Operation MySpace / Kuwait
I went to Kuwait with MySpace. They financed a documentary I made on a concert they did for the troops there called Operation MySpace. The thing that was most compelling about the trip was, of course, the soldiers. They were young, mostly. They were there for the opportunity and paycheck, mostly. They weren’t what I’d [...]
L A WEEKLY SKID ROW COVER SERIES
This is a series of L A Weekly cover stories I did on Skid Row in Los Angeles. It became a doc series (below)
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DYING TO GET OFF SKID ROW
Downtown can be a last chance… or the last stop
SAM SLOVICK
INSIDE THE BOX WITH THE SUPER DOPE COPS
Hustlers, gangsters, addicts and narcos are [...]
Jan Kounen
Jan Kounen’s Ayahuasca documentary Other Worlds is an epic document. It features Shipibo Shaman Guillermo Arévalo Valera aka Kestenbesta, a Shipibo curandero descended from a long generation of healers of the Shipibo Conibo indigenous Amazonian people.
In the realm of shamanic documentaries, there isn’t one that is better for several reasons. Jan Kounen is an amazing [...]
Rare DJ Squeak footage (Morocco 1966)
Rare D.J. Squeak footage & pics.
RARE!!!! VINTAGE!! UNCUT! UNRELEASED!!!
(Morocco 1966)
D J Squeak
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Valley of Dawn
I was at Valley of the Dawn in Brazil a few years ago. It’s hard to describe Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of Dawn). You kind of have to see it with your own eyes.
It’s a community of mediums about 50 kilometers from Brasília. This is the kind of stuff you only see in Brazil. The [...]
BIG in the Hair Industry
Of all the skid row stuff I wrote over the last five years, this is probably my favorite.
It’s a short story, about a short man who was big in the hair industry, before he hit the skids.
It was Christmas. Joe Donnelly was the deputy editor at the Weekly. He called me and told me to [...]
STONE YOGA
Kip Roseman is a healer from Bend, Oregon. I did a story on him for the next issue of L A Yoga Magazine. It’s all about the multi modality work he’s doing wherein he merges Chinese medicine, Acupuncture, stones and shamanism. He’s got an incredible mind and a gift for articulating his [...]
Ilchi Lee
Ilchi Lee is the mastermind behind something called Brain Education. Before that he was the mastermind behind Dahn Yoga. I interviewed him for L A Yoga Magazine recently. He speaks Korean exclusively, but every once in a while unexpectedly utters a phrase in English. “You understand?” he asks. It’s hard not to understand him in [...]