BDK

Sup Ricks!

Head to your local BEST BUY stores tonight to buy MODERN WARFARE 2 at 12am!  Each of these stores contains my DVD PICKS, so pick up a DVD while you are there.  The participating 12am locations are as follows!

Maryland:

Frederick

Germantown

Rockville

 

Virginia:

Tyson's Corner

Fairlakes

Fredericksburg

Leesburg

Reston

Springfield

Stafford

Sterling

If you pick up a copy, leave a comment below on the game!

-BDK

Sup Ricks,

If you or anyone you know has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), you know that things can get better and worse.  It's an amazing ride that I have been on for over 10 years, since I was diagnosed when I was 14 years old.  What sucks about OCD is trying to find the right medication.  I have been through all of them; i.e. Luvox, Zoloft, Anafranil, Risperdal, etc.  There is really no answer.  My mom has always told me that I should work out more and that that would release seratonin in my brain, naturally.  Essentially, that is all OCD really is; a lack of seratonin.  Seratonin basically gives you logic.  That is why peope don't understand what happens in someone's brain when they have an OCD thought.  All logic is thrown out of the window and your brain in basically split into 2.  The way I look at is that I have 2 voices in my head, my logical voice and my OCD voice.  When my seratonin level's are low, my OCD voice is like a 10 and my logical voice is like a 1.  There is no fight there at all.  I will just immediately go check a worry.  But when they volumes are more even, I can reason with myself.  Last night, I had a very bad worry when I was driving home from seeing a flick.  I had anxiety for over an hour while driving back to my house.  I kept thinking, "I need to go back and check."  So I eventually made a decision to go back.  On my way back, I started to reason with myself.  My logical brain started to speak a little louder than my OCD brain.  I eventually worked through it and just went home instead of driving all the way back to Arlington. 

Sometimes with OCD, people go into a relapse stage where all of the worries come together.  It really sucks!  I feel like I have been in a relapse stage for a while now.  I am able to get through my daily life but sometimes my worries just get the best of me and I will spend a couple of hours worrying about things.  I just need to fight through all that crap because I am going to wind up giving myself a heart attack.  To give you an example, I literally checked worries for almost 3 hours last night.  It is just such a waste of time.  But here's how I equate it.  If I don't go back and check the first worry I have, I will have a good night.  If I start checking the first worry, then it turns into a domino effect.  If I can train myself not to check the first worry, I can get through the night.  I want nothing more than to get home from work/movie and just relax, instead of having to worry.  

I see my dr. on Wednesday.  We went driving last Wednesday.  He made me take right turns on red and cross multiple lanes of traffic.  Those 2 things are really scary to me when I drive.  But I did them with him.  I think we are going driving this week as well so I will have update for you there. 

-BDK

Sup Ricks,
Even though I do not have a show anymore, I still try to do as many interviews as I possibly can for my website, www.bdkreviews.com.  I recently spoke with "HALLOWEEN 2" director, ROB ZOMBIE and you can find that interview by clicking here: http://www.bdkreviews.com/podcasts/
2009-08-13%20-%20Rob%20Zombie.mp3.  
I also sat down with "The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard." cast and you can listen to all of those interviews at www.bdkreviews.com.  
One thing that I wanted to bring up and feel free to comment on this, is how much of a masterpiece "DISTRICT 9" truly is.  Peter Jackson was recently quoted in "Entertainment Weekly" about the fact that this film is so different from anything you will ever see.  Does different necessarily mean good? No.  But, what if you have a different movie that works on an emotional level and is just truly great cinema?  That, in my opinion warrants the term "Masterpiece."  I know that should not be thrown around a lot but this film deserves it.  The Sports Junkies and I talked to the lead star of the film, Sharlto Copley, on Friday morning and he said that all of his lines were improvised and that for all of the interactions between him and the aliens, he was talking to a guy in a grey suit.  That way, he was still able to show his true emotions.  The movie is not just about action.  It has many other darker themes to it and you will see those when you see the film.  The film is directed by first time director, NEILL BLOMKAMP, and PRESENTED by Peter Jackson.  Many people think Peter Jackson directed this film.  He merely produced and presented it, much like Tarantino does with films like "Hostel" and "Hero."  This was all Blomkamp.  Check out the interview The Sports Junkies and I did with the lead star.  He talks about how he was cast in this movie by mistake.  http://cstvpodcast.cstv.com.edgesui
te.net/wjfk/junkies081409_05.mp3
Thanks for stopping by,
-BDK

