Day 6 of 365

Day 6 of 365

Organized a plan for comedy this week (S.M.A.R.T. Goals). I am teaming up with two amazing comedians (Networking). We had a great meeting of the minds and will be continuing to meet on a regular bases to ensure our plan moves forward, with a team effort called the “Top Of The Bottom Pile” (Treating life like a business). Pulling our resources together helps build trust, value and propels our motivation to another level. Everyone is equal in this venture. Some have strengths in one area over another, but we are all people of value working to make the best outcome for each of us. A team has more brains, hands, and “will”, to move forward.

Another fun thing in the world of this traveling entertainer is my mind is set on conquering all my passions once again. While taking steps forward with comedy, I also took on my music again. Altayon is a band project I've been keeping more to a studio project, and rarely coming out to play live with other people. I was always scared to touch the stage again based on my experience with my last band. After ten years of working with people, then walking away from the business, I never thought I would be doing this again. I want to thank the people who kept pushing me to write, perform and believed in me. Wonderful things happening with the right people (Networking).

My acting and writing passion are working hand in hand. I have a great writing team that works with me to develop projects for my production company. Our first major project will be titled “A Super Villain Hero” I am working with some wonderful actors, which will allow us to join SAG-AFTRA. One of my main goals is to finalize this deal with a TV series I am working on. 5 episodes completed, and I am working on the 6th episode over the next week. There is a wonderful joy to be able to call this my life. My job is to entertain and make a living doing so. Anyone can do this, you need only create the opportunities and be proactive.

Day 6 of 365. 360 day remaining, and look at what is possible. Make things happen by making things happen!

• Make A Right Left Here (My official page website)
• BBR Productions Inc. (Direct company link)
• The Rose Theater (Direct company link)
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• Lord Telmorn Altayon (A character I write about, the first God)
• Altayon (My Theatrical Progressive Metal Band)
• StupidAssQuestions.com (I am a contributor)

Day 1 of 365

• 10.21.2013

Today begins a change. What change? A change of being me. For these last 17 years I've been in this wonderful business of entertainment. Handling the ins and outs of business. It has allowed me to do what I love doing, entertain people as a musician, comedian, actor, writer and all the things that have been chronicled in the Traveling Adventures of a Resilient Entertainer. I would say my last 3 years I had focused more on running my Production company “BBR Productions Inc.” and opening “The Rose Theater”. Both of which were born to help people get into the business of entertainment. From first timers through the spectrum to people already making things happen.

My first 10 years in entertainment centered around learning how this business works so I might improve my band “TENEbRAE” to excel in music. We ended our run playing festivals, and other large moments that I walked away from. I was no longer willing to work in a field I was not happy in. So I refocused my energy into Comedy and Acting. That took me pretty far, then I begin to remember why I wasn't having fun as a performer. So much negativity in the business. Not from people with power, but from other performers. Not all, some, but more than none. It pushed me away, because I like doing what I do, because performing is fun. The fun was absorbed away from me.

Now I am at another crossroads. I've helped people make something of their lives with my guidance. I educated them to live their life like a business. I am still very happy doing what I do, but I miss entertaining. I miss being on stage, and utilizing my strongest asset; my business sense for success and my strength in bringing a brand to life. This leads me to making something happen as an entertainer. I did it with music, stage acting, comedy and even writing. So now, today begins a change. I am about to enter my life back into entertainment but on another level. My goal, is to make 365 days count. I will keep track of my accomplishments and take note of what I am doing, and write it down!

Day 1 of 365. Here is to everyone who wants to live their dreams; Make things happen by making things happen!

• Make A Right Left Here (My official page website)
• BBR Productions Inc. (Direct company link)
• The Rose Theater (Direct company link)
• Twitter (My personal twitter)
• Youtube (I make stupid videos)

Facebook:

• Thomas J. Bellezza (My entertainer page)
• BBR Productions Inc. (My production company)
• The Rose Theater (My Theater)
• Make A Right Left Here TV (My web based TV show)
• Lord Telmorn Altayon (A character I write about, the first God)
• Altayon (My Theatrical Progressive Metal Band)
• StupidAssQuestions.com (I am a contributor)

• Such bad words of little point

• Such bad words of little point

One thing you have to remember in life is no one knows who you are. You might be famous, or unknown in the sense of popularity, but the truth is you are never truly understood or known. People will only know what they see you doing, or hear what you tell them. Worst yet, they might only know about you through others. Even as people talk about you, good or bad, they don't always have the full truth. So, in entertainment you are forced to deal with a thing I call “The Hold Down”.

