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clinton

Hello Brooklyn!

About Me

(hyuk) well, gawrsh! I've got my morning coffee, let's go! A little older, a little wiser and a little crankier, the curmudgeon aint' budgin... still in the game, still dreaming, still making stuff, still surviving, complaining, still celebrating. I'm a filmmaker which most of the time means I'm a writer. But I get around to forming a possee from time to time too. Also do music.

My Interests

filmmaking, film watching, music playing, cycling, writing, world travel, collecting soul records and then listening to them, comics, fine food/wine/tobacco, dancing, film history, history in general, learning interesting things, occasional indulgences/bad choices, creating wikipedia entries

I'd like to meet:

If you're funny and smart, it's on! If you're one or the other, who's gonna admit they aren't the other? I won't tell! People to work on projects with, people to go on long bike rides with, people to play cards with. Also gorilla my dreams.

Music:

SOUL, R&B 45s, pre-war blues, a lot of the usual rock shit, The Secret Museum of Mankind series of traditional ethnic music, Bow Wow Wow, early Human League, the Slits, Kleenex, the Damned, Morricone, Nino Rota, Bernard Hermann, the Ventures, girl groups, psych-folk, black metal and whatever else- WFMU!!-also like playing music

Movies:

Michael Haneke, Casablanca, The Third Man, The Val Lewton horror movies, mostly Isle of the Dead and Cat People, Old Dark House, All Kubrick, All Bunuel, All Polanski, Little Children/In the Bedroom, (Todd Field is the best new American director) dozens of the Fassbinder movies although he is certainly an acquired taste. Best Years of our Lives, Golddiggers of 1933, White Heat, Public Enemy, anything by Raul Walsh or Michael Curtiz, anything with Robert Mitchum. Takashi Miike, Sejuin Suzuki, Martin Scorcese (mostly early but I admit I liked Departed and Aviator) weird 70's movies like Night Moves, Inserts, and many others. Can't forget Mario Bava, Guy Maddin, Alan Rudolph, Alain Resnais, Kieslowski or Max Ophuls. Also, guess what! Stupid movies! Old School, Ali G, etc.

Television:

The Wire, Weeds, Sopranos (though I'm glad it's over), Strangers With Candy, Arrested Development, Harvey Birdman attorney at Law, Freaks and Geeks, the Mighty Boosh, Soul Train

Books:

In no particular order: Under the Banner of Heaven: amazing modern-day In Cold Blood starring Mormons, High Wind in Jamaica, Master and Margarita (almost impossible to talk up too much; it will not disappoint) The Dharma Bums, My Last Sigh by Bunuel, Blinding Light by Paul Theroux, Dorothy Dunnett's historical novels, ditto for Patrick O'brian. Bill Bryson, Arturo Perez-Reverte, George Orwell, J. Krishnamurti, good weird history books - Devil in the White City, Madame Blavatsky's Baboon, People's History of US.

Heroes:

Robert Mitchum, Stanley Kubrick, Bernard Hinault

My Blog

50 maybe good movies

Okay, that isn't the most compelling heading for a list. This is the Guardian's list of "forgotten treasures." I have seen some of these movies and loved them. Some are "forgotten" because they sucked...
Posted by clinton on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:51:00 PST

no really do this

(download and) Play stray cat blues, by the stones, with the balance almost all the way to the right, and do M.C. Hammer dance moves about the room. It sounds like a a duet between guitar and piano! R...
Posted by clinton on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:45:00 PST

Moveon.org call for change sorry for the ad

So I got an email from moveon.org asking me to blog about their call for change program, in which they are calling 5 million voters in close elections around the country and needling them to go vote. ...
Posted by clinton on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 03:04:00 PST

Production Over and Out

ONCE MORE INTO THE DUSTBINAs the film enters total damage control mode, I reflect to myself that there is a terrible symmetry to this project. Not so much a train wreck as a war games exercise a probl...
Posted by clinton on Fri, 05 May 2006 07:33:00 PST

Production 14

"production 14"Warghh!This has suddenly become a total freeze... impossible to schedule anything for the actors and crew. First the DP went to New Orleans for a week (and was unreachable for the week ...
Posted by clinton on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:16:00 PST

Production 13

PRODUCTION 13If the last entry seemed a bit boring it's because I forgot to mention one of the most entertaining details of the shoot: JAMES BROWN!(James Browwwwwn, James Browwwwwn.)Way back when I pu...
Posted by clinton on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:58:00 PST

Production 12

Production 12Well, here I am with footage in the timeline, and chugging away at it, just like old times. Before I start re-capping, as so much has happened, a word on chess. My hero, Kubrick, was a ch...
Posted by clinton on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 07:49:00 PST

Production 11

  So as the week wore on I decided to postpone the shoot from the 18th.  Next I went to the bank and got two money orders, an actors' and a D.P.'s paychecks, and stuck them in a drawer. Now ...
Posted by clinton on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:54:00 PST

Production 10 - Peachy Puff Pain in the Ass

Production 10 Only one week to the shoot (supposedly) and I am freaking out. I knew it seemed too easy! I still dont have locations except for probably the hotel lobby. That is the biggest obstacle at...
Posted by clinton on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:49:00 PST

Production 9

  I rehearsed my actors for the first time last Sunday. They were good, but I became worried that my stylized dialogue would make the whole thing appear too wooden. The lines have an old movie fe...
Posted by clinton on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:42:00 PST