No excuse; I'm lazy. I can't believe I only did ONE blog entry last month and waited until (almost) the last day for a September entry.

Man, when I first started this thing (8 years ago this month!), I was sooooo good with it. I'd write almost every day about some thing or other. I was maticulous (sp?) about it. It was theraputic, helped me write a bit; it was just something that started to...for lack of a better term...energize me.

Then over the last few years, I've just slacked on it. Part of the reason is that I've gotten busy (which is good), another part, I'm sure, is that I'm married now (also good), but, alas, another part is just laziness. That's it. I'm also uninspired too.

Which is weird since there are A LOT of things going on in the world that should be insprirational.

Huh; just realized that "inspiration" contains a root word of "spirit". Never noticed that before.

Anyway, so I'm now forcing myself to blog now.

You know what another reason might be? I've got my podcast now and that is a bit of a release for some things. Although I don't ever get really too personal on that.

Whatever.

So the big question on everyone's mind is "Flip, what the hell is going on with you man????" That's what you were thinking, right? Well, first of all, Allison and I just spent a few days in Yosemite National Park. Sooooo beautiful. Here are a couple of pics:

It's funny, as we were experiencing everything I had this flash forward kind of thought and I saw this trip as one of those "couple trips" that you always hear about with married friends. "Oh this picture is from when Wendy and I went white water rafting....this one is from our weekend in the Bahamas...oh, here's where we went to Thailand and got those hookers..." (which is my choice for our next vacation)

It's all just feeling so real; that I'm married. Holy shit! Me...the guy who's past blog entries pretty much showed that he gave up on love and would be alone forever. THAT guy is fucking married. Insane.

Life changes so quickly and you're not ever aware of it until you have a second to breathe and look back.

OK, so what else? The movie I did is now (last I heard) coming out in January. The name of the film has been released, so I don't feel like I'm breaking any rules by mentioning it here. It's going to be called...drum roll..."30 Nights of Paranormal Activity With The Devil Inside The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"...quite a mouthful, I know.

I actually had one of my co-stars, Olivia Alexander on my most recent podcast.

So hopefully soon there will be a trailer and I can start talking about everything more openly. It's so exciting! But to be honest, so much time has past since I shot it that I'm kinda removed from the reality of it. I mean I know that I made a movie and I remember how much fun it was (and even though I saw an early screening of it), I don't have that excitement about it anymore. I think because I've gotten busy in my life and that whole experience was just another experience. Trust me, I WANT to have that excitement again. I think when I make my next film and my next and my next; and when they start happening almost back to back to back, that excitement will be more continuous.

OK, I'm going to go now because I'm hungry. I hope to keep this blog more up to date, but I can't guarantee. As much as I want to promise to be on this much more regularly, I can't. But I will try as hard as I can to break my "blog lazy streak", or "blazy streak" and keep this up.

Before I go, here's a song that will get stuck in your head like a tumor: