Still buzzing about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Underrated virtue: it feels like a movie that used to be much more common, like a MIDNIGHT RUN or NASHVILLE. Meaningful and smart but also funny, exciting and moving, the whole emotional experience. It’s something for the snobs like me and our parents.

Housing might actually get built in California in my lifetime. Now if we can just get that light rail train down the 405 built: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Finally, a real MOVIE!

It is time

Just had my second animatic screening as an assistant director. Going to celebrate by finally seeing ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER in Vista Vision at, where else, the Vista Theater. I think Paul Thomas Anderson would appreciate this.

Frantically re-editing Teams text to make it coherent before someone reads it.

Eight years ago I moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in animation. This has been a rockier year but I was heartened to remember how much fun I had, from weddings to concerts to wild nights in Vegas with the best crew in the biz. And I got promoted to assistant director! What a ride.

Finally visited Cole’s French Dip in DTLA and lived my dream of being a 1940s alcoholic screenwriter.

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA: This movie rules. Much like Jack Burton, I cannot tell you exactly what happened in it. Bonus: Hilarious John Carpenter/Dean Cundey Q&A that hopefully no one recorded.

I’m seeing ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER in Vista Vision next week and I’m hoping all the prints haven’t melted by then.

Also, the idea of Tim Burton becoming the next “Wes Anderson/Wim Wenders/David Lynch/release everything they make” Criterion director is extremely funny to me and would deeply annoy a number of people. Let us reclaim DARK SHADOWS!!!

The dream of a MARS ATTACKS Criterion draws ever nearer.

Wow! The actors are here!

Going to see CORPSE BRIDE tonight at the Aero for it’s 20th anniversary, which is impossible because I saw that movie in high school which means… oh no

At the Burbank CVS on a Friday night, ready for a COVID shot!!!!

Beyond Fest tickets go on sale today aka the most stressful day of the year

The Time Has Finally Come: I need to pose out someone opening a car door and getting into the driver’s seat.

THE HUDSUCKER PROXY: I try not to be a nostalgic but man oh man do I miss big ass sets, incredible miniatures and models, hand painted matte paintings, and that weird period in the 90s where people were obsessed with 40s/50s pastiche. A genuine miracle of a movie. My favorite Coen.

Try to work for a director you can talk about THE HUDSUCKER PROXY and THE INSIDER with, it’s great.

Taking my parents on a whirlwind tour of LA, starting with the ultimate cliches: El Coyote, the Farmer’s Market, the Grove and the New Beverly Cinema (ROMY AND MICHELLE’S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION). This city rules.

My parents are visiting me this weekend and I’m planning on showing them around LA, but only locations featured in the Paul Rust/Gillian Jacobs show LOVE.

Been working from home the past few days and unfortunately I’ve discovered I’m far more productive at the office now. I was born to be an office drone, like my father and my father before him.

Deeply surreal watching a 35mm print of the SOUTH PARK in a downtown LA movie palace. Unironically one of the best movie musicals ever.

The ending to WEAPONS is the hardest I’ve laughed at something in quite some time. A horror movie that slowly but surely turns into an extended WHITEST KIDS YOU KNOW sketch.

The free auto repair shop coffee hits different.

Managed to score a giant stack of original Sherry Bobbins art, San Diego Comic Con is still good

At the Jules Feiffer retrospective SDCC panel: “It’s time to leave unless you’d like to stick around for the “Kaiju in the STAR WARS universe panel.””

They screened clips from the first animatics of the season. Surreal to see some of my drawings blasted out to hundreds of people. Audiences crave animatics!

The sacrifices we’ve made for you: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

On my way to San Diego Comic Con!

The White House has released a statement claiming that, "it's stupid that the characters on American Dad don't see it's an alien in disguise", emphasizing that "it doesn't make any sense" and "they need to explain it"

“Mad World” came on the radio and my Lyft driver just cranked the volume high.

My Gen Z sister is excitedly telling me about watching GIRLS for the first time and man, it’s all coming back. Incredible show that could only be made at that exact moment in time.

Obviously the REAL honor is to be on the shortlist of potential Emmy nominees.

I’m only slightly joking. It’s somewhat startling how little you need to get story and narrative across: just a few well chosen shots. Visual storytelling has degraded so much in modern filmmaking that something like DRIVE really feels revelatory.

Saw DRIVE last night at the Academy Musuem. Refreshing reminder that all you really need to make a movie work are close-ups of beautiful actors staring at each other longingly and a kickass soundtrack.

My second episode as assistant director table reads today! Now I am a grizzled veteran, cigarette hanging from my lip, empty scotch bottles littering my office. It’s everything I hoped the job would be.

Thinking about becoming a DTLA guy. Maybe that could be my new thing.

I didn’t get my first LA animation gig till I was 31 which sucks in some ways but it does mean I get to tell my coworkers funny stories about editing commercials for bikini barista coffee stands and doing graphic design for marijuana packaging out of my boss’s condo.

Emmy Voters! Please remember to vote for AMERICAN DAD. Only one animated show would dare make an episode about the history of American cinema and the importance of labor unions. Honor the Man, Honor the Show.

I think about this joke from 30 ROCK an awful lot these days. Turns out movie theaters, cable television and physical media were the best and we were wrong to abandon them. Whoops!

Red light means stop. Yellow light means go faster.

This is definitely a Twitter day more than a Bluesky day

Another hair cut, another slightly higher proportion of gray hairs piled on the ground.

Listened to some veteran coworkers talk about all the horrible tendinitis and neck/back problems they developed before switching to storyboarding digitally and all the idyllic notions I had about boarding on paper are gone.

Took my parents to see FRIENDSHIP today. My mom and I cracked up the whole way through, my dad was utterly mystified. This is potentially the beginning of an I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE sketch.

Art Major but from a state school (University of Washington 2010) 1. Made lifelong friends, exposed to wide variety of people and ideas, developed my artistic identity 2. Absolutely yes, I loved my time in college. Caveat: I didn’t get an animation job until nine years later after I moved to LA

First song of the set was “Older.” They know their audience!

Push back the hands of time

Why do my drawings only get really good after 8pm?