FAQ's

1. can you do a video for my band?

it depends. please contact me.

2. can you do a video for my band? by the way, we have no money. like none. seriously. we can maybe scrape together a few hundred bucks, but even that would be pushing it.

it depends. if i really like your band, and the people therein, and I have the time, then I will happily do a video for you your band for no, or very little money. however, there are many caveats:

• a. no I am not going to shoot on film. what do i look like? howard hughes? made of money? is that what you think?
• b. no I am not going to shoot on a high end HD digital camera. what, you think rental houses just give their expensive cameras away for anyone to use for whatever they want? you think that once it's in the camera no further expenses are going to be incurred? what do i look like? howard hughes? made of money? is that what you think?
• c. no I am not going to do a job that requires A LOT of art direction or a location that you have your heart set on that will require a lot of money. what do i look like? howard hughes? made of money? is that what you think?
• d. I am not going to do a job that requires the services of a large crew. they got families to feed and cars to put gas in. but what i will do, is to the best of my ability with no resources, try to make you the best video I can, even if it causes many hardships, such as spiritual despair, unbearable physical pain, and emotional genocide. an explanation: despite the never having made his acquaintance, i am longtime aficionado of steve albini. in high school, rather then cultivating experiences that could become fond memories that could be exploited for comfort later in life, i instead opted to obsessively listen to records (of which albini's big black played a portion), read novels whose inevitably bleak endings nicely reinforced my pessimistic worldview, and watching foreign films. as you can imagine, this type of behavior was not conducive to having a girlfriend at catholic school in rural northern california in the mid nineties. one of the things i admired about albini, in addition to his exemplary recording methods, was the way he went about charging his fees. if he loved a band and was friends with the members thereof, he would record their records for very little money, or maybe even free. however, if a band was on a bigger label, he would charge for his services accordingly. i attempt to have an analogous strategy to the lowly vocation of filmmaking. there is, of course, a major hurdle; mr. albini could take freely available equipment and record a comparable product, despite the difference in respective budgets. filmmaking doesn't work like that. there are many wonderful things that cleverness and careful planning can accomplish, but there are also other things that are impossible to accomplish without money. so, if you'd like me to do a music video for your band and you have no money and are on no label, or a tiny label that does not have the resources to pay for a video, feel free to contact me, and if i like the band, and if i have the time, i'll see what i can do.

3. hey, what are some of your favorite movies?

these are subject to change and are off the top of my head, with many unreasonable inclusions and idiotic exclusions:

The World's Greatest Sinner (Carey, 1962), L'Argent (Bresson, 1983), The Conformist (Bertolucci, 1970), The Haunting (Wise, 1963), Seconds (Frankenheimer, 1966), Modern Romance (Brooks, 1981), Gun Crazy (Lewis, 1949), Carnal Knowledge (Nichols, 1971), The Wild Bunch (Pekinpah, 1969), Sorcerer (Freidkin, 1977), Pierre and Staci (LeMemeire, 1952), Danger Diabolik (Bava, 1968), Badlands (Malick, 1973), Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955), I Kill, And I Die! (Lautar, 1942), R.O.T.O.R. (Blaine, 1989), Snitch'd (Cahill, 2003). The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel, 1962), My Way Home (Jansco, 1965), Sunrise (1927, Murnau), The Devil's Concubine (Nahill, 1947), Infra Man (Hua, 1975), Peeping Tom (Powell, 1960), Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi, 1953), Winchester '73 (Mann, 1963), Point Blank (Boorman, 1967), Uzumaki (Higuchinsky, 2000), Sonatine (Kitano, 1993), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 62)

4. hey, what are some of your favorite songs?

These are subject to change and this is off the top of my head, with many unreasonable inclusions and idiotic exclusions.

