| Subject: Re: Burroughs Film Article Idea |
| From: Yony Leyser <yonilizer@gmail.com> |
| Date: 1/29/10, 03:55 |
Dear Barrett,
Can I send you a screener of the film. It just finished its run at Slamdance
Thanks!
Yony
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Joel Myers <joeldmyers@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey man i randomly contacted this guy i know through another guy i know
(thru a blog I used to write for) & he said he'd be interested in doing some
writeups somewhere or other; he's written for the Onion, Rolling Stone,
Vanity Fair and a few other spots, so hopefully he can put this in a few
good prominent places. see his thing below & i guess just contact him
directly with press kit stuff if you're interested.
also let me know about the newspaper thing, if you guys are stuck for a
solution i might be able to dig around some more. um, maybe contacting the
newspapers directly? like maybe they'd have this archive stuff on file? i
dunno. if nothing else i could go take higher-quality pics of the william
tell thing; after next monday i'm out of class for a month so i'd have some
time to do it in a less half-assed way than the last time.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Burroughs Film Article Idea
To: Joel Myers <joeldmyers@gmail.com>
Hi, Joel-
I'd absolutely be interested in covering it for a couple of outlets,
actually. I'm totally swamped right now but if you want to have them e-mail
me in a couple of days with press kits or whatever info they have on hand,
I'll get an interview planned for sometime in the very near future.
Thanks,
Barrett Brown
Brookyln, NY
512-560-2302
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Joel Myers <joeldmyers@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Barrett -
How's it going, this is Joel, I used to write regularly for BushwickBK
before grad school hijacked my life this past semester. I was writing to
you because I know you're a good writer and you seem to be into the Beat
stuff from what I remember reading and I know you write for other blogs and
publications on the side, and I thought you might be interested in writing
about a project one of my friends is in the process of finishing.
My friend Yony Leyser (perhaps you know him? he used to live at Dead
Herring in Williamsburg before he moved back to Chicago a couple years ago)
just finished a feature-length film that - from what I've seen of it - is
going to be really badass. It just got accepted to premier the opening
night at Slamdance; you can watch the trailer here -
www.burroughsthefilm.com. You'll see in the trailer, but he really did his
legwork getting interviews - David Cronenberg, Amiri Baraka, John Waters,
Iggy Pop, etc.
Nothing Bushwick-related here, but I thought since you wrote for a few
other publications you might be interested in having a good article thrown
at you and getting ahead of the curve - I really think there's a good shot
it'll get picked up at the festival and this could be a good head start on
it getting modestly famous over the next few months as it goes on to other
festivals.
There's a good interview of how Yony put it together here, for some
background -
http://www.urchicago.com/blog/interview-yony-leyser-director-documentary-a-man-within.
And if you were interested in doing something I could put you in touch with
him; there's definitely enough to write about on just what all he went
through to get this basically unfunded project off the ground on his own.
And anyway if you ended up writing something about him you might mention
that he's trying to raise funds to get everything together for the festival
- he just launched a website last night which you can find here -
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/williamburroughs/william-s-burroughs-a-man-within-0
And anyway that's the gist of it. No worries if you aren't interested or
don't think you'd have an appropriate outlet for it, just thought I'd pass
it along. Been enjoying your posts on BBK man, hope all's well in the
wonderful (broke) world of freelancing.
Cheers,
Joel