Jamie Bower, No Reservations.

...doesn't have as nice a ring to it as Anthony Bourdain but we'll work something out later.

Anthony Bourdain, for those unfortunate souls who don't know, is my hero. I want to be him when I grow up (minus the changing into a man part). He is a chef, but those that have eaten my food know that becoming a chef is not in my box of repertoires. Most importantly (for me anyhow) is that he is the host of the Travel Channel Show "Anthony Bourdain; No Reservations". In a nut shell, he pretty much gets to go all over the world and eat, drink and talk to awesome people and just be overall awesome. Those who have not seen his show should immediately watch this clip on Tokyo~



See what I mean? This is my dream job. The only difference would be that I would have to incorporate my knowledge of linguistics or something into the show since I lack in any culinary skills (which is what he focuses on, and I don't wanna be a copy-cat anyways).

So I've had a spark of genius (or silliness for those nay-sayers) and I am going to grab my dream job by the nuts and take control. I will use my upcoming travels in to South East Asia as my first "episodes" and I will film them using my handy-dandy video camera (literally video, no digital film for me). I'm not going to go into details about it (no copy-cats!!!!) but I will say that I need some help. I know nothing about video editing and it would be nice to get some recommendations for some software. I use a PC (screw you Apple and your better-ness) so whatever is compatible with PCs, please let me know what and also where/how to get them ((i.e. for free!!)). Any other video related/filming advice is also well appreciated. It will take me a long time to get this all edited and cleaned up, so don't expect anything right away. These things take time, it is known (haha, geek alert for anyone who knows what i'm quoting).

Also my show is this Saturday at Shibuya La Mama  

come and watch if you dare!!

PEACE OUSTIDE
~JME