“You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see. You hang around cafés.”
- Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
Add comment February 8th, 2010
I don’t know this girl, but I happened to be walking past as her friend was taking her picture with Mozart, and I just couldn’t resist taking one as well. Plus, there’s that dude in the red t-shirt checking out the whole affair, which is the cherry on top of this bizarre sundae.
Add comment February 7th, 2010
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
- Franz Kafka
2 comments February 6th, 2010
Back in the summer of ‘05, I was oversees working on the film, Munich. Ironically, I got to visit several countries in Europe that year, but of course, not Germany. The closest I got was the daytrip I took to Vienna. I took the early morning train from Budapest and spent the day walking around, taking in the sights and sounds of the Austrian capital. Having studied German for two years in college, I was determined to use as little English as possible on the trip, which meant that it turned out to be a pretty quiet day.
I couldn’t help but snap a pic of this “small” cafe; an idyllic looking European cityscape if there ever was one. I also couldn’t help but patronize the cafe and order a refreshing Austrian lager (by pointing at the menu).
Add comment February 5th, 2010
Here’s a shot from the music video shoot I directed with Duke Special on Monday. Somehow, we found ourselves filming in Saint Olave Church, a medieval cathedral and one of the few buildings in the city that survived the Great Fire of London in 1666. Definitely an interesting location to film a music video, and we actually shot two songs there, both off the recently released Mother Courage and Her Children record.
Add comment December 10th, 2009
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
- Samuel Johnson
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“Just for the record,
The weather today is slightly sarcastic with a good chance of:
A. Indifference or
B. Disinterest in what the critics say ”
- Panic At the Disco
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Here’s a shot from a photo shoot I just finished with Duke Special outside The National Theatre, where he’s been performing for the past few months in Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children.” I finally got to see the play last night; it was a beautifully chaotic production that easily exceeded my already high expectations. And of course, the music was fantastic.
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