BOXING DAY - BRING IT ON AND SPENT STUFF FOR 2012

Your electronic Christmas presents are noisily in full use. Santa is back home at the North Pole sipping Maker's Mark while Mrs. Claus gives him the best back rub ever. Yes indeed, that holiday has come and gone and it's time to move on to the next big thing - 2012. And Boxing Day! Something the awards season feels a little bit like this year, with no clear run away winner. A real "horse" race may actually shape up for the plethora of awards shows.

A SPENT ACTOR DESERVES YOUR VOTE!
If you haven't done so yet,  please shift your attention to the right side of the blog, scroll down an itsy-bitsy bit and vote for one of our incredibly talented actors!  There are some new names reflecting some different episodes, so you may want to revisit our web site and give them a watch.

The Men of LLA - (l to r) Ben Lauter, Dorian Martin, David Holst, Robert Bell,
John Nagle and the legs of Kyle Heffner.

SOME OF WHAT'S NEW FOR YOU FROM SPENT IN 2012

We are excited about the new shows and our returning shows for Spent in 2012.

This is a very excited co-founder of Spent TV - Cary.

Can't spill the beans too much now, but we are collaborating with a talented actor on one project and dipping into the world of cooking on another. All in all, we are hoping to make your SPENT TV experience even better next year.

SUNDANCE - HERE WE COME

The Second Penny Entertainment/ Spent TV team is heading up to SUNDANCE this year to pitch our feature film MOMS AND POPS.  As we get closer to jumping in the car and getting our drive on we'll fill you in on the details and hopefully have some video of our efforts up on the blog. We are hoping to live stream on our website too. 

Till next time, be good, be bad and be creative!

LET THE AWARDS BEGIN - PLUS WHAT'S AHEAD FOR SPENT IN 2012

SAG, LAFC, BFC - ETCETERA, ETCETERA, ETCTERA

Screen actors, film critics and probably even plumbers associations have begun weighing in on their choices for best performances and best films for the calendar year 2011. Some of the the best film choices announced so far are "The Artist" (a SPENT TV favorite); "Hugo""The Descendants""War Horse" and "The Help." On the acting front, Glenn Close, George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Jean Dujardin and Viola Davis among others have garnered best acting nods.. Tomorrow the Golden Globe nominations are announced. We're so excited and wonder what trinkets Harvey bought the HFPA voters this year to insure as many nomies as possible!

We'd love to hear from you and what your personal choice is this year for best picture. So, post your choice. We'll tally the results and one of you lucky little posting buggers will win a gift card, that's right! A giftie card of your very own! Only one random posty will win. It will be very scientific you know, one of the producing partners at SPENT will be blindfolded, led to the computer and be forced to randomly stick a finger on the winning post!  So leave a comment and post your best pic pick TODAY!

LLA - MORE PICS
Our last shoot of LLA epside 2 was so much frighin' fun, we just want to keep sharing the behind the scenes love including these two:

First CORY GLUCK and JOHN NAGLE arguing about who is more of a LESBIAN LOVER at the beach.

And here's KYLE HEFFNER aka WESLEY, getting ready ready to make his move on CATHERINE BREWTON who is about to kick him to the curb for a park ranging woman played by CHARLOTTE KYLE.

MUCH FROM SPENT FOR THE NEW YEAR

Our New Year's resolution is to give you more interactive, entertaining profoundly exuberant stuff on the SPENT WEBNETWORK. So get your mouse and digits ready to watch. Our next episode of FAST TRACK, number 4 shoots in early February, but FAST TRACK 3 will be up after the first of the year. LLA #2 will be up before the first of the year and #3 shoots the end of January. As we mentioned before we've got two new series coming soon and of course this kicks off the awards season frenzy for Gina and Eric and It's JUST A MOOBIE.

NEW ACTORS---------------SO PLEASE VOTE!

We've added a new list of actors on the blog and they need your votes. If you haven't already you can watch them first on the Spent new or classic channels. 

Go to the right side of the blog and scroll to the vote box.

LLA EPISODE #2 AND THE B-STORY

LLA #2 - IN THE CAN
Yep, despite downed trees and power outages, LLA Episode #2 is kind of in the can. Our three newbie cast members JOHN NAGLE, LINA HALL and BEN LAUTER survived the taunts and hazing on set by our regulars. Thankfully, they will also joining us for future episodes!

Lina Hall's talents create a tsunami on set!

Run and gun shooting in LA can be a challenge as everyone knows and fallen trees and down power lines prompted a last minute change of location, so our two day shoot morphed into an extra day and additional pick up shots. Oddly too, our new mic and old camera were suddenly possessed on some scenes, so we had video wavy lines, orbs and static raspy audio at one point like we'd happened upon a ghost adventure reality show.

John Nagle and Cory Gluck - DATE HETERO1

All in all the weekend was hell of fun. Guest stars CATHERINE BREWTON and CHARLOTTE KYLE had us cracking up with their animated depiction of penis envy. Yep, I said it.  Too bad you missed it.

THE B-STORY #2    RUNNING OUT OF TIME

Coming off a fantastic weekend of shooting is always a high. Really who couldn't or shouldn't be grateful for being able to actually create. And I am. I'm grateful to write, grateful to direct, grateful that such amazing actors trust their talents with me. It's humbling always, overwhelming sometimes, that I get to play with such a group of talented men and women.

And of course, I should stay in the gratitude, live in the moment as all the self-help gurus and spiritualists say, but truth is I'm scared. I'm scared I'm running out of time. Yep, I a'int the disco whipper-snapper that I used to be. The six inch platform wearing party-girl who could guzzle beers till dawn and still show up for a seven am class.  And I'm not the thirty year old or forty year old I once was, at least not to the development executives, the agents and managers and the financiers who otherwise might be inclined to take a chance and give me a break. So there are days when I wake up and I am scared that my time on the planet in the life I know will run out before my dreams come true.

It's a pressure I put on myself, I know, or my knees put on me when it takes me longer to get up after a shot. But a pressure it is and a real one. When I was younger, when life got complicated and choices had to be made, there always seemed to be another tomorrow to get started on my dreams. But at fifty four,  time seems so much more precious and in my case, scarier, because the big break, my big break seems so far away and maybe, too late.

So there you have it, a little fear. A little self doubt.  But I don't throw in the towel ever. If I have learned one thing it is that I am a writer/director, I define myself by it and latecomer or not, it is what I will always be. I may be a scared, wobbly-kneed old lady dreamer, but I am still - a dreamer.