I'm just a guy from Pueblo.
I make things. Have been for a long time.
Every project is its own universe. Full casts. Real histories. Songs that exist inside stories that exist inside other stories. It got more detailed than I originally planned.
A fictional group I created as a vehicle for my group lyrics - five guys from Colorado who stumbled into pop stardom through a talent show and a VHS tape of New Edition choreography. Dreamscape lives inside the world of After the After-Party, which is where they came from.
Kira, Zara, Chloe, and Pippa. Started as a plot device, also existing in the world of Dreamscape, and After The After-Party. Developed distinct vocal personalities, a full album, and eventually their own story running parallel to the main one.
A semi-autobiographical story about a boy from Pueblo who gets handed a box labeled "Boy Next Door" and spends the whole film trying to write his way out of it. Set in early 2000s Colorado. Based on things that almost happened. Dreamscape exists inside this one. The screenplay is where they were born.
A spiral notebook that's been in use longer than most people know about it. Songs across genres, written for fictional groups and real people. The kind of work that gets called "just stuff I think about."
A fully built steampunk world with its own rules, its own era, and a dachshund named Gizmo who earns his place in the story. Built from the rivets up.
Something is being built. It has characters, a setting, and a reason to exist. That's all there is right now.
I'm a Dispatcher for the State of Colorado. Which sounds more dramatic than it is until it isn't. I've been doing it for almost twenty years. It's the one thing I can say without hesitation that I Mastered.
The job lives in the writing whether I mean it to or not. The instinct to stay calm. Knowing what people sound like when they're frightened. Understanding that someone has to be the steady one even when nothing is steady.
It's a strange life to run alongside a notebook full of lyrics and a screenplay about chasing dreams in Orlando. But I've made peace with the strange parts.
Semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story. A Colorado kid, a fictional boyband, a sound malfunction that changes everything, and the girl who wrote a better song about him than he ever wrote about himself.
A steampunk adventure. Features a dachshund named Gizmo. Built its own world from the rivets up.
Three of the five original songs written for the After the After-Party universe. Exist as full compositions with arranged harmonies and assigned vocal parts.
Songs written for and by the members of Aura - Kira especially. "Empty Stage, Silent" may be the most honest song in the entire universe. It plays at the end, in the quiet.
Written for coworkers who lost their fathers. Shared with one of them. She said it helped. That may be the whole point of all of this.
A princess in a steampunk-modern hybrid world governed by a deterministic computer system. A character who fights the system that defines her. He keeps coming back to her.
It exists. That's enough for now.
The production home for everything built here. Screenplays, lyrics, fictional worlds, and the infrastructure that holds them together. If this page is the introduction, Janus Studios is where the work actually lives.
I'm a guy from Pueblo, Colorado. I've been writing lyrics since before I told anyone about it, which was a long time.
My day job is listening - I'm a Master Dispatcher, which sounds more dramatic than it is until it isn't. I've been doing it for almost twenty years. It's the one thing I can say without hesitation that I mastered.
On the other side of that, I write. Lyrics mostly - I'd call myself a songwriter but the honest word is lyricist. I've got somewhere around seventy songs in a notebook that I mostly call crap, a couple of screenplays, and a small collection of fictional worlds that got more detailed than I originally planned. I'm also a nerd. I play video games. These things coexist fine.
I built this site because I want the work to exist somewhere outside of my hard drive. Not for fame - I'm realistic about that - but because I'd like the name to mean something. Even after.
That's about it. Look around.