Music
I am a saxophone and keyboard player. I record on my home Logic Studio-based setup featuring my 1934 Conn alto and various keyboards.
I am also an avid music listener. Among my favorite artists (in no particular order):
- John Zorn
- Miles Davis
- John Coltrane
- The Flaming Lips
- Wilco
- John Cale
- Charles Mingus
- Caetano Veloso
- Gilberto Gil
- Os Mutantes
- Gal Costa
- Thelonious Monk
- Glenn Gould
- The Beach Boys
- Bill Frisell
- Beck
- The Roots
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Sun Ra
- Velvet Underground
- Tom Waits
- Spoon
- Yo La Tengo
Film
I enjoy variety of foreign, art, and classic films. I particularly enjoy the following directors/filmmakers:
- Akira Kurosawa
- Alfred Hitchcock
- David Lynch
- Stanley Kubrick
- David Cronenberg
- Woody Allen
- Ernst Lubitsch
- The Marx Brothers
- Charles Chaplin
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Sergio Leone
- Jean-Pierre Melville