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lance

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About Me

I am from Brooklyn NY Sheepshead Bay to be specific and now live in Venice Ca. I am a writer , director, producer with my own production company in LA . I am a student of the Univeristy life having served in The Cold war in the Submarine Service and Peace Keeping duties in Beruit with the International Peace keeping force that also included the 32nd MAU , The French Foregin Legion and Italian Army . I attended the New school of social research in NY before going to College of Knowledge aka College of Charleston and then on an exchange to Wales in Cardiff and Nantes France where i studied painting and starving at the Olivete , Le Ecole de beaux artes .Went back to Cardiff studied with Abstract Expressionist masters Michael Tyzak and Terry Setch I graduated with a BFA Honors degree from the University of Wales in the UK. For my attempt at my masters I went to the Prestigious Slade School of art in London ( they only accept a few people from thousands ) ran out of money moved back to Brooklyn .Started over in Film I wrote the Garrison screenplay which got me in the biz. Moved to LA started a production company and made these films - The Garrison , 'Gonzo Utopia ,Living the Blues , the Inferno ,The Jukebox From Edison to ipod'Narrated by Peter Coyote the film went to Cannes Short corner film festival &part of Rock n Roll Hall of Fame collection. Winthrop Rising A Basketball story, and Rock n Roll Made in Mexico from Evolution to Revolution . I still paint . I like fishing, Baseball,Football ,Rugby ,Pizza ,fine dinning ,smart converstaion , good wine . I have a bizarre sense of humor most people think i am totally insane -but in a good way .

My Interests

Music ,Baseball ,Sports , Books ,Films and writing ,producing and filmmaking, Wiffle ball , Roller Hockey

I'd like to meet:

Filmmakers, actors ,painters writers , musicians ,artists ,photographers, Wiffle ball players.

Music:

The Smiths ,Jackson C Frank ,Tommy Johnson,Echo and the Bunnymen ,El Tri , Los Sparks, Javier Batiz ,Charlie McAlister ,U2, Michael Franti , The Cold War Kids ,Austin TV , Louis Armstrong , The Boss ,The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite, Snow Patrol, Count Bassie, Billy Holiday , Tom Waits ,Band of Horses , Traffic , Canned Heat , Happy House , New Order . Iggy Pop , The House Martins ,REM,Fatima , Dan Penn , The Chemical brothers , the Blues , Miles Davis, Happy Mondays , Joy Divison ,Hank Williams ,Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters,Shrimp city slim, Oingo Boingo,The Stooges,The Pogues,Jeff Buckley, Mozart , John Lee Hooker, Blind Alan Wilson, ,Ry Cooder ,The Band ,Alan Parson Project ,Traffic , Louis Jordan, Ken Hatley , T Bone Walker, Bing Crosby,,The Love Army, Dean Martin,Solomon Burke ,all Putamyao ,Los Dug Dugs , Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, ELO, The Cure,String Therory, Beethoven ,Puccini,Mearle Haggard ,Hootie and The Blowfish ,Edwin McCain ,The Stones,The Doors ,Pink Floyd, the great John Lennon.

Movies:

J'Accuse ,Come and See ,Platoon , Buena Vista Social club 'Rock n Roll Made in Mexico From Evolution to Revolution 'The Jukebox From Edison to ipod', 'Living The Blues'Gone Baby Gone ,El Topo , Simon of the Desert, The Werkmeister Harmonies ,No Country for Old Men,Bat Man Dead End ,The Oulaw Jesse Jammes and the Coward Robert Ford, Winthrop Rising ' 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind , Dr StrangeLove ,Fog of War ,Delicatesen , High and Low , Stalingrad . Amilee. Apocalypse now redux, Hidden Fortress , The Godfather . The Garrison (trailer) Mean Streets , The Thin Red Line, Cross of Iron . Slapshot. Animal House ,Diner, The Naked prey ,When Trumpets Fade , The Great War ,Ken Burns -Jazz Baseball,Civil War,The War,Dracula(The FFC version)Brave Heart,Alien ,Aliens , Paths of Glory, Battle of Algiers ,Gettysburg 'Almost Famous'

Television:

