Our previous forum had a meet and great thread, and consider this a spot to remind folks who you are, what you like, or anything else under the sun that will stimulate conversation, debate and other things film (or books, music, media) related.
In the old forum, I used to go as “Triflic” but since it is one registration for Main site and Forum, I’m now going under my real name.
I’m the guy who spends far too much time in the TWITCH forum, and occasionally posts reviews or news on the main page.
Age: 32
Offspring: 2
Spouse: 1
Dayjob: Materials Scientist
Occasionally moonlights as: Programmer of quasi-public film screeings in home Cinema.
Origin: Canadian
At this Exact Moment: Mississauga, ON
Last Theatre Visit: Sunshine
Last DVD: Weeds - Season 1
Last CD listened to: The Fountain - OST
Last food consumed: Blueberry Bagel
Last recreational substance: Patagonia Lager
Last Two Novels: Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” and “No Country For Old Men”
Cinema Tastes: Just about everything, but especially Guy Maddin Films, Silent Cinema, Chris Doyle lensed films (esp. wkw and Z.Yimou), worldwide art-house and ‘trash’—particularly films that fuse art house and blockbuster mentalities successfully (eg The Fountain, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Show Must Go On, Right At Your Door)
Hanging around Twitchfilm: Pretty much since Day 1.
Age: 24
Dayjob: Videogame store manager
Occasionally moonlights as: TKD Instructor to the kidits
At this Exact Moment: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Last Theater Visit: After This Our Exile
Last DVD watched: Soo
Last DVD bought: Mouchette
Last CD listened to: My Little Airport - Zoo Is Sad, People Are Cruel
Last food consumed: Banana!
Last recreational substance: Magners
Last Two Novels: Rant by Chuck Palahniuk and Satan Burger by Malick III
Cinema Tastes: Give me anything but French talkies!
Hanging around Twitchfilm: A couple of hearty years
I don’t do much posting on Twitch—usually just TIFF reviews in payment for Todd’s hospitality, and the odd article here and there. I handle much of the behind-the-scenes stuff, such as the recent redesign, and field technical/geeky questions.
Age: 31
Spouse: 1
Dayjob: Web designer
At this Exact Moment: Lincoln, Nebraska
Last Theater Visit: Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Last DVD watched: The Banquet
Last DVD bought: The Banquet, HANA, Love & Honor, Millenium Mambo
Last CD listened to: Clan Of Xymox - Medusa
Last food consumed: Sandwich
Last recreational substance: Do cookies count?
Last Two Novels: I wish I read more… spent a few days thumbing through some Raymond Feist novels
Cinema Tastes: Pretty much anything, but typically the louder the better. Might as well get the most out of that THX sound system!
Hanging around Twitchfilm: Pretty much since Day One
I do nothing but lurk, but the new site’s so spiffy I just had to try it out for myself.
Age: 17
Origin: Taipei, Taiwan
At this Exact Moment: Vancouver, Canada
Last DVD: 20 30 40
Last CD listened to: Namie Amuro - PLAY
Last food consumed: Raisin Bran cereal
Last Two Novels: “Night Sins” and “Lullaby”
Cinema Tastes: Somewhat strictly East Asian, particularly Japanese these days.
Hanging around Twitch Film: Pretty much since Day 1.
I’ll bite. My name is Josh Hurtado and I’ll go ahead and fill out the questionnaire.
Age: 27 (I’ll be 28 on Saturday)
Offspring: 1
Spouse: 1
Dayjob: Camera Sales and occasional photographer
Occasionally moonlights as: Student.
Origin: Californian
At this Exact Moment: Dallas, TX
Last Theatre Visit: Oceans 13
Last DVD: Tales From The Crypt Season 6
Last CD listened to: The Rock Tigers “Oldies But Goodies”, Tiger Army “Music From Regions Beyond”
Last food consumed: Double Whopper
Last recreational substance: I can’t even remember, its been weeks.
