(500) Days of Summer was our last screening at the LA Film Festival. I saw this trailer a few months ago and couldn’t wait to see the film. The best part about the screening was that we heard at the beginning that Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, the director, and the writers would be available for [ Read More ]
Archive for June, 2009
This past week at the LA Film Festival, I was able to catch two short film segments early in the week, and two indie films later in the week. Overall the short films were very good. Some really stood out as great, while others left a little to be desired, but all were well done [ Read More ]
Yesterday was my first day of class for one of two UCLA extension writers’ program. This class was the short story one I wrote about last week. It was strange being on a campus walking to class again. The first thing I noticed – UCLA’s campus is HUGE. It’s not like walking around CMC or [ Read More ]
Those Who Remain (Los que se quedan) is a documentary currently screening at the Los Angeles Film Festival. It kicked off a week of eight screenings and a conference for me. Violet joined me for this screening and we hurried to Westwood to pick up all our tickets and passes before heading down to the [ Read More ]
Eric and Shayna finally took the plunge last weekend, getting married at the Belamar Hotel in Manhattan Beach. I was fortunate enough to be one of Eric’s groomsmen, so I had VIP access to the entire process and all the events leading up to the big moment. I treated it as a dry run for [ Read More ]
I received an email today from the instructor for a class I begin next week. I’ve enrolled in two classes this summer through the UCLA extension writer’s program. One is a course about writing a drama pilot for television. The other is a creative writing course on short stories. The latter is the course that [ Read More ]
I originally had no intention of seeing The Hangover in theaters. Then the hype started. People had nothing but great things to say, and it even received plenty of positive reviews. So I became curious. When I found out that even Roger Ebert gave it a thumbs up, I knew it was theater worthy. The [ Read More ]
I had originally booked a flight from LA to SF for Wednesday night. Keith was arriving in SF Thursday afternoon, so we were going to hang out with Phil during the day, then meet up with Tridi and a few others Thursday night before driving out to Lake Tahoe on Friday morning. I decided to [ Read More ]
What do you do when you lose a friend? What do you when something so horrific happens, you can’t even process it? I’m struggling to find an answer to those questions right now. I’ve written some pretty personal blogs over the last few years. Some might think it a bit much to be so candid [ Read More ]
