Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Gus Van Sant, Nick Cassavetes, Larry Clark, Catherine Hardwicke, Dan Harris, Peter Care, Mike Mitchell, Wes Craven, Eric Bress, Zack Snyder, Jacob Aaron Estes, Bryan Singer, Adrian Lyne, George Gallo, James Ponsoldt, Sean Ellis, Richard Kelly, Orson Welles, Louis Bunuel, David Gordon Green, Ridley Scott, François Truffaut, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Moore, David Lynch
Festivals
2005 Philadelphia Film Festival, 2006 Sundance Film Festival, 2006 SXSW Film Festival, 2006 Philadelphia Film Festival, 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, 2006 Woodstock Film Festival, 2006 Hamptons International Film Festival, 2006 Williamstown Film Festival, 2006 Avignon/New York Film Festival, 2007 Sundance Film Festival, 2007 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2007 Sedona International Film Festival, 2007 SXSW Film Festival, 2007 San Fernando Valley Film Festival, 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, 2007 Sundance at BAM, 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, 2007 Woodstock Film Festival, 2007 New Hampshire Film Festival, 2007 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, 2008 Sundance Film Festival, 2008 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2008 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, 2008 SXSW Film Festival, 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, 2008 Philadelphia Film Festival, 2008 Hoboken International Film Festival, 2008 Sundance at BAM, 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival, 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, 2009 Sundance Film Festival, 2009 SXSW Film Festival, 2009 Gen Art Film Festival, 2009 Philadelphia Film Festival, 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, 2009 NewFilmmakers LA Film Festival, 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival
Simple Plan, All-American Rejects, Phantom Planet, American Hi-Fi, Green Day, Oasis, Weezer, Something Corporate, Fountains of Wayne, Beatles, Kinks, Jimmy Eat World, Lit, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Matthew Sweet, Split Enz, Smithereens, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Killers, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Marah, Elvis Costello, Four Tops, Byrds, Marshall Crenshaw, Blink 182, Smashing Pumpkins, Jethro Tull, 10CC, American Dream, Procol Harum, Four Seasons, Squeeze, XTC, Linkin Park, White Stripes, Hanson, Foreigner, Beach Boys, Guster, Nada Surf, Ben Kweller, Good Charlotte
Movies
Too many to name, so I'll start with a few and keep adding: Jacob's Ladder, Butterfly Effect, The Bondage, Alpha Dog, The Good Humor Man, Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The Village, Donnie Darko, Dead End, Alien, Music of the Heart, Local Color, Wizard of Oz, Four Days, Little Athens, Dear Wendy, Manic, House of D, Book of Love, Jurassic Park 3, Signs, Imaginary Heroes, Elephant, Sky High, Life as a House, Poltergeist, Citizen Kane, Mudge Boy, K-Pax, My Own Private Idaho, Running On Empty, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Less Than Zero, Pretty In Pink, Breakfast Club, Ghostbusters, St. Elmo's Fire, Stand By Me, This is Spinal Tap, War Games, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Heathers, Blue Lagoon, Aliens, The Outsiders, Mean Creek, The Dust Factory, Animal Factory, American Heart, That Thing You Do, Mysterious Skin, West Side Story, Black Irish, Northern Light, Off the Black, Cashback, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Starter for Ten, The Dog Problem, Citizen Duane, The Abandoned, End of the Line, Swedish Auto, For the Love of God, Vertigo, Rear Window, Psycho, American History X, The U.S. vs. John Lennon, Signs, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Fierce People, Weapons, An American Crime, Snow Angels, Clubland, The Go-Getter, The Good Life, Teeth, Rocket Science, Man in the Chair, Trade, The King and the Clown, Red Road, 2:37, My Scary Girl, Children, Waiter, Le Dernier des Fous, Ping Pong, Little Children, The Lookout, He Was a Quiet Man, Billy The Kid, Fay Grim, Love is the Drug, The Jacket, Fahrenheit 451, An Andalusian Dog, Jaws, Duel, Clockwork Orange, Rebel Without a Cause, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Battleship Potemkin, Europa Europa, The Air I Breathe, The Final Season, Chasing 3000, Charlie Bartlett, Nobel Son, Napoleon & Me, Half Moon, Times and Winds, The Optimists, The Cake