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“Smokey & The Bandit Meets Natural Born Killers” In KILLER GREEN SAN FRANCISCO (PRWeb) June 12, 2009 – Ambergris Films LLC today announces the optioning of a screenplay that has its roots in the popular online social network Twitter. KILLER GREEN is a horror film that mixes cultural icons such as diners and serial killers with news ripped from the headlines such as biodiesel cars and the unscrupulous practices of outlaw doctors. In February of 2009, a group of users on the social network Twitter had an almost joking conversation about a movie based on a bio-fuel and a killing spree. The project was dubbed “KILLER GREEN” and author David Niall Wilson started typing a script. Since the idea was born on Twitter, Wilson typed the script in scenes and promoted each scene with his account. Each scene was published on his website under a Creative Commons license and broadcast to the Twitter Community. The following grew. After the completion of the screenplay, Wilson signed an option with Ambergris Films LLC. Nearly every part of the deal was transacted via Twitter, save for the signing of contracts. Pre-production started on the project in June, and many images from our production designer Jeff Ensslen are available on the KILLER GREEN website, http://www.killergreenfilm.com. Many notable Twitter users donated their names to the screenplay, including Internet marketing gurus Chris Brogan and Greg Verdino. There are links to their Twitter profiles on the KILLER GREEN website. Ambergris Films LLC is an entertainment company formed to develop feature length movies and merchandise from those projects. Started by Darren Mckeeman in June of 2009, Ambergris Films currently has two projects in development. KILLER GREEN is the first one into pre-production. you can follow Ambergris Films LLC online at their website, http://www.ambergrisfilms.com. David Niall Wilson has been writing and publishing horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction since the mid-eighties. His novels include Maelstrom, Sins of the Flash, Vintage Soul, The Mote in Andrea’s Eye, Deep Blue, the Grails Covenant Trilogy, Star Trek Voyager: Chrysalis, Except You Go Through Shadow, This is My Blood, and the Dark Ages Vampire clan novel Lasombra, among others. He has over 150 short stories published in five collections, one of which, Defining Moments, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in 2007. He has won the Bram Stoker Award for his poetry, and his short fiction. You can find him on the web at http://www.davidniallwilson.com.
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I got a random crazy person email today, a woman who liked my profile. Hi Darren!
Well, I know that you are busy as I am 2. I have recently returned from Jupiter, Fla. and Waikiki. I finished writing a challenging piece, a classical one, (oh ach nein! as my songs usually aren't like this!) a prelude that will be recorded with cadences, timing based on my true revere of L.V. Beethoven, Mozart, Bach as opposed to preludes by others and I'm not going there. I did get a Hollywood award for my 12th Christmas Song, "Ho, Ho, Ho Yes...No, No, Snow!" I going to write my 13th.
Currently, I'm finishing 2 songs about Hawaii, another prelude (in D) and continuing to be haunted by some of my songs that I have written like "Columbine My Columbine, "Lunar Control Humans Out Of Control," but this is ok.
It is with pleasure that I write you as Mountain Apple Record Co. in Honolulu has forwarded one of my songs to IZ's family who is continuing to write music under his label.
Oh....it's so demanding, challenging, so pure being at ground zero to be able create something at my piano/computer. It takes so...so much broad based focused thought with involvment of every little detail that it truly streaches my imagination.
I cherish my copyrights, and B. Seger, Eminmen, D. Parton, Radiohead, Beastie Boys, etc. continue to send me e-mails.
Although I know I can write notes written on manuscript paper as easily as I write words I look forward to move forward in musical endeavors and I hope that Lisa Soong at M. A. Company has sent my faxed copyritten song to IZ's family with positive results as this is an avenue that "Beck" changing directtion and I would appreciate.
I am sorry as I am a composer, songwriter and sometime poet that deserves recognition without or with my awards.
It's only pure music that I write and please give me blessings as this isn't some Carribeann music, or rap that I'm writing but something different....songs that others like to listen to...and I will be remembered. Wish I had more friends but as you know I'm writing complete songs not just lyrics and this is challenging.
So...I know...write a rap song next?
No. I don't know! I have no idea who this person is or why they would write me. I can barely understand what they are saying!
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I've told myself I'm going to make a concerted effort to blog more, because I've neglected this blog for far too long on account of Twitter. The problem is that there is not much I can talk about. I am parting ways with Tribe.net on May 31st and there's a lot of complaining I could do but I can't really - those folks actually are saving Tribe and I'm quite happy someone did it. I am just so burned out on working at Tribe that I never want to be in the IT sector again.
