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Lego is better than zombies

About Me


Visit me at our Crestfallen Productions Myspace page and make friends with us and check out our trailers etc
Things I like:
Inanimate objects with faces or other human characteristics, especially the moon, and food - especially when it's eating itself, like a cheery hotdog dressed as a baseball player, hungrily sticking a fork into another smaller sausage (so unintentionally macabre!)
Battenburg! The ultimate comfort food! So pretty and so tasty!
Old video games
Classic food packaging and foodstuffs - Marmite (although I prefer the taste of Vegemite, and not the squeezy bottle), Campbell's Soup, ring doughnuts, alphabetti spaghetti, battenburg, etc
Making my own t-shirts
Pretending to be incredibly arrogant and vain
Mirrors and worshippers (see above)
Never quite knowing how a home-made haircut is going to turn out
Thunderstorms
Cats sticking their tongues out
Mr Big Baby Beanjamin Angela Emilio Westevez's full name.
Lego (best toy ever - challenge me if you don't believe me)
Ordering whatever has the funniest name on the menu!
Dinosaurs!
Croissants in a can
Halloween!

My Interests

Films! I'm really into independent and low budget films and we're beginning to promote my first proper short film since college.

Check out the website for our film

'Crestfallen Productions' is the film company I set up with one of my best friends, Sheena and we wrote and shot the no-budget film 'A Plaster, a Paper, and a Cheese & Pickle Sandwich' with a small crew of friends.

Our executive producers Coffee Films are going to market and distribute it to festivals all over the world.

Keep checking out
www.coffeefilms.com/plaster
for details/updates on our film,
'A Plaster, a Paper, and a Cheese & Pickle Sandwich'
Check out our Crestfallen Productions Myspace page and add us as a friend!

I'd like to meet:



http://www.myheritage.com

Music:


Indigo Flow

Brand New
Alkaline Trio
Blink 182
New Found Glory
Hit The Lights
Head Automatica
Saves The Day
Fall Out Boy
Panic At The Disco
We Are Scientists
All American Rejects
Angels and Airwaves
Fenix Tx
Editors
Weezer
The Fratellis
Arran Johnson
Tom Butane
Billy Talent
Funeral For A Friend
White Stripes
Jurassic 5
Lit
Beastie Boys
Box Car Racer
Dashboard Confessional
Eels
Green Day
Home Grown
Idle Jack & The Big Sleep
The Cure
The Darkness
Bloc Party
Cypress Hill
Rage Against The Machine
Eminem
etc etc...

Movies:

I work in an arthouse cinema and watch a lot of DVDs in my spare time so I see a fair amount of flicks.
Here are a few I highly recommend looking up:
'A Tale of Two Sisters' - very confusing but well worth watching even if you have to read all the forums on imdb.com to find out what the hell its all about!
'Wolf Creek' , 'Switchblade Romance' , and 'The Descent' - I know most people would already have heard of The Descent but it really is SO good that I couldn't not mention it! 'Switchblade' is an excellent french horror film - it all gets a bit strange, but the first half had my hair on end.
'Brick'
'The United States of Leland'
'The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' & 'Adaptation'
'Me and You and Everyone We Know'
'The Departed'
'The Prestige'
'The Science of Sleep'
'Requiem For A Dream'
and 'Irreversible' Two of the best films I've ever seen, but i don't know if I could stomach them again...And obviously look up Studio Ghibli's back catalogue.
Here's a few more to give you an idea of my tastes...
An Inconvenient Truth
Tzameti
Napoleon Dynamite
Dumbo
Layer Cake
Man On Fire
Deliverance
Little Miss Sunshine
Right At Your Door
The Woodsman
Duck Season
Akira
Elephant
El Mariachi, Desperado, and Once Upon A Time In Mexico
Dazed And Confused
Assault On Precinct 13
Delicatessen, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, City of Lost Children
Creep
Amores Perros
City Of God
Run Lola Run
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
Inside I'm Dancing
Old School
Harold And Kumar Get The Munchies
Constantine
Animal House
River's Edge
My Summer Of Love
Dead Man's Shoes
Batman Begins
Mean Creek
Inside Deep Throat
Clerks
Spiderman 1 and 2
Ae Fond Kiss
American Pie
Head On
The Castle Of Cagliostro
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
DiG!
13 Conversations About One Thing
Road Trip
Jason And The Argonauts
40 Year Old Virgin
The Labyrinth
American Psycho
Chuck And Buck
Rules Of Attraction
The Jacket
Lords Of Dogtown
Zombie Honeymoon
Summer Of Sam
Malefique
Panic Room
The Taking Of Pelham 123
The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
The Warriors
The Ordeal
Return To Oz
28 Days Later
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Evil Woman
Breakfast Club
Porky's
Population 436
The Movie Hero
The Girl Next Door
Tokyo Godfathers
Minority Report
Nosferatu
Down In The Valley
Thirteen
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Collateral
Identity
Ring
The Shawshank Redemption
I'm Not Scared
Mean Creek
Head On
Chasing Amy
Don't Look Now
Pulse (Kairo)
Severance
Hostel
Casino Royale
Wilderness
My Little Eye
Special
The Host
Art School Confidential
Flags of Our Fathers

Books:

All 6 volumes of Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo. It's easy to dismiss manga as kids' comic books but this really blew my mind. I can't recommend it to anyone enough if they've seen the film, read any other manga, or are open-minded about trying something different.

Heroes:


Stephon Marbury
Eastman and Laird

My Blog

City Screen Staff Party photos

http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/deejayslip/Staff%20P arty%20Jan%202007/
Posted by 1UP on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:32:00 PST

City Screen Xmas Drinks & NYE photos

For anyone who was at either, go to my photobucket albums and have a look...http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/deejayslip/
Posted by 1UP on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:58:00 PST

Man whose sex drive quintupled after being injured at work sues...

This is one of the funniest news stories I've heard about in a while.http://uk.news.yahoo.com/19122006/80-132/injured-man-w ins-damages-sex-overdrive.html#Found it on www.fark.com which is an awesome w...
Posted by 1UP on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:56:00 PST

I just got paid to watch Monster House! Dressed as a skeleton!!

I love working here!Turns out the film is brilliant - a real old-school style kids movie like the ones they used to make in the late 80s!
Posted by 1UP on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 08:57:00 PST

Aren't we bored of pirates yet?

How long will it be before everyone gets bored of pirates? Can anyone tell me?
Posted by 1UP on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:28:00 PST

My new pet hate

You know what's out of control? The amount of effort and enthusiam that people say they are prepared to invest in something. It started off with "giving a hundred and ten percent" which I felt too ped...
Posted by 1UP on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:34:00 PST

I just got paid to watch Ghostbusters

Does my job rule or what? On top of that I got to draw and decorate a collage of a haunted castle before! I love running the Kids' Club at work!
Posted by 1UP on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:31:00 PST

Old York to New York

Well this time tomorrow I'll be bringing a bit of old school, original York flavour to the Big Apple. I can't wait!Can't decide whether or not to play up on my englishness - I guess it would be a wast...
Posted by 1UP on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:40:00 PST

Where do we go from here?

I'm feeling this! I've handed in my last piece of uni work ever and now I'm at a loss as to what to do!! I'm staying in York and getting a kick-ass house on a well-nice street with a posh spar at the ...
Posted by 1UP on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hazy but happy

The newly re-painted zebra crossing outside Sainsburys hurts my eyes. Think my hangover from last night is kicking in. Had a 'Bonding & Bondage' evening with my short film group so we were in fancy dr...
Posted by 1UP on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST