designing things, impersonating people, stackin paper $, Looking at and learning from the Masters: Mark Ryden, Robert Williams, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Syd Mead, Dali, etc.; photography, physical comedy, pimpin, hustling, only listening to music that I actually feel something from, looking at Futuristic and Surreal art and Designs, Studying innovative leaders of industry such as Bill Gates, Sam Walton, Steve Jobs, Ray Croc, Henry Ford, JP Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Disney, and many others; Wondering about the mystery behind the secrets that are kept from all of us, understanding the powers that be and how they operate, nanotechnology, The Carlyle Group, The Freemasons, We Didn't Land on The Moon, Wondering what books the leaders of the world have read, Thinking about SpaceCars, Chimpanzees, "Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out Of Balance", Baraka, The ants that we are - what a curious species, ...Whereas Once I Was Blind, Now I Can See.
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RADIOHEAD, SIGUR ROS, ...A lot of Downtempo: Massive Attack, Portishead, Amon Tobin, Kid Loco, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Tricky, Nightmares on Wax, Underworld, Thievery Corporation, Bjork, Air, Morcheeba, DJ Shadow, Spiritualized, Brian Eno, DJ Krush, etc.; Interpol, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, The Doors, Beck, Led Zeppelin, Frank Sinatra, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Band, The Doves, The Verve, The Stone Roses, Ride, Badly Drawn Boy, Jeff Buckley, Elbow, South, Mellowdrone, Modern English, New Order, The Cure, Perry Farrell, She Wants Revenge, Ima Robot, Ladytron, Muse, Arcade Fire, The Killers, Thom Yorke; Modern Composers: Phillip Glass, James Horner, Howard Shore, John Williams, Quincy Jones, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman; Hip Hop: Mobb Deep, Jay - Z, Mos Def, NWA, Biggy, PAC, Method Man, Gangstarr, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, 50 Cent, Outkast, MC Solaar, my boy Bigg Snoop Dogg, did I say Mobb Deep, Del, Souls of Mischief, Pharcyde, Tribe, old Native Tongue - ya know the goods... Internet Radio: MonkeyRadio, Groovesalad, Secret Agent, Beatblender, KCRW...
Scorcese, Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher, P.T. Anderson, David Lynch, Orson Welles, Ridley Scott, Coppola, Terry Gilliam, Oliver Stone, Roman Polanski, Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, The Lumiere Brothers, Melies, Fellini, Michel Gondry, The Hughes Brothers, Ron Fricke (Baraka), Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi), Alexandre Aja, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Greg McLean, Paul Haggis, and Danny Boyle.
Chappelle Show, Family Guy, South Park, American Dad, Robot Chicken, CBS 48 Hours, Bill Mahr, CSI, Law and Order, Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm, NBC Nightly News, The X-Files because I worked on the show for 4 years, Conan O'Brian, Intervention, and a few other reality shows...
Kerouac, Camus, Sartre, Aldous Huxley, Hunter S. Thompson, Nietzsche, Stephen Hawking, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Albert Hoffman, Baba Ram Dass, Charles Darwin, C.S. Lewis, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, James Baldwin, Miles Davis, Sam Walton, Mario Puzo, Nicholas Pileggi, Erik Weihenmayer, Og Mandino, Mark Bowden, and many others.
My wife CAROLINE, My mom, my dad, my stepdad, Kim Manners -my filmmaking mentor, Salvador Dali, Michelangelo, da Vinci, Einstein, Steven Hawking, Picasso, Mark Ryden, Robert Williams, Jim Morrison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Sam Walton, Henry Ford, Rockefeller, Alexander Graham Bell, Walt Disney, Stanley Kubrick, Scorcese, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Seth MacFarlane - creator of Family Guy, Dave Chappelle, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and others...