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About Me

I have been a propmaster and on-set dresser for both feature films and several Emmy award winning television shows for the past 13 years. Including: (NBC's)- Homicide: Life on the Street, (HBO's)- The Corner, Boycott, Iron Jawed Angels, Something the Lord Made, The Wire. (Disney's)- Ladder 49, (ABC's)- The Service, (John Waters)- Serial Mom, Cecil B. DeMented and A Dirty Shame. (Warner Bros.)- Syriana. And other films whose companies names I have forgotten- Monument Ave., The Recruit, Emmetts Mark, Minority Report, Head of State, West of Here, Lift, Gods and Generals, Hellraiser 4, West Wing, The District, The Wedding Crashers, more... I have also appeared as an actor in Serial Mom ("Flea Market Boy"), Boycott ("Redneck"), Homicide ("Biker"). And most recently as a regular cast member on HBO's The Wire (all 13 episodes from season two), playing "Johnny Fifty." Other appearences include a Clutch music video for "A Shogun Named Marcus", playing "Marcus." This video also got a "thumbs up" on an episode of Beavis and Butthead. For more information on the films I have worked on you may visit: imdb.com. I have been a member of I.A.T.S.E. since 1992 and the Screen Actors Guild since 1993. I have recently partnered with a fellow filmmaker to form a company called- http://www.dangstoryco.com/ (An anagram of our two last names) Together we are writing and developing feature length screenplays and documentaries. We have just completed our fourth in the past year. .. Here are Ricki Lake, my wife Shelbi and myself in John Waters' film Serial Mom (1993) .. width="425" height="350" ..Here is me in the Clutch video "A Shogun Named Marcus" .. width="425" height="350" ..

My Interests

My interests as both an actor and a writer tend to lean towards the offbeaten. Rich, eccentric, often times unfortunate characters who "unicycle on the edge of the abyss." (Thanks Jon Polito for that quote.) I'd like to play: Deep south, hillbilly, odd duck, artisticly and tempermentally- disturbed, sweethart, sensative mother fuckers who can plant flowers all day long, then hop on their Harley, get drunk and kick your ass!

I'd like to meet:

I am interested in meeting established producers for possible development of our original screenplays. I am also interested in auditioning for both studio and independent feature films. As well as musicians who may be willing to score or provide original recordings for our upcoming projects.

Music:

Old scratchy bottleneck blues. Old scratchy jazz. Scottish and Irish Bagpipes. Sea Chanties. Hawaiian Slack Key. Experimental, Punk Rock, Folk, Bluegrass, more... R.L. Burnside, Mississippi Sheiks, Blind Willie Johnson , Junior Kimbrough, Lightnin Hopkins, Robert Belfour, Ry Cooder, Tampa Red, Gus Cannon, Robert Johnson, Django, Sinatra, Jellyroll Morton, Lydia Mendoza, Edith Piaf, Tito Puente, Little Jimmy Scott, Big Boys, JFA, Drunk Injuns, Scratch Acid, Acid Mothers Temple, Kawabata, Nick Cave, Cramps, Hasil Adkins, Social Distortion, Bad Brains, Jesus Lizard, Misfits, Samhain, X, Dead Boys, Ramones, Iggy, Buzzcocks, The Damned, The Clash, Elvis, Rev. Horton Heat, Supersuckers, Boyd Rice, Non, Frank Tovey, Johnny Cash, PIL, Sex Pistols, Beck, Kevin House, Bonnie Prince Billy, Will Oldham, Mighty Sphincter, Cass McCombs, Hayden, Gillian Welch, Jollie Holland, Ben Harper, Hendrix, Velvet Underground, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Lesley Gore, Ginny Arnell, Julie London, Peggy Lee, The Pretenders, Alison Krauss, Christian Marclay, Dick Dale, Merle Haggard, Hank 3, Lefty Frizzell, Dwight Yokam, Twilight Singers, Afghan Whigs, Gavin Bryars, Sun City Girls, Neurosis/ Jarboe, Swans, Patsy Cline, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, Nico, Otis Redding, Ralph Stanley, The Carter Family, it just never ends............

Movies:

All Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Tim Burton, John Waters, Jim Jarmusch, Orson Wells, Alfred Hitchcock, Julian Schnabel. Most Noir pics. Some Frank Capra. Actors: James Cagney, James Stewart, Cary Grant, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Gary Cooper, Montgomery Clift, Steve Buschemi, Robert Deniro, Pachino, John Turturro, John Goodman, Johnny Depp, Jeffrey Wright, Bill Murray, Crispin Hellion Glover, Robin Williams.Dennis Hopper, Peter Gerety, Audrey Hepburn, Michelle Forbes, Mary Stuart Masterson, Amana Peet ,Catherine Keener Sophia Loren, Patricia Arquette, more, more, more.

Television:

HBO's- Deadwood and Carnivale', IFC, SUNDANCE, HISTORY, BRAVO, A&E, TCM, AMC, some HGTV shows.

Books:

Books by or about American Hobo life and lore. Books about the American Sideshows. Ricky Jay Books. Charles Addams, Edward Gorey, William Lindsay Gresham novels. Barry Gifford novels. Nick Cave- "And the Ass Saw The Angel."Jack Black- "You Can't Win." Twin Palms Publishing Books. ReSearch Publications. Gates of Heck Publications, Feral House Publications. More, more, more...

Heroes:

People who take the road less traveled and cover their tracks.