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Joel Gardiner (fpsdoug)

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About Me

This is about me...

My Interests

What's on my mp3 player at the moment -
The Faint's Discography

Games I'm playing this week - COD4, TF2

Music:

..Artists (to name a few) - 311, The Amazing Royal Crowns, Arcade Fire, At the Drive In, Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beethoven, Explosions in the Sky, Frank Black , Bloc Party, Dave Brubeck, Johnny Cash, Cypress Hill, The Dead Kennedy's, Death From Above 1979, The Doors, The Faint, Fu Manchu, Gogol Bordello, PJ Harvey, Jimi Hendrix, Herbie Hancock, Jane’s Addiction, Jack Johnson, Lagwagon, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, Mars Volta, Minor Threat, Misfits, Morcheeba, Mozart, Muse, NIN, NoFX, Mike Patton, Pennywise, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, The Plaid Tongued Devils, Primus, Radiohead, Rush, She Wants Revenge, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, Slightly Stoopid, The Smalls, The Smashing Pumpkins, Elliot Smith, Steely Dan, Stolen Babies, Sublime, System of a Down, Amon Tobin, Tool, The Violent Femmes, Tom Waits, The White Stripes, Wolfmother, and Frank Zappa

Movies:

Top ten movies of all time IMO

1. The 'burbs
2. Memento
3. Adaptation
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Snatch
6. American Psycho
7. Back to the Future Trilogy
8. 12 Monkeys
9. The Lost Boys
10. Fido

Honorable mentions - Brick, The Fountain, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Devil's Rejects, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Pi, The Machinist Godfather Trilogy, Donnie Darko, A Scanner Darkly, The Goonies, The Incredibles, Gremlins, Zoolander ..

Television:

The Office - Both the British and American versions, Extras, The Sopranos, South Park, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Peep Show, Flight of the Conchords, Planet Earth the BBC series ..

Books:

Stranger in a Strange Land, Breakfast of Champions, The Mosquito Coast, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Death Gate Cycle, Design for Dying, 1984, A Brave New World, Slaughterhouse Five, and of course the Harry Potter series

Currently reading -
Into the Labyrinth - Book 6 in the Death Gate Cycle

Heroes:

Daniel Tammet, Dr. Timothy Leary, Kurt Vonnegut, Bill Hicks, Alex Grey, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Ricky Gervais, Steve Merchant, Michael Valentine Smith and Jubal Harshaw

JOEL GARDINER'S DETAILS

My Blog

The cost of doing business on the internet.

So recently I announced the launch of one of the first fully online production companies called Sum Productions Inc. The idea was to gather human resources from all over the world in order to collabor...
Posted by Joel Gardiner (fpsdoug) on Thu, 08 May 2008 05:00:00 PST

VICE

A good friend of mine from Vancouver produced a film called VICE starring Michael Madsen. It opens in select cities across North America on May 9th, so check your local listings. .....
Posted by Joel Gardiner (fpsdoug) on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:25:00 PST

April Comic Expos

In the month of April several cast members of Pure Pwnage will be attending the New York and Calgary Comic Cons. Jarett, Geoff, and General Douglas will be at the New York Comic Con while the Calgary ...
Posted by Joel Gardiner (fpsdoug) on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:47:00 PST

Interview on pwned.com

Here’s a link to an interview I did on www.pwned.com on March - 21 - 08
Posted by Joel Gardiner (fpsdoug) on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:22:00 PST

Episode 16 - Vancouver premiere

Been a week since the premiere in Van, and this is the first chance i've had to sit down and write anything significant about it. Its always crazy when you go away for 4 or 5 days without any real acc...
Posted by Joel Gardiner (fpsdoug) on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:37:00 PST

FAQ 1 : "Do you really play video games? Or is that just for the show?"

So it's been an extremely busy time in my life, with the upcoming launch of my new production company and all the upcoming projects that I've been working on, I've been hard pressed to find any sort o...
Posted by Joel Gardiner (fpsdoug) on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:48:00 PST

The Evolution of My Musical Taste

Sitting in my chair with my mp3 player on and my eyes closed listening to the song 10,000 days by Tool. The climax of the song begins to build and I can feel a shiver starting to make its way through ...
Posted by Joel Gardiner (fpsdoug) on Sun, 06 May 2007 11:18:00 PST

A Hero has fallen

Kurt Vonnegut passed away today at the age of 84. He was a great man and a huge inspiration to me! Much love to him and his family. My thoughts are with you....
Posted by Joel Gardiner (fpsdoug) on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:45:00 PST

Getting Inked

"Tattoos have served as rites of passage, marks of status and rank, symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery, sexual lures and marks of fertility, pledges of love, punishme...
Posted by Joel Gardiner (fpsdoug) on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:42:00 PST