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As you may deduce from the playlist of music above (which is mostly NOT my work), I love listening to and working with all types of music that is played with heart & soul and has its own unique signature. I love flying and am an active instrument rated private pilot for 30+ years. I fly my own plane and have been known to jump out of them, mainly as a way to experience true 'free flight' with no strings attached (and to 'drop in' on the occasional BBQ)! I prefer flying privately and relish the challenge of stunt flying in particular. I love fast, tight cars, big dogs and most animals (though I am decidedly more cautious of the human variety). I also love sushi, Italian food, furniture, shoes, clothes & their ladies (although I married an amazing Ukrainian lady!). Both Italian and German cars and motorcycles, Italian, Swiss and American airplanes. Italian, French and Spanish painters and sculptors; great art, great wine, great herb, home made Vodka (Popuchka's), warm sandy beaches, positive people!

Any and ALL that is truly inspired and well performed (not typed and/or auto-tuned to death), with an honest 'signature', regardless of "genre"! When it comes to my working on music, I must quote my dear friends in 311, "Cut the BULLSHIT, it's Time to Throw Down!"

Since our moods are dynamic and in a fluid state of shift, not unlike the weather, I am not stuck on any genre... we must have a thousand DVD's already. However, I have always thought that "Producer" is a misnomer as it is commonly applied in the music business and creates confusion as to exactly what the job description of 'Producer' means, especially from the perspective of a consumer. Think: 'as a Director to a film' to clear up any confusion of 'Producer' as it applies to music. Just as I am drawn to certain 'directors' in the "music producer" business, in the world of cinema I find that I am drawn in a similar fashion to the works of a select few that are reliably consistent, dependably creative, innovative types who always manage to deliver the highest quality of timeless ART and therefore deservedly achieve their place in history. This caliber of film Director includes (in no particular order) Stanley Kubrick, Orson Wells, Alfred Hitchcock, Ridly Scott, Francis Ford Coppola & his gifted progeny Sofia, Elia Kazan, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Roman Polanski, Quintin Tarentino, Kurasawa, Andrew Blake, Michelle Gondry and Michael Moore to mention a few.

Such a powerful window on our world, such a bleak landscape; misused and abused, polluted and raped... but, having said that, there are a few 'dependables' such as The Simpsons, South Park, Bill Maher, Discovery HD, National Geographic HD, HD Net, Science HD, History, The Weather Station, Court TV. The American news stations are pretty much just "current event oriented" entertainment with blinders on to the rest of the world.

Mixerman, God is Not Great (How Religion Poisons Everything), Super Model by David Breskin, Tibetian Book of the Dead, Challenger - A Major Malfunction (A True Study of Politics and Greed), There is a River, The 12th Planet by Zecharia Sitchin, Aristotle, Stephan Hawking, Aesop, Satre, Dylan Thomas, Darwin, Hunter Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, Lewis Carroll, Shakespeare, Dante, Charles Dickens, Chaucer, Herman Melville, Orson Welles, William S. Burroughs, Samuel Becket, Albert Camus, Allen Ginsberg, J. R. R. Tolkien, and several others...

Leonardo DaVinci, Galileo, Sir Issac Newton, Willy Shakespeare, Nikola Tesla, Tom Edison, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Chuck Yeager, Burt Rutan, John Lennon, Salvador Dali, Rupert Neve, Quincy Jones, Geoff Emerick, Tom Dowd, Che Guvera, Stephan Hawkins, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Richard Branson...