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March 31, 2005

Monotheisists Declare Truce

Nothing unites quite like bigotry. It took the upcoming World Pride parade in Jerusalem to get senior religious figures from the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish faiths together in one room agreeing about something. They all called for the Israeli government to block the scheduled celebrations from being held in the holy city. See, we can all get along after all!

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Freelance Blues, Episode 3

Watch video. Length 1:59. Size: 2.7 megs. Format: Quicktime.

My quixotic quest to get paid for my labor takes me into a place of deep symbolic resonance in this episode. In case you missed them here are chapter 1 and chapter 2. More exciting episodes coming soon. Doing what we freelancers do, turning our lives into art.

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March 28, 2005

My Digital Lifestyle

Behold my home office.

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March 26, 2005

Freelance Blues, Episode 2

Watch video. Length 2:34. Size: 3 megs. Format: Quicktime.

As you may know, I have decided to turn my quest to get paid for a freelance job into art. This is the second installment. Thanks for all the support. It sustains me emotionally as I keep on in my quest for a happy ending. Keep the stories coming. And if you missed episode one, it's right here. More exciting chapters coming soon. Stay tuned!

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March 24, 2005

Pussycat Jonny

Jonny Goldstein will be appearing with his rock-a-licious friends, The Creamsicles, at the Pussycat Lounge, Friday, March 25, 11PM showtime. For a paltry 5$ cover, you get Jonny, The Creamsicles, and visuals by the one and only Doctor Mojo (who recently did visuals for the Dead, Snoop Dog, and Donna Summers!).

Where: The Pussycat Lounge, 96 Greenwich Street, 1,9,R,W subway lines to Rector Street.

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March 23, 2005

Erzi and Jonny #3

Identity obscured to protect the guilty.

Just got back at our third show at our new Village Lantern location. Had a good house. Lots of comics and several honest to god real audience members who just came to enjoy the show. Erzsi and I are still working out some of the quirks of this venue, like the fact that it's hard for us to sit next to each other since I have been over by the sound board. I think I can take care of that by bringing an extra long cable. Anyway, we'll keep playing around with it until we get it.

That aside, heard some great stuff from Bob Bell, Angry Bob, Geoff Kole, and many others. This one comic who will remain nameless had a strong set and then managed to repel all the comics by sticking the mic and the mic cable down his underwearless pants. Yeek! Too bad, 'cause he had a good set and that became the focus, instead of the rest of his very funny act.

I busted out my ritual ram's horn to consecrate the evening, and I can say unreservedly, shofar so good. Tune in next week for more Erzsi and Jonny excitement. It's every Tuesday night, 167 Bleecker Street, Village Lantern, 10:30 until late. Buy a drink and watch comedians sculpting comic masterpieces as you behold in wonder. Hope to see you there.

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March 21, 2005

Freelance Blues, Part 1

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Part of the freelance existence is dealing with clients who choose not to pay you after you have worked for them. This video is my attempt to turn pain into redemptive art. Enjoy. And feel free to share your own freelance nightmares as comments, emails, your own blog entries, podcasts, or best of all, as web videos. What do your freelance blues sound like?

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March 20, 2005

Birfday Bash Revisited.

Super fan Justin Davila was so eager to see Jonny in action that he came a week early! This pic shows him one week later with birfday boy jonny Goldstein after the Boogaloo Jonny/Creamsicles set.
Thanks for coming out kids. It was freakin' rocktacular.
The Boogaloo Bar staff get into the swing of things at Jonny Goldstein's birfday blow out.
Craig Gottlieb, The Creamsicles' bassist, schmoozes some fans after their set.
Craig Gottlieb gives it to John Sully straight.
Old neighbors cross paths once again at the Jonny Birthday gig.

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March 16, 2005

Birfday Blowout Bonanza

What: Come blow out my Birfday with me and The Creamsicles and a very special guest.
When: Gonna be blowing out my Birfday this Saturday, March 14, 11:00 PM.
Where: Boogaloo Bar, Williamsburg, map here. 168 Marcy Avenue.
Subway: J, M, Z at Marcy Ave; L at Lorimer St; G at Metropolitan Ave
Why: Cause I will be happy to see you, my friends. And you can help me in the hard work of scoring another notch in the chronological progression of my life. Plus it'll be totally bitchin'. And if that isn't enough, check out the Birfday invite video above!

