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[caption id="attachment_19" align="alignnone" width="650" caption="Game Dogs - the new web show by The Escapist!"][/caption] The Escapist just posted the first episode of it's new online animated series, Game Dogs, which stars the voice talent of my girlfriend Alena Koch.    I'm so extremely excited for her and little jealous, because I always wanted to voice an animated character. I can now live vicariously through her. The site blurb: "A show about dogs - who make games. It features the voice talents of Jon Etheridge, Tony Schnur, ... Read More

I'm a big fan of Twitter(my Twitter alias is, of course, @ilikefilms.) I guess you could say I was a fan of Twitter before it was cool. I get so much information from just pouring through the tweets of all the people I follow everyday and I love knowing that other people are getting something from what I tweet. Plus, I just love being able to follow celebrities in a 7 degrees of micro-blogging way. :) That love for all things Twitter gave ... Read More

Movies are my life. They've been there for me, when everything else seemed to be falling apart. The one constant in an everchanging world. They can cheer you up, when you're feeling down.  They can touch your heart to the point of making it a littly dusty in the theater. They can make you think. Because of how films affect people, this is the reason I became a filmmaker. To make something that moves people in some way.  Whether that be a laugh or ... Read More

My team Big, Fat and Stealthy has had a great website for awhile at www.bigfatandstealthy.com and now my other improv team, the more musically-inclined team, Hotel Principality, has opened it's internet doors with it's new site, www.hotelprincipality.com. Please check out both sites and come out to see both teams perform this Saturday, February 14th, Valentine's Day, at 10:30 pm at ComedyWorx. You won't regret it. Also, tonight, I'll be at the Twestival starting at 7 pm to represent ComedyWorx and my improv teams ... Read More

As part of the Project:Direct contest for YouTube, my newest short film is online. It's called "The Collection" and it's the film I'm most proud of making at this point in my career as an amateur filmmaker. It's a slight departure from the films I've made in the past, because most of my movies have been comedic in nature. This is more dramatic and atmospheric. Sure, there's things I'd like to change about it. With every project I wish had a real budget. ... Read More

The Super Sparkle Showcase ends this coming Saturday at ComedyWorx and I'm both relieved as well as sad.  Even though I spend every weekend performing improvisational comedy at the Worx in different compacities, I thought trying out for a talent competition would help me stretch even further as a performer. It definitely knocked me out of my comfort zone. I originally auditioned for the show on a whim and didn't think I had a chance of getting into the competition. For the audition we had a ... Read More

I was entertained by the first "Mummy" movie. I understood that it was sort of a light-hearted approach to the Indiana Jones films. A reimagining of the classic monster tale for a whole new generation. I was lucky enough to see it in Las Vegas many years back for a Blockbuster Video manager's convention and I had a blast. It wasn't reinventing wheel or the pyramids for that matter, but it didn't have to. It was what it was. A fun little ... Read More

Tonight my musical improv team Hotel Principality will be gracing the stage of ComedyWorx a week before our big trip to New York City for the Del Close Marathon.  It's amazing how far we've come in over the year and a half we've been performing as a group on stage. It's also interesting how much we've changed over that period of time. It started as a simple idea. When ComedyWorx started teaching longform classes, a few of us talked about forming a musical longform team. A ... Read More

My favorite DVD purchase this year so far is my copy of the BBC TV Show "Spaced." This show has been out for many years overseas and has never been released in the States until now(mainly due to music rights issues.) Created by Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes and directed by Edgar Wright, this show is chock-full of all kinds of pop culture references and has a visual style all it's own.  A style that carried over into Simon Pegg's and Edgar Wright's later ... Read More

I'm revamping my site www.ilikefilms.com to now include a blog, so it can be more current with my projects, thoughts, opinions and news in general. I've put off working on this site for so long, but with my recent film festival entries and other film opportunities, I felt like it was time I got off my rear end and did something about it. So this is a new start of sorts. The opening credits for something bigger and better. A Star Wars text crawl that has ... Read More