WELCOME

Thanks for checking in. Below you'll find a few cues from movies that I've done over the last couple of years. 

OOOOPS

Due to pilot error - I just realized that the audio on all of these snippets is in MONO for some reason. 

I'm going to try and repost them when I have a chance, but if you'd like to hear them in all of their glory - 

feel free to ask. 

DEMO FOR ANAMORPH

This is a demo that I did for the Lionsgate film Anamorph. I haven't had to do too many demos, but then again, I haven't done many films with a director that didn't have some previous knowledge of my music.  

Anyway, I thought this worked well,  but I guess they decided to go in a different direction. 

I went to Project Free Tv and watched as much of it as I could stomach just to see who they ended up hiring and I was surprised at how close to my demo the final score came out to be.  I'm just saying. 

I really dug Willem Dafoe in Platoon. What ever happened to him? And Oliver Stone?

W? Pass.

For a tenth of the budget of any of his movies we could clothe Boyle Heights and feed all of Eagle Rock. 

Anyway, ladies & gentleman - for your viewing pleasure - Anamorph as it should have been: 

Can I get sued for this?

EVERYDAY PEOPLE

This was an HBO project directed by Jim McKay and produced by my Ft. Greene neighbor, Nelson George. 

I count Jim as a friend after working together on this joint.

This is Jim's first film with score. He's a realist in the Cassavettes school and I think he took a big leap in adding me to this crew. I gave him a ton of what we called "seeds" ( little rough audio sketches )  to check out as he worked on the script. ( A rare & beautiful thing to be hired so early in the process ) A lot of these "seeds", with some tweaks, tuning  and spittle, ended up in the final cut. This is not one of them. 

And, another bit of useless trivia - I just found an old Playboy magazine in the garage ( with Donald Trump on the cover ) where Nelson quotes me in an article that he wrote about racism in rock.  I have no idea why something as ridiculous and obvious as racism in R&R would be discussed in Pboy or any recollection of giving NG the quote. But, here it is and ten years later I would move to his neighborhood and he'd hire me to do this:

URBANIA

This is a film from way back in 2000 that was directed by Jon Shear and starred Dan Futterman. The main story was told in flashback while a series of Urban Legends dotted the narrative landscape. I'm not sure that I would have used as much music as Jon wanted, but, first time directors can be unwieldy dance partners. 

I applaud all writer/directors that manage to go from soup to nuts, because I know what a long, daunting and arduous process that it is. I'm not kissing anybody's ass - I've just seen quite a few visions dwindle by the time picture is locked and I know how difficult it is to finish a simple audio disk, with a cast of 8 and a teeny fraction of the budget. 

Anyway, this is the end scene. If you plan on Netflixing it - I hope I haven't spoiled the end for you.  

A bit of trivia - last week at Gelson's Market in Hollywood I ran into Dan Futterman buying some ....wine?

olives?... he had no idea who I was, but when you work on a film in post - even though you've never met the actors, just seeing their faces for hours a day engenders a certain strange pseudo familiarity. 

Needless to say, we had a few awkward moments and then I got back in my car and checked his wallet. 

Oh, did I add that I'm a deft pickpocket?

This composing thing only brings in so much.