New York City Objective

Been back from Nashville for 4 days now, Times Square daily. It's been awesome as all hell, very busy, mass photos and press as always. Nearly every day there are photographers literally waiting for me to arrive and begin shooting immediately upon my arrival. Today I walked over to Manny's Music to get stings and picks and was promised again that they would like to do some promotional work with me. Some guys from the Howard Stern Show came and took some audio feeds for Father's Day, stuff about 'thanking dad for not pulling out.' So juvenile, yet, who cares. I really don't know if he's with Sirius, XM Radio, or what, glad to still be hearing from them in some capacity. MTV has been shooting daily right in front of my axis as the show TRL must be shooting and airing in the afternoon now? Planet Hollywood is of course a big draw to the area as well and the doormen are always waving and encouraging people to come over for a good butt squeeze. I'm expecting a massively busy weekend cause, well, they always are. I was away last weekend shooting with Ron Israel Productions, 'Behind the Scenes' which will probably have some new youtubes up tonight of our adventure, so I'm totally pumped about herculean crowds with unequalled media potential. I just ran 6 miles at the Secaucus High School, and been working out daily at Atlantis Health and Fitness. I watched most of Nixon, the movie directed by Oliver Stone, featuring Anthony Hopkins and am now re-reading my 'A Pocket History of the United States,' by Allan Nevins and Henry Steele Commager with Jeffrey Morris. It takes you through the entire 400 plus years of American History, from the first colonial settlements, the imperial problem, the revolution and the confederation, the making of the Constitution, National Unity, Jacksonian Democracy, Sectional Struggles, Modern America, the rise of Big Business, Labor and immigration, the Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, the Korean War, the John F. Kennedy Era, the Eisenhower Administration, the Ronald Reagan and George Bush years, just incredible. I love going through four centuries of development in world Freedom. So inspiring to know how much has gone into creating the platform on which I stand, and what honor is invested in being responsible enough to fight daily for such a privilege. Countless centuries of single celled organisms to make something venerable enough to leave the water, eventually sit, fly, stand upright, talk, think. Then countless centuries of survival of the fittest, Kings, Rulers by divine right, Landowners ruling based solely on property/wealth, association with the Ruler, the Despot, etc. Then after God know how long, some bad ass courageous dudes get on some huge boats and discover a land the eventually stands for Freedom, Democracy, Representative Government. Now, after another 400 years, Naked Cowboy comes to affirm the height of human development with the pure expression of what a Free man is all about. Maybe I'm reading more into it than is there. I doubt it.