Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.
Jim Coleman

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.
Jim Coleman

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.
Jim Coleman

And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.
Jim Coleman

And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.
Jim Coleman

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.
Jim Coleman

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.
Jim Coleman

But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that.
Jim Coleman

But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.
Jim Coleman

But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen.
Jim Coleman


First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations.
Jim Coleman

For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.
Jim Coleman

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.
Jim Coleman

I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut.
Jim Coleman

I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret.
Jim Coleman

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.
Jim Coleman

I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.
Jim Coleman

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.
Jim Coleman

I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.
Jim Coleman

I'm from all over the Northeast.
Jim Coleman