Last Two Novels: Don’t read novels much, but I did just finish Big Bosoms and Square Jaws, the Russ Meyer biography by Jimmy McDonough
Cinema Tastes: All over the map, but my interest in films in general started with horror and slasher films, moved on to trash and exploitation films, blaxploitation, art-house, hong kong action, absurdist comedies. Everywhere really. Faves include: John Woo, Alfred Hitchcock, Takashi Miike, Russ Meyer, Takeshi Kitano, Minoru Kawasaki, David Cronenberg, George Romero, John Carpenter, Pedro Almodovar, Roger Corman, Tim Burton, Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino, Jorg Buttegereit, Jim Jarmusch, etc…
Hanging around Twitchfilm: Not sure when the site opened, but I found it in late summer of 2005 I think, around August or September
Age: 28
Offspring: kind of - 2 cats, Tim and Daisy
Spouse: 1
Dayjob: IT
If I had my druthers I’d be: paid to write screenplays
Origin: USA
At this Exact Moment: Indianapolis, IN
Last Theatre Visit: SICKO
Last DVD: THE THING HD-DVD edition
Last CD listened to: “Let It Bleed” - The Rolling Stones
Last food consumed: Cantaloupe
Last recreational substance: Miller High Life
Last Two Novels: Julio Cortazar’s “Hopscotch”; Mark McShane’s “Seance on a Wet Afternoon”
Cinema Tastes: Hew toward genre stuff, especially horror, suspense, and science fiction; though I do love a good comedy or action pic, drama or documentary - at the end of the day I’ll watch anything, I guess; love ‘70s-era American cinema from all walks - THE CONVERSATION, GOD TOLD ME TO, GANJA AND HESS, ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN, CUTTER’S WAY, etc.; I have a (very large) soft spot for MFTV movies, especially those from the ‘70s and ‘80s
Hanging around Twitchfilm: Since year 1
Age: 36
Dayjob: Er . . . unemployed at the moment
Location: Hong Kong
Last Theatre Visit: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Last DVD watched: Afro Samurai
Last DVD bought: Army of Shadows
Last CD bought: Jethro Tull’s Stand Up
Last 2 novels: Matsumoto Seicho’s “Castles Of Sand” (translated into Chinese) and Sergei Lukyanenko’s Daywatch (translated into English)
Cinema Tastes: Everything except romantic comedies
Peter Cornelissen
Age: 31
Offspring: 0
Spouse: 0
Dayjob: Research Analist (at a University lab that investigates cardiac failure… it’s bio-molecular work mostly)
Origin: Dutch
At this Exact Moment: Utrecht, Netherlands
Last Theatre Visit: Harry Potter (almost ashamed to admit, haven’t liked a single one of the Potter movies yet)
Last DVD: watched: Clash of the Titans bought: Mother and Son (Artificial Eye)
Last CD listened to: My own “120 minutes” best of the 90’s mix-tape: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O5SPFZTL
Last Two Novels: Dark Materials trilogy (a while back already, have been catching up on comic-books since)
Cinema Tastes: I prefer the cinema above any other movie format. Sadly the cinema experience has been getting worse since the mobile phone boom. A festival experience is the best. I like art-house (the IFFR) and genre (the AFFF). Between that I watch a lot of Hollywood fare (I love cgi and special effects), a lot of Japanese cinema and a lot of B-movies (mostly on the video format ofcourse). My taste range from the most minimal and experimental art, to glossy melodramatic formulas, to extreme exploitation with cheesy acting. The only thing I don’t really go for is “a good story”. I like it, but if I want a real good story I read a book. cinema for me is a visceral experience… or something like that
Hanging around Twitchfilm: For a while now, don’t really know. I have been active in the forum for about a year or so, I think, and reading the frontpage regularly long before that.
Age: 38
Offspring: a 3-year-old boy named Chris who loves “My Neighbour Totoro” and “Yobi, the Five-Tailed Fox”
Spouse: Yes
Dayjob: Communications Manager
Origin: Dutch
At this exact moment: Rotterdam
Last Theatre Visit: “Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds’ End”
Last DVD bought: “Linda Linda Linda”
Last DVD seen: “Primer” (which was awesome)
Last CD listened to: “Stadium Arcadium (Jupiter)”, Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Last food consumed: two ham, cheese, mayonaise, tomato, egg and lettuce “healthy” sandwiches
Last recreational substance: a mix made of Tequila and fig-Wodka ("Kleiner Feigling")
Last Two Novels: “Pandora’s Star” and “Judas Unchained” by Peter F. Hamilton
Cinema Tastes: anything goes, but anime, SF and thrillers make me tick just that bit harder.
Hanging around Twitchfilm: About a year.
Age: 26
Dayjob: New Media Specialist (vague, innit? they picked it, not me.)
