A couple of things that I remember ...
Steve was incredibly generous with his time and friendship ... I often stayed at his North Hollywood abode ... sleeping on the floor or a couch in my sleeping bag ... when I would show up with little or no notice from Santa Barbara where I was attending Brooks Institute, the photography school. I remember as vividly as yesterday the crazy Hollywood Parties in the hills and arroyos of Los Angeles to which he invited me ... the tours of Kaleidoscope Films where he cut trailers late into the night and early morning ... I must have heard the sound effects for Close Encounters of the Third Kind about 10 thousand times ... I'm sure he rewound the moviola reels another 20,000 times until he got the edits JUST RIGHT. I remember he introduced me to cold coffee (yuk to this day), the bizarre sushi of LA (of which I remain a consummate fan to this evening) and Bunuel films (still on the fence with that ...). I was able to repay the favor when he and his friends visited my then wife and I in San Francisco for the Hookers Ball sometime in the early '80s ... we lost track of each other after that until we reconnected through the mutual interest in the Bogalusa Ghosts ... Steve will be missed by everyone that knew him, as a good friend and possessing an adventurous spirit.