Who are your musical influences?

Oh, man. I grew up - my mom and dad, when I was growing up listening to a lot of Zeppelin and my mom was a disco crasher. She has a lot of the Sisters, Aretha Franklin and KoKo Taylor and a lot of those groups. My dad's more of a rock and roll, blues, country, Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin type. And growing up for me I was involved in the punk hard-core scene. I was in a lot of Black Flag, Minuteman, Oskido and DC and PC sing-along. It's like the Huntington Beach scene. And then Megaband, I got into metal and I was in a... band for awhile so I was playing swing and jazz. I listen to a lot of everything. I think my next direction is going into James Brown or more of the funk, something with a nice steady beat to it.

Could you talk about some of the projects that you have going on outside of Greek? I saw several things on your IMDb profile coming up.

Oh, right, right, right. Well I shot two independent films when I lived in Chicago about a year and a half ago before I moved out here. One was called Drunk Boat. It's a Mr. Mutt Production who did Ghost World and Art School Confidential and Juno. It's still in post production. It's been about two or three years since we shot that. It was with John Malkovich and John Goodman. It was a very independent Indy script. I really don't know any dates on that one.

With the independent world it's kind of hard just with financing. It's not as simple as being in a big budget movie. There are a lot of people who have a say in what direction they want the film to go in. Ultimately it comes down to the writer and if he's happy or not with the final product. So I think the movie is on the rocks right now.

And the other one, Little Big Top, is pretty close to coming out. We were trying to get a premiere at the Egyptian out here for it. I did see a screening of it and it should be is some select cities out here. It's an all ages movie with... the devil's rejects. He's really a scary clown character in those movies but he actually opens himself up in our movie and has a little bit more heart. Richard Riehle, who has done tons of movies, he's in Office Space and a few others you might know of. He is in it also. So when I get some dates I'll let everybody know. So right now it's Greek World.

What do you like to do when you're not filming?

In my off time I like to skate and go to the beach and stuff. I get a lot of sun and vitamin D from that. I put together a garden on my balcony. I didn't buy - I guess it's a prequel to buying an animal. I want to start small and start with a plant and if I can take care of the plants maybe I'll work my way up to a hermit crab or something, and then maybe go up to a cat and a dog. So we'll see. I'm starting small. I'm taking care of my plants right now.


Interview By: Emma Loggins

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