Every filmmaker has their coming of age story, this was my idea of one.

Fairly obviously inspired by Harmony Korine, this was sort of my breakout effort as I was searching for a creative voice of my own.

I had originally written this concept as something called Skate Trash in like 2012. It was about two close friends who become separated when one of them gets a girlfriend. I was going to try to make it with myself and another actor, but the other actor dropped out so I abandoned the idea.

Five years later, I was hanging out with Bobby and Peter, and Peter off-handedly said “look at us, a couple of choir boys.” I immediately took the title and told them I would go home and write it.

I found the old outline for Skate Trash and removed the stuff about skating and replaced it with Christianity. At the time I was really into music from the early 80’s and decided I’d make something that felt like the visual counterpart of a Cocteau Twins. It led me to the impulse to tell the darker side of a sex, drugs, and rock and roll story. The sobering aftermath moments of living a “burning the candle at both ends” lifestyle.

From there I just decided to throw my penchant for logical storytelling out the window and to just follow all my most extreme gut instincts. I pulled from all of my deepest, most primal feelings and translated them into these diary-entry level stories about the inappropriate relationships of misguided kids.

Robby Massey shot it each episode on a giant old 70’s analog camera. Robby was an absolutely essential collaborator and significant influence on me.

I edited each episode with reckless abandon, creating the sense of found footage, but with the intention to disorient the viewer and put them in the headspace of drug-addled teenagers.

From the moment I started writing it until the end of the show was the most creatively liberating experience I’ve ever had. It was such a thrill to make this show and I’m deeply proud of it.