Mad Stories for Mad People
A significant element of VENT!’s raison d’être (see previous post) was demonstrating that even the most lauded and famous filmmakers had difficult, even doubtful beginnings. Below are a few true origin stories I had shared on…
Way back in 1997, after I had completed producing my one and so far only feature film on a $60,000 budget, I launched a semi-popular website called VENT! It focused on the flourishing world of…
The Butthole Surfers were the most important band I listened to during my formative teen years. They were my Beatles, my Grateful Dead, my One Direction(?). From the first time I heard frontman Gibby Haynes…
Ah, memories! Here’s a personal anecdote about some small town sordidness: I remember when I first saw it. I was coming home on the Long Island Railroad after visiting a friend at the School of…
The Hottest Tourist Spot in Central Pennsylvania There are no welcome signs (excepting the town line markers) greeting visitors today to Centralia, PA, but there needn’t be any. Upon entering the historic coal mining borough,…
My new novella UGLYVILLE has just been released, and, like my debut novel DEAD SIZE, I once again can’t really tell you who the audience is for it. A Young Adult book perhaps… if the…
As a lifelong movie buff, choosing my top 10 favorite films was really, really, really difficult. I gave myself some rules: no honorable mentions and I had to pick films that stand on their own,…
In observance of the second scariest holiday of the year (zombie Jesus is coming for us all!), here are my 10+ favorite horror films of all time. This is by no means an exhaustive list…
Since I haven’t posted anything on this site in a while, and I am quite fond of lists, I decided to share my top ten favorite comedy films. There are many I regretfully had to…
In recognition of me starting my Masters program in Writing Studies, a piece of flash fiction(?) from my early years as a writer. Recently, while sifting through some ancient papers of mine, I found this…