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"When I'm in love, I float above the clouds, believe everything is possible, sing songs out loud."

It was while pursuing a bachelor’s degree in both film and philosophy at the University of Miami , that Venezuela-born Jason met best friend Max. While in college, the two produced and starred in a video documentary about hedonism and spirituality, which made its way to the desk of Current TV’s President of Programming. From over 4,000 submissions, Jason and Max were immediately flown to Los Angeles and offered full time jobs anchoring and producing content for the start-up network, which now has national distribution to over 50 million homes.

.. the FACTS

Born: Caracas, Venezuela. I largely grew up there through the end of high school but I always came back and forth to the states for a vacation because I had family ties in South Florida as well as in NY. So I was always back and forth in the summers and at Xmas/winters time.

Resides: Los Angeles, CA

Birth date: 2-6-82

Sign: Aquarius

Height: 6'3"

Weight: 180 lbs.

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Brown

Family: Younger brother. My parents are divorced so my dad is still in Venezuela. My little brother is in Miami at the moment and my mother moved to NY. She's a teacher. She used to teach at the American school in Venezuela and now she's teaching in NY. She teaches underprivileged kids, she's pretty amazing."

Ethnicity: Hispanic//Jewish

Status: Never married, no children

Want children: Undecided

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Education: I studied in an international high school. Double major in college. Bachelor's Degree in film and in philosophy.

What were your aspirations: "I don't think I had crystallized an exact description of what I wanted but I knew that I wanted whatever I did to involve the ability to constantly express myself artistically and intellectually. Part of the reason that I studied film and philosophy which might seem like two unrelated fields is that I always liked the film and video medium, but I always liked it best when it affected me intellectually or philosophically. I wanted to be around art that stirred me up inside so whatever I did, I wanted to be in the field of TV or film. I didn't really know in what field but I just wanted to do things that were important to me and were meaningful. And really, when I was in school, Al Gore's TV network didn't exist. This idea of an alternative media channel for passionate people to talk about the things that matter to them in the world. It didn't really exist and so it's kind of serendipitous the way it sort of fell into place that they were launching as I was graduating. You can never plan for these things."

Was acting an option: "It's difficult for me to say that acting was because I was always better with my own words than with other peoples. I was always better unscripted and philosophical rather than memorizing lines so my whole thing was how can I express myself in that field. I mean I didn't really like the idea of being called a broadcast journalist because that was almost limiting and myopic in my view. I just wanted to use the medium of video and audio to just articulate what was going on, what I thought was important. To have a conversation about things that matter and really until Current TV came on, I don't think that I knew how I was going to pursue that. I really didn't because it's not like I wanted to host a reality show or anything like that. I was looking for something that had a little more depth and Current really fit the bill."

Occupation: Host of Current TV, Producer, Journalist, Filmmaker. 

What was the documentary about that got you noticed by the head of programming at Current TV: "Yeah it was crazy. Me and Max were best buddies in college and we were collaborating on an independent study film project, a short film documentary, and the theme was the confliction of Hedonism and Transcendence. Literally the idea was that we all sort of have this vague goal or idea to do something important and meaningful with our lives and sort of transcend ourselves and do something greater than ourselves. But usually the majority of western moral systems and religions will tell you that you can only sort of transcend through self sacrifice that is painful usually whether it's fasting or bowing down before some higher authority or lying on a bed of nails in some extreme circumstances. And our idea was that you can transcend without that sort of pilgrimage of self sacrifice and self denial and labeling everything as sin. So our point was you can transcend through art that includes all sorts of indulgences whether it's in poetry or sexuality or whatever it may be. You don't need to deny yourself everything that feels food in order to transcend. That was the pitch of our film which was right in line with my philosophical sensibilities and Max was a double major in psychology so it fell in line with his psychological sensibilities too. I mean hundreds of people from across the country sent films to Current TV to try to get involved, it sounded like such a good idea. We thought it was a long shot but through some way it ended up on the desk of the head of programming and he really loved it. He called us right then and there and flew us out to meet with him. And a few weeks later we had an offer to move to Los Angeles and be hosts and they launched the network."

