Mind of Migg

Well, you don’t have to be your job, if you don’t want to. A few months back, I was speaking to a friend who had recently been laid off. Here’s how the conversation went down: Him: “So how’s it going?” Me: “Well, I have a job.” Aaaaand, cringe. Only I didn’t mean it to be  [ Read More ]

One of the great things about an iPhone (besides all the awesome apps) is that when you have one, you can always look busy.  Or at least give the appearance of being busy.  Ok, it really doesn’t fool anyone, but when you’re the one standing alone in a corner because you’re incredibly shy it helps  [ Read More ]

When I was a freshman in college, I had an internship that I walked away from because I was unsatisfied.  The internship was through an organization dedicated to placing talented minority youth in business positions.  I walked away because I felt it was training interns in how to be middle management, instead of truly successful  [ Read More ]

The annual NALIP Conference is this weekend.  NALIP is the National Association of Latino Independent Producers.  It’s a group that has been a huge support in my development as a filmmaker.  I attended their Writer’s Lab in 2008 and their Media Market where I was able to practice pitching my project in 2009.  This is  [ Read More ]

It took me a long time to see Avatar, longer than I had planned.  I didn’t want to get caught up in the hype, but I knew I had to experience it on the big screen in 3-D to fully appreciate it, so I finally made the time. Yes, it’s true that it’s not a  [ Read More ]

To qualify for this list I had to either a)    See the movie in theaters b)   See the movie on DVD, but it was released in theaters in 2009 A disclaimer first.  There are a lot of great movies from this year that I haven’t seen yet that weren’t factored into this list.  I’m going  [ Read More ]

Well, you don’t have to be your job, if you don’t want to. A few months back, I was speaking to a friend who had recently been laid off. Here’s how the conversation went down: Him: “So how’s it going?” Me: “Well, I have a job.” Aaaaand, cringe. Only I didn’t mean it to be  [ Read More ]

When I was a freshman in college, I had an internship that I walked away from because I was unsatisfied.  The internship was through an organization dedicated to placing talented minority youth in business positions.  I walked away because I felt it was training interns in how to be middle management, instead of truly successful  [ Read More ]

Two days is a long time to go without meat, let alone two weeks.  Violet and I decided to try it anyway.  We finished up a two-week period with no meat in our diet (save one exhausted night where I failed to associate a can of tuna with meat and mixed it in with pasta  [ Read More ]

Well, you don’t have to be your job, if you don’t want to. A few months back, I was speaking to a friend who had recently been laid off. Here’s how the conversation went down: Him: “So how’s it going?” Me: “Well, I have a job.” Aaaaand, cringe. Only I didn’t mean it to be  [ Read More ]

I failed completely in my first attempt at NaNoWriMo last November.  I barely completed two chapters and maybe a few thousand words.  Actually, let me see how sad my word count really was…still looking…saved them as separate documents…there it is…3024.  I also wrote three chapters, not two.  Still, a sad performance.  But I loved the  [ Read More ]

I thought proclaiming on a blog post that I was ready to get back to work would be enough motivation on its own.  I was wrong.  The thing is, I was healthy again a few weeks ago, but two things happened – 1) lots of rain and I never do well in gloomy weather, and  [ Read More ]