Bradley Beesley is an American independent film and video director, producer and cinematographer. He has long been associated with the alternative music band, The Flaming Lips.

Beesley first worked with The Flaming Lips filming some promotional videos for the band's album Hit to Death in the Future Head.^[1] Most of Beesley's video work with the band is included on the VOID video retrospective.

Aside from his work with The Flaming Lips, Beesley has directed a number of award-winning documentaries. His first was 1999's "Hill Stomp Hollar", a one-hour film about the Fat Possum record label and many of the blues artists, particularly R. L. Burnside.

Beesley's next film Okie Noodling (2001) focused on the unusual practice of catching catfish using only the bare hand as bait. It featured an original soundtrack by The Flaming Lips and won the Audience Choice Award and was runner-up for Best Documentary at the 2001 South by Southwest film festival.^[2]

In 2005, Beesley released the documentary The Fearless Freaks: The Wondrously Improbable Story of The Flaming Lips. Critics said the film offered an unusually personal and intimate view into the band.^[3][4]

The Flaming Lips also provided the soundtrack for the documentary that Beesley produced and co-directed, Summercamp!, which opened July 18, 2007.^[5]

Filmography[link]

• Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo (2009) - Director, co-producer, co-camera^[6]
• Christmas on Mars (2008) - Cinematographer and narrator
• Summercamp! (2007) - Producer and co-director (with Sarah Price)
• UFOs at the Zoo: The Flaming Lips Live in Oklahoma City - Co-director
• Roller Girls (2006) - Co-director (with Dan Brown, Tina Gazzerro, and Mark Miks
• The Fearless Freaks (2005) - Director
• Okie Noodling (2001) - Producer and director
• Hill Stomp Hollar (1999) - Director

Videography[link]

• The Flaming Lips: "Frogs" (1992) - Co-directed with Wayne Coyne
• The Flaming Lips: "Turn It On" (1993) - Co-directed with Wayne Coyne
• The Flaming Lips: "She Don't Use Jelly" (1993) - Co-directed with Wayne Coyne
• The Flaming Lips: "Be My Head" (1994) - Co-directed with Wayne Coyne
• The Flaming Lips: "Christmas at the Zoo" (1995) - Co-directed with Wayne Coyne
• The Flaming Lips: "Bad Days" (1995) - Co-directed with Wayne Coyne
• The Flaming Lips: "When You Smile" (1995) - Co-directed with Wayne Coyne
• The Flaming Lips: "Waitin' for a Superman" (1999) - Co-directed with Wayne Coyne
• The Flaming Lips: "Race for the Prize" (1999) - Co-directed with Wayne Coyne
• The Flaming Lips: "Do You Realize??" (2002) - Co-directed with Wayne Coyne
• The Flaming Lips: "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, pt. 1" (2002) - Co-directed with Wayne Coyne
• The Flaming Lips: "Fight Test" (2002) - Co-directed with Wayne Coyne
• Biffy Clyro: "My Recovery Injection" (2003)
• Biffy Clyro: "Questions and Answers" (2004)
• The Flaming Lips: "SpongeBob & Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy" (2004) - Co-directed with Wayne Coyne
• The Flaming Lips: "Mr. Ambulance Driver" (2004) - Co-directed with Wayne Coyne
• The Flaming Lips: "The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)" (2006)
• Mojave 3: "Breaking the Ice" (2006)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Interview with Brad Beesley in EconoCulture
• Official site
• Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film"
• Official website for "The Fearless Freaks"

Look up Bradley in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Bradley is an English masculine given name. It comes from a surname and a place name meaning "broad wood" or "broad clearing" in Old English.^[1]

It is also an Anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic name O’Brolachán (also O’Brallaghan) from County Tyrone in Ireland. The family moved and spread to counties Londonderry, Donegal and Cork.

People[link]

First name[link]

Bradley (sometimes shortened to Brad) is the first name of several notable people:

This page or section lists people that share the same given name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.

• Brad Ausmus (born 1969)), American Major League Baseball all-star catcher
• Bradley Ayers (born 1935), CIA operative
• Bradley Cooper (born 1975), American actor
• Brad Hogg (born 1970), Australian cricketer
• Bradley Hore (born 1981), Australian flyweight boxer
• Bradley James (born 1984), British actor
• Bradley Manning, alleged whistleblower / leaker of video in Wikileaks' Collateral Murder case
• Bradley McGee (born 1976), former Australian professional cyclist (road and track)
• Bradley McIntosh (born 1981), member of S Club 7
• Bradley Nowell (1968–1996), American musician
• Brad Pitt (born 1963), American actor
• Bradley Quinn (born 1976), Northern Irish photographer
• Bradley Whitford (born 1959), American actor
• Bradley Wiggins (born 1980), British professional cyclist (road and track)

Surname[link]

Bradley is the surname of these and other notable people:

