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Jesse Zook Mann

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About Me


Im Jesse. I have a passion for exploring the underground, the bizarre, the geeky, the occult... the radical fringes of life. Subcultures in music, theatre, art… I’m a sociologist with a camera. I grew up in the NYHC scene, and well I don’t look so punk these days... I like to make videos. I am of the age when reality begins to creep up on ones idealism but I still hope to make a movie one day that will save the world, or at the very least help someone.
Visit my persite at Zookmann.com
"I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best. I know I drive some people crazy with what seems to be ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked out for me"
“In the absence of will-power the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”
“Every man and woman is a star”
"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
"Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them."
"I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars."
"Once you get the right image the details aren't that important."
"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit."
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."
“The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).”

My Interests

docs and dreams. tripods are for the weak. perseverance. friends till death. optimism is needed to fan the flames of your potential. reality is malleable. ferrets make good friends.vVegan cooking to letterman after midnight. dance till you fall down. spectacle trumps logic. television trumps theory. animation will replace print. dyslexia is a mental photographic landscape. adventures must happen tomorrow. smash the system. im here to get paid. navigating bikes through traffic is the best possible exercise routine.

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Music:

it started with a surfing safari tape i got from sears when i was 10. I soon moved into NKOTB... which lasted maybe 3 months before i discovered alice cooper and motley crew. faith no more was my world in grade school for years until seattle broke. In my first two years of highschool it was pearl jam and nirvana for me. i saw tommy on broadway and it blew my mind. the summer candlebox and bush came out i vowed never to watch mtv again and i started going to local shows. silentmajority made me fall in love with hardcore... both melodic and heavy... took me down a road from everything from sunny day real estate to sick of it all. then the death metal obsession... I started dancing in college... then weird european pop won my heart. then I was tired and started listening to my dads old folk rock. simon and garfunkel is the most new york music you can get. then when i went to seattle I had a steady diet of kexp and dj shadow and quannum crew... i love the legends... arcade fire. i dont know when I discoved public enemy but they are my hometown heros. as more of the underground concentrated on pp hooks and eyeliner the cultral vortex grows larger so i dont know what new music i will discover next.... i will probably discover something new in someone dead.

Movies:

searching for the wrong eyed jesus. fog of war. rize.

Television:

sopranos, ultimate fighter, office, this american life on showtime, entourage.

Books:

channel zero, the invisibles.

Heroes:

abbie hoffman, woody allen, grant morrison, errol morris, john k, josh harper, john carpenter, randy borden, brian wood, lars von trier

My Blog

Set Your DVR's

I'm currently shooting, and producing for the new LXTV project, a great new show called Open House NY. It premieres this sat on NBC4HD at 6am, and reruns the following Friday at 11am, so set your DVR'...
Posted by Jesse Zook Mann on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:46:00 PST

New Tony Vids

A new section for broadway.com interviewing your favorite Tony nominees - and a look back on the past years opening night, and feature videos. If you are want to catch up on the thespian world in time...
Posted by Jesse Zook Mann on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:43:00 PST

New Article In IC Quarterly

New article on some of last years work on the ICQuartely. The article sites me with a producer credit, which is inaccurate and is of course the infamous Stone Roberts, but thanks for telling some of m...
Posted by Jesse Zook Mann on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:28:00 PST

A Chorus Line / Legally Blonde

Two new video blogs from Broadwa's best news source in the milky way galaxy. First a completed Chorus Line interview series with all 19 members of a chorus line. in total all of these submissions tall...
Posted by Jesse Zook Mann on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:45:00 PST

Broadway Zook Video Update!!!

Broadway.com Zook Video Update Been busy the last few months but a quick update and some links are in order. First a big thanks to Michael Cerveris and Meghan Ritchie for organizing the Sweeney Todd c...
Posted by Jesse Zook Mann on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 11:54:00 PST

Elsa Zook Kalber 1919-2006

the following is an obitutuary of my beloved grandmother, a truly kick ass woman. im now in seattle for services and will be here until tuesday.Elsa Zook KALBER Elsa was born in Cedarhill, Idaho, on J...
Posted by Jesse Zook Mann on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:09:00 PST

Free Zook Movie. THE movie to watch stoned - Film Threat

Paul Alien is the film that proves Seattle billionaire Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, owner of the Seattle Seahawks and the creator of Seattle's Science Fiction Museum, is collaborating with spa...
Posted by Jesse Zook Mann on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:23:00 PST

Cyndi Lauper and a bunch of naked people!

Marissa Janet Winikur of Hairspray fame walked us through the sexy insanity that is Broadway Bares, featuring Broadways best bodies, Allan Cumming, and a song by Cyndi Lauper. Definitely the most fun ...
Posted by Jesse Zook Mann on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:52:00 PST

Tony Red Carpet

After a long night the spring theatre season has come to its climax with the 60th annual Tony Awards and everyone at broadway.com can catch up on some much needed sleep. Check out the best Tony covera...
Posted by Jesse Zook Mann on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:34:00 PST

Tony Nom BTS.

Take a look behind the scenes at two Tony nominated shows with these two videos we shot last week! Click the titles to view the videos. The Drowsy Chaperone with Sutton FosterSweeney Todd with Manoel ...
Posted by Jesse Zook Mann on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:24:00 PST