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Michigan State And Purdue Flags

Posted by Steve Kremer in Friends & Family on October 31st, 2009

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I’ve got my Michigan State and Purdue flags flying.  Ready to watch some Big Ten football!

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Unlike Tropical Storm “Danny” my son has…

Posted by Steve Kremer in Friends & Family, Twitter Posts on August 26th, 2009

Unlike Tropical Storm “Danny” my son has evolved from “Danny” into “Dan”. Photo proof.

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Parallel Parking Practice

Posted by Steve Kremer in Friends & Family on August 15th, 2009

My 16 year old son Brad will be taking his driving test in a couple of weeks.  This afternoon we practiced parallel parking. A couple of lawn chairs played the part of other cars.  Safer that way.

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My Past Adventures In Television Land

Posted by Steve Kremer in Friends & Family, Movies & TV on July 11th, 2009

A publicity photo circa 1985 for News 15 WANE-TV, Ft. Wayne, Indiana.  That’s me in the center with the tie.  At my left is Rick Portrikus. We were supposed to look like we were producing the 6PM news

Recently I was reviewing a resume and it reminded me of an old story from TV Land.  Back in the days before the personal computer people created their resumes on a machine called a typewriter.  Some people knew how to type, others didn’t.  I did so a young co-worker asked me to type his resume.  He was a part time TV News production assistant who was looking for full time work and was quite literally “fresh off the farm” from one of the little towns around Ft. Wayne.  As I was typing up the resume I noted that his job history listed every single job he ever had.  I advised him that maybe he should leave off his very first job.  He had listed as his first job “Shoveled manure at my uncle’s farm when I was 14.” I took it off the resume, but in retrospect I think that perhaps shoveling shit and the TV news did have a lot in common.

Here are some links to other stories from my storied Radio & TV past:

Hey, Nice Tie

A Christmas Parade

Song Racing & Tipsy Ted Turner

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It Ain’t Rock-n-Roll Unless You Burn Sumpthin’ !!

Posted by Steve Kremer in Friends & Family on June 30th, 2009

My son Dan’s band Valentine is playing The Key Club in Hollywood tonight.  On the band instruction page it has this paragraph:

MISC. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Please do your best to refrain from throwing ANYTHING (this includes WATER!!! Please try and keep the stage and everyone around you dry) from the stage into the audience. The only obvious exception being T-shirts and guitar picks. If you have CDs that you want to give away either arrange to have them at your merch table or hand them to the crowd. Anything else must be approved in advance. And although it should go without mentioning it, we’re going to anyway: ABSOLUTELY UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE THERE TO BE ANY PYRO, FIRE BREATHING OR ANYTHING INVOLVING AN OPEN FLAME ON STAGE. THE ANSWER IS UNEQUIVOCALLY NO.

Come on man…what a little fire never hurt anyone…right?

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Review of film “The 20 Second Rule”. My …

Posted by Steve Kremer in Friends & Family, Twitter Posts on June 29th, 2009

Review of film “The 20 Second Rule”. My son Dan did the sound design: http://sk4.us/131 Plus it’s origin of scorpion story: http://sk4.us/101

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Cool “Do Not Disturb” Sign

Posted by Steve Kremer in ** Funny Pics **, Friends & Family on June 27th, 2009

This is their idea of a do not disturb sign. Coolest hotel ever.

Son Dan is attending “ShortFest” The Palm Springs International Film Festival where his The 20 Second Rule movie premieres.  He sends along this picture with the caption above.  He adds the cool hotel is the Ace Hotel Palm Springs

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Marshall Field’s Gift Certificate From The 1970’s

Posted by Steve Kremer in Friends & Family on June 27th, 2009

While looking through drawers at my in-law’s house in the Chicago area we came across this old Marshall Field’s gift certificate.  There’s no date on the certificate but from the name of the gift giver my in-law’s guess it’s probably from the 1970’s.  So what do you do with an old gift certificate?  Since Marshall Field’s was bought out by Macy’s I thought I’dd call Macy’s customer service line.  I patiently explained what I had and the representative told me that I would have to call the 800 number on the back of the certificate.  I told her there was no 800 number on the back, she said all Macy’s gift certificates have an 800 support number.  Explained again it was a Marshall Field’s certificate, got transfered to the Gift Card help line who had no answers.  We’ll just take it to our local Macy’s to see what they say. Inflation alone would make $50 then… be $300 now.  If we could only get interest on this nearly 40 year old relic it probably would be worth $1,000.

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Nuns On A Beach In Coronado, California

Posted by Steve Kremer in Friends & Family, Travel on June 22nd, 2009

Interesting…somewhat surreal picture from April 2008.  My youngest son Brad took this picture on Coronado Island, California.

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Herbie Fully Loaded – Life In The Deleted Scenes

Posted by Steve Kremer in Friends & Family on June 20th, 2009


Don’t you love all the extra options you get when you put a DVD in the player? You have your “Main Menu” and your “Special Features”. I always like watching the “Deleted Scenes” to see what part of the movie they had to cut. Sometime you can see why the cut the scene. Sometimes you don’t know why. This is the story of one deleted scene from the movie Herbie Fully Loaded (2005) starring Lindsay Lohan & Justin Long….also featuring the band Mavin with my son Dan Kremer. Well, sort of. Dan and Mavin became victims of the movie being too long, a subplot being cut, and their performance being relegated to the “Deleted Scenes”.

The original script had Lindsay playing Maggie Peyton and Brecklin Meyer playing her brother Ray, Jr. The subplot had Ray secretly being in a rock and roll band. His dream was to play drums, not race cars. The real band Mavin would play the part of Ray’s band in the movie. In this deleted scene Maggie discovers that Ray is in the rock band and it causes some conflict between the siblings. If you watch real close and don’t blink your eyes you’ll see the band. If the lead singer looks familiar he’s AJ Trauth the actor from “Even Stevens” and “Pepper Dennis”.

Dan had fun, made a few bucks, got to work with Lindsay, and their song “Welcome to My World” (iTunes Link) got on the soundtrack.

Click the “Click to Play” button above to watch the full deleted scene video.

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American Dragon: Jake Long – Tale of the theme song

Posted by Steve Kremer in Friends & Family on June 19th, 2009


Do you happen to remember the Disney original animated series "American Dragon: Jake Long "? Probably not. It ran for two seasons ending in 2007.  For the second season of the series the theme song and music video was performed by the super tween famous Jonas Brothers (girlish scream!).  But the theme and video for season one was performed by the group Mavin.  Who’s that handsome young man you see above partially obscured by the "Click to Play" button?  That would be my oldest son Dan.  He was the bass player and sang harmonies for Mavin.  View the video and pay close attention to the signature bass line that starts the song.  That bass line was used over and over again for the full two seasons…and Dan got a nice residual check from the folks at Disney. You may recognize the lead singer as A.J. Trauth a Disney star as "Twitty" in Even Stevens.

Click the “Click to Play” button above to watch the full music video.

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