Occasionally moonlights as: film festival planning committee(s?), uncredited extra
At this Exact Moment: NJ
Last Theatre Visit: “Finishing the Game” dir. Justin Lin, “Sway” dir. Miwa Nishikawa (festivals for the win!)
Last DVD bought: “Pan’s Labyrinth”
Last DVD watched: “The Host” director/actors commentary track
Last food consumed: chicken over rice from Rafiqi’s cart in NYC
Last recreational substance: Stella Artois and someone else’s unfinished tequila
Last Two Novels: American Gods, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (yes, it’s the 6th book and i’m year and half behind)
Music of the moment: Blonde Redhead “23”
Cinema Tastes: Asian film (particularly Korean), Asian American film, sci-fi, anime, fantasy, indie, art-house and other genre films, and everything else inbetween the standard drama, comedy, action titles.
Hanging around Twitchfilm: sine the beginning i guess in 2005? back when i was an import Asian/Japan tech salesperson in Chicago and a co-worker introduced me to the site.
Age: 31
Offspring: Other peoples kids are kind of OK (though I get confused with what to do when people tell me to hold a baby), but I prefer animals so I have 2 dogs instead.
Spouse: I live in sin
Dayjob: The joy filled world of marketing
Occasionally moonlights as: A dyslexic webmaster
Last CD Listened to: Way Tailor: Hope & Sorrow ... I’m kind of a film soundtracks, Trip Hop, Old School Hip Hop and Funk fan
Last Theatre Visit: ... I hate to say it, but I prefer DVD, I shall go and see Trasformers this week though.
Last DVD: In The Dark ... its a low budget “Blair Witch” style horror movie, I am meant to review this, but I wish they had not sent it to me, because I would pretty much put Blair Witch as one of the least interesting viewing experiences I have ever had. So I’m not a good person to try and get to recommend that kind of thing.
Last Food Consumed: ... Some Lebanese dish my girlfriend fed me in her continuing attempts to make me more middle class.
Last Recreational substance: Holstein Pils ... all those adverts I watched as a kid with Jeff Goldblum got to me.
Last Two Novels: An H.P. Lovecraft anthology “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories” (Penguin) and I’m re-reading Chester Himes “Harlem Cycle”.
Cinema Tastes: Ray Harryhausen, 70’s and 80’s Hollywood / independent US cinema, Low budget indie horror and cult films, Hong Kong Crime cinema and old school Kung Fu, European Art-house, erotica, Japanese cinema, new wave Korean movies, Post apocalyptic and dystopian future sci-fi ... etc. I how ever hate musicals (Except maybe The Muppets Christmas Carrol if that counts as one)
Hanging around Twitchfilm: I don’t think I’ve ever posted in the forums before and maybe only commented on the main site once or twice, but I think I been checking out Twitch for a couple of years.
Age: 31
Offspring: 0
Spouse: I’m learning Spain Spanish so I can meet a girl there and German for same reason.
Dayjob: Ad Agency Consultant, film festivals scout/rep
Occasionally moonlights as: Bartender
Origin: Texas but consider Ireland home
At this Exact Moment: Back alley of Alamo South Lamar
Last Theatre Visit: Hairspray
Last DVD: Avenging Eagle (Shaw Brothers)
Last CD listened to: New Justice CD; last soundtrack Funky Forrest
Last food consumed: Fish and chips
Last recreational substance: Belgium Beer
Last Two Novels: Very last two Potter books; book full of De Palma interviews
Cinema Tastes: On a constant search of finding great cinema, past, present, future, country of origin or type. Favorite all time films change a bit for me, in brief - Pulp Fiction, L’eclisse, Ikiru, Boxer from Shantung, Kidnap, Can’t Buy Me Love, Zapped, Out of the Past, Fear is the Key, Crazy Thunder Road, Milano calibro 9, Gravy Train, Stunt Man, Forbidden Games, Sister Streetfighter, Black Belt Jones, Adam’s Apples, Run Lola Run, High Crime, All the Colors of the Dark, Pretty Maids all in a row, Saint Jack, Gambit, Day of Anger, Snake in the Monkey’s Shadow, Chinese Mack, Tsui Hark’s The Blade (lucky enough to see a film screening of this; all home video releases do not do this film just at all!), Deep Red, Baciamo le mani, and list goes on and on…
Hanging around Twitchfilm: Pretty much since day 72. Or maybe it was 146.
