LATEST:
Went by Adam Film World Magazine and picked up my trophy for Texas' Asshole Massacre. It won 2005 Award for Best Parody. I am really proud of it and proud of what the cast and crew accomplished with that movie.

FRIDAY:
Spent a few hours running into a few people I knew. Did a cool little picture and video montage for a friend who couldn't make it. You know, here is a picture ... click on it and the see the video of that person's message. People were very nice and supportive. Couldn't find our booth so Skronker and I headed to Santa Monica for the ADT Party. Him and I had time to chat at the bar as we were so early. At the party many of the ADT regulars were there then Speigler showed up with 6 cuties. One was, the eventual winner, Taryn Thomas, her and I spent a bit of time discussing a scene for Tom Byron's House of Ass #4 that I shot, that she starred in, and that she attacked Tommy's ass in ... the scene was unforgettable for both of us, damn all three of us.

My brother Ricky D and her are good friends. So Taryn, Speigler, and I went on a mission to get my brother to the dinner. He is not a big social guy, but with two dudes calling, and a hottie texting ... our mission was complete. I felt bad for my brother as he arrived 30 minutes before ALL the girls left. So now he was stuck with this sausagefest heading to a pub. We spent and hour or so discussing anything and everything ... the two brothers being the only sober ones there. Close to 1:00am we went our own ways, as I drove Skronker, Dan, Eric, and Luke to their respective hotels. Skronker got me worried as he was in and out of sleep during the ride. I was worried that he might be going to my house if I couldn't wake him up. I got him up and drove him to his palace. He stumbled out of the truck, down the sidewalk and into the building. I got home at 2:30am, did my the picture/video message montage and was in bed by 3:30am.

SATURDAY:
In the morning I was up at 8:00am ready for the CINE GEAR and all the fun I can imagine.

SUNDAY:
I got to the Convention around 4:30pm, not expecting much from my day. It was a bad, long night of emotional stress. I spent a few hours running into numerous people. I made sure I wore my custom made "IamIvan" Nike shoes per Eric's request. He spent a few minutes on the ground taking pictures of them as Kitty looked on in confusion. He took the pics, we laughed, we cried. Actually there was no crying, just some cuddling. And spooning on the show floor.

Ran into all Dem ADT Boyz ... "snap with it, pose with it, snap with it, pose with it!" My homage to the less popular Dem Franchise Boyz. Had a very nice conversation with Devinn, it was a pleasure meeting and discussing the Biz with her. Spent a few minutes chatting with Vivian West, while doing so got kicked in my arse by the infamous Rob Black, Rob Black! Hung out with Caroline Pierce, VO extraordinaire. We share the love of horror movies, she gave me her's before and I presented her with my Slut-O-Ramas. Saw Kitty, Avena, Paris, more of Dem ADT Boyz, then met up with Da Burglar and headed for the Blue Syren dinner. Snowman has been a good supporter of mine, he runs Blue Syren Productions and Raincoat Reviews. He is all about the Asians, the Asians I tell you! He invited me to this dinner and being a sucker for free food and cute girls I was there bib and all.

We arrived early and with some time to spare I went shopping. Saw cool purses but didn't need one, saw some cool props didn't need any, cool gadgets ? nah. But I did get some freeze dried astronaut ice cream.

Dinner started at 7:00pm with a house full of Asians, porn folks, and board fans. My eyes lit up when I spotted my two Youth "n" Asia stars ... from #1, Mika Tan (with her man Alec Knight) and from #2 Avena Lee (with hopefully just her friend :)) Geez there were so many cute girls. Kiwi and Maxi helped me with my buffet plates and tray. I guess they couldn't tell by my looks that I had a few experiences at a buffet table. I guess they were just being nice. And they were, very nice. Kiwi eventually ganked my Black Russian Films hat and threw up some "Westside" OG style! Never met her before, she was sooo cute and fun. And a gangsta! Can you beat that? Met Evelyn Lee who is new and ridiculously attractive. Dang with so many pretty girls, I want to shoot Youth 'N' Asia #3, NOW!

We spotted a familiar face from across the room. It was the actor who played "Harold" from Harold and Kumar go to White Caste and the inventor of "Milf" from American Pie. He was there with family and friends celebrating his birthday, singing Karaoke all night long. Later in the night the poor guy got bombarded by boobs and hugs, as flash bulbs burst. The girls eventually made their way to him for a Kodak moment.

Later in the night I noticed a fan from the board show up that looked a bit like an old friend. I told Snowman and he yelled out the name. I was shocked it was him "YC" in the house. He is known as RoadRunner but back in the day we just knew him as one bad ass dude. YC and I went to Jr high and High School together over 20 years ago. Small World. Recently I have found, was found, or ran into so many old friends and teachers it's kind of scary. Except now I am Ivan back then I was Slava. Back in Junior High YC tried teaching me to rap, he even remembered the song. We reminisced over great stories mostly discussing the old High School football days. We played one year together but had plenty of stories to tell from the wonderful Inner City of Los Angeles. A few highlights consisted of:

The Jordan HS game ... as the fans tried to flip over the bus and gang-bangers hanging out with weapons in our end zone.

The Locke HS game ... Helmets on! Windows closed! while still on the bus to and from the game. We had fans throw rocks at us as we walked to the locker room.

The CRAZY Washington game ... all of the above plus a Gang fight starting on the field, escalating through our bench and over the fence. It was like a dust ball of bandanas, fists, pipes.

Los Angeles Public Education at it's finest. I loved the movie Colors. :) BTW, YC at one point was not on the football team but still managed to practice and tackle us without any pads. We were all bruised through our gear as this wild man would jump and tackle us before the coaches would run him off.

As the night continued some of the girls jumped on stage and did their best of singing and grinding to Madonna and Cyndi Lauper songs.

I have to admit I had a really good time. I am not a partier or a big social person but this was fun, really fun. I met some nice people and made some good contacts. I think even Da Burglar enjoyed himself. Shit he had Avena on his lap hugging and kissing his head. Lucky Bastard.

Snowman out did anything I could have expected. Great time! Great end to a long week and great beginning to a new one.