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Janice

Without Artists, the World would be Boring......

About Me


Producer for this film.
Line Producer for a short this studio did.
I'm an independent film producer. Yup, movies are my game!
What's important in my life are my family and my friends. I tend to know my friends for many years and usually remember how I met them the first time.
I love movies, politics, history, biographies, cultures, music, art and good conversations. As a filmmaker, I love music and lyrics and I admire Cameron Crowe because he understands the power of music with lyrics that can tell the story in one scene in a movie without any dialogue, something that I LOVE because that is how I have always envision filmmaking for me.
I like to know people who are passionate about what they do and I might say some of my friends are the most passionate people in their profession.
I'm also known to be a Libra perfectionist! To some of my friends, I'm also called their biggest cheerleader in their life.
When face with life hardships, I like to think what will Scarlett O'Hara do in this situation. Yup, she is one of my inspiration.
I won't add you if I don't know you and I sure won't add a guy if he has more girls to his friends list than guys. I DETEST PLAYBOYS.
Also, I'm a BIG ROMANTIC!!!!
I'll share with you my favorite Cars song with this video! Enjoy!

My Interests

My favorite color is BROWN! James Spader is HOT and he ROCKS!!! I love ART - could be music, performance, play, painting, drawing, or creating. I even have a fondness for ARTISTS. I also enjoy Traveling, Reading, Drawing, Watching Movies, Making Movies, Baking, and Dreaming. I also like photography but I'm not really good at it.

I'd like to meet:

Cameron Crowe, Sir Bob Geldof, Dave Sharp (in person), James Spader, Eddie Vedder, Oliver Stone, Frank McCourt

OH AND SOMEONE THAT KNOWS TO ASK THE WAITER FOR HEINZ 57 STEAK SAUCE FOR MY STEAK. Thank you Jimmy!

Music:

First of all, I love MUSIC! When I was in college, I had the great opportunity to be taught by the infamous Professor RON EMOFF on the History of Rock and Roll, don't know him, just GOOGLE him. Awesome, Awesome Professor and he made me appreciate music in a very different way. Bands that I like are Pearl Jam, The Alarm, Otis Redding, Erasure, Marvin Gaye, Tina Turner, Nirvana, OMD, Journey, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Gerry Raferty, Elton John, The Clash, Rage Against the Machine, INXS, Duran Duran, Patsy Cline, Bryan Ferry, The Cars, U2, Peter Frampton, Led Zeppelin, Carole King, Peter Gabriel, The Gorillaz, Alice in Chains, KLF, Billie Holiday, The Cure, Neil Diamond, Modest Mouse, Big Audio Dynamite, Talking Heads, Velvet Revolver, Simple Minds, KC and the Sunshine Band, The Bee Gees, Rush, Kate Bush, Barbara Streisand, Queen, Spiritualized, Sigur Ros, Psychedelic Furs, Flesh for LuLu, Prince, 311, Information Society, Missing Persons, Joy Division, CandleBox, Todd Rundgren,

Movies:

Gone with the Wind, GIANT, Almost Famous, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Legend, Singles, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Vanilla Sky, Eddie and the Cruisers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Platoon, The Apartment, Wuthering Heights, Sense and Sensibility, Avalon, The Matrix, Jude, Quills, Amadeus, The Last American Virgin, Elizabeth, The Graduate, The Outsiders, Brideshead Revisited, The Christmas Story, Romper Stomper, Coal Miner's Daughter, We're No Angels, 21 Grams, Bad Boys with Sean Penn!, Racing with the Moon, Once Upon a Time in America, To Kill a Mockingbird, Sneakers (River Phoenix was so hot in the movie), The Rachel Papers, The Right Stuff, Elizabethtown, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, Addicted to Love, A Night to Remember, The Usual Suspects, When Harry Met Sally, Ghost, Y Tu Mama Tambien - (this is the movie that inspired me to visit Mexico City), Scarface, River's Edge

Television:

That 70's Show, Lost, Freaks and Geeks, The Little Rascals - we need to go back and enslave children actors for our entertainment

Books:

Angela's Ashes & Tis by Frank McCourt - Love this man! He is so honest even with those memorable and most often embarassing moments.Sense and Sensibility,The Great Gastby,Gone with the Wind,Love Biographies!The Five People You Meet in HeavenMy favorite short story of all time, "The Fishing-Boat Picture" by Allan Sillitoe. It always makes me cry.

