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Serenity Now!

Posted by Kevin Hazard, March 13th, 2006

Coming soon as the Site5 Web Hosting Sales Pitch:

George: You wanna sell computers? I will show *you* how to sell computers! Hello, Mr. Farneman. You wanna buy a computer? No? Why not? All right, I see! Good answer! Thank you! (Lloyd rings his sale bell) Serenity now!

Now, I would fancy myself a Seinfeld enthusiast, so I was quite excited to hear that I would get a chance to hang out with Jason Alexander, of “George Costanza” fame. One of my good friends, Brett, works with Jason on a semi-regular basis, so I was (thankfully) introduced to Jason when he came up to Northern California for an event. In addition to the expected “Kevin: You are awesome … Jason: Thank you” dialog, I was invited to eat dinner with Jason, Todd Schroeder (his accompanist for the night), Brett, and a few other friends at a swanky Italian food restaurant on Friday.

I have had the privilege of meeting a few “famous” people in my time (like Jamie Foxx, William Shatner, Seth McFarlane, and a few other moderately big to very big names), but I have to say that Jason is easily the most down-to-earth, “nice” guys out there… He took time out to take pictures with people walking by the table, autographed everything from NY Yankee baseball caps (he was the “Assistant to the Traveling Secretary” when he worked for the Yankees on Seinfeld), and spent time hanging out with us when he could have just secluded himself in his hotel suite. I’d like to say that Jason was going to be the official Site5 spokesperson or something like that, but unfortunately, I was so busy laughing at his hilarious stories to actually tell him about Site5 (Note: Matt, don’t fire me for not guerrilla marketing).

As a sidenote, I hadn’t heard of Todd before the weekend, but he had some amazing stories about working with Nell Carter, Disney, Universal Studios, and Paramount Studios. One of the most interesting was his depiction of the opportunity he had to meet with Ray Charles… “It was just me, Ray, and a piano, and Ray was just there to listen.” Needless to say, he is an amazing piano player.

**Update** Todd sent me the song he played for Ray with the permission to post it here for everyone to check out: No One Sings Georgia Like Ray. Thanks Todd!**

To those of you requiring some hardcore Site5 info, I am sorry to say that this post is more for entertainment value than official Site5 business, but it is important that this blog also reflect our personalities (or at least that is my justification). The most fitting conclusion to the post would have to be the message Jason left on my “Timeless Art of Seduction” print:

If we have any Seinfeld fanatics in the audience, you will definitely appreciate the humor of the autograph. Serenity now, insanity later… I just hope my insanity doesn’t affect my work… Wait.. Who said that?