Scott Herman: Real life after The Real World

Some of you may remember my post back in January about Scott Herman, MTV's The Real World Brooklyn's sexiest cast member who had all the girls, boys and blogs talking. For almost all reality TV stars, popularity phases out as quickly as it comes . Of course, there are those cast members whose crazy antics and spin off shows get them remembered (think I Love New York) but very few are respected outside those 15 minutes of fame. The same cannot be said for Scott Herman, a cast member of The Real World - Brooklyn, most commonly known as "the good looking one with the abs". The nice guy with the frat boy style shocked and impressed viewers during the airing of the show when he turned out to be nothing like his sterotypical image and has continued to impress his fans since the shows conclusion. You may have seen Scott gracing the pages of Men's Health Magazine or come across him once or twice in Cosmopolitan Magazine but Scott is more then a model-slash-actor with chiseled abs and a pretty face. Scott has had his eye on success far before he was casted on The Real World-Brooklyn and has used his new found fame to further his career and educate the public on fitness. I was able to pencil myself into Scott's busy schedule to ask him about his Real World experience and find out what he has been up to since the conclusion of the show.

1. What made you to want to join the cast of The Real World? Was it hard living life in front of a camera?

a. I decided to join the cast of the Real World Brooklyn because I wanted to be the first cast member in a long time to go on the show who had ambition to accomplish more in life at 24 other than to just eat, drink, and have sex. However, I was surprised to see when I got there that I was not the only one. As far as living on camera; it was a very easy adjustment for me. It isn’t like you went there not expecting them. I feel like everyone else in the house was also already mentally prepared for the cameras when they got there.

2. How has life changed for you since appearing on The Real World Brooklyn last season?

a. Since the show I have made drastic changes. The biggest being not working in a gym anymore. I worked in a gym for 10 years and decided it was time to move onto bigger things. I felt I had a calling in the entertainment industry and I wasn’t going to be happy until I tackled the industry head on.

3. Are you easily recognized and approached by people when you’re out with friends or running daily errands? How has it affected your personal life?

a. Not so much in NYC, but when I am back in my hometown of Salem, NH, my friends like to play a game and see who can guess the number of times people come up to me. I enjoy it though, I feel like I was a great role model on the show and I want to continue to give my fans that same impression.

4. How have your relationships with your fellow cast members changed over the past year?

a. My relationships have all improved. I would like to say that I was one of the few who got along with everyone while filming and when we came back for the reunion. But, usually when my castmates visit the city they stay at my place with Baya and Devyn so we have all been able to grow closer while acting more like ourselves with no cameras around. I also hang out with Chet all the time because he lives in the city as well. Chet and I have become even closer since the show.

5. What have you been up too since the conclusion of the show?

a. Since the show I have been modeling, acting, and producing. I did an awesome photoshoot with Undergear, (Back by popular demand! SCOTT HERMAN FOR UNDERGEAR) and have been featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine a few times more as well. I have started a Talent Management Company with my manager Kyber Bernstein, I am up for a lead role in a new HBO show, and have been putting together my first Reality TV pilot that I am producing. Keeping busy has never been hard for me. Lately, I have been working really hard to push my youtube channel. My youtube channel has really given me the freedom I needed to help spread the word about health and fitness and to bring more attention to my fitness site, http://www.scotthermanfitness.com/.

6. Tells us about the projects you have going on?

-ScottHermanFitness.com

My fitness website was something I had been working on before I knew I even made it on the show. It has come a long way since I first started it and I am very happy with it’s progress. I do plan on releasing fitness DVD’s in the near future. My first one.. the Scott Herman ABS workout!

-You Tube Channel

The purpose of my youtube channel is to bring health and fitness to the world in an easy to understand way. My goal is to build a big enough channel with enough support that I will have the time and freedom to spend a lot of time in the gym producing easy and fun instructional videos to help anyone who wants to learn about fitness.

- Modeling gigs

Modeling has been a bit slow. My main goal is to land a gig with Calvin Klein. In the mean time I did do a great shoot with Undergear: The video was posted on youtube and hit 33,000 hits in 3 days before youtube took the video down for being a bit toooo racy. But that’s ok, the Undergear catalog will be out the end of August, be sure to check it out!-Magazine shootsCheck out Cosmopolitan September page 135.

6. What everyone wants to know? How do you keep up that body? What is your workout routine like?

a. My routine is vigorous. I go to the gym with one mission and it is to leave in pain. I lift as heavy as I can for each muscle group and dedicate 4 days a week to abs for about 30minutes at a time.

7. Advice for the girls and guys who want to get back into the gym but can't seem to find the motivation. What can help them reach their fitness goals?

a. Motivation is easy. Set a goal for yourself and really focus on wanting to accomplish that goal. Be proud to look in the mirror as you see results. Or, maybe you just need more knowledge because you are clueless in the gym.. that is where my youtube channel and fitness site comes in.

