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> ---------- 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>
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> Hi, Joel-
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
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> Barrett Brown
> Brookyln, NY
> 512-560-2302
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> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Joel Myers <
joeldmyers@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hey Barrett -
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>> 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.
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>> 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 -
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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.
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>> 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.
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>> There's a good interview of how Yony put it together here, for some
>> background -
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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.
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>> 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 -
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/williamburroughs/william-s-burroughs-a-man-within-0
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>> 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.
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>> Cheers,
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>> Joel
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