‘Straight Outta Compton’

In all likelihood, the next time you see me on the big screen… Very happy to get ‘be directed by F. Gary Gray’ off my bucket list last year.  I don’t know how you guys outside the West Coast are reacting to this, but I can tell you, here in L.A., this film can’t open […]

Song of the Day – ‘Must Be the Money’

  I know. The movie reviews are way behind.  As far as the Oscar nominations…we’ll get to that next month when the show gets closer. Can’t solve all my problems at once but they’re all getting solved one at a time so I’m in good spirits.  With only three football games left this season, this […]

Director’s Commentary

  Before we get too far away from it… ‘Santa’s Third Wheel’ was (barely) finished before Christmas, I put it out here (and there and everywhere), and you guys liked it, shared it, retweeted it, gave me and everyone involved a ton of compliments.  Thank you.  As I told some of my conspirators when I […]

Another Part of Me

  Harmony. That’s how I’ll remember 2014.  Maybe I was just due for a good year, but truth be told, 90 percent of my stress over the past 12 months could really be called sympathy/empathy at things going on in the world around me. On a personal level, it feels like I’ve taken a huge […]

Song of the Day – ‘Free’

  Lord it’s so hard, living this life A constant struggle each and every day Some wonder why I’d rather die Than to continue living this way Many are blind and cannot find The truth cause no one seems to really know But I won’t accept that this is how it’s gon’ be Devil you […]

Dialed In

  ‘Editing is that moment when you give up every hope you have of making a great piece of art and you have to settle with what you have.’ – Woody Allen To any of ‘the Commission’ reading this, don’t take that quote too literally.  ‘Holiday Project’ is in good shape. But personally I’m starting […]

Song of the Day – ‘Springtime for Hitler’

  As I’ve been wading into the deeper end of the  ‘awkward/uncomfortable comedy’ pool, I’ve been going back and looking at some of the people who make me laugh and inspire me as a writer and an actor.  Mel Brooks of course is on that list. Do I think it’s a coincidence he crossed paths […]