Documentary filmmaker. Musician. Xenophile.
This is the trailer for the latest film I've worked on, Beyond Belief
above all: travel, adventure, film, music, art, improvisation, truth.
more specifically: producing documentaries (my job), playing guitar (my love) and sitar (my escape), road trips, backpacking, surfing, photography, New Zealand, watching people, collecting musical instruments, humanitarian relief, writing, airports, trains, chaos, aimlessness, India, philosophy, light, sitting on top of mountains, laughing at everything.
travelers, musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers, poets and philosophers, drifters and dreamers, wanderers, seekers, freaks and misfits, eccentrics, degenerates, radicals, revolutionaries, and all those not yet consumed by American consumerism, corrupted by post-modern alienation, or lost in adolescent anomie... "the only people for me are the mad ones..."
Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Nick Drake, Bob Marley, Iron and Wine, Wilco, The Shins, The Decemberists, M. Ward, Sufjan Stevens, Jenee Halstead, Leah Siegel, Laura Veirs, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, MMW, Phish, String Cheese Incident, Zero, Bela Fleck, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Creedence, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Neil Young, The Who, Van Morrison, Velvet Underground, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Fela Kuti, Manu Chao, Ravi Shankar, Paco de Lucia, virtually all forms of "world music"... AND MUCH MUCH MORE!!!
The Graduate, Rear Window, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chinatown, Harold and Maude, Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Slacker, Waking Life, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Garden State, American Beauty, Sideways, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, Don't Look Back, Iraq in Fragments, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros, City of God, Maria Full of Grace, Gandhi, Koyaanisqatsi, Requiem for a Dream, Magnolia, Apocalypse Now, Satyajit Ray's "Apu" trilogy, almost everything by Bergman, Tarkovsky's "Mirror"
Generally I boycott TV, but when I do watch it's usually Family Guy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show, The Simpsons, Ali G, South Park... and for documentaries nothing beats Frontline on PBS.
Kerouac, Ginsberg, Vonnegut, Don DeLillo, Hunter Thompson, Joan Didion, Eric Fromm, Thoreau, Whitman, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Steven Dunn, Tess Gallagher
I've never really thought about myself as having "heroes", but if I could, I'd like to have a fraction of Mahatma Gandhi's wisdom, Albert Einstein's intelligence, John Coltrane's spirit, Bob Dylan's poetry, Ravi Shankar's longevity, Ansel Adams' eye, Jack Kerouac's freedom, Terry Gilliam's imagination, and the cast of Monty Python's sense of humor. Alan Watts is pretty cool too.