Here's a little "Inspiration For Your Soul" with Cali Rossen, a new podcast episode just out, to upgrade your workout/jogging/laundry/painting/cooking time. open.spotify.com/episode/5Asv...

Genius editor Michael Guarente with his heavily annotated Cut to the Monkey. About the photo, he assured: "To my knowledge, no infamous murders occurred in this location." And a testimonial: Cut to the Monkey is my narrative bible and post-production survival guide.

Brilliant video editor/producer and travel vlogger (Roadtrip Maniac) Brian Dellis stands with ideal travel reading, in front of Julius Caesar's assassin spot in Rome.

No Lessons Learned is out. A good excuse to respect wood and clean off your coffee table to make room. #curbyourenthusiasm #comedy #larrydavid

This is Jerimy Bell, brilliant UCLA directing student and first-time author working on his own book. Jerimy attended my guest speaking event at Tyler Danna's UCLA class, "The Art & Craft of Film Editing."

Guitar aficionado check. Who knows who Pat Travers is? Better yet, who's seen him play? Pat Travers currently plays a mahogany Fender Stratocaster, specially made to his specs. I asked him what makes his guitar tone so unique. He held up his hands and wiggled his fingers. "The hands."

Here are results of my quest to meet more dogs across North America. And two goats. Pt. 2. Freddie & Frankie, Sabaskong Bay Lodge, ONT. Muddy, Miles Bay Camp, ONT. Crystal & Brownie, Fergus Falls, MN.

Here are results of my quest to meet more dogs across North America. And two goats. Pt. 1. (Your votes for cutest dog will be tabulated and covered up.) Barry, Wilsonville, OR. Rio, Seattle, WA. Daisy, Mound, MN.

Check out this new article in Film International, where I interviewed author Gary Rhodes about the weirdest documentaries ever made (in the 1970s - 1980s). filmint.nu/gary-d-rhode...

Local genius (and editor) Brian Jones picked up his copy of THE DOCUMENTARIAN. Send me YOUR photos too, geniuses, to receive your just rewards. Or is it just deserts?

A post on @jumpingthecut on Intstagram. Thanks for the mention! www.instagram.com/p/DMaXBx3ynE...

American White Pelicans and Ring-billed Gulls show up to quickly handle all the leftovers. For them, nothing is wasted.

It’s all about the walleyes.

Did you know Lake of the Woods is the 6th largest freshwater lake in the US after the 5 Great Lakes? Located between Minnesota & Ontario, carved by the Laurentide Ice Sheet's retreat 14,000 years ago, has 15,000 islands, 1,700 sq mi, 85 miles long, and has more shoreline than Lake Superior.

Devil's Tower. You may remember it as a movie location.

Devils Tower in NE Wyoming got its name from an inaccurate translation. During an 1875 scientific expedition, Lieutenant Colonel Richard Dodge's journal entry recorded that "the Indians call this place 'bad god's tower,'" which he then modified to "Devil's Tower".

More sights in Cody, Wyoming. To my UK friends, how many Tossers Pizza locations are there in England?

Have you ever had dinner in Cody, Wyoming? This is what it looks like.

Old Faithful does indeed dominate every 90 minutes.

I discovered that Yellowstone National Park is miles of boiling cauldrons, over 10,000 hydrothermal hot springs, geysers, mud pots, and LONG traffic jams.

A scene that I edited, here for you to enjoy, from the last season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. www.facebook.com/reel/1391294...

The view on the Madison River when fly fishing.

In June I tried fly fishing, from the bow of a drift boat near Big Sky, Montana, on the Madison River in West Yellowstone. The bait depends on timing of local hatches, today it was caddisfly larvae that we were mimicking, using a double nymph rig with either 2 nymph flies or 1 nymph and 1 fish egg.

45 minutes from Seattle, the Twin Falls Natural Area.

