Au Revoir 2005

I sit comfortable in my LA home office, fresh from a Texas plane full of excitable Longhorn fans ringing in the New Year by supporting their football team in it's first game of 2006, and reflect.

It's been a long one. A GRAND one. A humbling one.

I produced my first movie in 2005. Quit my first REAL production job, left my first apartment, packed up and moved- homeless and excited, driving on my first big cross country roadtrip- for the first time to my new home: Hollywood, CA.

I got my first house in 2005. Moved in- with Darryl, Andy, and Peter- and got my first full time job to support it. Met the challenge of being a player in the industry that rules the City of Angels. Hungered, humbled, hot for more. Saw greed, despair, pain, fatigue, sadness, need... more than I ever saw in Miami or Arlington. Grew up, and grew old.

I lost my first family member in 2005. And gained 2 new ones- a brother and a neice.

America witnessed the downfall of one of it's first cities. I found the first twinkle of desire that would lead me to realise one important calling of my life- if only I have the courage to take the bait. Saw the screening of my own product. Saw my work fly to tv screens across the globe.

Gained a roommate, then another, then lost 2.

Reconciled with an old friend, talked to 2 more for the first time in a decade.

Saw a Jedi become a Dark Knight. Saw a man in a batsuit take flight. Saw the gangs of the City of God. Realised Merlot was nothing but a fraud. Saw a firefly shine in the sky. Saw Harry's dead mother say "Goodbye."




If years had lives, then this one lived it to the fullest. 2005 saw the best, and worst, in all of us- and helped me see both in myself. Never will this year look like just a concession of 12 months, Janurary to December.

To quote an old hermit with a figment of imagination- "If it had been a book, it would have been called the Bible."