of schedule. I think we were told we'd be done for the day around 7, but we finished earlier than that. It's the first time this week that we finished and the sun was still out when we were done. Speaking of the sun, the weather was not bad today! The past few days it's been freakin cold! And I didn't bring my hoodie with me because I thought we were done with cold ass later. Nope, not so much. Minneapolis still had some left. Actually I think Chicago did too, I saw Rob say something about it on facebook earlier. As for what's going on with me personally, for the most part today was fine. Towards the end of the day, depression hit me like a sad brick to the face. In case you didn't know, depression is not a fun thing to go through. This case is pretty different for me, when I had gone through bouts of depression before, it was always amped up severely (and probably a result of) being a gigantic binge drinker in my 20s, not to mention whatever drugs I was on at the time. Without that stuff, I probably would have been ok-ish. I've been off drugs for about a decade, and I very very very rarely drink to the point of getting drunk anymore. I will on vacation, sure, but believe me when I say that booze is the last thing that I need to be having at this very downbeat part in my life. So long story short, this is something that I'm going through completely sober, which is good, because oh my god would it be worse if I was still a hardcore drinker. With that being said, we did shoot a Brad Tries earlier on The Angry Linkara, which does contain rum. It also contained ketchup and a chicken finger, so I was in no danger of wanting more. I have started smoking cigarettes again though. I've been smoking again for the past couple of months. But, you know, as much as I talk about "oh I'm not drinking or anything else," I still need some kind of vice. Believe it or not smoking has helped me severely in not going out and getting drunk. So I have to ask myself what's worse, smoking again, or getting shitfaced drunk because of some bullshit in my life. And for me personally, drinking would be a hell of a lot worse. Also I smoke when I drink, so I'd be smoking anyway regardless. But another question could probably be, does Tequila and Bonetti help calm down depression? Absolutely it does. Plenty more pictures are posted on facebook, including guns, Joe, more guns, and a lot of Tequila and Bonetti.