Today I woke up a little after 11, went to brunch with some of Chelsea's old friends from back in New Orleans, then went on a 17 mile run around Silverlake Reservoir.  It was tough!  I'm out of practice, not sure what will happen with this marathon.  Chelsea made a fantastic Paleo dinner of short rib and creamed spinach, while I worked on the Twilight Zone painting.  Then we watched the new Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and then attempted to watch Galavant.  It was too terrible, we couldn't make it through.  So now I'm about to go to bed because I start the new MTV pilot tomorrow!

In an effort to post more...

These first few days of 2015…

I've been working on a couple of large acrylics for a Twilight Zone themed charity art show.  It's portraits of Shatner and the Gremlin from the Terror at 20000 Feet episode.  Trying to lay the paint in really thick and textured means I have to wait a long time for layers to dry.  But I could be done with the second one tomorrow night, if not in the next couple days.

I'm in a weird work gray area right now where I'm trying to plan to go to Australia in a couple months, but I can't be sure just when.  So it's an awkward amount of time to need work and I can't be clear on when I'll be out of town for two weeks.  Regardless, I got the call Friday night that I'll be working on a new pilot starting Monday, so I'm set for a couple weeks at least.  That'll be enough time to figure out when the trip will be and I just have to have faith that everything will fall in order after that!

Other than that, I've been playing and enjoying Grand Theft Auto 5, which was a gift from Chelsea's mom and sister for Christmas.  It's SO MUCH better than GTA4.  I watched Pain & Gain and also Sushi Girl.  I ran a 10k on Friday and 5k today, just training not official races.  Need to do a long run tomorrow, 15-17 miles.

Had lunch with Jesse and Marika a couple of days in a row.  Pretty quiet here, just painting and hanging out and trying not to spend too much money for now!

2014 IN REVIEW

CAREER

Followed a pretty good year with another pretty good year.  Didn’t make as much money these past two years because I gave up so much work to do the doc instead.  But still I got to do a lot of work I’m very proud of, and it may have been the most varied challenges of any year I’ve had. This year I finished up 2 episodes of “Gigolos” season 5 for Showtime, completed the feature documentary “In The Turn,” one episode on season 3 of “Catfish: The TV Show” for MTV, 2 episodes of “My Five Wives on TLC,” the series premiere of “Resort Rescue” on Travel Channel, I cut two pilots including “Sex Box,” which sold to WEtv. Then I became a Supervising Editor for a new show currently airing on the fyi network called “Late Nite Chef Fight.”  So I have 14 credit hours of television and one feature this year...not too shabby, especially considering I was unemployed for four months.

“In The Turn” has been travelling the world at different festivals and I’ve been trying to make it to as many screenings as I can.  So far I saw it in Seattle, St. Louis and Vienna!  Hopefully we find distribution and get it seen by more people.  Good response so far and I look forward to seeing where the movie goes and grows.

I maxed out my Roth IRA again, and I hope to do the same next year.  Because of all the traveling combined with time off, I have lost a significant chunk of my savings.

I voted on the Emmy awards again this year, though I was too busy to vote in as many categories as I wanted to.

PERSONAL

Still living with Chelsea, we’ve been together for 64 months now and our nub continues to grow.  I still love her and our life together will all my heart!  Just tonight we went to the closing night of our favorite restaurant Hatfield’s and I asked her mother’s permission to propose.  Her mom said yes, so now I have to get a ring and a plan.

The big news this year was I finally made good on my resolutions to travel outside the U.S.  We spent a week in each of these places: Paris, Rome, Vienna and London.  We went to Paris because I ran the Paris marathon and then stayed on in Rome for fun (although we hated Rome).  We went to Vienna because the documentary played there and we stayed on in London for fun.  I have found that my favorite city in the world (outside of LA) is Paris.  So romantic and artistic and creative.  And the food!

I had a lot of other great trips this year, including Charlotte for Memorial Day, Seattle for my film premiere (which was amazing!) and again for Christmas, Vegas for anniversary, and St. Louis for film festival.

I had works in the same two art shows as last year, and both of my pieces sold for great causes.

We went to fewer concerts this year but they were pretty memorable, including Puddles Pity Party, Joan As Police Woman in Rome, Ingrid Michaelson at the Wiltern, Lily Allen at the Palladium, Britney Spears in Vegas, and the Vienna Boys Choir Christmas Show in Vienna.  I saw my first Opera in Vienna, “La Traviata” at the Vienna State Opera House.  I met a lot of my heroes including pinup artist Olivia DeBerardinis, John Romita Jr (again), J. Scott Campbell, Elvira, Don Coscarelli, Tom Savini, Greg Nicotero, Joe Lansdale, Chuck Pahliniuk, Tippi Hedron, Julie Adams, and Jeffrey Combs.

I've been running again and I’m registered for the LA Marathon in the spring.  I’m behind in my training mainly because of Late Night Chef Fight, so we’ll see how it goes...  I ran the Paris Marathon in 4:45:00; my goal was just to keep running the whole time, and I did achieve that.

JAN 1, 2013 WEIGHT:  190

JAN 1, 2014 WEIGHT: 204

Hoo boy, two years of weight gain...I gotta do something about that.

RESOLUTIONS FOR 2014

1) Go to a foreign country.

2) Finish cutting a feature.

3) A secret resolution that I will not tell you.

4) Get a piece in another art show.

5) Be really serious about fitness.  I want to be in the best shape of my life.

6) Write a good script.

7) Pay off my student loans.

8) Continue learning to use more graphics in editing.  Use AfterEffects.

9) Love Chelsea like she’s never been loved before.  And then love her some more.

10) Continue being awesome.

RESOLUTIONS FOR 2015

1) Write a good script.

2) Cut something scripted.

3) Buy a nice engagement ring.

4) Use it.

5) Be really serious about fitness.  I want a new PB 5k.

6) Get a piece in another art show.

7) Run another marathon.

8) Continue learning to use more graphics in editing.  Use AfterEffects.

9) Love Chelsea like she’s never been loved before.  And then love her some more.

10) Continue being awesome.

I know, I gotta believe!