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Mike Marano's Interests
General
Check this out! Some seriously righteous rock 'n roll from the MC5!
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I've been hopelessly in love with this woman for 25 or so years. JOSIE COTTON (of "Johnny, Are You Queer?" fame) does the theme to H.G. Lewis' SHE DEVILS ON WHEELS!
ROCK OUT WITH THE GOD OF THUNDER!
Music
This is still cool after 33 years... BEEF, from Phantom of the Paradise!
Ramones, Sex Pistols, Misfits, Iggy Pop, MC 5, Angry Angles, The Turpentine Brothers, The Green Goblyn Project, Love, The Leaves, Big Black, Mission of Burma, The Epoxies, Fluttr Effect, Robby Roadsteamer, Harry and the Potters, Old Skool CBGB's, Sweet, Spinal Tap, Joe Black's Midnight Spookshow, Wednesday 13, The Soviettes, Die Cheerleader, The Lurkers, The Adverts, Amen, The Cramps, Dead Boys, Wire, Salem 66, Beef from Phantom of the Paradise, The False Prophets, The Fugs, The Damned, The Gargoyles, Jeff Dahl, X-Ray Spex, Circle Jerks, Avenue Q soundtrack, The Real Kids, Mary Prankster, GWAR, Johnny Thunders, The New York Dolls, The Buzzcocks, New Marble Giants, 50 Foot Wave, A Flux of Pink Indians, Honey Bane, Jane County... that's a good start!
Ahhh... HAZEL O'CONNOR in BREAKING GLASS. Bitchin'. Check it out:
Movies
I see up to five movies a week for my work... we'd be here all day! ;)
But this is, perhaps, the greatest piece of filmmaking ever. Shatner. Lucy. Beatles. Sublime!
Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds on Transbuddha
Television
Battlestar Galactica of the new vintage, Farscape, Doctor Who of all eras, ORIGINAL Star Trek, and dear God, I sound like the biggest geek of all time!
OK... check THIS out. One old geezer. One acoustic guitar. And it's PUNK AS SH*T! TV Smith of The Adverts, introduced by Casey Chaos of AMEN. Like... wow...
Books
Again, too many to name! Recent reads that I've liked and people I read all the time include: Sol Stein, Kelly Link, Fred Chappel, Joe Conrad, Tolkien, Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance, Lovecraft, E. Waugh, Jerzy Kosinski, Ian Fleming, Peter Straub, Dante, Milton, that "Bard Avon" or "Avon Bard" guy who wrote that Mel Gibson movie a few years back, JP Miller, Nigel Kneale, Reginald Rose, Paul Celan, Rilke on Cezanne, DH Thomas... for a start!
Boston University
Boston, MA
Graduated: 1986
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: History, Medieval Studies
1982 to 1986
Bennett Hs
Buffalo, NY
Graduated: N/A
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Varisity swim team, weight lifting club, AFS, D&D, Echoes, Mock Trial club, school newspaper (under the name "Biff Townsend")
About me: Hey, thanks for stopping by. I'm Mike Marano, also known as "Mad Prof. Mike". For about 15 years, I've been doing the "Headbanger Movie Reviews" for the nationally syndicated show MOVIE MAGAZINE INTERNATIONAL (www.shoestring.org). At a very young age, I decided I wanted to spend my life watching movies, and somehow, I'm doing just that. I also cover movies for venues like Cemetery Dance, Science Fiction Weekly, Sci Fi Magazine, Sci-Fi Universe, Paste Magazine, The Weekly Dig, Chizine... the list goes on for a while. I cover up to five movies a week, which can sort of make your brain melt, but then again, so can a real job, so... I'm not bitchin'!
