The documentary American Artifact: Rise of American Rock Poster Art, which features two of my songs on its soundtrack, will be making its Chicago premiere this month at the Gene Siskel Film Center, running January 29th through February 4th. The Saturday, January 30th, 8:00 p.m. showing will be followed by a Q&A Panel with director Merle Becker and poster artists Jay Ryan, Mat Daly, [...]
I have here another podcast recommendation. This podcast is Stephen Fry’s, which, if you don’t know it already, I recommend introducing yourself to via the excellent episode titled “Language” (Series 2, Episode 3). In 33 minutes he touches on so many topics (from structuralism to epistemology to a rant against linguistic pedantry and on and on…) [...]
I wanted to do a quick post about my new album, which is in the final stages of creation before being sent off for duplication. It is in the process of being mastered by Mike Hagler at King Size Sound Labs in Chicago, and we’re preparing to do the cover art, which will again be [...]
Oh, I would so go to this if I could… and were a filmmaker (maybe one day). Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School will take place in the form of 3-day seminars held “at varying locations and at infrequent intervals,” and promises to be kick-ass. You do have to submit a short film and be selected in order to participate, so it’s not just like any [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. I have more extensive posts in the works, but I figured I should at least do a little update for now. Where have I been? This summer has been very full. I just finished up three classes (American Hist, Psych and Logic) which were a bit time [...]
“Finally, a true American form of artistic expression is given the long-overdue credit it deserves!”
- Scott Mantz, Access Hollywood
I’m excited to announce that two of my songs have been featured in American Artifact, a documentary by Merle Becker about ”The Rise of American Rock Poster Art”. It premieres on June 20th in San Francisco at the Red [...]
Battleship Pretension is an ejoyable movie-centric podcast I’ve been listening to lately. They come up with a topic for each episode (like “Indie Filmmakers Going Mainstream”) and explore it. Sometimes they have guests from the LA comedy scene, but mostly it’s just the two of them. It’s definitely for film fanatics (or in my case, I haven’t [...]
