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Son Of El Topo

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About Me

Hey, my name is Salem, guess I’m a quite easy going guy, I’m not very social but love my friends! I’m a big movie nut, I love music, reading, love our planet, I’m a vegetarian and have been for quite a while, I’m Jewish and a socialist, I always say what I think and stand up for what I believe in. I also have a dark sense of humour. I’m a Film-director and Sound Engineer, I have worked as a stage manager (and sometimes actor) for many Theatre productions in London and Edinburgh! I also write for Scene4 Magazine (www.scene4.com) If any more questions; well just ask away!
"You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense each year, trillions of dollars! if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world - and it would pay for it many times over, not one human being excluded - we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace" - Bill Hicks

'If art is not a medicine for society, it's a poison'
- Alejandro Jodorowsky


My Interests

General Interests: (scroll down)Human Rights, World Politics, Political Debate, Socialism, Vegetarian, Anti-War, Literature, Theatre, Classic cinema and cult films, Arts, Music, Playing the Guitar, Tattoos, beating up old ladies

MUSIC
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Punk Rock, jazz, blues, klezmer, older country, classic rock, Heavy Metal, Glam, Industrial, Grunge, Rock, Hardcore, Oi, Ska, Nu Wave, KBD, Hippie Rock and Balcan Music

The Clash, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, The 101'ers, The Latino Rockabilly War, Stick Men With Ray Guns, Bobby Soxx & The Teenage Queers, Wall Street Traitors, Johnny Thunders, Butthole Surfers, Suicide, Killing Joke, Vomit Pigs, Frank Zappa, Dead Pets, Zero Boys, Alice Cooper, GG Allin, Dead Kennedys, Misfits, Feederz, Subhumans, Ramones, Rudimentary Peni, Nirvana, Exploited, Cecyl Taylor, Rob Zombie/ White Zombie, Jimmy Hendrix, Leftover Crack, Toy Dolls, Nick Cave, Naplam Death, Nailbomb, Battalion of Saints, Johnny Winter, Motorhead, Crass, Germs, Bad Brains, Adicts, Anti-Nowhere League, Born Against, Cramps, MDC, Agnostic Front (old), The Dicks, JfA, Frank Sinatra, Big Boys, Negative Aproach, D.O.A., Black Flag, Sex Pistols, G.B.H., Circle Jerks, Bad Religion (early years), Reagan Youth, White Zombie, Siege, Discharge, B.G.K., Wolf Biermann, Out Cold,

Dead Boys, Danzig, Damned, Social Distortion, 4 Skins, Slaughter and the Dogs, Angelic Upstarts, David Bowie, AC/DC, Poison Idea, Fear, Metal Urbain, The Doors, Johnny Cash, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, T-Rex, X, The Queers, Zeke, JewDriver, Angry Samoans, Flipper, Stiff Little Fingers, Citizen Fish, Dwarves, Cock Sparrer, I Object, The Bussines, Bill Bondsmen, Chokin Susan, David Allan Coe, D.R.I, The Huns, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Nips n' Nipple Errectors, Lords of the New Church, Mechanical Cabaret

FILM
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In a Year with 13 Moons, A ClockWork Orange, Los Olvidados, Breathless, El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Kes, Salo: O le 120 giornate di Sodoma, Blood of a Poet,Pink Flamingos, Au hasard Balthazar, The Pianist, Barry Lyndon, The Great Dictator, Angels In America, Fanny and Alexander, Enfants du Paradis, Blow-up, Midnight Cowboy, Santa sangre, Chinese Roulette, The Stalker, Straw Dogs, 2000 Maniacs, Allonsanfan,

The Night of the Hunter, The Godfather, Suspiria, Repo Man, American History X, Brazil, Psycho, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Hammer Horror, This is Spinal Tap, Flesh/Trash/Heat, Napoleon Dynamite, Themroc, Labirynth, Pleasantville, Spun, Mystery Train, Wings of Desire, Far Away so Close, Freaks, The Tin Drum, Suburbia, Au revoir les enfants, F For Fake, Touch Of Evil, The Trial, Citizen Kane, Magnificent Ambersons, The Tragedy of Othello, Falstaff, Alphaville, Fear eats the Soul, Querelle, Full Metal Jacket, The Believer, Rosemary's Baby, The Birds, Misery, Hiroshima Mon Amour, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, Dahmer, One Plus One, Double vie de Véronique, Trois couleurs: Rouge,

