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Russ

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About Me


DAY ONE BLOG POST
The Orphanage | The Man From London (Bela Tarr) | Ulzhan (Volker Schlondorff) | Control (Anton Corbijn) | No Country For Old Men (Coen Bros!)
DAY TWO BLOG POST
Heavy Metal In Baghdad (The Vice Mag movie) | Mother of Tears (Dario Argento) | Juno (Jason Reitman) | Ploy (Pan-Ek Ratanaruang) | Frontiere(s) (Lousy French torture porn)
DAY THREE BLOG POST
Eastern Promises (Cronenberg!) | Nocturna (unconvincing animation) | My Winnipeg (great Guy Maddin!) | Glory To The Filmmaker! (crazy 'Beat' Takeshi) | Nightwatching (vintage Greenaway)
DAY FOUR BLOG POST
Redacted (new De Palma!) | M (Korean style over substance) | Chrysalis (French style over substance) | Diary Of The Dead (new Romero!)
DAY FIVE BLOG POST
Joy Division (the documentary!) | The Passage (LAME) | Reclaim Your Brain (obvious German media critique) | Help Me Eros (Lee Kang-Sheng) | The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (one of the best of the fest)
DAY SIX BLOG POST
The Tracey Fragments (Bruce McDonald and Ellen Page) | A Girl Cut In Two (Claude Chabrol) | The Journey Of The Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien in Paris) | I'm Not There (Todd Haynes does Dylan)
DAY SEVEN BLOG POST
Dainipponjin (decent ULTRAMAN parody) | Chacun son cinema (good collection of shorts) | Flash Point (middling Donnie Yen) | Inside (insane French pregnancy horror) | Lou Reed's Berlin (good concert flick) | Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (Lumet's great return)
DAY EIGHT BLOG POST
Encounters At The End Of The World (Herzog!) | Mad Detective (Johnny To!) | Water Lilies (nice French coming of age) | King of the Hill (bad Spanish thriller)

My Interests

Fads. Waffles. Country fried steak. Anything with amplifiers.

I'd like to meet:

Whoever wrote: "During Prince's rendition of Purple Rain, which I think is a really great song, there seemed to be a shadow puppet of his (penis). The sheet? that was the backdrop seemed to be (stained?) with something (semen?) My children were watching and now I have to explain to them what a wet spot is on a cum covered sheet. Thanks CBS."

And James Murphy (though not really) for offering an important lesson: "If you're dancing and you suddenly can't see any girls around you, you're dancing wrong."

Music:

Always:
Tom Waits
David Bowie
AC/DC
Lightning Bolt
Richard Buckner
Polvo
Earth
The Life and Times
Circle

Now:
Battles
CSS
Amesoeurs
Rhys Chatham
Colour Haze
Sun Kil Moon

Movies:

Anything with Don McKellar.

Television:

I do not own one.

Books:

All of them.

Heroes:

Jack Chick: he'll draw for your sins.

The honest answer: my parents, for sticking with it. My friends, for inspiring me.

My Blog

Photos: The New Home

It's all here:http://picasaweb.google.com/russ.fischerOr will soon be.
Posted by Russ on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:11:00 PST