WHY DO YOU DO IT? WHAT DRIVES YOU?
Sometimes it feels like the only thing I’m good at therefore no one can do it better than I can, so I have to keep on doing it or else everything sucks. Other times I feel like it’s the only thing that I have complete honesty and transparency with. I could blurt out a ton of shit and still feel like I’m doing something meaningful. Other times I can just scream or yearn, and music envelopes me and bearhugs it all away.
WHAT IS ONE THING YOU DO FOR SANITY MAINTENANCE?
I go on runs. I exercise. I get my best work done while running. Sometimes I’ll put my pods in and turn on noise cancellation but listen to nothing and explore the 5 mile radius of my Brooklyn apartment… But because I broke my left clavicle recently, I haven’t been able to do this, so insanity is starting to creep in.
WHAT IS THE SCRAPPIEST THING YOU’VE DONE TO MAKE OR SAVE $$?
Oh, I dunno. I’ve sold drugs, sold my body, pilfered dumpsters, lied, cheated, stolen, acted out and hidden in plain sight, all to save a buck.
YOUR TASK IS TO PRESCRIBE ONE BOOK OR FILM TO THE COLLECTIVE. WHAT IS IT?
I feel like so fucking cliche and pretentious saying this but: Kenneth Anger’s INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME - but specifically the "Sacred Mushroom Edition" or ELDORADO version from 1978. This version he re-cut and used for the ELO record, ELDORADO, as the soundtrack. This is 100% my favorite marriage of sounds and visions ever and I will never regret or disagree with that statement.
Current obsession?
I’m obsessed with workflow so much so that it can often stop me in my tracks if it’s not perfect. I have to have a perfect work desk, perfect system routing, orderly and clean or else nothing gets done. There’s usually a lot of me staring at a mess of cables deciding which one to put where, and then there’s internal routing of ideas and concepts that I want to convey. I’m OCD about process and sometimes that holds me back.
MOST USEFUL FAILURE?
Probably everything I said above about OCD routing and process - which can turn into debilitating procrastination - which then spawns some really great fight or flight ideas - so my laziness and mental blocks put me into compromising situations, where if I don’t think of something quick, the ship is gonna go down.
I’ve always had major body dysmorphia - I feel like I look like a different person than the person I actually am. This causes me major strife when it comes to looking at ANY pictures of myself - I almost don’t recognize or relate to the person in the photograph at all. It’s weird and plagues me constantly.