8. What have you learned about yourself that you didn't realize before appearing on the Real World?

a. I learned that it is ok to be a nice guy and to always keep the same morals and values. But when you are in this industry, keep up an extra guard for protection.

9. You've graced the pages of magazines, launched your own fitness site and youtube channel...What's next? Any big plans you see yourself getting involved in in the future?

a. I have a couple acting opportunities coming up. However my next goal? I want to be Captain America. See Scott Herman as Captain America- Part 1

XOXO,

Cristina

1st Annual As good as its guests SUMMER SOIREE

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July 10th, 2009

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Huntington Has Taste 2009

Join RSVP Events on Tuesday, June 23rd for the Second Annual Huntington Has Taste Fashion Show

Come enjoy the sunset over Huntington Harbor as we bring together local style & flavors on the deck at Prime

Last year Huntington Has Taste was featured in several local publications as well as on NBC's Weekend Today Show!

Runway fashion show (with AGAIG Blogger, Cristina Divuolo modeling for the second year) featuring The Wardrobing Room, Spotlight Italia, Francine's Boutique, Milano and Helisport.

Cristina DiVuolo in KandiSwim at 2008's Huntington Has Taste Fashion Show

Hair & Makeup by Cactus Salon & RJ West Live DJ, Delicious Hors D'oeuvres, Special Guests, Prizes and Giftbags courtesy of some of Huntington's Finest Merchants & Restaurants

The event was completely sold out last year, Don't miss out! $40 in advance/ $50 at the door

Visit RSVPEVENTSNY for Tickets, Info. & photos from last year

Tickets may also be purchased in featured boutiques

Prince Harry is coming to America

Prince Harry, the third in line to the British throne is headed to New York for his first formal overseas engagement outside Britain this month. This will be Harrys first visit to the United States since the death of his mother, Princess Diana.

The recently single royal heart throb is due to begin a two day visit to New York to combine fundriasing events and official functions. On May 29th, Harry will be making a trip to visit the World Trade Center site. He will attend a naming ceremony for the British Memorial Garden in Hanover Square, commemorating the British victims of the 9/11 attacks. Harry will also pay a visit to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Manhattan to meet with wounded veterans and along with Lesotho's Prince Seeiso, will visit the Harlem's Children's Zone, a nonprofit organization that has been around since the 1970's.

On May 30th, the 24 year old Prince will play in a charity exhibition polo match at the 2nd Annual Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic on Governors Island; the first event in a series commemorating New York's 400th anniversary. The charity event will raise funds for American Friends of Sentebale, a US-based charity supporting at-risk children in Lesotho. Sentebale is a charity co-founded in 2006 by Prince Harry and Lesotho's Prince Seeiso to help the orphans of Lesotho, Africa in honor of their mothers. The public is invited to attend the charity polo match free of charge, with admission, or with VIP tickets. Tickets to the 2nd Annual Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic have been available since May 1st. Later that evening, an after party will be held at New York City's Pink Elephant Nightclub where a portion of sales from Veuve Clicquot will benefit American Friends of Sentebale as well.

It's looking to be a busy 2 days for the hard-partying royal hottie. I wonder if we'll see him at Pink Elephant or hanging out at New York's famous night clubs while he's in town.

Please see Cristina's other articles on the New York Examiner.

As Good As Its Guests Blogger, Cristina DiVuolo, contributing to The Examiner

As Good As Its Guests blogger, Cristina DiVuolo, will now be contributing to Examiner.com. Cristina will be writing as their New York Media Examiner covering all things media in NYC.
You can find her articles at: http://www.examiner.com/x-4191-NY-Media-Examiner

In lieu of recent breakups... A Justin Ross Lee Exclusive on Love

In lieu of recent break ups, we decided to post a JRL exclusive on his break up with the RD. 

Here are a few questions that some readers were curious about, and As good as its guests was wondering as well. What really is going on with the most famous couple on facebook. It definitely was a newsfeed pop-up that got offices talking!

As good as its guests : Are you two really no longer an item?
Justin Ross Lee: Emails have been flooding my inbox asking me why the Rabbi’s Daughter and I ‘broke it off’ instead of ‘breaking the glass’. I’ve cited the reason for separation as irreconcilable differences do to Mark Zuckerberg’s creation. Did facebook end my relationship? Sometimes I had the feeling that if my iPhone ‘dinged’ with another facebook Mobile message the RD would grab it out of my hand and throw it into a large bowl of broth along with my Matzo Balls. She put up with a lot of my shtick. A great example of this would be my behavior documented in the facebook video “Jews on a Cruise”. She also dealt with my frequent traveling, photos with other women, and all the controversy that surrounds me. I commend her for it.