Seattle area hiking: Fort Ward Park and Twin Falls natural area. You can find old growth Douglass fir, this one is 300 feet tall, 12 feet in diameter, probably 1200 years old.

Can you find the eggs? Joel Soisson gives a wildlife lecture on the invisible eggs of a killdeer (charadrius vociferus). Its two-syllable bird call reportedly sounds like "kill deer."

Near Seattle, enjoy the Bainbridge Island retreat of Joel and Claudia Soisson. The front yard is filled with Joel's driftwood sculptures (which is what happens when there is too big a gap between Trekkies sequels).

I made a brief stop just south of Portland, Oregon, at the house of Abel (Milt), where I continued my shrewd plan to be fed by close friends and meet their dogs.

While passing through Eugene, Oregon, I stayed in a Yurt with a coat of arms watching me sleep. And dined with Jordan Mackay (featured in THE TRUTH ABOUT MARRIAGE), who gave me a copy of his amazing newly-published fantasy-adventure novel, Children of Eld.

Very kind words about CUT TO THE MONKEY from Eddie Hamilton, brilliant editor of films such as Top Gun, Mission Impossible, and Kingsman.

Have you ever chased a wild turkey?

On a roadtrip stop in Fairfax, California (just north of San Francisco), I visited pal Geoff Bolt. Sadly, the circlets and crystals store featured in The Nature of Existence had closed. Bonus: Don Novello (aka Father Guido Sarducci) randomly joined us for dinner.

More of my yammering about editing The Residence. Text me when you've finally had enough. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

If you are a member of the voting Television Academy, let me just say how amazing you look today.

Nice cover story in CinemaEditor Magazine for The Residence. (They even chose a rare photo of me in a suit looking dignified.)

Here's where you can check out a sitcom pilot I directed in Feb, with an amazing and super-talented cast. Written by Bella Cruz and produced by Bella and Dawn Church. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjL0...

THE RESIDENCE post production crew at the wrap party held at the White House (on the set that was built at Raleigh Studios).

Who hasn't seen THE RESIDENCE yet? (Especially episodes 6 & 8.) I'm taking names. -- Pictured with Uzo Aduba (Cordelia Cupp), Paul William Davies (Showrunner, EP, writer), Timothy Hornor (Patrick Doumbe), Jason Lee (Tripp Morgan).

This is a page from the score for THE RESIDENCE (premiering on Netflix on March 20) given to me by composer Mark Mothersbaugh (a founding member of DEVO). His sketch in Mandarin says "The Residence."

If you want to tour Santo Antão or São Vicente in Cape Verde this guy handled everything for me: Nany at West Tours: +238 591 43 50; [email protected]. He will set you up for the hiking/music/food/hotel/travel of your life.

The farmers on Santo Antão have maintained the cobblestone trails for hundreds of years, so they can pack out donkeys loaded with the harvest. This island supplies most of the country’s produce.

Santo Antão is Cape Verde's garden island. There is no airport, you take a $15 ferry from Mindelo. The food was a standard deviation better, because everything is farm fresh. I hiked with a guide 9 km (5.6 miles), descended 1500 meters (5000 feet) from the top of the dormant volcano.

Casa Tchicau a very small restaurant up on a hill in Mindelo. It's basically in one person's house with only a few tables. There's no menu; you get whatever they decide to serve that night. With great Cape Verdean music of course.

Watch for THE RESIDENCE on Netflix March 20. Ten points for each city you can name that each billboard is in.

A cobblestone street in Mindelo, Cape Verde. There is live music in virtually every restaurant.

The Sahara desert extends all the way to the east side of São Vicente Island. Sand blows over the ocean and over thousands of years deposits the light-colored sand on the island. The island's typical beaches are black sand from volcanic rock.

Mindelo Harbor, located in Porto Grande Bay on the northwest shore of São Vicente Island in Cape Verde.

A typical south-facing soft-sand beach on Sal, Cape Verde.