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About Me

How do I phrase this without coming off as egotistical? Well. let's see... first off I am egotistical. I guess I am now a grown-up (in some ways) because I work a 9 to 5, Monday thru Friday job as an Avid Editor at Digital FX here in Baton Rouge - but I don't really think of it as work (I don't wear a suit and tie or any shit like that); it's more like getting paid to work around your hobby, which for me is CINEMA! Yes, for those who don't know, I eat, breathe and sleep movies, while my CD collection comes in a close second. I collect lots of useless memorbillia that means something to me but probably nothing to others. I also have a knack for collecting body fat, but what can I say, I'm lazy. Other than that there's not much to tell. If you want to find out more try and get to know me, maybe I'll fill in the blanks.BY THE WAY... If you are a REAL PERSON and not some fake fucking oxygen thief who is hawking their "Free Webcam" or other horseshit like that, and you wish to befriend me, just type in my email address which is [email protected]. However, if you ARE some fucking loser who uses this site to bug the shit out of me and spam me ever nano-second, then mark my words - I will find you... I will grab you, pull the veins out of your legs with tweezers and strangle the useless life out of your worthless body!!!»-(¯..v..¯) -» Design your MySpace with MyLook «-(¯..v..¯)-&& #035;171;

My Interests

Movies, movies, movies!!!!! I can't get enough of the cinema. I also have quite a vast collection of music that spans all genres that I can find solace in when needed. I also like reading (though its hard to find the time often nowadays), and going to art museums (nothing like a good painting to give my brain a technicolor massage). And I like working puzzles, both crossword and jigsaw (I have a 10,000 piece puzzle of "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Bosch that I need to get cracking on), but like books, it's all about finding time. That's pretty much it. But then again that's all I need. I fucking hate sports with a passion and don't really go in for hitting these damn metrosexual meat markets trawling for some fluzy to bring home.... And I am also pissing my pants in anticipation for the new Indiana Jones film!!!

I'd like to meet:

As I've said before and will say again; Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, and Martin Scorsese (with Terry Gilliam coming in a close second in the film director category). And outside of my silly fantasies, a girl who has the same general interests as me and who will make my loins as well as my intellect jump for joy.

Music:



powered by frazy.comAw hell, all that above is just a drop in the bucket. If you got any questions, give me a holler!

Movies:

Way way way too many to name. What I'll do is list filmmakers who have inspired, influenced and just plain excited me - they are as follows, in no particular order: Martin Scorsese, Terry Gilliam, John Ford, Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, John Carpenter, Walter Hill, Samuel Fuller, Luis Bunell, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Carl Th. Dreyer, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michael Powell, Jules Dassin, Anthony Mann, Nicholas Ray, Jean Pierre Melville, H.G. Clouzot, Marcel Carne, Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Goddard, Charlie Chaplin, Giovanni Pastrone, F.W. Murnau, G.W. Pabst, Fritz Lang, Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, Roberto Rossellini, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick, Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci, Mario Bava, Dario Argento, James Whale, Karl Freund, Robert Wiene, Jacques Tati, Richard Lester, Alfred Hitchcock, Brian DePalma, Nicholas Roeg, John Boorman, Peter Yates, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Gordon Green, Wes Anderson, Joel and Ethan Coen, Sam Raimi, John Landis, Guillermo Del Toro, Stuart Gordon, David Mamet, Robert Wise, Roger Corman, Peter Bogdanovich, Don Siegel, Sam Peckinpah, John Woo, Edward Yang, Yimou Zhang, Kinji Fukasaku, Raoul Walsh, Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor, Frank Capra, Leo McCary, Preston Sturges, Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder... And the list goes on and on. I'm sure I left someone out, so I will adjust the list when need be. Also, any question about anyone on the list, please shoot me a message and I will answer what I can.

Television:

There aint much... It is a sad sad day when a Simpsons fan such as myself is forced to say that even that show has lost it's humor and bite... but I still like King of the Hill, Scrubs, Cheap Seats and South Park for new stuff. For this immediate season, My Name is Earl and Kitchen Confidential are two of the best shows I have seen on television in a long while (of course leave it to those fucking Right-wing cocksuckers at Fox to ALREADY cancel the latter show. Those child-raping rectal warts wouldn't know good television from the pus-oozing cocks they pulled from their own mother's asshole). As for the classics - Freaks and Geeks, Leave it to Beaver, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, All in the Family, Dick Van Dyke Show, Your Show of Shows, Futurama, Cheers, Monty Python, Kolchak the Night Stalker... That's probably it.

Books:



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My Blog

An Invitation to the Blues

I finally got around to buying Tom Waits tickets in Dallas coming up at the end of June. I was going to go to the Houston show but it sold out; however, Dallas is proving to be a much better locale du...
Posted by max on Sat, 31 May 2008 07:08:00 PST

A Little Sneak Preview

Hello all of my friends out there in Myspace-land.Well it’s Easter Sunday and I am enjoying the fact that I am not doing a damn thing - except screwing around on myspace.It has been quite a hect...
Posted by max on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:08:00 PST

A Waste of Mileage

Okay, so the special screening I thought was happening last night as part of Fantastic Fest (all signs pointed to it being the new Seth Rogen/David Gordon Green film Pineapple Express) wound up being ...
Posted by max on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:49:00 PST

A Quick Wrap-Up

In Austin at the moment. A last minute invite to a secret, to-be-named Fantastic Fest (an annual genre film fest that is put on by the Alamo Drafthouse) screening brought me here. (Even though it is u...
Posted by max on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:01:00 PST

Oscars

I was ready to not pay too much attention to the Oscar broadcast, but... it's the Oscars and I dig movies.Well, I am happy that I decided to tune in because not only has Marion Cotillard won for her a...
Posted by max on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:23:00 PST

An Okay Day to a Great Day

I'm in New Orleans at the moment running teleprompter at the downtown Sheraton for this NBA thing that's happening. I guess if I gave two shits about sports I would be excited but for me it's just ano...
Posted by max on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:43:00 PST

GODDAMMIT!!!

In short, I had my iPod hooked up to my computer today and something happened - I still don't know what - that caused iTunes to freak out, which in turn caused my iPod to freak out and thus erase my e...
Posted by max on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:31:00 PST

an addendum to the previous post

I knew this was going to happen. I posted my list of the Ten Best Films of 2007 fully aware that I had not truly been able to see everything, but a good enough number of films so that I felt comfortab...
Posted by max on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:36:00 PST

10 Best Films of 2007

It's been a while since I have done this officially (meaning my days as a film critic in print for the UNO Driftwood) so I figured I would go ahead and take a stab at it once again.First off, anyone y...
Posted by max on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:13:00 PST

... And A Crappy New Year!!!

Another year another dollar - or many dollars. Yes, it's new years eve and I have no plans to do anything nor do I really care. I should be out enjoying myself because I got a new car today - a Toyota...
Posted by max on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:39:00 PST