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00:00Hello, A.D. Welcome to my home. Come on in.

00:16Howdy doody. This is the living room. This is my beautiful sofa. It's leather. It's vintage.

00:23It's had some use over the years, but I think that's what gives it a lot of character.

00:28It's super comfortable. It's got a little bit of bucket seat action, but you can also lay down on it.

00:33This is my backgammon set I got from MTV. See, there's the MTV guy.

00:39They gave me this when I did George and Tammy as a present.

00:42And then this chess set I got in Budapest, Hungary. It was a prop.

00:46I just did this show called Death by Lightning, where I played President James Garfield.

00:50And this was my chess set in the White House, so they let me keep it when I finished.

00:54This is my apple. This is not a real apple. It's made out of, I think, gosh, marble.

01:02It's made out of marble. I got this in Florence, Italy on my 50th birthday. It was a little birthday

01:08present to myself. I just saw it and it became my favorite thing. It's very heavy. Yeah, this is one

01:14of my all-time favorite movies ever, ever, ever, ever. It's called Alphaville. It's a Jean-Luc Godard film.

01:22And it's weird. It's kind of about how AI is going to take over the world, but it's in black and white.

01:27It was made over a few decades ago in Paris. It's pretty creepy.

01:32This drawing is a drawing that my father did, actually. My father was an accounting professor,

01:38but he always had a knack for visual art. That's a picture that my daughter Sylvia took in Paris.

01:44That's a picture of me in a movie called The Bike Riders. Colleen from In Between Studios.

01:50We did a lot of talking before she came in and made it all the way I wanted it to be.

01:56My grandmother collected a lot of Turkish rugs. I like the way Colleen put the smaller one

02:00on top of the larger one like that, a little asymmetrical. I'm big into asymmetry. I like that.

02:06The walls, I don't know if you can tell, but the walls are really cool. They have this

02:09Venetian plaster on them. They're the softest walls I've ever touched in my life.

02:15And here's my record collection. They're all my favorites. I don't get records I don't want to

02:20listen to, but this is my favorite guy, Thelonious Monk. He's my all-time favorite guy

02:25that ever did any kind of art at all, ever. He's the best one right there. And my fake cactus,

02:33I have real cactuses upstairs or cacti. Garfield for President. I played President Garfield and

02:38they gave me a little sign to take with me. This is from the big rally at the beginning when I get

02:46the nomination. Yep. That's a little prize I got. My little prayer bowl.

03:00Then this is the dining room. Fairly simple, but this is a beautiful lighting fixture. The texture

03:07of it is really nice. It's very soothing, calm. Everything in here is about being, you know,

03:12calm because my life is so chaotic and strange. So when I come home, I want it to be calm, chill,

03:20chill. Right? So this is really the piece de la resistance. This is Colleen's crowning achievement.

03:28I think it's an Indian window frame that she brought all the way back here just for me. And then they

03:33cut out a space for it and sunk it into the wall. Had these shelves put in to accommodate all these

03:40goblets. This is my grandmother's. These are all pieces that she got in Turkey. You can't say I use

03:47them because I don't even know how to clean them. I want to, you shouldn't put water on them, I don't

03:52think. Maybe I'll break them out if I ever have a big dinner party or something. It's like a work of art.

03:57Here's the kitchen. The first thing you'll notice is that I have a lot of onions and garlic, which come

04:16in handy. If I'm going to go on a date or something, I eat a little bit of that. No, this kitchen is

04:24totally pretty much new except I think the wolf stove was here, but all of this countertops and

04:31the sink and the doors and all this, the shelves. Colleen set this up for me. It's pretty slick

04:38looking. It's very sophisticated. This is another piece that Colleen put into the wall. It's so pretty

04:46with the little space for a candle there. Again, the theme of tranquility and calmness and all that.

04:53I'm praying that the world doesn't end. Yeah, pretty much. This is a painting of my daughter

04:59did of the ocean. Looks like the sun's going down, yeah. Bunch of birds and stuff. We've done a little

05:05bit of cooking in here, but I'd say the thing I make a lot is tea. This is my little teapot. I'm really

05:13into tea lately. I also have this beautiful wine fridge. I don't know if you noticed, but there's a

05:20staircase here which leads to the upstairs. Yeah, I got two floors, so let's go check that out.

