MARCH-ing On: My Fulle February

Since we last met, LOTS of exciting stuff has happened... you could say it was a Fulle February.  First off, check out the brand new Fulle Circle Podcast logo created by Kali Fontecchio!

Pretty rad, huh?  Equally rad is that the band Absalom Absalom! recorded a theme song for us that will kick off every podcast from this point on, a Fulle Anthem if you will...

I can't stop rocking this tune, I've been chanting "we're coming FULLE CIRCLE" a lot lately.  So we gave our iTunes site a makeover and are lining up some pretty cool celebrity guests for the coming months to join us.  The podcast is going to become more of a "show" than previous episodes, and I'm going to rope in a co-host to help me make the episodes more entertaining... unless you want to hear a lonely boy babble to himself for the first 10 minutes of each show, I am definitely capable.

The past month has also been my starting point for writing my screenplay-turned-novel FOREVER DICK.  A major source of inspiration for me has been watching Kevin Smith's S.I.R. (SModcast Internet Radio) and his truly independent film, RED STATE, grow from being an idea that many naysayers "naysay'd" into a successful, profitable network and movie.  It got me to actually plop myself down in front of a blank page and start writing.  It also got me recognition on S.I.R.'s own HAVING SEX, WITH KATIE MORGAN.

However, the stress of trying to SELL a screenplay got to me.  I interviewed screenwriter Kate Lynch a few months back here in Orlando and got re-inspired to finish it.  I got to thinking, though, that a screenplay could take forever to sell, and does not have the promise of ever becoming a film.  I could invest blood, sweat and tears into a personal story that would no longer be mine and possibly no one would ever see, hear or read.  So that's where there idea of turning it into a novel came from.  I'm going to write it and put it out there myself, immediately for you guys to read!  I wrote on Twitter that the story is "about the struggle between career and love, heart and head. A comedy about jealousy, growing up, and theme parks."

Here's the conversation with Kate Lynch that spawned the ambition...

Another revamp that took place in the past month is the remodeling of FulleCircle.com.  It's no longer accessible if you type in "www" at the beginning, you have to go to http://FulleCircle.com.  The new site is a lot easier to navigate around and also has a mobile app!  I've been accused of being lazy in life, so I just want to take a moment and look back at all of the documented interviews I've conducted independently since starting Fulle Circle.  Not to blow myself, but it's pretty impressive for a non-professional...

The Fulle List of Interviews:

