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johnnie b

to be or not to be. that's not really a question.

About Me


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living in lodz, polska. teaching english and just finished film school here.(slowo)

My Interests

movies, books, travel, music, politics, history, driving fast, i am just like everyone else =)

I'd like to meet:

people interested in music, writing, film. fun people. people who eat people. oh, wait...

Music:

yes.

Movies:

Tops films: Hurlyburly, Pulp Fiction, Manhattan, Chasing Amy, and Trainspotting. More cool films: 400 blows, most Herzog, Breathless, shallow grave, louis malle stuff, le jatee, hate, aliens, terminator, predator, battleroyal, suicide club, audition, ghost in a shell, akira, dot dot dot

Television:

TV will be the end of culture, it rots the brain and devalues the human potential. now if i were to be the master of TV...

Books:

words words words

Heroes:

wonderwoman.

My Blog

the new now

so got my film in the warsaw film festival. still not done with sound but the film should be ready. took my novel off lulu because it wasn’t selling. who knew that once you wrote a book that it ...
Posted by johnnie b on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:34:00 PST

buy five and dark out (a novel)

Hello,   Attn: Interested in reading and broadening your horizons? Buy my book. But first, read on.   http://www.lulu.com/content/990705   I'm not one to send bulk email to just anyone...
Posted by johnnie b on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:22:00 PST

an excerpt

I need a tune up but I know that I'll need to schedule this a week in advance but then maybe I'll just drive until I can't drive any more, until I'm driving on some street where everything is unfamili...
Posted by johnnie b on Sun, 06 May 2007 03:05:00 PST

chapter from 'five and dark out'

  thirteen It was in Prague. We downed more drinks and I danced and smoked and kept bumping into girls, getting smoke and sweat in my eyes. A group of girls all had boots to their knees and sma...
Posted by johnnie b on Sat, 05 May 2007 02:00:00 PST

to publish a novel (five and dark out)

it has taken more than four years of occassional edits, rewrites, more edits, formatting, searching for publishers and getting rejected by all, waiting for responses from foriegn publishers (and still...
Posted by johnnie b on Sat, 05 May 2007 01:48:00 PST

Retrieval: Slawomir Fabicki and everything goes to shit

http://imdb.com/title/tt0800275/ Slawomir Fabicki graduated from the National Polish film school in Lodz. He makes films in the vein of serious Polish Cinema, by way of drama, a Polish genre of choice...
Posted by johnnie b on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:14:00 PST

read a short story of mine on smokebox.net!

"loma prieta and the meaning of everything." a short story by mathew szymanowski http://smokebox.net/archives/what/szyman1206.html...
Posted by johnnie b on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:36:00 PST

flandres... a film by the new tony hawk of european cinema, bruno dumont

Flandres (2006) Bruno Dumont does not like expressions on people faces. The characters in his films do not act with facial expressions. Instead they move and talk and look around like any real live p...
Posted by johnnie b on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:14:00 PST

read about this film and then see it

The first act of a film sets up the plot, the beginning of the story. The act is a series of events, called scenes, which move the viewer though situations with the characters to develop the story. Th...
Posted by johnnie b on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:43:00 PST

uncovering to yourself the things you suck at

a late night rant.   go to: http://blog.changeofbase.com/  
Posted by johnnie b on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 02:37:00 PST