Filmed and directed by John Veltri and produced by Marguerite Lorimer, LIFETIMES is a direct-to-DVD documentary film about the zany lifetimes, music, famous and not-so-famous friends, insights and experiences of San Francisco hipster - sound innovator Henrysandy Jacobs. The story is told through the first-person narrative of Fanny Ting, a young Vietnamese woman who enters the 84-year-old’s life, awakens his memories and captures his heart.

Henry Sandy Jacobs was born in Chicago on October 9, 1924. He has lived in Mexico, New Orleans, San Francisco, and various other known and unknown places. In 1952, Jacobs began experimenting with reel to reel tape recorders, recording a diversity of ambient and everyday sounds and traditional music.

A1953 radio show at KPFA Radio in Berkeley, California often featured experts in certain ethnic musics onto his radio shows to provide background information. When no experts were available, he would not infrequently fake it, sometimes improvising with humorist and colleague Woody Leafer. One of Jacobs interviews featured "Sholem Stein", an alleged Hebrew musicologist who claimed that calypso music had deep Rabbinical meanings.

Jacobs also pursued an interest in all aspects of sound, in the composition of musique concrete, in improvisational theatre and humor. He knew poets Lawrence Ferlenghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, Alan Ginsberg, comedian Lenny Bruce (whose first recording was a Jacobs project, Interviews of Our Times), and percussionist Mongo Santamaria. Most important among these new social contacts were the friendships he struck up with Ken Nordine, "the Father of Word Jazz," and Alan Watts, a gifted raconteur and former Anglican priest best known for popularizing and interpreting eastern philosophy for a western audience. Jacobs’ album,

The Wide Weird World of Shorty Petterstein consisted largely of encounters between hipsters and unknowing squares. His Fine Art of Goofing Off was re-released in 2005. Contained in a box that was discovered by record producer Jack Dangers in 2004 - in the mud, under the floorboards of his Mill Valley, California house - Jacobs’ abandoned and long-forgotten original reel-to-reel tapes were cleaned up, restored, and released under the label of Important Rocords.The energy generated in England by this release prompted the production of a documentry film about Jacobs life.