About

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 as web devel­oper for Trü­ge­nius get­ting to build all kinds of cool (and some not so cool – client’s deci­sion, not mine) web­sites for peo­ple. My favorite ones are built on Word­Press plat­forms – like my blog.

I’m also the dad to Noah and Pey­ton – or as I like to call them Energy Squared. All this while attend­ing the Uni­ver­sity of Texas at Arling­ton, just once a week – it’s a long drive, to get my mas­ters in His­tory. That’s seri­ous dedication.

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 totally super-cool Han Solo.