MY TOP 10 MOVIES OF ALL TIME
1. The Lost Boys
2. Babylon AD
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Star Wars Saga
5. Conan The Barbarian
6. Chasing Amy
7. Clerks
8. Goodfellas
9. The Matrix
10. Pineapple Express
MY TOP 5 DIRECTORS OF ALL TIME
1. Ridley Scott (Alien, BladeRunner, Black Hawk Down)
2. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill)
3. Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats)
4. M Night Shyamalan(The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable)
5. John Woo (Hard Boiled, The Killer)
Here's a small synopsis of who I am, Kevin Pickett.
School
Comic Book Writing
Starting in 2008 I began my comic book writing career. I'm currently writing 3 titles. I've hired Grahic Artitist Tedd Miller to illustrate "Chester The Crafty Pervert."
Chester The Crafty Pervert - Illustrated by Tedd Miller
Rogues Gallery
Mice from The Shadow Realm of Crypton
Film Work
Since graduating I've decided to pursue new goals and filmmaking is one of them. Writing has become a passion of mine. I've been writing for ten years and have worked on 2 film projects. You can see my credits listed below.
Waste and Void - Director Kennet Du, Assistant Camera/Gaffer Kevin Pickett., Starring Alana Servignese - March 2004
Quagmire - Director Omar Robau, Assistant Director Kevin Pickett., Director of Photography Hesh Goldberg, Starring Raymond Turturro - Summer/Fall 2004
Martial Arts
I practiced Jow Ga Kung Fu for a year and a half and then one year of Hung Gar. Its been ten years but I do remember a lot. Not enough to teach but enough to get by. I also studied and participated in a genuine Lion Dance for Chinese New Year in January 1990. It was performed by fellow classmates and myself at Kyodai Dojo in Queens Village, NY. I managed to learn three styles, Little Crane, Northern Circular Fist, and Low Ga. I was instructed by Sifu Michael Willner.
Jow Ga is an authentic, well-established Chinese Martial Arts system, widely practiced all over the world, with its origins in the legendary Shaolin temples of Ancient China. Its main founder, Jow Lung, intensively studied both Northern and Southern Shaolin systems of Kung Fu in his youth, and combined the skills and practical techniques of the two systems to create a balanced hard and soft style of Kung Fu. Strong, low stances, a distinct dexterity in footwork, ground and aerial techniques, as well as a wide range of kicking and hand techniques all point to an influence of the Hung Gar and Choy Gar styles of Kung Fu. Jow Ga is also renowned for its animal forms such as tiger, crane, leopard, cougar, eagle, dragon and phoenix.
History - Born and Rasied Queen's Native
Here's a little history about the town I grew up in called Cambria Heights New York. It's on the border of Queens NY and Long Island NY.
Cambria Heights began life as part of the St. Albans area, which in turn was part of the Jamaica Town land grant from New Netherlands Gov. Peter Stuyvesant to English settlers in 1656. For most of its history Cambria Heights was a place of bountiful farms and forests.
Some historians say Cambria was the name of a local family; others, that the name was based on a coal company from Cambria County, Pa. In either case, there's no doubt about where the ``Heights'' came from. The area is the third highest elevation on Long Island, rising roughly 50 feet above sea level. At one time it was called Kerosene Hill, because the community did not have piped-in gas.
In the early 1920s a Brooklyn real estate and insurance dealer named Oliver B. LaFreniere began developing a 163-acre site assembled from three large farms. This started the development of Cambria Heights as a community of one- and two-family homes. Home-building grew rapidly in the '40s after the Cross Island Parkway opened at the eastern edge of the community.
Cambria Heights is known for the globe lanterns that dot the lawns of many households. These globe lanterns originate from the urban foundings of Cambria Heights. The houses in Cambria Heights were originally built as homes for soldiers after World War II.
In the Fall of 2006, it was published in the New York Times that Cambria Heights is one of few communities in New York in which African and Caribbean Americans earn more than their European-American neighbors. It was also listed in Money Magazine's Best places to live in 2006.
| WHAT I'M READING |
I'm currently reading a lot of comic books. The books I'm collecting are:
Deadpool
Daredevil: Man w/out Fear
Iron Man: Director of Shield
Gears of War
Spike: After the Fall
Secret Invasion
Superman Batman Vampires and Werewolves
Uncanny X-Men(2 copies)
Kick Ass
Voltron
War Heroes
Wolverine
Weapon X: First Class
Hulk by Jeph Loeb
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WHAT I'M LISTENING TO
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Metallica: Death Magnetic, and Mitch Hedberg's New Comedy CD: Do You Believe In Gosh?
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WHAT I'M WATCHING
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I try not to watch too much TV but some shows are addictive. Here's what I'm watching: Entourage, Supernatural, Lost, Burn Notice, and Battlestar Galactica.
MY FAVORITE RADIO PERSONALITIES
Opie and Anthony, formally of WNEW 102.7. Damn they were good. Much better then that ass clown Howard Stern. They had regular cameo appearances by Jay Mohr, Jim Breur, Jim Norton, and Andrew Dice Clay. The show was made up of prank phone calls, wet t-shirt contests, and anything else. Depending on who was in the studio that day, anyhting could happen. Their show was ended on 8/22/02. It seems their pranks went too far when they had a couple have sex in St Patrick's Cathedral for a contest. Someone got offended and called the FAA. WNEW panicked and fired Opie and Anthony. Not too long after that the radio station fell under. How surprising!! Now 102.7 in NYC is a POP Music station.