AGAIG: What the hell happened with you two in Ireland?
JRL: We broke up at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, and then again at 38,000 feet “JewJetting” in our "Fuck You" seats over the Atlantic heading back to the States. It got pretty loud at cruising altitude. Even one of the dusty flight attendants tried to intervene to which I insisted if she were going to take any sides, it should be on the basis of whom has more preferred miles with the airline. She refilled my drink. I was quite upset about the relationship's final decent into the New York area. It's not easy Sitting Shiva over the Rabbi's Daughter. The RD was just the greatest girl and a truly beautiful person.

AGAIG:Why the break up with the RD?
JRL:RD and I just had a different 5 year plan and mine was not fair to her. In 5 years time she’d like to be married with children. In 5 years time I’d like to be dating a woman who’s married with children.

AGAIG: Have you kept in touch? Any chance of re-kindling the romance?
JRL:What most people didn’t know is that we lived together. She actually moved in to my apartment on our second date. We have kept in touch via phone/ text/ Jewish telepathy. But the one thing she hasn’t done is facebook messaged me….As far as any reconciliation Rosh Hashanah is still a schlep away. For now I can be seen wearing my “Shiksas are for Practice t-shirt”

AGAIG:Any ladies in line for the new title of the gf of the "Jewface of Facebook" ?
JRL: In Manhattan, Girlfriend’s are to Co-Op as Dating is to Renting. In today’s economy it is best to remain in a cash position. It just pays to rent.

*Note: One of our readers recently saw Justin popping bottles at Citrine with his former girlfriend from Paris, Adelheid (Heidi) Waumboldt.

AGAIG: Details on the reality show...will it be a male version of The City?
JRL: I’m working with a great production company and have signed a confidentiality clause which prohibits me from disclosing details, but I can say this: No reality show is real. There are scripts, reshoots and exaggerated expressions in every show in the market right now. Shows like “The City” appeal to people who haven’t left Oshkosh B Gosh having never experienced the life for themselves. If my show were to air in their market, they wouldn’t catch one of my jokes unless they reached up over their heads and stabbed my verbal kreplach with a pitchfork. If anyone outside our the Continental Bermuda triangle of NY, LA, and Miami are getting my jokes I’ll retire my mezuzah, fly COACH to Juneau and knock up another Palin daughter. The show is bound to be far more intelligent than anything branded “Reality”. I prefer to call it what it is: Unscripted.
AGAIG: Any other projects on the horizon?
JRL: I actually just turned one down an offer. VH1 approached me to be on a show called “Trophy Wife”. They wanted to fly me out to LA, where I’d live in a house and compete for the affection of some pinup girl who I’ve never heard of named Megan Hauserman. Before completely vetoing the idea, I showed the 60 page ironclad Viacom contract to my attorney contained excerpts such as “I acknowledge and understand that Producer will not be testing the bachelorette for any sexually transmitted diseases, mental illness, or any other disease or illnesses whatsoever.” My lawyer laughed out loud in his office at some of the terms wondering who in their right mind would sign something like this.

One project I am pleased to be involved with is a movie called “Trophy Kids” -a YaSu Media feature length film that is currently in preproduction.


AGAIG: What have you been doing since the break up?
JRL: Believe it or not, I’ve been working. Like most I feel underpaid, overworked and my boss is a tremendous prick. The difference is I work for myself. So to the person who sent that anonymous email about my facebook page that got that got me fired from my last job, thank you and stay tuned.

Before he had to go, he explained his upcoming date for the evening as such:

i mean, do trust- i'll be getting my workout... but it's like cheating on a chess match with a geriatric patient ( referencing how intelligent his date was)

Love Always, (At least you can depend on us)

As good as its guests

Love Sick

Some quotes if you are in love....ew!

"Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well that's what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep on going." - Practical Magic

"There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean." - An Affair to Remember

"When you love someone, and you love them with all your heart, it never disappears when you're apart. And when you love someone and you've done all you can do, you set them free, and if that love was true...when you love someone it will all come back to you." - Forget Paris

"Sometimes I wake up before you do and I watch you sleep and I'm overwhelmed because you're so amazing and I don't know why I'm lucky enough to have you in my life; that you're here with me. And I know that I want to spend the rest of my life trying to make you as happy as you make me." - Alias

"Thinking bout every little thing we ever did crazy. Sipping on that memory lane, that lane never closes, seven days of the week I can drive in my sleep cause I've got dreams of love and I love you. I know you feel the same way too. I feel your spirit when you're near me and when you're away. Somehow, somewhere I'll see you again, but until then I've got dreams of loving you." - Gavin DeGraw

