producer, writer, director, film distributor, film festival curator
distributing independent culture, Ipanema and Morjim, exploring the world, movies, good music with tricky bass
crazy creative dreamers + doers, a muse, leaders, lovers not haters, Deep the indian Oompa-Loopma, kim gordon, johnny depp, wong kar-wai, good editors and sound people. anyone who hates bush and is doing something about it or at least has a cool sticker.
gimme summa that bass, tabla maestros, the cure, sonic youth, hip-hop from LA to NY to South Africa, Chuck D, zakir hussain + tito puente live in '96, nitin sawhney, Lal, karsh kale, ADF, talvin, suphala, death cab for cutie, postal service, iron & wine, descendents, zero7, mobb deep, the roots, common, badu, tupac, madras philharmonic, gang starr, ceelo/gnarls barkley, jean grae, gilberto, m-rock, midieval punditz, kollectiv, dhamaal, cuban big band, pete rock & c.l. smooth "reminisce", telepopmusik, bjork, saul williams, sascha & digweed, brazillian house, teresa cristina, roy ayers, Eternal Sunshine soundtrack
resfest, rotoscope, long lenses, almodovar, gondry, gus van sant, eternal sunshine, chungking express, in the mood for love, 80s teen flicks, the wayans brothers, film four, canal plus, olivier assayas, michel gondry, hiroshima mon amour, when harry met sally, a.r. rahman + mani ratnam, edgy new shorts, north african movies, bollywood, merchant ivory, city of god, kubrick, amelie, beckham, music videos, chris cunningham, wild style, y tu mama tambien, black orpheus, mr & mrs iyer, kundun, jim jarmusch, freestyle, monsoon wedding, pulp fiction, todd haynes, peter weir
project runway, chappelle show, daily show, sex & the city, hbo films
the black album (hanif kureishi), cuban short stories, life is not all ha ha hee hee (meera syal), faulkner, toni morrison, babyji, ravi shankar's autobiography, the indie film expose' "down and dirty pictures", principal photography, the 1st amendment, j.d. salinger, anything by nelson george, dr. seuss, plays, books about art, biographies.......
charismatic leaders and artists with soul, wonder woman, kalpana chawla, charlie kaufman, maya deren, spike jonze, bjork, christopher doyle, pablo neruda, chuck d, gertrude stein, ravi shankar, gandhi, people working for peace