movies, music, books, watching MySpace pet videos (it's my reality TV), making baby Jesus cry, staying up late, waking up early without an alarm clock, sleeping in and spilling my brain out onto the world wide web. Witness below...
The Kills, Frightened Rabbit, My Morning Jacket, Cold War Kids, The Swell Season, The National, Prince, Cafe Tacuva, M.I.A., Neko Case, Camera Obscura, Every Move a Picture, Brakes, Feist, Beth Orton, The Chalets, Hurra Torpedo, Annie, Radio 4, Editors, KT Tunstall, Radiohead, Beck, Le Tigre, Ryan Adams, Outkast, Aimee Mann, Bill Fox, Beck, The Streets, Tom Waits, Black Keys, White Stripes, Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse, U2, Frou Frou, Ladytron, The Shins, The Police, The Beatles, Metallica (old stuff), Guns N' Roses, El-P, Aesop Rock, Gomez, Jem, Flaming Lips, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Doves, Wilco, Dizzee Rascal, Interpol, Joseph Arthur, Badly Drawn Boy, Dover, Coldplay, Travis, Johnny Cash, Pulp, Massive Attack, Portishead, Liz Phair, Peter Gabriel, Remy Zero, Neil Finn, Bjork, DJ Shadow, The Pixies, Muse, The Killers, Velvet Revolver, Stephin Merritt, Kid Lightning, Goldfrapp, Public Enemy, Control Machete, TV on the Radio, RJD2, Queens of the Stone Age, Nine Inch Nails, Hot Hot Heat, Magnetic Fields, Ween
Movies
Raging Bull, Aliens, Raising Arizona, Chunking Express, No Country for Old Men, Juno, Super Bad, No Country for Old Men, Atonement, Juno, Pan's Labyrinth, High Fidelity, Morven Callar, Children of Men, The Verdict, Pieces of April, Blood Simple, La Strada, Sweet Smell of Success, The Saddest Music in the World, Le Samourai, Boogie Nights, The Virgin Spring, Rushmore, Roger Dodger, 8 1/2, Secretary, Fargo, Magnolia, Star Maps, Hard Eight, Suture, Cat People (original), Point Blank, Leone Westerns, Last of the Mohicans (Dir. Mann), Heat, Sixth Sense, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Abre Los Ojos, Seven Samurai, The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Manhattan, In the Mood for Love, Talk to Her, About a Boy, Sideways, Maria Full of Grace, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 12 Monkeys, Shallow Grave, After Life, just about everything by Stanley Kubrick, Adaptation, Trainspotting, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Peeping Tom, OldBoy, GoodFellas.
Television
The Simpsons, Sports Night, Flight of the Conchords, The Office (BBC), West Wing, Family Guy, Music Videos (not MTV), Futurama, Auqa Teen Hunger Force, Veronica Mars, Battlestar Galactica (the new one rocks!), Nip/Tuck, Heroes, 30 Days, Blade (don't look at me that way, it's really fun).
Books
The Stranger changed my life, Lolita is the most beautifully written book I've ever read--what else can break your heart and make you feel so dirty in a single sentence, The Winter of Our Discontent, The Once and Future King, Catch 22, Trainspotting, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, Kitchen Confidential, currently reading Glue by Irvine Welsh.
Heroes
My mom or maybe Sam Fuller (and not just because he carried a gun).
University Of California-Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz,California
Graduated: 1970
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Film & Video Production
Minor: Modern Literature
1960 to 1970
Loyola High School
Los Angeles,California
Graduated: 1960
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
About me: Born & raised in LA. Lover of music, movies & great places to eat. Am willing to jump out of a plane, camp or ski -- yes, it's true, I've never been camping or skiing. I am an authentic LA city boy. Love going to baseball games but I'm not a sports nut. I've been in one high speed chase. I've been shot at twice but they only got me once. Leo DiCaprio once stepped on my foot then tried to run me over with his BMW. I trust my instinct (and it's always right). When I'm wrong, I admit it. Way too honest. Workaholic: currently I help dancers and ethnographers with their videos, I consult on post-production issues for documentaries, I make sure your digital cinema going experience is excellent, I write for the movies (which really means I rewrite), I am teaching myself how to make & maintain my own web page, I'm blogging about movies and music. I am always shooting short films, I run a summer movie club, I run a writing group (and a tight ship) and soon I will direct a feature length film... but first I gotta get this short out of the way. Anything else? Ask.
Here's a sample of my work. Don't judge it too harshy (I had a couple of six-packs in me when cameras rolled).
Who I'd like to meet: Bizzaro Tony, an Italian actress, a great tax accountant, talented folk, people that do what they say, Jack Black, the cop that let me go, Axl Rose, the ghost of Rick James, the girl in the hot pants, Tony Jaa (oh wait, I did meet him), the RZA (oh wait, met him too), Martin Scorsese (yeah, we met but we need to talk), someone who likes peanut butter and chocolate as much as I do.
So I figured we could add a little MySpace comment tag to the phone tag and email tag we've already got going...just to switch it up a bit. My producing partner is out of town until Monday, so I will probably call you mid-week with more info about the project. YAY, TONY!!!
memory about Tony...let's see...it's midnight...we're in high school...none of us are 18...wanna go to Tijuana?....sure! what the fuck!....3 1/2 hours later... not paying to take the toll road to rosarito...big mistake....passing out in the car right next to the Rosarito Beach Hotel...
Tony, thanks to your wise advice I now have the most beautiful computer ever. I am in love. And soon we celebrate your birthday!!! This week is a good one :)
