After the Band

After I left the band I took some time off from life and decided to figure out how I want to go about life from here. I mean, I had nothing to show for myself. I was never a good student. I was the class clown and I spent my weekends chasing girls. My options were 1) get a day job and 2) go to community college.

Now I had no reason to believe that I would be successful in school because of my 1.5 GPA in high school. I mean, that is just retarded. But the thing is, I knew that I didn't want to be doomed to a day job for the rest of my life. I wanted to accomplish big things in my life that I knew that i was capable of. I will not settle for a mediocre life.

I remeber the moment when I sat down in my living room with my dad to tell him my plan. I told him that I need to be successful. I want to be a great director one day and if I'm going to do that, I'm going to have to go back to school. He looked at me very unconvinced. I think he took me as an idealist, which I kind of am, and thought I would be all about going back to school now but I would eventually give up. I don't blame him though... I mean, 1.5 GPA.

He actually tried to talk me out of it. I think it was because he didn't want to spend the money on tuition and books for me to just give up. I know this is going to sound like a movie moment but I looked at him and told him "I don't want to be a loser Dad. I want to be a winner." I don't know if he believed me at that moment but I don't think I completely believed myself either. I was just going with my instinct and I guess my dad decided to give me a chance.

So here are some pictures of my time in community college. Mainly just some pictures of me with my girlfriend at the time. She's still a good friend because she was an integral part in probably the most important year of my life.