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I am an independent filmmaker most notable for my work as a director, producer, and art director. I am based in Tacoma, WA.
My credits include The Shunned House (2008), Hot Grits (2008), Merrily, Merrily (2012), and The Small Stuff (2013). Productions I've worked on have won several regional and national awards and have screened in Europe and North America. My work as a video editor was nominated for a NATAS Emmy for Best Long-Form Documentary in Beyond Burkas and Bombers (2013).
Currently, I am in post-production for my feature length documentary Namibia Nine, which will premiere in February 2015 at the Karen Hille Phillips Theatre at Pacific Lutheran University.
Visual Media Professional with 5 years Non-Profit Experience. Decisive Independent Film Producer and Director. Creative Organizer. Undergraduate Sociologist with an Interest in Merging Research with Media Production. Emmy-Nominated Video Editor. Passionate Social Justice Advocate.
Administrate social media presence of the district
Write press releases and for-web stories regarding news within the district
Interface with major media outlets in a sensitive, effective manner while honoring state and federal regulations regarding release of student information
Conceptualize, produce, and distribute video for internal and promotional usage
Strategize communication campaigns for maximum engagement of constituents
Support development and fundraising departments through membership services and being the first point of contact for listeners.
Assist Dr. Lauri McCloud in content analysis of reality TV through review of existing literature and transcription.
Develop coding sheets and conduct personal research for presentation and publication.
Write curricula and teach production process classes as well as provide ongoing mentorship to producers
Maintain, check in, and check out equipment to content producers
Produce PSAs, promos, station IDs and monthly content for channel
Assisted in the encoding, transcoding, and programming of 4 channels
Assistant editor, videographer in emmy-award winning student run organization at Pacific Lutheran University.
Create PR materials for local businesses and non-profit organizations.
Work on original, student documentaries in all aspects of production.
Respond to regular and emergency dispatch calls for work
Work in a team doing light electrical, stagehand and A/V set up work for conferences, theatrical performances, and concerts.
Made near-daily video and social media content for parents
Wrote the weekly newsletter, took still photos, and created an end of camp fundraising video.
Wrote, cast, directed and produced short projects with respect to schedule and investors' requests
Tackled budget concerns, kept financial records, secured venues and screening locations
Worked as set designer, grip, stage hand, light/sound, and editor
Engineered and operated video equipment during productions in the studio and in the field
Provided technical and general support, training, and mentoring to members of the community
Co-produced monthly magazine show, SCAN 365, as well as PSAs, promos, interstitials and other content.
Encoded/transcoded content for air and programmed channel
Developed and conceptualized episode ideas for Internet comedy series
Cooperated in a group to achieve episodes by the deadline
It is hard to pull together all the details of a human.
I think it is particularly difficult now, with the necessity of having an image – a cultivated self online. It seems as though we have all become so impatient that we cannot fathom having more details than "what do you do?" or "where do you live?" Even our pastimes must be fashionable and on point.
So, while I spent the last hour culling posts and images in order to project a "professional" image online, I must ask myself what cost I pay for it. I am loathe to admit the demand that we compartmentalize ourselves in this way. I think this might be why checking in at a bar or taking risque selfies is so taboo when we're laid bare this way.
Here you go – have all of me.
my pain is a bureaucracy
heard for value
and likelihood
decisions are made
in board rooms and leather chairs
the outcome of your theft
is never known
we turn between
a compromise
or demand
to make whole relief
from damage done
the sickly sweetness
I cannot know
the depth of you
like this
I can recall
the curt, "its fine"
my mother taught so well
I know the chasms of this heartache
the burning of a sneer
I know this victim well
demanding the acres of regard
for inches of progress
you seem to beg me
to make you whole
but there were pieces ripped away
like so many love letters
like so much shrapnel
I cannot repair
the wreckage
or be wrecked
you will return to your life
no damage done
I'll be to blame for you
and I will blame
I am feeling the need to archive my poetry. Hey, it ain't bad. Maybe someone might want to read it someday. I know one day I would miss it if any myriad of my social media sites went down forevermore, leaving me with no record of the love that has come before – no solace to wrap myself in on nights alone.
A bottle of wine can only go so far.
It is a tricky accord we creative types have with the internet and the media conglomerate intermediaries that facilitate our use of it. Sometimes I don't even know why we continue with it. But I do know – laziness, ease, anonymity. That early 2000s teenage reminiscence of being in a dark room, with only the light of the CRT monitor to light our way to enlightenment or new (and undiscovered) friends.
