I was fired from my job of four years on a Monday, was interviewed on a Wednesday and found myself operating motion picture cameras for two independent films being shot here in south Texas by a Hollywood production company. A month later, I’m operating a RED One on an indie family film directed by Valente [...]

It seems no sooner than I was let go from my previous job that I suddenly am given the opportunity to bust into feature film-making with two independent films being shot over the summer very near where I live. I found out about the productions just a few hours before their pre-production crew hiring meeting [...]

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I’m getting living room furniture and a bed delivered tomorrow which I’m excited about. This means I’ll be able to finally sleep in my new home. Plus, my first full month of rent will be due on Monday and I just finished revising my car insurance. I have a shoot all day Saturday (Halloween) in [...]

I’m hiring movers to get the piano from the house. Other than that, I’m not bringing that much with me to the apartment: My bed is a twin and too old and too small, I don’t have any furniture (that Mom hasn’t already garage-sold) and everything else (clothes, stuff) will fit in my car and [...]

I took a long lunch today (I’d finished all my work) and looked at a few apartments in McAllen and Edinburg, asked around, and basically did a bunch of hunting and asking around. But I’ve settled on a place inside Sugarhill Estates in Edinburg. It’s a nice place, the owner is a good man and [...]

Based on a number of factors including the need to sell the family home, my sister and her husband and two kids moving in temporarily to fix it up, and my need to live my own life my way, I’ve decided to move out from the family home. I’ve lived here my whole life with [...]

It’s a landmark birthday for me today as I slip-slide straight into the medium size three-oh. I guess that means I’m gonna have to start paying taxes and get a drivers license and worry about insurance and utility bills and not mixing the black socks with the white shirts and….oh, wait: these are all things [...]

So there’s this girl Meagan who waits tables at a restaurant I frequent. We’ve been exchanging glances since I first saw her there: about a month. I finally go to talk to her as the days went on and the guys who worked there assured me she was single. This Monday I finally asked for [...]

Holy shit! I won BEST DIRECTOR for FILES!!!!! Aaaaagh!!! Ok, ok, ok…serious now… I was awarded Best Director at the W.I.L.D.’s Film Contest at South Texas College for my short film Files, a Bad Apple production in association with Orange Media. Orange also submitted last year’s CineSol winner for Best Actor The End for which [...]