Came of age in the sprawl of North Texas. Escaped to Los Angeles. But he didn’t leave Texas behind. No, that place stuck with him. The endless stretch of the horizon. Dreams. Atmosphere. The raw, DIY ethos of the noise bands he grew up in. Adolescent horror films on a borrowed VHS camera and a bucket full of homemade gore — all of it came with him. And from that, he learned to tell stories.