I have something called the January Blues. I’m not sure if this is a real thing, but once a year I go through it. Honestly, I get completely depressed and it’s nothing that medication will resolve, just a rut that I go through. It’s funny but in years passed, if I look back, my creativity always comes to a halt. I tend to waste most of my January reflecting and not a lot of time creating. It’s the month where I look at what I’ve done and realize I’m a year older and haven’t accomplished all I wanted to in the year before.

Now the January Blues isn’t a depression over age thing, just a depression over feeling unaccomplished. Once I take the time and look back at all the things I did the year before, I think that’s pretty good, but I can do better this year. With that being said, I think December should be cancelled altogether. Christmas makes me spend too much money and wastes a lot of my energy. I think this year I’d prefer no presents, just time spent together, and a dinner of some sort. And what a perfect segue into New Year’s Resolutions!

I don’t think one should have New Year’s Resolutions, so let’s just call them resolutions. I think you should have a long list of resolutions because some of them will be broken. One thing I’m rather proud of from last year’s list is that I haven’t had a Pepsi (my choice drug) in a year. Here’s my list:

-Lose 30 lbs.
-Stop drinking all soda includes orange and ginger ale
-Exercise 2 times a week
-Make videos every week
-Get 100 more subscribers on YouTube
-Make 2 music videos
-Finish The Shanikwa Shanikwa Movie
-Complete the silhouette silkscreens
-Have a small art gallery showing
-When I scrawl essays onto paper, type them and share them on the blog!
-Keep drinking green tea
-Enter your documentary into the YouTube contest
-Learn to bake my own bread and do it well
-Earn $100 in monetization from Google Adsense (if only, ha ha)
-Make more tutorial videos
-make short films
-start writing more
-Complain less

Happy New Year and I’ll see you again really soon.

@joeybroyles

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NBC Cancels The Playboy Club :0(

I’m so over these large groups of parents who deem what is appropriate for me to watch on my television. It is your responsibility to monitor what your children can and cannot watch. Perhaps living in a bomb shelter would be better for YOU PEOPLE! At least if you lived in a bomb shelter you could quite literally shelter your children! Regardless though, Playboy magazine may be controversial but for me this show was hardly controversial. Regardless, if you’ve watched the show or not, you would find a drama placed in the 1960s during the era of The Playboy Club. The show followed the lives of The Playboy Bunnies, essentially waitresses in sexy bunny suits, (think a classier HOOTERS) on their journey. It was done fairly tasteful and had a murder mystery plot twist, exciting. Great cast. Great show. And even if not historically accurate, it had historical elements and was interesting to watch. But let’s face it, some tight-wadded-mother was upset with her husband for subscribing to Playboy. This same tight-wadded-mother was shocked to discover NBC was airing PORNOGRAPHY. She went out of her way to start some foolish complaint and found strength in numbers with Parents Television Council. Now this was probably a show she didn’t even take the time to watch!

And then NBC, big corporation, was intimidated by the PTC? I’m sorry, are we still living in the 1950s/1960s, apparently until the day censorship is over. America the conservative. Essentially if you want to be thought provoking you can’t do it on T.V. And then the line about the ratings not being good enough? You’ve probably heard me preach about this before but why are people still looking at real TV ratings? We do live in a world where people use a thing called DVRs, TiVo, reruns online, and iTunes to watch their show later. But if it doesn’t start with a bang, then let’s throw it away, never mind the amount of money we wasted on the production. What’s a few million? Dear Hollywood, Try to be more green with your green! I say the heck with TV and let’s move it to the internet. Oh wait those angry creeps would probably use their strength in numbers and destroy the internet. Just wait it’s coming.

I propose a new group called Protection From Over Censoring Television Council where essentially every network is protected by all these crazy groups like the PTC, OneMillionMoms, and whatever other Tipper Gore inspired censorship group. In essence this dream team would ensure quality control of over censoring and destroying potential hit shows in the future. But enough dreaming! Thanks to all these fools I will never know what happens with these characters, don’t worry I’ll get over it, in about 10 years. Thanks jerks!

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p.s. This song came to mind as I was typing, so naturally I had it on loop as I wrote my thoughts out!

I’m being ambitious about my latest video NUTS AND BERRIES but I thought you never know until you try. So I’ve created an event on Facebook and I want you all to come! Attend the event and then invite all of your friends. The more people we invite to this event the more people we can entertain. And that is the purpose of my latest video! Entertain everyone!

FACEBOOK EVENT: A MILLION NUTS AND BERRIES

If you haven’t seen the video, please watch below:

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Original song performed by Joey Broyles, best known for If U Luv Me (Google Me).

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Directed by Danny Atwater & Joey Broyles
Original Score by Danny Atwater
Written by Joey Broyles
Original song written and composed by Joey Broyles

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LYRICS:
NUTS AND BERRIES
written and performed by Joey Broyles

I eat nuts and berries
You eat nuts and berries
We eat nuts and berries
Who eats nuts and berries

Let’s take a walk and find some nuts and berries
Let’s take a walk and find some nuts and berries
Let’s take a walk and find some nuts and berries
Let’s take a walk tonight

I eat nuts and berries
You eat nuts and berries
We eat nuts and berries
Who eats nuts and berries

Vegetarians
Vegetarian
Vegetarians

I eat nuts and berries
You eat nuts and berries
Who eats nuts and berries
We eat nuts and berries

I eat nuts and berries
You eat nuts and berries
We eat nuts and berries
Who eats nuts and berries

Vegetarians

Nuts and berries
Nuts and berries

You take a walk
And find some nuts and berries
You take a walk
And find some nuts and berries
We’ll take a walk
And find some nuts and berries
We’ll take a walk tonight

I eat nuts and berries
You eat nuts and berries
We eat nuts and berries
Who eats nuts and berries

I eat nuts and berries
I eat nuts and berries

Vegetarians

Ha ha ha ha

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I have been living in my Nuts And Berries music video bubble for the past several months. From casting friends, writing the script, creating a broccoli hat, miniature set, weapons and collaborating for costumes to scheduling the actual day of filming, I’ve been very busy. The video is coming along nicely and I’m fairly impressed with the story it is telling. I’m stuck at a computer for the next month while editing and adding ray gun effects and so on.

I’d like to take this time to thank all of my friends for participating in this video; whether it be in production or in front of the camera, it means the world to me. Special thanks to Danny for all his hard camera work. I’ve watched all the raw footage and I’m expecting a 10 – 15 minute movie when it’s done.

Here are just a few pictures of what to expect from this crazy video coming out in the beginning of October.

Can’t wait to share it with you all!

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