Eaters, The Third Monday in October, Nanking, Great World of Sound, Remember the Daze, Lost Dream, Juno, Bill, Normal, Atonement, Then She Found Me, Into the Wild, The Jane Austen Book Club, Paranoid Park, 3:10 to Yuma, Choose Connor, Still Green, Wristcutters: A Love Story, August Rush, August Evening, The Orphanage, La Vie En Rose, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Gone Baby Gone, The Broken, Amal, Ben X, The Counterfeiters, Mongol, Summerhood, XXY, There Will Be Blood, The Wackness, Dance of the Dead, Explicit Ills, Otis, Body of War, FrontRunners, The Wrecking Crew, Let the Right One In, Katyn, Newcastle, Somers Town, Charly, 57,000 Kilometers Between Us, From Within, Tennessee, The 27 Club, Boy A, 1968 Tunnel Rats, American Son, It Might Get Loud, Acolytes, Adoration, The Country Teacher, Krabat, Lymelife, Patrik, Age 1.5, Pride and Glory, Winds of September, The Vicious Kind, Unmade Beds, The Greatest, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, Moon, My Suicide, True Adolescents
Television
Ummm...only if someone I know is on the show. And late night shows for new music (Carson Daly, Conan, Leno).
About me: I spent many years as a professional in the entertainment industry. I left the corporate rat race to become a freelance journalist covering independent film. I spend most of my time traveling to festivals to see indies and meet the actors, directors, and others responsible for creating them.
I report from the events, write reviews, and post pictures on several sites including my blog, IMDb, and many other film-related sites. But mainly I'm a fan, it's all from the heart, and I can't be bought because I don't get paid.
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Who I'd like to meet: Creative people who love independent films. They make the best friends and conversationalists. They've always got your back and I've always got theirs. The people I've met are the greatest people on the planet and I'd like to meet more like them.
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NOTE: I move my Top Friends around. They don't necessarily reflect the importance of those pictured in the order they are arranged, so please don't take offense or read too much into it!
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Very cool, Michael. Who are your friends in the Broadway cast?
I'm favoriting you. If there's a film we should all see, I'se expects you to post it in your status update!
Have fun Festin'!
Pun
Thanks for your comment! You'll see Kyle in Philly (unless you happen to be at the one perf which will be a put in for Jake...can't say which one). You're at the LA Film Festival? So cool! Are you a filmmaker? Have an awesome time and I expect reviews after you see it in Philly!
Thanks for being our friend,
Pun
Awwww that sounds like so much fun! I'm jealous ;] All I'm doing is sitting in the middle of Germany, looking for a job so I'll hopefully have the chance to come to the States again maybe next year once school's out for summer.
Thanks for your comment, Larry, and for being our friend! Jake doesn't start until DC so you'll be seeing our amazing Kyle. Jake is in rehearsals right now and he's going to be awesome! Philly is just a week away!!
Hey guys. We just posted a box thing on our myspace where you could buy our music. It's 99 cents a song and it would be a huge help to us. Thanks so much.
-Bravest Giant
Yeah...it was really hot in there. I think the 21+ shows were much better than the all ages show. Sunday we went out bought those little hand held fans lol...they were amazing to have! Wow. That's pretty cool...this venue was definitely much different from Kung Fu Necktie, that's for sure lol but it was fun! We bought them towels that had monkey's on it for their sunday show. Since they kept using their ties to wipe off sweat, we figured they'd like to actually have a towel to use.
Wow. I just looked at your pictures and they are amazing. I'm jealous of the Ben Graupner ones in the beginning. Those blew me away! Excellent excellent pictures!
Yes...it was great meeting you too! You were fun to talk too and I guess I'll be seeing you in New Jersey in August!!! Which I'm so stoked for!
That is awesome...1000 views in a day, crazyness! Do you mind me asking where the photos are?! I would love to see them! I'm going to uploading some of mine from this past weekend if Myspace will be nice and allow me to...grrr.
Online Now!
and I guess I'll be seeing you in New Jersey in August!!! Which I'm so stoked for!
