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Marcus

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About Me

I live in Tokyo but I'm from Canada. I make films, play music with my band "The French" and do whore-ish work to pay rent. I'm now doing pre-production on my next short film. I am addicted to tobacco, caffeine, Bit Torrent, and cheese. Please check out my film site at http://www.myspace.com/mentalpictures !
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My Interests

Eating, drinking, movies, music, art, politics, exercise, photography

I'd like to meet:

you. maybe...

Music:

rock, psychedelic, punk, electronic(whatever that means), garage, hip hop(esp 80s-early 90s), soul, ska (real stuff+2nd generation UK)/reggae/dub/rocksteady, jazz... THE FRENCH, DEVO, VU, The Fall, The Clash, Bowie, Eno, Can, Air, T-Rex, MBV, Neil Young, Kraftwerk, Cheap Trick, Kiss, Kinks, THE SONICS, DKs, John Coltrane, Pharaoh Sanders, Richard Hell&the Voidoids, The Undertones, Wire, White Stripes, IGGY, NWA, Son of Bazerk, Serge Gainsbourg, Jackie Mitoo, The Roots, Jimmy Castor Bunch, Aphex Twin, MIA, Talking Heads, Dinosaur Jr (with Barlow), Primal Scream, Redd Kross, Sonic Youth, Ennio Morricone, Eagles of Death Metal, Slayer, The Jam, Stones, Flaming Lips, Franz Ferdinand, Pink Floyd, Daniel Johnston, Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus, Beethoven's 7th symphony, Schooly D, Paris, The Cure, pixies, Yardbirds, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Arctic Monkeys, The Dears, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Libertines.... and i've forgotten the rest.

Movies:

(f)arthouse, horror, culty/weirdy, comedy, scifi, anything good... Werner Herzog, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Roman Polanski, Kubrick, John Waters, Godard, Tartofsky, Dario Argento (earlyish stuff), Romero, Fulci, Jodorowsky, Takashi Miike, Gaspar Noe, Michel Gondry, Jan Svankmajer, Terence Malik... ...Suspiria, City of God, Dr Strangelove, The Shining, Neighbours, Repulsion, The Beyond, Phenomenon(Creepers), Altered States, Blue Velvet, Blade Runner, Videodrome, Alien, Aguirre the Wrath of God, The Celebration, Alphaville, Zentropa, Brazil, Seul Contre Tous, Santa Sangre, Zoolander(!), Life Aquatic..., Pi, If, Blow Up, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Up in Smoke, Wild Zero, This is Spinal Tap, The Tenant, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Don't Look Now, Sean Connery as James Bond, to name a few.

Television:

not much- US: Lost, South Park, Chappelle Show, Daily Show... UK: Later with Jools Holland, Spaced, The Office, Allan Partridge

Books:

Phillip K Dick, Haruki Murakami, JG Ballard, James Ellroy, Ian Mcewan, The Dirt (Motley Crue Bio), Daniel Clowes, Julio Cortázar, Kurt Vonnegut...

Heroes:

David Lynch, John Waters, Hugo Chavez(we'll see about that), Neil Young, Eugene Levy, Janine Garofalo, Pierre Trudeau, Muhammad Ali, Diane Arbus, Nardwuar The Human Serviette

My Blog

Oh yeah...

... almost forgot! Up in the VIP balcony, watching these young upstarts, was none other than the mighty man of all things mod, Paul Weller!!!!! At least I'm about 95% sure it was, though I've no idea...
Posted by Marcus on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:28:00 PST

Arctic Monkeys, Tokyo, April 4, 2006

Went to see the UK's current big thing last night amidst a sold-out throng of sweaty youngsters in a grey, industrial armpit known as Shin Kiba. My friend Richard pointed out that, given the band's b...
Posted by Marcus on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:24:00 PST