Law school was eating away at soul and sanity, leading me to rope Andy into writing a screenplay with me. Our efforts led to the formation of Ensorcelled Productions and the making of The Pallid Mask, an independent horror comedy shot in Gainesville, FL. We put editing the movie on hiatus after finishing the rough cut and are now focusing on Resident Aliens , an animated series set in Miami, FL--with Andy and I primarily writing, Brian producing, Dan illustrating, and Ian composing the score.
Media, old and new: computers, computer peripherals, film, video, television, animation, print literature, sequential art, theatre, graphic art, et al.
Genres: Classical, Electro, Glam, Goth, Funk, Hip Hop, Indie, Industrial, Krautrock, New Wave, Post-Punk, Punk, Rock, Synthpop, Techno, Trip Hop, etc.
Labels: Ant-Zen, Ectopic Ents, Factory Records, Ipecac Records, Metropolis, Mute Records, Thirsty Ear, Warp, WaxTrax! Records
Genres: Action, Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Horror, Indie, Martial Arts, Satire, Sci-fi, Suspense... Take your pick. I like all kinds of different movies. You should, too.
Some directors: Roger Avary, Tim Burton, Nacho Cerda, David Cronenberg, Guillermo Del Toro, Terry Gilliam, Michel Gondry, Stuart Gordon, Mary Harron, John Landis, Lloyd Kaufman, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Sam Raimi, Robert Rodriguez, John Waters
To me, Jerry Bruckheimer embodies much that is wrong about Hollywood filmmaking. He tends to produce large budget pictures with poorly constructed plots, shallow logic, minimal character development, and generic action sequences in lieu of actual substance. (I'm not a fan of Michael Bay or Brett Ratner, either.)
I like to read all kinds of literature.
I think comic books are still underrated as an art form, though they've received more media attention recently because of comic-based films and academic dissemination on "graphic novels". Most of my favorite comic authors are--for some reason--from the United Kingdom or Ireland. The well-known ones include Warren Ellis , Garth Ennis, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, and Grant Morrison; most of them have worked on 2000 AD , DC's Vertigo line, and/or creator-controlled indie companies like America's Best Comics .
I like alternative/indie/underground comics, particularly the works of Jhonen Vasquez , Evan Dorkin , and their fellow creators at Slave Labor Graphics (though for 'classy' or academic indie comics, you can't beat Fantagraphics . Kitchen Sink Press , Drawn + Quarterly , and Oni Press are great, too.) And as far as mainstream comics go, I prefer the Marvel Universe to the DC Universe.
Hiro, Nathan, Peter, Claire, The Haitian, Matt, Nikki, Micah, D.L., Isaac... wait, this was a quiz, right?