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Simon Hilton

I wanted a mission and for my sins they gave me one.

About Me

The Beatles: 'Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows'
More about me:
I am a film director and editor with a musical ear.
I specialise in music videos, documentaries and concerts.
I am a Maguffin .
I love mix tapes, sushi, sunshine and hammocks. Preferably at the same time.
I think in cartoons. polyrhythms and dyslexic subtitles.
I'm usually in London, somewhere. I love Paris and New York too.
I spend a lot of time flying while I'm asleep.
I write an occasional blog called Café del Nightmare .
Sometimes I take photos. There's a few here
"Oh dear, I think we've lost him..."
(I'm probably looking at:-)
Boing Boing , RockMother , Michael Moore , NewScientist , TruthOut , Fortean Times , James Randi , Visual Thesaurus , BBC News , Lost Links , Music Box , Futurismo Zugakousaku , Daniel Eatock , David Shrigley , Apple Insider , Movie Trailers , Kircher Society , Banksy , Supergrass , Stella Im Hultberg , The Daily Script , Jan Svankmajer , Spike Lee Joints , Who Owns What , Ecotonoha , Amaztype , Wish , Hoogerbrugge , Edutopia , Kubrick , Film Sizes , Fontifier , Seven Camels , LeoGeo , Les Paul , Icons & Screensavers , Movie Trailers , Storm Thorgerson , Foo FIghters , Robert Anton Wilson , Chopin , The Black Crowes , Great Uncle Jack , John Lennon Museum , UbuWeb , Beatle PhotoBlog , Hoax Museum , TV Cream , Nipple , Magnets , Bob Gruen , Robert Anton WIlson , BFI NFT , Milk & Cookies , Population , NASA , Björk , Google Earth , Google Everything , Timeline , Little People , Yoko Ono news , Streetmap , 192.com , FWA , Daring Fireball , Version Tracker , BA Seat Plans , Richie Havens , Robot Pencil Sharpener , Albert Bridge , Asteroids , There is No War On Terror , Defender , Whitehouse , Lizard Skin Boots , Stetson , Andrew Catlin , Perfect Day , Rhyming Dictionary , Tate Modern , Authentic Pilates , Garry Trainer , Bob Schneider , London Weather , New York Weather , Times Square Webcam , Savant , Terry Gilliam , Watchmen , Annotations , Ain't-It-Cool-News , Moonlighting , Momoco , Nick Drake , UK TV , Watchmen , Jackson Pollocks , Pandora , The 9 , Drawn! , Sundance , PhotoMuse , JumpCut , Wolfgang's Vault , Podcast Pickle , Fact Check , How Stuff Works , Genes Reunited , Live Plasma , TMZ , Dalai Lama , Human Clock , Lost 3 Spoilers , Elsewhere 1 , 2 , 911 on 911 , Steel & Fire , WMD , Kevin Barrett 1 , 2 , 3 , Loose Change , Flight 93 , CFSM , Warming , Corpse Bride , Fantastic Planet rescored , Monster Road , Lost In La Mancha , BootStar

My Interests

Magritte, Escher, Van Gogh, Rothko, Klimpt, Ono, Dali, Gaugin, Hockney, Kadinsky, Oldenburg, Maciunas, Banksy.

I'd like to meet:

Everyone. If we have time. I'll put the kettle on.

Music:

Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon & Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, George Harrison, Shane Nicholson, Ray LaMontagne, Joe Cocker, Jack Johnston, Norah Jones, Anoushka Shankar, Corinne Bailey Rae, Ed Harcourt, Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, Doobie Brothers, Shena Ringo, Ben Folds, 1 Giant Leap, The Black Crowes, Led Zeppelin, Bob Schneider, CSN, Delakota, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, Medal, Ether, Relish, Antonio Forcione, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, the very mighty Supergrass, Sia, Naimee Coleman, Mel Gareh, Lucy Pullin, William Orbit, Day-vid Bowwwie, the fantastic Foo FIghters, and any Hawaiian slack key guitar music.

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Leon, Amelie, Kane, Baraka, The Big Blue, Blow Up, Contact, For All Mankind, The Right Stuff, Walk The Line, Spinal Tap, Best In Show...
Anything by Gilliam, Svankmayer, Scorsese, Caro, Hillcoat, Pixar, Hitchcock, Burton, Reiner, Parker & Stone.
Inner and Outer Space, exploring Everest, extraordinary goals, impossible dreams, indelible beauty, and flawed genius.

Television:

Screen Test, Moonlighting, The Professionals, The Prisoner, Tales of the Unexpected, Porridge, Only Fools and Horses, The Daily Show, Lost Series 3, X Factor auditions, Inside the Actors Studio, Black Books, Spaced, Nighty Night, South Park...

Books:

Ive been reading the Babylon books recently, Piers Morgan's 'The Insider' & re-reading Walter Murch 'Conversations'. I'd love to re-read 'Watchmen' as soon as I've got a week to spare.

Heroes:

Alan, Michael and Patrick Moore. Sean Connery.

My Blog

The Beatles: 'Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows' Music Video

Now exclusively available to view at www.beatles.com and here from YouTube: About the videoWorking in close association with Apple Corps, the main concept behind 'Within You Witho...
Posted by Simon Hilton on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:29:00 PST

Simon Hilton: Director & Editor: Credit List Aug 2006

MUSIC VIDEOS1 Giant Leap: Braided Hair (dir: 1 Giant Leap)AC/DC: Highway To Hell (Live at Donnington) (dir: David Mallett)AC/DC: T.N.T. (Live in Madrid) (dir: David Mallett)AC/DC: The Jack (Live in Ma...
Posted by Simon Hilton on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:23:00 PST

Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road

ReviewIn tonight's delightfully intimate "Great Performances" special on PBS, Paul McCartney holds a coffeehouse-style concert in Abbey Road studios - where he recorded not only his latest solo album,...
Posted by Simon Hilton on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:00:00 PST

Robbie WIlliams and Kylie Minogue: Kids

From our intimate nightclub, we curtain drop into the glamour of Vegas showgirls, light up staircases, a night of a million starlites, voluptuous vixens in cages, incredible Italian pole dancers, ligh...
Posted by Simon Hilton on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:53:00 PST

John Lennon: Lennon Legend DVD

ReviewsThis is one of the best music DVD's i've seen. Being a huge John lennon fan, this was the first time I ever saw his Top of the Pops performance of "Instant Karma".The "Mind Games" video really ...
Posted by Simon Hilton on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:17:00 PST

Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation in the Backyard DVD

DVD ReviewsThe special edition is a nice package as it comes with a DVD featuring a documentary on the making of Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. Paul and producer Nigel discuss the songs and the p...
Posted by Simon Hilton on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:33:00 PST

Supergrass is Ten DVD & A Home Movie documentary

ReviewsOnce you've sat through the in-depth, career-spanning documentary on disc two, it's hard to come to any conclusion other than being Supergrass is probably the most joyful job in the world.*****...
Posted by Simon Hilton on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:20:00 PST

Gumball 3000  What could possibly go wrong?

Somewhere in the Swiss Mountains, we are overtaken by a vintage 1964 Le Mans E-Type Jaguar doing at least 150 mph.It's June 1999, and I am directing a film about the very first Gumball 3000. A 5-day, ...
Posted by Simon Hilton on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:08:00 PST

How to get into directing music videos

HOW TO GET INTO DIRECTING MUSIC VIDEOS(I keep getting asked, so here goes...)Borrow a friend's camera and go out and film stuff. Constantly. Like music practise, but with film or video tape or whateve...
Posted by Simon Hilton on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:25:00 PST