"Ever since I was young I never understood anything about the world, and I never understood anything that happened in my life. The only thing that ever made sense to me was you, and how I felt about you. That's all I've ever known and that's enough, that's enough for me for the rest of my life." - Boy Meets World

"I'm just saying thank you. You reminded me of what I'm capable of feeling. It's like I was walking around seeing my life through a smudged window, and then I saw you and the smudges were gone. The window was clean." - Dawson's Creek

"You and I are meant to be together. Period. The end. Cue happy ending music." - Dawson's Creek

"I love you in a really really big, pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window, unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you." - Grey's Anatomy

"I'm not here to tell you I can't live without you. I can live without you. I just don't want to." - Rumor Has It

"Maybe getting over someone you're in love with isn't impossible. Unless, maybe you don't actually get over it. Maybe you just learn to live with it." - Felicity

"You were like coming up for fresh air. It's like I was drowning and you saved me. It's all I know." - Grey's Anatomy

"I don't wanna waste anymore of my life without you in it." - Garden State

"For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can't get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch, you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep, you never to come up for air. You can't cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don't want to. Cause when you find that right person for a first kiss, it's everything." - Grey's Anatomy

"Well it was a million tiny little things that, when you add them up, they meant that we were supposed to be together, and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home, only to no home I'd ever known. I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car, and I knew it. It was like magic." - Sleepless in Seattle

"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say, find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is, there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived." - Meet Joe Black

"And then I look over at you, and I am blinded, I'm blinded. You are six inches from my face and you are so fucking beautiful, I can't even focus my eyes." - P.S.

"Growing up sucks. Not all kisses are magic, and most boys do not live up to your expectations. But there are those times, when everything, I mean love, romance, relationships, it all falls together perfectly. And it's incredible. It's those moments, no matter how depressingly few and far between, that make growing up worth it." - Dawson's Creek

"I think I'd miss you even if we'd never met." - The Wedding Date

"I can hear her heart beat for a thousand miles. And the heavens open everytime she smiles. And when I come to her that's where I belong. Yes, I'm running to her like a river's song." - Van Morrison

"Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me." - James Blunt

"Like a moth to a flame, like a song without a name, I've never been the same since I met you." - Eric Clapton

"I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it." - City of Angels

"And it's frightening for me to be swimming in this strange sea, but I'd rather be here than on land. Yeah, she's all that I see, and she's all that I need, and I'm out of my league once again." - Stephen Speaks

"And where was I before the day that I first saw your lovely face? Now I see it everyday and I know that I am the luckiest. And in a white sea of eyes, I see one pair that I recognize, and I know that I am the luckiest. I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you." - Ben Folds

"All the lights are on and you are alive. But you can't point the way to your heart. So sublime, when the stars are aligned. But you don't know the greatness you are." - Cary Brothers

"I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned. And I have to speculate that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes like puzzle pieces from the clay. True, it may seem like a stretch, but it's thoughts like this that catch my troubled head when you're away, when I am missing you to death." - Iron and Wine

"I remember thinking I'll go on forever only knowing I'll see you again. But I know the touch of you is so hard to remember, but like that touch I know no other. And for sure we have danced in the risk of each other. Would you like to dance around the world with me?" - Dave Matthews Band

"You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you, Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting." - Hook

"She's gone. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen." - Say Anything

"What I really want to do with my life, what I want to do for a living, is I want to be with your daughter. I'm good at it." - Say Anything

"You said you couldn't be with someone who didn't believe in you. Well I believed in you. I just didn't believe in me. I love you. Always." - Pretty in Pink

"I want a serious girlfriend. Somebody I can love, that's gonna love me back. Is that psycho?" - Sixteen Candles

"You treated me rough. That was the worst time of my life. I didn't care what other people said, I just wanted you near me. I still have faith, faith in the both of us. I still believe in you. You gave me all your love. You made me pure inside. I can't believe we are over, but your love did me so good. After all the things you've done, many people can't believe it, but I can. I still believe in you." - Gavin DeGraw

"You're not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense. This girl you met, she's not perfect either. But the question is, whether or not you're perfect for each other." - Good Will Hunting

"Have you ever felt like you were just really meant to be with somebody? Like your whole life was just kind of this big mess that just kinda kept happening up until the day when this unbelievable person came into your life, and then suddenly, you know, you didn't feel so lost anymore. You felt like everything you thought you'd been doing wrong in your life, you're actually doing it right, because that whole time she was coming closer to you. You just weren't smart enough to know it, or brave enough to just tell her." - The Third Wheel

"Look, I guarantee there'll be tough times. I guarantee that at some point, one or both of us is gonna want to get out of this thing. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life, because I know, in my heart, you're the only one for me." - Runaway Bride

"I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice; it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullshit." - Moonstruck

"Someday love will find me in the rough. Someday love will finally be enough. I shine a little more lately." - Anna Nalick

