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**ALEX**

All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey...I've been for a walk on a Winter's day...I'd be safe

About Me


MY ORIGINAL MYSPACE WAS MYSTERIOUSLY DELETED BUT MY CELL CODE INFO WAS STORED IN MY DESKTOP FILES SO THIS IS A COPY OF THAT ORIGINAL PROFILE. IF YOU WERE MY FRIEND BEFORE PLEASE ADD ME AGAIN! THANKS SO MUCH!!
I am a busy, busy lad...I run a small independent film production company and also am involved in an environmental initiative with several sports and entertainment figures. I sleep about 4 hours per night but love it like a bear loves honey! I split my time on either coast, (Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles) depending on the needs of my work and the time of year. I am a lunatic who carries two cell phones and can incorporate more information into one minute of conversation than the average human being can absorb. I'll entertain the hell out of you if you can make me stop for a minute or two.
11/08/2005 **** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ****
Invictus Films is pleased to announce that the World Premiere of its first feature, "The Judas Kiss", is slated to be the Grande Premiere Event of the Monaco International Film Festival in Monte Carlo on December 8, 2005.
The Festival, which emphasizes non-violent film, will run from December 8 through December 11, 2005, with screenings at the Theatre Princesse Grace.
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It's an exciting time! I have my own production company, INVICTUS FILMS (http://invictusfilms.com), so if you are a screenwriter or novelist I would really like to talk with you. I aspire to grow the company into a vibrant, viable independent production outfit, packaging the works of others and myself into feature film deals.
OUR NEXT NARRATIVE FEATURE PROJECT: "Sound Of Mind" , adapted from the novel by Jim Waltzer, is tentatively scheduled to begin production in Spring 2008 in the Philadelphia area...You can read about it on the Invictus Films website under Current Projects.
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I live in a two-story urban dwelling with my dog Raja in a strange section of town, "The Triangle", where Polish, Russian and Irish immigrant families mix with artists, yuppies and park rats. Eclectic may be a word that describes it, but I usually describe it otherwise! You can often find me writing in my office, walking Raja by the river, or drinking in nearby watering holes. (UPDATE: Actually, I no longer live here. Check back on the location of my next house...haha!)
I am obsessed with film and football, politics and obscure music, so you may catch me philosophizing about any or all of those things at any given time. I am a hybrid, composed of city slicker, nature boy, bookish academic and rowdy hooligan. I exhibit a dichotomy that often puzzles many people: while very open about my views and my experiences, and often remarkably friendly and giving, I am at the same time a very self-absorbed individual who is more interested in my art than hanging out or chatting. I'm sure that reads as being quite contradictory...I'm not at all what you would expect if you take individual aspects of my personality or background too literally. Preconceptions, assumptions and shallow observations will only lead to your vexation! :P No harm is ever intended, I assure you, unless you commit a moral outrage against my friends, my family or myself.
I sponsor a child through Children International; Maria, who lives in Ecuador. I encourage everyone who wants to help impoverished and disadvantaged kids throughout the World to visit their website, WWW.CHILDREN.ORG, and explore the possibility of assisting and enriching the lives of those who do not possess the same means and accomodations as we do. It is important to the success and education of those who will shape the future!
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Omnia fanda, nefanda, malo permista furore, Justificam nobis mentem avertere deorum.
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My Interests



acting, ancient places, art and architecture, asian food, Brooklyn Heights, canines (the species, not the dental designations), cheese (various types), chicks who drink a whole lot and then roll burning tires down steep streets, chokers, cinema, classical history, the Colorado Avalanche, CONSPIRACY THEORIES, dancing, the Denver Broncos, directing for film and stage, dive bars, drinking dark beer and scotch, the Philadelphia Eagles (the bums), ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING, Ethiopian food, eyeglasses/spectacles, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, film and video production, GUINNESS, graveyards, Greek food, grindcore metal from the 90s, handjobs, Harvard, having sex on trolleys, ice hockey, Indian food, Ireland, kink (various types!), kissing, literature, LiveJournal, London, magic, the Mediterranean, Middle Eastern food, modeling, movies, Newcastle United, New York City, the NFL, Philadelphia, the PHILLIES, philosophy, poetry, politics, sex, Scotland, screenwriting, SMARTcars made by Mercedes-Benz, THE SUICIDE GIRLS, underdogs, Wales, The West Wing, writing, and most importantly LOVE AND KINDNESS TO ANIMALS!