“The Hold Down” is what people do to keep their own life in check. They take the time to talk badly about you just to make sure your value continues to be tarnished. I took myself out of the local scene because I wasn't having fun anymore. Everywhere I went I had to deal with people being rude, or insulting. To top it off, I am not a fan of listening to people “be better than everyone else”. There are people starting out in entertainment and these “Veterans” of the business throw the new people down and out. Discouraging them.

It is sad to see the people in the business taking advantage of the little guy. So why do I get my name busted on? Because I stick up for these little guys. I don't always win their friendship, as they are sucked into the system thinking that is how you do it. My advice to NEW PEOPLE in the business is this; Ask yourself “What do these people you look up to do for a living?” if the answer is a day job to pay their bills and they have been in this line of business for more than five years, I would say take their advice with a grain of salt.

Of course I have done things where people find me to be a douche because I protect people, don't take crap from anyone, but this is on them. That's right, I am not taking on any responsibility for their hate. Who are they to me? When I die, I will be the only person guaranteed on my death bed. Their opinions matter very little to me. It only shows you who they are as people. They reflect their hatred of what they dislike about themselves from what they see in me.

I have a rule; Leave me alone and I will leave you alone, Involve me and you will involve me.

• Make A Right Left Here (My official page website)
• BBR Productions Inc. (Direct company link)
• The Rose Theater (Direct company link)
• Twitter (My personal twitter)
• Youtube (I make stupid videos)

Facebook:

• Thomas J. Bellezza (My entertainer page)
• BBR Productions Inc. (My production company)
• The Rose Theater (A Theater for first time opportunity)
• Make A Right Left Here TV (My web based TV show)
• Lord Telmorn Altayon (A character I write about, the first God)
• Altayon (My Theatrical Progressive Metal Band)
• StupidAssQuestions.com (Question / Answer Page)

Stupid Ass Questions... and Answers!

On occasion, I write for (StupidAssQuestions.com) and this week celebrates my 5th time working with them. Enjoy my answers to these amazingly stupid ass questions!

• Friday September 20th 2013 : Dear Stupid Ass Questions & Thomas, I was reading outside the other day and the cops arrested me. I think we’ve become a police state and I wonder since when is it against the law to read outside? Do you think the fact that I was in the nude at the school playground had anything to do with it?



Thomas, Not at all freak. You could have been at a nudist playground. Don't assume, that's just wrong. Kids come out naked, so why can we all be naked around them? Oh that's right, because explaining to their therapist why some random person had their junk doing the Swinging Karradine between their legs is probably the hardest thing to ever get out of a child's mind. I guess there would be nothing hard about that if it were swinging. HEYOH, did you see what I did there? I did something inappropriate, you should start paying more attention to how that looks. Who am I to judge though, for all I know you were just Homeless camping.

• Thursday September 19th 2013 : Dear Stupid Ass Questions& Thomas, I want to be a movie star, and I know I would be an Oscar contender. I just need to know how to behave in public so that I get a lot of attention, extra gigs, stalking journalists, and bad publicity. I was thinking that I would do a nude spread in Big and Beautiful… but then I chickened out. Then I thought, maybe I should just get arrested for being drunk and racist, like Mel Gibson. Or maybe I should start a Cat fighting ring (because Mike Vic wrote the book on dog fighting)... Or maybe just masturbate in public with Pee Wee Herman and Fred Willard (it would be called a spank off). Or being drunk and high like most Lindsay something or other… actually every celebrity at some point has a careening off a cliff kind of moment. So I need to make a big splash…because it is the in thing to do, everyone that is anyone makes the news for some sort of bad behaviour. So what should I do???





Thomas: David Carradine, this is the person you should model your downfall rising. His last act upon this world was life-changing and finally got him noticed in a big way. His career was hanging on by a thread before he actually was hanging on by a thread before he became dead. But think of how famous you would be! Okay, don't actually kill yourself, or do the Carradine. I am just saying there are better ways to become infamously famous, sleep with Kim Kardashian. Try not to scream the whole time either, she likes to be knocked up while being knocked up. In other words, if you did happen to do the Carradine, you could swing around the room hitting her while filming this and you'll be forever known as the Swinging Karradine.

