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.
Thomas's Details
Status:
Single
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Needham, Massachusetts
Zodiac Sign:
Sagittarius
Education:
College graduate
Thomas's Schools
Boston University
Boston,Massachusetts
Graduated: 1992
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Broadcast & Film
Minor: History
1988 to 1992
Needham High
Needham,Massachusetts
Graduated: 1987
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
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
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. :-)
"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 ;*