• Abraham Bradley, Jr. (1767–1838), first Assistant Postmaster-General of the U.S.
• A. C. Bradley (1851–1935), English Shakespearean scholar
• Avery Bradley (born 1990), American basketball player
• Bill Bradley (born 1943), American basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former US senator from New Jersey
• Bill Bradley (baseball) (1878–1954), early 20th-century third baseman in Major League Baseball
• Bob Bradley (born 1958), former manager of the United States men's national soccer team
• Brian Bradley (born 1965), Canadian hockey player
• Bruce Bradley (born 1947), American water polo player
• Celeste Bradley (fl. 2001), American author of romance novels
• Craig Bradley (born 1963), Australian rules footballer
• Dan Beach Bradley (1804–1873), American Protestant missionary to Siam
• David W. Bradley, computer game designer and programmer
• Ed Bradley (1941–2006), American journalist
• Eoin Bradley, Irish Gaelic footballer, plays for Derry
• F. H. Bradley (1846–1924), British idealist philosopher
• Foghorn Bradley (1855–1900), American baseball umpire
• George Bradley (1852–1931), American baseball player
• George Bradley (Medal of Honor) (1881–1942), American naval officer
• Gwendolyn Bradley, American soprano
• Henry Bradley (1845–1923), Oxford English Dictionary editor
• James Bradley (1693–1762), English astronomer
• James Bradley (Australian writer), (born 1967), Australian novelist
• James Bradley (author) (born 1954), American historian, writer
• John Bradley (disambiguation)
• Joseph P. Bradley (1813–1892), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1870–1892
• Keegan Bradley (born 1986), American golfer
• Kepler Bradley (born 1985), Australian rules footballer with Essendon Bombers and Fremantle Dockers
• Liam Bradley, Irish Gaelic football manager
• Loretta Bradley (born 1933), American psychologist
• Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999), American science fiction author
• Matt Bradley (born 1978), Canadian professional hockey player
• Milton Bradley (1836–1911), board game pioneer
• Milton Bradley (baseball) (born 1978), American baseball player
• Omar Bradley (1893–1981), U.S. general
• Paddy Bradley, Irish Gaelic footballer, plays for Derry
• Peter Bradley (born 1953), English politician
• Robert A. Bradley (1917–1998), Bradley method of natural childbirth
• Ryan Bradley (born 1983), American figure skater
• Shawn Bradley (born 1972), retired American basketball player
• Tom Bradley (American politician) (1917–1998), five-term mayor of Los Angeles, California
• W. C. Bradley (1863–1947), American entrepreneur and Coca-Cola chairman
• Will H. Bradley (1868–1962), American Art Nouveau illustrator and artist
• William J. Bradley (1852–1916), American businessman and New Jersey legislator

References[link]

This page or section lists people with the surname Bradley. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.

This page or section lists people that share the same given name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.

Cass McCombs is an American songwriter and performer.

McCombs was born in Concord, California in 1977. He has led a nomadic existence for most of his adult life, moving from one city to the next, living in cars, on couches and at campsites. McCombs spent time developing his songwriting abilities in New York City, until the events of 9/11 (coupled with running out of money) sent him back, via Greyhound bus, to San Francisco, where he recorded his debut E.P., entitled Not the Way E.P. It would be released by the small Baltimore-based Monitor Records in 2002. After relocating there, his first full-length album, A, was released early the following year on Monitor in the U.S. and in Europe and the U.K. by 4AD. McCombs and his band spent much of 2003 and 2004 touring, performing everywhere from the All Tomorrow's Parties festival to house shows. McCombs otherwise divided his time amongst the Pacific Northwest, England and Baltimore. After a week of recording in Michigan, his second LP, PREfection, arrived in spring 2005.^[1]  Later that year, he decamped to Southern California to begin work on his third full-length, Dropping the Writ, which was released on October 9, 2007, by Domino Records and later named one of Amazon.com’s Best Albums of 2007.^[2]  Following a period in Chicago, he returned to California to record Catacombs before its eventual U.S. release on July 7, 2009. The album was named one of the top 50 albums of 2009 by Pitchfork Media.^[3]  His fifth LP, Wit's End, was released by Domino on April 26, 2011.^[4] It was followed by another LP, entitled Humor Risk and released on November 8, 2011 - less than 7 months after the release of his previous LP. Like Catacombs and Wit's End, it was produced by Ariel Rechtshaid and McCombs.^[5]

He has performed or toured with Honeyboy Edwards, Mike Bones, Band of Horses, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, White Magic, Cat Power, The Anomonon, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Andrew Bird, Blonde Redhead, Modest Mouse, Girls, Sleepy Doug Shaw, Beach House, The Decemberists, Arcade Fire, Peter Bjorn and John, Papercuts, Fiery Furnaces, José González, The Shins, Iron and Wine, Arboretum, Deerhoof, The Walkmen, John Webster Johns, Lightspeed Champion, The Donkeys, OXES, Gang Gang Dance, Convalescent Surprise, Frank Fairfield, Michael Hurley, Jana Hunter, Lower Dens, Thurston Moore, and Mt. Egypt.

His songs have been featured in films such as Thomas Campbell's 2009 surf film The Present^[6] and Ralph Arlyck documentary Following Sean,^[7] as well as notable skate videos featuring Jason Dill,^[8] Jerry Hsu^[9] Chima Ferguson and Dylan Rieder.^[10]

McCombs has stated that his tombstone will read "Home At Last."^[11]

Discography[link]

• Not the Way E.P. (2002)
• A (2003)
• PREfection (2005)
• Dropping the Writ (2007)
• Catacombs (2009)
• Wit's End (2011)
• Humor Risk (2011)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Mystery Man - Interview w/ Vice Magazine
• Pitchfork Media review of PREfection link
• Video for Sacred Heart from PREfection
• Transcript of interview on National Public Radio's World Cafe show [1]
• Portland Mercury article by Zac Pennington [2]
• Cass McCombs (official site)