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JWF

I eat smaller fish!!!

About Me

Time tested but still willing to give the benefit of doubt (except to dead beats). I enjoy my life. Most of it revolves around work. I'm an entertainment attorney in LA so my day starts at 9 am goes until 5pm with the paper work and the phone calls and ends at about 2am after the socializing (that's how business is conducted out here). Too bad alcohol is not tax deductible. My partner and I started our firm 5 years ago and its been a good ride. RBJ-my right hand man (he likes shout outs). Our niche is in the urban market and 50% of our work is in music and the other 50% is a combination of film, television, fashion, night clubs, print media, electronic media, and gaming. I've got great clients (Too many to list but take a look at www.fjlawcorp.com) and I have real love for those in the beginning who let me handle their business when I was straight out of law school (Stocks, Monteloco, LoungeFly, Scooby, Scipio, Woody Wilson). We're all still together after 5 years. I have a mean entrepeneurial streak so I try to get involved in other things that interest me. I really like the real estate world and I have a mortgage business that I run with my partners RBJ, Razak, D Boykin. Last but not least, I got involved in the club business a couple years ago. It was fun while it lasted but it looks like the club has run its course. They don't last long in Hollywood but it was definetly profitable and fun. I have a great family. We're all very close and that's where the rest of my time is spent.

My Interests

Film, music, writing, MMA, basketball, interest rates, time travel, life cycles, 1968 and 1987.

I'd like to meet:

Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo DaVinci, Edgar Cayce, Malcom X, Pablo Escobar, Bill Clinton, Larry Flynt, Bruce Lee and Emma Peel.
Entrepeneures and go getters. People interested in film, music, fashion, production of creative works, writers, actors, managers, agents and anyone with good ideas.
In music I'm really hot on Hyphy right now and most things in the Latin Movement. Definetly interested in meeting anyone repping those genres.
In film and television its all about the production companies, writers, and the talent. If you fit the bill, drop a line.
Anyone in the LA or Vegas night life scene. We probably already know each other but if not let me know your out there.
I have a fondness for quirky people, nerds, introverts, and brilliance in any field.
I also enjoy socializing with people who excel in things that are outside of my strengths such as computer whizzes and math and science braniacs.

Music:

All music.
Best Album: Wu Tang 36 Chambers Under the Cherry moon.
Best Soundtrack: Above The Rim and Grease.
Best Artist (ever): Prince.
Best Song: Baby Got Back. (Come on...everyone knows the lyrics and everyone dances to it when it comes on).
Best Love Song: Truly by Spandou Ballet.

Movies:

Most movies.
Best Movie: Grease and Fight Club.
Old Get Your Date Hot Movie: 9 1/2 Weeks.
New Get Your Date Hot Movie: The Lover (Jane March).
I Love Independent and Small Studio Films: A night In the Life of Jimmy Reardon; Things to do in Denver when your dead; Freeway; Doom Generation; Threesome; Debut; Kissing Jessica Stein; Little Big man; Three O'clock High; Swimming with Sharks; (I'll think of more).

Television:

Real World/Road Rules Challenge; UFC; MXC; The Shield; Suite Life of Zach & Cody; Beauty and the Geek; Cheaters; Next; Punk'd; The Flavor of Love; Maury; Jerry Springer; Almost all mindless garbage.

Books:

Dictionary; The Magic of Thinking Big; Feng Shui for Dummy's; Secret's of a Video Vixen; The Power of Now; Agreements with Yourself; The Art of Worldly Wisdom; and Winning Through Intimidation.

Heroes:

Ghengis Khan;
Benjamin Franklin;
Marion Berry;
Wolverine.

My Blog

ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC do not collect mechanical royalties

Just a quick answer to a question I am asked all the time (like today-twice). Ascap, BMI, and SeSac are performing rights societies that collect performance royalties for writers, producers, and publi...
Posted by JWF on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:51:00 PST

A Trademark and a Copyright are different.

Don't worry.......this is confusing to alot of people. Basic rule of thumb: You trademark a product or service (Coke, FuBu, Metallica) and you copyright a creative work (lyrics, poetry, manuscrip...
Posted by JWF on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:26:00 PST