Ready For Some Football?

YeeHaaa! It is FOOTBALL time again! Last time we were at Gillette Stadium it was for the AFC Championship and the Pats slapped Peyton Manning all over the field. Hoping for more of the same tonight as the Patriots unveil their second Super Bowl banner and meet the Indianapolis Colts in the debut NFL game of the year.

Head Thug

The independent feature that I was part of, "Chaos Unlimited" wrapped up shooting today. Here are tons of pictures from the shoot. I played the Head Thug, countless masked marauders and served as crew on the two week production.

One Crazy Summer

Well its been quite a crazy summer so I haven't posted anything for quite awhile. My step father was diagnosed with Frontal Temporal Dementia (FTD) in early June, so we've been away from home every weekend helping out my mom and dealing with dysfunctional families. Have never been so glad to be an only child.

For the next two weeks I'm living in a hotel in Hadley Ma while working on and acting in an independent feature. It is a violent opus called "Chaos Unlimited." My role is 'Head Thug' -- I pretty much just swear a lot, beat people with a bat and get shot in the head. Just my average weekend.

I sure haven't had a chance to see everything, but here is a quick Summer Movie rundown. Caught the documentary METALLICA: Some Kind of Monster yesterday in Boston and loved it. You don't need to know or care about METALLICA to enjoy the film, and if you do have opinions on the band this might change some of them. My comedy hero Will Ferrell has done it again. ANCHORMAN is easily the funniest movie I've seen in some time - probably since ELF. Another funny enjoyable flick was FAHRENHEIT 9/11 - just don't try to tell me its a documentary. Finally THE VILLAGE was a movie I was really looking forward to and really loved... until the very end. Don't want to give anything away, so I'll just say that I felt kind of cheated - but then decided to give the film credit for making me feel that way. So M. Night is still batting a thousand in my book.

Van Halen

Checked out Van Halen last night. It was their second night at the Worcester Centrum and there was no telling these guys hadn't played together in eight years. Everybody was in great shape and voice, very cool stage of the VH logo, and quite a sick light show. I don't know of any other band who seems to have so much fun onstage - nonstop smiles and joking all night. More details.

PitchXchange

Spent the past weekend in NYC at a very cool event - NY PitchXchange. It consisted of seminars and classes on script writing and pitching and actually gave people the chance to pitch ideas to film and television production companies. I went expecting nothing more than the experience, but all my pitches were very well received and each of the four companies I talked to asked for my contact information. I pitched a bunch of reality television ideas and one dramatic feature -- that's all I'll say for now so I don't jinx myself.