What is Current TV: "You can think of us as the HBO of YouTube. We're sort of a very sophisticated TV version of the idea behind YouTube which is the audience can be the content creators and collaborators. But on Current, it's much more sophisticated, our audience is encompassed of citizen journalists and young passionate people who are out there documenting the things that matter to them and putting it on Current for the world to see. People submit their videos via the website, the best stuff is voted on on the website and the best of the best makes it to the TV channel. When Al Gore came on board as the founder of this network, he envisioned a place that was a democratization of television, making television something that was assessable to everyone."

"Max and I are like the quintessential hosts on the TV channel. If you tune in, you'll see us, we'll pop up like the Carson Dalys. We're on Direct TV, Comcast, Time Warner and Dish Network. We won an Emmy our 2nd year for interactive TV platform."

You were also featured as part of The Gap Icons 2008 print campaign, what was that like. "That was amazing because the campaign is encompassed of personalities who have done something really cool. There's some actors but then there's also people like us who are technically on TV but we're not actors, and it's called the Icon's campaign. It was very flattering to be included in the group like that."

What's on the horizon: "We're currently in pre-production for a feature length documentary called Manitou with director Hunter Richards. Basically it's a documentary on sustainability technology that could take us away from this global warming horror that we're facing. It's an optimistic film because it looks at all the potential that there is out there in the world of technology to find sustainability solutions. We're in pre-production on that but that would be really cool to make that leap into feature length docs while still remaining within Current's walls:"

... on HIMSELF

Strengths: "Passionate, empathetic, kind, involved in social change. I think that my friends would say that I'm very passionate, incredibly driven. They'd probably say that I'm really philosophical and if they were to criticize some quality they would say at times I'm impatient."

Weaknesses: "
Impatience. If I'm feeling a moment or a circumstance, I really want to go with it and sometimes that affects my dating life. Because I don't like to hesitate. I really do wear my heart and mind on my sleeve and I'm always hungry for an intimate connection if the circumstances are aligned in a way that feels good to me. I just don't hold back. Sometimes I don't go slow enough or give it the proper time to build a relationship at the pace that people might be comfortable with. I'm sort of in a rush to get to a certain level of intimacy that maybe people aren't ready to go to as quickly as I am. I'm really comfortable going there, you know."

Others may not see: "My acute sensitivity and a desire for permanence. Well, because I grew up in Venezuela, people have sometimes an idea of somebody who grew up in South America, you're like the Latin lover. They think that I'm a shallow player or something like that when really I find that there's a lot more depth to me and sometimes people don't know what to make of it. They just don't see it right away because they just assume that I'm a certain way and they don't give it a glance sometimes."

You're still young, is it important for you to settle down now: "I wouldn't say settle down but I like for an experience to mean something and to have significance. I'm interested in depth. Because I'm keenly aware of the transience of life and how everything that is beautiful is sort of fleeting and quickly gone, I'm very hungry to make an imprint whenever I'm surrounded by it. Like there's an urge within me to say you know I was here and I felt this and it mattered and it matters. In the ultimate scheme of things for Jason, like this moment, this instant, this connection with this person, it matters. And too much, too fast things are over and so I think there's a sadness in that and so there's an urge for me to always kind of make sure that the moment was cemented as something that was meaningful."

So do you always try to cherish each moment you have: "Oh, absolutely. I would say that that's one of my creeds to always live the moment."

What made you realize the importance of that at such a young age: "Interesting. I don't know. My parents divorced when I was young and I was a really sensitive kid and so I think that I was able to appreciate loss and really get a dose of what loss is like early in life. I think that that gave me the sensitivity and the sensibility to pay attention to it and to not take anything for granted because I've seen how we can lose things that we love and people around us that we love and so it makes me appreciate the beautiful a lot more only because I'm aware of how it is usually surrounded my mediocrity and sadness."

I've been known to ..."have the courage to live my dreams."

Are you someone who always goes after what you want: "I think it's important but ultimately the greatest high in life is to feel fully expressed and to feel understood and to love and be loved and so if you're not going to do something that makes you feel fully expressed, that's almost as sad as not finding somebody to love and to love you. I think we need both. If you take a job you don't like, you're not going to feel expressed, you're going to feel existentially stifled and life is going to seem gray and dreary and you're going to feel like a hamster in a hamster wheel racing around. Because I'm so obsessed with making a dent in the universe and sort of making sure that my time here is meaningful, it sort of forces me to always go after what I want and what will satisfy that hunger and that yearning."

