NEW BOOK APRIL 23RD
THE NECESSITY OF EXCESSIVELY:
TURNING 3O COAST TO COAST TO COAST TO COAST TO COAST
By
DAVID TIECK
For most of my peers turning thirty was the milestone where they finally said goodbye to their childhood. Rings started appearing on fingers, babies started growing in bellies, and people who you had witnessed drinking so much that they vomited in bathroom sinks at nightclubs, and still spent several more hours chasing any girl in sight, starting saying things to me like its time to settle down and even worse maybe its time you grew up!.
Well what if you spent your teenage years as a seriously shy nerd. What if you spent almost all your twenties date free, and only started to discover how much fun life can be if you dont take it too seriously just as thirty started to loom large on the calendar. I could have given into the pressures around me, or instead I could jump on a plane on my thirtieth birthday headed for Vegas, buy a Mustang and decide that for me turning thirty could mean driving around the land of excess, the United States of America, with a mantra that there is no such thing as too good a time!
The Necessity of Excessively: Turning 30 Coast to Coast to Coast to Coast to Coast is my account of chasing fun across the USA. Along with my friend and travel companion Stefan Greenie Begbie, we partied at New Orleans for Mardi Gras, explored some of the most amazing national parks in the world, attempted to infiltrate the American indie music scene, and got to know some of the most interesting people imaginable while delving into all forty eight mainland states of America.
In an era where travel memoirs have gotten so off the beaten track that your average tourists would never even dream of taking inspiration, my book is a comedic adventure all about finding the fun no matter where you are, about living life as excessively and full as possible, all while still finding unlikely adventures and life lessons. Drive half way across a state with a solid amount of dead dear carcass stuck to the bottom of your engine, with a travel companion with a stomach so weak he once vomited from the smell of a fart HE had done, and you discover some things about yourself that you were never expecting.
The best part is still to come, with the economy terrible and people struggling, I have decided that Im going to pull a Radiohead and give this one away for free! I will be uploading a chapter a day as well as numerous photographs on my blog at myspace.com/afleetingforever starting from April 23rd. Ok its a huge risk, so I hope some people get behind this idea!
David Tieck, author of Losing My Virginity 52 Times is an Australian author, stand-up comic, sketch and improv performer, and comedy writer and actor based in Sydney and Los Angeles. He has appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and on the Morning Show on channel 7 Australia, as well as on over fifty Australian radio stations including 2GB, 2UE, Triple M, ABC 702 and Mix 106.5. He can be seen performing regularly in Los Angeles in comedy clubs including The Comedy Store, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and the IO West Theatre Hollywood, and also writes and will soon be a featured performer for the online talk show Live from the Future with Stuart Paap. He is also a guy who was once so shy he literally spent years almost in tears when the phone rang for fear of how he would sound to the person on the other end. Your life changes when you make lose your virginity 52 times and follow it up by making excessive fun your number one priority.
Let me know if you would like more information about my new book, or would like to arrange an interview. I am in Sydney until April 22nd 2009, and from then I will be accessible for interviews from Los Angeles. I am also available anytime to be embarrassed in anyway you would like me to lose my virginity or take things to the excess, to be your new cynical comical Hollywood correspondent, or for stories on how I continue to disgrace myself to try and make it in La La land!
Email David at fleetingforever@hotmail.com or dtieck@tpg.com.au
Kind Regards,
David Tieck .
THE NECESSITY OF EXCESSIVELY:
TURNING 3O COAST TO COAST TO COAST TO COAST TO COAST
By
DAVID TIECK
For most of my peers turning thirty was the milestone where they finally said goodbye to their childhood. Rings started appearing on fingers, babies started growing in bellies, and people who you had witnessed drinking so much that they vomited in bathroom sinks at nightclubs, and still spent several more hours chasing any girl in sight, starting saying things to me like its time to settle down and even worse maybe its time you grew up!.
Well what if you spent your teenage years as a seriously shy nerd. What if you spent almost all your twenties date free, and only started to discover how much fun life can be if you dont take it too seriously just as thirty started to loom large on the calendar. I could have given into the pressures around me, or instead I could jump on a plane on my thirtieth birthday headed for Vegas, buy a Mustang and decide that for me turning thirty could mean driving around the land of excess, the United States of America, with a mantra that there is no such thing as too good a time!
The Necessity of Excessively: Turning 30 Coast to Coast to Coast to Coast to Coast is my account of chasing fun across the USA. Along with my friend and travel companion Stefan Greenie Begbie, we partied at New Orleans for Mardi Gras, explored some of the most amazing national parks in the world, attempted to infiltrate the American indie music scene, and got to know some of the most interesting people imaginable while delving into all forty eight mainland states of America.
In an era where travel memoirs have gotten so off the beaten track that your average tourists would never even dream of taking inspiration, my book is a comedic adventure all about finding the fun no matter where you are, about living life as excessively and full as possible, all while still finding unlikely adventures and life lessons. Drive half way across a state with a solid amount of dead dear carcass stuck to the bottom of your engine, with a travel companion with a stomach so weak he once vomited from the smell of a fart HE had done, and you discover some things about yourself that you were never expecting.
The best part is still to come, with the economy terrible and people struggling, I have decided that Im going to pull a Radiohead and give this one away for free! I will be uploading a chapter a day as well as numerous photographs on my blog at myspace.com/afleetingforever starting from April 23rd. Ok its a huge risk, so I hope some people get behind this idea!
David Tieck, author of Losing My Virginity 52 Times is an Australian author, stand-up comic, sketch and improv performer, and comedy writer and actor based in Sydney and Los Angeles. He has appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and on the Morning Show on channel 7 Australia, as well as on over fifty Australian radio stations including 2GB, 2UE, Triple M, ABC 702 and Mix 106.5. He can be seen performing regularly in Los Angeles in comedy clubs including The Comedy Store, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and the IO West Theatre Hollywood, and also writes and will soon be a featured performer for the online talk show Live from the Future with Stuart Paap. He is also a guy who was once so shy he literally spent years almost in tears when the phone rang for fear of how he would sound to the person on the other end. Your life changes when you make lose your virginity 52 times and follow it up by making excessive fun your number one priority.
Let me know if you would like more information about my new book, or would like to arrange an interview. I am in Sydney until April 22nd 2009, and from then I will be accessible for interviews from Los Angeles. I am also available anytime to be embarrassed in anyway you would like me to lose my virginity or take things to the excess, to be your new cynical comical Hollywood correspondent, or for stories on how I continue to disgrace myself to try and make it in La La land!
Email David at fleetingforever@hotmail.com or dtieck@tpg.com.au
Kind Regards,
David Tieck .