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Justin (Unstable Ground)

Everything's eventual.

About Me

I'm Justin McConnell.... I live, I breathe..... though not so well sometimes.... but I'm here. And that should be enough. I also run Unstable Ground , made the feature-length documentary Working Class Rock Star , and am currently shopping several feature film projects for financing and distribution. Oh, while you're at it why not go and either watch or buy Ending The Eternal . That is all. Or is it?

Ending The Eternal
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Unstable Ground Demo Reel

Sleep Tight

Check under my videos for more clips of
my work over the past several years.

(more available on my official website)

My Interests

Music, movies, making both of those things..... this section is a lot more fun to find out in conversation. I will give a hint.... it rhymes with farfanugen.

I'd like to meet:

Living, preferred.

Music:

Dog Fashion Disco, Bloodshoteye, Unexpect, Frank Zappa, Opeth, A Legend Falls, Rammstein, King Crimson, Iron Maiden, Kreator, Lamb of God, The Haunted, Tub Ring, Strapping Young Lad, Daiquiri, The Devin Townsend Band, Ziltoid: The Omniscient, Polkadot Cadaver, Ditch, Nuclear Rabbit, Unearth, Dimmu Borgir, Oingo Boingo, Emperor, Mod Flanders Conspiracy, Heavily Medicated, The Alter Boys, RPO, Amon Amarth, GWAR, No Assembly Required, Screaming Mechanical Head, Duct Tape Mustache, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, 3 Mile Scream, Mushroomhead, Chris Isaak, Extol, Stolen Babies, Sikth, anything Mike Patton related, so much more

Movies:

Lately the best flicks I've seen have been The Fountain, Children of Men, The American Astronaut, The Host, Pan's Labyrinth, Severence, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, 300 and Save The Green Planet! I also have good reasons for liking The Science of Sleep and Shortbus a lot.

Television:

24, The Shield, Simpsons, South Park, The Office (British better than US), Spaced, Ali G (British is better than HBO series), Monkey Dust, Lost, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Ideal, Sealab 2021, Battlestar Galactica (new), Firefly, Venture Bros., Rescue Me, Carnivale, Frisky Dingo, The Wire, Dethklok Metalocalypse, Korgoth of Barbaria, Heroes, Veronica Mars, Jericho, Rome, 30 Rock..... more.... hate reality TV

Books:

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Dark Tower series (highly recommended), The George Carlin Trilogy, Invisible Monsters, Haunted (love all Palahniuk), any Christopher Moore (especially A Dirty Job), The Contortionists Handbook, Dermaphoria, any Will Christopher Baer, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way, currently on a Vonnegut kick...

Heroes:

Anyone that has a goal in mind, no matter how stupid or unreachable, and works toward it. I don't care if your goal is to someday be the first to spend a week inside a living elephant's asshole, if that's what you want out of life, then i respect that. Of course there are lines that shouldn't be crossed, but that goes without saying. In addition to this, I respect anyone that aims for their lofty goal but doesn't make their entire life about the destination, for it's the process and journey you take to get there that truly forms who you are. That truly makes you great.

My Blog

In A Nutshell

Every once in a while some insignificant event happens in your daily life that perfectly summarizes your character. I've been on a huge internal quest of self discovery lately, as cliche as that may s...
Posted by Justin (Unstable Ground) on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:05:00 PST

Tales of An Unbalanced Mind: The Fall

"I appear to be falling upwards at an alarming rate" cried the first one. "No, I am ascending, not descending. It's impossible to fall upward" claimed the second. "Who is in charge here anyway?" quest...
Posted by Justin (Unstable Ground) on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:15:00 PST

Pushing Back

It's a frightening thing when you start to look at your life, and start to identify with the phrase "but he seemed so normal". You see it all the time on the news, announced using punchy graphics and ...
Posted by Justin (Unstable Ground) on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:21:00 PST

An Introduction

Flashing by his face like electric ghosts the lights in the tunnel screamed in front of his eyes. Whether chemically assisted or newly perceived, new meaning was being given to these unnoticed sources...
Posted by Justin (Unstable Ground) on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:33:00 PST

Ending the Eternal, it’s a wrap!

I'm exhausted...... I was up until 4am cleaning bloodstains (fake) out of the set, then had to be up at 6am to return all the gear to the rental shops.... but, I couldn't be happier with how the weeke...
Posted by Justin (Unstable Ground) on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:20:00 PST

Ending the Eternal, Day 2

Today's shoot day went great. The huge problem ended up working itself out, we got some absolutely crazy stuff, and the best is yet to come. Tomorrow we finish the main shotlist and the FX, and you're...
Posted by Justin (Unstable Ground) on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:55:00 PST

Ending The Eternal, Day 1

First day of shooting on my new short film Ending The Eternal has just wrapped. This is a really big thing for me, pretty good budget, and shot "the right way", and... well, it should be really gory. ...
Posted by Justin (Unstable Ground) on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:16:00 PST

Starter Pistol

Firm the cycle life beginsA catalog of all our sinsDoubts keep building in our mindEclipsing all the good we find Dwelling on the worst in usEach moment passing shakes our trustValue placed upon our d...
Posted by Justin (Unstable Ground) on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:38:00 PST

Caged

The one thing Timothy had always been was a skeptic. From birth he refused the trappings of an average upbringing, scoffed at his toys, refused regular food, and abhorred the Sippy Cup. His mother ass...
Posted by Justin (Unstable Ground) on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:14:00 PST

Outpost 19

"The one thing you never forget, the one thing that burns itself into your memory like an unwelcome guest that never leaves, is the sheer speed everything is turned to ash. If you blink, the world aro...
Posted by Justin (Unstable Ground) on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:44:00 PST