User:Joel Kirk

Joel Kirk born Joel Lindley, has attended Ohlone College (Sept 07'-Dec 09') and National University of Singapore (late July 2011-early Dec 2011). Future plans are to work in the Asian and U.S. film industry and delve in non-fiction and fiction writing, with projects focusing on black/Asian relationships as well as the media representations of those two communities.

=Writing Credits=
 * Cracked.com: "|5 Great Performances by Actors (Who Weren't Acting)" - Co-Writer

=Some Favorites (Film/TV/Stage/Literary/Video Game/Comic Book related)=

Some Favorite films
TBD

Costume Designers of Interest

 * Amanda Friedland
 * Michael Kaplan
 * Natasha Landau

Favorite Television Show(s)
TBD

Favorite Musicians/Composers
TBD

Favorite Bands
TBD

Best Film Sequences (whether or not the film was good)

 * The ending to Romeo is Bleeding
 * The Hoth Battle scene from The Empire Strikes Back
 * The opening credit sequence to Watchmen
 * The Pearl Harbor attack scene in Pearl Harbor
 * The opening credit sequence in Tokyo from Resident Evil: Afterlife
 * The racy car wash scene from Cool Hand Luke.

Best Film Trailers (whether or not the film was good)
The initial:
 * Watchmen trailer
 * G.I. Joe trailer
 * G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer
 * Dark City trailer
 * ...trailer to The Matrix
 * ...trailer to the Rocky series spin-off Creed

The second and third trailer to:
 * Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Game Trailers (whether or not the game was good)

 * The first trailer to Dead Island
 * The E3 2008 trailer for Prince of Persia

Favorite Book(s)

 * Fledgling by Octavia Butler
 * Somebody Owes Me Money by Donald Westlake
 * The Door into Summer by Robert Heinlein

Favorite Comic Artists

 * Damion Scott
 * J. Scott Campbell

=Miscellaneous=

Trivia

 * Has a boot fetish.
 * Does not support the NAACP.
 * Believes overused words or terms are: Creepy, PC/Politically Correct, and Organic.

Blogs (Currently in Need of Proofreading!)

 * Blasian Media: Blogging Media Representations of Blacks and Asians


 * Race and Fandom


 * SF Asian American Studies Graduate Program Experience


 * UC Santa Cruz Experience


 * UC EAP Experience


 * Singapore Blog


 * Musings about Robert Half/OfficeTeam

Quote(s)

 * Life is like a game of chess; you lose a few battles, but then you get smart and learn tricks to beat the odds.~Joel Kirk


 * Stupidity doesn't realize race...~Joel Kirk


 * Never stop fighting 'till the fighting's done! ~ Eliot Ness, The Untouchables (1987)
 * A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or turns his back on it and starts to wither away. ~ Dr. Philip Boyce, The Cage (1964)
 * You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period.~Chris Gardner, portrayed by Will Smith, in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)


 * I hate puzzles...~Joel Kirk


 * Humans will speak of tolerance and acceptance of other cultures even while they're being at their most prejudiced and arrogant.~DevilEyes, from the site Trektoday.


 * "Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking." ~ Nina Simone