• THE KINKS strangers
• SOLGER raping dead nuns
• DRUNKS WITH GUNS wonderful subdivision
• MERCY BABY pleadin'
• BRAINBOMBS no place
• HARRY PUSSY the white improvisor
• THE NORMAL warm leatherette
• SPARKS achoo
• THE BIRTHDAY PARTY the friend catcher
• STICK MEN WITH RAY GUNS i'll kill mother
• ERNIE CHAFFIN i'm lonesome
• ROGER MILLER my uncle used to love me but she died
• COUNTRY TEASERS please ban music/gegen alles
• PUSSY GALORE kill yourself
• JODY REYNOLDS endless sleep
• THE SCIENTISTS human jukebox
• THE FALL muzorewi's daughter
• KALIEDSCOPE jenny artichoke
• REV. LONNIE FARRIS wandering child mother is dead
• SLADE gudbye t'jane
• ELECTRIC EELS refrigerator
• DANIELS-DEASON SACRED HARP SINGERS hallelujah
• DESPERATE BICYCLES smokescreen
• URINALS male masturbation
• CHROME electric chair
• ZOMBIES hung up on a dream
• LIARS there's always room on the broom
• FLIPPER sex bomb
• CAN turtles have short legs
• MARS helen fordsdale
• THE REBEL hitlers and churchills
• BIG STAR september gurls
• THEM my lonely sad eyes
• THE CRAMPS garbage man
• MARVIN RAINWATER my old hometown
• BEE GEES please please me
• SAM THE SHAM AND THE PHAROAHS i passed it by
• TROGGS our love will still be there
• YA HO WA 13 because
• THE TRONICS flip kot secreation

5. hey, what are some of your favorite books?

This is off the top of my head, subject to change, with ridiculous inclusions and unfortunate exclusions.

• 'Journey To The End Of The Night' Celine
• 'Hunger' Hamsun
• 'The Demon' Selby
• 'Abel Sanchez' Unamuno
• 'Nightmare Alley' Gresham
• 'The Night (Alone)' Melzter
• 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find' O'Conner
• 'The Haunting of Hill House' Jackson
• 'Excuses For Being A Jerk' Ayn Rand
• 'Dispatches' Herr
• anything by Charles Willeford.

7. hello, my name is ____ _____ and i

• a. enjoyed one or more of your videos
• b. would like to take the opportunity to thinly insult your videos while saying how much better mine are and cursing you for your limited success and did i mention that you should be thankful an artistic powerhouse like me is writing the likes of you?
• c. have obviously never seen your stuff, but i am going to pretend i have and continue with this lie for my own personal gain because i want something that you can possibly provide
• d. am a very pleasant individual that enjoys correspondence.
• e. like picking fights with strangers over the internet
• f. am obviously insane, or at least very, very unintelligent

i have

• a. been trying to be a director for a while, but it's tough out there in Hollywood
• b. really not been trying, but i like to pretend i have
• c. just moved out to LA
• d. just graduated from college
• e. been studying diligently in my school
• f. hate my school, it's like, bullshit y'know? these teachers don't know their asses from a room temperature melon

and I was wondering

• a. if you could possibly help me, I just have a few intelligent questions about things that you might be able to help me with, it would help me out a bunch
• b. can you answer every question I have, because the mere fact that you have a website and i believe, despite my lack of tact, discretion, or the understanding of the concept that other people's time besides my own is valuable, that I have the right to ask you anything no matter how inane, personal or easy the answer is to find anywhere else
• c. can you get me a job?
• d. can you get me an internship?
• e. can you look at my stuff?
• f. can i come by your set and just visit?

this question will be answered by monty's personal assistant/webmaster, hogarth.

mister buckles is a very busy man. he is intimately involved in all facets of the art & entertainment industries and his various endeavors are elegantly intertwined in the most hallowed of corridors in major academia. monty enjoys hearing from people and corresponding with them, and although he attempts to answer every email, he often looses interest half way through. monty would also love to help you in anyway he can, despite you being a total stranger, but monty's mental restroom is often occupied. in addition, monty's computer skills are very poor, he cannot figure out how to use a spam filter properly, no mater how slowly and patiently i explain it to him, and is deluged with inquiries into refinancing his non-existent home and offers from people in obscure countries to procure vast amounts of money with a minimal investment on his part. therefore, all casual correspondence goes through me, webmaster hogarth fiero. i will pass on all messages to mister buckles.

8. hey, didn't i illegally download a record you played on? or don't you write something that i never read? yeah man, that's like cool. y'know? [stares blankly off into space]

maybe, look here.

9. what is your contact information?

general inquiries: hogarthfiero AT earthlink DOT net
business inquiries: montybuckles AT earthlink DOT net



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