The Middle of the Beginning

JULY, 2011

Casual Encounters

Spent some time pretending to be on the other side of the table. Don't try and tell me it's hard to judge people and sip a latte while you're doing it. I'm being naive because I can. That's Matt Dellapina right there next to me. Funny, funny dude.


Casual Encounters, a feature film written and directed by Will McCord, is wrapped. I came in right at the end of shooting, and thus had a relatively tiny insight into the whole of it, but even so I am totally pumped about the film's eventual release. Such an interesting project - 5 short films tell the stories of 5 people who either post or respond to online personal sex ads. Together, their intertwining experiences are a full length portrait of expectations, discovery, and desire.

Several of the 5 shorts have already screened at festivals around the country and garnered praise and press. Learn more about the project, on-going screenings, and give them some monies so they can give you a movie.

I have seen the future.

I'm not going to get all wacko about it, but Peter and I went to the premiere of Miranda July's The Future at IFC last night and had a near spiritual experience. Been waiting for that for a long time. And she was there to answer questions afterward! My well is filled to the brim with inspiration. I'm so grateful for her work. Wholly and utterly grateful.

Do as I say! Get off those steamy streets, get into a cool dark theatre and go see The Future.

On a related note, Dave just sent me this picture while I was doing my new york city ballet work out video in the living room. I peed my yoga pants. Is this what being famous feels like?

onward and upward.

August is going to be a good month. I can feel it. Gearing up to head back out to Los Angeles to put the finishing touches on Say When, making plans for a hell of a web series with Dave Dastmalchian and Paul Perroni to be shot in September here in New York (details forthcoming!), and I just snatched up a FREE vhs copy of Abs of Steel from someone's front stoop. The universe is good. The universe is great.

To refresh your memory and rev up your appetite, here is a Say When video compilation. If this isn't the moving image of summer, I don't know what is.



Stay cool, my babies.