This is not final footage…so the director has asked to not yet be named or tagged in relation to this footage. But he did want to offer my readers a special preview. Here it is.

(Readers with long-term memories will probably figure it out anyway; but in conjunction with the director’s wishes I must ask that [...]

Sometimes people ask what the last movie I cried in was. I don’t remember…but this could be the next one.

With all the ragging on CityBeat’s terrible film section over the past month and a half, perhaps I should feel schadenfreude over the news that it has now folded. I don’t. I think L.A. needs more than one alt-weekly, and even though the ‘Beat was barely up to the job in its last year or [...]

It would be nice if, during a time of high stress like moving, everything else in life would take care of itself. But that’s never the way.

My meager means of livelihood depends on my being able to watch DVDs; specifically, cheap, hand-burned screeners from low-budget productions. I cannot count on the barely reliable PS2 player [...]

I am about to disconnect from the Internet for a few days, and from cable TV for the foreseeable future. Hope to be back on late Thursday.

I will be reachable by cell phone only. And would certainly like to socialize, as there’ll be little fun to be had staying home in an empty apartment full [...]

If you have not yet seen THE ROOM…this is a great highlight reel. Even if you have, it’s pretty great.

The Room Remixed – Watch more

That’s what Irish expats here call St. Patrick’s Day, as practiced in the U.S.

And don’t give me any crap about Budweiser not being Irish — last time I was in Ireland, the heaviest-drinking friend I have there ordered it regularly; his complaint about Guinness had something to do with one’s bowels the next day…

I’m now doing stuff for a New York-based site called FLYPmedia…sort of like alt-weekly cover stories, but with multimedia content. I was trying to move in this direction with OC Weekly — web-video components alongside cover stories — but that tradition was not followed after I left. This, I think, is the future model –a [...]