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About Me

Check out the memphis . cool . movies blog for news, links and notices for the local indie movie community. People find it useful -- over 30,000 hits in the last year. jonwsparks.blogspot.com

Wander around my website. Mind the clutter.

Memphis Cool Productions is a seat-of-the-pants operation that makes movies whenever it feels like it. It's won prizes at the Li'l Film Festivals in Memphis and had the documentary "Memphis Muck" screened at the Indie Memphis Film Festival. Latest project: a film incorporated into a contraption/artwork donated the Works of Heart Auction for the Memphis Child Advocacy Center.

My Interests

Nothing but the truth.

Music:

Mozart and Miles. And Hurra Torpedo, Ovette, Amy LaVere, Bill (William Lee) Ellis, Muck Sticky, Empty Shell, Bach, El Dorado and the Ruckus, Taco & Da Mofos, Mr. Safety, Bert Kaempfert, Beethoven, Blossom Dearie, Ars Nova, Napoleon XIV, Silly Wizard, Alpert, Sousa, Stockhausen, Penderecki, you get the idea.

Movies:

Auteur this: Mamet, Kubrick, Fellini, Wertmuller, Altman, Kaufman, Brewer, Morgan Jon Fox. See also M. David Lee III, Andrew Nenninger, the Boyatts, Edward Valibus Phillips, John Michael McCarthy, Arnold Edwards II, DeAara Lewis, Anthony 'Rusted Sun' Howald, and my own self.

Television:

House, Rumpole of the Bailey, Lovejoy, Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Books:

James Joyce, Philip K. Dick, Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Camille Paglia, some guy named Shakespeare, Tom Wolfe, Eudora Welty. John Grisham.

Heroes:

John William Sparks, Jacqueline Hays Sparks. Also, George Catlett Marshall, Ben Franklin and Thomas Aquinas.

My Blog

Fredric Koeppel on Works of Heart

Thank you FK for this tantalizing mention of my contribution to the 2008 Works of Heart for the Memphis Child Advocacy Center (including music by the amazing Amy LaVere from her Anchors & Anvils album...
Posted by Sparks on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:59:00 PST

Works of Heart

I'm participating in this year's Works of Heart auction benefitting the Memphis Child Advocacy Center. I made a film and incorporated it into a construction that will be auctioned to the highest bidde...
Posted by Sparks on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:02:00 PST

Why I will eat worms for your amusement. Really.

This Saturday, I'm going to eat worms for charity. Local media celebs compete in Malco's Worm Eating Contest to celebrate the opening of New Line Cinemas film "How to Eat Fried Worms! The event bene...
Posted by Sparks on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:06:00 PST