Films, music, DJing, audio-video DJing, photography (Polaroid & Holga especialy), travel,
books, coffee, new restaurant discoveries, theatres, destinations, and compelling new monsters that will help expand this list of interests and facinations.
Music
Impossible to list properly. Every day I hear something new and compelling and every week I discover something that blows my mind. All genres, all time periods. Started with The Beatles and Beethoven and but ended up in all corners of the globe in every imaginable genre. Check my work to see what I'm excited about lately.
Movies
Too many to list. But, that said... I am completely in awe of the films of Stanley Kubrick, Sam Peckinpah, David Cronenberg, Roman Polanski, Sergio Leone, Chan-Wook Park, Claire Denis, Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, John Cassavetes, Federico Fellini, Lukas Moodysson, Nicholas Roeg, Hal Ashby, and Andrei Tarkovsky.....
I love much of the work of Alex Cox, Atom Egoyan, Milos Forman, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jim Jarmusch, Mikhail Kolotozov, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ken Russell, Martin Scorcese, Paul Schrader, Oliver Stone, Orson Welles, David Lynch, John Boorman, Sydney Lumet, Sydney Pollack, Brian De Palma, Abel Ferrara, Philip Kaufman, Gillo Pontecorvo, and Sergei Parajanov.....
Very excited to see what's coming next from Darren Aronofsky, Mary Harron, Gaspar Noe, Takashi Miike, Alexander Payne, Lars Von Trier, Michael Winterbottom, Kim Ki-Duk, Jonathan Glazer, Andrew Dominik, Richard Kelley, Julian Schnabel, Richard Linklater, Kim Ji-woon, Thomas Vinterberg, and would love to work with them.....
I'm sure I'm missing some fundamental film makers, but that's it for now.
Television
Don't own one. Don't watch it.
Books
Been enjoying non-fiction lately - books on 1960s architecture, 21st Century product design, Erich Fromm's 'The Art of Loving', biography on jazz producer Gil Evans. Also lately been enjoying fiction from Georges Bataille, Iceberg Slim, Hanif Kureishi, Elias Canetti, Vladimir Nabakov and Charlaine Harris as well.
Heroes
I think I believe in heroic moments more. The Beatles between 'Revolver' and 'Abbey Road'. Stanley Kubrick between 'Paths of Glory' and 'Eyes Wide Shut'. Dave Chappelle for two seasons. Southpark for a nice long stretch. Painter Paul Klee from 1917-1939. Dmitri Shostakovich from Piano Concerto No. 1 to Symphony No. 11. The Jimi Hendrix
Experience from 1967-1970. Joe Frank 'Somewhere Out There' to "The Other Side'. I could go on and on.
About me: Essentially, I am a music and film guy, fiercely passionate about both worlds and the dreamy zone where they merge gorgeously together. All my work, and most of my waking hours, is spent on some combination of the two.
• I DJ and host a weekly radio show for KCRW 89.9FM called 'The Great Escape' (Tuesday
nights - www.kcrw.com/music/programs/ge),
• music supervise films & television shows (HBO's 'Six Feet Under' among others -
www.supermusicvision.com)
• produce music in a crew called The Arbiters (myspace.com/arbiters),
• DJ at several spots in Los Angeles (Thursdays @ www.rambutan.com in Silverlake
and Fridays @ www.airconditionedbar.com in Santa Monica) and I
• produce and perform live DJ re-scores of classic films (myspace.com/synchronizelive)
I don't sleep much, steal as much time with friends as I can and try to not let my ambitious
projects rule me, although that's been a losing battle lately.
Who I'd like to meet: compelling creatures and kindred spirits
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Hey Thomas! Thought of you the other night when I went to the Kraak & Smaak show. Thought I might run into you since it was a KCRW event. Hope all is well in your world. :-)
while working on this week's issue tonight, my co-workers and i listened to an itunes station featuring electronic grooves. to my sweet surprise, the arbiters come on. a designer i work with--luc, a chain-smoking 50-something french man--commented that after he heard the arbiters the first time, it took a major effort to get his hands on an mp3. said he ended up finding one on some japanese website. when i told him the source was silverlake, he scowled a little bit. lesson learned? the world must be pasted over with the great escape, musical cruises directed by the escape artist. and try to please french elders.
i'm an asshole to your cherry pie. you did not miss my birthday, you preempted my bday dreams with devine wishes and for that i thank you. i brought some O2 back from portland for you.
"Taste...Place the chocolate on your tongue and press it to the roof of your mouth. Within thirty seconds, the chocolate should slowly begin to melt around your tongue. The taste should not be evanescent; it should have a long lingering finish" (Oaxaca Bar, 75% cacao).
You know what I was thinking... It would be SOOOO easy for you to move if you buy that house! ;) Plus, young Rafi won't have to be the new kid again :)) BTW, thx for coffee ;*
Wait, Tuesday night... What's that noise on the dial? Fuck Yeah!!! Tommy G got his weekly spot on the radio...
That English guy had asked me who should take over(the truth) and I vouched for you, bar none.
Now when the time comes to replace the English guy, I'll know who to vouch for then too.
So freakin'happy for you Tommy !
(oh yeah... and we get to take photos too)
Hey man! I hope you had a great thanksgiving. Turkey sure got me stuffed. Sorry I missed the last Syncronize. I wasn't expecting it to be on a tuesday. I will be at the next one for sure. Lemme know what's going on with that.
So this picture didn't come out very well, but here it is
