Politics, History, Sports, Music, Art, Film, Travel , and good storytelling,
Music
Paul Weller Elvis Costello Stevie Wonder Neil Finn Junior Brown
Lyle Lovett John Hiatt Tom Petty Bob Dylan Squeeze Frank Sinatra
The Beatles James Taylor Earth Wind & Fire Ray Charles Bobby Darrin
Johnny Cash T Bone Burnett Webb Wilder Oscar Petersen Thelonius Monk
Dizzy Gilespie Dave Brubeck Joe jackson The Kinks The Who Dave Clark Five Genesis Peter Gabriel Peter Himmelman Mathew Sweet Michael Penn
Movies
north by northwest
the sting
all the president men
3 days of the condor
danger diabolik
rififi
nine queens
croupier
sin city
the james bond films (well, most of them)
uptown saturday night
diner
continental divide
the blues brothers
animal house
caddyshack
the mark of zorro(ty power)
captian blood
the adv of robin hood
gentleman jim
the set up
raging bull
the godfather trilogy (yes, even 3)
the first 4 planet of the ape films (classic, not tim burton)
Batman Begins
the great white hope
the hurricane
Television
The Larry Sanders Show
Barney Miller
Mr Show
Father Ted
SCTV
The Newsroom
The Office
Family Guy
Battlestar galactica
Doctor who
MI-5 (Spooks)
Gunsmoke
Columbo
The Prisoner
Danger man
Life on mars
The Sandbaggers
the young ones
wire in the blood
Rebus
The Vice
My Hero
curb your enthusiasim
the sopranos
dream on
farscape
Books
Robert Parker
Greg Rucka
Brad Meltzer
Elmore Leonard
Walter Mosley
Thomas Hauser
Aj Liebling
Budd Schulberg
Norman Mailer
George Plimpton
Neil Gaiman
Nick Hornby
Michael Chabon
Brian Bendis
Ed Brubaker
Brian Azzarello
Jeph Loeb
Mark Waid
Mark Millar
Dennis O'Neil
Raymond Chandler
Warren Ellis
Grant Morrison
Brian K Vaughn
Heroes
My dad James J Siuntres
Edwrad R Murrow
AJ Liebling
Budd Schulberg
Quincy Jones
Will Eisner
Steve Dahl
Muhammad Ali
Howard K Smith
Ralph Nader
Maurice White
Neil Armstrong
John Glenn
Walter Cronkite
Ken Burns
Sid Ceasar
Mel Brooks
Carl Reiner
Over 20 years of hosting music sports and talk formats.
currently I host a show called wordballoon, featuring one on one interviews with pop culture creators.
About me: I'm John Siuntres a broadcaster, working in Chicago Radio and TV for over 17 years. In 1998 I was nominated for an emmy for my on-screen work.
Word Balloon is a weekly entertainment podcast, featuring one on one interviews with pop culture creators in the fields of comics, film, tv, and games.
Since debuting in the Summer of 2005, we've had great episodes with Brad Meltzer,Geoff Johns,Jeph loeb, Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, Allan Heinberg, Dwayne McDuffie, Neal Adams, Thomas Jane, Walter Simonson, Colleen Doran, Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan, Mark Waid, and dozens of others.
In February 2006, we began a relationship with Brian Michael Bendis hosting THE BENDIS TAPES. These are semi monthly Q&A podcasts, where fans from his message board set the agenda for our conversations.
My blog has some past interviews, but all the rest can be found at my site, www.wordballoon.lybsyn.com
Who I'd like to meet: Smart people. who love good music, books, films, tv , and comics
Wordballoon, with John Siuntres's Friend Space (Top 20)
Hey fans, check out my new show, from the Producers of GOSSIP GIRL and ALIAS...
SAMURAI GIRL Episode #1 is available RIGHT NOW and FOR FREE at the iTunes Store!
Produced by THE X-FILES' Frank Spotnitz, GOSSIP GIRL's Bob Levy, ALIAS and LIFE ON MARS' Josh Appelbaum & Andre Nemec, Scott (Beautiful Girls, Con Air, Gone in Sixty Seconds) Rosenberg and me, Luke McMullen.
SAMURAI GIRL is a six hour mini-series that will air two hours a night Friday September 5 thru Sunday September 7 at 8:00PM on ABC FAMILY--- check it out!!
What began as a small sketch video series now is a tutorial series in High Definition (HD)!
It is made for comic fans and aspiring artists out there.
The best part: It is complete free of charge and you can embed the videos in your blog, website and so on. You also can download the original size videos at the vimeo site.
Because I only can upload 500MB each week you will have to wait for the second part of the 'Hellgirl' paint video until next week. Here are the links to the sketch video and part one (of two) of the paint video:
"Cinematic in its telling, THE REVENANT is at its heart a gorefest...but with a whodunnit trail of clues it owes almost as much to Detective Comics and Dick Tracy as it does to Nightmare on Elm Street. "
I finished proofing A Demon Awaits today. I'm very excited about the book. When the cover art is complete, the books will start rolling off the press!!!!