Up in smoke, Vertigo, Silence of the Lambs, The Shining, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Taxi Driver, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Most Dracula films, Easy Rider, Harold and Maude, The Big Lebowski, The Decline of Western Civilization, The Bikini Bandits Experience, Cecil B Demented, Good bye Lenin!, Pickpocket, The Merchant of Four Seasons, The 400 Blows, Bowling For Columbine, Eraserhead, Female Troubles, les carabiniers, Bigger than Life, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Johnny Guitar, Fandy y Lis, Desperate Living

Directors:
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Stanley Kubrick, Luis Bunuel, Jean-Luc Goddard, John Waters, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean Cocteau, Dario Argento, Federico Fellini, David Cronenberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Jacques Tati, Tod Browning, George A. Romero, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Herschel Gordon Lewis, Wim Wenders, Paul Morrissey, Roman Polanski, Clive Barker, David Lynch, John Cassavetes, Tim Burton, Robert Altman, Milos Forman, Francis Ford Coppola, Ingmar Bergman (RIP), Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, D.W. Griffith, John Carpenter, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alex Cox, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Ray, John Schlesinger, Ken Loach, Louis Malle, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut, Robert Bresson, Luchino Visconti, Lindsay Anderson, Sam Peckinpah, Kenneth Anger

Actors:
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Orson Welles, Robert Mitchum, Richard Burton, Rutger Hauer, Bette Davis, James Stewart, John Cassavetes, Gregory Peck, Anthony Perkins, Donald Sutherland, Christopher Lee, Timothy Carey, Lillian Gish, Boris Karloff, Klaus Kinski, Romy Schneider, Bruno Ganz, Jodie Foster, Humphrey Bogart, Bela Lugosi, Walter Matthau, Vincent Price, Marcello Mastroianni, Gary Oldman, Michel Piccoli, John Belushi, Jack Nicholson, Christopher Walken, Helen Mirren, Anna Karina, Dustin Hoffman, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Gene Wilder, Jerry Lewis, Robert De Niro, Steve McQueen, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Laughton

Comedians:
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Bill Hicks, Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Pee-Wee Herman(Paul Reubens), Rik Mayall, Hape Kerkeling, John Belushi (he goes in every category), John Cleese, Steve Coogan, Stephen Fry, Groucho Marx, Christopher Guest, Richard Pryor, Peter Sellers, Lenny Bruce, Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin, Eddie Izzard

Books:
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Aldous Huxley, Elias Canetti, Ted Hughes, Paul Celan, Michael Moore, Franz Kafka, Irvine Welsh, Stefan Heym, Saul Bellow, R.M. Rilke, Edgar Allan Poe, Antonin Artaud, Marquis de Sade, Jean-Paul Sartre, Truman Capote, George Orwell, Umberto Eco, Anthony Burgess, Kurt Vonnegut, Hermann Hesse, Stephen King, Auto Da Fe, Power and Crowds, The Little Prince, 1984, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Antic Hay, Brave New World, Dangling Man, Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Ulissess, A Potrait of the artist as a young man... everything historical about WWII, the political writing and anarchist thinking of Emma Goldman and Mikhail Bakunin

Theatre:
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Antonin Artaud, Neil Simon, Dario Fo, Harold Pinter, Theatre of Cruelty, Anti-theatre, Fringe!

Television
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Television is for the ignorant who don't have a life; therefore my best friend.... shows I love are; South Park, Beavis & Butthead, Aqua Teen: Hunger Force, Monkey Dust, Robot Chicken, The Munsters, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Bob & Margret, Jeeves and Wooster, Bottom, Venture Bros, The Young Ones, Two Pints of Lager & A Packet of Crisps, Space Ghost, Family Guy, Scrubs, Simpsons, 2DTV, Seinfeld, Bewitched, Happy Days, PJ's and other retarded shit

Heroes:
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People I admire or that are an inspiration to me in some way or the other: Jeff Waites, Kyle Whitefoot, Sokrates Kapsaskis (RIP), Bobby Soxx, Ted Hughes, Jello Biafra, Joe Strummer, Salvador Dali (great artist/ rotten human being), Rainer Werner Fassbiner, Bill Hicks, GG Allin And of course... Michael Fish

The One and only Joe Strummer - RIP

I'd like to meet:



Slideshow I made of all my comrades and the people that I love and look up to!!

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Music:

I live for music! here's the ever growing list ... and yes, I Actually listen to all those bands! unlike others that just list allot of things to sound 'cool'!