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Erzsi and Jonny Show Blockbuster

Wow. Erzsi and I hosted a packed show at the Village Lantern featuring the likes of, Jessica Delfino, Geoff Kole, and Rick Shapiro, along with a host of other comic masterminds. People got into some deep emotional waters tonight, but nobody drowned. Thanks for making it a rockin' night. We'll keep it flowing every Tuesday night, 10:30PM at the Village Lantern, 167 Bleecker Street. See ya there!

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March 15, 2005

Diary of a Coatcheck Boy

Loki Kevorkian shares the seedy details of life as a Big Apple coat check boy. It is not pretty. Dave Alpert, John Sully, and I were astonished by the sordid anecdotes Loki spun. You too will be astonished if you dare to watch this jonnygoldstein.com exclusive video.

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March 14, 2005

In the Pipeline

I've got some great video coming down the pipeline. Stay tuned.

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Disposable Men

I drew this Mind Map while soaking up a presentation of the technology and processes involved in making a multimedia theater piece called "Disposable Men," a production which played with the troubling, complicated, fascinating history of the way black men are perceived in American media. The substance and the technology in this piece were intense.

On the technology side, the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theater, who worked with James Scruggs, the writer and artist who conceived of the piece, provided the Media Beam. The media beam is a method of controlling the position, size, and skew of a data projection, in real time. In the bit they demonstrated to us, they used the media beam to project onto Scruggs, who wore a big white costume that covered his whole body, including a big flat white area for his face. So picture a montage of eyeballs and mouths projected onto Scrugg's face, without that projection bleeding onto other surfaces. The result was a kind of monster. In disposable men, Scruggs looks at the parallels between Hollywood monsters and American media portrayal of black men. I would have loved to have seen the whole production, but it's over now. If it is ever revived, I will go see it, and so should you if you want to see some adventurous, disturbing, riveting, theater.

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March 09, 2005

Birfday Bash, Saturday, March 19!

It's my birfday, and you are all invited. When: Saturday, March 19, 11PM showtime. Where: Boogaloo, 168 Marcy Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Directions: J train to Marcy Ave (1st stop in Brooklyn). Then it's a half block walk. Be there and party like it's my birtfday, drink Bacardi like it's my birfday, don't be tardy coz it's my birfday! Come rock it with a gaggle of special comedic guests as well as the sweet, delicious rock and roll stylings of The Creamsicles, in this bodacious, Boogaloo, birfday, bash-o-rama!

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Erzsi and Jonny Show Lantern Debut

Erzsi and I bared our fangs before the start of our first Erzsi and Jonny Show at our new venue, the Village Lantern. It was so fun. Thanks to John Morrison for helping us get this thing off the ground.Thanks for all the comedy superstars that swung by. Remember, at The Erzsi and Jonny Show, "You are the show."

Audience members faces have been obscured to protect the innocent.

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March 05, 2005

What They Are Saying About Jonny and his Vids

"It feelth tho good"----Chuck Olson, Blogumentary

"The sexy flipbook master is none other than the fabulous and funny Jonny Goldstein"---Amanda Congdon, Rocketboom

"Loved you on Rocketboom. So cool."-------Steve Garfield, New York Times featured videoblogger

"Love it"---Jay Dedman, Ant's Not Television

"I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"---------Craig Gottlieb, Bassist, The Creamsicles

"This is good. More, more, more."--------Ryan Hodson, My favorite videoblogger.

"I laughed uncontrollably at your twinkie bath and the entire freelance "check is in the mail" segments. THIS is AMAZING, ORIGINAL stuff! Rock on!"----Erik Radmall, Ubergeek.

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March 04, 2005

Rocketjonny

If you have not yet checked out Rocketboom, you should. The Rocketboom crew puts out a quirky, geeky, stylish three minute web video show five days a week. I am an unspeakably rabid fan, so I was so happy when they spliced me into today's show. Check it out here. I'm towards the end of the piece, but don't skip ahead, the first part is educational and inspirational.

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Forget Watergate, this is Yanni-Gate

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My alter ego Yanni Goldthtein, Holistic Healer, visited Christo's Gates installation in Central Park. Despite the cold weather, he maintained good cheer as he channelled the prodigious holistic energies that were flitting around the park that day. As Yanni would say, "Enyoy yourthelf!"

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