"I know in the past I've caused you pain and I'm sorry. And I'll always be sorry until the day I die. And I hate this pen I'm holding because I should be holding you. I hate this paper under my hand because it isn't you. I even hate this letter because it's not the whole truth. Because the whole truth is so much more than a letter can even say. If you want to hate me, go ahead. If you want to burn this letter, do it. You could burn the whole world down; you could tell me to go to hell. I'd go, if you wanted me to. And I'd send you a letter from there." - My So-Called Life

"We ended up having one of those conversations where you feel like there is no use hiding anything anymore, you've just given yourself so entirely to the other person that you feel like running around your apartment and opening up your drawers and closets and cabinets and pulling out all sorts of shameful things and arraying them on the bedspread and shouting, 'Look at this! And this! But love me!'" - The Big Love

Charity: Water

Above: Kyle Adair, Cristina DiVuolo, Jessi Marquez

1.1 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water on our planet. To make this number hit a little closer to home; that is 1 in 6 people that do not have access to clean water. Most of us don't think twice about using, drinking and wasting water.
Last night, February 11th, As Good As Its Guests attended the Valentine's Day Charity:Water event. The fundraiser aimed to raise money and awareness for this great cause. The event, hosted by CCScene's Chloe Cohen, was held at Midtown West's rooftop venue, HighBar. The red carpet entrance was lined with yellow fuel containers. The containers represented those that carry the water, that families in Africa dig through the sand to find. 

Guests were able to mingle both inside and outside on the rooftop. We enjoyed the picturesque views of Manhattan and an open bar of sparkling wine and vodka. Mini cupcakes, candy and bottled water adorned the bar and the mood was set by dim lighting and pink votive candles.

 DJ Luv Nasty and Cindy Kim spent the evening playing hits from the comfort of the venue's VIP Lounge area. A silent auction was held throughout the night to raise additional money for Charity:Water. The auction consisted of gorgeous jewelry, signed sports memorabilia and awesome artwork. The guest list was full of colorful characters and eclectic personalities that joined together for the same wonderful cause. We would have loved to have had the chance to speak with the organizers of the event but their red carpet step and repeats were..well, rather repetitive. If you would like to get involved with Charity: Water, please visit http://www.charitywater.org/. 100% of Charity: Water's proceeds go to the funding of clean water solutions and for a donation of just $20, you could provide clean drinking water to one person in Africa for one year.

Bloggers Cristina DiVuolo & Jessi Marquez
Charity:Water Models with Chris Searles

XOXO,

As good as its guests

Article on Jessica Marquez and As Good as its Guests

Your favorite bloggers have recently been featured in an article in the University of Miami newspaper!

To read the article, visit :

http://www.themiamihurricane.com/2009/01/28/the-perez-hilton-of-the-east-coast/

Love always,

As good as its guests

The Justin Ross Lee Exclusive-Part 1 of 3

Pictured Above: The Infamous JRL, Drew, Jessica, Doug

Losing your job, shame from your family, confusion in relationships, new opportunities. These are all issues one may face during the course of their life, and these are all the reasons why there is a part of Justin Ross Lee in every one of us.

Love him or hate him- the readers wanted to know more about the “Jew face” of facebook, so we dug up the dirt. This is not AP National and this is not writing on a bathroom wall. This is As Good As It’s Guests and we are finally ready to dish the dirt on everyone's favorite facebook personality! This is the tell all “F*ck You” lie flat Jew Year Exclusive on JRL that you have all been waiting for. So grab a refill on your coffee, minimize your Outlook mailbox and sit back in your chair to find out all the information you have been asking us to find out.

As we walked into the Carnegie Club we saw Justin, accompanied by his friend and personal suit maker, Doug Rosenblum, sitting at the long bar. The atmosphere was as stuffy as we expected Justin's attitude to be. The smoke-filled bar, adorned with bookshelves reminiscent of an antique men's club seemed to be the perfect "F*ck You" environment to conduct the interview. Justin greeted us with a cigar in one hand and a cocktail in the other and led us over to the table surrounded by upholstered couches. As we walked over, we wondered if he would be the ostentatious, pompous jerk many of you have claimed him to be. To our surprise, and probably many of yours, he was anything but.