• Wednesday September 18th 2013 : Dear Stupid Ass Questions & Thomas, The weather man says we can expect a warm winter this year. I rely on money from plowing to pay my bills. Should I rent a snow machine and use it on my client’s homes at night while they are sleeping?




Thomas: Yes, and film this. Film this all night long. Please, for the love of God, film this. This is very important for our world to see genius in action. When you are finished filming upload it to YOUTUBE so we can all watch in awe of this amazing stupid human trick. If I were you, I would place your full legal name, phone number and address on there. You know, so you can get more business. Then have a message of you speaking before the footage starts stating “Yes, my name is (add name here) and I am the one person in this video doing it.” I think you will help your business grow, and our hearts grow fonder. At least when you go to jail for fraud you won't have to worry about your weight or being a homeless camper. Jail, the world of free rent and board!

• Tuesday September 17th 2013 : Dear Stupid Ass Questions & Thomas, I'm eating a salad for lunch each day to lose weight but it’s becoming boring. Would putting mashed potatoes and gravy on it be ok?







Thomas: It would be okay. You could also skip the salad because clearly you are missing the point of losing weight. However, honestly, if you decided to think a little, which I understand might be hard at this point, it is not what you eat, but how you eat. Please, let me explain, I don't want to get a call and have someone tell me you hurt yourself because you were eating upside down on a swing “Oh Thomas J. Bellezza told me it was how I eat that helps lose weight.” I don't need that at all. How you eat is based on your portions of food. Besides needing to go to a nutritional specialist to figure out what your body type needs and doesn't need, it is all about eating correctly. When you eat, what amount you are eating and so on. If it were up to me I'd eat pizza all day. It isn't smart, but, mmmmmm pizza. How heavy are you anyway? Are you big enough to hurt a horse, or small enough to be a horse? You could always try homeless camping. After a few months you will lose so much weight you'll be happy to anything even if it is unhealthy.

• Monday September 16th 2013 : Dear Stupid Ass Questions & Thomas, Are those who are homeless basically people who enjoy camping?





Thomas: Funny you should ask this question. Let me clarify a few things up. A homeless person is normally a wealthy person who didn't want to deal with life's insanity anymore. I am not saying this happens all the time, just a small portion of the time. The rest of them are trying to follow in suit to become wealthy people. It makes sense if you think about it. In fact, you should try an experiment; since these homeless people are trying to take the 1% of our nations wealth, you should give them your home and trade with them to see if you could earn wealth on the street like these thieves do. If it makes you feel better, on those super hot nights, or cold evenings with no blanket, you can remember two very important things. 1) you are sacrificing to earn wealth so one day you can be rich and then give back to your community of people who are ignoring you, think you smell (because you do) and get mad at you because you need a dollar to buy something stupid: like food. And 2) think of it as camping.

• Make A Right Left Here (My official page website)
• BBR Productions Inc. (Direct company link)
• The Rose Theater (Direct company link)
• Twitter (My personal twitter)
• Youtube (I make stupid videos)

Facebook:

• Thomas J. Bellezza (My entertainer page)
• BBR Productions Inc. (My production company)
• The Rose Theater (A Theater for first time opportunity)
• Make A Right Left Here TV (My web based TV show)
• Lord Telmorn Altayon (A character I write about, the first God)
• Altayon (My Theatrical Progressive Metal Band)
• StupidAssQuestions.com (Question / Answer Page)

Don't Read This!

• Don't Read This!

Don't read what? That's correct, don't read this. Words, how they seem to move people to interest. Being an entertainer you must find ways to have people grow to be interested in what you have to offer. Being a great juggler is nothing compared to being someone of interest. The marketing world does it to all of us. Somehow, someway, your interest is captured and you are drawn into reading about something, or buying something. It happens everyday. It got your attention. That's the point, that's the secret. Or is it?