I also write horror and some science-fiction. My first book, Dawn Song, made a pretty big splash, netting a bunch of really good reviews and The Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Awards... which is really cool, because the awards themselves are nifty-looking things to just have on your shelf (even though currently the things are still packed in a box from my last move). I did a novella-length adaptation of Joe Stefano's old Outer Limits script "A Feasibility Study" which I'm really kind of proud of. My work has appeared on Gothic.Net, and has been anthologized in books like Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn, Queer Fear and Outsiders, among others. My work has been translated into German, Czech and Greek... and I actually got paid for the Greek edition! Whoo-hoo!
In September, I'll be wearing a new hat as co-fiction editor (or is it "fiction co-editor"?) of the award-winning .. magazine ChiZine (www.ChiZine.com).
I'll have a piece in the upcoming collection of essays about Joss Whedon's FIREFLY/SERENITY from BenBella Books called FINDING SERENITY. Now, in light of this, I thought I'd post my "Which FIREFLY Character Are You?" quiz results:
Your results: You are Wash (Ship Pilot)
Wash (Ship Pilot)
70%
Inara Serra (Companion)
65%
Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)
65%
Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)
60%
Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)
60%
Jayne Cobb (Mercenary)
55%
Derrial Book (Shepherd)
55%
Alliance
55%
Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)
45%
River (Stowaway)
40%
A Reaver (Cannibal)
15%
You are a pilot with a good if not silly sense of humor. You take pride in your collection of toys. You love your significant other.
Who I'd like to meet: Well... I wouldn't actually want to meet this person, I just want to see him or her. This is gonna sound strange, but I've always just wanted to see a stranger on the subway or bus reading my work. I wouldn't be a dick and tap him or her or the shoulder and say, "I wrote that!" It would just be huge for me to see my work "out there" in this particular way.
In general, though... I'm looking to hook up with people who love books and movies and cool music.
i've read DOWN SONG in greek , more than 10 times ***
that book means so much to me **
it was one of the most powerfull shocks i have ever filled **
i can tell u such a lot of things **
>> can i tell u something crazy (maybe?)
>> i an a film student, and one of my goals was to contact with you in order to discuss about a 3 part film adaptation of Down Song ***
i can't express in the best way ( because of the english language... it would be easier 4 me if u spoke greek ... xi xi) my feelings about your way of writing, the characters development, all the strong visual images , the theme subtexts ... etc etc ***
i was awaiting 4 your next work, 4 many years *** but i did not find something ...
Why do I allow myself to take part in such things? It's a mystery. The sound is bad, but attention should be put on the young man conducting the "interview". He's someone I'm basing a main character on in a vampire novel I'm going to write. :
I just handed off my new book to my first pre-reader. I've still got about 2 months of editing to do, but it's time to get some feedback on the story. I've begun line editing and if all goes well with this first read, I may be ahead of schedule for my October release!
Angeline Hawkes recently released e-book rights for several of her short stories (including a tale from her barbarian series, Tales of the Barbarian Kabar of El Hazzar), novellas, and a 2006 Bram Stoker Award nominated collection to Fictionwise. 50 cents to $5! Check it out at:
Hey, Mike: What's new? I interviewed Bill Lustig for the first time, the other day. Can you believe I hadn't encountered him before? Better late than never! I've been busy, but did goof off to go see this movie on the big screen. JPL even did a Q&A!
Mike. --This is just a thank-you, from the olde vampyre himself, for you having taken the time and made the effort to check in at the FAMILY DRAQUAL page to "invite us into your life." --Hugs (if you're confident enough of your manhood AND you dare get that close), Vlad.
Issue 2 celebrates Heaven, Earth, and Space in-between; it is touched by religion, grounded in technology and comfortable with the occult.
Including a language-stretching piece triggered by the Talmud from the legendary Hugh Fox, poems by haiku heavy-hitter Jim Kacian, the surprisingly touching “By Zombies; Eaten” from Christopher William Buecheler, and an alien perspective on human spirituality by Tina Connolly in the remarkable “The Salivary Reflex”
— all part of a drool-worthy two-hundred page selection of over twenty authors and artists.