Let me tell you a little bit about what I'm thinking right now.
Sometimes I do this thing, where I berate myself for whatever I am doing, or not doing. I tell myself things like:
Oh, you're making a documentary film. You're not creative enough to come up with an original fiction.
Oh, you're making a narrative fiction. That is so passe, so run of the mill – you're not organized enough to pull off a documentary.
This style of writing is far too casual; it lacks flourish and romance.
Jesus – you're so "flowery". What about the real shit that matters. Activism. Critiquing the system, man.
I just took a sip of my drink, and I'm going to take a cue from my friend Lord Edmund who likes to imagine he's sharing a cocktail with his audience. "Dear Reader," he says, as he leans into each thoughtful and insightful missive. Each one just as endearing and ridiculous as the last. And we love him for keeping us utterly enthralled.
So, this is how I might begin to be less of a hyper self-critical writer. I will sit down with a glass of wine and talk to you.
As if you were a dear friend.
As if you were a non-threatening stranger.
As if you were a lover.
As if we were anonymous, clutching on to one another – in this, our time of dire, unreserved intimacy.
I want to close the inches
of the space in this divide
to chew the hollow of a soul,
test the mettle of your mind;
to breathe you,
hot and humid
through a solitary breath
to walk across hot coals,
rob a bank,
and to cheat death
I want to know the chasm,
to break apart when asked,
to fight against your arms,
your hands,
to be up to that task
In moonlight we are violent
we are brash
we are sharp
I need to know your mildness
taste your subtle,
unknown heart
It's a stolen trepidation
eagerly commenced
down the curve of a rib
[flash frame]
the small of a back
ready one, take -
swimming eyes
hungry on the assembly line
needing just a place to rest
before another launch
you are counting
against intimacies
stay cautious
in the condenser cage of your mouth
you let yourself
you doubt yourself
grown confident
under lights
you let dead air in
just like every other
congratulatory drivel
I've ever read you into
I am momentarily amused
unavoidably disappointed
give me all
of your violence
blood and guts
your TV voice
we grind angrily
to denouement
I am gas-lighted
this complex rage
"quiet down
you are just
imagining things"
I am an extinguisher
as I float in the room on teetering heels
the laughter softens
because I am
far too delicate
and also
I am the joke
I am pilot-lit
just waiting for
a reason
to engulf
I am arson
painted in gasoline
carrying a match
after all,
I was asking for it.
I am wholeheartedly opposed to mandatory meditation.
No, it really is a thing.
This has happened to me twice in the last year, with the sudden realization that oh, I guess we're meditating now? Okay? And there is nothing I can do to stop it (and Jeebus help me if I argue about it).
I tend to regard these instances the same way I do when reciting the Pledge of Alliegiance is called for, or you know, being at a religious person's dinner table while not sharing the same beliefs. I keep my eyes downcast, I observe the moment respectfully, it's over, and I move on. There is no need for a discussion afterward. It is generally accepted that should one not share the same beliefs, one remains respectful through non-disruptive silence.
Instead, I am accosted with meditation. I am argued with for my distaste for it. Mandatory meditation? What exactly is "centering" or "relaxing" about that? Yes, I do feeeel I am in the room. Yes, I am aware of my body. I sense my feet rooted in the ground – you know what, it does feel like being a tree, come to think of it! Thanks for asking.
My discomfort with guided breathing exercises, closing my eyes, and imagining a rain forest in a room full of people I don't know is often seen as me being intolerant (rather than the truth being that I'm patently unprepared and anxious about such a personal activity) or being "uptight" and not "in tune" with myself. People like me, the list-making-coffee-drinking-speedy-walking-non-meditating-non-spiritual are taken as robotic, "type-A", unemotional, judgmental, reserved, unbending and terminally cynical.
I am finding, much to my chagrin, that many of the people I have met that have explicitly referred to themselves as "heart-centered" are some of the most intolerant, self-righteous, manipulative people I have ever met.
Often, a conversation (one-sided), goes like this:
"So, I don't think I need to go to therapy anymore because I just feel really grounded lately, you know? I really feeeeeeeel like I had this very you know, really centering conversation with my yoga instructor yesterday. Really feeling my breath and my body, it just connects me. I think we spend a lot of time disconnected from our souls, you know? We really felt through and really explored some of those feelings, and I feel like I'm moving outward, and like, beside my pain. Wow, this yerba mate is really delicious."
