ENTOURAGE

Yes, my name was stolen by a TV show. No, I’m not an agent.

How did it happen? My bandmate Adrian Grenier (who also starred in my movie Adventures of Power) was cast as Vinnie Chase in the TV show Entourage.

His team saw our band play while the Entourage pilot was being edited, with a character named Ari Jacobs (based on Ari Emmanuel). Suddenly oops, at the last minute of the edit they “borrowed” my name.

Without asking. I found out at the premiere.

Not wanting to interrupt my friend Adrian’s success, I decided not to sue. I wasn’t expecting the character of Ari Gold to get so annoyingly famous…

But then, at the launch of the second season, I was biking through Times Square, and saw a giant Entourage promo billboard reading “Ari Gold is a Douchebag!” Time to lawyer up?

Lawyers told me I would fail if I tried to sue a company as powerful as HBO. And that by waiting, I “implied consent.”

Then I went through several years of being asked if I was named after a fucking TV show. When the show finally ended - but announced as a movie, I decided I had had enough. If I wouldn’t sue for a million bucks I would make a shitty music video to curse the movie to fail.

And it worked!

For the curse-video below, I played with the show’s bro theme, interpreting it as a shot-for-shot remake of Avicci’s “Wake Me Up,” but replacing the pretty female models with a male model and his “bro” puppet. Why? Why not, I guess. Years of your name getting abused can make you go crazy...

"ENTOURAGE"
A Film By Ari Gold. Directed by Ari Gold and Louis Arogant. Conceived by The Gold Brothers. Music by Ethan Gold with vocals by Louis Arogant.

 NOTE FROM ARI: 

The only thing you need to know about Entourage is that it was a Microsoft email client for Mac. My brother Ethan Gold wrote a song about it, and Spacehog's Louis Arogant, Haroula Rose and I made a video. Louis sang and the real-life dance-pop sensation Ari Gold (now going by Sir Ari Gold) gave us some backing-track dance floor emoting. An organic chef named Ari Gold sent good vibes from Portland. And a bunch of friends not named Ari Gold came out and made a video, which is about as coincidentally similar to Avicii & Aloe Blacc's "Wake Me Up" as the name "Ari Gold" is similar to my given name. In other words, a lot similar. I recognized the "Wake Me Up" locations from my movie Adventures of Power so I went back to lovely Piru, California to tell this tale of two beautiful brothers on a quest to find out the meaning of Ari Gold and Entourage. There's a message in it for all of us.

VIDEO produced by Haroula Rose, Ari Gold, Louis Arogant. Edited by Louis Arogant & Ari Gold. Starring Anthony Greenfield as the beautiful bro, Sven. Saxon as the little bro, puppeteered by Mr. Jared Ramirez, voice by Amber Richey.

SONG written & produced by Ethan Gold, with lyrics by Ethan Gold, Ari Gold, & Louis Arogant. Vocals by Louis Arogant. Backing emotion vocals by Sir Ari Gold. Harmony vocals by Ethan Gold. Engineered by John Hiler. Remixed by Reza Safinia.

With guest appearances by Ari Gold as DJ AG Aricii, Mickael De Cinno & Jared Ramirez as the "new bros" and the "anti-bros", and Michelle as the singer.  Partiers and passersby include Sarah Gail Armstrong, Amber Richey, Robert Sheehan, Sofia Boutella, Haroula Rose, Mika Wendy Sam, Dovelie Lovelie, Vera Wu, Ryanne White, Aaron Shorter, and others please contact me and I'll add you here because I can't find the sign-up sheet. Thank you for drinking my beer.