Friends, Activity Partners

Feb 2005

Seattle

Spokane Symphony Orchestra

http://profiles.friendster.com/16665778

Purcell School (one of those fancypants British schools), University of North Texas, Northwestern University. Also Harvard, Yale, Oxford, the Sorbonne, the Louvre...

Underwater Basket-Weaver

The oddly entertaining Civic Orchestra ("whoosh!") of Chicago (2002-2004), Marrowstone Music Festival (1992-2002), Las Vegas Music Festival (1996-1997), National Orchestral Institute (2003), Henry Mancini Institute (2003), Lucerne Festival Academy (2004-2005). Founding member of the Carlos Kleiber Secret Society.

My beloved Seattle Mariners, writing screenplays, MOVIES, MOVIES, MOVIES. If music weren't my occupation my obsession with movies could hardly be counted as a "hobby".

The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, anything by Chekhov, anything by Kafka, Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, books 3-5 of the Harry Potter series (didn't care for 1, 2 or 6)

Intolerance, Closer, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, Blade Runner, His Girl Friday, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Rushmore, Lost in Translation, Fearless, Solaris, Traffic, High Noon, The Godfather and all Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. The greatest moment in any movie is in Airplane! when all the reporters run out and knock over the phone booths. R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet is probably the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life.

Mahler, Bach, Berlioz, Boulez, Adams, Bruckner, Lully, Liszt, any Baroque Music played on period instruments, anything jazz (especially Coltrane, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Hard Bop), The Beatles, The Ruttles, Keane, Radiohead, Beck, Nelly, R. Kelly whenever he's singing about what's inside closets.

The Simpsons, Family Guy, Monty Python, Kids in the Hall, The Critic and anything else with Jon Lovitz.

Gemini

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
- Abraham Lincoln
I'm a firm believer in the importance of friendships. I think that simple respect for human relationships could cure all the evils of the world: war, hate, the Bush administration, and everything that contributes to those. When I'm not attempting to be an incompetent philosopher I sometimes find time to play my bass and work on film scripts (I pluck strings for a living, but I'd rather be talking to actors about "motivation").
The most important thing to know about me is that I believe Jimmy Fallon is the most evil human being on the face of the planet. It's somehow not surprising that Saturday Night Live has gone downhill along with American values in the last five years. I also don't believe it's coincidental that Jimmy and Osama bin Laden have "conveniently" never been seen together. It's time to end the charade.
As a loyal Mariners fan I absolutely HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE the &$@*ing New York Yankees!!
I once got a haircut from a man who had just learned his teenage daughter had been impregnated by a drug dealer. It was the longest ten minutes of my life.
I think it's important for people to know that the letters in H. Ross Perot can be rearranged to spell "Short Poser".

A big-shot Hollywood exec that wants to pick a screenplay of mine.
Anyone that agrees with me that Keane's Untitled 1 is the most brilliant song of recent times.
R. Kelly and his closeted friends.
Lionel Hutz.
Jerry, the El Dorado Cigarette Company Executive.