1. John Kricalusi (creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show)

2.  Jennifer Terran (singer/songwriter)

3. Kali Fontecchio (artist)

4. Katie Rice (artist)

5. Mark Mayerson (artist)

6. Kristy Gordon (artist)

7. Nick Cross (artist)

8. Jessica Rae Gordon (artist)

9. Eddie Fitzgerald (artist)

10. Pete Emslie (artist)

11. Kelsey Brookes (artist)

12. Fred Osmond (artist)

13. Jorge Gutierrez (creator of El Tigre)

14. Brianne Drouhard (artist)

15. Monica Grue (artist)

16. Brigette Barrager (artist)

17. Bob Camp (co-creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show)

18. Tara Billinger (artist)

19. Jerry Beck (author/ creator of CartoonBrew.com)

20. JJ Sedelmaier (animator/ SNL)

21. Dean Wellins (animator)

22. Myra Lopez (artist)

23. Prudence Fenton (producer/ Pee Wee's playhouse)

24. Molly Crabapple (artist)

25. Andrew Clement (make-up artist)

26. Sandra Equihua (artist)

27. John Sanford (artist)

28. Aaron Blaise (artist)

29. Linda Simensky (producer)

30. Joe Dante (producer/ director)

31.  Katie Vogel (singer/ songwriter)

32. Cory Edwards (producer/ director)

33. Lisa Henson (producer/ daughter of Jim Henson)

34. Tom Sito (artist)

35. Paul Dini (creator of Batman: The Animated Series/ writer on LOST)

36. Katt Shea (actress)

37. Dan Lund (artist)

38. Mindy Aloff (author)

39. Tom Bancroft (artist)

40. Kelli Baker (actress/ dancer)

41. Lucas Grabeel (actor/ High School Musical)

42. Lana McKissack (actress/ Four Rooms)

43. Elizabeth Ito (artist)

44. Sid Haig (actor/ Coffy, Foxy Brown, Jackie Brown)

45. Bill D'Elia (writer/ Boston Legal, Ally McBeal)

46. Joe Morton (actor/ Eureka, Terminator 2)

47. Orenda Fink (singer/ songwriter from Azure Ray)

48. Eric Bauza (voice actor)

49. Morgan Nagler (singer/ songwriter from Whispertown 2000)

50. Bill Champlin (singer/ songwriter from Chicago)

51. Alan Tanner (singer/ songwriter/ music video director)

52. Floyd Norman (artist)

53. Amanda Micheli (documentary filmmaker)

54. Katee Sackhoff (actress/ 24, Battlestar Galactica)

55. Zoe Bell (actress/ stuntwoman/ Kill Bill, Death Proof)

56. Nicki Clyne (actress/ Battlestar Galactica)

57. Lydia (band)

58. Danielle Harris (actress/ Halloween, The Last Boyscout)

59. America Olivo (actress)

60. Tom Kenny (voice of Spongebob Squarepants)

61. Dee Wallace (actress/ E.T., The Howling)

62. Electra Avellan (actress/ Machete, Planet Terror)

63. Scottie Thompson (actress/ Star Trek)

64. John Landis (producer/ director)

65. Stacy Walker (choreographer)

66. Ralph Bakshi (artist/ producer/ writer/ director)

67. Danielle Fishel (actress/ Boy Meets World)

68. Heather Masse (singer/ songwriter)

69. Mindy White (singer/ songwriter/ States/ Lydia)

70. Randal Kleiser (producer/ director/ Grease)

71. Sarah Churchwell (author)

72. Shauna Cross (screenwriter)

73. Amy Kuney (singer/ songwriter) 

74. The Watson Twins (singers/ songwriters)

75. Rachel Goodrich (singer/ songwriter)

76. Holly Miranda (singer/ songwriter)

77. Neil Grayston (actor/ Eureka)

78. Elyse Levesque (actress/ Stargate: Universe)

79. Christian Serratos (actress/ Twilight)

80. Lea Thompson (actress/ Back to the Future, Howard the Duck)

81. Magda Apanowicz (actress/ Caprica)

82. Alessandra Torresani (actress/ Caprica, Husbands)

83. Kari Jobe (singer/ songwriter)

84. Hope Juber (daughter of Sherwood Schwartz) 

85. Samm Levine (actor/ Freaks and Geeks, Inglorious Basterds)

86. Stephen DeStefano (artist)

87. Sarah Hagan (actress/ Freaks and Geeks)

88. Richard Kind (actor/ Carol & Co., Spin City)

89. Amy Grant (singer/ songwriter)

90. Richard Hatch (actor/ Battlestar Galactica)

91. John Carpenter (producer/ writer/ director)

92. Sharen Camille (actress/ Psycho IV)

93. Edward James Olmos (actor/ Miami Vice, Battlestar Galactica)

94. Bear McCreary (composer/ Battlestar Galactica, Terminator)

95. Tad Stones (creator of Darkwing Duck)

96. Dana Rosendorff (actress/ Perfectus)

97. Megan Phelps

98. Scott Mosier (producer/ writer/ Clerks, Chasing Amy)

99. Courage My Love (lead-singer Mercedes Arn-Horn)

100. William Katt (actor/ Big Wednesday, The Greatest American Hero)

101. Barry Bostwick (actor/ The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Spin City)

102. Malcolm McDowell (actor/ A Clockwork Orange)

103. Warren Davis (creator of Q*bert)

104. Stephanie D'Abruzzo (performer from Avenue Q, Sesame Street)

105. Richard Karn (actor/ Home Improvement)

106. Tab Murphy (writer/ director)

107. Jodie Sweetin (actress/ Full House)

108. Roscoe Orman (actor/ Sesame Street)

109. Amber Benson (author/ actress/ Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

110. Rider Strong (actor/ Boy Meets World)

111. Tara Platt (voice actor/ author)

112. Terry Angus (Muppet Performer/ Fraggle Rock, The Muppet Movie)

113. Kate Lynch (screenwriter/ Renee)

114. Robin Meade (host of HLN's Morning Express)

115. Steve Barron (producer/ director)

116. Thomas Ian Nicholas (actor & musician/ American Pie/ Rookie of the Year)

117. Brea Grant (actress/ H2/ Dexter)

118. Dollface (Band/ Tiffany Martin)

119. Robert Taylor (Disney Animator)

120. Alyssa Lobit (actress & writer/ Among Friends)

121. Kathryn McCormick (actress & dancer/ Step Up: Revolution)

122. Johanna Long (NASCAR Racer)

123. Eszter Balint (actress & musician/ Stranger Than Paradise)

THANK YOU for hitting up Fulle Circle, and bringing in nearly 200,000 hits as of March 2012.  I promise to make Act II twice as exciting and entertaining.  Stay tuned...

FULLE CIRCLE GUY: The Man With No Name

So tonight I received a HUGE surprise from PHILLY'S most talented chick, Stacy Pierce!  She took our beloved (unnamed) Fulle Circle Guy from paper...

And MOLDED him into a STATUE...

Here's a few more shots from different angles...

GO NOW to Stacy's SITE and check out her other rad stuff!

Here's some more cool FULLE GUY stuff by Kali Fontecchio...

The Original Design

Our 1st Magazine Cover

Official Website Banner

And for the kids, a FULLE CUT-OUT MASK!

