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Ben Rock

Jazz makes me feel ANGRY

About Me

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My Interests

movies, especially good horror movies; Fortean Times; ancient ruins; UFO's; Apple Computers; indie film; keeping busy

I'd like to meet:

Geeks like me.And I wish I'd met him:

Music:

The Flaming Lips, The Apples in Stereo, Chow Nasty, The Automatic, My Chemical Romance, Cake, Clem Snide, Talking Heads, Beck, OK GO, Stellastar*, Kula Shaker, Postal Service, Song Poems, Cibo Matto, Pizzicatto Five, Shonen Knife, Nirvana, Pixies, Roger Waters, Massive Attack, Fiona Apple, Philip Glass, Radiohead, Tom Waits, The White Stripes, Baby Bird, Molotov, Eels, Frank Black, Johnny Cash, Ben Folds, Kahimi Karie, David Bowie, William Shatner (you like Shatner too!)

Movies:

Pan's Labyrinth, Miller's Crossing, Brazil, Natural Born Killers, Children of Men, Pi, Evil Dead 2, The Thing, Dead Ringers, The Third Man, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Sin City, Angel Heart, Boogie Nights, Team America: World Police, Lord of the Rings, Meet the Feebles, JFK, Fight Club, Se7en, Ed Wood, F For Fake, The Descent, Un Chien Andalou, The Devil's Backbone, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, The Fog of War, Dawn of the Dead (both versions!), Videodrome, Batman Begins, Clash of the Titans, 28 Days Later

Television:

Dexter, Wonder Showzen, 24, Six Feet Under, Lost, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Drawn Together, House, Anatomy of a Scene, Frontline, Now, Futurama, South Park, The Simpsons, The Office (the American version!), My Name is Earl, Real Time with Bill Maher, Sunday Morning Shootout, Da Ali G Show, The Sara Silverman Program,

Books:

Slaughterhouse Five, Stiff, Foucault's Pendulum, The Hot Zone, The Zombies that ate Pittsburgh, The Language Instinct, Intruders, Grendel, The Tipping Point, The Sirens of Titan, Strange Angel, The History of Secret Societies, Plan of Attack, Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death, The Illuminatus Trilogy, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Holy Blood Holy Grail, Fight Club

Heroes:

Charles Hoy Fort, Christopher Nolan, George Carlin, Buckminster Fuller, Nicola Tesla, Jack Parsons, Steve Jobs, Robert Anton Wilson, Sam Raimi, Kurt Vonnegut, Houdini, Orson Welles

My Blog

Life is worth Losing

A lot of people have said it, and they've said it here: RIP George Carlin. Listening to George Carlin's records from the age of 8 was one of the things that made me whoever it is I am today. To THI...
Posted by Ben Rock on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:07:00 PST

McCain ’08!!!!!!!

Thank you Jim Nieb for opening my mind thusly: ...
Posted by Ben Rock on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:07:00 PST

The Movie...

...Is in the can.Eureka!
Posted by Ben Rock on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:38:00 PST

Nervous energy

It was ten years ago today that Alicia and I officially became an item. December 3, 1997. What followed has been the happiest and most productive decade of my life (not that the previous ten years w...
Posted by Ben Rock on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:57:00 PST

Classic Pet Psychic Antics

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Posted by Ben Rock on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:06:00 PST

Marcel Marceau, Requiem for a fallen mime

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Posted by Ben Rock on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:37:00 PST

Wild dolphins have stay that way!

I think we all have a date together when this opens...Eye of the Dolphin Trailer Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by Ben Rock on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:45:00 PST

Goodbye, Mr. Barking Puppy...

RIGHT before I moved to Los Angeles in 1999, I poured a bunch of money (though not as much as my producer) into a little short film that I thought would help me get attention as a director once I got ...
Posted by Ben Rock on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:35:00 PST

All I can say is that rat poison must be good for Fiona

Please, somebody, go back in time and distract me at the exact moment I did the youtube search for "James Randi." If only I didn't know about his presence on youtube, I could have about 2 hours of my...
Posted by Ben Rock on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:15:00 PST

When the Internet was young...

...We passed around viral videos that were far stranger and far slower than anything you whipper-snappers send around today. We didn't have the YouTube or the myspace, What DID we have? We had "Hat ...
Posted by Ben Rock on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:45:00 PST