I graduated from Baylor University, a fine school not well known for their film department, with a degree in Radio, TV, and Film. Like most young people I already loved movies at that point, but I enjoyed studying how a movie was put together – the editing, the music, the little things that would slip past a lot of casual viewers. I started liking more arty directors, like Whit Stillman, Wes Anderson and Hal Hartley, but I continued to like actiony films also, dragging my then-girlfriend to see the Stallone-Snipes manlovefest, Demolition Man. Anyway, I like most types of film, except for most romantic comedies (will they end up together? Of course they will), teen dance movies or recent Steve Martin films.

I currently work with and am married to Kim, who runs her own marketing company, Trügenius. We builds websites for people and a lot of our stuff is pretty good. I’m also the dad to Noah and Peyton and I’m attending the University of Texas at Arlington non-degree right now and, let’s all hope and pray, I’ll get accepted there full-time so I can start towards Career 2.0 – getting my masters and then PhD in History.

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1970 – Born at St. Paul Hospital in Dallas, TX.

1977 – Saw Star Wars at Chip Cottingame’s birthday party. Ate first peanut butter sandwich.

1982 – Cried at E.T., even though I didn’t want to.

1989 – Graduate Highland Park HS, Dallas.

1990 – Produce and star in first and last feature film, Spacekill: The 7th Sport (not listed on IMDb).

1992 – Begin filming sequel to Spacekill: The 7th Sport, tentatively dubbed Spacekill 2: Outer Space Messiahs. The project remains incomplete to this day.

1992 – Go on double date with future wife (not together) to see Reservoir Dogs. Date did not end well. Distinctly remember being told, “If he sets that guy on fire we are leaving!”

1993 – Go on first unofficial date with future wife to see Kevin Kline in Dave.

1993 – Attempted to film Open Your Eyes, Little Man, a mockumentary of the art world. I realize I don’t write very good dialogue.

1994 – Graduate Baylor University, B.A. in Radio/Television/Film.

1997 – Married Kim.

2002 – First website, tellyouwhatithink.com launched.

2003 – Noah born; We take Noah to see his first movie, American Splendor.

2003 – Noah sees his second movie, The Station Agent.

2005 – Noah loves to dance to the “I Like to Move It” song from Madagascar, often to his father’s chagrin’.

2007 – Peyton is born.

2008 – Peyton goes to his first movie, the more-uplifting-than-American-Splendor, Horton Hears a Who.

2008 – Noah begins to love Star Wars, adding much to his father’s happiness. Of course, his favorite character is Yoda, not the super-cool Han Solo.