Tag Archives: David Lynch

Rebel Kind at Totally Awesome Fest 9

By Mark | April 28, 2013

There was a lot to like about this year’s Totally Awesome Fest. Among my favorite things was the set by Rebel Kind at dusk on Friday, on the banks of the Huron River. There was just something really beautiful about the way the swaying trees and the warm glow of the lamp worked in concert [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Amber Fellows, Autumn Wetli, Jim Cherewick, Jules Nehring, K Records, music, pencil paparazzi, Rebel Kind, Shelley Salant, Totally Awesome Fest | 14 Comments

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Becca Keating

By Mark | January 19, 2013

Becca Keating, the former Director of Development at the Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF), has spent the past several days driving across the country with the intention of transforming herself into an Angeleno. Following is our exit interview, conducted as she adjusted to life in a world with sunshine. MARK: Let’s start with where you’re [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged abortion, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor Paper, avant-garde, Becca Keating, exit interviews, Grand Canyon, Gratzi, independent film, Ken Burns, Kevin Jerome Everson, Laida Lertxundi, Laura Abraham, Liberty Street Video, Los Angeles, Marcin Gizycki, Ohio, old white men making decisions on women's health, parade floats, Pasadena, pie, porn, reproductive justice, Rick Snyder, Rose Parade, Roswell, Scientology, Suzan Pitt, The Central Park Five, tiramisu, Toledo, Twin Peaks, Un Chien Andalou, Village Corner, Whitney Biennial, women's rights, womne's health, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews | 11 Comments

On the possibility that David Lynch will return to television and rapture us into pop culture heaven

By Mark | January 2, 2013

When I said on New Year’s Eve that I had the sense that something better was on the horizon, I was lying. Fearful that a significant number of you might take your lives while watching Ryan Seacrest usher in the new year, I decided to scrap the article that I’d been working on… which was [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Pop Culture | Also tagged Dale Cooper, NBC, rapture, Ryan Seacrest, Twin Peaks | 13 Comments

Emilia Javanica on the Red Blob Massacre, and what it’s like to shoot one’s first independent film

By Mark | March 20, 2012

A few months ago, I announced here on the site that an aspiring filmmaker in Ann Arbor, by the name of Emilia Javanica, was looking for actors to cast in a comedic horror film that she was making called the Red Blob Massacre. Well, the film has just completed production, and I took the opportunity [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged animation, art films, art school, art students, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, b-movies, Basket Case, books on filmmaking, Brad Smith, Bride of the Monster, Carrie, Cat People, Cavern Club, Chuck Sipperley, Dale Newton, DIY, Emilia Javanica, Eraserhead, fear of death, film ideas, George Kuchard, grants, Harry Shannon, horror movies, independent film, John Gaspard, John Waters, Little Otik, Michael McCarty, Nosferatu, performance art, puppet Mark, Red Blob Massacre, Robert Rodriquez, School of Art & Design, silent film, Simon Alexander-Adams, Sins of the Fleshapoids, Smuckers-Wagstaff Grant, Stand By Me, Steve Wild, Swamp Women, The Blob, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, University of Michigan, Why We Write Horror | 9 Comments

“so, you’re number two” –the prisoner

By Mark | August 8, 2002

I wanted to be relatively quick with my follow-up to the first post, if for no other reason than to prove to myself that I could. I still haven’t told anyone outside of this house that I was setting out to keep a weblog, so there certainly aren’t any friends or readers out there bugging [...]