So many of us are wondering, how did this all start? How does Justin live the life of a pompous a-hole that monopolizes so much of our readers free time on facebook?. What is it about him that makes him able to get away with acting the way he does? (no, it's not his Daddy's wallet) Is he not worried about finding a job in this declining economy? Well readers, Justin Ross Lee is over being a slave to the economy. While many twenty-somethings are begging for jobs, Justin sees this as “an opportunity to be himself.” After he was fired from his prestigious job just 2 weeks after starting (yep, you guessed it, due to his excessive facebook activity) he was shamed by his family and told to “quiet down”, making this his last resort. Justin explained, “Few people fit under the corporate umbrella, this is a chance for me to be who I am. It allowed me to stop pretending, be yourself, as unmarketable as it may be." However, it does seem as though JRL is moving in the corporate direction with the launching of YidLee Productions LLC, and the future launch of his fashion accessories line with his girlfriend, Ali Greenberg. By “branding myself, I'm getting out of the economy. I am boycotting the market by not working. I'm vocationally defied, not un-employed." So far he has not made any money doing what he does but he has definitely generated interest, simply stating “I have invested in myself.” That brings us to the question burning in all of your minds, where exactly does all this money come from? His parents? Well, not exactly. "My parents haven't given me a dime since I graduated. There is no trust fund. The only fund I'm involved in has very little trust". Justin, like many others his age has been living off savings and credit cards but prefers living lavishly over modestly. He hopes to one day be in the same ball park as today's highrollers such as Joe and George Maloof, owners of the Sacramento Kings and The Palms hotel and casino in Vegas. In a conversation about the Maloof brothers excessive spending habits, Justin added " One day, I hope I am at the level of George Maloof and can buy girls diamond necklaces. Right now, I give pearl necklaces and I'm not talking Mikimoto."

*This article was too long to post as a whole. We did not want to cut anything out, therefore the article will be in 3 parts! Check back with us next week for Part Deux.

XOXO As good as it's guests

Justin Ross Lee Delay

Dear Readers,

I know we promised to have our JRL exclusive for the 5th but we have some good and bad news. The bad news is, it will not be posted tomorrow. The good news is we are not AP national and we don't work on deadlines. We have full time jobs outside of all of our blogging glory. We had family to tend to during the holidays, and friends to cheers with during the New Year! Keep checking with us, we promise it will be posted this week....

But a teaser for all the haters during the new "jew year"

"It's like people in Kansas. They receive HBO but they don't get it. The haters don't get me"-JRL

Update: Justin Ross Lee Exclusive

As Good As It's Guests bloggers, Jessica Marquez and Cristina DiVuolo met with the one and only Jewface of Facebook, Justin Ross Lee. This meeting was his first ever face to face interview at the Carnegie Club in Midtown East (and we didn't even have to pay the going rate of $2,475.00 an hour for his time).
We asked Justin everything our readers wanted to know, and he didn't hold back any information, no matter how controversial the questions. Fox Philly and the Associated Press got the facts, but we got the dirt and we're dying to tell it.
Whether you love to hate him, or hate to love him, you know you want to know what's really behind that facebook profile and "fuck you" attitude (or else you wouldn't be reading this blog post, right?) Check back with us January 5th for the uncensored, exclusive interview with Mr. JRL as he sets the record straight and find out what life is really like for your internet obsession.

You know you love us, XOXO,
As Good As It's Guests

Soundside

From left to right: Dan Reardon, Rich Arcati and Karina McMahon

Hailing from Glen Cove, New York on Long Island, Soundside isn't just your every-day garage band rock & roll star wannabes. Soundside balances that old school rock & roll sound with melodic lyrics that satisfy both the ears of hard rock head bangers and pop rock princesses everywhere. Think Three Doors Down meets Pearl Jam, meets O.A.R, meets Blink 182...well, you get the idea. Front man Rich Arcati's hypnotizing voice and lyrics captivate listeners while Dan Reardon (lead guitar/vocals), Matt Fox (bass) and Karina McMahon (drums) lock up their air tight rhythms and unique sound. From opening gigs at Long Island's The Crazy Donkey to headlining NYC's Crash Mansion, Soundside is really making a mark in the music industry. Their Second Album, Seconds from Sunrise debuted in April 2008 and their first single, "Loss for words", hit the airwaves at college campus' and television networks like Fuse across the country. I caught up with Lead Vocalist Rich Arcati to hear, in his own words, what it's like being on the road to super-stardom.

Above: Soundside Press Release

"Graduating from college as a business major with absolutely no “in” to the music industry just a little over 4 years ago, I still find it interesting how the hell I’m the lead singer of a rock band who’s been on both national TV and radio. As much as I love New York, I have little doubt that this area is the most difficult place in the world to make it as an original rock band, so when you start to finally get a little headway in this industry here, I feel like there’s no better feeling. I can’t tell you how many wonderfully degrading NY moments I’ve been through upon the early years of this band, attempting to give away CDs to people, only to find the same CDs in the garbage or left on the floor or bar just a few moments later. The biggest difference that I find now is that I find random people coming up to me asking me about Soundside and where they can purchase our latest album.