I'd like to meet:


ALL PEOPLE WHO LOVE CINEMA! Funny folks, silly sods and whackos. Deep thinkers and merry pranksters. Denizens of Irish pubs and dive bars. FOREIGN FRIENDS TO EXCHANGE WORDS AND IDEAS. Anthony Minghella, Artemisia Gentileschi's ghost, Angelo Badalamenti, Nicole Kidman, Ludivine Sagnier, Brian Helgeland, Janeane Garafolo and Salman Rushdie. PEOPLE INVOLVED IN TRANSNATIONAL COMMERCE, INTERNATIONAL FINANCE/BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC ACTUATION and/or THEORY. The keeper of the keys to hidden Philly! Generally: anyone into art, theatre, cinema, magic, the Classics, history and politics. And drinkers of GUINNESS!!!! ANYONE WHO ENJOYS EATING GOOD FOOD AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE.
Specifically: actors, actresses, artists, models, musicians, performers, directors, writers, producers and executive producer wannabes with lots of loot to fund my glorious projects! ;-) Extra points (LOTS of points, ooooh-yeah) if you know the lyrics to "Tourette's" by Nirvana, can quote De Sade, practice alchemy, imitate the ululations of mating baboons or support the cause of the 1925 Pottsville Maroons! Friends from other sites, Denver/Boulder (where I grew up), people from Boulder High and CU (don't worry, Jes B, I won't rat ya out...lol), Harvard, Oregon, London, fans of the Denver Broncos, Portland, New York City and in Philadelphia! People outside of the United States, people inside the USA with a GLOBAL perspective, people who know that the world does not belong to us, that we belong to it. Foreigners who want to improve their English. PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD WHO WANT TO SHARE CULTURE AND FRIENDSHIP!
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." ~ Mark Twain

"The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?" ~ De Sade

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Music:


Afghan Whigs, Radiohead, Swervedriver, THE BIG F, PJ Harvey, Rage Against the Machine, The Jesus Lizard, Black Flag, Hooverphonic, Alice In Chains, Doves, Dead Can Dance, The Drown, Pixies, Ween, The Clash, HEAD, Queens of the Stone Age, At the Drive In, Dead Can Dance, Catherine Wheel, Beatles, Kittie, Serge Gainsbourg, Cowboy Junkies, David Bowie, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Lacuna Coil, Magenta, Bella Morte, Oasis, Front 242, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Sirius Rising, The Cure, Skin Yard, Garbage, Screaming Trees, Angelfish, HALESTORM, Guided By Voices, The Police, REM, Bauhaus, The Jam, This Picture, The Cult, Tones On Tail, Type O Negative, Pink Floyd, Love and Rockets, The Who, Babes in Toyland, Husker Du, Sugar, TOOL, Primus, Mudhoney, Slowdive, The Buck Pets, My Bloody Valentine, Peter Murphy, Jimi Hendrix, Jane's Addiction, Nirvana, Joy Division, Hole, FLOATER, Tori Amos, Lush, Nitzer Ebb, Cranes, Lou Reed & Velvet Underground, Curve, SORAIA, Nebula, Rolling Stones, Undercast, Bettie Serveert, Soundgarden, GodFlesh, Led Zeppelin, Brian Eno, Circle Jerks, Butthole Surfers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, BUSH, Celtic Frost, Nerf Herder, Duran Duran, Prong, Snowden, MORISSON POE, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi, Corelli, Wagner, Chopin, PowerPop, Death Metal, Acid Punk, grindcore, technofunk, lots of 80s castoffs, 90s rejects and the Looney Tunes theme...

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Movies:


Someone hacked my original profile and I lost this list...suffice it to say that I love thousands and thousands of films...they are my LIFE!

