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Steve

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About Me

..Hello, My name is STEVE.I have my hands in a lot of cookie jars... Music, movie-making, multimedia...I love it all! Gotta do what you love to do, cuz life's too short not to.
I have a recording studio which I have used to work on some of the artists you see on my friend's list. Most recent work includes a seven song record for The Venus Illuminato , a single for Marina V called "Fool" and two upcoming projects, an EP and some tracks on an album. More on that to come.
I am the co-founder of an event called Don't Call Us Tori , a showcase of amazing female singer songwriters that we do in Hollywood. Check out dontcallustori.com .
For money I work on a professional driving team where I drive my car in movie and tv scenes which is tre' cool. I get to work on all the 3 movies like MI:3, Fast and Furious 3, and Spiderman 3. Soon I will work on Ocean's 13 and Rush Hour 3. I guess that's more than three 3 movies now, we were on a roll though.
Also you may have seen me fly through the air as an elf on a Capital One commecial over the holidays... video
I spent the last two years in a band called The Ludivico as their keyboard player and recording engineer.
Finally, you can download the podcast of The 88 I mixed for The Monday Show with Sara Routh.
I'm hopin' to use myspace to be in touch with all the cool people I am meeting.

My Interests

Music Producing, Fine Dining, B-3, Television and Filmmaking

Making anti-fashion statements.

I'd like to meet:

Motivated people who do what they love.
Songwriters and music artist for production or collaboration
P.S. I tend not to add people who friend request unless you introduce yourself first (by email) or I know you from somewhere.
Myspace has too many spammers these days.


Steve's Friends List (version 2.2)
Steve Is Moderately Busy ...
Steve's Projects:

Don't Call Us Tori Steven Leavitt
(solo music) Transfiguration
(electronica)
Artists who are or have been in my studio:

Venus Illuminato Marina V Lobate Scarp The Ludivico

Matt Heinecke Dave Tough Aaron Shier Xander
I work with:

Nat Magnuson Shannon Hurley Jakob Nielson Bob Leggett
LA friends:

Mike Askew Freddy Megan Nick Washburn

Rose Vanessa Ann Stan
Non LA friends:

Leo

Rich

Kara

Miranda



Emily

Heather Kristen Annie
Myspace friends:

Inga, dahling!

Paul

Ken Jimmy
Indie Gold:
(Some real music for your soul)

Chris
Opperman Cameron Morgan Brandon
Schott Colleen
Grace

Corrinne May Kari Kimmel Amber Rubarth Libbie Schrader

Elizabeth Nicole Gilli Moon Samantha
Murphy

Janeen Leah



Chris Cargill Holly Conlan Adrianne Michelle Lewis

Grei Michael Darby Day Rhonda Sue

Mike Gaito

Jeff Vezain Daniel Luttrel Jonie Blinman
Cool Bands:

Great Northen Minor Canon Leiahdorus Lobate Scarp

Big Organ Trio Real Space Noise Plastiq Musiq
Instrumentalists, engineers, producers:

Mike Gerbrandt Cole Coleman Nick Baker Gabe Chiesa

Matt Pavolaitis Chris Tresierras Brad Green Adrianne Woods

Nick Albert Ben Eisen Dustin Randy
Acting/Directing/Production:

Jonathan MacDonald Brian Jones Ramessa Sean
Kinney
To Be Continued...

View all of Steve's Friends

The video below is a behind the scenes of recording/mixing "Fool", track 4 that I produced on Marina V's upcoming album Modern Fairytale.

Music:

Radiohead, Roger Waters, Muse, Jon Brion , Tom Petty, Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel, Damien Rice , Sneaker Pimps, Smashing Pumpkins, Counting Crows, Bruce Hornseby, Franz Ferdinand, Deftones, Ludacris, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, George Winston, Jason Wade, Jars of Clay, Lyle Lovett, Bonnie Raitt, Aha, Talking Heads, Genesis, oldschool Phil Collins, Foo Fighters, John Mayer, Matt Heinecke , Elizabeth Nicole , Samantha Murphy , Libbie Schrader , Bjork, Sarah McLaughlan, Tan Dunn, James Horner, Hans Zimmer, Independent Music

Movies:

SpeedRacer, March of the Penguins, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, Office Space, Gladiator, The Lion King, Ong-Bak, Pi, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, AI: Artificial Intellegence, The Postman, Braveheart, The Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, Tron, War Games, The Seven Samurai, The Last Samurai, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Television:

Heroes, Monk, Steve The Crocodile Hunter, Remington Steele, Twenty-Four, House, History Channel, Spongebob Squarepants, and Blue's Clues.

Books:

myspace, Go Dog Go, Richard Scarry's Busytown, Thomas the Tank Engine, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Heroes:

Steve Irwin, Jack Baur, Penguins, My Mom

My Blog

Venus Illuminato CD Available for purchase

So 2 weeks ago was the CD release party at Hotel Cafe for "Company With Kings," a seven song EP I produced for The Venus Illuminato. The actual CD is now out and well worth checking out if you are one...
Posted by Steve on Tue, 06 May 2008 01:30:00 PST

Why I love working in the studio.

1 Musician's hours!!! I get to work when I am most creative, mosey into work late morning, early afternoon. Work until the we hours of the morning if we feel ambitious.2 Making it sound good! Its the ...
Posted by Steve on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:17:00 PST

Holiday fun

Well, I have been having a fun time at the holidays with Debby. First we went up to Big Bear with my mom, dad, brother and sister where we had family (my aunt and uncle and two cousins) visiting. We s...
Posted by Steve on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:52:00 PST

Im in the new Marina V Blog

In case you missed it, Marina V's latest video blog is about our recent work on her new record for the song "Fool." See below  ...
Posted by Steve on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:17:00 PST

Why I recommend Libbie Schrader

Tonight I just got back from Libbie Schrader's CD release show at Hotel Cafe and I was blown away by a phenomenal show.Libbie is both a fantastic songwriter and performer. Not only is she a phenomenal...
Posted by Steve on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:50:00 PST

Just produced a record for The Venus Illuminato

So I just spent 2 weeks recording, producing and mixing "Company With Kings" a seven song record by The Venus Illuminato (Rob Miller, and Brandon Kennedy formerly of The Ludivico). The entire project ...
Posted by Steve on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:58:00 PST

Current Music Projects

So as some of you might know I have a studio and I record and produce freelance music projects.I am currently starting 3 new projects. The first will be with Adam Sears and his band Lobate Scarp. I wi...
Posted by Steve on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:05:00 PST

Were Engaged!

Steve and Debby are Engaged!Steve and Debby at the Proposal Site 9/16/2007 We had only been dating for two months when people started asking us if we had been dating for two years! So it k...
Posted by Steve on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:50:00 PST

Why I quit The Ludivico...

So for some of you this may come as a shock, to others who know me a relief. About 5 weeks ago I officially quit my band, the Ludivico. As I have just finished a bunch of other work waiting in the win...
Posted by Steve on Thu, 31 May 2007 04:41:00 PST

Blog. New. Wow. April Don't Call Us Tori at Karma

Okay, so there has been another absense of blog lately from me. All I can say is, I've been processing. Life is going through a lot of hoops and changes, so I've just been letting myself think - and t...
Posted by Steve on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:30:00 PST