Opie and Anthony are returning to radio, XM radio that is. Their return date is OCtober 4, 2004/
MY FAVORITE HIP HOP ARTISTS
Pete Rock and C. L. Smooth are rappers well respected for both their own work and Rock's production of other rap acts. The duo met in their teens in "money-earnin" Mount Vernon, home of such hip-hop stars as Al B. Sure! and Heavy D. They began recording raps on Rock's cassette player after school, until Eddie F., the most popular local DJ and a budding producer, brought them to his 12-track. Eddie put Rock and Smooth on a remix of Johnny Gills gold single "Rub U the Right Way," which eventually landed them their first gig outside their neighborhood, in Madison Square Garden with Gill. Mecca & the Soul Brother was praised for its honest stories of urban romance and living and for Rock's mix of jazz, R&B, and reggae. "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" (#10 R&B, 1992) was a #1 rap hit. Two years later The Main Ingredient peaked at #9 on the R&B chart. Rock has also produced records by Kid n Play, Shabba Ranks, and Heavy D.
Formed 1984, Mount Vernon, New York
Pete Rock (b. Peter Phillips, June 21, 1970, Mount Vernon), DJ.;
C. L. Smooth (b. Corey Penn, Oct. 8, 1968, New Rochelle, NY.), voc. 1992
-- All Souled Out - LP
-- Mecca & the Soul Brother (Elektra) 1994
-- The Main Ingredient Copyright © 1983, 1995 by Rolling Stone Press
Click Here for a Recent Interview from CL Smooth
Cypress Hill - Their first album, which was self-titled, was released in August 1991. Its single was "Phuncky Feel One," but it was the B-side "How I Could Just Kill A Man" that attracted more airplay on urban radio and college radio. Based on the success of the single and other tracks such as bilingual track "Latin Lingo" and X-rated Spanish track "Tres Equis", the album sold two million copies in the US alone. Subsequently, DJ Muggs produced House of Pain's first album, then worked on other Soul Assassins projects like Funkdoobiest. The band made their first appearance at Lollapalooza on the side stage in 1992. Black Sunday, the group's second album, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in 1993, recording the highest Soundscan for a rap group up until that time. Also with their debut still on the charts they became the first rap artists to have 2 albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 at the same time. With "Insane in the Brain" becoming a crossover hit, the album went triple platinum in the U.S. and sold about 3.25 million copies. Cypress Hill was banned from Saturday Night Live after Muggs smoked cannabis on-air and the band trashed their instruments while playing their second single "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That".
1991: Cypress Hill (4x Platinum)
1993: Black Sunday (4x Platinum)
1995: III: Temples of Boom (2x Platinum)
1996: Unreleased and Revamped (Gold)
1998: IV (Gold)
1999: Los grandes éxitos en español (Platinum)
2000: Skull & Bones (Platinum)
2000: Live at the Fillmore
2001: Stoned Raiders
2002: Stash
2004: Till Death Do Us Part
2005: Greatest Hits from the Bong
THE BEST JAPANESE ANIME EVER
Written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his manga of the same name. The film is set in a neon-lit futuristic post-apocalyptic Tokyo in 2019. Akira is regarded by critics as one of the greatest animated films ever made.
The movie led the way for the growing popularity of anime in the West. One of the reasons for the movie's success roduction (voices were recorded before the animation was completed, rather than the opposite)—and super-fluid motion as realized in the film's more than 160,000 animation cels. Notable motifs in the film include youth culture, delinquency, psychic awareness, social unrest and future uncertainty weighed against the historical spectre of nuclear destruction and Japan's post-war economic revival. The bike is probably the most memorable aspect of the film. They actually made these in Japan. Their not functional but damn cool to look at.
MY FAVORITE TV SHOWS FROM THE PAST
Miami Vice - Bronx detective "Ricardo Tubbs", a black street wise member of the NYPD whose older brother, "Raphael Tubbs", also a member of New York's finest, was shot dead by a Colombian drug lord known as "Calderon". "Ricardo" or "Rico", played by Phillip Michael Thomas, migrated down to Miami as it was reported that "Calderon" was last seen in the area, possibly as a means to escape capture for the killing of the elder "Tubbs". The New York City filming beautifully captured the coldness and brusqueness of that City. Next scene we are thrown into the Tropical Streamline Deco world of Miami Beach where Miami vice detective "Sonny Crockett", played by Don Johnson ("A Boy and His Dog", "Dead Bang", and several other movies, as well as the recently cancelled CBS San Francisco based detective show "Nash Bridges") is seen in white and blue linen clothing lounging against a wall of the Carlyle hotel. With him is fellow vice detective "Eddie Riviera", played by Jimmy Smits. "Riviera" is later killed by a car bomb in a drug deal gone bad, and guess who did it? Yep-"Calderon", known in Miami as "the Colombian". "Crockett", a lone wolf elder vice cop of 10 years, and "Tubbs", who forged documents and used his deceased brother's name in order to work with Miami Vice to try to apprehend "Calderon", initially hated each other, but by the end of the movie were best of partners, and would remain so for close to five years.
Click Here for the Theme from Miami Vice
Click Here for the a classic scene from Miami Vice
We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first Bionic man. Steve Austinwill be that man. Better than he was before. Better . . . stronger . . . faster.
"Thundering across the stars, to save the universe from the Monster Minds... Jayce searches for his father, to unite the magic root and lead his Lightning League to victory over the changing form of SawBoss. Wheeled Warriors explode into battle--Lightning Strikes!"
This was one of my favorite cartoons from the 80's.
Click Here for the Theme from Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Right Click Here and 'Save Target As' for a Promo Spot for Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors