You are The Rembrandts. They are putting words in your mouth. During the original run of Friends, forever and always in syndication, currently on streaming, the song is telling you one thing: You’ll be there for them. By process of repetition, the song shapes your behavior and cements your beliefs…

We learn so many unexpected lessons when making movies. Case in point… March 2014 It’s a freezing cold midnight in skid row of downtown Los Angeles. I’m standing in the gated loading dock of The Warehaas, current home to Love Nail Tree, who has given us temporary shelter to lens the short…

May 2007 I’m finishing my bachelor’s degree at the Los Angeles Film Studies Center. For the last four months, I’ve spent endless hours working on student films and group projects. I’m going on three days with no sleep, but the deadlines are done. The war is won. It’s finally time to fly…

The linens in the valley of the People of the Pebbles were a-drying in the wind upon a bright n’ sunny day, When suddenly and utterly, a thrusty gust so blustery a-blew the linen sheets off linen lines and all away. They blew into the trees upon the busybody breeze…