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THE DIGGEST A young boy with a penchant for digging digs too far.

6xSorrow: Pilot Script

6xsorrowPilot1Draft3 Clink on the title to read the a pilot episode of a six episode revenge fantasy.

This short film started as a script assignment through Full Sail University. You can read the script HERE and track what changed during the production. The rules set by the assignment were to write a story that someone could produce for around $100, have a shooting schedule of only a few days , and only […]

Short Script: “Best Offer”

Click below to read a short script about a young arrogant kid who must convince a picky old many that he is worthy of buying a priceless classic car. BestOfferScript

…To Rust, to Rust

To Rust it will all return. That in which we mightily built and marveled at: what we culled from the rocks. Metal that shined bright and new like cloth sails or summer clouds now colors in dull red and fire orange – it reminds that there will be a cancerous chew And before that time […]

Short Script: The Finger

Here is a little humorous story about a bratty kid who has a fowl habit. Click the link to read or download the screenplay: TheFingerD5

Three construction helmets hanging on an old wooden hat-rack

The Seeker, the Surveyor, and the Teller: An Approach to the Craft

As people, we hold a naturally inherent ability to tell a story. Of course, some will excel at it and those who will be unrefined novices. The next great novelist and the shopper relating their week to the grocery store clerk are both flexing their skills of story-crafting. A story is much as an art […]

Magic Soap (Take 3)

I came across this little poem of mine in a decade old notebook and liked it.. I took another shot at it and here is my result. The title was followed by “take 2” so naturally this is my third take. Because everyone has had to— Go through those Long and dirty days And […]

Ditty for Blue

Hey Blue Where have you been? ‘Been looking all round, round looking for you Blue Seems it harder these days Have trouble now tryin to find A sign; a simple color of you. ‘Think it was easier in younger days. Blue ‘Sure a lot of people would love to see ya. They keep asking if […]

The Shape of Things and the Story of Us

A few years ago, my love of music developed into an interest of musical instruments. I began to craft guitar bodies, and I became hyper-focused on the design, the colors, the finishes, and the grain of the wood. I marvel equally at the craft and shape of a guitar and the musical sounds it can […]

Working Hard is Hardly Working

Occasionally, I have thoughts I want to shed light on, but I don’t have a completed stance on them or yet to have a clear conclusion. I decide to share them anyway as more open ended and generalized bite sized writings. They serve as prompts or catalysts for future essays. I will head these series […]

An American Thinks

I am an American… But I asked myself, What was I before (an American)? My thoughts stretch back, thinking of my spirit outside borders and time. So much labor is put on what it means to be that word. I asked myself, What am I meant to be after (an American)? Maybe my spirit follows […]

Dirty Forks in Oreo Instant Desserts: A Tale of Inauthentic Motivations, Self-Motivation, or Just Trolling?

My mother, noticeably weary yet fixing our family dinner, told me not to stick the dirty fork into the smooth creamy filling that soon be a delicious chilled Oreo pie dish. I didn’t listen. As I grew older, I saw much of the world is built upon heeding simple instructions and defying things for who […]

Yes, You Should Watch a Western (Dammit) Epilogue: The Spiritual Wild West

Tom Hanks’ new Western genre flick, News of the World dropped on streaming services a few months ago. Hanks’s widowed, ex-Confederate soldier travels from town to town to read newspapers to locals. Each town exemplifies the isolation and exemption they had from the centralized U.S. On his travels he encounters a girl twice orphaned; her […]

A Good Cigar

A bad cigar is a disappointment; the reminder of bad decisions and poor judgment. Although bad cigars in advantageous in one aspect. A bad cigar leads me to be more motivated and patient to only smoke the great ones.) A good cigar is like a great thought or memory; it lingers, fueling daydreams and musings. […]

