Fifty Things Guaranteed to Horrify You

Okay , so in following the lead set by Scribe LA, Scott and Emily in their respective blogs, here are 50 things you don't know about me.


50. I used to work in a gym as a manager and trainer.
49. I also used to work in construction for a real estate company, renovating an old cotton mill.
48. I was shot once when I was 14.
47. I had my tonsils out when I was 21.
46. I used to hold a Top Secret security clearance.
45. I haven’t seen my sisters since I was 19.
44. I used to refuel the F-117A Stealth fighter.
43. I’ve been to Area 51.
42. I hate liver, even with onions. My mother once tried to trick me by grinding it up and making it as a hamburger but I knew better and spit it out on the dinner table.
41. When I was in 5th grade, a boy committed suicide after he accidentally shot his father during an argument.
40. I used to speak German well enough to be slapped in Germany, Austria and Deutsch speaking Belgium.
39. I went to a Catholic High school that is no longer. Good riddance.
38. I played football one season in High School. I hated it but if we didn’t all play the school itself wouldn’t have had a team.
37. I have two degrees - one in History and one in Media Arts (aka film and video).
36. I want to bring the movie serial back to the theater.
35. I once rode in the same elevator with Ron Jeremy.
34. I’m the baby of my family.
33. I resemble my father. When I was 10 and younger I resembled my mom.
32. My nickname used to be “BC”.
31. I had a hernia when I yanked a fuel hose out of a truck. I felt something tear, but it didn’t hurt until hours later.
30. I used to live in Vegas. No, I don’t gamble.
29. Star Wars and Close Encounters changed my life.
28. Dogs. I will not date a “Cat-woman.”
27. I’ve shot Craftmatic adjustable bed commercials.
26. I like good furniture.
25. Green tomato sauce pizza - My Father’s Pizza; Black Mountain, NC.
24. I shot a movie in the same town where the end of DELIVERANCE was filmed.
23. We used to get off school to go to the Masters golf tournament.
22. I went to my prom in my Dad’s tuxedo.
21. I once had a dog named Biscuit who had her puppies on my bed. I got rid of the mattress - fast.
20. I once stood barefoot in the snow to get a Coca-Cola (and to prove a point).
19. DC or Marvel? DC
18. The first time I went to NYC it was for a screening of the movie that I worked on in SC called RIPE.
17. I used to deliver chicken wings in college. It paid for a lot of things - especially during football season.
16. My first screenplay was called PATCHWORK and it was about a dead gangster resurrected by toxic waste, who must replace his worn out or shot off body parts with those of his victims - the former members of his gang who ordered his hit. I’m going to turn it into a comic.
15. I’m addicted to TRADING SPACES, PROPERTY LADDER, FLIP THIS HOUSE, AMERICAN CHOPPER, and yes, even DEBBIE TRAVIS (except when she uses that cheap ass silver leaf foil).
14. I was ranked as a Pro-marksman when I was a youngster.
13. I once stuck my finger down a girl’s throat to get her to throw up the half-liter of grain alcohol she chugged down.

12. I once came home drunk and tripped over the television in front of my Dad. He was not amused.
11. My Mother has a thing for dachshund novelties.
10. As a kid, I spent one summer in Iowa with my family at my grandparents house. I read five Shadow novels that summer, and I was hooked.
9. I learned the hard way that you should never get your honey where you get your money.
8. My Dad and I agree on a few things: James Bond, serials and Rumpole of the Bailey.
7. I knew I wanted to get into movies when I sat down with a bowl of popcorn and watched a serial with my Dad , and we both became these eight year old boys. The serial - DAREDEVILS OF THE RED CIRCLE - was one he remembered as a kid and he never got to see how it turned out.
6. I was raised in the Lutheran church, went to a Catholic high school and graduated from Presbyterian College.
5. I start writing when there is absolutely positively nothing else I can do to use as an excuse - the research is done, the outline, the characters are real and all of the laundry, dishes and housecleaning has been done.
4. I was once run over (hit actually) by a car.
3. I once jumped into my Dad’s car and pulled the brake, letting the car roll down the driveway. I don’t know why. (and yes, the car was fine).
2. I was in the play K2 in college and nominated for an Irene Ryan Acting Award.
1. When I first got here, I wouldn’t have been able to stay in Hollywood if I hadn’t cashed in the value on my life insurance policy.