Hackneyed

Category: Journal

  • Your Team

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    Cannot understate how proud I am of the cast and crew of The Dinner Parting. Like at work, like in life, I only want to surround myself with people better than myself. Always build the best team you can: “One of the best pieces of advice I ever got, back when I was 23 and…

  • Last Year…

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    …I made a consciousness decision not to post anything negative on social media. I understand the need to vent, but for me, it’s made a big difference on how I view things and how I feel in general. Would encourage you to consider it.

  • Life Update

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    Thank you to everybody that has reached out and asked how shooting has been going. If I’ve missed you, the answer is, hectic. Possibly the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I sleep very little, and on the set’s couch because it forces me to get up and be ready bright and early every day. But…

  • Philly

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    Goodbye, little one. It was a good 12 years. ❤️

  • The Year in Review

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    2018 was one of the hardest, most challenging years of my life, and also one of the worst. 2019 might be one of hardest, most challenging years of my life, but also one of the best. East Lansing gave me an award for my contributions to the city. Someone deemed that newsworthy. Yesterday I was…

  • This is what a decade on Last.fm looks like.

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    Listened to 315,504 songs, spread over 10,147 artists, according to my (second) account. Looking at my top artists, if you were to ask if those were my favortites, I would say, “Close enough.”

  • The Last Time Tiger Won a Major

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    I had just returned from a long weekend in my hometown. My buddy Frush had picked me up on his way from Detroit. Our friend Annabelle came with. We didn’t go for any other reason than to be young and dumb. The trip was a success. We crashed with our friend Rob. Annabelle was supposed…

  • So I have been reading. A bit.

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    I was very slowly working my way through Jude the Obscure, but I put that down for the Beastie Boys Book. I am aware I am the only person in the history of civilization that will ever say that. I’ve been missing Bob lately. I was hoping to see his name in the photo credits.…

  • Hallmark & Chill

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    If you ever find yourself looking for a Christmas movie involving a grown woman trapped in a magical snow globe, I’ve seen two. Also, Holiday in Handcuffs, the Buffalo ’66 of the genre. PS: Luke, read more, you philistine.

  • The MFIC

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    Luke, it was great meeting you and hanging out, although we could have spent more time together. I was planning on working on my enigma persona, but you were too much fun. MFIC, RM. That was the first of thousands of emails from my then “new boss” (MFIC stood for “Mother Fucker in Charge,” borrowed…

  • June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018

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    Bourdain was a hero to me. Today is a reminder. To travel more. To eat more good food. To have more sex. To really listen to others. To try my best to never lose hope.

  • Dice

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    I learned this game at a bicycle shop in Brooklyn that had a liquor license. Supposedly they had great brunch as well. It requires at least three dice. Can be five but three goes quick. Each player antes one dollar into the pot and they then take it in turn throwing the dice. The object…

  • Milos Forman has passed.

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    He was 86. In my formative years I often felt like an outsider and Forman’s best films – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Man on the Moon, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Hair and Amadeus– sang to my rebellious heart.

  • Site Update

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    Not sure what I am doing here. But I I like that. Feel like this is an attempt to put all the pieces together, even if I don’t know what it is I am building. If that makes me Winston with a puzzle, so be it.

  • Tired of not doing the things I want to do.

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    That includes being tired of missing the things I used to do. In the past year or so I’ve built and discarded about five or six skateboards online. I finally pulled the trigger. Mark Gonzales deck, Spitfire wheels, Independent trucks. Life is too short to be missing out. To fear other’s perceptions. If you get any…

  • On Reading

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    Still deleting/sorting old bookmarks. Found several related to reading. Which is something I need to do more of.  One day I’ll read books and not just buy them.  Farnam Street recommends trying to get through 25 pages per day. They see this as a clear path to completing works that might otherwise seem daunting: Then I thought…