Jim Coleman

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.”

“I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives.”

“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.”

“And I definitely have an affinity with the piano.”

“I'm from all over the Northeast.”

“And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.”

“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.”

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

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

“So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world.”

“With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the mood.”

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

“And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.”

“Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.”

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

“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.”

“Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.”