Timeline Your Life!
Following up on Mr. Horwitz’s post, I figured I’d attempt to timeline my life since arriving in LA. Here we go!
Jan 2003: Move to LA
Feb 2003: Start an internship at a really depressing, windowless agency in the valley. Hate every minute of it.
June 2003: Start writing for LA Confidential
July 2003: Start first post-collegiate job of dressing up like Spider Man and a slew of other superheroes in order to entertain kids at b-day parties.
Jan 2004: Do first commercial in LA—where I have to make out with a model for 6 hours straight. Thank you Burger King.
Spring 2004: Start taking classes at I.O.
Summer 2004: Dan and I finish first ever feature, The Beer Project. The first draft comes in at a succinct 165 pages.
July 2004: Go to Mexico. Get sick. Discover I have colitis.
March 2005: Shoot ‘Almost Funny’ —the first of many pilots with Dan Levy—in Peoria, Illinois.
Nov 2005: Start Independent Television Festival with AJ.
Dec 2005: Get sick. Go home and spend three months in and out of hospitals.
May 2006: Write first piece for LA Times.
October 2006: Spend three weeks driving throughout the mid-west Shooting ‘This is College’ series for Current TV.
Dec 2006: Weirdly end up directing a behind the scenes documentary for the All American Rejects. Spend three weeks on a tour bus.
Feb 2007: Annie and I sell ‘Dirty Step Stomp’ to the Weinstein Co. I promptly quit doing kids parties.
Summer/Fall 2007: Shoot second pilot, Below the Law, with Dan. Pitch it to networks a week before the writers strike … really great timing.
Jan 2008: Sick again. Log another few days in Cedars..
Jan 2009: Sell third pilot with Dan, Party People (which is about doing kids parties), to Fox TV.
Mar 2009: Sick again, but start writing for Death+Taxes magazine and am lucky enough to get to Interview Harold Ramis.
Jan 2010: Annie and I get hired to rewrite a script for PCH films and to do a bio-pic script on this guy.
May 2010: Spend entirely too long trying to remember a timeline of my life in LA for a blog that 50 people read.
