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John loves ninjas & hates clothes

I have debased your false icons, mocked the myths and tried to shine the light of truth and freedom

About Me

You can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Crime and cartoons, the occasional haircut.

Music:



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Movies:

Blood of the Beasts, Love Affair: Story of the Switchboard Operator, Videodrome, In a Year with 13 Moons, Ride the High Country, Time of the Wolf, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, At Close Range, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, One False Move, The Long Riders, Simon of the Desert, Vernon Florida, O Lucky Man!, Spanking the Monkey, Vera Drake

Television:

"YRU UP?"

Books:

Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Robert Musil, Stephen Jay Gould, Anais Nin, Jim Thompson, The Moviegoer, Fear and Trembling, The Brothers Karamazov, Jacques the Fatalist, Alan Moore's run on "Swamp Thing"

Heroes:

RWF and George Kuchar, Brother Theodore, Tod Browning, Ida Lupino, Chris Marker

My Blog

Birthdays

I'm stealing an idea from the greatest video store in the world, Old Town Alexandria's Video Vault (113 S Columbus St still up & running after all these years.) They celebrate birthdays of th...
Posted by John loves ninjas & hates clothes on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:16:00 PST

October Horror Kick (about two months late)

Despite trying to scrape up a short film project for November and get ready to move out of my house by the end of the year, my annual October horror film indulgence has been in full swing, fueled main...
Posted by John loves ninjas & hates clothes on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:56:00 PST

My Celebrity Look-alikes

MyHeritage: Family tree - Genealogy - Celebrity - Collage - MorphNot bad - two filmmakers, Kafka and Gogol?  Not to mention an obscure Finnish rock star and a Triple Crown champion.  All the...
Posted by John loves ninjas & hates clothes on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:36:00 PST

Best of the Rest: 1990s

Since Marcus Pinn and Ether Splintwood have phenomenal tastes, most of the best films of the 90s were already spoken for on myspace blogs.  So I decided to make a list of the few that were left t...
Posted by John loves ninjas & hates clothes on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:19:00 PST

200 Days 200 Movies: The Return

Earlier this year, I tried to watch one movie a day and post a brief review of it on this blog.  I failed to keep up with it...I'm not popular, but I still can't find enough time in my life to wa...
Posted by John loves ninjas & hates clothes on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:54:00 PST

Beware geniuses

It must be open season for great minds.  Since May 2006, we've lost Shohei Imamura, Robert Altman, James Brown, Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Yang, Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni: four unimpea...
Posted by John loves ninjas & hates clothes on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:29:00 PST

A new experiment

Please, join me over at the site of my new experiment.  Let me know what you think...http://frustratingfilmographies.blogspot.com/...
Posted by John loves ninjas & hates clothes on Sun, 27 May 2007 06:20:00 PST

Top XXX Films of the Decade...So Far (Updated)

Yet another response blog (the best kind of blog) to Master Marcus Pinn's "The Top 25 Films of the Decade...So Far" selections.  I picked 30, since the decade is more than three quarters over and...
Posted by John loves ninjas & hates clothes on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:09:00 PST

A short list of films about love (updated)

Inspired by Marcus Pinn's excellent Valentine's Day recommendations, I came up with some of my favorite screen romances for all the lonelyhearts out there, some to demonstrate why it's better to be a...
Posted by John loves ninjas & hates clothes on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:01:00 PST

Movies 2006

A note on this year's list... It was an underwhelming year, the first in a long time where there wasn't one movie that stood out among the rest.  Everything in my top ten is a solid four out of f...
Posted by John loves ninjas & hates clothes on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:00:00 PST