Why do you think a lot of people stay in mediocre jobs and lives: "Well, I think there's a complacency factor. Sometimes people choose safety by virtue of it being predictable. Like if it's safe and it's routine and it's predictable then one doesn't have to face the sort of unknown or the unpredictable or the risky. But I think that you have to sort of take chances in life but that's not always the easiest thing to do."

Of course, you being 27 and single, you have a little more of that luxury than someone who's 45 and married with kids: "I totally agree and I think that's something that everybody struggles with. There's a reason why American Beauty won the Oscar when it was made because people could relate to that film. They could relate to the disillusionment of reaching a certain age and realizing that you never really did anything that inspired you. You sort of just settled in to some convenient grind that ultimately made you feel vacuous and empty."

Interests: "Love, immortality. Well, I think that that makes me if anything human in that I admit that there's a yearning for immortality. We all have it, I just think that we've grown complacent and it's not really politically correct to say so. But I think that death is ultimately a horrendous tragedy, losing people that you love is tragic. My whole thing is about challenging that. I refuse to be complacent and to accept with docile humility the idea that oh this is just how it is, or this is just nature. Mankind by our own record have shown that we challenge nature all the time. We weren't meant to fly but we made airplanes. We create wireless technology, we engineer miracles of engineering every single day. And so we don't say oh no we can't, we say, yes we can. So why not challenge the ultimate paradigm of all, death. I think it's sad, that's all, that we're thrown into this world with such an infinite sense of self awareness and purpose and yearning and longing and ultimately we're food for worms. I have a little problem with that, you know."

"Especially when you have all your beauty and your youth when you don't know as much, and then when you have all this wisdom, you're 80 years old and no one wants to date you anymore: It takes you 60 yrs to become this agonizingly unique preacher and then you're good for what, for dying. I think that's a travesty, but who knows, I mean stem cell research is showing a lot of promise. I think that in the next couple of decades were going to learn to engineer our own biochemistry. The science fiction of today is the science of tomorrow."

Do you believe in reincarnation: "I'm not sure what I believe in. I believe believing in anything that makes you feel better is good, I just don't have that luxury. I have to much of a critical mind that's looking for concrete solutions but there's a poetry in the idea of reincarnation and melting into the everything and becoming part of the universe again but I'm sort of really attached to my consciousness and I don't like the idea that it will one day not be... you know."

Any other interests: "I love to read. I'm a big fan of traveling. I think that you are spiritually renewed every time you travel but I hate what has happened to commercial aviation. I think that the fact that most airlines are flying around 25-year-old refurbished planes is a crime when you consider putting people's lives in these machines at 500 mi/hr. I think commercial aviation has become God awful at least on a domestic level. I really follow politics and global news a lot. I'm really close to my parents, both of them.

Turn-ons: "A beautiful smile, confidence, aesthetic sensibility. I like it when I'm overwhelmed by stimulation and I don't mean overwhelmed in a bad way but I mean when I'm moved by sight and sound, that turns me on. Like I love either watching a film that touches me somewhere really deeply and gets a physical reaction out of me whether it's like welling up in tears or getting the goose bumps. I like it when art has the ability to physically affect us because then you know that there's some kind of symbiotic connection that has been made there that is bigger than me and the arts. I like that feeling. It connects me to something divine and delicious."

Turn-offs: "Flakiness, insensitivity. Obviously corruption, crime, violence, unkindness turns me off, racism turns me off. You know what also turns me off, a political system that subordinates the individual to some sort of semblance of a collective good. I really don't like Marxism and all these individual crushing philosophies. I don't really like what Hugo Chavez has done in Venezuela, what he's trying to institute there at all. I think we need political systems that celebrate individual rights and individual freedom."

Special Talents: "Improvisational wordplay. That's just something that someone once used to describe me. That's the idea that I can get really riled up in something that I'm interested in and start talking about seemingly without really rehearsal and I sort of end up coming out with these rants that sound like they were prepared beforehand. I'm really good in the moment."

Charities: "Causecast.org. Causecast is a one stop philanthropy shop - basically they're a website that aggregates all these different non-profits to come together under one sort of place which is causecast and the idea is they use social media to raise money for these non-profits. You build a profile, you associate yourselves with the non-profits you care about and you help raise money using small donations so basically they're doing what Obama successfully did for his campaign. Max and I are featured leaders on their website so they basically use us as public faces to promote the idea behind it."

Travels: "Europe, South America, Caribbean, North America."

Spirituality: "Agnostic."

Fashion sense: "I like to be comfortable. I'm tall and lean so usually finding clothes that fit me is a little challenging because I like T-shirts that are form fitting you could say and I like jackets that are slim fitting, European cuts would be a lot better."

Staying healthy: "Rock climbing .I love to be healthy, exercise and eat really well. I love to rock climb, it's a sport that I've practiced for years."

What touches my soul: "Music, film and a beautiful smile."

... on WOMEN

I first notice ... "that she smiles with her eyes. I have a soft spot in my Achilles heel. Basically what I mean is when the muscles around the eyes are involved in the smile, eyes get sort of squinty. I really just love that. I think that it's beautiful. And there's a name for it, it's called a Duchenne smile vs. the alternative which is called the Pan American smile named after the flight attendants from Pan Am that sort of have this wide eyed smile."

Attention-getters: "By being kind, confidence and extremely comfortable in her skin."

What would make someone stand out to you: "I really love like if I catch them looking at me and they have a really pretty smile, I'll probably go up to them and talk to them right away. Then once I'm talking  to them, I really appreciate a girl who surprises you with her whimsicalness. Somebody who just doesn't seem cynical and is not really caught up in negativity but instead is like so surprisingly fun all of a sudden and quickly. I like to be pleasantly surprised, like where did you come from and how did I find her?"

Ideal woman: "Penelope Cruz in the film Vanilla Sky. I think she's beautiful in general but I think that her character and the way that her character was explored in that film both in his real life and then in his lucid dreams. She became the idealization of everything that he's ever wanted in love so she was influenced by all the films he saw as a child about love and the ideas that he had built over time based on the iconography of this youth of what love is. She's a composite. Her character in that movie, the poetry of that ideal like her being a composite of what love can be and the idealization of that. That's why I like to use her because I'm very much like that. I'm a romantic, a hopeless idealist, and when I'm in love I think it is required to idealize a romantic partner. You have to, you have to convert them into something divine because that's what makes love sort of a divine experience to begin with."

But is that hard for a lot of women to live up to: "Well yeah, no relationship can bear the burden of Godhood, as they say but I think that ultimately that's why it's very difficult to maintain a relationship for a long time, unless you really find somebody who's special. I think in the beginning you're going to assume that they're special just because you really like them and then you're going to find out whether they are or they aren't."

But then when you put that extra burden on them of being on that really tall, tall pedestal: "Yes, I think that's a mistake that I have made but I think that to lower expectations is to renounce the power of what if. So I'd rather always hope for somebody who really is going to ... I don't know... they're childish and overly romantic notions about love but I refuse to let them go."

What other qualities must a woman posses to be in your life: "She's got to be really kind. I'd love it if she was passionate and well read. I'd love for her to have simultaneously this intellect and wisdom but also the qualities of still being like a little girl in the sense like ... she can have fun and force me to have fun. You know that kind of girl. I like to call them a `pull your arm'. The kind of girl who's always excited and she's always like pulling your arm towards somewhere. And you're kind of just smiling to yourself thinking wow, where did I find her. Somebody who's incredibly positive and optimistic and seemingly has it all put together. Also assuming that I'm attracted to her, I like a girl who's really comfortable and forward in her sexuality. I like the idea that she'll just lunge herself at me because she had a moment where she was just like, I just love how you did that and she jumps on me. Something about that warm intensity, I like hot blooded women."

I can't resist a woman who ..."isn't the least intimidated by me, but rather gets me right away …"

Most important quality in a woman: "Kindness, passion, intelligence and a beautiful smile."

Ideal date: "Lots of wine, intense conversation and soul-stirring intimacy."

What makes me call a woman back after a first date: "Feeling like there was a genuine exchange that altered us both. Here's the thing, I respond very quickly to stimulation so if the date is amazing, I want everything to happen that night. And if it's not because of some extenuating circumstance then I will definitely call her again, if it was amazing. If the date was average, if it was just ok, or just fun, then I might still call her again but I'm only doing it because there's nothing better to do."

