So this is what happened.  I was working at Max & Erma’s and met a fellow employee named Dan Wagner.  We both really liked movies and found out about this school called Full Sail in Florida.  It was a film school and offered a $99 one day event which included airfare, transportation to and from the Florida airport, lunch, and dinner.  It was a tour of the school and we both were very impressed.  That was until I walked into the job placement session.  They said that after graduating and spending a ton of money on a degree, I’d most likely get a job as a gofer: a coffee getter.  I thought to myself “No way! I want to direct!!”  Ahh, the years went by and I lost my dream of making movies.  Until one day at Max & Erma’s I met Patrick Read Johnson.  He lives about 20 minutes away from me, and that inspired me to start up my dream of making movies.

I researched and read and researched and read even some more about how to make movies.  I bought a nice little camera, the Canon XL2, and picked up the Avid editor.  I asked my buddy Mike Paquette, “Mike, you wanna be in a movie?”  Mike replied “Sure.”  I hung up the phone, but then thought, “Oh shoot, I need one more person for my movie.” I called Mike back and said, “Hey, ask Joe [Mike's brother] if he wants to be in the movie too.”  I heard Mike shout, “Yo Joe, you wanna be in the movie too?”  I heard Joe say “yep” and I had my two star actors.  We made “So, A Guy Walks Into A Bar” and what a riot!  It was so much fun to do.  We had our premiere and showed the movie to all of our friends and family, and the film was a huge success (at least in our minds).  We couldn’t wait to make another one.  But that’s another story.