Only some have debuted early.. but here ya go anyway

Acura NSX – Jerry Seinfeld

Honda CRV – Ferris Bueller (Mathhew Broderick)

Camaro Best Gift Ever

Chevy Sonic

Audi Vampires

VW – The Dog Strikes Back

Toyota – Reinvented

Fiat – Seduction

Kia – Dreams

edit.. they did a good job with this.

The big game is this Sunday and even though Bryci and I aren’t really monster football fans, we’ll be watching, wings and beer in place.

COMMERCIALS ARE AWESOME, YO

So..umm.. who’s playing?

ps.. for you hardcore Adriana Lima fans.. here’s 5 hours of her waving a flag in slow motion.

Yes, 5 hours. 360 minutes, 21,600 seconds.

I always had more fun playing rec league with buddies anyway. We’d rent an arena, get 30 guys and go at 10 at night to play hockey for two hours.

This Budweiser commercial airs with the Superbowl, if you’ve ever been a rec league player, or a minor leaguer.. this will make you smile.

Imagine, you go to play the opposing team, the normal fans would be 5 people max in the stands.. then all of a sudden… you have fans, mascots, hot girls painted, video crews, replays…

wow.

This video is awesome.

These are FREE galleries for promotional use, so you can see what we’re about inside the network. These are promo galleries, they have 15 images each where as the full set has 50-150 images. Always cracks me up when i see losers posting Bryci site, Katie Banks site rip, Talia Shepard site rip, Kiss Kara site rip, Monroe Lee site rip, Ava dawn site rip.

Their so called site rips are usually promo content we give out for free but they think it’s the full sites. HA! Morons.

The network itself right now has 36388 photos, 692 Videos and that’s up to date as of Feb 1, 2012.

I’m working on a huge multi model site right now for the network that will go live in February sometime that will push that number closer to the 75,000 – 100,000 image mark and up. Yes, it’s included for free for Bella members.

I sort of took January off to heal and get better but hey, last time I checked… it’s FEBRUARY now.

Time to rock some shit.

Go check the latest galleries if you’re bored! Click the image below to go there, or click girls above, either way works.

Fuck yeah, I’m baaaaack

ps.. I mentioned all those ‘site rips’ for google.. some idiot will search for that term later.. ie Bryci site rip and this site will come up.

In 2011 I was somewhat a whirlwind of work. I told myself in 2012 I was going to step back, work smarter. Work less, live more. I’ll still of course carry my end of things with people I work with, that’s my job. =) I just refuse to be glued to my computer is the thing.

So three weeks ago today, I underwent surgery, I’m still mending and every day has seen an improvement so I can’t complain. I still am sore (of course), I have a nine inch scar on my stomach that is awesome. I previously had an eight inch scar that was an inch wide, 1/2 inch deep… so my old scar has been replaced with a new and improved scar. lol This one is small, skinny, will go away or at least fade in time. yaaaaay!

The doctor got rid of my hernia I didn’t even know I had, which def. explains why I could never loose belly fat, no matter what I did. What was odd was my belly never jiggled.. it was solid mass. That should have been my first clue. It looked a little like roid gut, except I don’t do roids.

So now that it’s gone.. I’m *much* skinnier than I was. Bryci keeps saying.. YOU’RE SO SKINNY! to me when she sees me checking out my scar or something.

side note – chicks dig scars, just sayin.

Yesterday I went for my 3 week check up. Doc told me I am still swollen so I’m going to get even smaller. About 70% of my swelling is gone, but 30% or so still remains. He told me I have around 4mm of fat on my tummy as well. I had asked him how much fat I actually have since he just saw me open. He said he couldn’t pinch fat on my stomach if he tried, so for the first time in what… eight years? I am EXCITED again about working out.

I can’t start working out just yet of course, I’d fuck myself up. I need to chill till April/May area at the earliest but this doesn’t mean I am sitting idly by. Doc told me that he would suggest I loose 10 pounds, maybe 15 if I was able. This is internal fat, surrounding my organs. Most of you have it, it’s where fat grows first.