And you don't like the anticipation of what's next: "I do love it but that's where I get conflicts with my patience. I do love the anticipation and I think that it's healthy but what happens is if I'm in the moment and I'm feeling it, in that moment I'm like oh I don't care, I don't want to anticipate anything, I want everything now."

But that's why us women get  mixed messages, a lot of times men will say if you give everything out on the first date, what else is there, they've seen it all, been there done that: "No, no, no, you're right and I think that if I was to ... I mean maybe I'm different from most guys but yeah, I think it's important to maintain mystery and to be challenging. I think it goes straight to man's ego that men want to be challenged, maybe it's a primordial thing so I can totally understand that but there's always the fantasy that you're just going to have such an intense connection so fast that there's going to be no walls."

"Everything obviously it's individual, if there's a strong connection, if it's meant to happen and it happens right away, you can still date them for three years and then there's stories where the guys slept with someone on the first night and doesn't want to see her again: And I've had both of those instances. So I would say it's an individual case by case basis every time. Here's what I wouldn't do, I wouldn't make rules. Because if you made rules, you risk following your rules when you're not supposed to and that's the problem."

Right, but speaking for women. How do we know if we're the girl who's going to be the one that it works out with: "I would say that you know when you know, the same way you know when you fall in love, to make a rule oh I have to make anticipation, what if one night you meet the guy that's just it, you don't want to make him anticipate anything. If it's it, you want it to be it  I would say case by case basis. That's what instincts are for, follow your female intuitions."

I'd never date a woman who ... "is busier thinking about something else when she's with me. Oh, I've had that experience in LA of girls on their blackberries the whole dinner, that's miserable."

How I show I care: "By constantly videotaping her at the beach, at the park, walking around the street ... once I start creating iconography of her, I'm hooked. Oh yeah, I'm like Mr. home video and I don't mean that in a sexual way, I mean that in just like I'm the guy that we're hanging out at the beach and most of the time people are taking a photo, I'm the one that's like oh no, let's videotape this. I'll put the camera on her and I'll be like so describe this moment, how are you feeling right now and I just want to catch the nuances and the subtleties of her reflecting on this moment she's having with me. I just get such a pleasure out of watching those later. It sort of reinforces what I might have already been feeling in the moment, but sometimes you're busy living the moment you're not reflecting on it, and it's very important to reflect on a moment after you lived it as well and that's what video's good for."

But then has the moment kind of changed: "No, people say that, people say you're ruining the moment by making a video of the moment and I disagree. I think you're enhancing a moment, it's forcing you to be both actor and spectator in your own narrative and I get a big rush from that. I'm the actor and the spectator, I'm living the moment but I'm anticipating watching myself living the moment later and that feels kind of omnipotence in a way."

"For me that came from always being affected from scenes in films like flashback scenes or scenes that showed montages of like relationships with like a beautiful song playing in the background. You knows those kind of edited montages in films usually the character is thinking back or remembering someone and they show like clips of it, I've always been a sucker for that. I literally get chills every time I see that in a film. So that's my way of doing that for myself. I'm obsessed with having that sort of melancholic narrative of my love."

What makes a woman unforgettable: "
Her nuances and demeanor on camera. The little videos of our time together become the reinforcement for my cinematic love ... so if she's the perfect, endearing and lovable creature on camera ... I'm hooked."

I wish women understood ... "that we are just as hungry for affection and love. Well, that's a totally self reflective answer because there's a lot of men who are Neanderthals but my thing is that I wish that women would get that I am as sensitive and as hungry for affection and intimacy as any woman. I'm not a caveman - it's not just about sex for a lot of guys. We're meaning making creatures, we want things to mean something."

But not all the time: "I think when we settle for having something not mean anything it's usually because it's like ok, well, I'm hungry and I'm too lazy to go out to buy fresh food so I'm just going to eat the cold pizza because I'm hungry. It's still good but it's not as good as hot pizza."

Yes, and we're not talking about pizza, right: "Right."

One thing a woman has never done for me yet, but I would love it: "Embrace my love of immortalizing moments on video. Girls I date very quickly realize that I'm a total sentimentalist and I'm always romanticizing our time together and think that's a beautiful thing. I don't work well with cynical girls at all. They have to be romantic and they have to be optimistic and they have to have a soft spot to be moved."