I am replacing with things I cannot and do not want to talk about but I probably should to the extent that I can. I wrote the business plan for a company that got a $60,000 investment, and now all these kids (literally - 22 through 26, all four of them) are looking at me to form the company, open the bank accounts, etc. I'm going to keep working with them, but as they say this company is in "stealth mode". I am basically the CEO, CFO and CTO all rolled into one. The next 6 months of this is all trade shows, sales meetings, and trying to make the thing grow.
I cannot talk about the other venture at all. You'll just have to wait.
OK, that's a lame few paragraphs. At least I broke the 140 character barrier.
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I’ve had an interesting past that touches the heart of many conspiracy theories that everyone hears about. A lot of this comes about from knowing Ron Bonds, the man behind Atlanta’s IllumiNet Hotline BBS. Through Ron I found out about and befriended some of the most interesting people I have ever known. One of these people is a dearly departed friend and personal hero of mine, Kerry Thornley. The world knows him as Ho Chi Zen, one of the writers of the Principia Discordia. Of course, his life after writing this was much more interesting. Kerry was a true beatnik, a weirdo of the 50’s. He joined the Marines on a whim and ended up bunkmates with one Lee Harvey Oswald – a connection that would change Kerry’s life. Kerry was fascinated with Lee, and wrote a whole novel about him. When Kennedy was assasinated, Kerry got dragged up before the Warren Commission and his novel’s manuscript was confiscated. It was held until the early 90’s when Ron Bonds got some friends of mine to use the Freedom of Information Act to pry it out of the National Archives. Kerry was working as a dishwasher at the time, and living off welfare. He was a marxist to the core – he donated all of his writing income to charity and lived off the state. Of course the CIA was watching him too. This was my first introduction to the world of the conspiracy. I have always had more than a morbid fascination with them. A shadowy friend surfaced on Facebook this past week to let me know parts of the story that I perhaps did not know before, and how wrapped up I truly was in everything. Kerry inducted me into a weird thing he called the “Secret Order of Sacred Clowns”, doing things we’d never be able to get away with in the post 9/11 world. Pranks. Sometimes irresponsible pranks, like plastering the ghetto with flyers that said “TURN IN A GUN AT THE SUPER BOWL AND GET A FREE TICKET!!!”. This was all in keeping with things my friends did at DragonCon – they routinely made fake flyers for the “Christian Crusade to Stamp Out Science Fiction” and left them on the flyer tables to see what kind of irate letters they would get to their PO Box (this was before email even, well email for normal people). Kerry was truly a good person at heart though, and when he died of a blood clot in his leg, I missed him a lot. I still do. A friend of mine organized a convention called Phenomicon, and IllumiNet was deeply involved in it. This was a collection of these conspiracy freaks in about 1991 or so. Through Ron Bonds the convention pulled together folks such as William Cooper, one of the leading UFO conspiracy proponents of that time. There was also Jim Keith, the person who actually wrote the book that started the Black Helicopter craze, BLACK HELICOPTERS OVER AMERICA. All of the books put out by IllumiNet are insanely valuable these days due to either an insane coincidence, or a real conspiracy that proves maybe they were actually onto something. I knew about Kerry Thornley’s death. I didn’t know about the death of my friend Ron Bonds and every other author in the IllumiNet stable at ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME. Ron died when dining at a shithole Mexican place in Atlanta called El Azteca. Food poisoning, they say. First case of death by food poisoning in 29 years in Atlanta, they say. I can totally see food poisoning from El Azteca, but still. There has not been a case of food poisoning death in Atlanta since Ron Bonds died, either. Jim Keith died at Burning Man, when he fell off the stage and died from a BLOOD CLOT IN HIS LEG. Almost exactly what my friend Kerry died of. When I was told about this, I remembered Kerry’s paranoid ranting about the CIA creeping into his hospital room at night to inject things in his leg to make them clot up. William Cooper died at almost the same time when the local police tried to serve a warrant on him. Instead of going in uniform, the officers posed as citizens playing loud music near his property to get him to come out to them. As he attempted to move back to his house when they tried to arrest him, gunfire broke out and he was cut down. William Cooper was honorably discharged from the Navy and probably knew too much. At the time of his death, Bill wrote this document detailing what he knew: http://www.hourofthetime.com/majestyt.htmI knew all these people. I am genuinely surprised at the timing and suspicious nature of all of the deaths. There are more deaths that I did not know about as well. I know that the tapes from the BBS will be online soon, and that the full extent of how many people died around this time through strange circumstances will continue to grow. I know more than I am writing here, and I really don’t want to know it anymore. Honestly.
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