Writing, reading, drinking, photography/videography/film, working out, yoga, hiking, movies, travel, sleeping.
Midcentury modern furniture: I spend most of my work and creative day in an Eames Executive Chair and just bought an Eames "surfboard" coffee table. My wallet is still recovering from buying a new Eames Compact Sofa.
I can't afford the mcm house yet (Eichler, May, Killingsworth, etc.), but I'll get there.
Music
20 GB plus on the iPod. It took forever to load.
Movies
V for Vendetta, Dr. Strangelove, Carnival of Souls, Donnie Darko, The Insider, Ghost World, The Dreamers, Chinatown, The Patriot, The Doom Generation, La Dolce Vita, Pink Floyd: The Wall, Lonesome Dove, Flight of the Phoenix (original), Cobb, Lawrence of Arabia, On the Waterfront, Twelve O'Clock High, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Croupier, Stalag 17, Shane, Forbidden Planet, The Unforgiven, Bound, Casablanca, Airplane, Capote and most anything by Errol Morris, Michael Mann, John Sayles, Terry Zwigoff, Bernardo Bertolucci or Werner Herzog.
Television
Not reality TV -- I'm in reality all day. I want to escape when the tube is on, which isn't often.
Books
1. "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl
2. "The Snow Leopard" by Peter Matthiessen
3. "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
4. "The Day of the Locust" by Nathanael West
5. "City of Quartz" by Mike Davis
6. "Candide" by Voltaire
7. "The Dhammapada"
8. "The Analects of Confucius"
9. "The Blue Knight" by Joseph Wambaugh
10. "Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tales" by Terry Southern
11. "The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer
12. "Fields of Fire" by James Webb
13. "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair
14. "The Man with the Golden Arm" by Nelson Algren.
Newsroom legends -- Jimmy Breslin, Mike Royko, Matt Weinstock, Lee Shippey and Herb Caen.
Heroes
Rat Fink aka Big Daddy Roth, Too Much Coffee Man, Ben Franklin, Ida Tarbell, Sam Fuller, the Buddha, Dean Martin, Rachel Carson, Viktor Frankl, Roy Rogers, H.L. Mencken, T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), the Dalai Lama, Elvis, Richard Feynman, Upton Sinclair, Sophie Scholl and Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton. OK, the actor too. Leonard Cohen, Dolly Parton.
About me:
I'm a Texas boy turned world traveler turned California dude. I've lived in Europe, Asia and Mexico. Throw a rock in any direction in L.A. and you'll probably hit a "screenwriter." Ouch, that hurts!
Who I'd like to meet: Smart, fun and erudite people who don't take themselves, work or the world too seriously. I'd like to meet smart, fun, attractive and adventurous women who can't decide between the Getty, a foreign film, hiking or going to a party. Or maybe want to do all of them! And I'm looking for Myrna Loy as a counterpart to my William Powell.
Can't say I've ever been in a restaurant sitting next to a man in his spanking new PJs, but there's a first time for everything! Great seeing you the other night.
Hey Glen, happy to be your friend. Wait a minute, aren't you Glen with two N's? Or was it Glen with one N? Shoot - Scott Glen, this is getting so confusing!!
Mt. Baldy while carrying a 35-pound pack? You're a (well-conditioned) beast. I just about spat out my heart climbing a moderately formidable hill in Yellowstone yesterday. Good on you, lad.