... on RELATIONSHIPS

On relationships: "I love relationships. though I realize they are cloaked in pain because it is very difficult for them to last. No, I'm not a cynic. What I am is extremely connected with the irony and the absurdity of many things in life. I glorify mankind all the time, I think we are cosmic creatures, we can contemplate the infinite with our minds and here we have these finite, frail bodies. I think that the absurdity is we're the species who created Shakespeare, poetry, cinema, Beethoven and music. I mean we're Godly and yet we're creaturely because we sort of wither away, decay and die. So that awareness, while I'm an incredible optimist,  because I'm such a fan of all this joy there is in life to live, what makes me upset is that I also see that it seems ultimately futile. What I am is just restless. Have you ever read Ernest Becker's book, The Denial of Death. It's one of the most sophisticated comprehensive books about the human condition ever written. Basically it attributes all of mankind's anxieties, the whole human experience, all that tension and restlessness of modern man can be attributed to our awareness of death. We're the only species that is aware that we're finite. So that is a big problem for man, that affects everything he does, conscious or subconscious. So don't get me wrong, I'm a total optimist. I do think that we'll eventually ... we can find a solution to any problem, I mean we put a man on the moon, for Christ sakes, but there's a sadness wrapped to every joy that I have. I don't think it makes me a cynic, if anything it makes me more appreciative of every moment. If anything, I'm foolproof protective from ever taking anything for granted, because I take nothing for granted."

Is a relationship important to you: "Absolutely, I think they're wonderful. I think when they work, they're wonderful. But you don't find somebody who is both relationship material and available and the timing is right all the time. It hasn't happened that often. The stars really have to align."

What I love most about being in a relationship: "The voluntary illusion of complete safety, intimacy, happiness, comfort, sensuality."

It's interesting how you think: "The thing is, 
I believe it... love makes me feel immortal. There's a line from Ernest Becker's book and it said that when you're in love, you temporarily step off the moving walkway that's moving everyone else towards death. When you're in love, you step out of it. You're mingling with another person outside of time. You discover what it would be like to be as God mingling outside of time. That's what love promises, that's what love feels like. But the both times that I was in love, it ended for whatever reason, so it's kind of like Eh! I'm not about to surrender or give up on it, don't get me wrong, I'm out for love all the time but there's that whole thing. It's kind of like choose you the best illusion under which you can live."

Top relationship keys: "Tell each other everything - build a narrative together, become very attached ... it might hurt in the end, but it's better that way. I like brutal  honesty. If I am smitten with a girl at dinner, I'm not subtle. I'm just like, `you're so beautiful, I'm having trouble coming up with things to say to you.' I'm brutally honest. But the thing is I've gone on dates where I'm sort of attracted to the girl, but not really and in that case I kind of feel inauthentic. I'm obsessed with authenticity. I like genuineness, that feels really food because that makes it easy to make a connection with somebody."

A woman in a relationship with me can expect ... "to be loved in the way they stopped believing was possible."

What kind of boyfriend are you: "Oh my God, the sweetest, most attentive, romantic boyfriend ever. Oh yeah, they're loved. Well, think about it, if you sum up my entire philosophy of life and my awareness of the transience of everything. It means that every little exquisite instance with her is going to be squeezed and held onto and cherished infinitely."

How do you show your romantic side: "I guess it's a mixture of my philosophical outlook and my Latin sort of warm blooded touchy, feely sweetness that I think I definitely have. So it's very much like you take care of each other, you're there for each other, a lot of cuddling, a lot of holding, making the other person feel like you're there and everything is ok, make them feel safe."

What I expect: "Honesty, transparency, passion, commitment."

What makes me feel close to a woman: "Feeling like I'm understood ... like she gets me. Feeling like when she smiles at me, lots is conveyed."

Greatest relationship lesson: "Learn to never take things for granted."

What makes a woman marriage material: "Well, I never dated anybody who I didn't think I could have kids with. That's why I've only really dated two girls, because I don't think I can be with somebody unless I believe I can be with them forever. If I'm dating somebody it's because I think I'm in love with them. And usually it's because they have the perfect sort of combination of qualities that sort of fit together harmoniously."

Is marriage and family important to you: "Sure, but I definitely have to be financially independent before I can do that. I would never want to have kids and have to be worried about finances. If this career leads to the level of financial independence that I think it will, that I can be sort of a free wheeling artist, not worrying about money then yeah, I would love to be in love and raise kids and travel the world with them, absolutely."

