Well, here is the first one. I might just do one once a month seeing that things are slow.

What's new:

I added some short stories to the site and so photos. The photos were taken from my portfolio from when I was in highschool, might as well use them, right. I don't do much drawing now except when I story board for a film.

As far as the film career, it has been put on hold due to some money issues and location issues. But I will be back in production, I'm hoping, by the spring. I plan to shoot a short called 88 SECONDS AND COUNTING... It will be a non-narrative short, very experimental and very disturbing.

I have two other films: HIDE and THE NOISE.

HIDE was shot in 1995 when I was at The School of Visual Arts. It was made in 16 mm, color and the most proffesional I ever became on a film. I had pro actors and a great crew. It is about a guy named Roddy who, after hearing about his parents divorce, starts to doubt the security of his own relationship with his grilfriend Kathe, so... he turns to an old love that he recently rediscovers through the format of cable TV...sit-coms. He becomes addicted to them and basicly screws up his life. It is a love triangle kind of story. I wrote a feature lenght of it, too.

My more recent film, THE NOISE, was finished in 2001 and it was the first film I made with my wife Jeanine. There is something special abou that because I hadn't made a fil m in almost 5 years and was very depressed about it, but she helped me make it happen. It is about a young woman who is annoyed by a noise coming from the pipes in her apartment, but it is very methodical and turns out that there is someting in there. It is black and white and kind of creepy.

If any of you are interested in buying any copies I can burn them on a CD-R, but you have to make sure that your DVD player or computer can play them. They go for $5.00 plus $1.50 for shipping and handling. Just email MEOWNOW96@yahoo.com and let me know.

As far as novels: STEREO SCANCTITY will be out for the summer. As it gets closer I will upload a sample chapter and more details of the plot. The cover that is on the site is the actual cover I'm gonna use. So far a few close objective people read it and they gave me so positive response. I'm excited about it too and can't wait to get it out.

Okay, I've droned on and on here, get back to your life.

Later,

Mike Purfield