Heroes:

My personal heroes are Cameron Crowe, Frank McCourt, Scarlett O'Hara - the best heroine in all of literature. One of my heroe when I was young and still today is Bob Geldof, by showing the world one man can be inspired to change the world and using his position to do something about it and for winning custody and raising a parentless child that is not his own but from the man that had an affair with his ex wife and believe that the child should be raised with her half-sisters. That is LOVE! And of course Jesus - the guy walked on water, raised the dead and wanted people to love each other and love themselves.It is sad time we are living when heroes are not emerging to what is going on in the US and the world. Where are our Martin Luther Kings, Ghandis, FDRs, people who evoked changes?

My Blog

Top 10 things I'm grateful this year!

1.  My niece, Marissa, being healthy after the terrifying scare we had this year with her.  Prayers are powerful and thank you to my friends who kept her in their prayers. 2.  2 AM ...
Posted by Janice on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:18:00 PST

I BOUGHT AN ELECTRIC GUITAR!!!!! ANYBODY WANT TO JAM????

Yesterday, I did something that I wanted to do since last week. I bought an electric guitar with an amp!!! YES, I DID IT!!!Last weekend I was at Sam's and they discounted their Fender Starcaster Ele...
Posted by Janice on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:04:00 PST

I MISSED MEETING FRANK MCCOURT BUT I MET AWESOME FILMMAKERS INSTEAD!!!!

Frank McCourt is someone I would love to meet in person and he was in town for the Texas Book Festival last weekend, yes it was my opportunity to meet this talented man that I dearly love. If you hav...
Posted by Janice on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:49:00 PST

From Roky Erickson to being married to Jewel Shephard, What a Night!

I had one of those nights last night that can only happen here in Austin. My night started off at the Alamo South Lamar to watch the "You're Gonna Miss Me," the documentary on the life of Roky Er...
Posted by Janice on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:46:00 PST

Sometimes things are not meant to happen

Today I wrote this long email to a friend and for some reason my email did not go through.  It said it went through but when I checked my sent box, it was not there.  I checked again an...
Posted by Janice on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:45:00 PST

Drive In Theater Anyone?

Okay, my birthday is coming up and what way to celebrate it than going to a Drive In Theater, right?Come on when was the last time you went to the drive in theater? Yeah, back in the 70's.So, I did s...
Posted by Janice on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:18:00 PST

The Reel Deal Website Launch Party

"My friend does this movie show on the public access channel and he is also from Waco, his name is Korey, he's a real cool guy.  You have to meet him."  - Roman Morales at UT in 1996 Yup, th...
Posted by Janice on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:27:00 PST

Wichita Falls, A Baldwin Brother and a Monkee

I went to the first annual Wichita Falls Film Fest this past Thursday.  I'm so glad Jason went with me.  The drive was 5 hours long and Jason kept me focus on the drive by talking and the dr...
Posted by Janice on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:03:00 PST

A Champagne Glass to you, The Honorable Vilma Luna

In 1992, a young 17 years old Hispanic girl walked into a courtroom to meet her new female mentor, who was a lawyer. It was not the 17 year old first pick mentor, but since she lived in Corpus Christ...
Posted by Janice on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:09:00 PST

If you really want to know what I want in a guy, I want a Coooooool Rider

So tonight, Michele and I were talking and she told me how she can't understand how some people think this one guy looks like Tom Cruise, she just doesn't see it.  Well, give him a prosthetic nos...
Posted by Janice on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:18:00 PST