Hey Everyone.

Welcome to "The Latest," my most recent attempt at keeping all of you up to date on what's going on in my life. Previous failures to do this include my blog, Q
and A, and a very short life on MySpace. By the way, I don't know who that person is, but that is NOT me on MySpace. I repeat- ANYONE WHO CLAIMS TO BE ME ON MYSPACE.COM IS AN IMPOSTER. Spread the word people.
He/she is stealing pictures from other sites and pretending to be me. I'm not a violent man, but you all have my permission to poke this with person with a
very large, very annoying stick if you run into them on the cyber street.

All of these unsuccessful attempts have made me realize something about myself. I am just not very good at the internet. I'm good at a very small number
of things, or at least have potential to be.. Some music, some sports, some games, the acting thing seems to be working out pretty well.. But these are totally overwhelmed by the things I'm not good at in life, and using the internet happens to be one of them. Others include fixing things, doing stuff, and arts and
crafts. So please forgive me, I'm giving it another shot.

The idea of "The Latest" is to basically let you know, on a monthly basis, what I'm up to in my career, life, and anything else I feel like talking about. So I will
do that now..

Since October of last year, I've worked on "All the Boys Love Mandy Lane," a low budget horror-ish flick,"My Suicide," a mockumentary/dramedy on the subject of
teen suicide, and "The Beautiful Ordinary," a film about the wonder and mystery of the high school years. Right now, I'm filming "An American Crime," based on
the tragic true story of Sylvia Likens, and "Choose Conner," which I'm not sure how to describe. I'll just call it a "political thriller," but that's a
terrible description.

I can tell you nice people in all honesty that I am absolutely thrilled out of my mind about EVERY single one of these projects. I really think that ALL of
them have potential to be great films and that makes me a happy sail boat. We'll see what happens, but I'm very optimistic at this point.

That takes care of the work... personally, things are crazy but great. I have a beautiful, lovely girlfriend now. Her name is Marissa, which means "of
the sea," (look it up), and she is an amazing person. I'm not sure what you all know about my love life, but up until this point, I would say I was batting a
pretty consistent .0050. Traditionally, not a successful area for me. So I'm very happy to have a winner, and she's about as much of a winner as I've
ever seen. : ) Yay! Sorry ladies, Luke Girardi has found his Grace. But she's nothing like Grace..

This is also a big concert year for me. Over the next few months, I'm seeing Radiohead, Pearl Jam (three times) with Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers with
The Mars Volta, and Tool. Good times, I'll let you know how these turn out. I'm gonna go ahead and guess FREAKIN AWESOME!! But we shall see..

Anyway, that's it for this first addition of "The Latest." Let's hope I don't flake out on this one! Take care everybody.

-Mike:)