So when you start a diet or new health regime and you’ve lost three pounds but you can’t really see much of a difference… it’s because you lost it on the inside. That’s where it always goes first.

Yesterday i decided.. go time.

For the next 90 days, I am going to subject myself to nothing but healthy foods. No grains, no milk. Removing those two, believe it or not, you’ll lose weight. I know, you’re thinking… but Milk and Bread is good for you! umm.. No, no it’s not. Pasta isn’t either. Sure, they taste delicious, but they’re far from good for you.

Dr William Davis did an interview with Macleans recently on “The Evils of eating wheat and why shunning it will make you skinny“.. here’s a quote..

Q: How does wheat make us fat, exactly?

A: It contains amylopectin A, which is more efficiently converted to blood sugar than just about any other carbohydrate, including table sugar. In fact, two slices of whole wheat bread increase blood sugar to a higher level than a candy bar does. And then, after about two hours, your blood sugar plunges and you get shaky, your brain feels foggy, you’re hungry. So let’s say you have an English muffin for breakfast. Two hours later you’re starving, so you have a handful of crackers, and then some potato chips, and your blood sugar rises again. That cycle of highs and lows just keeps going throughout the day, so you’re constantly feeling hungry and constantly eating. Dieticians have responded to this by advising that we graze throughout the day, which is just nonsense. If you eliminate wheat from your diet, you’re no longer hungry between meals because you’ve stopped that cycle. You’ve cut out the appetite stimulant, and consequently you lose weight very quickly. I’ve seen this with thousands of patients.

If you’re wondering why/how Milk is bad for you.. check this article (there are hundreds online).

“The countries with the highest rates of osteoporosis are the ones where people drink the most milk and have the most calcium in their diets. The connection between calcium consumption and bone health is actually very weak, and the connection between dairy consumption and bone health is almost nonexistent.”

I know, again.. we were told Milk was good for us growing up, right?

Well, if you go back to the 30’s and 40’s, into the 50’s even… you’ll find there were other things people were told were good for you that we today know is not true.

Is it possible that Wheat and Milk are actually harmful to us?

Sure, why not? Obviously not the same risks as cigarettes but do your research, you’ll find they’re not good for you. I was shocked. It kind of sucks, last week I was eating two huge whole wheat turkey sandwiches per day while recovering, along with 2 to 3 huge glasses of milk.

Derp. My bad.

So now what am I doing?

Well, for breakfast, I make a protein shake consisting of Muscle Milk protein (see pix if curious if good for you), a tablespoon of flaxseed oil, one teaspoon of Macha green tea, 1 cup of Almond milk, a cup of frozen strawberries and one fresh banana. Blend and drink. This provides you with omega 3’s, your healthy fats as well as protein, carbs, you name it. This will beat the shit out of what 99% of people have for breakfast health wise.

Hell, my doc suggested this mix to me yesterday. He said he’ll drink this and then be fine through 8 hours of surgery when needed.

The key to loosing weight safely, is retraining your metabolism. Drinking the needed water, one once per pound of body weight. So if you weigh 150, you drink 150 ounces over the course of the day and no, this will not damage your kidneys, again, do some research if needed. What this will do is flush the toxins from your body. If you’re at the desk all day, drink 75% of your weight in water… so 150 pound person would drink 112.5 ounces (150 x .75 = 112.50)

If you do nothing else but cut wheat, cut milk, drink water, you’ll loose weight. Nice hey?

We’re not even talking about the rest of what you’d be eating.

Veggies – as much as you like.

Fruit – try to keep under 2 pieces per day, otherwise fructose can cause insulin spiking which would cause you to soar, then crash later

Meat – fish, turkey, chicken, beef – all great sourced of protein (in that order)

Grains – stay away from all grains, no exception. This means things made with flour too so no more oatmeal, cereal etc

Milk – almond milk is almonds, ground in water. That’s it. No actual milk yet it tastes so close it’s stupid. It’s also healthy fats, omega 3’s… so yes, this is a good thing because you’re supposed to be eating 20-25% of your daily intake as healthy fats.

