Screenwriting, filmmaking, drawing, sculpting, Martial arts, bodybuilding, swimming, bicycling, etc...It has been my dream to make a film about the 'Hopkinsville' Goblins incident of 1955 and that's what I intend to do within the next few years. "Start small" is what they say. Sam Raimi did it with EVIL DEAD in Michigan. Those peeps who did the laughable-yet-bankable BLAIR WITCH PROJECT did it too. I have other, more high-profile film concepts that have been germinating inside my head as well.
Music
Styx(w/Dennis Deyoung), Queen, John Williams(Star wars, Indy...), The Doors, David Arkenstone, Tangerine Dream(the Franke years), Christopher Franke, Tori Amos, Coco Lee, Meatloaf, Kamelot, Dream Theater, Motley Crue, Sixx AM, Rob Zombie/White Zombie, Guy Gross, Robbie Williams, Yoko Kanno, Joe Hisiashi, Juno Reactor, Cartoon themes from the 80's, John Carpenter music, 80's hit music and New Wave, Trance music, Aerosmith, Steve Vai, Journey, Foreigner, Five for Fighting, Bad Company, Tan Dun, 12 Girls Band, Kesuke Kuwata, Trevor Rabin, Hurricane, Vast, Steve Conte, etc....
Movies
Star Wars series(all 6 films and the Clone Wars cartoon), Lord of the Rings series via Peter Jackson, King Kong via Peter Jackson, Sin City, Spider-Man series via Sam Raimi, Evil Dead series via Raimi, DarkMan, any Carpenter film before Village of the Damned, any Cusack film, Moulin Rouge, Alien series, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The North Shore, Mr. Frost, The Exorcist, Step Into Liquid, House of 1000 Corpses, Devils Rejects, Billabong Oddysey, Predator series, The Bermuda Depths, Arion, DareDevil, Infernal Affairs trilogy, Hero, HellBoy, The Crow, Dark City, Pan's Labyrinth, Joe Dirt, Lost & Found, Fighter in the Wind, DeepStar Six, Tron, Buckaroo Banzai, Star Trek, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Cronos, El Mariachi trilogy, The Faculty, Macross, Mospeada, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Flash Gordon, Masters of the Universe, Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, Brain Dead(Dead/Alive), Le Dernier Combat, Subway, Taxi(original French version), Leon:The Professional, The Fifth Element, Dog Soldiers, The Howling, Gremlins 1 and 2, Yamakasi, Le Fils Du Vent(Yamakasi 2), Running on Karma, The Peaceful Warrior, Pirates of the Carribean trilogy, Don Juan DeMarco, Freaked, Lost Boys, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Interview with a Vampire, Monster Squad, Night of the Creeps, Shaolin Soccer, Gong Fu(Kung Fu Hustle), Critters, Signs, God of Cookery, The Prophecy, Unbreakable, Lady In The Water, Untamed Heart, Pump Up the Volume, Over the Hedge, Surf's Up, Wonderful Days, Madagascar, Shrek (all 3), and many many more...
Television
Nip/Tuck is a fave, as is Supernatural on the CW. Smallville has gone downhill bigtime, but used to be a fave. Robot Chicken, JourneyMan, Futurama, Bleach on Adult Swim, cooking shows and PBS for my daughter.
Fave shows of old are FARSCAPE(of course), Dawson's Creek(don't laugh), Raven(the martial arts show, not the chubby ex-Cosby kid), Now and Again(cancelled-before-its-time CBS show), The Phoenix(yet another cancelled before its time), StarMan(based on the hit Carpenter film, cancelled too; notice a pattern here?)
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Books
Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'En, The Loch by Steve Alten, J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Hobbit' and Lord of the Rings series, The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks, Rebel Without a Crew by Robert Rodriguez, Pink Planet by Oliver Vatine, ElfQuest by Wendy Pini,The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang, Tarzan of the Apes/John Carter series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, People of the Lie by Scott Peck, Twelve Days of Terror by Richard Fernicola, Artist of Life by Bruce Lee, First Blood by David Morrell, Bleach by Tite Kubo...
Heroes
Bruce Lee(Lee Siu Long), Rick Baker, Robert Rodriguez, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, George Lucas, Steven Chow, J.K. Rowling, C.S. Lewis, Rob Zombie, J.R.R. Tolkien, Wendy Pini, Brian Froud, Tom Savini, Berni Wrightson, Rob Bottin, H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Wu Cheng En, Gong Li, Haruhiko Mikimoto, Shoji Kawamori, Yoshitaka Yasuhiko, Rumiko Takahashi, Drew Struzan, Steve Wang, Oliver Queen aka Green Arrow, etc...
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About me: Tall(6'5"), ruggedly handsome and aspiring filmmaker who resides in the nice and inviting city of Brooklyn, OH. I've been in and out of art classes since I was able to get in trouble for drawing topless mermaids in PreSchool. Call it a gift. I've also been, more or less, like a human sponge when it comes to cinema and animation. I read a lot, so I have a very vivid imagination(you could make 10 or more original hit films based on the creative stuff I've dreamt up and continue to conjure in my head). I'm a special effects fanatic and know all the big names in the makeup effects industry. Recently, I've found my creative juices flowing yet again and I'm bound and determined to have filmed at least 3-4 films before I'm 40 years old(Thanx Rob Rodriguez for the inspiration). I've worked on a few local film productions here in C-Town, but nothing substantial yet. Mostly Conceptual Artwork, Makeup effects work, Swordfight choreography and script consulting(I did concept art and nearly had a fight scene with 'Devil's Rejects' star Bill Moseley in an aborted Sci-Fi/Horror film entitled DEAD PLANET). My list of contacts in the movie biz continues to grow on a yearly basis and hopefully I can find myself bumping heads with a Lucas or a Tarantino in the near future. Who knows. Beyond MySpace, I can usually be found online bitching about movies and how certain folks in Hollywood tend to screw them up in the Talkback section on Harry Knowles' great website http://www.aintitcool.com, or raising my daughter.
Currently I'm developing a Horror film entitled NATURE OF THE BEAST, a Sci-Fi film THE PHOENIX POINT and HOPKINSVILLE, as well as an action/fantasy film about the Monkey King of Chinese legend, hence the company name. Beyond that I'm developing a couple comic book projects, one is entitled MEMPO and is a killer ghost story based on the Nanking massacre and editing/contributing story ideas for an online comic entitled BLACKSEED.
I recently did some Makeup Effects work and acted in the 'My Frankenstein' music video for rising rap star RIS. It's nearly complete, but suffered a set-back on 7-26. Some pick-up shots are needed in the Spring. Development on NOTB continues as well as numerous other projects.
Who I'd like to meet: Asian film producers Tsui Hark, John Woo, Terrence Cheng and Andrew Lau. George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Dan Aykroyd, Donnie Yen, Bob and Harvey Weinstein, Bai Ling(so I can slap her), Rick Baker, Yuen Wo Ping and Corey Yuen, Nia Peeples, Steve Johnson, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat, Breck Eisner, Matt McConaughy, Steve Wang, Mira Sorvino, Lucy Liu, Ewan McGregor, Michael Bey, Rob Bottin, Tom Savini(again), Jim Steinman, etc......
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Hello Just dropping by to say Hi. I hope you had a Great weekend. I watched the Lakers get Dismantled by Houston Im starting to realized I totally got ripped off for a photo set from a photoagrapher I thought was reputable. But what can ya do
and some new film stuff coming soon. and hopefully my notchback will get some work done this week Im trying to Decide for sure on the paint color I hope all is well
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