It's that time of year again, when our thoughts turn to New Years resolutions.

Me, I'm a fan of makin' plans and setting goals.

If you've been following this blog for any length of time, you might remember that I made one, five and ten year plans the year I moved to Los Angeles.  With just one year left to round out my first decade in Los Angeles, it's time to check in on my original list again:

My original plan (August, 2000) and status updates:

YEAR ONE
Do it.  Move. (Moved in August of 2000)
Find Representation. (Happened late --- signed with APA in 2002 or 3, I can't recall)

YEAR FIVE
Full-time writer (I was a story producer within my first year here... yay!)
Join WGA/ATAS/AMPAS (Joined ATAS in 2002, became WGA NonFic Caucus Member in 2004, though I'm not a "member" yet)
Produce a motion picture (Co-Produced LOLLILOVE in 2004, a year ahead of schedule, now producing web series TRISHPATTYPAT as a practice run before making my own feature mid-2010)

YEAR TEN
Debt Free (Hiccup there thanks to a kooky combo of unforeseen events last coupla' years, but it'll happen by March)
Earn a Created by and/or Executive Producer credit (Made strategic partneship with an established EP friend and have four major meetings on original series in January... fingers crossed)
Purchase a home (No dice yet --- scouting condo market)

NEW GOALS:

2010 (one year add-on):  Finish writing book.  Get out of the house more.  Lose 60 pounds.  Reconnect with friends --- hit the town at least one night per week!  Get back to see family once every 6 months.

        

Please check out the first promo for my upcoming web series, TRISHPATTYPAT, making its debut in the Spring of 2010. You can get updates through twitter.com/TrishPattyPat in the meanwhile.

        

But just this once.

        

Look at this lovely quarter-page ad my agency took out in Daily Variety today. Ain't that nice?

        

        

It's here! Well, almost.

Season Two of SHE'S GOT THE LOOK, for which I story produced the premiere and one other episode, airs June 11 at 9pm on TvLand.

        

Style Network's SPLIT ENDS, on which I am enjoying yet another season of gainful employment, has received a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Special Class Program for the last outing.

Congratulations to all involved.

        

Now you can follow me with Twitter. You know, if you're that kind of person.

        

Super-gigantic thanks to Full Sail University staff as well as director Bobcat Goldthwait and actor Tom Kenny for participating in the decidedly under-teched but extremely awesome screening of SHAKES THE CLOWN at Full Sail University this past week.

I'd heard a month or two earlier that SHAKES was a contender for their new screening series, and it was a real pleasure to moderate the student discussion of the film --- complete with call-ins from Bob and Tom graciously arranged by the incredible Paul Kozlowski.

Full Sail Network's RG Lacandola posted this brief interview with me afterward.


Story Producer and Grad Troy Devolld from Full Sail Network on Vimeo.

        

As you can tell from the frequent championing of her work that I do here on my wee blog, I've had the pleasure of knowing the multitalented, multiplatform mediaist tornado Allee Willis for about a year now. Whether you know her as the songwriter behind Boogie Wonderland, Neutron Dance, The Theme from Friends, Broadway's The Color Purple, or countless other projects, as a multimedia artist whose paintings and sculptures have sold in the thousands around the world, as a brilliant set designer for music videos and television programs, or as any one of her myriad creative selves, there's no debating her ability to remain creatively evergreen, boldly charging down the dark alleys of creativity like some kind of pink and green superhero.

So believe me when I tell you that her latest project, a music video called HEY JERRIE that posts on YouTube at 6pm tonight, will be worth the watch. The video features Allee with 91-year-old drummer Jerrie Thill.

More on the project here:

www.alleewillis.com/music/jerrie-thill/index.html

Thanks in advance for supporting real genius by lending your eyes and ears to something inspiring and fun.

-Troy