So I guess 5 things people don't know about me, huh? OK, here goes....
1) I was a theatre major in college. Did hundreds of productions in college and community theatre. Ah, to be young and naive. Wanted to become an actor - silly me. My parents were frightened I would be living in a homeless shelter, but were always very supportive. Who knew I would end up using some of those skills making real estate videos??
2) In my brief quest to become an actor, I spent a year in California at MGM with my cousin. It was during my "year off" from school (the explanation I gave my parents for dropping out of college - I guess I forgot to go back!)
He was a film producer (he scored most of the major musicals to come out of Hollywood in the 40's and 50's, then started producing movie musicals such as "Sound of Music", "West Side Story", "That's Entertainment, Part II", "Star!", "Man of La Mancha" and others. (He won 3 Academy Awards and worked with all the greats.... Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Julie Andrews, Sophia Loren, Cole Porter, etc.) I spent the better part of 1975 watching them make "That's Entertainment", got to have lunch with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, got private tours of the sound stages at Metro, which most people have never seen as it was a private studio and not open to the public. Of course, being a stupid 20 year old in the days before videotapes, Kelly and Astaire were just two old codgers to me - I wish I could do THAT lunch all over again! I was more interested in going through my cousins scrapbooks of photos from the making of "The Sound of Music" (which you can now see in the 'extras portion' of the DVD version of the movie, which was one of the last projects Saul did before he passed away ten years ago).
3) I was on one of the very first 'reality' shows on TV. In fact, it was before the term was actually
coined. It was on The Learning Channel, and was a show called "Reunion", which profiled various reunions each week - parent and child, long lost friends, etc. I created one of the first and largest high school reunion websites in the country, way back in 1995-1996. The site and concept was featured on the NBC Nightly News and various national publications as an 'innovative use of the internet', and Banyon Productions (producers of "Trading Spaces") saw it and contact us to be a part of their show. Our episode dealt with 4 students returning to surprise their favorite teacher (our drama teacher) after 25 years.
4) I've owned my own businesses since I was 21, at which time I bought the first franchise of a successful New York contemporary furniture store called "Workbench". I opened the first store in Moline, IL, and a second store 5 years later in Des Moines, IA. After a number of years in the retail world, I thought better of it and never went back! I still own one of the oldest roommate referral agencies in the country (located in Boston, MA) - celebrating 25 years this past November, although I haven't worked in that business for the past 5 years.
5) I'm a very impulsive person. In 2002, in a period of some sort of explosive midlife crisis, I started a brand new business (Nashua Web Design), began a completely new career as a web designer, and moved from Boston to a completely new state (New Hampshire) where I knew exactly one person.
All on the same day. With almost no planning.
Hello.......???? Mush for brains???? It was only a couple of years ago, when really thinking about that triple play, that I realized I'm just crazy or bored! Fortunately, had I thought that move through for even a split second, it would have never happened.
So, now I'm told that I have to tag 3 other people...
So....Scott Beard, A. Grey, Dan Dashnaw - Go for it!
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