Curb your Enthusiasm, BBC , Sopranos, Jeapordy, Arrested Development , The Office , Its Always Sunny in Philidelphia,Seinfeld, Fox NFL Today, Fox Baseball, Simpsons, PBS, KCET, Nova ,National Geo-graphic . The Actors studio, Rescue Me, Deadwood .Documentaries

Books:

Catcher in the Rye , Johnny Get your Gun ,Wheels of Terror ,Night , The Bio of Sir Richard Burton, Living the Blues , No one gets out alive , Lust for life , Dracula , Frankenstein, The book of Job ,The Alchemist ,Akira Kurosawa Something like a auto biogarphy , the Oxford Dictonary , All quiet on the Western front,The Prophet, Fields of Fire , Death in the Tall grass, As I lay Dying , Tropic of Cancer ,Rosey Crucifixtion Bluebeard ,Slaughter house 5 , Cats Cradle ,Sirens of Titan ,Dead eye Dick , Oh the Places you will go , The Inferno, Battle for Stalingrad, Heart of Darkness, Walking between the Raindrops , The Art of War , Swimming with Sharks , The Stand , the Britannica Encylopidia , The Working Director , One Flew over the Cuckoos nest , Hells Angels , The Great Shark Hunt , Sleeping where I fall, The Trial ,The Stranger ,The Goldbug , Conan the Barbarian , Lonesome dove , The Stranger , Love in the time of Cholera , The Plague , Ballentine books WW2 series , One hand Jerking ,Winner take nothing , For whom the Bell Tolls , Trinity, Mein Kampf , Hiroshima , The Painted Bird , Being there ,Filmmaking for Dummies , The Cock pit , Fear no Evil , Koolaid and the Electric Acid test , White feather, The Great Gatsby, , In cold Blood , Other Voices other rooms .Red Badge of Courage , Tale of Two cities. The Deliverance ,A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, Acid dreams , Sirens of Titan , The Odessy, Death in the Afternoon , Scorched Earth . Plato Dirty wars , Jackson Pollock bio, The Eye of the Needle , The Boys from Brazil, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind , bios of Goebbels , Mao, Mussolini ,, Nelson Mandella , Hemmingway The Mind of Adolf Hitler , Poisonwood bible , How to direct Actors , Catch 22 , Mash. Letters from Nam , Dispatches .The Historian, I Write what I like (letters of Steven Biko) The Marines of Autum ,Last Stand of the Tin Can sailors ,Re fried Elvis ,Green eggs and Ham

Heroes:

Roger Cormann ,R E Shaw ,The Coen Brothers ,Captain Sir Richard Burton , George Clooney ,Jackson C Frank, Terrance Malik ,Willis Reed , ,Michael Franti,Vincent Van Gogh , The Tatars, Hans Wind , Mannerhiem ,Martin Skorsezy ,Anthony Quinn , Mookie Wilson ,Lech Walensa , Mike Tyzack ,Mike Bossy ,Fito de la Parra Rudy , JFK , Winston Churhill, Bill Maher , Mookie Wilson. Akira Kurosawa ,Muhmad Ali Terry Bradshaw , Ernie Holmes, Mean Joe Green ,LC Greenwood, Jack Lambert ,Jack Ham,Rocky Blier, John Stallworth,lynn Swann ,Franco Harris ,Mel Blount, ,John Starks ,Rusty Staub ,80 Olympic Hockey team,FDNY,NYPD, my Grandfather my dad .

My Blog

Winthrop Rising a Basketball story-

The Winthrop Eagles are going to the NCAA Basketball Tourament  again . Coach Randy Peele and his vaunted Defense are going to the Dance again. In honor of this achivement I have reduced the purc...
Posted by lance on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:14:00 PST

Rock n Roll Made in Mexico ; From Evolution to Revolution

My new film debuts in LA on January 12th Rock n Roll Made in Mexico is a documentary about the history of Mexican Rock in Mexico . The film features Mexican Rock legends , Alex Lora, Javier Batiz ,La...
Posted by lance on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:09:00 PST

Winthrop Rising a Basketball story-DVDs ordering on line

To order visit  www.HappyTrailershd.com makes a great gift for all sports fans Lance Miccio Director  ...
Posted by lance on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:32:00 PST