Jigsaw Karma

It all started New Years Eve 198X.  Everyone has their traditions for the holiday.  Most people gather in large parties and clubs to celebrate with champagne and music and friends.  

In my household growing up we built a puzzle - the entire thing - all in one night.  Then we went to bed.

HOW I BUILT A PUZZLE AS A KID:

2012 Annual Movie List

Last year I made a biannual list of upcoming movies that I wanted to see.  Yeah… the second half of that biannual thing didn’t happen.  This year, let’s just do an annual list and call it good.  Here are my top ten movies of 2012, for least to most anticipated.

Lick the Dream Storm

My last blog-post explained a fun way to make a poem by writing something and then letting an online translator chew it up.  As promised, I did the exercise myself, and got two awesome poems out of it.  Here ya go!

Everyone's a Poet Now!

I don’t like poetry.  I find people’s poems to be self-indulgent, emo, horribly vague and deliberately cryptic.  If you want to tell us how you feel, just say it.

Now, if you want to write an awesome poem that everyone will love, here’s a fun exercise.  Don’t think you know the first thing about writing at all?  Trust me, you can do this. 

Monthly Scoop: May 2012

I feel like a junky who’s about to be whacked for not paying back his debt.  “I swear I’m working on the movie.  I’ll get something on YouTube for sure this month!  Please, you gotta believe me!  No, no don’t shoot me.  Noooooooo!.....”

And then its swimmin’ with the fishes for me…

But let’s talk about the movie quick, along with another announcement I have.

Prometheus

I don’t remember exactly how this all came about.  Awhile back I was contacted by a man named Michael Fassbender and asked if I was interested in being a part of a paid film studio internship. 

I don’t know what put my name on the radar; maybe my technical theater and creative writing on my Macalester College transcript; or the manuscript I had submitted to various publishers over the last two years; or hell, even this blog and my YouTube channel.  Regardless, my name, portfolio, and passion for film and story creation caught their attention.