From left to right: Karina McMahon(drums), Rich Arcati (lead vocals, piano), Dan Reardon (lead guitar, vocals)

The biggest thing that pisses me off about new artists today is that everything is so over-produced that a lot of bands can’t perform these great CD productions they have live anymore. We put a lot of “ear candy” in our new productions, but the difference is we can actually re-create the same sound in our live performances.I find it funny when girls come up to me after a show and scream like they’re actually surprised, “Omg, you sound just like the CD!!”. It’s like umm, yeah, that’s what we’re trying to go for.

Recording “Seconds From Sunrise”, with Atari’s producer/member, Angus Cooke, was one of the most memorable experiences we’ve had as a band. We basically locked ourselves in Santa Barbara, CA for a month and did nothing but make music. It sounds easy, but after 12 hours a day of listening to yourselves, you almost don’t even know what you recorded until the next day when you get a fresh listen. The fact that Angus was so down-to-earth made things flow way more smoothly then we could ever imagine. The guy has platinum and gold albums on his studio walls and couldn’t have been more artist-friendly. Whenever we all started getting stir-crazy in the studio, he’d be like, “ok, beach-break”, and we’d take 2 hours. Angus would go surfing while Dan and I watched the girls in bikinis play volleyball. By the time we got back to the studio, we were all pumped. I must say California girls in bikinis provide some great musical inspiration.

Above: Sounside's video shoot for "Loss for Words"

The new Spanish Billingual LP that we just recorded was something completely unreal and unexpected. My mother’s Mexican and religiously watches the Spanish networks on TV. She basically networked her way through her outgoing personality until we found ourselves recording with the “godfather of Latin Music”, Adrian Posse. Now Adrian has sold over 40 million albums that he’s produced, so we were all a little intimidated when we found out he wanted to work with us. He has an amazing and funny aura around him. The first time I met Adrian he kissed me on both cheeks and gave me a hug, so that early-intimidation kind of dissipated really quickly. He loved working with us so much that before the album was done, he contacted major label, EMI Records, and told them to get their asses to the studio immediately, literally. They came the very next day and before we knew it, EMI asked us to write a song for a big compilation album that they were releasing for kids all over the Latin World called “La Música De Los Valores.” We were the only American-born band on the entire album full of tons of famous Latin artists and they released 1 million copies, which gave us some sick exposure among Latinos. There have been tons of Latin artists that have come into the American music scene singing English, so we figured why not American artists singing in Spanish entering the Latin scene? It was a concept that has never truly been done before, especially via an American rock band, and Adrian Posse helped realize this on this new 14-track album we made. It’s a tricky situation to enter a completely new market so behind the scenes everything is being handled really carefully, but the album is going to be released sometime in 2009 and we’re expecting huge things."-Rich Arcati

Check out the video to Sounside's first single "Loss for Words" off their second album Seconds from Sunrise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmUQu8e3GrQ and while you're at it, here is the band's myspace page http://www.myspace.com/soundside . You better believe their album is available on iTunes so buy it, it rocks. XOXO Cristina

It's cold, you're bored..now what?

Current Conditions: New York, NY
24°F (feels like 10°F) Fair & Windy

For those of you who can't stand being home all day, here's 10 things to do in NYC in this frigid weather.

10. Trade in your beer mug for a coffee mug- go on a Cafe crawl. Check out this website for the best coffee in NYC (don't forget your mini bottle's of baileys)
http://www.stumblingepicures.com/coffee/the-best-coffee-in-nyc/
9. Stop procrasting and finish your holiday shopping- if you're finished-put that hard earned money back into the economy and shop for yourself. (You know you're not getting that pony this year)
8. Put on your best southern accent, pretend you're a tourist, visit the tree in Rockefeller Center and take pictures (last year, we pretended we were from Alabama, you'd be surprised how funny this is)
7. Go ice skating in Central Park and Rockefeller Center or if you're not recession proof, there's a free rink in Bryant Park.
6. Cant make it to Colorado? then go to West 22nd Street and grab dinner at Aspen NYC.
http://www.aspen-nyc.com/
5. Frozen Hot Chocolate at Serendipity- Cliche, yes...over-rated? No.
4. Head over to 79 Central Park West and catch a movie, an $8 diet coke and a $10 popcorn at the IMAX Theater.
3. Check out a concert at Sullivan Hall or Terminal 5 for some up and coming music and moderately priced beer. http://www.sullivanhallnyc.com/ & http://www.terminal5nyc.com/
2. Take advantage of the city you live in and see a broadway play or show. Go to http://www.nytix.com/ for some discounted rates.
1. Who are you kidding? It feels like it's 10 degrees out, the 35 mph westerly wind gusts just may blow you into the East River and you aren't moving off the couch. So stay inside, check out http://eats.com/ and get fat. We won't tell...and you're joining the gym January 1st anyway, right? ;)

If you have ideas of your own, send us an e-mail. We'd love to hear from you.

