Paul F. Etcheverry
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Film Historian/Writer/Voice-Over Artist |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | I'm a writer and film historian who has programmed classic film events in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 30 years. These include the Pre-Code Follies at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum and the KFJC Psychotronix Film Festivals at Foothill College. |
| Interests | producing film shows and concerts, playing music, animated cartoons, singing, writing, comedy (films/TV), comedy (standup), jazz,"old guy rock", classic movies, psychotronic movies |
| Favorite movies | Citizen Kane, Amarcord, Vertigo, Singin' In The Rain, Band Wagon, Bad And The Beautiful, Looney Tunes, Fleischer cartoons, Hal Roach comedies |
| Favorite music | Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Mel Tormé, Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Brian Wilson, Arthur Lee, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, Sam Rivers, Eric Dolphy, Alex Chilton, Elvis Costello |
| Favorite books | Kovacsland: A Biography of Ernie Kovacs by Diana Rico, published by Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich in 1990 (ISBN 0-15-147294-7), Who The Devil Made It? by Peter Bogdanovich |
What did you dream when you ate a spider while sleeping?
Some cross between Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and the 1935 Looney Tune cartoon, "Buddy's Bug Hunt"