I am somebody!!

It's great news that Tom's efforts to get Six Man, Texas entered into IMDb.com have finally paid off. But forgive me for being a bit more excited about another piece of news related to this. Sure, it's great to have Six Man up there at last. But what else does this mean?

I. Am. On. IMDb.com!!

Back in 2000, Tom cast me in a couple of small roles in the sketch comedy film One Eye Peeled. I ended up playing about six different small parts in four different scenes, including a token Hindu in a beef commercial, a drive-thru funeral parlor assistant who played parts as a Hare Krishna and a Catholic altar boy, a customer of the same funeral parlor, a cast member of The Penis Monologues, a clueless bad date that drove a woman to beastiality, and a corporate lackey who gets fired, but not before reluctantly and badly simulating sex in a boardroom meeting with another corporate lackey in front of the company CEO to illustrate a third corporate lackey's idea to sell advertising via hookers.

It made sense, trust me.

I thought for sure this would be my ticket onto IMDb. And with several roles to my credit too, literally. Unfortunately, this film got stuck in post-production hell and was never released by the producer. So, no credit for me or anyone else.

Meanwhile, friends like Anita and Carolyn had gotten IMDb credits for being extras in another independent film, one that was still in production. They were lucky enough to get into the database before IMDb started implementing stricter rules about who qualified to be on the site.

Still, I figured I'm find my way onto the site eventually. There were other film projects; something would stick. But after One Eye Peeled, things didn't get much farther along. Cameron's animated superhero feature Point One ground to a halt during the animation stage; I would've had an assistant director credit there. Tom's documentary The Real Santa, on which I was part of the production crew, didn't get accepted to any film festivals (for reasons I still don't get ... I think it's a good documentary). My own short film projects didn't qualify. So by 2005, when I started helping out on Six Man, the whole IMDb thing seemed so far away.

But now, nearly three years later, Six Man qualified because it screened at a festival. And so, while my credits aren't very exciting, I am now one of the thousands or millions of non-famous people that nevertheless have a page on IMDb! Check it out! Also, if you've seen the film, please leave user comments and help expand the film's IMDb presence. Thanks!