progressive politics, fencing, falling off my skateboard, anthropomorphized hot dogs, and frotteurism.
Music
Dead Kennedys, Dead Milkmen, Descendents, The Bouncing Souls, The Pop Narcotic, The Sex Pistols, Black Flag, Black Fag, Beastie Boys, Weird Al Yankovic, Bang Sugar Bang, Pu$$y-Cow, Minor Threat, Midway, Roy Zimmerman, NoFX, SCREECHING WEASEL, Public Enemy, The Go-Go's, Pantera, Wesley Willis, Operation Ivy, Play Pretty for Baby, Josie Cotton, 7Seconds, Black Train Jack, Underwater City People, The Specials, Fugazi, Digger, Walter Krug, Sloppy Seconds, Rage Against The Machine, Skid Row, Poison, Guns n' Roses, N.W.A., Run DMC, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Violent Femmes, Weston, Fear, Anti-Flag, Lesley Gore, and TREEPHORT. Every other band in the world sucks.
Movies
Delicatessen, Ed Wood, Rear Window, Swingers, The Jerk, Chicken Run, Dr. Strangelove, The Godfather, Do You Remember: 15 Years of The Bouncing Souls, Better Off Dead, From Dusk 'Til Dawn, Gleaming The Cube, Ticks, Red Dawn, Tango & Cash, Student Bodies, The Filth and the Fury, Bullets Over Broadway, Clambake, Pump Up The Volume, Clockwork Orange, Austin Powers, The Karate Kid, Dogtown and Z-Boys, This Is Spinal Tap, anything Monty Python, anything Pixar, anything Coen brothers, anything TODD SOLONDZ, anything Michael Moore, and anything involving Jean-Claude Van Damme in any way.
Television
is my drug.
Books
If you haven't read Motley Crue's "The Dirt," you have yet to understand what a "book" really is. Also recommend: Lies My Teacher Told Me, Rotten, Please Kill Me, Fast Food Nation, All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger, America: The Book, Everything You Know Is Wrong, Get In The Van, and anything by James Joyce, John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, or Al Franken.
Artists
Shepard Fairey, Rene Magritte, Mark Ryden, Charles Krafft, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Robert Williams, Banksy, Ron English, Space Invader, Winston Smith, Shawn Wolfe, Glen E. Friedman
University Of Southern California
Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Writing for Screen and Television
as some of you may know, in september of 2006, i boarded a plane bound for rio de janeiro with the members of NOFX. my friend ryan and i had been hired to do a documentary about the band, since they had planned a year's worth of touring to the few corners of the earth that they had never been.
the itinerary included stops in brazil, chile, ecuador, argentina, peru, colombia, australia, new zealand, japan, south korea, china, taiwan, the philippines, malaysia, indonesia, russia, bulgaria, romania, hungary, turkey, israel, and south africa, among others. it was going to be an interesting year...
within the first 2 weeks, we had already filmed more than enough footage to make a riveting feature-length documentary. so fat mike from NOFX came up with the idea of pitching the documentary as a tv series, and, after much convincing, Fuse TV actually went for it.
the show is called "NOFX: Backstage Passport" and it will be on the air starting on TUESDAY, APRIL 15th at 10pm ET!
we finished the last leg of touring in november and i've been living in new york since the end of january, executive producing the show. we've managed to squeeze the best moments from 16 or 17 countries down into 8 half-hour episodes and we're really excited with how they're coming out!
we premiered the first two episodes of the show at this year's SXSW Film Festival and the response was amazing! we'll hopefully be having an LA premiere screening before the show hits the air so keep your eyes peeled for that as well...!
i know i'm biased, but i really think you will like our tv show. by no means is it "just another band reality show." after the first few episodes were done, the co-executive producer we've been working with actually said "i've never seen anything like this on television before." we went through some CRAZY shit during our travels and i really think people are going to freak out when they see some of the footage. (everyone we've been showing rough cuts to has freaked out already...)
i don't want to give away too much about the surprises each episode holds in store, but check out the trailer below to get just a small hint of what the show will look like and to get a taste of the characters involved. and please re-post it and forward it around to anyone you think might be interested! if the show does well, maybe we'll get to do another season and finally get to antarctica!
Funny, someone already told me they would like to see myself and her mud wrestle. I pray we dont have to drown ourselves in the sugar of sorrow like 4 years ago. Nope, not happening. We must fight - and if you need to videotape it, so be it. I want half the profits.
Thanks man I appreciate it. We need to hang out again sometime soon. Maybe Tim, Jordan and I will come down for a show or something, even though you probably will be busy we could probably work something out.
Happy Birthday!! In spite of all the crazy work we need to do, please keep in mind that on your birthday I'm pretty much required to do anything you ask. .....This could work out rather poorly for me. But so long as you have a good day.. :)
Add a new blog and let us know what you're up to! Hey, did you know that there are at least three dudes in LA who look just like you? I saw this guy in little Tokyo who I considered waving at and saying, "When's Black Fag playing tonight?!"
rad, dude. you rocker types sure pick the best places to melt your glands off. its a sauna out here. :/ be sure to tour in an ice cream truck. (with optional ninja turtle gumball ice cream, of course.)
Dude, I can't!! I'm spending most of the summer in NYC (going back to the Insub Fest again too this year) and will have returned to Europe again like 2 weeks prior to that Chicago show!! Not to mention it's 2 days after my classes start again! I am so bummed out about this! Especially since Ben already played a show in Chicago last month that I couldn't go to!!! Grrr... BUT I have it on good authority that there'll be more opportunities in the future. :) I'm jealous and hate you a little at the moment that you get to go, but am also happy for you!! Haha, what a good friend I am!!
Any chance you'll be on the East coast this summer again too?
Hey, Haven't gotten to talk to you in a bit, hope that everything is rosy! I am thinking about doing some more of these cupcake parties, so as soon as I get to the point of being able to actually pay guarantees you're number one on my list! I miss you!!!!
Hey, saw a few episodes of the NOFX thing yesterday. Good stuff. It looks like you all have a lot of fun despite the setbacks. Those Chinese kids know how to mosh better than anybody!
I know you're gonna get a lot of comments about the show this week, and I'll be damned if I don't get mine in. I just want to say that:
1. you are the best. 2. I'm so, so proud 3. congratulations 4. don't sweat the small stuff, the show is awesome. 5. I'm so glad I met you. (3 years later, I know.. I'm sure I've mentioned this before) 6. Black Fag in 2008: Don't Stop til' you get Enough tour 7. This Space for Rent.. I'm out of stuff to say. :)
point the first: thanks for putting me on that crazy list last night
point the second: wasn't that show awesome?!?!? I haven't seen them play a show that intimate since 1995 at the troubadour and that was for PUNK IN DRUBLIC!
point the third: your show kicked ass. it is well edited and a laugh a minute. if i had cable, it would be must-see tv. now it is just wait for the dvd-see tv but that is a compliment. it shares space with such classics as freaks and geeks, loony tunes and the shield. i think even non-nofx fans would find this highly entertaining and hilarious.
point the fourth: i am so fucking pissed that i forgot to get you a giant congrats card. i totally suck. one day, i will get you this item to complete one of my favorite straight edge jokes.
point the fifth: ironically, all straight edge people know all the words to every reggae song ever written. In fact, Revelation Records used to test their bands straight-edge hood by making them recite whole buju banton records.
