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shaun

my dreams are my muse, my reality is my downfall

About Me

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer"

My Interests

everything pretensious

I'd like to meet:

people who want to meet me

Music:

Modest Mouse, Fiery Furnaces, Super Furry Animals, Animal Collective, Mandat, The Killers, Mum, Cornelius, Dan The Automator, Lovage, The Kinks, Queen, Death From Above 1979, Cat Stevens, TV on the Radio, Neutral Milk Hotel, Last House On The Left Soundtrack, M83, the shins, Tom Waits (real gone 2004), Gravenhurst, Goblins (Suspiria soundtrack, Deep Red soundtrack), Arcade Fire (funeral), Band of Bees, LEMON JELLY, M. Ward, interpol (antics), belle and sebastian, muse, Simon and Garfunkle, Iron and Wine, Of Montreal, Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart, Neil Young, James Yorkston, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Spoon, Mars Volta, Lesley Gore, tortoise, B52'S, Modern English, Radiohead, ELO, Nick Drake (pink moon), Okkervil River, Clap Your Hands, Death Cab for Cutie, Death In Vegas, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen (from the seventies, "Everybody Knows" era), fiery furnaces, architecture in helsinki, Castanets, Wolf Parade, The Books, camera obscura, David Bowie (Hunky Dory is my fav), circulatory system, Air, Andrew Bird, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, danielson famile, Deerhoof, Donovan, Sigur Ros, Mountain Goats, Antony and the Johnsons, Beach Boys, Beck, bob dylan, Elliot Smith, The Clash, Harry Chapin, Roger Waters, Rolling Stones, Scissor Sisters, The Who (Tommy), YES ("the heart of the sunrise" is one of my favorite songs of all time), Joanna Newsom, Jethro Tull, and many more.

Movies:

Jesus Christ where do you start? Most people think of the most recent films they have seen and write them down, like all of the people on myspace that think Napoleon Dynomite was their favorite movie of all time. It just came out, a movie needs to age and be watched over and over again through the course of years before it can be 'your favorite of all time.' I love horror films I've been watching them since I was four years old. The scariest of my youth was Halloween. I am also a fan of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Alice Sweet Alice, Last House on the Left, The Exorcist, Psycho, Peeping Tom, The Wicker Man, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Zombi, Friday the 13th, Terror Train, April Fool's Day, and so many more to even count. My favorite horror film director is Dario Argento, simply because Suspiria is one of my favorite films which I have seen over and over again during the course of years. His other films that I love are Phenomena, Deep Red, Tenebrea, Opera, Two Evil Eyes (which was also directed by Romero), inferno, Bird with the crystal plumage, and cat o nine tales. His earlier work was much better than what he put out in the ninties. Horror is my first true love, but I'm also a fan of Kubrick - having seen all of his films with the exception of Fear and Desire. I like Cronenberg, some lynch, david fincher, spike jonze, micheal gondry, and chris cunningham to name off a few. There is no end to the films I have liked, this is why I decided to get a degree in Cinema.

Television:

I don't have cable because I hate television but TV SHOWS on DVD are different. I love Arrested Development, Buffy the vampire slayer, Dead Like Me, Firefly, Simpsons, South Park, Reno 911, Sealab, Home Movies, Scooby Doo, Dawson's Creek (yeah, what!), and I like Six Feet Under, Strangers With Candy, and damn I know there's more I just can't think of them right now.

Books:

The Fall, The Plague, The Rebel, Notes From The Underground, Myth of Sysiphrous, Lunar Park, Rules of Attraction, Haunted, Survivor, film studies books, and anything that will add to my vocabulary or ideology.

Heroes:

Albert Camus - "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (The Fall 56-7)

My Blog

I like to remember you

Enough time has passed.  Facts are now distorted and the event has become legend, solidified by the rarity of the experience.  A chance encounter, a train, a kiss, a whirlwind...
Posted by shaun on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:47:00 PST

The Monster (excerpt from new novel)

            I immediately felt a bitter contempt lodge its way in the back of my throat as the court appointed shrink walked into the room, more s...
Posted by shaun on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:58:00 PST

The Playmate

The Playmate                  We threw dead lighters in the fire and when they went off we laughed for hours.  I was seven at the t...
Posted by shaun on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:53:00 PST

Demons

The Voice      Demons come in all shapes and sizes, but the most common and diabolical of all demons is man.  Usually he never comes face to face with the evil that lies just ...
Posted by shaun on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:59:00 PST

Life is SO funny

Tuesday night I got a call from this number I didn't know, the voice mail was from this woman, Nichole. Nichole who, what, why is she telling me it is important to call her back? So I called back an...
Posted by shaun on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:38:00 PST

28 Weeks Later (read after watching)

So, first off, I liked it.Not as good as 28 days, but still good. This time around we push the same issues as last time, like a military created society, but we go much further. In the first film Ji...
Posted by shaun on Wed, 16 May 2007 12:36:00 PST

it was totally an 80's prom massacre

I was getting ready when he came home. I didn't even have my make up on. Oh my god I was so embarrassed. I looked like a total wreck, and the prom was only hours away. He still had to shower, you ...
Posted by shaun on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:34:00 PST

NEW ANIMATION

Don't trust machines or impulses! ...
Posted by shaun on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:42:00 PST

Feel Better

I hope this cheers you up! Feel Better Soon....
Posted by shaun on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:55:00 PST

new work

UNTITLED SCREENPLAY1. INT. BAR - AFTERNOONInside an almost empty bar two casually dressed men in their mid-twenties sip drinks while the bartender arranges bottles and wipes the counter.ONE:I've got ...
Posted by shaun on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 06:20:00 PST