2015 Year in Review

CAREER

Followed a pretty good year with a great year.  I worked solid all year to build back up the old savings account.  I got to do a lot of work I’m very proud of, all as a Supervising Editor.  I started off the year with a tough competition show pilot for MTV called “No Rules.”  Then I supervised a new show for Playboy Channel called “Triple Play.”  Next I was very proud to supervise season 6 of “Gigolos” for Showtime, and personally cut the season premiere.  I cut a pilot for TBS, supervised another season of “Late Nite Chef Fight” for FYI, and did a myriad of development work for the company.  Finally, I cut a broadcast pilot for Cooking Channel called “Cookin’ With Salt-N-Pepa,” and I even spoke to Pepa on the phone and she said I did a great job!

My feature documentary “In The Turn,” continued travelling the world at different festivals and I made it to several more screenings.  Most notably, Chelsea and I went to see the film in Sydney, Australia at the Mardi Gras Film Fest.  We saw the film in San Diego, I saw it in Long Beach and Atlanta, Sacramento and Davis.  Altogether we had about 60 film festivals all around the world.  The producers recently signed an exciting distribution deal and hopefully you should be able to see the movie wherever you are in 2016.

I cut a short film called "Spare Parts" as part of the OutFest OutSet program. It's touring around festivals now, and there was one festival this year called OutWest in Reno, NV where both "Spare Parts" and "In the Turn" played AND both won awards!

I’ve begun work on my second feature doc, tentatively titled “Keep on Running,” about marathon runners from Sierra Leone.

I maxed out my Roth IRA again, and I hope to do the same next year.

I did not vote in the Emmys this year, too busy!

PERSONAL

Still living with Chelsea, we’ve been together for 76 months now and our nub continues to grow.  I still love her and our life together with all my heart!  For our sixth anniversary in August, I finally proposed marriage to her and she accepted!  I learned to play “our song” on piano, despite having no musical abilities in the past, and then I surprised her by getting a swank hotel room that had a grand piano in it.  I melted her brain by playing the song and then busted out the ring and proposed.  Since then I have been continuing my piano lessons, mostly learning classical stuff and chords.

I didn’t take as many trips this year because of working back some of that savings, but we did go to Vegas in the spring to see the Kids in the Hall perform.  And I finally got all my childhood stuff from Georgia and drove it out here to LA, stopping again in Vegas on the way.

I had another couple of paintings in Eat Your Art Out, which was Twilight Zone themed this year, so a lot of fun for me.  I painted a great piece this year that is a Roy Lichtenstein knockoff using the character Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13^th.  I got the piece autographed by several F13 alum, including composer Harry Manfredini who encouraged me to have prints made.  So I did and for the first time every, I am offering prints for sale!

I met a lot of my heroes including famed horror auteur George Romero, Yaphet Kotto, pinup artist Olivia DeBerardinis (again) and her husband Joel, Tom Savini (again), Tony Todd (again), Dana Gould, Kane Hodder, Ray Wise and Calvin Jeung from Robocop, Sonny Chiba, Guinivere Turner, Jennifer Rubin, Dean Cameron, William Lustig, Masuimi Max and her husband famed rock photographer Morat666, Gia Genevieve, Charles Band, Roger Corman, Leslie Easterbrook, Sid Haig, Dita Von Teese, Patricia Tallman, Tom McLoughlin, Greg Cannom, Mike Mignola and Ron Perlman, Tim Bradstreet and Ken Kerzinger.  And the biggest thrill of all for me was meeting Tony Jaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My running and fitness was destroyed this year by overextending myself with work.  Unfortunately held steady at this weight I don’t care for.

JAN 1, 2013 WEIGHT:  204

JAN 1, 2014 WEIGHT: 204

I’m going to get heavier into training this year because I gotta get ready for our wedding in September!

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.

RESOLUTIONS FOR 2016

1) Write a good script.

2) Cut a horror film/short.

3) Cut “Keep on Running”

4) Solo art show.

5) Be really serious about fitness.  I want a new PB 5k and to fit in my tux.

6) Marry Chelsea.

7) Write a song for piano.

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!