Richard C (if you are also a member of DVD Manaics) aka Sleaze (also Movie Patron, Flixster) aka Mr C (Pre Cert forum).
Age: 28
Offspring: 0
Spouse: 0
Dayjob: Civil Servant
Origin: Welsh
At this Exact Moment: Cardiff, UK
Last Theatre Visit: Can’t remember
Last DVD watched: Story Of A Cloistered Nun
Last DVD bought: Turkish Superman
Last CD listened to: DJ Kicks compiled by Hot Chips
Last food consumed: Some grapes…
Last recreational substance: White wine
Last Two Novels: Very rarely read novels but I am currently reading a book on Independent Horror Cinema in the US by Stephen Thrower and Shock! Horror! A guide to the UK video nasty period.
Cinema Tastes: Big fan of the American New Wave period (late 60s/early 70s), 70s Exploitation cinema (especially Blaxploitation), Euro Cult (Italian crime, Giallo, sleaze etc) and pretty much everything else other than musicals, and large chucks of 50s/recent US cinema).
Hanging around Twitchfilm: Around a year or so. Followed Kurt over from Movie Patron.
Age: 36
Offspring: 0 (that I know of!..har, har...ahem)
Spouse: 1
Dayjob: Freelance Video Editor
Origin: Canadian
At This Exact Moment: Toronto
Last Theater Visit: Spider-Man 3, but going to see Sunshine tonight
Last DVD Watched: Biotherapy and Right at Your Door
Last DVD Bought: King Boxer, Ebola Syndrome and Yakuza Papers
Last CD Listened to: Dillenger Escape Plan: Miss Machine
Last Food Consumed: Rainbow Trout
Last Recreational Substance: Caffeine
Last 2 Novels: Reading Richard Laymon’s, Midnight Tour and just finished Jack Ketchum’s Offspring. Also reading, Crystal Lake Memories, Midnight Mavericks and Essential Spider-Man Volume 2
Cinema Tastes: Like chicken? I’m a huge fan of movies, but I veer more towards darker and fantastic cinema. I’ve been a big fan of Asian cinema since American cinema’s downfall after 1999 (thanks Hollywood for sucking so hard, I hate to think I could’ve missed all those classic Asian films), and I really like weird films from other countries, Mondo Macabro is a godsend. Favourite directors: Raimi, Noe, Miike, Honda, Kitano, Shimizu and Leone (off the top of my head)
Hanging around Twitchfilm: Around a year ago, when Toronto After Dark was mentioning the site.
Age: 32
Offspring: 0
Spouse: No but my girlfriend is currently on a reality show on Sci-Fi!
Dayjob: Biology/Chemistry/Physics Teacher and Bioorganic Chemist
Occasionally moonlights as: Musician and cinephile.
Origin: Chicago, IL
At this Exact Moment: Long Beach, CA
Last Theatre Visit: Sunshine
Last DVD: Szerelem
Last DVD watched: Pusher Trilogy
Last CD listened to: Junior Boys “So This is Goodbye”
Last Food Consumed: A peanut butter and nutella sandwich
Last Recreational Substance: Water
Last Two Novels: “Crime and Punishment” and “The Iliad”
Cinema Tastes: Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson, Kenneth Anger, Shinji Aoyama, Ingmar Bergman, Walerian Borowczyk, Stan Brakhage, Luis Buñuel, David Cronenberg, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Claire Denis, Kim Ki-Duk, Sergei Eisenstein, Federico Fellini, Kinji Fukasaku, Michael Haneke, Alfred Hitchcock, Katsuhito Ishii, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Akira Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Miike, Lukas Moodysson, Yasujiro Ozu, Chan-Wook Park, Todd Solondz, Sion Sono, Seijun Suzuki, Andrei Tarkovsky, Béla Tarr, Lars Von Trier
Hanging Around Twitchfilm: Hmmmmmm . . . . For a long time, perhaps a few years. Wish that I could give a more accurate date.
Age: 23
Offspring: 0
Spouse: 0
Occasionally moonlights as: Photographer
Last Theatre Visit: War
Last DVD: Rurouni Kenshin
Last CD listened to: 10 years - The Autumn Effect
Last food consumed: Chicken Fingers With French Fries
Last Two Novels: The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue & A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Cinema Tastes: Fiction, Anime, Really Anything With an Intelligent Story and a Few Without
Hanging around Twitchfilm: Just Now
