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Seems the only way to save money on gas these days is to drive less or learn how to siphon from a friend you’ve never met. It just cost me a whopping $75 to fill up my 4 cylinder sedan! Granted my car might not be the most aerodynamic …but troubling nonetheless.

There’s an even more disturbing phenomenon to hit the fair City of Angels, though– No hand held phones while driving. Since its illegalality earlier this month, people have seemed to find plenty more time now to be shitty, aggressive drivers. Awesome! The truth is, Angelenos are multi-taskers at heart. Most folks have some kind of eating-whilst-juggling-kittens-and-checking-themselves-out-while-driving talent that they practice. I guess what I’m saying is, cell phones aren’t necessarily the worst distraction out there.

I think I’m going to a Dodgers game this weekend! For the record, I won’t be driving.

You know a band is cool when they wear t-shirts for other different bands… It’s like “we’re so cool, we’re not even into us.” I hope someday that same mentality is picked up by the advertising industry. We’ll start seeing ads of Velveeta dreaming about how it wants some swiss cheese. (Insert hilarious visual here.) I’m sorry, I’m totally distracted– I have my ipod on shuffle and it just landed on “Office Sound Effects.” This happens all the time. I’ll be rocking out to Ladytron or something and suddenly I’ll be listening to sounds of dot matrix printers and jungle noises (two separate tracks– although if you live in the jungle and you have a printer, it’s probably a dot matrix).

On a separate but related note, my friend’s band is playing tonight, Wed. July 16th, at Spaceland. Check ‘em out if you can. Sam is not only a talented director and photographer, but his band rocks!

I got notice a few weeks ago that my film Without A Hitch was selected is a finalist at Moondance. I was ecstatic! Celebrated! Couldn’t wait to fly out to see the project on the big screen! Turns out, however, it won’t actually be screening there. After my celebration turned to disappointment, and morphed back to “hey, it’s still a finalist!” I got an automated email from but another festival. So if the automated email didn’t lie (and when do they, spam is always factual)… it’s time to celebrate again! Because we’re going to the West Hollywood International Film Festival!!!

Do you think afterwards, these guys looked at the portrait of themselves
and were like… hey, man, why’d you have to paint us so gay?