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Twitching Monkey Productions

It's Hard Out Here For A Chimp

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Caffeine Headache - A short film starring Mike McFarland, Mike Wiebe, Laurie Walton, Mae Moreno, Amy Brown, Barak Epstein, Michael Guillory, Eric Rhoades, Shane Stein and Patrick Knoles. Watch it in 3 parts above or on YouTube .You Can Have It! - 24 Hour Video Race entry re-edited by George Hickman. Spoof of 50's industrial films featuring interconnected lives of crime. Features Laurie Walton, Amy Brown, Jeremy Thurmond. Also on YouTube .
Don't Let's Start - Feature film shooting fall 2007! Currently attached: Dian Bachar (Orgazmo, BASEketball), Mike Wiebe (of The Riverboat Gamblers, Prison-A-Go-Go!), Eric Rhoades, Michael Guillory, Amy Brown, Corn Mo, Mike McFarland, Patrick Knoles, Jenna Finley, Jennifer Crumley, Lloyd Kaufman.

Sample Scene from Don't Let's Start:
More files are being prepared to be uploaded, and more stuff is coming!
Coming in 2007, from Twitching Monkey and Big Sir: PANTS FREE TV!

My Interests

producing feature and short comedies specializing in dark social satire, music videos, directing, acting

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Investors, distributors, great DPs... Marla Sokoloff. Steve Buscemi. Christopher Walken. All the influences.
also, these bitches:

Music:

They Might Be Giants, Weird Al Yankovic, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Marla Sokoloff, Mono Puff, John Linnell, Corn Mo, .357 Lover, The Riverboat Gamblers, High Tension Wires, The Dutch Treats, Lucy Loves Schroeder, Sara Radle, The Psychos!, White Stripes, Oingo Boingo, DEVO, DVDA, Tenacious D

Movies:

Tim Burton, Kevin Smith, Joel & Ethan Coen, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Jean-Pierre Juenet, Wes Anderson, Christopher Guest, Rushmore, Ed Wood, UHF, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Harold & Maude, Heathers, Throw Momma From The Train, Cable Guy, Edward Scissorhands, Gigantic (A Tale Of Two Johns), Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Sin City, Lost In Translation, Big Lebowski, Prison-A-Go-Go!, Pot Zombies, A Four Course Meal, Heavenly Creatures, Orgazmo, Team America: World Police, Donnie Darko, Election, Four Rooms, Pulp Fiction, Waiting For Guffman, Bowfinger, This Is Spinal Tap, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, From Dusk Til Dawn, Fargo, BASEketball, Terror Firmer, Mighty Wind, Austin Powers, Airplane!, Top Secret!, Hot Shots!, Naked Gun, The Impostors, The Incredibles, The Iron Giant, Raising Arizona, Eating Raoul, Finding Nemo, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Being John Malkovich, Better Off Dead, American Splendor, King Kong (33 & 05), Slacker, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Kingpin, There's Something About Mary, Spirited Away, Trainspotting, Kill Bill 1 & 2, High Fidelity, Lord Of The Rings trilogy... this list will grow

Television:

Simpsons, South Park, Spaced, Daily Show, My Name Is Earl, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry Sanders, Mr Show, Arrested Development, The Corn Mo Show

Books:

Make Your Own Damn Movie!, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Geek Love, Directing Actors, True Story, American Scream, Sin City, Rebel Without A Crew, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops

Heroes:

Bill Hicks, Kevin Smith, Tim Burton, Weird Al Yankovic, Wes Anderson and Corn Mo

My Blog

The Slaughterhouse is online!

The Slaughterhouse Add to My Profile | More VideosIt's silly, but we had fun. Marvel at Leeanna's ability to go skinny dipping without getting wet!...
Posted by Twitching Monkey Productions on Mon, 28 May 2007 01:14:00 PST

Come See "THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE" at the Angelika!

Greetings all,This year I teamed with Triple C Productions and Toni Cyan-Brock as Team Darkstar in the 24 Hour Video Race. The result was the most fun I've had out of 4 races I've participated in.Our ...
Posted by Twitching Monkey Productions on Wed, 23 May 2007 09:52:00 PST

Fall 2007...

"Don't Let's Start" shoots this fall.Add it, watch it, experience it.... resistance is futile.
Posted by Twitching Monkey Productions on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:21:00 PST

Don't Let's Start "Announced" on IMDB

Don't Let's Start on IMDB.com
Posted by Twitching Monkey Productions on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:14:00 PST

PegasusNews.com Article

Thanks to Justin of Striped Socks Productions for bringing this to my attention. Fort Worth Filmmaker Sells Producer Credit on eBay Tuesday, January 2, 2007 Fort Worth filmmaker sells producer credit ...
Posted by Twitching Monkey Productions on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:40:00 PST

Sample Scene

Our friend Aaron of The Line Inside needed to do some sound engineering, and I wanted to shoot a sample scene from  Don't Let's Start, and we found a way to get both done. So let's celebrate Aaro...
Posted by Twitching Monkey Productions on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:15:00 PST

"A Four Course Meal: Working Stiffs"

One of the segments from Clay Liford's anthology film A Four Course Meal is up on YouTube. It's called "Working Stiffs" and stars Bill Sebastian, Laura Bailey and Mojo Nixon. Check it out and add the ...
Posted by Twitching Monkey Productions on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:14:00 PST

True Crime by The Riverboat Gambers

They've  contributed to the soundtrack of Caffeine Headache and will do the same for Don't Let's Start. Mike Wiebe is a Twitching Monkey regular in the stable of actors. Here is The Riverboat Gam...
Posted by Twitching Monkey Productions on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:20:00 PST

Mike Wiebe's Nitro XRC Ad!

Our very own "Caffeine Headache" and "Don't Let's Start" star Mike Wiebe and his merry band of soundtrack contributors The Riverboat Gamblers make the kids love remote control cars...Nitro riverboat g...
Posted by Twitching Monkey Productions on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:18:00 PST

A Lot Of Random Stuff

Greetings from Twitching Monkey Land, kids! The director and a producer from Don't Let's Start are currently working on a non-fiction piece for Current TV, but we must remind you that our AUCTIONS con...
Posted by Twitching Monkey Productions on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:23:00 PST