road trips. walks. filmmaking. Walking down the middle of streets when there is no traffic because it's like a giant sidewalk all to myself, temperature that is less than 90 degrees, drinking less because I just figured out that alcohol makes me feel depressed, peddling backwards on a bike, skateboarding at night in a suit, Hanging out with friends in places where we can hear each other talk, running down stairs really fast, doing stupid magic tricks, Hanging out with my buddy Harvey the cat, the funny sound that Harvey makes when he yawns, meeting people that know who they are and stick to their guns, Screenplay writing, loyal friends, meeting more people somewhere else besides in a bar or on myspace if such a thing is possible in Portland, subtle physical comedy, and much more...
Scott Walker, M. Ward, Einstürzende Neubauten, Lee Hazlewood, Tom Waits, Pulp, Jimmie Rodgers, Swans, Lomax Prison recordings, Tujiko Noriko, Sparklehorse, Grinderman, Jonathan Richmond and the Modern Lovers, 200 Yang, Devo, Joy Division, Jesus and Mary Chain, Daniel Johnston, Malaria!, the Raincoats, Captain Beefheart, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Blixa Bargeld, the Pogues, eels, Solomon Burke, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson, Whispering Jack Smith, Bauhaus, Ennio Moriconne, Fats Waller, Serge Gainsbourg, Leonard Cohen, Kraftwerk, Mum, Album Leaf, Agent Orange, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Air, Jarvis, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Cabaret Voltaire, Johnny Cash, Legendary Pink Dots, Skinny Puppy, Laibach, Charles Mingus, Tom Heinl, Hello Lobster, Norfolk and Western, Cat Power, the Smiths, Latin Playboys, Hank SR, Roy Orbison, Howlin' Wolf, and much more...
a music video I made with Tom Heinl
Hurt: a true story, Buster Keaton, Kurasawa, Kubrick, Grand Illusion, M, Kind Hearts and Coronets, the Servant, the Tenant, Repulsion, the Mirror, Stalker (Tarkovsky), Eisenstein, Vertov, Errol Morris, Brothers Keeper, Hitchcock, Jarmusch, W.C. Fields, passion of Joan of Arc, Guy Maddin, King of Comedy, Spagetti westerns, No Country for Old Men, There Will be Blood, Battle of Algiers, Cagney gangster films, the Devil and Daniel Johnston, Taxi Driver, Kaurasmaki, Requim for a Heavyweight, La Strada, a Pure Formality, Spinal Tap, Decasia, Brazil, Harvey, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Orson Welles, Apu Trilogy, Midnight Cowboy, the Graduate, Man who shot Liberty Valence, Ox-bow Incident, the Long Voyage Home, Raising Arizona, Erich von Stroheim, In the Mood for Love, Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Punch Drunk Love, Cries and Whispers, Night of the Iguana, Welcome to the Doll House, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, and much more...
P.G. Wodehouse and Beckett and Dostoevsky and Tintin and stuff.