Punk Rock, old jazz, blues (I know it's a wide field), klezmer, some older country, classic rock, Good Metal, some industial bollocks, Grunge, Rock, Hardcore, Oi, Ska, Nu Wave, KBD, Hippie Rock and Balcan Music

Stick Men With Ray Guns, Bobby Soxx & The Teenage Queers, Wall Street Traitors, The Clash, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, The 101'ers, The Latino Rockabilly War, Johnny Thunders, Butthole Surfers, Suicide, Killing Joke, Vomit Pigs, Frank Zappa, Dead Pets, Zero Boys, Alice Cooper

GG Allin, Dead Kennedys, Misfits, Feederz, Subhumans, Ramones, Rudimentary Peni, Nirvana, Exploited, Cecyl Taylor, Jimmy Hendrix, Leftover Crack, Toy Dolls, Nick Cave, Naplam Death, Nailbomb, Battalion of Saints, Johnny Winter,

Motorhead, Crass, Germs, Bad Brains, Adicts, Anti-Nowhere League, Born Against, Cramps, MDC, Agnostic Front (old), The Dicks, JfA, Frank Sinatra (for sentimental reasons), Big Boys, Negative Aproach,

D.O.A., Black Flag, Sex Pistols, G.B.H., Circle Jerks, Bad Religion (early years), Reagan Youth, White Zombie, Siege, Discharge, B.G.K.,

Dead Boys, Danzig, Damned, Social Distortion, 4 Skins, Slaughter and the Dogs, Angelic Upstarts, David Bowie, AC/DC

Poison Idea, Fear, Metal Urbain, The Doors, Johnny Cash, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, T-Rex, X, The Queers, Zeke, JewDriver, Angry Samoans, Flipper

Stiff Little Fingers, Citizen Fish, Dwarves, Cock Sparrer, I Object, The Bussines, Bill Bondsmen, Chokin Susan, David Allan Coe, D.R.I, The Huns, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Nips n' Nipple Errectors, Lords of the New Church, Mechanical Cabaret

Movies:


A ClockWork Orange, Natural Born Killers, Salo, In a Year with 13 Moons, Trainspotting, Bowling For Columbine, Evil Dead, Life Is Beautiful, The Great Dictator, See no Evil, Hear No Evil, Sin City
Angels In America, Enfants du Paradis, Blow-up, Drugstore Cowboy, National Lampoon's Animal House, Rock'n'Roll Highschool (I know it's bad, I still love this cheesy movie),
The Godfather, Suspiria, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Repo Man, American History X, Brazil, Psycho, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Hammer Horror, This is Spinal Tap, Flesh/ Trash/ Heat, Napoleon Dynamite (best comedy ever made)
Themroc, Labirynth, Pleasantville, Spun, Mystery Train, Wings of Desire, Far Away so Close, Freaks, The Tin Drum, Suburbia, Alphaville, Fear eats the Soul, Querelle, Full Metal Jacket, The Believer, Rosemary's Baby, The Birds, Dances With Wolves, IT, Misery, American Beauty, FEED, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, Dahmer,
Bundy, Henry: Potrait of a Serial Killer, Up in smoke, The Pianist, Vertigo, Silence of the Lambs, The Shining, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Taxi Driver, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Nacho Libre, Most Dracula films, Easy Rider, Harold and Maude, The Big Lebowski, New Years Day, The Decline of Western Civilization, The Bikini Bandits Experience (it sucks, but has it's moments), Good bye Lenin!
Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Goddard, Jacques Tati, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dario Argento, Federico Fellini, David Cronenberg, Tod Browning, George A. Romero, Ridley Scott, Wim Wenders, Paul Morrissey, Luis Bunuel, Roman Polanski, Clive Barker, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Robert Altman, Milos Forman, Francis Ford Coppola, Ingmar Bergman, Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, D.W. Griffith, John Carpenter, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alex Cox, Woody Allen
Actors: Richard Burton, Rutger Hauer, Donald Sutherland, Christopher Lee, Jodie Foster, Humphrey Bogart, Bela Lugosi, Walter Matthau, Gabrielle Anwar, Vincent Price, Steve Buscemi, Gary Oldman, Woody Harrelson, John Belushi, Jack Nicholson, Christopher Walken, Helen Mirren, James Woods, Dustin Hoffman, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Gene Wilder

Comedians: Bill Hicks, Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Pee-Wee Herman(Paul Reubens), Rik Mayall, Hape Kerkeling, John Belushi (he goes in every category), John Cleese, Sasha Baron Cohen, Steve Coogan, Stephen Fry, Groucho Marx, Christopher Guest, Richard Pryor, Peter Sellers, Lenny Bruce, Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin, Eddie Izzard
The BBQ Movie

