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About Me

i'm probably busy making things work that shouldn't--or maybe i'm stuck in an elevator saying the wrong thing to a republican and i dont even know it?

My Interests

Helping people do things that i should be doing for myself.

I'd like to meet:

Sam Neil, Julianne Moore, Lance Hendriksen, Nick Cave, Emily Watson

Music:

No-wave, Free-jazz, Bowie, Material, Gong, ESG, Magma, Art & Language, Germs, Electric Eels, Kevin Drumm, Iannis Xenakis, Erase Errata, Feldman, 2Live&Shave In LA, Liquid Liquid, Massacre, John Gavanti, Cecil Taylor, Roxy Music, Lightening Bolt, Suicide, Pixies, The Fall, Magnetic Fields, Coltrane, Miles Davis, Us Maple, You Fantastic, The Boredoms, Diamanda Galas, Pj Harvey, Arthur Russell, etc....

Movies:

Persona (bergman) Rashomon (kurosawa) Naked (mike leigh) 8 1/2 (fellini) Blow-Up (antonioni) Mulholland Drive (lynch) Midnight Cowboy (john schlesinger) Nashville (altman) The Big Sleep (howard hawks) Touch Of Evil (orson welles) Alphaville (godard) My Night at Maud's (chabrol) La Jetee (chris marker) Meshes of the Afternoon (maya deren) Performance (roeg/cammell) Don't Look Now (roeg) My Dinner With Andre (malle) Husbands & Wives (woody allen) Duck Soup (featuring: the marx bros! director: Leo McCarey) Dawn of The Dead (george romero) Rosetta (Directors: jean-pierre dardenne, luc dardenne) El Topo (jodorowsky) The Big Lebowski (cohen brothers) Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, Psycho, North by Nothwest, etc... (hitchcock) Lolita (kubrick) The Killers (siodmak) M (fritz lang) Celine & Julie Go Boating (rivette) Jules & Jim (truffaut) Repulsion (polanski) Gummo (korine) Fitzcarraldo (herzog) Lucifer Rising (anger) Dunwich Horror (daniel haller) Blazing Saddles (mel brooks) THX-1138 (lucas) Suspiria (argento) From Beyond (Stuart Gordon) Piano Teacher (michael haneke) The Bellboy (jerry lewis)

Television:

the absurdity of that 24 show has been on my mind recently, but THE NIGHT STALKER and THE ROCKFORD FILES really do it for me. wow.

Books:

FANGORIA, LOVECRAFT, COMIC BOOKS, GREEN TEA - the magical mixture!

Heroes:

Stuart Gordon, John Waters, Marlene Dietrich, Paul Auster, Ida Lupino, John Cage, Roberto Matta, Muhammad Ali

My Blog

more films all the time

working on several films right now & helping some friends with their projects too.1. Video for Cheer-Accident -- a Chicago band- friends of mine- video based on body snatchers scenario- think kubrick ...
Posted by william on Wed, 24 May 2006 01:46:00 PST

Witold Gombrowicz's "THE MARRIAGE" shooting in philly

POLAND --> Theatre / Film / Kickin ass I'm currently directing a film project that is based on Witold Gombrowicz's absurdist play, THE MARRIAGE (1946)...this is going to be a hoot! We will b...
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

What I'm up to...

hey there... I'm currently working on several films to be shot on DV, including: Letter 2 Larry, which is a longer (experimental narrative) piece concerning a disturbed mail-clerk who possesses spe...
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

horror films "to see" list...in no particular order...

---HORROR FILMS--- 1. Rosemarys Baby 2. Repulsion 3. The Tenant 4. Cabin Fever 5. Dawn Of The Dead 6. Day Of The Dead 7. Night of The Living Dead 8. Martin 9. The Crazies 10. Creepshow 11....
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

INTDAYMr. Organs Office

Mr. Organ sits at his desk. He plays with a pimple on his ear. We see the pimple in close-up as he scratches at it. He opens his desk drawer & pulls out a tiny mirror. He positions the mirror so to in...
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Entering my mouth:

There is my finger, with its best attempt to dislodge a nibble of corn or salami with feta. Why would anyone want meat products mixed with their alcohol? A Bloody-Mary with MEAT? I try my hardest to m...
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Shopping List

He tore a list from a page of the paper. Earlier, in a diner mens room, he had scribbled it down with a blue ballpoint pen. He walked into the store. And the other man waited in the car. The li...
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Robert Desnos 1926

IF YOU ONLY KNEW by Robert Desnos Translated by Michael Benedikt ------------------------------------------- Far from me and like the stars, the sea and all the other traditional trappings of ...
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Listen carefully

You can check your messages. Listen carefully. Youd do best having a pencil handy, and maybe some paper, when you decide to listen to them. It may take awhile to get to one you like. Or one with subs...
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Mr. S

Mr. Seagel required each class, yearly, to create an in-classroom court-style drama at the suggestion of a theme conjured from the democratic process. After the announcement of taking suggestions came...
Posted by william on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST