The voiceover industry and all its facets, current events (reality TV does NOT count), independent film, alternative rock, politics ala Daily Show level of knowledge, good books, and anything that leads me towards success.
Music
The Beatles,
Boys Like Girls,
Bruce Cockburn,
The Clash,
DMB,
Depeche Mode,
Foo Fighters,
Frou Frou,
Peter Gabriel,
Gooding,
Green Day,
Colin Hay,
Imogen Heap,
The Killers,
Lenny Kravitz,
John Mayer,
Pearljam,
The Police,
Radiohead,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Secret Lives of the Freemasons,
Gonzalo Silva,
The Spill Canvas,
The Sundays,
Tears for Fears,
U2,
Vertical Horizon,
Stevie Wonder,
Yoko Kanno.
I still love Yes, Rush, Led Zep, Metallica, and Pink Floyd but I've moved on...
Movies
A Fish Called Wanda,
Arthur,
Amazon Queen,
Beautiful Girls,
Big Fish,
The Big Lebowski,
The Birdcage,
Blazing Saddles,
Citizen Kane,
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
Everything Is Illuminated,
Ferris Buellers Day Off,
The Fifth Element,
The Fisher King,
Four Weddings and a Funeral,
Garden State,
Glengarry Glen Ross,
Glory,
Grosse Point Blank,
Groundhog Day,
Heat,
Juno,
Lars and the Real Girl,
Let It Ride,
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,
Little Miss Sunshine,
Made,
The Man who Would be King,
M*A*S*H,
Memento,
Midnight Run,
My Cousin Vinny,
Mystery Men,
Office Space,
Once,
Pan's Labyrinth,
Papillon,
Planes Trains & Automobiles,
The Producers,
The Professional,
Ray,
The Ref,
The Royal Tenenbaums,
Rushmore,
Sahara (Bogey),
The Sand Pebbles,
Saving Silverman,
Saving Private Ryan,
The Science of Sleep,
Shawshank Redemption,
Sneakers,
This is Spinal Tap,
Stripes,
Swingers,
The Taking of Pelham 123,
Usual Suspects,
Wristcutters: A Love Story,
Young Frankenstein,
Zulu
Television
Battlestar Galactica, lots o' ESPN, The Daily Show, Inside the Actor's Studio, The Office, Rescue Me, Scrubs, Six Feet Under, Sunday Morning Shootout
Books
Footprints of God, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Before you Quit your Job, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Everyday Tao, Baseball and Philosophy, Danny the Champion of the World, American Gods, Pride of Carthage, The Tao of Pooh, The Guns of the South, Harry Potter, The Pleasure of my Company, anything by Roald Dahl, Lloyd Alexander, Dan Brown, Douglas Adams, Terry Brooks, Stephen King (IT!), HP Lovecraft
About me: If you asked me what I do for a living and I had to give one answer I'd say I'm a voiceover talent. BUT I also act, write, and produce. When I'm not doing all that stuff I spend time with my friends, watch indie films, read, go to the occasional bar/club/concert/party, and keep my eyes open so I don't get hit by flying debris.
Who I'd like to meet: Be interesting, be enlightened, and be able to laugh at yourself.
To the non-spammers who want to be a part of my universe; please send me a message before a Friend Invite. Thanks!
Great... Still in town, married, kids, working my ass off to pay the man... Funny thing.. Both my kids have Mr Reed for music at Knollwood.. Small world huh???
It has been years! Are you counting?? I think it's 15!! Yikes. Well, how's life? How is the voice biz? We have a friend in the city who does voice overs and has his own studio. He seems to do well.
I don't make it back to Elmwood Park much these days. Grew up there but haven't lived there since high school.
Hey Tom, congratulations on the article, that's great! I hope you're doing well. I plan to start recording with ETS again soon. Tyler can certainly do the car ride down to NJ, he'll just sleep :)