Follow Artist Kali Fontecchio on Twitter: @kalikazoo

Origins (The Fulle Story)

Welcome to my NEW blog!  My official home to vent, celebrate, and plan all things creative with those of you who have enough free time to join me on my ride to an unknown destination.  I always talk about how crazy it is that the "little" left and right turns we make in life can lead us up a road we never could have anticipated traveling.  For example, the audio clip below of Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes (aka Jay & Silent Bob) talking about my work LIVE on the radio for 7 full minutes... if you would have told me five years ago that would happen, I would have said you're BALLS CRAZY.  Take a listen below and then we will continue...

My first year living in Orlando, Florida I remember watching An Evening with Kevin Smith and getting CRAZY inspired... my roommate, Rob, in the background saying "Dude, don't go burying yourself in credit card debt just because Kevin Smith told you to."  I didn't listen.  It was about two weeks later that our new film equipment and computer arrived via my shiny new credit card and we'd start producing The Orlando Show.

The Orlando Show went over fairly well considering there was no You Tube or Facebook yet for us to showcase it on.  We were actually being recognized around town for the retarded videos we were pumping weekly into MySpace once a week, and working on that show was one of the most fun experiences I've ever had!  It consumed our lives.  Every day was about thinking up new ways to make people laugh, and being kicked out of Walt Disney World (and shamed out of the Holy Land Experience) in the process.  This wasn't my first experience in creating mindless, shamefully low budget videos, though...

The Wetlands was my first BIG film project with Paul Cloud, and I bit off A LOT more than I could chew with a 90 minute feature comedy about an alliGAYtor that attacks a small Louisiana town.  It starred just about our entire high school and we premiered it on the BIG SCREEN (aka video projector at a local church)... it felt very familiar to the scene in Ed Wood where they are watching their masterpiece of shit in total awe of their achievement.  Only Plan 9 From Outer Space was much better than our film.

I followed THE WETLANDS with The Lonesome Ghosts of New Orleans, a documentary about paranormal activity in Louisiana which ended up being more about the weird people of New Orleans than the actual dead people.  It was ultimately a major fail, but the poster looks pretty awesome, right?

Se Separer came after THE ORLANDO SHOW, a short film about the first 24 hours that follow a break-up.  It's still my FAVORITE thing I've made.  Megan DeCosta and I attempted working on other projects together that ultimately went nowhere, like a live action version of Penelope Pitstop and a horror short called Beacon which accidentally played out as a comedy.

Eventually I ended up becoming roommates with Megan and new internet video crap-fest was born! BUDDIES!  A puppet show about a bunch of puppets who are... buddies.

Once the creative juices started flowing it seems like there was something new every week- Some that went nowhere...

... and some that DID...

(Above) My FIRST published article, An Oral History of Ren & Stimpy, is published by Hogan's Alley Magazine!  (Below) is a sample page of the article which you can purchase HERE.

I also worked with actress Nicki Clyne from Battlestar Galactica to produce a ZINE, inspired by MAD and CRACKED MAGAZINE, which features interviews, games, articles, and even a spot for her to autograph it for you!  It's a Limited Edition that is still on sale HERE.

(Below is my introduction to the Nicki Clyne Fan 'Zine)

In all the COUNTLESS numbers of projects I've either completed or abandoned, NOTHING has been more successful for me than FulleCircle.com  It's the result of ONE conversation with my friend Ryan Cipriani that changed my life.  It's a site inspired by the curiosity I share with William Miller from Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous where I've been lucky enough to interview actors, writers, directors, musicians, artists, and others that have inspired me growing up.  A lot of friendships have been the result of FULLE CIRCLE, as well as a few paying jobs... and this is JUST the beginning...

This new blog is an invitation to join me on PART 2 of the journey, the second chapter where I apply EVERYTHING I've learned so far and plow FULLE steam ahead into the unknown, but this time with a little more solid direction.  2012 is going to be devoted to noticeable change, at the end of the year I want to be able to look back at Mt. Everest knowing we just climbed it... TOGETHER.  The fact is, anything I create is NOTHING if you don't devour it, so THANK YOU for being on this page.  You could be doing anything right now, and you're here with me, helping gear up to prove that your wildest dreams can come true.

There are three BIG projects for 2012 that I'm really excited about. #1 is the Fulle Circle Podcast which will be continuing in "Asking Interesting People Interesting Questions" in interviews with celebrity guests on iTunes & You Tube.  #2 is The Orlando Show Podcast which will showcase everything we love about O-Town.  No, not the band.  whoreLANDO!  There's SO MUCH here beyond Disney and Universal that tourists don't know about, and we're going to showcase the REAL side of Orlando with a new comedy podcast that debuts on iTunes in February.  Yes... just in time for Valentines Day, ladies.  And #3 is my novel, Forever Dick, which I want to see completed AND published before the year is up!

It's going to be a year without sleep.  I sincerely hope you join me for the insomnia adventure.