Re: Burroughs Film Article Idea
Subject: Re: Burroughs Film Article Idea
From: Joel Myers <joeldmyers@gmail.com>
Date: 1/29/10, 14:29
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

Hey Barrett -

Yony'd been pretty busy up till now but he finally got the premiere over with and wanted to see if you were still interested in doing something on his film now that it's finished.  If you're still down to do something send me your mailing address and I can forward it along to him; he has some press materials he could send your way so you'd have something to work with.  Btw Variety just did a review of it today or yesterday - http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117942009.html?categoryid=3883&cs=1&nid=2562.

Saw you're heading out of B'wick man; too bad, was enjoying the pieces you had... Anyway yeah let me know. 

Cheers,

Joel

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Joel Myers <joeldmyers@gmail.com> wrote:
Cool man, thanks for getting back to me so quickly.  I passed your info along to him; unfortunately he's pretty swamped as well, getting everything together now as it's coming down to the wire, but hopefully he'll get back to you soon.


On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
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