1. I bought Elizabeth Smart's book and I can't put it down. She is a wonderful writer, and while most of her story is difficult to read, it needed to be told. I just cannot comprehend the evil and insanity that is inside some people. But all I kept thinking about as I was reading it was how thankful I was that she was alive and able to write this ( Read more... )

On Friday, I filmed a wedding at a hotel downtown. Before I tell the story, I won't mention which hotel because I know how social media spreads like wildfire and I don't need any phone calls from the hotel saying that I'm hurting their business. Anyway, around one p.m, shortly after the bride and groom saw each other for the first time, I used my ( Read more... )

1. So far, life in my 30's has been pretty good to me. I got accepted to Graduate School, I'm so busy with film production that I can't sit still, and I have lots of money in my bank account. I'm not used to having so much money. My entire life has been a combination of low income (despite working my butt off), and a mountain of debt. Put those two ( Read more... )

It's no secret that I'm looking for a new female addition to my life, but every time an opportunity comes around, I have a bad habit of getting my hopes up too soon. I've been on okcupid for a while, but I almost deleted my account two weeks ago because I haven't had any luck with it. Then out of nowhere, this girl messaged me saying that she liked ( Read more... )

These past two weeks have been unbelievably difficult. Every time I think that I've experienced it all, I get a whole new series of bad luck, like I just played Racquetball in a room full of mirrors. I went to Muncie two weeks ago to meet with my college interns, and I even had a drink with a great girl afterwards. We talked for two hours about ( Read more... )

1. I had a blast from the past the other night. It was time for my interns to choose their cast, so we all met up at the Ball State library and met with several actors in the exact same room that I auditioned for my own films ten years ago. One by one, the actors came and went, and it got me really excited about getting back into narrative film ( Read more... )

1. In mid-January, Jordan and I, both being very financially unorganized, didn't pay the electric bill. I thought that we had at least two more weeks before they disconnected it. It shut off on a Friday morning, and we were about $200 short of having enough to get it turned back on, so we had no choice but to sit in the dark all weekend. Well, I ( Read more... )

1. So apparently the world is supposed to end this Friday. Personally, I don't see it happening, but if it actually does, there's not much else I can do about it but sit back, have a beer, and enjoy my last moments on Earth. The end of the world is such a sad concept. Life is such a precious gift that so many people take for granted. I've already ( Read more... )

1. I've been watching a lot of drama TV shows lately, and I've found them to have better writing than most movies that I've seen recently. Since I'm caught up on Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston's performance motivated me to start watching "Malcolm in the Middle." That is one of the most hysterical shows I've ever seen. The casting is perfect, the ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was driving in my rental car and listening to satellite radio. I like taking a break from music sometimes and listening to the comedy station. Here was one guy's routine ( Read more... )