XOXO
Cristina

Nick MacCarron

After catching the premier episode of MTV's Double Shot at Love, As Good As It's Guests blogger, Cristina DiVuolo wanted to know more about the chap-wearing superhero she saw on her t.v. screen. (If you haven't seen the show yet, what are you waiting for?) Cristina had the chance to speak with Double Shot at Love's Nick MacCarron and found out some interesting facts. Not only is this 25 year old Long Island native one of MTV's newest reality stars, he was also chosen from over 13,000 entries for MTV's Ultimate Cover Band competition, The Zoo and has his own band, The Lie.

Cristina: What was it like finding out that you were cast to be on MTV's Double Shot of Love?
Nick: Well, at first I randomly went to a casting call not expecting anything. I was kinda in a weird place mentally at the time. Feeling pretty hurt by my girl situation (or lack of) at the time. So I went to the casting call... it was about a 10 minute interview here in NY. A few weeks later got a call saying they're flying me to LA to do another interview with the producers. I went to that, came back thinking... wow, I did this whole thing on the fly not really expecting much, but now I really really hope I make it! So yeah, it was veryyy exciting getting that final call.

C: I would imagine that living in a house full of people competing for the same girls can be extremely frustrating, how did you deal with the chaos when you needed alone time?

N: Yea, the worst part for me was just not having an iPod, iPhone, or guitar with me. Music is my one and only outlet. So at times I did get very frustrated and emotional in the house, and not having a way to try and get my head in a better place was verrrry difficult for me. So a few times during filming I just looked for a place in the house where I could be completely alone, no cameras and no other castmembers, and just sat there

and wrote.

C: You sing and play guitar for your band called The Lie as well as MTV's ultimate cover band, The Zoo. Which artists are you most influenced by?

N: NIRVANA. When I was like 14 I saw the music video for "Heart Shaped Box" on MTV and just had it in my head that I NEEDED to learn to play guitar. I saved money up for months and months and bought a cheaper version of the same exact guitar that Kurt (Cobain) played. Sat in my room everyday after school learning Nirvana songs. I currently have the word Nirvana (in Chinese) tattooed on my left wrist. It was my first tattoo. Being that I'm a right-handed guitarist, I'm constantly looking at my left wrist while playing guitar. So the tat is just a little reminder and inspiration boost :-)

C: Who are your favorite artists or bands?
N: Jimmy Eat World and Underoath are my two current favorites. Sugarcult, Anberlin and New Found Glory always get me pumped and in a great mood. One Republic, Coldplay and Counting Crows put me to sleep

every night. Nine Inch Nails is the ONE concert I still NEED to see before I die.

C:What is something that people would be shocked to find out about you?
N: I'm a text-a-holic, my favorite movie is Cruel Intentions, and I'm addicted to chocolate covered pretzels.

Be sure to watch Nick on Double Shot at Love on MTV on Tuesday nights at 10.

If your bored at work or just want to know more about Nick (you know you do) check out his myspace page myspace.com/nickmaccarron and his band's myspace.com/thelieonline .

XOXO-Cristina 

Who are you Chris Austad?

As good as it's guests bloggers Jessica Marquez and Cristina Divuolo with Chris while shopping.

Check out this new hugo boss commercial...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTxI6qtc9YE

Do you love him??

I want Kandi

If you have been living under a rock for the past year, you may have failed to catch her swimsuits featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, The New York Post Haute List and CNBC'S The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. Dani Kates, founder and designer of Kandi Swim, created confection inspired swimsuits that have all the girls and guys screaming " I want KanDi!".

Dani ironically bases her designs on what most girls consider taboo when the thought of bathing suits enters into their minds...dessert. I personally fell in love with her Cupcake bikini last season and can't wait to get my hands on all of her new "treats".


Below: Jessica Marquez relaxes in Hong Kong in her Birthday Cake Bikini
This season's "Kandi Kini's" are cleverly inspired by bakery boxes, lemon meringue pie, linzer tarts, and an assortment of a bakery's most popular cookies that are sure to satisfy your "sweet tooth". Check out www.kandiswim.com to be one of the first to order what is sure to be one of the sweetest trends of 2009.

Below: I'm relaxing in a cupcake-kini in South Beach.

Hugs and Kisses-Cristina DiVuolo

Twank You

Partying for a Cause
Every summer my boyfriend holds a summer party to bring everyone together and have a good time. This year I came up with the idea to raise money for Memorial Sloan Kettering. Vitamin water helped sponsor the event and it was a great success. Check out the photos below, and if you would like to send a donation or host your own event please email asgoodasitsguests@gmail.com.
xoxo Jess

Cristina Divuolo and I handing out mini Vitamin Waters and chapsticks at Twanky 4.