SEE VIDEO - THE STORY OF FRANCO & BILLY
Making motion pictures, radio dramas, musical compositions, and gathering photos of our ancestors.
Finding the cure for sterility.
Fulfilling the Franco and
Billy legacy...
The guy who invented the motion picture camera (Sidney Lumet). The guy with the little black moustache who made so many people laugh. Richard Donner. Joan Wilder. Q-bert. Ted Kotcheff, who said of his 1983 movie (Uncommon Valour): "My movie is not ABOUT Vietnam. It IS Vietnam." (and then the Vietnam war ended) All the directors from the 1970s who broke the mold by refusing to edit their films. I'd also like to meet a robot covered in human skin. And, of course, all the Franco & Billys.
Franco and Billy in Morocco sample the local tobacco - 1937
Blomquist's goat trill a capella, Wiens' spit box, the Human Boys Choir, robotics rock, and the one and only Joe Satriani.
Our movies: The Surveyor, East Nile, 20 Clicks, The Cobbler of New Amsterdam, Nevil's Harp, 21 Clicks, Last Laugh, Get Off Me!, Pencil For Hire, Potato, The Crimson Scorpion, Hard Liquid, Tears of Ether, Helmut, Whalebone, and Electronic Butterworth. Also Morticka - The Wrath of Toothman.
The Independents
Peter's reading list: (fiction) Bullet School, Wizard Run,
Heart-On-The-Outside Bear and Bleeds Like Niagra. (non-fiction) Bullet School, Soap Tricks, Making Mummies, Get Naked-Hanging Out With Billy Joel, Things
With Hair.
Jeff's reading list: (fiction) Scuba Cat, The Horn Blows David's Song, Carrots or Cancer (non-fiction) Hi Dad - A Memoir by Randall "Tex"
Cobb, Get Up! Let's Make a Movie!, and Addressing Your Chrome Dome.
Jeff's Heroes: All the fathers, grandfathers, great grandfathers, etc. in the Franco and Billy ancestry. Plus people who risk it all and never make a difference.
Peter's Heroes: People who don't kill their clone before their clone
doesn't kill their other clone who just killed the first clone before any
other clones could be made because the 3rd clone destroyed the cloning
facility where the original person agreed to kill the other clones
because everything got totally out of control.Franco and Billy flirt with the locals while serving their country in Tour #3, Guam - 1951.