On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Barrett Brown <
barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure, go ahead.
> Thanks,
> Barrett
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Yony Leyser <
yonilizer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Yony Leyser
>> Director
>> William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
>>
www.burroughsthemovie.com
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