You know, people are going to like what they like. I understand this. I do hope that my ignorance of this lifestyle is not something that could be construed as disapproval or disgust. On the contrary, we probably believe (oh, I'm sorry – feeeeel) many of the same things. My disenchantment comes from the talking points about love and tolerance, all the while dismissing and demonizing others' opinions as stupid or worse, "unenlightened".
The ironing is delicious.


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Here's a quick quiz for you: What does Jack Frost look like? Young or old? I confess I've never had a mental image of Jack. In fact, until seeing "Rise of the Guardians," I never gave him any thought at all. The kids around me at a preview screening seemed more expert, perhaps because they know the inspiration for the film, William Joyce's book series, "Guardians of Childhood."
In those books, unread by me, Joyce imagines a loosely knit Avengers-style federation of the guardians of childhood. Most of them are famous: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman and so on. Jack Frost's reputation suffers sadly in comparison. Voiced in the film by Chris Pine, he finds himself literally invisible. When he visits Earth, people are able to walk right through him. Since he is a spritely boy, he finds this depressing, although many kids have probably felt the same way.
Why is this so? The Man in the Moon never explained it to him. The Man in the Moon functions in the story as sort of a symbolic nature god, who never does anything but shine enigmatically in the sky.
This is a hyperkinetic 3-D action comedy, with the characters forever racing on Santa's sleigh, hurtling down chutes and zooming through tunnels that rework the same 3-D illusions over and over again. The characters aren't all referred to by what we might call their Earth names, and we get such as North, a broad-shouldered Santa (voice of Alec Baldwin); Tooth, the fairy (Isla Fisher), and Bunny (Hugh Jackman).
There's also a villain, called Pitch by others and sometimes resentfully the Boogie Man by himself. This dastardly fiend (voice of Jude Law) is envisioned as all darkness, teeth and claws, determined to put the Guardians out of business. In this moment of crisis, the team calls on Jack Frost to lead their resistance, and in the process, he inevitably redeems himself, becomes visible and achieves a personal victory. Now we know what he looks like. I was reminded of Peter Pan, although he isn't green.
There's an audience for this film. It's not me. I gather younger children will like the breakneck action, the magical ability to fly and the young hero who has tired of only being a name. Their parents and older siblings may find the 89-minute running time quite long enough.
Still, let it be said that director Peter Ramsey and his art team have created a crisp, colorful fantasy world, sharper-edged than many feature-length children's cartoons. Especially fetching: The Tooth's countless followers, called "Baby Teeth"; Bunny's ranks upon ranks of Easter eggs and Pitch's scary manifestations. I thought by the end of the picture, Pitch had earned some sort of redemption, but I guess he goes back to wherever Pitches come from.
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The U.S. has launched an investigation of the rating agency, and municipalities are shunning it
Apparently, it isn't so fun to get downgraded. Earlier this month, Standard and Poor's downgraded the U.S., which caused a domino effect and pushed down the ratings of bonds issued by other entities implicitly guaranteed by the U.S like some municipalities. The retaliation appears to have begun.
This week, we're learning that some of those local governments are dropping the agency from the group it pays to rate its debt. Meanwhile, the U.S. Justice Department is reportedly investigating S&P for its mortgage bond rating mistakes. Yet S&P rejected a proposal that would have changed the ratings market framework in a way that might have prevented bond issuer retaliation. The agency may only have itself to blame for its situation.
The U.S. Investigation
Let's start with the news. It certainly may seem convenient that the U.S. is now investigating S&P for its poorly conceived ratings on mortgage-backed securities during the housing bubble. While there's little doubt that the agency erred in handing out strong ratings to so many weak deals, should we question the U.S.'s motives here? Is it just looking for revenge after the agency downgraded the nation's debt?
Perhaps, but according to the New York Times, the investigation began before S&P downgraded the U.S. -- but how long before? Remember S&P got the rating agency outrage ball rolling back in April. It was the first to question rising political risk in the U.S. as it revised the nation's debt outlook to negative. Moody's and Fitch followed with their own warnings, of course.
Even if this investigation was started before any of this downgraded business began, it is now hopelessly compromised. To the extent that those who have influence in Washington can push the Justice Department to go harder on S&P, they probably will. It's also worth noting that the other rating agencies -- which made just as terrible mistakes as S&P during the housing bubble -- are not known to be targets of similar investigations.
