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Mark

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About Me


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My Interests

I go back and forth over which is more important in my life, music or movies. Whereas I do work in the film industry, and watch films like a shut-in, I do need to go to concerts and listen to music whenever I do anything else. Just as movies have changed my life, so have certain albums and performances.Big sports fan, I pay attention to any sport that has a Philadelphia team attached, such as hockey, basketball, baseball, football, lacrosse, soccer, and arena football. Sports I've played/do play are: basketball, baseball, pick-up tackle football, frisbee golf and floor/street hockey.

I'd like to meet:

The list gets shorter every year, but Spielberg is still there...

Music:

Pixies, Clash, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Dismemberment Plan, Death Cab for Cutie, Enon, Long Winters, Harvey Danger, Ani DiFranco, Tori Amos, Nine Inch Nails, Fredalba, Poets and Pornstars, Piper Downs, Shiny Toy Guns, Tool, The Who, Elvis Costello, Stevie Wonder, Ted Leo, Bright Eyes, Cursive, The Fall, Ben Folds, Soul Asylum, Spin Doctors, They Might Be Giants, Autolux, Sybris, Built to Spill, Dead Kennedys, Bad Religion, any of Mike Patton's bands or side projects...

Movies:

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Citizen Kane, Clerks, Amelie, Taxi Driver, The Fisher King, Apocalypse Now, Groundhog Day, Caddyshack, SW: Empire Strikes Back, Once, Kurt Cobain About a Son

Television:

Wonder Showzen, Entourage, Family Guy, Nathan Barley, Spaced, Robot Chicken, Andy Milonakis Show, Battlestar Galactica, The Office, Extras

Books:

Atlas Shrugged, On the Road, Black Spring, Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus, Rules for Radicals, Being and Nothingness, The Alchemist, The Life of God (as told by himself), The Graduate, Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Screwtape Letters, Solipsist, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Lila

My Blog

Cinema pride challenged in New Zealand...

Yesterday was my first pub quiz adventure (well, first I ever entered). Here in Palmy there's a local Irish bar that does a pub quiz (10 questions per round, eight rounds, 110 total possible points af...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 08 May 2008 04:27:00 PST

Thoughts on New Zealand continued...

Honestly, Palmerston-North doesn't feel all that different from New Hampshire. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that Palmy is BETTER than NH. Why? For one, this small town, the "asshole of the North I...
Posted by Mark on Wed, 07 May 2008 07:35:00 PST

New Zealand? Where’s Old Zealand?

I've been in New Zealand since 10:30am PST Monday (which was actually 5:30am Tuesday here in NZ). It is currently 4:33pm PST Wednesday, which means it is actually 11:33am on Thursday for me (which is ...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 01 May 2008 05:04:00 PST

Going back to Texas!

The dust has barely settled from SXSW and I’m on my way back to Texas for the AFI Dallas Film Festival. I’ll be there April 1-6, and on Saturday, April 5 at 5:30pm I’ll be moderating...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:04:00 PST

Heading to Austin for the 2008 SXSW Film Festival...

Here we go again; time for the annual SXSW Film Festival. Don and Gore are already in Austin, TX and Vonder Haar and I will be making our appearances starting tomorrow. I should touch-down, airplane t...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:46:00 PST

Back from Sundance 2008...

Another year in Park City is wrapped, and thank God for it. Really weird vibe this year. Still, I survived it, as did my many friends, and it's time to get back into a "normal" groove. Yeah, exactly.....
Posted by Mark on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:30:00 PST

A little bit of profile tweaking, AOTS clips here...

I've pulled the AOTS Loops off the main profile page, and I'm adding them below. Essentially I wanted to try something new with some webcam fun that I'm testing out, and I figured the profile could us...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:49:00 PST

I am a member of the Sirius nation...

To quickly note, after about a month of almost non-stop travel, I am finally back in my apartment for the rest of the holidays. What does this mean? Well, right now it means cleaning the apartment, ge...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:31:00 PST

They weren’t just whacking alligators...

I just returned from my birthday-inspired, adventure-filled trip to Denver, so this is more of a promise of a larger blog to come then the actual detail-filled one; a tease, if you will (if you care)....
Posted by Mark on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:24:00 PST

It’s official, I’m no longer a New Hampshire resident...

Went and got my California Driver's License today, and it wasn't so bad. I'm not sure how I did on the written (didn't want to know), but I know that I was only allowed to get 6 wrong, and since I pas...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:06:00 PST