Looks like I don't write good enough after all.

Remember that contest I e-mailed you about? The one where they're looking for the next John Carpenter script?

I didn't win. But I did get to be second runner-up, which is the same thing as third place but sounds nicer.

So you won't be seeing John Carpenter directing 'The Lakeside Slasher' anytime soon. Which is a shame. I'm a huge Carpenter fan. And I was really hoping that maybe he would do 'On Top Of The World' for the soundtrack.

Oh well. Maybe I'll just have to go make the damn thing myself.

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Looks like I can write after all.

I don't know if you know this, but I started out as a writer. And in spite of all the money and accolades and really good parking spots I get from directing, I can't help myself. I write. Still.

A couple years ago, I had an idea for a really twisted script about a hot-headed local kid who wants to murder the asshole college students who come to the lake to party during the summer. All the tits and gore of your typical teen horror film, but with the slasher as the protagonist.
It's called 'The Lakeside Slasher'.

Well, 'The Lakeside Slasher' was just named one of the 13 finalists in a competition to find The Next John Carpenter Movie.

This is the eleventh thing this script has won, which tells me that there are a lot of people who appreciate a totally fucked up story out there. Eleven of them, anyway. And I appreciate them for appreciating it.

I know, now you want to read it. Okay.

First, tell me how much you like me.

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Another award for 'Burning Passion'. Like you care.

Well, another film festival has seen fit to give an award to 'Burning Passion', my film about the guy who ejaculates fire. For those of you keeping track, that brings the total number of awards to 13.

I won't bore you with the entire list, but here are the more impressive ones:

Gold Award, Houston International Film Festival

Best Comedy, Newport Beach Film Festival

Audience Award, Melbourne Independet Filmmakers Festival

Silver Audience Award, Crested Butte Reelfest

Finalist, Dramatic Category (?), Crested Butte Reelfest

There's a trailer for the film on my site, which is up, but not at 100%. If you want to see the film iteslf, drop me an e-mail. (Not recommended for small children or Catholics.)

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My work exhibited in the High and Dry Photography Show

Thought you might be interested to know that I was recently invited to show some of my photography work in the High and Dry Photography Show.

The show is a photographic exhibition of landscapes & peoples of the world's dry lands, and the work I contributed was shot in Namibia, among the Himba tribe. The show is going to close on January 21st, so if you're in the Lubbock area before then, stop by the International Cultural Center at Texas Tech and take a look.They're at 601 Indiana Ave.

Of course, you can always go to my site and see a bunch of my photo work, along with other stuff that I find really interesting and maybe you will too. (The site is still under construction, so please don't be too hard on it. But the intro is pretty cool.)

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Hey look! I'm famous. Kind of.

You know that camera filtration gizmo I've been fiddling around with for the past few years?

Well, FastChannel.com did a really sweet article about it. You can read the article at http://creative.fastchannel.com/ccNews/ articleDetail.asp?ArticleID=278.

And if you go to my site you can see stuff I've shot with it. (The site is still under construction, so please don't be too hard on it. But the intro is pretty cool.)

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