Believe it or not, this is pretty straight forward. Some might even say easy.

So I am giving myself 90 days to shed 10 pounds. 90 days is 12 weeks, so if I loose 1 pound a week, which is safe to do with it staying off, I can reach my goal. Then, come the 91st day.. I start in on Occum’s Protocol, which calls for a 5 second cadence when lifting. I got bigger then I have ever gotten using this last time I did it. B said she’d never seen me gain size that fast.

I’m pumped and yes, I will shot before/afters down the road, count on it.

So that’s what’s been up for me. Been busy, healing, living.

I’m just about to start writing again as well.. I know, I know, you’re excited. Thing is, i’m not going to list my books here when i write them, they won’t be jamesdot books. They’ll be ME books as in, my real, legal name. I figure… why not have some fun? Always cool to be able to point out to family and friends that you’re also an author, right?

Hope your life has been great, hope the week treats you awesome.

I’m off to shower, perhaps even shave for the first time in weeks. I’ve trimmed prior to this but nothing beats a hot shower and a clean close shave, ya know?

Interesting change from Cameron’s Dad’s 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California (Spyder) to a 2012 Honda CR-V.

This movie is still in my all time top three from growing up. Ferris was/is awesome. If you haven’t seen this, see it. Here’s a 10 min clip from the movie.

Ferris selling Hondas?

sad, sad depressing times.

If you had access to a car like this, would you take it back right away?

Neither would I.

So the other one has a taper in it for an hour or two, stretching it out more…

So there ya go, updates for those bored as fuck.

Growing up, I always had small ears. Not a clue why, well, genetics I suppose. I wanted to get tunnels a long time back, but I figured my ear lobes were too small. I have little ear lobes. I mean, SM all.

So about 3 months back or so, Bryci and I are driving home from our accountant and I figured, fuck it, go time. I told her I had a detour if she was fine with it, she said sure and off we went. We went down to a well known tattoo shop and we sort of know the owner so I told him what I wanted to do. He asked what my end goal was.

I didn’t want pierced ears in the sense of having studs or something. Some guys have diamond studs and that’s fine, but I’m not the blingy kind of guy. No disrespect to those with studs, they’re fine.. . just not my style is the thing. I like tunnels, but I didn’t want too big. I see some guys with huge tunnels… damn. great for them but I know my lobes are not that big and well, I’m not really into that look.

I wanted my end goal to be a 0 gauge.

So I have never had my ears pierced before, so i went in and I started with a 8 gauge as my first piercing. There was this girl in the waiting area and she asked what i was doing. i told her.. her eyes went huge. She looked at B.. B smiled and nodded… it’s like the girls were in on something and being s guy, not knowing shit about piercing… i was left out of the joke.

The joke was this.. when people get their ears done.. they start at gauge 14 or 12.

Gauges go in 2’s so.. 14…12…10…8…6…4…2…0

So I jumped four full sizes ahead of where people start usually. This means larger needle popping a whole in my ears. The needle was decent sized and yes, there was def. a sharp WTF feeling when pierced. Meh, not that bad.

So right now, I am a 8 and you generally wait 1-2 months between moving up sizes. I’m going to a 6 gauge when able. I tried the other day but my lobes were not stretching out. Fuckers. I tried the typical hot wash cloth on the skin for 2-3 minutes, still.. nothing.

So today, I’m trying a different approach. I was told that hanging some weight from my ears will stretch out the lobes a little. Nothing too crazy but weight works. I have these little weights from a camera stabilizing unit so I asked Bryci to thread these to my ears to weigh them down a little. So as I sit at my desk.. my lobes are slowly stretching *hopefully* out. Then I’ll slap in my 6 gauges later if all goes well.

These are 8 gauge tunnels.. the new ones are black, bigger.. slowly but surely I’ll get there. I’m weighting them down here in this pic to stretch them so I can move to 6’s.

