Well-p, now I've done it. Hitting an even lower low than the low my loyal readers are accustomed to E.C. Henry delivering on -- I'm using an old Justin Timberlake song as part of the header for a blog post. ACTUALLY, that's not entirely true. What's more true is I'm acting on a recent celebrity who proved she could bring sexy back. What's even more true is that this been on my mind to do for quite a while.
The issue steams from my current lifestyle, and my desire to become a better me. Basically right now, I'm not eating healthy enough, spending too much time behind the keyboard, and am not getting enough exercise. So guess what? I'm going to challenge myself. Remake the fuck out of what I am right now.
E.C. Henry is going to see if E.C. Henry can bring sexy back. Time to drop some retro on yo' ass. Cuein' up Justin Timberlake. Take it away big fella:
"Bringing Sexy Back" by Justin Timberlake, isn't really my thing, but it seams to fit the given moment. See I'm 43 years old right now, and on June 10, 2013 I'll be 44 years old. So maybe it's time to see if I've any sexy left worth bringing back.
Is E.C. Henry sexy? I dunno. Maybe... I mean are we grading on a curve here? I'm not sure I ever had a lot of "sexy" in the tank to begin with -- even in my prime. Case and point. Exhibit A:
Wow! That's a lot of E.C. Henry. Probably a lot more that you want to see. But I first posted that picture back in December, 2011 in a "Sexy Writers" post.
But like it or not, that's the best gold standard of the ideal me -- if ever there was such a thing -- that I'm going to see how close I can come to approximating by June 10, 2013. Call it a mid-life crisis. Identity issue. Whatever the fuck you wanna label it, but I'm going to start working out, and stretching. I wanna see how much "sexy" I have left in the tank, and more importantly I want to feel better about how I'm taking care of my body.
My dogs Michah and Sam are very excited about this new project of mine, as that will include them on more runs around our property, as one of E.C. Henry's favorite forms of exercise is jogging.
Gunna be doing a lot of sit-ups too. Really wanna get my abbs in shape. You see when you hit a certain age, which I've already eclipsed, your metabolism slows and you're prone to packing on the lbs in the mid-section, ie. you get fat!
Now I'm no girl. Rather I'm a male writer. Sooo my "looks" aren't as important as say some A-list movie, female movie star. But by the same token I am a human being with a physical body to maintain. And sadly, lately I've neglected that. I'd be the first to admit that.
There will be no "before" picture. Only the shot of E.C. Henry "peacocking" when he was 19. There will, however, be a gunshow on June 10. THAT I can guarantee. Right now I don't feel real strong. And I want to see over these next 3 + months what I can do to my arms.
Am I insecure? Fuck no. If I fail, I fail. Trust me at age 43 soon to be 44 living at home with my parents, with no girlfriend and no real legit prospects, no friends at all to go out and do anything with, working at job where my real ambition is a different job where I'm paid to be in the entertainment industry, all I know right now is failure. So if I come out of this with egg on my face. Well, that's just par for the course. Loserville is place I know quite well.
You know I COULD start lying, and NOT tell you all these things, but I'm resolved NOT to be that kind of guy. RATHER, I'm going to to be honest. Brutally honest at times. I want you to like me for the me I really am, not for some fauxreason, not for misleading you by misrepresenting myself on this blog.
And just so you know, I am very hard on myself. I push myself very hard when I'm writing. Even know doing final line editing on "Bubblehead Saves the Day" I'm slaving away on every sentence. Pushing myself to write the best I'm capable of doing. Doesn't mean that'll push me over the edge and guarantee a sale. BUT I just can't let myself NOT do the best I'm capable of. Especially when it comes to my screenwriting. I do care very deeply about that. More than the way I look, I think. It's just now with this project about to wrap up, I feel it's time to invest in my physical body once again.
So I'm bringing sexy back. Or at least I'm going to try.
One celebrity whom I admire greatly has successfully brought her own sexy back. True, her appeal is very tied to her physicalbeauty. But the reality is she had some unflattering pictures taken of her once. And then her mother died this last summer. But you know what, Jennifer Love Hewitt fought back. She hit the gym. And now as a promotion for her latest TV series (on cable's Lifetime network) Jennifer Love Hewitt dropped this promotion video on the eve of year two of her TV series, "The Client List":
And I won't lie to you, I've never seen "The Client List" and even after Jennifer's electric performance in this video I still have no plans to do so. I just wish the best with her career, and hope that someday our career paths cross, as in my mind's eye she is Stacy Dutchmen from "Give It Up for Chimpy" and she is Jennifer Means and Holly Pearson (a duel role in the script) for "Cupid's Helpers".
Obvious question: do I have a thing for Jennifer Love Hewitt? Honest answer: no. I don't think you can have a "thing" for anyone you've never met before. Sure if I met her, and we hit it off -- and she actually like me (which would be the ultimate shock of them all) -- well then sure I'd take a shot at the title. But that'll probably never happen. It's just when I channelled up who envisioned the ultimate girl to be she was the actress I settled on -- and she reminded me, in a way, of a girl I knew in high school who I did have a secret crush on. Not that, that girl would ever know that, I never told her. But that is neither here nor there. Just something about me to file away in the back of your memory banks.
So as for tomorrow morning, I'm going running with the dogs. The new goal is 1 hour of exercise in the morning. 1/2 hour after work. Bringing sexy back? Well, I'm going to try...
- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA
P.S. Writing update. Still working on "Bubblehead Saves the Day." Really going over and over and over the same stuff over and over and over again just to test if I can make it any better. Truth; I am making it better, and that's what's keeping me going on this project at little longer that I wanted to.
P.S.S. Watched the Oscars tonight. Really liked Seth MacFarlane's voice. He didn't bowl me over with how funny he was, but all-in-all I thought he did ok. Only movie I was really pulling for was "Silver Linings Playbook." Huge fan of all things rom-com, as you should well know by know having read some of my previous posts.