Colin Maguire
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About me:
Available NOW! Freaky new horror stories by Colin M. Maguire! *** My scary short monster story, "Raspberry", is included in the collection, Monster Party - from Living Dead Press! You can get that great anthology at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935458876?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwperfectbyd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1935458876 *** My short story, "Bodies", is featured in The Ethereal Gazette #12. You can get this notorious magazine at Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-ethereal-gazette-issue-12/9682595
*** From Living Dead Press comes the spooky illustrated collection, Ghostly Tales of Terror - featuring period ghost story, "Wooden Floors" - available on Amazon.com! http://www.amazon.com/Ghostly-Tales-Terror-Anthony-Giangregorio/dp/1935458809/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1286772631&sr=8-1 *** My fantastical double feature, "The Velvet Square", is featured in the awesome Word Weavers Fantasy Anthology: Tome of Distant Realms. This volume contains both stories in The Velvet Square Cycle: "Butterfly Head" and "Revenge of the Bat Queen" - - check them out at http://www.lulu.com/content/2368900 *** My creepy short story, "To Put Us To Use", is currently featured in the great horror e-zine, 13 Human Souls! You can read that story for free: http://www.geocities.com/thirteenhumansouls/ *** The award-winning short, "Ostrich Night", is now included in The Word Weavers Horror Anthology: Requiem for the Damned!! This one is an awesome collection: http://www.lulu.com/content/2088659 *** My personal favorite of my stories, the magical "Wooden Floors", is included in The Word Weavers Mystery Anthology: Studies In Scarlet Volume One. Also be sure to check out Darkened Horizons Vol. 3, available at Amazon.com - it features the notorious morality tale, "Rough Night For Gladys". Also available are Darkened Horizons Vol. 2 featuring the prize-winning story, "Something Is Out There..!" - available at Amazon.com - Check out the 2007 DH Halloween Special Edition featuring "The Swamp Bride", which placed as #26 for short horror story of the year in the 2007 Preditors & Editors readers' poll!! It's available at Amazon.com and at Darkened Horizons: http://stores.lulu.com/darkenedhorizons Shaded Sun
Doug Tate's "The Shaded Sun" Directed by Colin M. Maguire, 1991
Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride.
I Believe Whatever Doesn't Kill You Simply Makes You ~ STRANGER.
Who I'd like to meet:
Noel Gallagher, Brian Clemens, Burt Bacharach, Peter Townshend, Quentin, Catherine O'Hara, The Goodies - Graeme Garden, Bill Odie (recent MBE recipient for efforts in wildlife conservation) and Tim Brooke-Taylor, Tom Hulce, Brian Froud, Kate Bush, Terry Gilliam, Spielberg, Meg White, Colin Hay and Greg Ham, Bud Cort, Sam Raimi, King and Straub, George A. Romero and Tom Savini, Rob Bottin, J.K. Rowling - natch, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Hanks, Breathed, Andy Summers, Fish - from Marillion, Illeana Douglas, Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Edward Norton, Richard Stanley, Sophia Coppola and Werner Herzog. Norman Reedus. The Young Ones mean an awful lot to me - I'd love to meet each of them. I'd love to meet all of the surviving Pythons as well - esp. Gilliam - he's my fave. Crispin Glover. SHATNER!!
People I HAVE met are: Joe Hill, Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, Forry Ackerman and Kevin McCarthy - all via Bruce Crawford, who puts on wicked event movies in Omaha. JoBeth Williams, M. Emmett Walsh, Leif Jonker and Gary Miller, Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Terry Brooks (Really, really cool guy), Christopher Walken (Weirdo), Glenn Close, Bill Self, Joe Sargent, Tricky, Ash, Kurt Vonnegut, Mason Williams, Tobey Maguire (Back in 92, before anyone knew who he was - great smoker, then...had lots of style), Bruce Campbell and The Donnas (Donna F is my fave). Bill Sienkiewicz. Basil Gogos. I ran into Stallone one time in '92, and bumped into Johnny Greenwood from Radiohead back in '95. I made eye contact with Madonna while working as an extra on the Deeper and Deeper shoot, and couldn't hold it. We were all wearing Disco clothes and it was hot as a jungle in there. All the extras parties were Disco after that shoot...between that and the Wonder Years, everyone had a ton of 70's outfits. In Seattle - so far I have only bumped into The Enigma. He was walking by as we were having lunch outside in Capitol Hill. He's pretty hard to miss. Saw him perform both times with NIN when they came to Omaha in '94 - once without cameras, the second time with large film crew (the Hurt video). Second show The Melvins were booed off cos they suck (why didn't they bring Pop Will Eat Itself?!), and Jim Rose's show went really really fast afterwards - imagine people squeezing through tennis rackets at top speed. It wasn't that the crowd was impatient - - it was cos Melvins were shite. So. Trent's set started, and he was all like, "You're all a bunch of motherfuckers!!", and the crowd went apeshit. Best shows for me in the 90's were the two NIN shows, Nick Cave in Denver at The Gothic in '90. Concrete Blonde at the late Peony Park in Omaha in '94 and Compulsion in early '95 at the late Ranch Bowl in Omaha. Oasis '97 in Chicago at the Rosemont. WHERE IS JENNIFER FROM LURCH'S?!