Sup Ricks,
I am out in L.A./Beverly Hills for the press Junket for "The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard."   Paramount Pictures flew me out for a couple of days to see the flick and interview the stars.  It has been a great time so far.  Just wanted to update my blog.  I flew in yesterday morning and I am staying at the Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills.  Very nice place!  Last night we went over to the Paramount Pictures lot for a huge party and a couple of the stars showed up.  Paramount had an open bar and free food set-up with flip cup, much like the Junket for "I Love You, Man."  In walks Ken Jeong or Dr. Ken as everyone else calls him.  You know him as the A-hole doctor from "Knocked Up" or the role playing king on "Role Models."  Or, you might know him as the Leslie Chow, who hops out of the trunk in "The Hangover."  He was on my show a couple of months ago to promote the film and he totally remembered me saying that I was first radio interview he had ever done where he took calls from his fans.  We did a Jello Shot together and then just hung out.  Totally nice guy.  Then, director of the film and co-creator of "Chappelle's Show" showed up and I chatted with him for a while.  Then, this guy that I personally don't know of, but everyone else in the world did, showed up.  His name is Alan Thicke.  He stars in the film as well and everyone was just all over him.  I shook his hand but I wasn't really sure what he had been in.  It was not until later that I found out he was star in "Growing Pains."  Then, Adam McKay shows up, writer of "Anchorman," "Step Brothers" and "Talladega Nights."  He brought his kids along and then stayed for the movie with Ken Jeong on the Paramount Pictures lot.  It is currently 1136am here and my interviews with the cast do not start until 330pm.  If you know me, I have zero money so I really can't go out and do anything.  Check out my twitter page, www.twitter.com/bdkereviews for all of the pictures from last night!

-BDK

Sup Ricks,

Well, this is pretty cool.  A whole blog dedicated to my awful brain.  Well, this is my first posting and it's kind of cool that this launched the day of a visit to the good old OCD Dr.  I see an OCD Dr. every other Wednesday and we go through all of my current worries and problems.  It's a little bit hurting.  Sometimes he takes me driving and makes me go over bumps to prove that I am not hitting people, etc.  In case you are reading this for the first time and you have no clue what is wrong with me, I was diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder when I was 14 years old.  I knew I had a problem when I would start washing my pants until they bled because they would get so dry and cracked.  I like to think of my worries as a huge movement of evolution except that I go backwards alot.  I have had all of the stereotypical "MONK" type worries of washing my hands, checking door locks, stoves, etc.  In fact, when I was living at home with my parents, I would check to make sure the stove was off every single night before I went to bed.  Sounds normal right?  Wrong!  I would check it like 15 times. 

Well, if you listen to the Sports Junkies, then you know alot of my fears revolve around driving.  I hate driving with a passion.  It is the worst thing in the world.  In fact, there are certain places in Fairfax that I will not drive.  I hate driving around pedestrians.  My biggest fear is that I will eventually hit someone and be thrown into jail the rest of my life.  So, my doctor will sometimes take me driving and purposely make me drive around people.  It is called exposure therapy. 

Recently though, I have been going back to my old types of worries.  At night before I go to sleep, I have to crack by back on the right and left side, the exact same way or I fear that something bad will happen.  I also do this really weird thing with my phone before I go to sleep at night as well.  I have this fear that something bad will happen if I don't.

I have been good recently with U-TURNS.  Though last night, I was coming home from a screening of "A PERFECT GETAWAY" with Timothy Olyphant, who I talked to today with the Junkies (Super nice guy - shocker he made fun of me).  I was coming home and I had an accident worry so I popped a U-TURN.  Here's the bad thing about doing U-turns.  If you do one, then you will be stuck for a while.  You are supposed to plow through the worry and go home and deal with the anxiety.  When you do the U-TURN to check, you make the worry become real.  I sound like a dr. right.  Not really, I just go to the Dr. alot.  So I did a U-Turn last and it was awful.  I was stuck for a little while but I eventually got home. 

Well that was a quick look into my world.  I will be updating this frequently.  If you or anyone you know has OCD or similar worries, have them email me.  It always helps to talk about this kind of stuff.  bdkjunkies@gmail.com.  With all of the cool stuff I do, i.e. Junkies, TV and interviews, I still deal with this 24 hours a day.  I am not looking for pity but I am using this blog as a way to show people how OCD works and to bring other people with OCD out of the closets to talk about it.  And no, I didn't set this blog up.  It was set up by the station so I am not trying to make it all about me, Chad.  Papa...Rick Rick

-BDK