It’s 10:37pm on a Sunday night.  I’m looking at a clean cut young woman, all of 20.  She’s got a cute short boy hair cut, like a pixie, and is kneeling beside  a young man in his early 20′s, Asian, very fey, and well put together, in a matching cream scarf and rain coat.  What is striking about them?

They are digging in the trash.

They haven’t lost a term paper.  There isn’t a love letter that someone accidentally threw out.  When I walked by, what struck me about her, is that she was eating cupcakes out of the garbage.  This isn’t ironic or kitsch.  Also they aren’t (seemingly) crazy.  No, what I witnessed is Freeganism in action. Read the rest of this entry »

So this trailer does not in any way shape or form do this movie justice, but just trust me, High School Record is pretty great and really funny and raw and good. And just because I potentially was drunk when I first saw it, that MAKES NO DIFFERENCE! I’ve watched it sober and want to keep watching it all the time it’s good and no, I’m not drunk right now, and even if I was YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!

Ahem.

Yeah, so. Um, yeah. Also, the company that put it out, Factory 25, is doing some great stuff so show some love, y’all.

So. I was sitting having a business meeting when this guy walked by.  I immediately got up, and was like “see ya later!” to the person I was talking to, but can you blame me?

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I am on line at the County Clerks Office in Brooklyn.  There is a dull rumble of the fluorescent lights, turning the already sickly looking people a faint shade of green.  Behind the counter is a woman, Black, mid-40′s, large.  She is wearing a floral print, colorful, bright.  It is the most cheery thing here.

All around me are people who quite literally, are fighting city hall.  They need forms in triplicate.  They need proof of verification.  They have been re-routed many times over, and They. Are. Pissed.  It is taking some of these people all the strength they have to not flip out.  There is a very obvious tension in the air that makes the bullet proof glass in front of the Clerks Office seem like less of an after thought and more of a necessity. Read the rest of this entry »

This is pretty great, and had me laughing all over the place. Thanks to Vashtie for putting me on to this. Good looking, kid!

Q: So when we left off you mentioned something about writing and running and Murakami.  Sounds boring.

What?  Oh, you’re being sarcastic.

Q: Am I?

Cute.  Well, when I turned 30, I had a pretty great idea where I would pretend to be an adult and see what that was all about.

Q: What do you mean “pretend?”

Up until this point I was pretty minimalist about adulthood.  I literally was only doing the bare minimum of what was expected of me.  Like, I had a bed, but it was on the floor, because why would I have a bed frame?¹  So around the time I turned 30 I made a list of things that I was putting off until I became an adult or things that I knew would be helpful but I was afraid of committing to.  On that list were the following things:

-write everyday for several hours

-run a marathon

-get an office

Q: Why those things in particular?

Well, I had recently heard that Malcolm Gladwell idea that “genius” is an accumulation of 10,000 hours of working at something.  I don’t know if that’s true.  Or even if he wrote it.  It was just one of those statements that gets thrown around at dinner parties after people hear it on NPR.   Read the rest of this entry »

I’m posting this video for two reasons.  One, I like it, which is reason enough, GET OFF MY BACK!  Also, it’s a good indicator of where I’m at right now with how I’m thinking about this movie I’m about to make and stories in general.  I was once told that story is a routine interrupted.  Which is such a great quote, I wish I knew who said it. Read the rest of this entry »

^{This is what my office looked like right before the first draft was done.}

I’m on the last leg of this shooting draft, and sort of in the thick of it, but I was recently asked by myself to talk about writing the feature.  I argued that it’s not really the best time to do interviews, but then me replied that dealing with the process and not just the end result was also important.  I decided that I was right and agreed to the interview.  The first section is below. Read the rest of this entry »