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Jeff

It's all in the art of stopping

About Me

Some people may consider me eccentric. I'm not your average guy who stays home on Sunday to watch the game. I'm highly involved in promoting independent film . I am a photographer turned filmmaker. What a stretch ! I shove independent film down the throat of people just to prove that they don't need Hollywood. I have a rather dark sense of humor . I love underground music and loath commercial radio. I would rather attend a film festival than go bar hopping downtown. I am a champion of the underdog ... and I'm not talking about the old cartoon character. Pop Culture critic extraordinaire. I have a serious addiction to pulp fiction art and other American trash culture. Hardcore member of the DNC. I can be found browsing at record conventions because I'm somewhat of a record collecting geek. I love old post punk and new wave from 1977-1983. I'm comfortable hanging with the art scene but wouldn't be caught dead at a Nascar event. I'm working on four independent film projects at the moment. Hopefully they will be finished by the end of 2007. Currently working on an experimental film trilogy that has proven to be quite an endeavor.

My Interests

Film festivals . Photography . Underground music. art . philosophy . politics (democrat) , making independent films. Vintage filmmaking. Antique film equipment. Collecting old LPs but not like Seymour in "Ghost World".

Music:

punk , post punk , new wave , 20th century classical , ambient jazz , David Sylvian , Joy Division , New Model Army , Tindersticks , Cousteau , Sigur Ros , The Libertines , The Damned , Kate Bush , Nick Cave , Lou Reed , Leonard Cohen , Scott Walker , Killing Joke, The Fall , Interpol , The Sounds , The Velvet Underground , Echo and the Bunnymen, Lambchop , His Name Is Alive, Gary Jules , The Alarm , The Pretenders , The Buzzcocks , X , The Abecedarians , B-Movie , The Who, Radiohead , Air , Magazine , The Jam, David Bowie , Roxy Music , Durutti Column , Tom Waits, The The , The Chameleons , Psychedelic Furs, The Undertones , Dead Can Dance , Recoil, Iggy Pop , Cabaret Voltaire , Bat for Lashes, Crime and the City Solution , Covenant , The Clash , The Fixx , Oingo Boingo , MC5 , Gary Numan , Landscape , The Church , Hooverphonic , The Wedding Present , Magnetic Fields , Savage Republic , The Teardrop Explodes , The Icicle Works , Breathless , Einsturzende Nuebauten, Radio 4 , Gang of Four , XTC , Pere Ubu , Blake Babies , M1-Alternative , Jane Wiedlin , Legendary Pink Dots , In Camera , Pigface , Tones On Tail , Sonic Youth , Spacemen 3 , Big Black , Billy Bragg, Her Space Holiday , Tulsa Drone , Ultravox , Swans , Angels of Light , Talk Talk , Wire , Love and Rockets , PiL

Movies:

Pi , anything with Orson Welles , anything directed by Kevin Smith , Metropolis , Thin Red Line , Gattaca , Solaris, House of Sand and Fog , 21 Grams , Napoleon Dynamite, Ghost World, Altered States , The World According to Garp , Brazil, Harold and Maude, American Splendor , The Wicker Man(1973), Donnie Darko , Garden State , Mean Creek , Dead Calm , Dogville , Wings of Desire , Penn and Teller Get Killed , Old Harryhausen films , Peter Greenaway films and last but not least my own damn experimental films.

Television:

24 , BuffyTVS , CSI , Angel, Smallville , Wonderfalls , The Adventures of Pete and Pete , Millennium , The Wild Wild West ( the original series not that Will Smith piece of crap), Arrested Developement , BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ( current series ) ,Prison Break , Boston Legal , The History Detectives , Family Guy , The Simpsons , Mr. Show , Six Feet Under , John Doe , My Name Is Earl

Books:

Music Journalism , Mojo magazine , Arthur C. Clarke , Ray Bradbury , Gary Zukav , Hubert Selby Jr., Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children

Heroes:

My Dad , David Sylvian, Terrence Malick, Gary Oldman , M. Gira , Justin Sullivan, David Lynch , Robert Altman , George Harrison , Jeremy Davies, Ken Russell, Orson Welles , Stan Brakhage , Wim Wenders, Andrew Niccol , Darren Aronofsky , Lars von Trier

My Blog

This is a little spooky in a boring way ...

People are using MySpace to sell real estate now .http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPr ofile&friendID=107093954I guess with the interest rates where they are you need all the hel...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:53:00 PST

Unlikely pairing !

It warms the heart when pop stars that are living the high life can do something charitable together. Taking advantage of both bands' extreme popularity, Green Day and U2 will be entering the studio t...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:31:00 PST

This is both funny and disturbing :

http://www.myspace.com/cancerboyadventures I'm probably going to hell for being entertained by it .
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 04:04:00 PST

My Cat is a freak !

I caught him licking soap today. A good ole mouth full of Jergen's Mild.Reminds me of that scene in A Christmas Story. But eating soap is supposed to be punishment.
Posted by Jeff on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 08:57:00 PST

Have I sold out ?

Or am I just lazy. I joined Netflix today. I hate the fact that I'm letting little ma and pa shops like The Video Fan down. They are an excellent source of hard to find cult films. Things I won't ...
Posted by Jeff on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:36:00 PST

yeah blog problems

This may continue until I get a new computer . What bothers me is that I can't put security on my blog anymore.Here are some things I meant to post about but couldn't.1) K-Fed on Teen Choice awards. ...
Posted by Jeff on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 06:03:00 PST

Anniversary

Anniversary of when this government turned it back on it's own citizens in dire need.God damn the Bush administration and what it stands for....
Posted by Jeff on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 02:09:00 PST

broken blog

I apologise to anyone who has tried to place comments to my blog.For some reason I can't accept comments anymore as I can't post blogs without typing them in an alternate program. I'm bummed about th...
Posted by Jeff on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:40:00 PST

Dangling around ...

I was watching "My Name Is Earl" the other night and Earl and his brother were trapped in abandoned water tower with nothing to eat but a single candy bar. While is this situation ... Earl and his b...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:43:00 PST

Fist City makes the Tribune

According to my friend Pamela in Chicago Richmond's Maymont Bears controversy made the Chicago Tribune. I look forward to the day in which Richmond is nationally recognized for something other than d...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:39:00 PST