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About Me

born and raised in the beach city suburbs of los angeles, i grew up under the influence of music, literature, and fine arts. my exposure to all things creative indubiously led to my eventual career aspiration of filmmaker, combining my love for music, photography, and storytelling. after graduating from high school, i uprooted myself and moved to new york city where i would attend new your university's reknowed film program at tisch school of the arts, which shortly thereafter proved to be completely overrated and overpriced. i continued my film studies at the new york film academy in universal city, california, and realized that no matter how much i loved the energy and spirit of new york city, socal will always be home.
i studied for 2 years at the playhouse west school and repertory theatre in north hollywood in hopes of perfecting my craft of directing actors. there, i produced 2 plays.
now i belong to FUSION film and theatre arts company, where i made my stage directing debut with an acclaimed 3 month run of Eric Bogosian's subUrbia at the Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center in 2007.
currently, i am making my feature film debut with a mockumentary tentatively titled "You, Only Better..." Check out the NEWEST TRAILER:
Also, I am producing Havok Theatre Company's Los Angeles Intimate Theatre Premiere of "Kiss of the Spider Woman The Musical", now playing at the Bootleg Theatre. For more info/to buy tickets, please go to www.havoktheatre.com. Check out the trailer:
AIM me: nouse4anwfndglry.

My Interests

film, music, theatre, cooking, travel, skydiving, photography, dreams, sports, reading, writing, dining, wining, foreign languages, cheese, exercise, pilates, yoga...

I'd like to meet:

Our forefathers.

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Music:

radiohead, cat stevens, rilo kiley, neutral milk hotel, elliott smith, w.a. mozart, coldplay, sufjan stevens, bright eyes, the boy who trapped the sun, spoon, elton john, the polyphonic spree, refused, no use for a name, the beatles, the arcade fire, broken social scene, the mars volta, of montreal, sea wolf, matt costa, the dears, simon and garfunkel, damien rice, ozma, the shins, cold war kids, sondre lerche, james taylor, andrew bird, cat power, midnight movies, blonde redhead, soKo, the killers, l.c.d. soundsystem, the divine comedy, the (international) noise conspiracy, death cab for cutie, M.I.A., alexi murdoch, pedro the lion, modest mouse, band of horses, silversun pickups, badly drawn boy, andrew bird, jenny lewis and the watson twins, glassjaw, finch, the postal service, nick drake, between the buried and me, foo fighters, muse, gUiLLeMoTs, SoftLightes and SHOWTUNES...to be continued...

Movies:

Rushmore, Harold and Maude, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Juno, Magnolia, Batman Begins, Amores Perros, Brokeback Mountain, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, The Departed, Mystic River, Mallrats, Amadeus, Little Miss Sunshine, The Lord of the Rings, 21 Grams, Fight Club, In America, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Adaptation, Punch-Drunk Love, Almost Famous, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Blood Simple., Raising Arizona, The Goodfellas, American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, Mean Girls, Sideways, About Schmidt, Election, The Royal Tenenbaums, Once, Half Nelson...

the list grows on...

Television:

boston legal, scrubs, nip/tuck, six feet under, the office, lost, daria, arrested development, curb your enthusiasm, flight of the conchords, extras

Books:

john steinbeck [east of eden, of mice and men, the pearl, etc.], kurt vonnegut [slaughterhouse-five, breakfast of champions, slapstick, cat's cradle, etc.], charles bukowski [ham on rye, women, south of no north, etc.], jd salinger [catcher in the rye, franny and zooey, nine stories], ayn rand [the fountainhead, anthem, atlas shrugged], f. scott fitzgerald [this side of paradise, the great gatsby], dave eggers [a heartbreaking work of staggering genius], bret easton ellis [american psycho, the rules of attraction], chuck palahniuk [invisible monsters, choke, etc.], pat conroy [the prince of tides], ernest hemingway [the old man and the sea, for whom the bell tolls, etc], john irving [the world according to garp], judith guest [ordinary people], jack kerouac [on the road], donald bartheleme [sixty stories, forty stories, etc.), mcsweeney's,

Heroes:

bruce wayne, david mamet, christopher guest, louis sacher

My Blog

day 4 on my deathbed...

feeling a little better, gathering my energy to break out into the world today. project gaining momentum. don't want my health to be an issue. it wont be! with my cocktail of antibiotics, tylenol,...
Posted by The April on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:58:00 PST

Greetings from Utah...

Hello Friends!So I've been in SLC/Park City, Utah for the last 3 days and it's been quite the experience. Here is some photo evidence from my trip...words will follow at a later date...I fucked this ...
Posted by The April on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:09:00 PST

new year, new forecasts...

two thousand seven ended without denouement, unsatisfying like an interrupted dream...the new year brings new motivation and urgency to accomplish, as always. i despise that the fourth digit increase...
Posted by The April on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:34:00 PST

SubUrbia - director's blog - part one

I've decided to keep a blog about my trials and tribulations during my stage directorial debut of the play SubUrbia.So finally, casting is complete! We had our first full cast (minus Wesley) read-thr...
Posted by The April on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:56:00 PST

another new year, no rain...and maybe tomato soup?

I truly cannot believe it is 2007. 2006 slipped through my fingers like sand and when it came time to say good bye i was too buzzed to care. usually i get depressed in the final seconds of a year, b...
Posted by The April on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:58:00 PST

My first noise complaint!!!!

so i've been awake for a little more than an hour now and am slowly piecing together the puzzle that was last night...i just remembered that shortly before i passed out, there was a knock at the door ...
Posted by The April on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:44:00 PST

diary of a future has-been

part one.I'm all dressed up with nowhere to go. The kitchen clock illuminates 11:07; I check my phone for the 347th time. With each passing moment comes the threat of spending another night alone in...
Posted by The April on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:04:00 PST

slip-up of conscience...............

Last night, I told a girl whom I had never met and never talked to that, in my opinion, hicks are generally uneducated and have poor perspective on the world outside their own. However, she, being a ...
Posted by The April on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:53:00 PST

cold/fearful/alone

Awoken coldDark winter morning threatensTo cling on incessantlyLike a scorned lover who refuses to go homeAwoken fearfulOf last night's black dreamI reach around under the coversLooking for someone, s...
Posted by The April on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:18:00 PST

Updated from Interlaken!!!

Hey all, so......I left Munich and visited Keigo in Copenhagen...then I swung by Kohln, Germany and Brussels, Belgium and ended up in Paris for 3 nights. Which were all cool, but I want to get t...
Posted by The April on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:04:00 PST