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About Me

From Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions -
"So this book is a sidewalk strewn with junk, trash which I throw over my shoulders as I travel in time to November eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two.
I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things."

My Interests

Filming, writing, cooking, boxing, peacekeeping, Southpaw Politics, Guinness drinking.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to have a drink with the person I forgot to be. And Naomi Wolf, Stephen Colbert and Keith Olbermann.
Martin Perkinson: Thinker from John MJS McGuinness on Vimeo .

Music:

Currently in rotation: Angus & Julia Stone, Combichrist, Eddie Vedder, Bella Koshka, Joy Division, Iggy Pop, Amiina, India Arie, Ray LaMontagne, Mad Love, Wookiefoot, Trampled by Turtles, Brian Eno/John Cale, Shortbus Soundtrack, Sook-Yin Lee, Crowded House, Haukur Morthens, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Sigur Ros, Ignite, Emiliana Torinni, Carla Bruni, Nick Cave, K'naan, Low, Dean Martin, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. Angus & Julia Stone - Wasted
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Movies:

Current Recommendations: The Orphange, No Country for Old Men, Into the Wild Top from the RIFF: Control, Iska's Journey, The Band's Visit, The Art of Crying, Helvetica. SPIN - The Short Film by Double Edge Films
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Television:

Kill Your Television

Books:

Own them. Read them. Currently reading Stand Still Like the Hummingbird by Henry Miller. The ones I recommend most? If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, How I Became Hettie Jones by Hettie Jones, Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Dharma Bums by Kerouac, Huck Finn by Mark Twain, I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, Star Wolf by David Gerrold, The Grass Harp by Truman Capote. Everything by William Gibson and Thom Hartmann(non-Fiction). If you have never heard of Thom Hartmann, you need to look him up.

Heroes:

Hal Hartley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Jimmy Stewart, Liv Ullmann, Dwight David Eisenhower, Jean-Jacques Rouseau, Henry Miller, Rachel Corrie.

My Blog

48Hour Film Project

Once again, I participated in the 48 Hour Film Project. Decided to go light with only a 9 person team. First 48 for our producer, DP/Editor, sound guy and PA, so we stacked our cast with pr...
Posted by McGuinness on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:06:00 PST

Bella Koshka

I like to see artists in their formative stages: musicians, painters, filmmakers. Most of the time, you get to see the spark that will grow if nourished. But sometimes, you see someone who...
Posted by McGuinness on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:10:00 PST

Crime and Punishment

Actions should have repercussions. This is something my mother would have done. Have we reached a point of too much understanding and forgiveness? Or can there be repercuss...
Posted by McGuinness on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:22:00 PST

Politics

Politics is the art of coexistence. It has always been about spin and manipulation. Television and the interwebs have made it faster and briefer and easier to rewrite and simply bombard wi...
Posted by McGuinness on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:25:00 PST

Iowa Caucus

So the Democrats backed Obama. The Republicans backed Huckabee. I think that Huckabee is the sensible heir-apparent to the current monkey in office. I really got nothing else. ...
Posted by McGuinness on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:14:00 PST

Yet I have no solution

A lawyer for a gang-rape victim in Saudi Arabia who was sentenced to 200 lashes and six-months in jail says the punishment contravenes Islamic law. The woman was initially punished for violating laws...
Posted by McGuinness on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:21:00 PST

Words for a Forgotten Song

I put the words awayI killed the song todayI simply walked awayCome back with me to the beginningWalk with me to the endWe were friends when my lips started movingI need to breath deep that old f...
Posted by McGuinness on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:06:00 PST

RIFF: Photo Evidence

Back from the chilly, but not quite frozen, North just in time for the first snow advisory of the season to hit Minnesota. So, I posted what the RIFF looked like for my cellphone. Later I ...
Posted by McGuinness on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:42:00 PST

RIFF: Day Eight

Started the day attending the last installment of Grettir Kabarett. Grettir Kabarett is part of the larger Kino Kabaret Movement out of Montreal. They set out to make movies in 48 hours, b...
Posted by McGuinness on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:16:00 PST

RIFF: Day Seven

Pink. A young man is having trouble growing up. Abandoned by his mother after she beat cnacer and alienated by his father who has stopped talking and annoying by his television star brothe...
Posted by McGuinness on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:20:00 PST