Penny Dreadful
Terry Gilliam
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Music
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Interests
General
My Horror-Mood screenplay, CROW'S END, placed for FINALISTS in the 2008 Screenplay Festival contest!! CROW'S was competing in the Horror/Thriller category - got real close, there!! Recently, CROW'S END also made it to SEMIFINALISTS in the 1st Annual Straight Twisted competition!! I placed in the Creature Feature category. CROW'S END previously marked for QUARTERFINALISTS in 2007's Screenwriting Expo 6 feature length competition. Go CROW'S!! *********** My scary short story - "SOMETHING IS OUT THERE..!" took 2ND PLACE in the adult category at Saugus.net's national 2007 Halloween competition..! ********** My story, THE SWAMP BRIDE placed for 26th place in the Preditors & Editors 2007 horror story readers' poll!! ********** My fantastical double feature, "The Velvet Square", is featured in the awesome Word Weavers Fantasy Anthology: Tome of Distant Realms. This volume contains both stories in The Velvet Square cycle: BUTTERFLY HEAD and REVENGE OF THE BAT QUEEN - - check them out at http://www.lulu.com/content/2368900 ******* My creepy short story, TO PUT US TO USE, is currently featured in the great horror e-zine, 13 Human Souls! ********** My award-winning short story, OSTRICH NIGHT is featured in The Word Weavers Horror Anthology: Requiem for the Damned. It's a super collection!! You can check that one out here: http://www.lulu.com/content/2088659 ********** My personal fave, WOODEN FLOORS is included in Studies in Scarlet: The Word Weavers Mystery Anthology, Vol. One. That one's a dandy - check it out at http://www.lulu.com/content/1695905 ********** My wicked little horror nasty - ROUGH NIGHT FOR GLADYS - is featured in Darkened Horizons 3! ***My story, THE SWAMP BRIDE, is available in Darkened Horizons' Special Halloween Edition. ***My scary short story, SOMETHING IS OUT THERE..!, is featured in the wonderful horror anthology, Darkened Horizons - Vol. 2. You can purchase any of the terrific, wicked Darkened Horizons at Amazon.com - just look up Darkened Horizons, and you will have a choice of 6 awesome volumes of edgy new stories by the very best horror authors in the arena today!! Support Indie Horror - check them out today!! **********
Action! You can see the music video I Directed for Doug Tate's "The Shaded Sun", featured off to your left. It's also available on Doug's Miltown 600 MySpace page, which is on my friends list. That's me on the weird background vocals and crazy giggles on the recording, along with Twiggy. Those're 1991 psychedelics, sister. REVOLUTION!!
Le Cigar!
Things are not always as they first appear...
Music
Zeppelin, baby - Zeppelin. Oasis, The Who, Bacharach, Manic Street Preachers, The Stone Roses and Ian Brown, Primal Scream, Radiohead, Pulp, Suede, Doves, Muse, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead and a little Coldplay. El Guincho!! MGMT, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jaguar Love, Metric, Violenz. Apachula, of course. Vampire Weekend, Black Devil Disco Club, My Morning Jacket, Stereolab, The Sadies, Turn Me On Dead Man, Gui Buratto. John Coltrane. Herbie Mann. Edith Piaf. Mancini, John Barry, Bernard Herrmann, Goblin. The Sleep of Reason, Fields of the Nephilim, STP, The White Stripes, Alice Cooper, Kate Bush, Billy Joel, Mozart, Brian Wilson, Stan Ridgway, Echo and the Bunnymen, Sisters Of Mercy, Siouxsie Sioux, Bauhaus and Peter Murphy - who's phenom, old Marillion, Concrete Blonde and Miranda Sex Garden. Death Cab and Postal Service, yes - some Emo. Spoon and Shins, She Wants Revenge, Costello - great live, Men At Work - esp. the 3rd album. KC and the Sunshine Band. Of course, I was raised on a certain fab four who ended up shaping the entire course of my life. God is Love. Love is All. Love is NOW.
