Mark Orton

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Industry Communications or Media
Occupation Freelance Television
Location Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Introduction This blog started life as an on-line commentary about my first foray into film-making.Since then it has become a repository for me to share my latest critiques, thoughts on cinema and music, experiences working in television and general musings on anything vaguely media related.
Interests Pop Culture, Rock Music, Literature, Cinema, Boutique Brewing, Motorcycles, The Guitar and Sport.
Favorite Movies Raging Bull, The Big Lebowski, Summer of Sam, Donnie Darko, Memento, The 400 Blows, Touch of Evil, Clockwork Orange, Jackie Brown, 24 Hour Party People, Blue Velvet, Exitenz, Eastern Promises
Favorite Music The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Cult, Supergrass, Pearl Jam, Ryan Adams, Queens of the Stone Age, The Stooges, PJ Harvey, Afghan Whigs, Monster Magnet, The JBs, Robert Johnson, Miles Davis, Lucinda Williams, Wilco, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Eels, Marilyn Manson, Mastodon, Uncle, The Gutter Twins
Favorite Books White Noise, Trainspotting, Last Orders, Naked Lunch, On the Road, Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung, Under the Banner of Heaven.