writer, father, would-be activist, thinker

city

Albuquerque and Los Angeles

state/country

US

 

 

highschool

St. Mary's High '91

 

 

college

UC Berkeley '95

 

English Literature

 

 

employer

my damn self & several production LLCs

position

screenwriter, copywriter, script coord, script analyst, production grunt

music

Prince, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ice Cube, Groove Armada, Etta James, Patsy Cline, Lupe Fiasco and many, many others

movies

Out of Sight, Seven, Blues Brothers, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Apocalypse Now, Good Will Hunting, Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing, Get Shorty, The Station Agent, Requiem for a Dream, Dangerous Liaisons, The Empire Strikes Back, The Bourne Ultimatum, State and Main, Arthur, No Country For Old Men, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Collateral, Heat, Conan the Barbarian, Purple Rain, Saturday Night Fever, Finding Nemo, Lion King, Groundhog Day, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Three Amigos, Glengarry GlenRoss, A Few Good Men, The Prestige, Batman Begins, Memento, The Crow, The Birdcage, The Exorcist, The Exorcist III, Superman, Superman II, The Godfather Parts 1&;2, Amelie, Alien, Aliens, Blade Runner, Training Day, Pulp Fiction

tv shows

used to be an "ER," "Buffy," and "West Wing" junkie, but i don't do much TV anymore. but i crack up w/ my wife at "2 1/2 Men," "Seinfeld" (which i didn't get years ago) and "Friends" reruns, "Brothers &; Sisters," and i'm told i'd love "Heroes" if i ever saw it

Influences

Jesus, Malcolm X, WEB DuBois, The Black Panthers, Paul Robeson, Carter G. Woodson, Toussaint L'Overture, Prince, parents (mine & everyone else's), Barack Obama, Prof. Bil Banks, my Uncle Don, my Uncle Pete, L. Patrick Piggott, and my beautiful wife

Hobby

making mixes

Favorite holiday

Christmas

Year

1991-1995

Schooled

UC Berkeley

Studied

English Lit