CURRENT MISSION

Getting to the Manhattan Film Festival and finishing the 4 other feature films i have slated for the rest of the year.

ABOUT ME

I am a filmmaker and actor from Texas. I have 4 amazing sons and one amazing woman in my life. I have been married for about 2 years and i am blessed to have found a woman that not only loves me, but in turn loves my sons. We have a beautiful new son together, named Kyus.

For the past 3 years i have been producing a film that i co wrote and directed with 2 other guys. We have finally begun to see the light and the film is screening in 6 different countries this year.

Currently we have our sights on getting to NYC for the Manhattan Film Festival. We received more votes and views overall than any film in any category and consequently have been invited to the Festival that takes place July 20-25 2010 in Manhattan.

PHILOSOPHY

Suffering brings about the highest elevation of the human spirit. without struggle and disappointment we can never know what true happiness is, or true achievement.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

never have done it...had no idea it existed until my friend lisa turned me on to it.

Interests

film, photography, music, friends and family

• photography
• acting
• festivals
• movies
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

everything from dwarves to charlie mingus....the stooges to johnny cash...lead belly to the misfits

i was a music major and spent the formidable years of my life playing music and touring the states with several bands.

books: all the classics
Dostoyevsky
hemingway
miller
london

beat writers
kerouak
burroughs

poets
bukowski
naruda

Lest we forget the master hunter s thompson

movies: blue velvet, blazing saddles, meet the feebles, thin red line, reservoir dogs, eraser head, the pusher (all 3) god father, scarface, paccino or de niro stuff except meet the fockers...

and then i dig this stuff too:

No Wave, Cinéma Pur, Harmony Korine, R.W. Fassbinder, David Lynch, Crispin Glover, Franz Kafka- (The Why's biggest) Claude Chabrol, Jean Renoir, Werner Herzog, Haruki Murakami (author), Godard, Francois Tuffaut, Johnny Thunders, Sergei Eisenstein, Existentialism, Surrealism, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dali, Dogme 95, French & German New Wave, Man Ray, Stanley Kubrick, Jules Dassin, Abbas Kiarostami, Krzysztof Kie

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i made a film...i made some babies...i overcame my addiction and i have found peace in my artistic endeavors...

Countries I’ve Visited

France

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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