PROLOGUE
~Noel~ "I am like a child with nothing to lose but my mind."Movies


Let The Right One In is my new favorite movie. I think it's the best vampire movie since Herzog's Nosferatu. A beautiful accomplishment. I am, of course, in love with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Watchmen is brilliant. The Host, (REC) and Pan's Labyrinth are all major. UP!! Son of Rambow. I'm Not There. The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford is an amazing picture - just gorgeous. Cloverfield! There Will Be Blood. The Last Mistress. The Three Mothers. Milk was very inspirational - Sean Penn is the best American actor alive, I think. Zodiac is just phenomenal ("Hurdy Gurdy Man" is now officially the creepiest song ever..!). Tropic Thunder and Superbad are both best comedies in a long while. I like 3:10 To Yuma, Cache, Jarhead, Juno, C.R.A.Z.Y. - especially C.R.A.Z.Y., it's a great film.
Once, Getting Home, La Vie en Rose, Ostrov, Bug. Eternal Sunshine and Science of Sleep. Ratatouille and The Incredibles. The Aviator. Grizzly Man (Yay Timothy! We love Timothy!). Blame It On Fidel is terrific. Marie Antoinette, Broken Flowers, Little Miss Sunshine. Huckabees - I totally relate to the Jason Schwartzman character...


Television
Dr. San Guinary, from Omaha's Creature Feature.
Penny Dreadful's Shilling Shockers is my favorite thing in the world right now - I am a great fan of horror hosts, and that show just hits the right spot with me. Garou is a great actor, especially. Raised on The Twilight Zone. I love MST3K and Cinematic Titanic (FINALLY!! Welcome back, gang!!). Mad Men is my current favorite - God, what a great show..! Heroes is OK. I like Primeval quite a lot. I love all of the Bravo reality shows - Project Runway, Top Chef, Top Design...all of those. Big, big fan of Anthony Bourdain, who is awesome live. His show is essential. Iron Chef. Currently I'm extremely excited about The Clone Wars!! Terrific stuff, so far - it's great Star Wars!
I am classically trained in SCTV and British comedy - Doctor in the House, Python, Fawlty Towers, The Good Life, Are You Being Served and Yes, Minister. The Goodies and The Young Ones are my very, very favorites - I have quite a bit of sentimental attachment with friends and lovers long gone. I am also a life-long fan of Brian Clemens - I adore everything he's done - from Avengers to Thriller. ~We're Needed~
Shatner!!!Books
Heroes
My late brother, Bubby
John Lennon, George Harrison, Brian Epstein, Gonzo, Uncle Forry, Graham Chapman, Captain Kangaroo, Shultz, Peyo, Disney, Henson, Jacques Tati and Marx Brothers. Steve Tesich, Kubrick, Lean, Orson, Hitch, Malle, George Roy Hill, Fellini, Fulci, Kiezlowski, Ashby, Vonnegut, Kinski, Richey Edwards, Timothy Treadwell, Moony and The Ox. John Bonham and Peter Grant (What I wouldn't do for a manager like that!!). Oliver Reed and David Hemmings, man. Alan Hewetson, Jim Morrison, Jack Pierce, Milicent Patrick, Kurt Cobain, Ed Wood, Elliott Smith, Mozart, Mary Shelley, Dorothy Parker, Camille Claudel, Ted Sturgeon, Rod Serling, George Carlin and the great Algernon Blackwood. John Jones -aka- Dr. San Guinary...you are still missed, sir! My Dad, Carl and my Mom, Scooty - sorry we didn't have more money when you died...I tried my best, but the villainous swine in Omaha had me in a vice. God bless you all. PEACE.
~We have all been here before~
Details
- Status: Married
- Here for: Networking, Serious Relationships, Friends
- Hometown: Omaha-which I despise & South Sioux City, Nebraska
- Orientation: Straight
- Body type: 5' 6" / Average
- Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
- Religion: Catholic
- Zodiac Sign: Cancer
- Children: I don't want kids
- Smoke / Drink: No / No
- Education: College graduate
- Occupation: Artist/Horror Author
Schools
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Highline Community College
- Des Moines, WA
- Graduated: 2007
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Associate's Degree
- Major: Graphic Design/Visual Communications
2005 to 2007 -
Art Institute Of Colorado
- Denver, CO
- Graduated: 1992
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Associate's Degree
- Major: Music Video Business
1990 to 1992





















































