CREATING KARMA is about: Poetry, sitar, ukelele, gay lifestyle, straight lifestyle, fashion, actors, dancers, bellydancing, water birth, Woodstock, Borscht Belt, New York City, Lower East Side, punk, sing-a-longs, folk music, East Village, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Kali, karma, rock music, pop, designer coffee, gentrification, Bear Mountain, upstate New York, theater, musicians, daisies, mandrake, Washington Square, Central Park, street vendors, dog walkers, hats, shopping, models, London, Baden Baden, French Riviera, creative writing, turbans, hula hoops, therapy, yoga, nutrition, vegetarians, lattes, nuns, rabbis, podiatry, sunglasses, tofu, puppets, cafes, massage, dry cleaning, stand up, ice cream, lollipops
CREATING KARMA supporters: film festivals, filmmakers, film magazines, film reviewers, distribution companies, film, cable and tv companies, dvd companies, fans of cast members who are known from other films or bands (check out a full cast list of who's in the film on our website), poetry lovers, fans of wacky, screwball comedies, fans of John Waters films and comedy genre films, stoners, vegetarians, new-age advocates and their enemies, fans of sixties nostalgia, fans of Starbucks and coffee haters...this is a film that appeals to an age range twenties to sixties and features a proudly diverse cast and story that will appeal to the gay/lesbian community and straight as well, african-american, jewish and urban audience
CREATING KARMA features a score by Joel Diamond (scored The Believer, Milarepa, Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis; toured as keys for Graham Parker and others) and featured songs by Jill Wisoff (score/songs Welcome to the Dollhouse, toured as bass player for Johnny Thunders, bass player for Johnny Black) Joel Diamond, Johnny Black, Andru Cann and Craig Backel...you can hear Jill playing sitar (quite questionably but it could be interpreted as creative) and ukelele in the film.
The making of CREATING KARMA was influenced by the following movies: Peter Sellers' THE PARTY, PILLOW TALK, the colors of Bollywood, the fashion of THE BIRDS and ANNIE HALL, the staging of LOLITA, the vibe of WOODSTOCK, the documentary. CREATING KARMA is most often compared to: The wacky cult comedies of John Waters, the New York comedies of Woody Allen, screwball comedies of the fifties and sixties.FAVORITE MOVIES! Here are some!Johnny Stecchino The Best of Everything 8 1/2 North by Northwest Pillow Talk The Birds Bridget Jones Diary Arthur Mildred Pierce Magnificent Obsession Bladerunner Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Seventh Seal La Strada Breakfast at Tiffanys Niagara Giant Gone With The Wind The Wizard of Oz French Kiss Groundhog Day Please Don't Eat the Daisies That Touch of Mink The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis) Dog Day Afternoon Analyze This Zoolander All About Eve Working Girl Mean Streets
CREATING KARMA hopes to get broadcast on comedy central, public television, public access, romance, HGTV, the cooking channel, animal planet, CNN, WE, lifetime for women, ifc, Sundance channel, mtv, ifc, hbo, cinemax, TBS, TCM, showtime, abc, nbc, cbs, playboy and all the subsidiaries of these and 1000 other television stations I haven't mentioned in the US and all territories outside the US. I'm sure we're the perfect fit for all.Anyone selling a satellite?
CREATING KARMA recommends the following books, writers and iota to prepare yourself for your first CREATING KARMA screening: Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Woody Allen's new book whatever the hell it's called, Edgar Rice Burrough's Pellucidar series, Emily Dickinson, William Burroughs, Mad Magazine, the Fall Paris Vogue issue, High Times, Rolling Stone, Titus Andronicus, the back of a cracker jacks box, Pinocchio, the Declaration of Independence, a Jack and Jill magazine, Gravity's Rainbow, Atlas Shrugged, 10 Nancy Drew mysteries....and oh yes...review Through the Looking Glass. There will be a quiz.
Never forgotten:Kent Sidon the great visionary classical guitar teacherAlex (Adrian) Rusoff, amazing Roumanian jazz guitar teacher who impacted all he taughtChuck (Charles) Carter, talented friend and music arranger for Creatures of the Night, the group Ernest Kohl and I formed back in the the years as musical director, conductor and during the summers we worked together at Gateway Playhouse. Chuck, as well as his roommates Jeff (set designer) and Bobo (actor) were among the first of dozens from our theater company who succumbed to AIDS, personal friends all. The sadness of it all convinced me to leave the theater and put my efforts into working with bands for a long time.Steve Burgh, legendary guitarist, producer extraordinaire whose passing inspired me to throw caution to the wind and make this film...when you're close to someone who had everything and lived fearlessly as an artist, risking at times his personal comfort, livelihood and security to take that next step...it's humbling and a wake up call that we only live once...if you're going to do something in this life, waiting is a waste of time...you can't take any of it with you anyway...so you might as well just go ahead and MAKE THE FILM WHILE YOU CAN!Johnny (Genzale) Thunders, the funniest guy and most sensitive, most exasperating, a brother...r.i.p.