05:36I kind of call this the den. This is kind of an oddly shaped space that we had to figure out what

05:48to do with. There's no windows in here, so it gets really dark. If you turn off all the lights,

05:54it's kind of like you're in one of them float tanks or something. It's nice for sleeping. You can sleep on

06:00these cushions over there. I've had many people say it's quite comfortable actually. Around the corner

06:06there's a TV on the wall, which I never even turn on, but sometimes my daughters look at it and there's

06:12a lot of really groovy artwork and knickknacks in here. This cross beam here in the wall is really

06:20cool detail. I feel like I should have like a hookah in here or something, like a little,

06:25but then it would smell like that. That would be awful. There's some really cool lamps over here

06:30that Colleen got. They make this amazing pattern, like this kind of watery, shimmery pattern. There's

06:37one there and one there. My younger daughter likes to have like secret space, so there's a little,

06:44I can't even barely get in here, but it's for her to come and she can like hide out in here.

06:50And it's really cool. This is her little lounge. It's very tranquil, private little space. It's got

06:58some really cool wallpaper. The second floor is for my daughters, basically. I have to be frank,

07:04I don't spend a lot of time here, period, in any part of it. I'm always on the road, you know,

07:10making art for the people. Yeah. And my daughter, Marion, she likes cool colors, like purple and blue

07:17and whatnot. So she got to dictate the colors in here. And then their room is my other daughter,

07:25got to dictate the colors in there, which are warmer.

07:40So this is the girls' room. And as you can see, it has a warmer color palette than the den. This

07:48beautiful kind of a sunflower type vibe, really pretty light fixtures and a couple of mushrooms,

07:56because we're into mushrooms, not the medicinal kind, the other kind. And then these are the real

08:02cactuses. Like I said, I have a fake cactus downstairs. Cactusing was Colleen's suggestion,

08:09because she thought I would enjoy having some greenery, but something kind of low maintenance.

08:14I got a little patio, which is nice. Not today, because it's raining, but in the summertime,

08:21it's nice to go out there and hang out. And these beautiful headboards for the bed,

08:27although because of the way the beds are arranged, it's kind of a sideboard, I guess. But it's similar

08:34style to the furniture downstairs from India. They get their own bathroom. This wallpaper is beautiful.

08:41I really like this. And Colleen put that in and a little smiley face rug, which is always a nice

08:48reminder to smile, smile. Well, lucky you. You're in my bedroom. This is where I sleep at night and dream.

09:11What do you dream about? None of your business. My grandmother lived in Turkey for a long time.

09:18This is way before I was born, when my father was a little boy. She collected Turkish rugs and Turkish

09:24artifacts of all kinds. And Colleen had the idea to paint a Turkish rug mural on the ceiling,

09:33which is really cool. And I would come by when the painters were doing it. And I've painted a few

09:39ceilings in my day. And it's not easy, even just if you're using a roller and putting some primer up

09:45there. It's pretty hard on your shoulders. And these poor painters were on this scaffolding. It

09:50was like the Sistine Chapel or something. They had these tiny brushes. There's a lot of detail

09:55in this painting. It's pretty astonishing what they did. I also have these large pillows here

10:02that are made. This rug was in a kind of a state of disrepair. Colleen took it in to have it looked at,

10:09and they said, yeah, it's seen better days. So she said, well, with your permission, can I cut it up and

10:15make it into these throw pillows? I think that turned out real nice. Oh dear, there's a sign over

10:19there you maybe shouldn't look at. A headband. Somebody gave it to me for my birthday when I was

10:25turning 50. This is a very peaceful room, you know, even despite the fact that the Brooklyn Queens

10:31Expressway is just over there a little ways. Oh, the vintage speakers, they don't function. They're not

10:37plugged into anything. Actually, my father-in-law's speakers, they're from the 70s, I believe. I just

10:44like the way they look, the ribbed texture. And then one of my favorite bands, Deer Hoof,

10:50I have their poster up there. And then I have a poster for this movie I made, Take Shelter, that's

10:56very dear to my heart. Whenever anybody asks me what's my favorite movie I've made or whatever,

11:02I usually say that one. So I don't need a lot of space. I'm actually not home all that often. So

11:11I didn't need anything too grandiose. I just wanted to be comfortable. Yeah. But when I moved in here,

11:18it was very bare bones. So it was, Colleen definitely made it more homey.

11:41One of the things that's really important to me is safety. So I've got this, my arsenal here on the

11:47wall to make sure that no matter what happens, I'm prepared. So no, this is just some old weapons

11:55from Turkey. This is a firearm that could not work under any circumstances. It's a rusted shot or

12:03something. But yeah, it's pretty cool looking. My cousin did this painting. His name's Thomas Baker.

12:08He lives down in Kentucky. He sent me a picture of it. I said, Tom, I got to have that in my house. So

12:13he tried to cut me a deal on it, but I said, no, charge me what you would charge anybody else. Because

12:19it's a hard life. Sometimes I kind of feel like this guy, you know? I mean, who doesn't? Just falling

12:24through this beautiful chaos. Well, AD, thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed the tour

12:43and see you somewhere down the road.

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