Author: Jeff Garvin
Author of SYMPTOMS OF BEING HUMAN and THE LIGHTNESS OF HANDS. Cohost of THE HERO'S JOURNEY podcast. Rock musician, D&D geek, aspiring revolutionary.
photo by Tim McEvoy
OUCH
Getting tattooed fleeping hurts. But pain isn’t always a bad thing; if tattoos were easy, we’d all be walking around with the names of embarrassing bands or nasty ex-lovers indelibly etched in uncomfortable places.
Pain is an important part of the process. Pain makes you...
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WRAPPING IN THE MIND’S EYE
I HAD THE PLEASURE of wrapping In The Mind’s Eye last weekend. (For more on the shoot, see this post.) I can’t speak highly enough of the cast and crew. Producer/stars Sava Markovic and Craig Rees are as talented as they are charming, and created and environment...
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Once upon a time, I was a geek: a Firefly-watching, comic book-reading, d12-wielding geek. And then, something happened.
Wait—let’s flash forward.
FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES
I have this group of amazing friends. Every time I’ve scored a walk-on part on a sitcom, they’ve come to watch. Whenever...
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Image: “Lost” by AikaXx from deviantART
WHO YOU ARE
You’re not a fraud. You’re not a fake. You’re who you say you are.
You’re too dynamic for labels, too mobile for coordinates.
You’re a shooting star, an ephemeral isotope, a thing that was, and shall be, but never quite is.
You...
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Looking back on old work can be simultaneously humbling and inspiring. Humbling because you realize how far you’ve come; inspiring because it becomes clear how far you have to go.
During my senior year at Chapman University, I wrote, directed and starred in this short film. Parts of it make...
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Under Pressure
I’m only two chapters away from finishing the second draft of my novel. It’s an exciting (and stressful) time, and my laser-focus on the book has drawn attention away from this blog; but, I’ve been digging in the archives, and I’ve found some unreleased work worthy of sharing. I hope...
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