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'It's fun to lose & to pretend'

About Me

I'm 25 years old and a filmmaker based in Wolverhampton. I'm a writer/director primarily, tho I also do camerawork/editing and producing. I'm currently producing my second feature: 'Whatever Happened to Pete Blaggit'. My first feature: 'The Boy with a Thorn in His Side' went on to be screened at the Cannes film festival back in 2005.I love my indie rock, I'm obviously into films, I'm also heavily into "conspiracy theories" as well as I'm currently developing a trilogy of films called: 'The Illuminati' which deals with the biggest conspiracy of them all. You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Interests

Music, films, art, literature, "conspiracy theories"

I'd like to meet:

Quentin Tarantino, Nicky Wire, David Icke, Alex Jones, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Michael Tsarion....my future self in 50 years time.

Music:

Manic Street Preachers, Nirvana, Radiohead, The Pixies, The Flaming Lips, Interpol, Jeff Buckley, The Libertines, Bloc Party, Hope of the States, Arcade Fire, REM, Rage Against the Machine, Smashing Pumpkins, The Clash, Foo Fighters, Editors, The Cribs, Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, David Bowie, British Sea Power, Sigor Ros, Elbow, Neil Young, The Rakes, Biffy Clyro.

Movies:

Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Trainspotting, Me & You & Everyone we know, American Splendour, Trees Lounge, Annie Hall, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Star Wars Trilogy, ET, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, Clerks, Chasing Amy, El Mariachi, From Dusk Til Dawn, Sin City, Apocalypse Now, Rumblefish, Julien Donkey Boy, Gummo, Jacob's Ladder, About Schmidt, Sideways, Fight Club, Seven, Tarnation, The Corporation, The Shining, Leon, Last Days, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, The Straight Story, Eraserhead, Mullholland Drive, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep.

Television:

Not alot really. Lost sometimes. Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is hilarious.

Books:

Last Exit on Brooklyn, On the Road, Big Sur, Visions of Gerard, The Catcher in the Rye, The Outsider, The Plague, The Fall, Nausea, The Bell Jar, 1984, Homage to Catalonia, American Psycho, Less than Zero, Generation X, Fight Club, Survivor, Choke, Requiem for a Dream, Naked Lunch, Junky, Last Words, One flew over the Cuckoos' Nest, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Zen of Stars, The Biggest Secret.

Heroes:

Kurt Cobain, Richey Edwards, Jack Kerouac, Nicky Wire, Albert Camus, Tarantino, Scorsese, Picasso, Van Gogh, Jean Paul-Sartre, Neil Young, Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley.

My Blog

Film Review: Zodiac

Managed to get a pair of free tickets to a preview screening of Zodiac the other night. I'm quite a big Fincher fan, 'Se7en' & 'Fight Club' are two of the best films of the 90's easily. Coudn't ca...
Posted by mark on Thu, 17 May 2007 07:03:00 PST

Film Review: Grindhouse

If it wasn't for Rodriguez and Tarantino I wouldn't be a filmmaker, it's as simple as that. No other filmmakers have inspired me as much as they have, so I was gutted to hear last week that the fucki...
Posted by mark on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:29:00 PST

Film Review: Sunshine

Loved this film. I honestly can't remember the last good intelligent sci-fi film I've seen, there's not that many around really, most sci-fi flicks fall into that dumb action blockbuster category. I...
Posted by mark on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:11:00 PST

Film Review: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

I've been wanting to watch this film after it won best film at the BBC World Cinema awards back in February. It's a Romanian film and tells the story of a sick old guy who has to go to hospital, and ...
Posted by mark on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:45:00 PST

Film Review: The US Vs John Lennon

This documentary charts John Lennon's progress as a political power throughout the 60's & 70's and how he used his media attention to get the message of peace across during the Vietnam war era. L...
Posted by mark on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:14:00 PST

Film Review: 300

I really had little interest in seeing this film and didn't buy into any of the hype, but I had the opportunity to see it for free and I'm glad I did see it. It rocks. It is just a big dumb popcorn f...
Posted by mark on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:40:00 PST

Film Review: An Inconvenient Truth

I've been meaning to watch this Al Gore lecture film since it came out as Global Warming is obviously a very serious issue and I wanted to see this film that was being hailed as a life changing event...
Posted by mark on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:29:00 PST

Album Review: 'Neon Bible' - Arcade Fire

Probably the best band in the world right now. Seriously. I love this band. I was really pleased that this album only reached no2 in the UK charts as Arcade Fire are one of those bands that I really ...
Posted by mark on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:21:00 PST

Film Review: 'The Devil's Backbone'

  I was never a big fan of Guillermo Del Toro - Blade 2 I avoided and I didn't think much of Hellboy either. But having seen Pan's Labyrinth recently, my opinion of him has done a complete 360 a...
Posted by mark on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:26:00 PST

Blue Apples - Stargate, 2012, Wormholes - 1 of 2

This is a really good lecture by an American symbologist by the name of William Henry. He basically talks about religious symbology and ancient symbology and how they're all nothing but metaphors for ...
Posted by mark on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:24:00 PST