Interests include (but are not limited to) music, movies, art, walking around the city...enjoying LIFE!
Music
Currently in heavy rotation on my ipod: The Beatles, Becca, Bedlam, the break & repair method, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett, Tai Burnette, Guy Clark, Lloyd Cole, Crowded House, Miles Davis, Empyr, Alejandro Escovedo, Eva & The Heartmaker, Al Green, Gil Scott Heron, John Hiatt, The Hold Steady, Buddy Holly, Human Nature, Hunters & Collectors, Walter Hyatt, Zaki Ibrahim, Gregory Isaacs, Joe Jackson, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jay Joyce (R.I.P. Maxwell), Kaiser Cartel, Kashmir, Matt Keating, Alison Krauss, Lira, Little Feat, Lyle Lovett, Paul McCartney, Bob Marley, Kate Miller-Heike, Mina, Willie Nelson, night on earth, Patty Hurst Shifter, Tom Petty, David Poe, The Police, The Priests, R.E.M., Otis Redding, Smokey Robinson, Carrie Rodriguez, The Rolling Stones, Romantica, 7 Worlds Collide, Schuburt, Guy Sebastian, She & Him, Paul Simon, J. Chris Smith, Southside Johnny, Bruce Springsteen, Talking Heads, Ben Taylor, James Taylor, Teddy Thompson, U2, Townes van Zandt, Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, etc. (adding & sometimes subtracting - all the time)
Movies
A River Runs Through It, Across The Universe, Amelie, Big Fish, Days Of Heaven, Fandango, Field Of Dreams, Groundhog Day, It's A Wonderful Life, Kill Bill, Sin City, Unusual Suspects, Waking Life, Wings Of Desire... Want to see more films in 2009!!!
Television
Arrested Development, Daily Show, Dexter, Entourage, George Lopez, Grey's Anatomy, NSCI, Rachel Maddow, The Sopranos (RIP), The West Wing (RIP)
Books
ok, ok - a very partcial list: The Collected Poems (Carl Sanburg); The Collected Poems (Yevgeny Yevtshenko); The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand); Gandhi's Truth (Erik Erikson); Letters To a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke); 100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez); The Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy); Shoeless Joe (W.P. Kinsella); Short Stories (Langston Hughes); Spoon River Anthology (Edgar Lee Masters); Stories and Legends (Leo Tolstoy); Story People (Brian Andreas); The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (Sogyal Rinpoche); Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Pablo Neruda); Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson); Winters' Tale (Mark Helprin); The World Is A Room (Amichai), will add to this list later...
Heroes
see - who i'd like to meet. add my parents (happens once you've become one).
marketing & artist development for SIN (Sony music Independent Network). artist management for mood indigo ent. (clients include: Carrie Rodriguez, KaiserCartel, Patty Hurst Shifter, and Tai Burnette).
john's Companies
mood indigo entertainment New York, NY US president/owner artist management
sept 2005 - present
Sony Music New York, NY US Marketing Manager SIN - Sony music Independent Network
jan 2009 - present
john in your extended network Posted at 10:45 PM Aug 10, 2007 view more
About me: i'm a music industry weasel. i work for SIN (yes, I don't make this stuff up) - Sony music Independent Network. i also have my own small artist management company - mood indigo entertainment, which i maintain at the same time. i have somehow managed to only work with genuine REAL people on the business side (for the most part) and people who's music I LOVE (on the artist side). so I'm pretty damn lucky professionally. hoping to continue that positive trend and face the challenges ahead with grace.
i'm also STILL striving to have a personal life (but, gettiing better at it)...
i have a son (aka a mini me) who is now in 8th grade! he lives with me half the time - so there's a lot of juggling of schedules/life. he's a lotta fun to hang out with 99.8% of the time. that .2 % is usually when he's rebelling against me being parental. he's a good kid - it's his job to push boundaries on occassion - keep me honest. i have to become better about making sure he does his homework - give him a bit more structure. on it. we live in harlem (had to get closer to his school). will have to move when the lease is up at the end of May - NOT looking forward to that...
i want more poetry in my life. want to be healthier - get in better shape (across the board) - find balance. i tend to drift towards extremes. not always a bad thing, not always a good. again, trying for/struggling with - balance...
i have great friends and people in my life i truly love & care about who (for the most part) are supportive of my various quests. sadly, most of them are scattered about the country - but that makes traveling all the more fun. plus, everyone seems to come to NYC every now and then (thank god). the people i'm close to - we catch up where we left off in mere minutes. that's kinda nice...
anyway, i'm working on trying to figure out how to make my personal life work better. under the illusion that once that happens everything else will be better too. work stuff will creep in alot just cause that's the nature of what i do - but, the personal stuff will never again be on the back burner. learning that if i don't take care of me i kinda suck for others. simple lesson i've finally learned (a little late, i know)...
still struggling with the death of my Pops at the end of February. we didn't always get along but i loved him and never imagined i'd feel this rudderless with him not around. i feel like i'm not through grieving, mainly because i keep so busy in everyday life. thought i'd have had time to dwell and deal this Summer, didn't happen...
hoping to shed stuff this Fall & Winter, so that when we move next May/June there's just less. also worried about the Swine Flu and how it'll impact us all. so, wanna try to be and stay healthy. hoping Obama's health care plan gets traction once Congress is back in session. need my economic picture to change for the better - this recession has been kinda hurtful. want world peace. my Brother is getting married Thanksgiving weekend in Texas so looking forward to that trek. Already know Bren won't be with me for Christmas (my first w/o him) and am sorta dreading the holiday. so much for my random thoughts tonight...
that's me (and my world) as of this writing (09/06/09), from Harlem (USA).
Who I'd like to meet: Louis Armstrong, Paul Blackburn, Bono, The Budda, Christ, Pat Conroy, Phil Cousineau, Dalia Lama, Miles Davis, Neil Finn, Gandhi, Spaulding Gray, Mark Helprin, Langston Hughes, Gregory Isaacs, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bob Marley, Willie Nelson, Pablo Neruda, Barak Obama, Carl Sandburg, Gil Scott Heron, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, William Carlos Williams...
