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Ben

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About Me

I am slowly turning into my father who is quickly turning into Christopher Lee... so I'm not sweating it.

My Interests

Filmmaking, Live Music, Unforgivable Puns, Mittens, Post Apocalyptic Living, Marx Brothers, Zombies, Czech New Wave Cinema, Innovative Swearing, Unbridled Hilarity, Zingers, Analyzing The Works Of Danzig, Creating Threats From Innocuous Remarks, Smiting, Regional Cooking, Conan The Barbarian, Incorrect Pluralizations, Explosiae, Road Trips, Screaming Killing Metal

I'd like to meet:

Seaplane Pilots, Kendo Masters, Survivalists, Metalheads, Bear Tamers, Chaotic Dark Half Elves, Bitches Running Wild, Someone Who Can Teach Me To Do This:

Music:

Thrones, Jonathan Richman, Melvins, Dead Moon, Karp, Neil Young, Lightning Bolt, Misfits, Lilys, Neubaten, Kool Keith, S. Gainesbourg, Microphones, Will Oldham, Eno, Prince, Springsteen, Slayer, ODB, Zeppelin, Cars, Lee Hazlewood, Helio Sequence, Frankie Lyman & The Teenagers, Megadeth, Television, Kinks, Edwin Starr, Wipers, Ween, Billy Nayer Show, Smog, Romantic Retardnation, Robyn Hitchcock, Earth, Nick Lowe, Dr. Dre, Pre-Collins Genesis, The Epoxies, Beat Happening, Hella, Young MC, Iron Maiden, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, DJ Dangermouse, Iron and Wine, Fantomas, Dolly Parton, AC/DC, Mastadon, Bauhaus, Outkast, Neutral Milk Hotel, Enemymine, Cindy Lauper, Mogwai, The Crystals, The Sword, Crom, !!!, Early Man, Jens Lekman, Hall, Oates,Doug Paisley, The Free Association, Chromeo, My Bloody Valentine, Big Business

Movies:

Anything by Kieslowski, Polanski, Cronenberg, Hammer Studios, Russ Meyer, Waters, Herzog, Maddin, Lynch, Romero, Allen, Midnight Madness, The Wayward Cloud, The Exorcist, Graduate, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Heavy, anything with Christopher Lee, Crispin Glover or Stephen Geoffreys, anything shot by Chris Doyle, Darius Khondji, Ellen Kuras, Lance Acord, Tim Orr, Agnes Varda, Alwin Kutcher, Lucio Visconti, or Gordon Willis, anything by Michael Winterbottom, Lynne Ramsay, Vincent Gallo, David Gordon Green, Calvin Reeder, Claire Denis

Books:

Anything by Mark Leyner, Raymond Carver, Charles Addams or J.D.Salinger, The Conan Chronicles, RiddleyWalker, The List Of Seven, Goodbye Columbus, The Zombie Survival Guide, Jane Eyre, Vault Of Horror Reprints, Ethan Frome, Boy Dates Girl, Word War Z, Into The Wild, Outdated First Aid Manuals, Summer, Masters of Light, Hell House, Forever

Heroes:

Conan The Barbarian, Charles The Bronson

My Blog

Press IV: The Revengening

Big thanks to Short End magazine for their unexpected and awesome review of my last short "Crustväska" after it's run at the 10th Sarasota Film Festival.Details can be found at:http://shortendmagazine...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:11:00 PST

Press III: Season of The Witch

Big Thanks to Adrian MacDonald, editor and interviewer extraordinaire, for his work on this month's On Screen Magazine (the in-house publication of 911 Media Arts Center).Huzzah to Adrian and crew for...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:16:00 PST

More Press and More Thanks

Big thanks to The Stranger for their Genius Award bestowal to Linas Phillips, and also for thier totally unexpected shortlisting of myself. Thanks Charles for the lovely endorsement, sorry I missed th...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:20:00 PST

Me go in print now

I was interviewed for Kodak InCamera magazine a while back for a film called Pose Down that premiers at Portobello Film Festival in London on the 14th of August. Read the article and cower from my ter...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:08:00 PST

The Week In Review, ish.

Berlin Week One, Sort Of:Thursday May 10:Catch the WRONG 7:30am train from Amsterdam's Amstel Station to the airport. End up in the city of Utrecht, have to buy another ticket for three times the orig...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 15 May 2007 07:01:00 PST