Steverino el Capino - ProfilesArchive

About Me

The ancient Greek definition of "Capino" was working with your full powers.I am the author of several as yet undiscovered novels and screenplays... known to some as founder and lead guitarist of the legendary punk/alt/ska garage band Yoda's My Pimp, known to others as inventor of the Matthew Sandwich youth adventure series of pulp novellas ("Trouble at the Ass End of the Universe", "Mr. Skeleton's Tea Party", "Recipe for a Catastrophe" etc.)...Now I am working on the first part of an epic story you will be reading in the not so distant future. Check out my blogs for the first 13 chapters. Only those who have subscribed to my blog by June 1, 2007, will be able to read the rest before it's published.You can also check my stories and screenplays out at www.everyageneedsahero.com - and your patience is appreciated while it's under construction

My Interests

Reading, writing, movies, music, art, the big questions, quiet moments of inspiration and time enough to work on my books, art and screenplays.

I'd like to meet:

Fellow writers, artists, adventurers, seekers, and questioners. People who will give me honest feedback so I can become even better.

Music:

Blues, jazz, rock (classic, alt), experimental, pop, Celtic, bluegrass, reggae, some hip hop. Artists: Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Theloneous Monk, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Del McCoury, Donna Hughes, Gloria Estafan, Dido, Jewel, Bei Bei, Eminem, Jay Z, Einstein, Enya, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen (especially acoustic like "Nebraska"), John Fogerty, The Beatles, Cream, Aerosmith, Gene Simmons, Dixie Chicks (don't shut up but do sing), and as PDQ Bach says, if it sounds good, it is good. Current video: looping obsessively over Rosario Dawson teaching nerds how to dance to the Jackson Five's "ABC" in "Clerks 2." Omifreakinlord.

Movies:

Anything that touches me enough to laugh or cry or change my mind, and move me to create something as touching and affecting. Directors: Pedro Aldomovar, Werner Hertzog, Guillermo del Toro for fantasyscapes and moral teachings, Zhang Yimou for visual lyricism, the incomparable Fellini and Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese for visceral visions, Quentin Tarantino for violent poetics, Robert Rodriguez for graphic splendor, the Coen brothers for comedic irony, the Coppolas for proving genius DNA exists, Todd Fields for delicate strength, Clint Eastwood for perseverance and redemption, Steven Spielberg for prodigious storytelling gifts, Ridley Scott for epic vision, John Cameron Mitchell for humor, keen insights and big heart, Andrew Davis for intelligent action and guilty pleasures, every Russell Banks novel ever made into a film, and so many others...

Television:

Lost, CSI, Ted Koppel, Bill Moyers, Frontline on PBS, Discovery channel, 60 Minutes, CNN, Charlie Rose, John Stewart, all the Star Treks, Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, Dave Chappelle, David Letterman, Chris Rock. The Sopranos and Deadwood on HBO. Fox News - not! Reality TV - not!

Books:

Under the influence of: Cormac McCarthy, Mark Twain, Philip Roth, Ridley Pearson, Larry McMurtry, Frank Herbert, Elmore Leonard, JRR Tolkien, Ursula LeGuin, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Iris Chang (rest in peace), Carl Hiassen, Philip K. Dick, David Gerrold (you Tribblemaker) Harlan Ellison, Joan Didion, Jeff Whitty, and others too numerous to name.

Heroes:

Everyone who has sacrificed to accept their fate as a voice for powers bigger than themselves. Anyone who committed a selfless act to save even one fellow being. The humble, the meek, the brave, the weak, the selfless, the wise, the silly, the quiet, the patient.

My Blog

Freedom ain't free

We forget in our day to day struggles to get through life that everything we have we owe to those who sacrificed for us. Of course if we are lucky we have parents and others who put their own dreams o...
Posted by Steverino el Capino on Sun, 27 May 2007 06:29:00 PST

Buggin'

I usually don't disparage another director's work, but once in awhile a piece of stinking poop drops into the public's domain asking you to spend anywhere from 5 to 12 bucks on it like it deserves it....
Posted by Steverino el Capino on Sat, 26 May 2007 02:06:00 PST

Peeling the onion

We are now entering those chapters in which much is revealed about the World That May One Day Be and many references to my favorite influences, sci fi, western, and just plain random. You know. The wa...
Posted by Steverino el Capino on Thu, 24 May 2007 10:17:00 PST

You're fired!

Well, I had to have a hand in firing someone today. It it one of the most unpleasant things to do in this life. One minute a person has a job. Next moment his livelihood is gone and he has to find som...
Posted by Steverino el Capino on Tue, 22 May 2007 05:36:00 PST

Thanks for flying the surly skies - buh bye!

I've been traveling by air even more than usual in the first half of this year and I have to say even with airline bankruptcies, reorganizations and unrest becoming standard, the level of customer ser...
Posted by Steverino el Capino on Sat, 19 May 2007 09:37:00 PST

Chapter 13 - Sentinel

Here it goes, there it goes, pulling our thread, Watch them dance, hear em howl, falling down dead Then he goes where it knows, slipping to sleep There it lays where she stays, in the rag heap& Nu...
Posted by Steverino el Capino on Wed, 16 May 2007 11:22:00 PST

The virtual life called myspace

Now that I've been knocking around myspace for a few months and have befriended quite a few people, alienated a few, pissed off more than a few, been amazed at my own shortcomings and dazzled by other...
Posted by Steverino el Capino on Wed, 16 May 2007 05:31:00 PST

Start me up

At last Ace and his gang are ready to roll... with a few last minute details attended to... some of Sam's true nature revealed when under stress, it seems emotions trigger his shangeroo attributes... ...
Posted by Steverino el Capino on Tue, 15 May 2007 05:32:00 PST

Social Media Evangelist and Geek Blogger

I met this guy from Intel the other day at the Portland Communicators Conference who has the job title of Social Media Evangelist and Geek Blogger. He alerted us to some cool web tools and sites. http...
Posted by Steverino el Capino on Sat, 12 May 2007 06:54:00 PST

Chapter 12 - Bastards Boulevard

"With the resources available to us it is simply impossible to estimate with precision the total number or disposition of human remains discovered inside any of the large middens, which a member of ou...
Posted by Steverino el Capino on Fri, 11 May 2007 02:17:00 PST