This is something I’m starting and hopefully will keep up on a monthly basis. I watch a lot of movies and I’m astounded at how much garbage Hollywood puts out. This is nothing new to most of us and yet someone, somewhere, paid to see Paul Blart: Mall Cop or Dance Flick Wayans extravaganza 32. Meanwhile, absolutely amazing movies go relatively unnoticed by the public and only get retroactive publicity if they earn that rare Oscar nod or equally rare cult DVD status. My goal is to suggest a few amazing movies that you may have missed and a few that you should look for soon.  Read 

I’ve thought that I might die on more than one occasion in my life. The first time I can remember was when I was 8 years old and I crashed into a barbed wire fence on a quad runner. The most vivid time was when I was on a bike ride from Santa Monica to San Diego. We stopped at some beach near Camp Pendleton and I went swimming by myself. The riptide pulled me under and spit me out a minute and a half later, a quarter mile from the shore. I had almost blacked out and barely made it back to shore. Most recently, my disease made me lose almost 50 pounds and it started really scaring me into a Morgan Freeman/Jack Nicholson type situation at 22 years old. I thought about all of the things that I had done and all of the things that I wanted to do and it bothered me that I could think of so many things on the “haven’t done” list.  Read 

Where the hell have I been? I feel like this is a bi-annual question I pose to myself and subsequently decide to explain to the world. I disappeared from this site once again for a few months and a lot has happened both in my life and on this blog.  Read