Micha writes about creativity, technology, and the stories we tell ourselves. Drawing from three decades inside Hollywood, he explores what it means to live at the intersection of art and craft. New essays publish weekly.
July 15, 2026
How to stop playing the game of not it
One of the most common questions I get when people find out what I do for a living is do I get to meet famous people? The answer is yes, but it’s not as glamorous as it might seem. I’m not hanging out…
July 1, 2026
There’s a myth that Hollywood is made up of the most talented, most deserving people in their crafts. And while Hollywood is full of talent, that’s not exactly true. In almost every desirable industry…
June 24, 2026
How Hollywood became a Gucci Bag
In 2007 I was working on season five of a CBS crime drama called Cold Case. In November, in the middle of the season, the writers went on strike. We were forced to cut the season short. In post produc…
June 17, 2026
There's a very old and common thought experiment that most people have thought about at some point in their life. It goes a little something like, “I wonder if the color I see as green is what you see…
June 10, 2026
My first computer was a RadioShack TRS-80. It plugged into my TV. You wrote programs in a language called BASIC and saved them on an audio cassette, if you were lucky enough to have the specialized au…
June 3, 2026
Is It a Goal or a Hiding Place?
One of my closest friends has really been making strides lately in his acting career. We were going over all of the things he has been doing that have really been helping move his career forward and w…
May 27, 2026
I was working as the assistant composer for John Frizzell. He was scoring a quirky little independent film with Antonio Banderas, Bob Hoskins, and Wes Bentley called The White River Kid . It was a low…
May 20, 2026
Jonathan Wolff is probably best known for being the composer of Seinfeld and that iconic bassline, but he was much more than that. Jonathan was the most prolific sitcom composer in television history.…
May 13, 2026
One of my favorite scenes in Deadwood happens in the finale of the first season. Al Swearengen, the villain, kills the universally beloved town preacher (played by the brilliant Ray McKinnon, who I wo…
May 6, 2026
How to Be a Good Collaborator
Today I was in a mix playback for an upcoming Disney show, and something incredibly normal happened, something that happens at almost every mix playback, and it suddenly occurred to me that maybe we a…
April 29, 2026
We all have multiple versions of the story we tell about who we are. We have the version we put on the internet. The version we tell our friends and family. The version on our résumé. The version of w…
April 22, 2026
David Schwartz, the composer I was working for at the time, had just handed me the files for about 50 cues he had written for a short-lived sitcom called “Life With Roger.” I had to prepare for two re…
April 15, 2026
Every day, as I drove across town to my unpaid internship where I was learning nothing and doing nothing and meeting no one and just doing their dirty work for nothing, I told myself that when I got t…