I was just interviewed by FWD:Labs for my upcoming short film, STRAIN. Check it out: Director Reynier Molenaar is knee-deep in making his most involved film yet. STRAIN follows two survivors of the zombie apocalypse who must travel across ground zero — an abandoned Los Angeles — to deliver important biological samples. According to Molenaar, “it takes an [...]

My friend, Selene, sent me a funny email about her experience catching REPLAY at the Loisaida Cortos Film Festival. Check it out: In The Trenches: Notes On Loisaida

Due to an unfortunate decision on my part, I accidentally destroyed all the data on my compute. While sifting through the thousands of random back-up files, I came across an old story that Jen had written about our sexacades circa 2004: Overcome by Jen We hadn’t even booked the tickets when we started making plans. [...]

I was chatting with my ex-girlfriend on AIM the other night and we got into a conversation that made me want to commit Hara-kiri. Somehow, in talking about a music video that I’m supposed to direct for my friend’s rock band, our conversation became about the old adage “Jack of all trades, master of none” [...]

I was talking to my friend (dubbed “Long Island Larry” for the sake of this post) on AIM and he said something that struck me as being slightly racist. When I called him on it, we ended up getting into an IM debate. I think both of our point-of-views come across in this [edited for [...]

Jen and I had a conversation about infidelity a few nights ago and she recently posted a blog about it. After reading her post, I felt that my point of view wasn’t really represented properly, so I decided to share my response here. First, here’s what Jen wrote in her blog: Last night, Reynier and [...]

Ggggrrrrr! I’ve had a bitch of a time wrestling the 14+ hours of footage from the “Young At Heart” series into something manageable, but I think I’ve finally made some break-throughs. I’m working on the first episode, which is always the hardest. Not only do I have to cut a coherent, unscripted narrative based on [...]

I was totally blown away to find that Mark Sawicki, visual effects guru and author of the book, “Filming the Fantastic: A Guide to Visual Effects Cinematography,” wrote this very, very nice blog about me: Hello everyone. I had the pleasure of meeting a remarkable young man recently who is part of the new wave [...]

Last week, I joked that Jen was acting like Gandhi. But my friend Danny Gonzales is the true Gandhi impersonator, heading down to Panama for a month of fasting and meditation. This is a photo of my smartass friend (on the right), hanging out with us at LA Shorts Fest: Now, check out this email [...]