I just snapped this with the iphone to show you the new ones.. the shine on the 0 gauge is the mirror light. These are black. I changed the levels in this next pic so you see the hole better.. so you see the size difference better. The photo above is the way they look, the photo below is with levels changed.

I’m sure there are some guys out there that think guys with pierced ears are _______ (fill in negative shit word here). My reply to those guys would be simple, good for you. I could care less what others think, it’s what I want that matters. One of the first things I noticed when I had my sleeve started was you get to see people’s reaction before they open their mouth. Some people are open minded and they simply don’t care. Most people could give a shit if you have a piercing, tattoo etc. Those that get bent over something so trivial, I feel sad for. To live life with such a closed mind, ewww. That would seriously suck.

Next up.. aside from of course moving to gauge 6, then 4, then 2, then eventually 0.. (2-3-4 months between each to prevent blow outs where the ear lobe gets ripped) would be having my sleeve completed. See, right now, it’s needing to be redone as far as re-inked to make it blacker. Then after that, the inside areas get done. Not sure if I am going to go with shading to make it three dimensional or add color or something else but it’ll be bad ass when done.

The same guy that did my last ink (be the change on my left arm) is going to do it. He’s amazing, so I’m excited. I wanted to do something with buddha somewhere, but not sure where because I don’t want to ink most of my body. I like most of my body being ink free, easier to see tone that way when you’re working out.

Belly Fat

I can’t quite explain how different my outlook on working out has changed in the past two weeks. Two weeks ago tomorrow, I underwent surgery. I have lived the past seven/eight years with mass frustration. See, I could work out, I could add 3 and 4 inches to my arms, chest, B will vouch.. when i start trying to gain size, I gain size quickly (thank you muscle memory) but my stomach did nothing. I did massive bouts of cardio, eating clean, drinking my weight in water and my body would rip up fast… but my tummy was this blob of FUCK YOU. I was so pissed. Why won’t my stomach change!!?? God damn it, I am doing all the right things!!!

Then I see a doc and he tells me my fascia was damaged and oh yeah, I had a hernia. A fucking HERNIA for the past 7-8 years. So no amount of working out was going to flatten my stomach. I needed surgery. Fuuuuuuck.

So, two weeks out… I had the surgery, I have less then 1/2 inch of fat on my stomach.. I am bloated still mind you but every day I get a little smaller, a little tighter. I was told I can’t start working out until April/May but to be safe, I am not going to push myself hard until June. Excited doesn’t quite cover it. Finally, I can get back to having my six pack. When done, I’ll post before/after pix. When you see what i was rockin belly wise, without sucking in… you’ll shit. I 1000% guarantee you regardless of seeing pix of me here or there, videos from behind the scenes shooting with the Bella ladies.. I was a *lot* larger belly wise then you thought.

Makes me smile, I wonder how many people I know would see my tummy and wonder why I had such a pot belly. My Mom’s husband, my step father I guess.. made a comment to me once about how B must feed me well because I had a tummy. He said it (family) but I bet others thought it.

Knowing it wasn’t my fault and now, the roadblock has been cleared… yeah, beyond excited. I know the road back is not easy but the past 6-8 years have been far from easy anyway so this will be nothing.

If you have a pot belly but can’t for the life of you understand why (ie – you’re not fat elsewhere on your frame), go see a doc, it’s possible you too have a hernia and are simply unaware. I would never thought this myself if the doc hadn’t told me. I even got cool instructions.

So it’s been a fun two weeks.. but fuck yes, slowly but surely getting back to feeling normal. I’m sure B is pleased, she’s been Nurse Bryci and while it’s been amazing having her take care of me, I think she needs a break too.

I’l try and get back to more blogs this week. I am easing myself back into work mode this week, coming off all meds, so life resumes shortly. Oddly enough, as nice as the downtime has been, i feel like a rather retarded bump on the log, so getting back to work will be nice.