A M E R I C A N - P S Y C H O - ( R E M I X ) 2

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Television:


The West Wing, The Prisoner, Law and Order, LONG WAY 'ROUND, Inside the Actor's Studio, R O M E, Politically Incorrect, Real Time with Bill Maher, any Phillies games that I am not attending myself, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Sunday Shootout on AMC, static, ant races, blizzards, subliminal alien broadcasts

Books:

The Iliad, 'Philosophie de la Boudoir' et 'Justine', Anna Karenina, The Anabasis of Xenophon, Gates of Fire, Snow Falling on Cedars, The House of the Vestals, Pro Roscio Amerino (Cicero), Portrait of a Lady, Edgar Allan Poe, Nick Hornby, Jack Aubrey's Exploits, Gogol, Waverley, Patricia Highsmith, Michael Ondaatje, The Skull Mantra, Water Running Over Stones, Catalina's Riddle, Dracula, American Psycho, Kafka, Orwell, Voltaire, Camus, Dostoyevesky, Tolstoy ('Anna Karenina' is the finest novel ever written), The Complete Works of Byron, poetry anthologies and Phil Simms on Passing...I can't get into this, I would just keep writing...I own thousands of books...

Buy Caprice Crane's new novel "Stupid and Contagious", now available on Amazoncom !!!

Heroes:


My parents, Imhotep, Djoser, Pericles, Aristotle, Xenophon, Siddhartha, Asoka, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus, Gaius Marius, Quintus Sertorius, Julius Caesar, Dante Aligheiri, William Wallace, Martin Luther, Elizabeth I, Aaron Burr, Maximilien Robespierre, Jacques Danton, Bonaparte and Wellington (and let's not forget Lord Nelson), Alexander Cartwright, FDR, Jimmy Carter, William Jefferson Clinton, Wesley Clark, John Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards, Barack Obama, F.W. Murnau, D.W. Griffith, Sir Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Barrymore, Errol Flynn, Lord Lawrence Olivier, Orson Welles, Joseph Mankewicz, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorcese, Ridley Scott, Anthony Minghella, Francis and Sofia Coppola, Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, Al Pacino, Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington and many more...

KARA CATHERINE WILBOURNE: March 11, 1975 - November 23, 2005.

You were very loved and shall forever be missed.

My Blog

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We're gonna go ahead and report this story, even though we run the risk of the GOP suing us for "taking McCain's quotes out of context." At a town hall meeting today, Senator McCain made a stunning ...
Posted by **ALEX** on Sat, 03 May 2008 04:25:00 PST

Hockey Night in Philadelphia

A typical Eastern Conference game for the Flyers...just as Donnybrook was a typical skirmish! ...
Posted by **ALEX** on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:29:00 PST

Itinerant "Intergrity": Why am I not surprised?

Boston Globe: John McCain has officially broken the limits imposed by the presidential public financing system, according to spending reports filed last week by the campaign. The senator from Ar...
Posted by **ALEX** on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:15:00 PST

Anthony Minghella: Requiescat In Pacem.

Most people who know me also are aware that no single individual, not even Ridley Scott, has influenced my writing, production choices, directoral style, even acting, as much as Anthony Minghella. Als...
Posted by **ALEX** on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:19:00 PST

Rove <3s McCain (now): Alternative Reality, Revisited...

It is no longer possible to have your irony meter redline when Karl Rove appears on TV. He is so beyond the pale, so completely entrenched in his alternative reality that the only thing left to do is ...
Posted by **ALEX** on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:22:00 PST

Short Film: Canasta Princess

Here's a small project that I directed, with Sylvia and her family starring. The film is almost entirely in Czech, and was shot in a two day period over the holidays in Bryn Mawr, PA. It was fun!Canas...
Posted by **ALEX** on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:17:00 PST

My Letter to the Obama Campaign Headquarters

Valley Forge, PA. 11 February, 2008.There is within me a raging fire that has created a fine talisman with which to spread the word of change, forged within this hearth of Freedom, so iconic to our Hi...
Posted by **ALEX** on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:36:00 PST

Deal Summary (sent by the WGA Presidents)

  This was sent early this morning to membership. The delay in publishing the deal points, we've learned, was because the companies dragged their feet enshrining some of the final details in ...
Posted by **ALEX** on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:36:00 PST

Dear Willard...F*ck You!

Jon Stewart offers a touching eulogy for the late Mitt Romney. I'll admit: up until today I had a modicum of sympathy for Willard "Mitt" Romney. He went from the debonair moderate, pr...
Posted by **ALEX** on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:09:00 PST

Congress Urges the CEO’s to Settle With the WGA

The following letter was sent out today by three members of the US House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor. (via Variety's Scribe Vibe blog) -JAFebruary 1, 2008Mr. Peter Chernin, Cha...
Posted by **ALEX** on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:20:00 PST