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Thomas

Writer / Director

About Me

Autopyrotechnician for a convalescent home, Apple De-Wormer for a major cereal company, and Time Traveling Global Explorer for a secret society focused on saving the planet. Ok ok - I'm really a writer / director creating films in foreign languages for global social change through entertaining films.I'm currently in Sao Paulo, Brasil shooting a film. back in LA end of October 2007.******check out my personal web site for a 30 second clip of my latest work. www.thomashale.com******* Always looking for new bands needing great music films.Only those who risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go. So, if you do one thing today, do something that scares the shit out of you!

My Interests

Passionate people!!! I don't give a shit what you do as long as you are passionate about doing it!!! Filmmaking, music, science and technology, flying, snowboarding, world travel, new cultures, languages, renewable energy, fighting poverty, world peace.

I'd like to meet:

What typically grabs my attention are people similar enough to understand me but different enough to keep me thinking. People who bring curiosity, insight, and passion to bear on real world and philosophical issues. People not afraid to speak their minds and debate. New languages and cultures are a very big interest of mine. People who read, travel, love films, love music, open to anything new without second guessing...

Passionate people who want to impact the world with change. I'm very interested in doing this through humanistic yet entertaining stories which can be told in any language, in any culture, anywhere in the world. Films that move people and introduce them to new environments and cultures hoping to spark social change through entertaining films.

Lost travelers, people who want to change the world, deep characters, people with light emitting from their skulls, old souls, naked grocery shoppers, positive responsible accountable people, people who always do what they say they'll do. It's all in how one carries themselves, shaped by their life experiences.View All Friends | View Blog | Add Comment

Music:

anything downtempo, portaltheory.com (a little plug) Sigur Ros, Coldplay, Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Beatles, Radiohead, Ben Harper, Alpha, Morcheeba, Massive Attack, Bjork, Bowie, Mui, Breaking Benjamin, Stereolab, Hector Zazou, Underworld, Thievery Corporation, Bob Marley, Ramones ,Led Zep, Hendrix, David Bowie, Jack Johnson, Unkle, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Astrud Gilberto, Junio Barreto, Vanessa Falabella, Boards Of Canada, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Chris Whitley, Steadman, Snow Patrol, Simple Plan, Rachel's, Joss Stone, Zero 7, Tosca, Groove Armada, DJ Shadow, Prefuse 73, MC5, Strokes, Old Stones, death cab for cutie, The Sea and Cake, Forgotten Boys, The Postal Service, tool, Pinback, chilli peppers, Elbow, Maroon 5, U2, NIN, Hoobastank, Ravi Shankar, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Billy Holliday, Nina Simone, Gipsy Kings, Joao Gilberto, classical - Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Debussy, jazz, drum n bass, hard rock, alt rock - the list is toooo long....... basically everything that has a beat or makes my head bounce up and down - yours too...

Movies:

films:
i am cuba, Magnolia, Baran, Baraka, Blade Runner, Brazil, City of Lost Children, Eraserhead, amelie, Before Sunset, Royal Tennenbaums, 28 days later, behind the sun, American History X, amores perros, the city of gods (Cidade de Deus), Donnie Darko, punch drunk love, Lost in Translation, 21 grams, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Diários de motocicleta, Central Station, the Sea Inside, mostly foreign and indie films, the list goes on and on.......

Directors:
Francois Truffaut, Fernando Meirelles, Hitchcock, Andrei Tarkovski, Takashi Miike, Guy Ritchie, David Lynch, Akira Kurosawa, Terry Gilliam, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, Milos Forman

Television:

no time...

Books:

anything by Haruki Murakami, The Celestine Prophecy, The Da Vinci Code, anything by William S. Burroughs, Snow Crash, Guns Germs & Steel, Naked, The Kafka Effekt, Kurt Vonnegut, Fast Food Nation...

Heroes:

people who change the world