The Dream Chasing Continues.

So you haven’t gotten a real update from me since April...that is a crime. When I moved here every day was an adventure, a story that begged me to tell it. I’m not saying that has changed but much like a week to week television show my adventure has become less about the random happenstance of my day to day and more about the over all seasonal story arch.

Maybe I’m wrong, maybe New York is making me callous but at any rate here is a brief rundown of April to August. I was the doorman for a bar in NoHo called “Nolita House”. After a little landlord owner dispute Nolita sadly closed it’s doors.

I told the world I would find a new job in 2 weeks. Well, I did but it turns out I didn’t need it because the people who run Nolita late night took over Friday and Saturday nights at a different bar and asked me to re-join the old Nolita team. I love that bar, I love those people and that’s all that can be said about that.

During my travels I was also, for a short time, the doorman for a BDSM dungeon. Sadly that lovely, educational establishment, was forced to close it’s doors due to bureaucratic small mindedness. I have plenty of stories from both places but I haven’t decided if sharing them would be in bad taste or not yet so for now I will keep that under my hat.

When the lease ran out on my apartment I moved back in to my very first, legitimate apartment. I am back under the same roof as my dear friend Amanda, with a better room then before, a hundred dollars less a month in rent then I was paying in the other place, and the cherry on that Sunday is that I didn’t even have to say goodbye to my old roommate because he has joined me in this nest of healing and sanity.

The real news here is that I am only months away from shooting the first feature I ever had a hand in writing. Travis Legge and I under took the task of writing a romantic comedy much in the style of Judd Apatow with a dash of High Fidelity thrown in. Financing is our biggest problem at the moment. Not only did I have a hand in writing this but I am a co-star next to Suzi Loraine (who I have come to know as a beautiful human being). If you would like to help us make the movie I have a link to the Kickstarter page Here.

Dry Spell is the culmination of so many things for me. We are filming in the exact locations where only a year ago I was fighting to survive. We location scouted New York last week and it was like a greatest hits of “places Kyle felt alone, helpless and defeated” and now I am making a movie there.

This movie is more then a fun little slap and tickle for me, this movie means something. This movie is my ambivalent love letter to the city of New York and a trophy for my future self to remember what I am capable of. It is also tackling subject matter (marriage, divorce and dating) that has been the subtext of my entire journey.

I started this outward stretch with a divorce, in many ways if life hadn’t come up and showed me to myself and said “hey! You lazy, ungrateful little shit...fix yourself or die” in the form of a broken marriage (largely broken by my clumsy hands) then I wouldn’t have done any of this. Now, at the precipice of my next developmental plateau  I am telling a story about love, divorce and moving on.

The symmetry of my life is uncanny.

That is me so far. Hopefully I don’t neglect this blog anymore because I am realizing a growing need for an outlet like this one and I’m confused as to why I abandoned it in the first place.

I love you all.

KH-