A good friend of mine from my college days is getting married this week, ‘The Captain’. Most of the guys I rolled with in college will be traveling this week for the wedding. I talked to the Captain tonight, and as always, it took around 1.3 seconds for us to get each other laughing. (My […]
Something of an update… Life has slowed down and is in something of a groove as summer starts to get into full swing. I’ve been doing a lot of reading and researching about mythologies, in a general way and in a ‘movie’ way. It’s really stunning (but very cool) how many ‘stories’ keep repeating themselves across […]
Over the weekend, our friends at the Lawrence Arts Center gave Lady In My Life another honor to add to its resume; it was chosen ‘Best Romance’ at the LAC Short Film Festival. It means alot to me, for several different reasons. I enjoy giving my KU guys a hard time, but I did […]
A little more than a year ago, I took over one of my best friend’s houses for a day and shot a short film with a great crew of fellow KU graduates. After successful screening on the East Coast and the West Coast, national television and the internet, I find myself feeling nostalgic that […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le5aIqn_MfE While California Love will always be my default song because of my culture and my generation, in truth there’s only one song that’s the theme song for this city, the song that you will hear whenever one of the city’s teams pulls off the big win at home. It’s unbelievably cheesy and corny, and […]
I was sitting in the courthouse last Thursday, and found myself pulled into a conversation with an Armenian, a 19 year old Jewish kid, and a second generation Serbian. We weren’t changing the world; just shooting the breeze. As I’ve found throughout my experience, the Islamic Center I attend the most frequently is a […]
While there are no shortage of good concert venues in the City of Angels, I’m especially partial to the Hollywood Bowl. For one, like many of my favorite spots in this city, it’s meant to be enjoyed outdoors and takes full advantage of that. Reason Number 2 is while its location has caused more […]
The posts here have slowed to a crawl for a number of reasons; one of the biggest being that I’m dealing with an extraordinary amount of stress in my private life. For the benefit of anyone who may be reading me or this blog for the first time, I’ll tell you upfront this post will […]
I was approached recently and asked if I would be willing to use this space to help promote a ’cause’. I have several personal ‘connections’ to this particular cause so I’m more than happy to use this space to help out. Several years ago, the idea of a Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in […]
It’s the public image of Bruce Wayne. It’s the Napoleonic Complex of Ari Gold. She calls it my ‘smartassness’, but one of my close buddies gave it the best nickname of all: ‘Hollywood’. The ‘Hollywood’ persona gets its roots in the pro wrestlers I looked at as a kid. Guys like Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, and […]
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