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Portland, I’m yours for the taking.

Tony Zito — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:35:18 +0000

Hello, Portland. I’m ready to take the next step, if you are. I’m plotting my next career move, and would love to stay here in our lovely, livable town. The only problem is that all the juicy digital media jobs for someone like me seem to be in New York, L.A., or San Francisco. This can’t possibly be true; a glance at my pdx twitter feed tells me there is no shortage of smart, energized people here doing some really exciting work. (I’ve even been lucky enough to meet some of them.) So while there may be more jobs in those other cities, there’s got to be at least one here that is a perfect fit. And one is all I need.

At the risk of being immodest, I’m a real catch. Just check out the resume below. (Plus, if you hire me, you’ll have a real-life Emmy award in the building. Yeah, it’s heavy.)

I’ve heard time and again that the Portland talent pool is rich with creatives, but lacking in executives. I’m a healthy mix of both, and I’m here for the taking. Portland, I’m counting on you; don’t make me leave. I have a feeling we can do some pretty great things together.

Tony Zito’s Resume

Or, if you prefer, here it is as a PDF.

“List your favorite record from every year you’ve been alive.” (Part I – 1973-1980)

Tony Zito — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:36:45 +0000

Inspired by this post on Gorilla vs Bear, here are my favorite albums from each year I’ve been alive.

1973: GP – Gram Parsons
1974: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) – Brian Eno
1975: Blood on the Tracks – Bob Dylan
1976: Modern Lovers – Modern Lovers
1977: Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas – Townes Van Zandt
1978: Third/Sister Lovers – Big Star (with close 2nd and 3rd to Elvis Costello’s This Year’s Model and Devo’s Are We Not Men)
1979: Entertainment! – Gang Of Four
1980: London Calling – The Clash

1981-1990 coming soon.

My road-trip mix tape

Tony Zito — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:49:40 +0000

True Affection by The Blow

Queen Bitch by David Bowie

Prove My Love by Violent Femmes

It's a long road trip. Sometimes we're going 85 on a wide-open road under the western sun, sometimes it's late at night, a blinding rain beating against the rooftop, and we're looking for a road-side motel. It's a long road trip. Let's not forget why we're doing it.

Welcome to the Citrus Fortress!

Tony Zito — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:33:11 +0000

Quite exciting! The portcullis of the citrus fortress is finally lifting! Ported content over from blogger, and obviously there’ll be more to come soon.

This is very much a work in progress. I’m even still working on my animated GIF of the jackhammer man.

nested parentheses

Tony Zito — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:10:00 +0000

Things are happening that I shan’t go into. It occurs to me, though, that an important task in life involves sorting out the forever people from the people you let go. They are all important, and their lives are all equally meaningful and rich and deep. And even the phrase “let go” isn’t right nor fair. Those people might remain in your life as well. The best way I can express it is with a math metaphor. I apologize. But it’s like nested parentheses in an equation. Inner parens have the smallest context, and are evaluated first, whilst outer parens, well, they wait a little longer but have the widest context. The metaphorical outer parens, they’re the keepers, and they’ll be with you forever.

I guess I find myself realizing the some of the parens I had thought were more outer might end up being more inner, and vice versa.

Here’s a song.

namespace collision

Tony Zito — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:22:00 +0000

Ugh. So I’ve known for years that there’s another Tony Zito out there, a semi-savory real estate agent from Baton Rouge — he even beat me to the domain name. But this takes the cake — this Tony Zito, CEO of Mediaforge, is in my own industry, and is clearly being interviewed far more oftenthan I. I wonder if the era of Google will inspire more people to name their children with unique identifiers, or opt for digital camouflage.

gonna start up the old blogging machine…

Tony Zito — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:41:00 +0000

I would say “again” but I think it would be a bit disingenuous. I’ve been having a lot of thoughts lately, some of which would require at least 150 or 160 characters to fully explore, so I figured it was as good a time as any. I’m considering a switch away from blogger.com, though…we’ll see.