Does this recession make you look at things differently: "It's a reminder that the foundations, that everything can move around and nothing is certain, nothing is completely safe, yeah it's frightening. I'm excited about Obama, hopefully he can restore some confidence which will then lead to some genuine improvement in what's going on."

... on SEX

You mentioned earlier the Latin stereotype: "There's two stereotypes, there's the romantic Latin lover but then there's the Latin player that is macho and who treats women like property. The romantic stereotype I'm happy to embody."

It seems that South Americans are more open sexually: "Well, here's what it is, to find like the right nuance for that is interesting because like I'm very open but it doesn't mean that I want to be with a slut either. I don't like the girls to be too aggressive but what I mean is if we're being intimate, I like the idea that we can both be naked for extended periods of time. What I don't like is you're with a girl and then she gets dressed or she's covered up right afterwards, like the moment is over and she's going to get dressed and cover everything up. I like to wallow in the intimacy that has just happened so I really appreciate like an uninhibited sort of, like we're not hiding, we're not ashamed. It's good, it's cool, it's comfortable, it's close, it's safe because there's so much shame that's attached to nudity. While I do think that intimacy is sacred but I also don't like the idea of hiding it, I mean I like to wallow in it. When I care about somebody, I like to just marinate in the nakedness. I do find that people outside of America have a sexual nature and development that is less about shame and more about comfortableness."

What makes sex good: "If it's a combination of tender and naughty and fully uninhibited "

I feel my sexiest when ... "a girl lunges at me unexpectedly. When she suddenly tells me in the restaurant that she wants to make love."

Most sensual part of a woman's body: "Face, eyes, breasts, butt."

Sexiest thing a woman can wear in private: "Nothing."

Surefire to seduce me: "Get up in my ear and whisper all the naughty things she wants to do ... the combination of feeling her breath in my ears while hearing her words is insanely sexy."

.... on LIFE

Making my mark: "Using Current TV to democratize the media and leave a dent in the universe ... by partnering up with people who inspire me to help spread word of the ideas that will change the world."

Responsibility to society: "To have a visceral impact on people and make them see that our potential is limitless."

Valuable life lesson: "Death is a tragedy. My grandfather died from emphysema, I was close to him. He was a wealthy guy and all the money in the world couldn't save him, hard lesson."

I must ... "find lasting love, become fully expressed in an artistic way, travel the world and document my most inspired moments."

Best advice received: "Dare to live your dreams. Dare to love again."

Best advice I've given a woman: "Learn to make the moments count."

... on HIS FAVORITE THINGS

Movie: "Vanilla Sly."

TV Show: "Little Britain USA."

Book: "The Immortalist by Alan Harrington; The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker; On Love by Alain de Bottom."

Music: "Anything used well in a film. I like Radiohead, but I'm not really a band guy, I'm a song guy. So it's like people's songs. Actually you know what band I like, Sigar Ros, I like a lot. And I like Moby. Bob Marley, I love."

Food: "Ethnic food - Latin/Brazilian, Thai, Ethiopian, Spanish Tapass."

... final THOUGHTS

Always in my refrigerator: "Hot sauce. We eat out a lot so it's very much a bachelor pad in that way."

Hottest possession: "All my videos … "

I'd change places for 24 hours with ... "George Clooney or Barack Obama because I think both of them are at the top of their game and they're both where they get to touch people with the work they do as president or George Clooney with films that can make people think and touch them or inspire them in some way. But both of them are basically like rock stars in what they do. It must be fascinating to get to a point where you are so looked up to for your accomplishments. That must feel good."

I'd most like to hang out with ... "Cameron Crowe. I love his cinematic sensibilities."

Celeb I'd love to take on a date: "Virginie Ledoyen in The Beach. I always thought she was beautiful. Penelope Cruz in Vanilla Sky and Virgenie in The Beach, that pretty much is my type."

Why I'm a great catch: "I'm incredibly passionate and joyful and I don't take things for granted. I'm well aware that the little things are the things that matter. She's definitely going to be mentally stimulated, I hope, by being around me. And I'm a big fan of love in the best sense of it."

Me in five words: "Passionate and obsessed with living."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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