Having successfully sold his film and DVD distribution company, Unobstructed View, in 2025 Jonathan Gross can safely say his chequered past has taken a turn past a chequered flag by virtue of the fact that he survived over thirty years in an extremely challenging enduro. The transaction, if not “F… You Money”, frees up his time for his favorite pursuit – making sense of his long strange trip while continuing to navigate the uncharted waters of a recent septuagenarian. Ergo the need to move on from the last blog Sixtyisnotthenewforty.com which will still be around for reference.
Yes, a cautionary tale full of professionally and personally questionable moves, started in Brooklyn, developed in Toronto with stops in photography (Toronto Sun), sportswriting (Ottawa Today), rock criticism (Toronto Sun and Toronto Star), being a pop TV personality (Video Singles etc.) rap concert promotion (Gross National Product), a sojourn manufacturing blank VHS tape and then continued to New York (Rolling Stone Publications), then TV writing in LA (Seinfeld for one) and then back, shaken but not stirred by the 1994 Northridge Earthquake to kick start what would become Unobstructed View. With releases too numerous to mention UV is known today as the number one purveyor of classic films on disc in Canada.
He’s also a proud but unattached father of two adult children and would be thrilled to throw a wedding and, eventually, take some poor grandchild to the hockey rink and ruin his or her self-confidence.
Nine Is The New Midnight will coalesce around what is hopefully a Victory Lap accompanied by the sound of more than one hand clapping.