A Scary Scary Adventure

"The odds are against you. Incredibly, undoubtedly and insurmountably against you. They rise up over you and threaten to crash on top of you in a wave of impossibility. More people will get struck by lightening in the next five minutes than will ever have a successful Hollywood career. You haven't a chance in the coldest, darkest, uncharted depths of hell (and that's after it has already frozen over). 

You have no connections. You don't have an Uncle that used to do art direction on Van Halen music videos. You don't know a guy who knows a guy who works on the Gossip Girl set. Your cousin never did P.A. work for the Coen's brothers little sister's babysitter. I mean NO ONE. Nadie. Not a breathing soul. You are attempting to break into Hollywood, that great walled fortress of a town armed with nothing but an entirely inappropriate sense of optimism and a couple of student films? Good luck..." Love, Your Ever-Present Self Doubt

Kevin Lacy (Me) experiencing the magic of Movie Making

Thanks, Self-Doubt, I'm gonna need it.. And yet, for all the times I try and talk myself out of my dream before anyone else even has the chance, I know I must try, and I hope to succeed. An irrational hope, probably, but what choice do I have? I was born to make movies. I was born to create stories and worlds that people will want to watch, while eating popcorn and Raisenettes. I may not be great at it yet, but I am determined, driven to become great, and eventually, someday down the road, I fully intend to be paid for it. 

So tonight I sit in my one bedroom apartment in downtown Salt Lake City, my wife asleep in our one bedroom, windows open, fall breeze rustling the blinds, crickets chirping and beginning a blog that I hope will give you (the reader) a window into a journey which in many ways began long ago, and in some ways has not yet begun. And of course (in the spirit of full disclosure) I hope to remedy one of my biggest obstacles... that of having no connections.  (Psst.. If you are in Los Angeles, please say hello.) 

So read and enjoy. I'm sure I'll post a lot at first and then the updates will come in waves, but hang in there 'cause I fully intend for this to be an adventure. A scary, scary, adventure. 

P.s. I know someone else had a blog with this name for a while, and I don't care. She stopped writing in 2006. I took over in 2010. So get over it. I have, and I feel GREAT. :)