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Javier

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About Me

I was told to put up a myspace page by people far cooler than me, and so here it is. I suppose it would be good to meet some interesting folks who are into film, art, justice and arcane discussion. I am completely uninterested in meeting anyone who is God's Gift to the World unless it happens to be Mother Teresa, which is unlikely, to say the least. So if you are here to just hype about how terrific you are, I am yawning already.I am a writer-director-designer of films, an occasional photographer and DP and have no musical talent whatsoever. I oppose stupidity whenever possible, which makes living in our current political climate both difficult and saddening. I am told I am a pessimist, even though I have always considered myself an optimist. I'm not sure why there is this dichotomy, but it seems to be a defining characteristic of my persona.My current projects are BUNNIES, MARS, the documentary DRESSMAKERS and the webisode series THE SPARKY TRANSMISSIONS. More on these things in the blog and soon to come links.Oh, and I don't add anybody unless they are damn worthy (like someone who dated Myrna Loy or kicked Prince in the face)

My Interests

movies, history, writing, design, good merlots and goofy flavored martinis. Painting walls and one day, soon, revisiting oil painting. Oh, and easter eggs.

I'd like to meet:

the ghost of Aaron Burr. Noam Chomsky. And Tiger Darrow.

Music:

BROOOOOOCE......... astor piazolla, random stuff streaming off Secret Agent radio, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan/Woody Gutherie, the Pogues, Ennio The Master... and ABBA.Kate!

Movies:

Pan's Labyrinth!, (against my better judgement, I actually liked 300), Stranger than Fiction, Buster Keaton, the entire Francis Coppola canon, 2001, Memento, Ed Wood, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Groundhog Day, Wong Kar Wai/Chris Doyle, Man with a Movie Camera, Casablanca, Barton Fink, Singing in the Rain, Wizard of Oz, Wrath of Khan, Drowning by numbers, Werner Herzog, Underground, Lord of the Rings, City of Lost Children, whatever is fabulous.

Television:

Anything where William Shatner appears, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, the Daily Show, Mythbusters.

Books:

OMG. Read the Omnivore's Dilema. You many never eat again. I love Faulkner, Kafka, Beckett, Eco, Stoppard, Mark Twain, Julio Cortazar. I think everyone on the planet should read 100 years of Solitude. Recently really enjoyed The Time Travellers Wife, probably the last novel i finished.

Heroes:

Aaron Burr, Upton Sinclair, Jerry Brown ***

If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Igor Stravinsky.

Known as a true son of the new 20th Century, my music started out melodic and folky but slowly got more dissonant and bizzare as I aged. I am a traveler and a neat freak, and very much hated those rotten eggs thrown at me after the premiere of "The Rite of Spring."

Who would you be? Dead Russian Composer Personality Test

/td

My Blog

Thinking Small...

... but always getting bigger....No matter how small I start, I expand. I bloat. I enlarge.After a year of waiting on Bunnies to get financed and being crushed when it unraveled near the end of the ...
Posted by Javier on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:48:00 PST

Floored

I've just finished installing a new Pergo floor in half the house just in time for the holidays!Hurray, hurray and all that! It looks great. I'm really happy about it. But it reveals a darker truth...
Posted by Javier on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:43:00 PST

Pirates invade House

Roxy the Pirate, Harry Potter, and another pirate at the haunted Bonafont forest!..">...
Posted by Javier on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:13:00 PST

No Strings!

Okay, maybe its cuz he's the only one running as short as I am, but I believe this guy is the real deal. Don't vote Smooth, vote truth. ...
Posted by Javier on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:32:00 PST

A Piece of the Action

It's a man's game, but a little beyond you.It requires intelligence.The name of the game is called, uh ...fizzbin.Fizzbin?Fizzbin. It's, uh ... not too difficult.Each player gets six cards,except for ...
Posted by Javier on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:32:00 PST

Humans, Not Plaster

This isn't really for anybody but the family and friends that want to see mug shots of The Irregulars Sans Ted in Italia.If you are one of those, or just a voyeur with lots of time to kill lookiing at...
Posted by Javier on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:19:00 PST

I'm in Love...

with Plaster!AFter scrolling through my Italy pictures I realized that most of my photos were of grout, cement, plaster, and bricks. No buildings, monuments, people. Just various kinds of concrete.B...
Posted by Javier on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:22:00 PST

Spazzing Out!

AAAACK!I suddenly feel like the Cathy of the film world. Totally blizzarded on all sides!So I've decided to just go with the flow on the project I was prepared to surrender on in my previous blog. I...
Posted by Javier on Mon, 21 May 2007 10:15:00 PST

Surrender

At what point does persistance become stupidity?I believe I am at that point with one of my endeavors. For a good long time I have been blindly optimistic that this would turn around, and there have ...
Posted by Javier on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:04:00 PST

May 19th PictureBook Fundraiser!

Hey all you fatcats loaded down with bullion and pieces of eight!The tazmanian devils that form my Teen Feature Film Project at the Austin School of Film are holding a FUNDRAISER for their summer feat...
Posted by Javier on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:50:00 PST