ACTING!

A handful of years ago two of my favorite friends, Juan Antonio Del Rosario and Cristina Cordova, convinced me to get on a bike and ride for a part in a movie they was making. Deep down I knew that Juan Antonia was asking me to do this specifically because he knew how much I hated riding bikes in the city (it was like, a thing for me at the time. Back then I was known for my hatred of two things: The Hold Steady and city cyclists), but despite my feeble protests, I was totally, totally game. We were about a year out from wrapping up the cultish second season of Chasing Windmills  (seriously, watching The Overture again is like strapping on the flux capacitor and going back to a simpler time when I still wore nail polish, smoked, and used terms like "Man Ban") and enough time had passed to make me nostalgic for the flurry of scripts and the rush to different locations and the "Annnnnd AGAIN!" x 1000 directing style of Juan Antonio. Being able to be a part of the film with my former Chasing Windmills costars...it kind of felt like the tying of a bow, you know?

It's been about five years since then, and the film The System  finally premiered April 6th at the Mpls/St. Paul International Film Festival. I doubt that my part made it in (and even if it did, you wouldn't recognize me, anyway - I'm wearing a hoodie, sunglasses, and riding a bike), but I'm pretty damn excited about it. Just getting to be in the same creative company of all the fantastically funny, creative, whip-smart people who were a part of Chasing Windmills and The System made my Minneapolis life. It's pretty sweet to have a web video series - and now, a movie - that I can point to and remember it by.