2 Years and Running Pt. 7

Dennis (AKA Bruce Reduce), my partner in crime when I perform as Recycleman, has quite an illustrious history in entertainment. He lived in LA for a lot of his life and has a lot of stories (and I've seen many of the pictures that prove it). He's in his late 60s now, and here's a few of the things he's done:

His brother Doug (another cool guy) and he tried out for the Monkees when the band was being put together. And there was this unknown dude plucking his banjo while also waiting to try out named Richard Pryor!

As a journalism student he got to interview and hang out with Cheech and Chong (and maybe you can guess what else) when they were first making their mark. He's got an audio tape of that one.

He worked as a casting director for quite a while, and a transportation coordinator.

He spent 10 years working on Star Trek -The Next Generation, doing a few bit parts and a lot of stand in work -anytime you see the back of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's head that's Dennis. He gave me a promo photo of himself dressed as an alien on the show, but I can't seem to find it right now...

I was just checking out his Internet Movie Data Base page (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0870509/) to get some photos to post and discovered that he was in one of my favorite childhood movies Under the Rainbow (1981) with Chevy Chase as the Job Clerk. I'm going to have to watch it again to see if I recognize him...

I also didn't realize that he played some bit parts in some other movies that I loved as a kid:
Dreamscape (1984) (stand-in) (uncredited)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) (stand-in) (uncredited)

And he is in a film that's making the film festival circuit right now with Tori Spelling :
Cthulhu (2007) .... Deputy Ben

Dennis is THE MAN!

Mike Mudd -The Logo

Here's my new logo - I never had much of one before. It turned out well, if I do say so myself. It gets the point across anyway.

Found Photos

We found some pictures in a folder on the computer that we didn't know we still had. They're from one day when we were wandering around downtown.













The ones of me seem to reflect how I feel some of the time -sort of stretched out all over the place like a bizarre conglomeration of emotion, experiences, hopes and fears; with no real cohesion. The comforting thought is that I know many people who feel the same way -probably half of the planet.