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Justin

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About Me

I'm someone who's always looking for the best in people - the best music, movies, books, design, and food to be found. I'm blessed to be surrounded by more unbelievably amazing people than anyone has a right to be. I get to do what I love for a living - design and music. Overall, I'm a very blessed individual.I'm a Web Developer by day and a Musician by night. I get to work with people I admire very much in both fields on some really great projects. I co-own a web development company in Hollywood, CA called Sonik Newmedia . I also co-founded a world-class recording studio called Sonikwire Studios in Irvine, CA.I've worked on some great records over the years, including records by Bryan Ingram, Kendall Payne, Steve Bertrand, Rie Sinclair, Trespassers William, and David Larring and the world's greatest band you've never heard of, Deep Mosey.I'm also a member of a great band called Cisco Kid . We've had an album mostly written for over a year, but we're just beginning to make our record called "The Ten Acts of the Vandals and Outlaws".
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My Interests

Music - both playing and listening, Modernism and Modern Design, Movies, Graphic Design, Architecture, Web Development, Flash Animation, I hate the word foodie but I am definitely one, Great Books

I'd like to meet:

Brian Eno, Bjork, Juliette Binoche, Gary Oldman, Thom Yorke, Douglas Coupland, Ralph Fiennes, Thomas Pynchon, Aretha Franklin

Music:

Doves, Elbow, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Beatles of Course, U2, Bjork, Broadcast, Blonde Redhead, Leaves, Daft Punk, Pan American, Boards of Canada, Amon Tobin, Massive Attack, Sam Phillips, Brian Eno, Goldfrapp, Daniel Lanois, Neil Finn, Cocteau Twins, Aretha Franklin, Flaming Lips, Global Communcation, Beach Boys, Talk Talk, Elliott Smith, The Daylights, Coldplay, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, Slowdive, Beck, Devics, Aimee Mann, Billie Holiday, Peter Gabriel, Nick Drake, Joseph Arthur, Rachel's, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder, Justice, Ron Sexsmith, Patty Griffin, Mindy Smith, PJ Harvey, Magnet, Crowded House, Innocence Mission, Air, Hey Willpower, Royksopp, Cardigans, Jon Brion, David Larring, Bryan Ingram, Richard Swift, Kendall Payne, The Damnwells, Cisco Kid - can you put a band you're in?

Movies:

Amelie, Heat, Casablanca, City of God, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, English Patient, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Bridge on the River Kwai, LA Confidential, Star Wars, Seven Samurai, Touch of Evil, Any Bogart, Any David Lynch, Any Scorsese, Any Lars Von Trier, Any Almodovar, Any Tim Burton, Any Woody Allen, Any Spike Lee, Any Spielberg, Any Kubrick, Any Jarmusch, Any PT Anderson, Any Coen Brothers, Any Ralph Fiennes, Any Juliette Binoche, Any Jack Lemmon, Any Anthony Hopkins, Any Ian McKellen, Red/White/Blue, The Lives of Others, Pan's Labyrinth, Spirited Away, Richard III (1995), From Here to Eternity, Barfly, The Iron Giant, Taxi Driver, Empire of the Sun, Talk to Her, Nine Queens, African Queen, The Philadelphia Story, Big Night, Brazil, Brokeback Mountain, Rushmore, Angels in America, Delicatessen, Crooklyn, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Dancer in the Dark, Kill Bill, American Beauty, American History X, The Big Blue, Dr. Strangelove, E.T., Elephant Man, Edward Scissorhands, Fargo, Gattaca, The Hours, I Heart Huckabees, Amistad, The Thief, Kung Fu Hustle, Les Miserables, Life is Beautiful, Lord of the Rings, Magnolia, Michael Collins, Hero, The Color Purple, Northfork, Blade Runner, Fire Walk With Me, Oscar and Lucinda, Primer, Pulp Fiction, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ray, Run Lola Run, Munich, Schindler's List, The Secret of Roan Inish, Sling Blade, Sunshine, Sweet and Lowdown, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, The Thief, Spinal Tap, THX1138, Titus, To Have and Have Not, U Turn, Usual Suspects, Vincent and Theo, Waking Life, Widow of St. Pierre, Wonder Boys, Glengarry Glen Ross, Buffalo '66, Bullets over Broadway, Casino, Pan's Labyrinth, The Banquet, Godfather II, Das Boot, City of Lost Children

Television:

Heroes, Pretty Much All Bravo Reality Contest Shows, Huff, The Shield, Dexter, Ugly Betty, Kathy Griffin, Arrested Development, Oz, Lost, Six Feet Under, Charlie Rose, The West Wing, Ali G Show, Twin Peaks

Books:

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo, Microserfs - Douglas Coupland, Life After God - Douglas Coupland, Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke, On the Road - Jack Kerouac, The Long Goodbye and anything else by Raymond Chandler, Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse, The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy, American Tabloid - James Ellroy, The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien, Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand, The Dark Tower Series - Stephen King, It's not exactly a classic, but I really loved The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

Heroes:

Brian Eno, The Edge, Frank Gehry, Frank Lloyd Wright, Douglas Coupland (Met him last year!), Stevie Wonder, Daniel Lanois, Charles and Ray Eames, The Beatles, The Doves, Sigur Ros, James Ellroy, Kathy Griffin, David Lynch

My Blog

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Posted by Justin on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:50:00 PST