In the summer of 2012 he produced the music video Constant Conversations for electropop band Passion Pit that featured Peter Bogdanovich and premiered on Pitchfork.
[12] He executive produced Pete Smalls is Dead[13] starring Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi and Peter Dinklage which domestically premiered at Slamdance after being selected by the International Rome Film Festival and the feature film Life is Hot in Cracktown,[14] written and directed by Buddy Giovinazzo and which starred Kerry Washington, Evan Ross, RZA and Shannyn Sossamon.
He developed the memoir Amarillo Slim with Nicolas Cage[15] and had the original option on the Vanity Fair article "The Suspects Wore Louboutins" by Nancy Jo Sales[16] which was then acquired by Sofia Coppola for her film about the Hollywood Bling Ring.
[18] He has also developed projects with Gaspar Noe and from source material by Sarah Silverman, Jonathan Ames, Will Self, Denis Johnson and Thom Jones.
He has written about film for Paste Magazine[26] and was also the author of a pseudonymous entertainment column for the online literary site of McSweeneys Quarterly.