Concepts: (Not So) Beautifully Broken

The Timely Exiting of Daft Punk and Us

Often when we reflect on what happens around us, events are grouped. This is not to connect them objectively; it isn’t done to find coincidence or measure cause and effect. What it does is allows us to process and explore what is meaningful. I remember there is a word for this – synchronicity. Through this, […]

Yes, You Should Watch a Western (Dammit)! Part III: The Neo-Western

Perhaps we have to have to nearly forget our myths to appreciate them again. To some small degree, I think tragedy brought back the Western genre. Collectively, the US (and the world at large) had living after 9/11 on its consciousness. Soon after, a resurgence of Westerns in the shape of period dramas or Neo […]

Stories Circle Stories: It’s A Wonderful Life

Stories circle around stories. Behind one are many others that worked to form them much like gravity. It’s a major reason I started this blog, to explore how often a story is the force found behind so many things. As I delved into my favorite mediums throughout the years, I’d also discover the story behind […]

Yes, You Should Watch A Western (Dammit)! Part II: The Post Modern

Of Revision And Spaghetti Dishes… As mentioned in part I, I saw Westerns as psychological landscapes. Those deserts and plains and isolated towns put the complexities of human behaviors in sharp focus. As the ‘60s rolled in and the old studio system was dying, films began to use the genre to reflect more on contemporary […]

Skeleton

My thoughts scrape across the sky, like a scalpel on old bones. One that studies and probes. There were once men who dreamt of flying Soaring among the hawks. They dreamt of starships, Flashing in the depths of undiscovered Space. They dreamt of exploring the ocean depths Discovering what lies so hidden. All […]

Yes, You Should Watch A Western (Dammit)! Part I

This is my blatant attempt to persuade you. No more, no less. For those of you who have never delved into this genre, now is the time. The season for the big tent block-bluster sci-fi and superhero franchises ended in December of 2019. The Marvel movies ended a huge chapter, and perhaps you share […]

The Best Film That I Took Twelve Years to See (Vanishing Point)

I had heard about it. I’d seen old promotional materials and posters from it. Filmmakers have talked highly about it, as have film buffs. Quentin Tarantino and even made a big fuss about it by referencing it several times in his ode to exploitation cinema, 2008’s Death Proof. What I gathered about Vanishing Point was […]

Symptoms of Living with a Foreign Language

Over fifteen years ago in Peru, on my first trip outside the United States, I fell extremely ill. Body aches, high fever, vomiting, and dry heaving for more than one day. I reached an existence of delirium; of feeling inhuman. The only thing I could do was be sick. As I sweated and rolled […]

Speaking for the Dead: Super-storytellers in Castlevania

Starting as a singular side-scrolling video game from the mid-eighties, Castlevania has since bloomed into a long-standing franchise with a large cast of characters and intricate lore. A gothic adventure, the story mainly focuses on a family of vampire hunters and Dracula, whose eternal evil and hatred allows him to arise every few generations. A […]

Concepts: Spaces

Occasionally, I will want to shed light on a particular subject or thought, but I won’t have- or won’t want to have- a clear intent or defined stance on it. These will be more like thoughts to share. Maybe they can prove valuable and serve as writing prompts or talking points or something to […]

Fear Taught Me To Be Goofy

It is quite possible that Mickey’s pal, Goofy, may have given me an early education in controlling my Fear. The memory is still very vivid. I was six, maybe seven. I remember laying in the bed, facing the window– in the dark, in the night. The wind was screaming and pushing against the side of […]

Finding Blues Behind A Black Face

A rounded, weary, yet dignified black face flashed on the projector screen behind me. All they could do was giggle and snicker. That was a few years ago with a teaching job in China. I was tasked with teaching a class of middle schoolers- And that week I was running through American music by genre, […]

Concepts: Loss

A Movie for the Holidays: Rocky

Reddit from a December 2019 post The Holidays can have a dual nature for some of us. This time of year can be a downer for some of us as we take stock of the year that has passed or prep ourselves for winter. Although festive, the season can being depressing or sobering as the […]