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About Me

I'm a filmmaker living in Soho, NYC.I won the grand prize at a film festival in Croatia for my zombie political film, "Botoxia". One of the other categories in the festival was home porno.I have an alter ego named Frank who likes to light bars on fire and then put them out with a fire extinguisher he rips off the wall. Ask me about him some day.I sing for a fictitous band called Ginkgo Balboa.I like to think that Sam Fuller and John Waters are my mother and father.I was just told that the mental hospital called and outpatient means that I have to return at night, so if you'll excuse me, I have to leave.

My Interests

Art, music, movies.

I'd like to meet:

Akira Kurosawa, Sam Fuller, and Francois Truffaut. Since they're all dead, and since I met Joe Strummer before he died, I guess you'll do.

Music:

Gingko Balboa, The Germs, The Ramones, The Stooges, The Clash, The Specials, Bad Brains, Guitar Wolf, The Porch Ghouls, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Sun Ra, Lard, Skatah, The Goons, The Reticents, Kung Fury, GOD, Silence, Snot, Amen, Seven Dust, MF Pitbulls, Al Green, Guitar Wolf, The Moldy Peaches, Jane's Addiction, Miles Davis, The Pogues, The Reverand Gary Davis.

Movies:

Pootie Tang, Big Trouble in Little China, The 400 Blows, Taxi Driver, anything by Sam Fuller-especially Shock Corridor, The Horse Thief, 8 and 1/2, Band of Outsiders, Ran, The Godfather, Cool Hand Luke, Sweet Smell of Success, Blue Velvet, anything by the great Jai Mitchell

Television:

Aside from being a World Series of Poker junkie...

Books:

Polly, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (especially pages 87-88), The Beginning and the End

Heroes:

Captain Caveman