Well, here you go, I’m just going to do it. Better done than perfect is not a bad motto in life.

This is the first episode of Don’t Look At Me podcast which originates from a barn studio in the rural Ojai Valley. Here-in I interview Micah Van Hove filmmaker who is working on his debut full-length feature, titled Menthol

I hope you enjoy it and my brief aside with my podcasting and performance inspiration Elijah Wilson.

Learn more about Micah on his website umuima.com and on the film site: Menthol Movie. His twitter is @umuima follow him he’s going places.

Follow me on twitter: @christwilson or email me with your constructive criticism and suggestions. Also click on the Amazon banner on the right side there and bookmark that link as your main Amazon link. That way I’ll get a small percentage from them whenever you make a purchase. That would be amazing. Or just hit that donate button and push a few electronic dollars my way. Further, you can get me to your Ojai Valley fine residence and have me full-bless wash the windows. See my Window Washing site to learn more about that.

Thank you so much for listening, have a great weekend.

Yours truly Chris T. Wilson

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For the past year or so I’ve been a pretty faithful podcast listener. It all started with wanting to have fresh content to listen to while I wash windows or screen print Ojai Face and Squeegee Power t-shirts. My son Elijah made a few listening suggestions too that have really changed my life.

He got me started on WTF with Marc Maron, pretty much the grand-daddy of all podcasts currently. I’ve been known to listen to Joe Rogan, Alec Baldwin, This American Life, Harry Shearer’s Le Show and a few others. What I came to realize is that this medium allows nearly anyone to create content and share it. How could I resist? I fricken love being creative.

Knowing that the hardest part of any new venture is being willing to dive in, get to work and figure things out, I did just that. The process began with lots of online reading, comparing systems and options for recording audio and publishing it on the Internet for people to hear and enjoy. This led to days in online shopping audio equipment rabbit holes. Lots of time lost in the bowels of Amazon.com’s user reviews and home recording forums.

Finally after ruminating for days on end, I gave myself over to the buy button and let the electronic dollars flow. Over the past few weeks I made a few purchases: 2 used Shure SM57 mics on ebay, mic stands and headphones on Amazon (use my sponsor link and support me and my podcast habit) and a simple Behringer USB audio mixer from American Musical Supply.

The initial intention is to practice my mic and recording technique. I have to find a new voice, develop my style and find the theme that emerges as the dominant force in my burgeoning yet very narrow broadcast. I intend to use the podcast as a means for increasing my window washing and screen printing products business for sure. I will also openly be aiming my intentions at finding advertisers and sponsors to fund and fuel my further bus rides down the narrow paths of meaningless thought in the face of meaning making. And in the process I intend to interview the wonderful, wild, winsome and wacky people who I know and want to know more here in Ojai and beyond this Valley.

I’ve got a bit to learn about RSS feeds, Itunes subscriptions and podcast production and promotion and development, not to mention learning to speak in a clear and concise manner. All totally doable.

I will be publishing my first episode officially this coming Friday, January 4, 2013. Listen for it. It’s gonna be a w00t. Or, more likely a sleepy, boring, bedtime story. Together, we shall hear.

Last night at Farmer & The Cook, I picked up a box of 100% Organic Cacao Powder from Ojio foods. I was really drawn to the logo for its face-like design similar to the Ojai Face.

So, this morning, while making my Bulletproof-style coffee, (thinking of making a video of this) I decided to add a few tablespoons of this Ojio Cacao Powder to my blend and wow, that was good. It makes for a thicker richer coffee made in a Bodum Stovetop Espresso Maker, and then blended with Organic Valley Grass Fed Pasture Butter and Earth Circle Organics Coconut Oil AND Cacao Powder. Boom

So then I’m loving on the Ojio logo because it makes me smile so I spent some time on their website of specialty inspired superfoods, and I’m happy to see that the parent company Ultimate Superfoods is located nearby in Moorpark, California. I took a nice picture of the box, played with it in photoshop, saved a couple pics of chocolate colored organic Anvil blank t-shirts and mocked up a promotional t-shirt design.

So, there you go Ojio, what do you say?

Ronelle Wood of Ojai Healing Movement shot and edited the video. Good job Ronelle.

The lovely owners of Ojai Village Drug agreed this past week to let me do something I’ve wanted for a fairly long time. I got to paint a giant 53″ Ojai Face on the pharmacy window.

Since this was a monumental event for me (I’m fond of small thoughts) I called up my buddy Joe who had his gal Ronelle come over and take a few pics of the process. This all happened Friday afternoon on the eve of Ojai Day.

This is a little piece I wrote a few years ago that was published in the Pink Minute, a one-sheet paper I have published a few times in the past years. Enjoy.

No true soul can deny their lover at sunset. Not in a place so amorous, that on the verge of night, even the obstinate sand-stone bluffs ripen like cherries and smolder and giggle and say, “Stop, you’re embarrassing me.”

Regional Disclaimer — All rights reserved for all things pink in color elapsing 60 seconds or less

I guess you could call me a classic servant, because there is nothing I love more than taking orders. Especially for t-shirt printing gigs for my favorite Ojai friends and business associates.

Today, I met with Rob Tucker, of Jim & Rob’s Fresh Grill. Have you heard the song that plays on their website: http://www.jimandrobsojai.com/?

Hilarious!
“So what are you waiting for?
You’re in for a gastronomical thrill
Grab a chair and set your butt down
At Jim & Rob’s Fresh Grill”

I love the veggie burrito and their cell phone check in thing that sends me text messages about specials and lets me know when I have a free plate of grub available to eat. Carmen loves the Margaritas.

I should have the shirts printed and delivered by Monday Sept. 17, 2012. Check them out and have a chimichanga or fajita or tamale, or a burger. Jim & Rob’s Fresh Grill Ojai is located at 214 W. Ojai Ave. Suite 101. Call in to go orders (805) 640-1301.

email mail@christwilson.com if you have any questions.

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Almost a week ago, I arrived in Minnesota to visit my sons for Father’s Day. We’ve biked extensively on the paths across the bridges and down the greenway in one of America’s top cycling cities.

My son Elijah who’s 21 in a few more months mentioned open mic comedy Monday at Acme Comedy Club in Minneapolis. This got me going so I sat up a few nights and worked on a 3 minute standup routine and did it.

Here’s a link to the cell phone recording I did. My phone was in my pocket, so I apologize for the poor audio quality.

Here’s a few pics.