Carman is an East Bay native who fled his suburban upbringing to go to UCLA and grew to embrace everything about Los Angeles except for the Dodgers. His personal heroes are Jacques Cousteau, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Sadaharu Oh, Steve Young, and Ornette Coleman. He's often spotted around town wearing a San Francisco Giants cap, rapping Wu-Tang Clan in his car at red lights, seeing an old movie, and/or slurping down a giant bowl of ramen.

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