The Rockies are flexing their snowy biceps on the horizon. As we approach Colorado, the Kansas plains are beginning to swell with golden grassy mounds here and there, thin snakes of snow nipping at their ankles. To the left and right earth-anchored cows mingle with sky-whipped windmills – the old mills frozen in rusty peace, the new ones like metal soldiers flicking butterfly knives in the blue. John’s Kickass Playlist scores the kickass views as the West gallops ahead and we follow. You know when you find yourself waving at antelope that you’ve crossed over.

John just said, “If I’m reincarnated, I wanna be a tumbleweed.” I’d say it’s already in our DNA, as we make our too-many-times-to-count trip across the continent. We left New York a week ago, making a fun stop in Cincinnati, hitting Horror Hound to see our buddy Jay Kay’s short film and saying hi to Greenlandian actor Anders Hove, there for the Subspecies: Blood Rising premiere. (Hove came to Serbia this winter to make a cameo in Hell Hole and it is …. memorable! Can’t wait to work with Hove again.) Then we stayed the night in a Victorian bed and breakfast along the Mississippi in southern IL. Lovely; like stepping back in time. Except I’m not sure if Victorians (known for zipped-up, quiet discretion) got busy like our room neighbors…. without a care for acoustics…. taking the occasional breaks to pick up calls from their kids: Oh. Yeah. Mmm. Ringaling. “Hi Bunny! I miss you, too!How was school today? Let me talk to gramma. I love you, too, sweetie!” Oh, oh, yeah…. Ring-ring. “Hi, honey. Go to sleep, hon’. Miss you, too…..” Oh. Oh. Mmm….. Well good for them. (Did I mention John hates bed and breakfasts?)

Next stop: Kansas City, MO. We really liked this city, its antiquated square brick and stone buildings, its friendly people and great culinary offerings. Unfortunately, our car got busted into there, which is a shitty feeling. Hopefully someone is enjoying my wardrobe and John’s wawa pedal and half a mic stand. And it’ll be cool if 50 people are walking around Kansas City in H6LLB6ND6R t-shirts, because those got nabbed, too. (We are headed to a Con.) But heaven help the thief who reads my notebook with a whole lotta variations on Devil mythology, the 7 Deadly Sins, how to slay with originality, considerations on wendigos, golems, and selected demons at large, and your run-of-the-mill everyday dark forces that make for good horror movies in the works. Good luck there.

So yeah. We are on the first leg of a 2+ month trip: first to hit the 6 Feet Under Film Fest in Colorado Springs. (They’re screening a double feature of The Deeper You Dig and Hellbender and also some shorts: EVER (the short we shot in Yukon and Alaska) and Miltown – a fun short John, Z and I act in directed and produced by our pals Connor Martin, Chris Beyrooti, and Yale Slaughter. Then….

Then we get to see LULU! After almost a year teaching English in South Korea, traveling to Japan, Singapore, Bali and Vietnam, Lu is back on American soil, and we are dying to see her. And her lovable boyfriend, Alex. In Oregon! Then we bum around the Northwest while John edits our Serbian creature feature Hell Hole (a fun one, folks!) and we hold our breath until we can announce big plans for our newest feature, Where the Devil Roams. We are very stoked to get this one rolling! More on that to come, plus other fun news on the horizon….. Zelda is happy at college in NYC, and with every mile we are cooking up new storms to capture on film. Thank you, road. Thank you, wheels. And thank YOU, dear reader.