A brand has three stages; Awareness, Interest, and Sales. Building awareness creates interest which in turn generates sales. Sales are also considered “buying” into a brand. It took me about 7 years to realize that. Having a brand is such an easy idea that for me to have missed; it made me feel way out of the loop. Mastering branding, marketing, and creating interest continues to be my goal so I might see the truth in a bigger connection with life. Our union of people among a world of people is a beautiful idea.

I have friends that are killing themselves to get work. I use to do that, then I changed my daily activity from “wanting” to “giving”. That's right; I gave my time to people so they knew my brand, they knew me! When I could I did my best, when I couldn't, then I helped my best. I was always willing to learn from people, help people and live with people in my life. Now, people contact me for work in entertainment. I was just called to work in theater out in the city because of the people I know, and the hard work of knowing these people.

Don't read this... go out there and do this. Build your brand and make your dreams happen!

• Make A Right Left Here (My official page website)
• BBR Productions Inc. (Direct company link)
• The Rose Theater (Direct company link)
• Twitter (My personal twitter)
• Youtube (I make stupid videos)

Facebook:

• Thomas J. Bellezza (My entertainer page)
• BBR Productions Inc. (My production company)
• The Rose Theater (A Theater for first time opportunity)
• Make A Right Left Here TV (My web based TV show)
• Lord Telmorn Altayon (A character I write about, the first God)
• Altayon (My Theatrical Progressive Metal Band)

The world wants you to succeed

• The world wants you to succeed

If there is one thing I have learned in all my years in entertainment is; The world wants you to succeed. They want those who are willing to work harder than everyone else to succeed. They want us, as a group of people to succeed. We were given a brain that continues to develop over each generation. If we were never meant to succeed, then why would we have been given such a powerful tool? A tool so powerful it creates dreams. Dreams in which a drive begins to reality. People wanted to eat more, they created a way to farm. People wanted to travel faster than walking and so cars were created... A space shuttle, etc.

We have the power to fail as well. I hear people all the time talking about “I can't”, or “I just don't know what to do!” The beauty of failure is others may find a solution in a flaw. Where one fails, another finds victory. I've been a student of both finding success through my own failures and others failing. I can only assume that I will rarely ever assume, except on occasion when it only makes sense to do a jig afterward. I like dancing, even in a failed victory; because then I feel like I kind of won too. What I am getting at is; people ask me how to succeed all the time. I tell them how, and they don't believe.

Some people listen, others don't. I've found, in the consul of a close friend, that sometimes I might be selling myself short. I own a production company. One of our major services is my consultation. However, I find myself giving people free advice all the time; Hey, I care, what can I say... What this wonderful friend tells me is “free advice is considered devalued advice.” She's correct. If I am just giving the advice away then I am a person speaking as if I know it all. Who is going to listen to free advice. If I continue to allow people to pay for that advice they'll take it more seriously. Anything we pay for has more weight.

• Make A Right Left Here (My official page website)
• BBR Productions Inc. (Direct company link)
• The Rose Theater (Direct company link)
• Twitter (My personal twitter)
• Youtube (I make stupid videos)

Facebook:

• Thomas J. Bellezza (My entertainer page)
• BBR Productions Inc. (My production company)
• The Rose Theater (A Theater for first time opportunity)
• Make A Right Left Here TV (My web based TV show)
• Lord Telmorn Altayon (A character I write about, the first God)
• Altayon (My Theatrical Progressive Metal Band)

Hamlet!

The Prince of Denmark is coming in August to The Rose Theater : 1320 Lincoln Ave Holbrook NY 11741

Over the next few months The Rose Theater is getting ready for Hamlet. I so happen to be performing as Hamlet in this production. The company is searching for donations to help give the best representation of such an amazing play by William Shakespeare. If only $10 a person, we'll be able to hit our goal fairly quickly as our deadline date is July 1st. Which would give the Theater enough time to build the sets and utilize the donations for said materials.

Help Bring Reality to our dreams!

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• Make A Right Left Here (My official page website)
• BBR Productions Inc. (Direct company link)
• The Rose Theater (Direct company link)
• Twitter (My personal twitter)
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• Thomas J. Bellezza (My entertainer page)
• BBR Productions Inc. (My production company)
• The Rose Theater (A Theater for first time opportunity)
• Make A Right Left Here TV (My web based TV show)
• Lord Telmorn Altayon (A character I write about, the first God)
• Altayon (My Theatrical Progressive Metal Band)