Television:

Television is for the ignorant who don't have a life; therefore my best friend.... shows I love are; South Park, Beavis & Butthead, Aqua Teen: Hunger Force, Monkey Dust, Robot Chicken, The Munsters, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Bob & Margret, Jeeves and Wooster, Bottom, Venture Bros, The Young Ones, Two Pints of Lager & A Packet of Crisps, Space Ghost, Family Guy, Scrubs, Simpsons, 2DTV, Seinfeld, Bewitched, Happy Days, PJ's and other retarded shit

Books:


Aldous Huxley, Elias Canetti, Ted Hughes, Paul Celan, Michael Moore, Franz Kafka, Irvine Welsh, Stefan Heym, Saul Bellow, R.M. Rilke, Edgar Allan Poe, Antonin Artaud, Marquis de Sade, Jean-Paul Sartre, Truman Capote, H.P. Lovecraft, Phillip K. Dick, George Orwell, Umberto Eco, Anthony Burgess, Kurt Vonnegut,
Hermann Hesse, Stephen King, Auto Da Fe, Power and Crowds, The Little Prince, 1984, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Antic Hay, Brave New World, Dangling Man... everything historical about WWII, the political writing and anarchist thinking of Emma Goldman, Mikhail Bakunin... oh and the TV Guide

Theatre Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Antonin Artaud, Neil Simon, Dario Fo, Theatre of Cruelty, Anti-theatre, Fringe!
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Heroes:

People I admire or that are an inspiration to me in some way or the other: Jeff Waites, Kyle Whitefoot, Sokrates Kapsaskis, Bobby Soxx, Ted Hughes, Fidel Castro, Jello Biafra, Joe Strummer, Salvador Dali (great artist/ rotten human being), Rainer Werner Fassbiner, Bill Hicks, GG Allin

And of course... Michael Fish
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My Blog

And the Oscar for Best Director does NOT go to:

The Academy Awards have ignored and snubbed some of the greatest Directors in cinema history. Here is just a short list with names that came to mind! Feel free to update my list or send corrections. ...
Posted by Son Of El Topo on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:52:00 PST

Anger Rising (New Article)

Click here to read my new article on Film-Maker and author Kenneth Anger Scene4 Magazine http://www.scene4.com...
Posted by Son Of El Topo on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:03:00 PST

Joe Christ Interview

Click here to read my exclusive interview with Film-maker Joe Christ on Scene4 Magazine   http//www.scene4.com/...
Posted by Son Of El Topo on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:35:00 PST

The Day the Clown Cried

The Day the Clown CriedBy Salem Kapsaski Click here to read my new article on Scene4 Magazine   http//www.scene4.com/...
Posted by Son Of El Topo on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:33:00 PST

Does Snuff really exist? (New article)

Everything You Always Wanted To KnowBut Were Afraid To Askby Salem Kapsaski Click here to read the full article on Scene4 Magazine     Scene4 Magazine http://www.scene4.com/...
Posted by Son Of El Topo on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:51:00 PST

Mel Gibson's and Michael Richards' "Racist Tirades"?

In November 2006; Michael Richards (a.k.a. Kramer) became Enemy Nr.1 after he slipped up onstage during his comedy act by dealing with a heckler in a rather unusual way ... calling him a "Nigger"! And...
Posted by Son Of El Topo on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:51:00 PST

Cinema in 2007! (The best and worst films of the year so far)

Why 2007 will be a good year for Cinema: The Films I can't wait to see    Simpsons: The Movie: The Biggest event since the Moon landing and the fall of the Berlin Wall! It's The Simpso...
Posted by Son Of El Topo on Mon, 07 May 2007 04:02:00 PST

Top Ten - Most Overrated movies!

Top Ten - Most overrated movies! By Salem Kapsaski   10) Dead Poets Society  There is nothing wrong with this film, it's sweet and you can watch it once every year or so if it's on TV anyways! ...
Posted by Son Of El Topo on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:38:00 PST

A Consumers Message to the Entertainment Industry!

            A Consumers Message to the Entertainment Industry!                 &...
Posted by Son Of El Topo on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:09:00 PST

Two More Toons

Two More South-Park look ripped-off cartoons! Enjoy! Billy Crystal Dustin Hoffman ...
Posted by Son Of El Topo on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:25:00 PST