Municipalities Drop S&P
Some municipalities are clearly and directly retaliating against their downgrades stemming from the U.S. rating change. Los Angeles, for example, has dropped S&P from the group of agencies that rate its bonds. So have two other counties, with others considering similar moves. This will mean lost income for S&P, but the agency should have anticipated such potential consequences to its contrarian stance going in.
Lost Credibility With Other Issuers and Investors?
The bigger question for S&P's future prospects is whether or not the U.S. downgrade will have broader, lasting negative effects on its business. Losing fees from a handful of municipalities isn't going to break the firm. But if other issuers worry that S&P is becoming overly conservative in its rating approach, then they might also choose to turn to other agencies instead. We'll have to wait to see.
Investors' reaction has been somewhat mixed. After the U.S. was downgraded, Treasury yields dropped, which means that investors were willing to pay even more money for Treasuries. This is precisely the opposite of what would have occurred if investors had abandoned U.S. bonds due to the risk that S&P's downgrade attempted to highlight. Yet reports indicate that municipal bonds were affected more adversely.
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Evening Folks,
Late upload from me today. Just done a 14hr shift and still smiling. (don't you hate smug people who love their job?)
Take it easy & thanks for looking.
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Great image, the detail beneath the water is very nice. Angi
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Beautiful tones and light.
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Thanks Andy, Angi, Rod, Andrew and Sues. Rod, you have to walk (or slide) past Sheldrakes to get to this point. It's all a bit squigy down there.
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Really Nice - You have a slight fall off to the left on the horizon line and this is further compounded by the Post in the water. A slight clockwise rotation could solve these issues.
I think you could also lift the highlights on the beach just a little to create a little more reflective depth in this area.
Nice shot all the same, but I feel these correction would be needed if you printed it A3 or A2.
Cheers - Andy
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lovely shot
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A real cracking image this, Mand...super colours, and love the patterning in the foreground.
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Not Buying It - Snowden Puts New Spin On Old NewsSubmitted by JoeDanger on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 18:09
If you didn't know that Edward Snowden is a fabrication by now, all I have to offer you is this…
Glenn Beck
I think I have just read about the man for which I have waited. Earmarks of a real hero. http://t.co/H63dlBdX2d
He was waiting all this time for a high school and community college drop-out who exaggerates his income and his military record and tells us nothing we haven't been hearing since 2006? Is this Broke-back Mountain?
He's a hero to the Glenn Beck clans and a hero to the Ray McGovern set… a hero on Huffington Post and a hero Reddit.
He's a hero for hanging out in a high dollar hotel up the road from Hong Kong's CIA offices and telling Glenn Greenwald nothing that hasn't already been told to us by real whistle-blowers who live right here in the U.S. and you can talk to every day.
Oh wait… according to the Huffington Post, Snowden dropped another "big bombshell" leak on the world today!
Edward Snowden Drops More Bombshells
The Post reported that Snowden said that the U.S. government "had been hacking into computers in Hong Kong and [in China] for years."
Lam also reported:
"Snowden said that according to unverified documents seen by the Post, the NSA had been hacking computers in Hong Kong and on the mainland since 2009. None of the documents revealed any information about Chinese military systems, he said … Snowden believed there had been more than 61,000 NSA hacking operations globally, with hundreds of targets in Hong Kong and on the mainland." Huffington Post
Did you guys know the NSA and the CIA have been hacking China and other countries? Wow. Now that's news! He must be legi…
Oh wait, no it isn't…
At the Jamestown Foundation on the afternoon of Feb. 28, Hayden delivered a speech titled "China and the Cyber Challenge." On that day, the Chinese military accused foreign hackers of an average of 144,000 attacks on China's two military networks per month last year, and 62.9 percent of those attacks were from the U.S. A China Review News reporter asked Hayden if he believes these two nations are engaged in media warfare over some mere cyber issues or has cyber warfare really occurred between them, and how to respond to this kind of challenge.
Hayden replied that the media likes to take unpleasant things that happen on the Internet and call them "cyber attacks" or "cyber warfare." This is inaccurate, misleading and sensationalized. He said he has personally always used the term "cyber espionage." In no way should the behavior of spies be classified as "attacks" when this is a typical state activity. China Review News March 2, 2013
So former CIA Director Michael Hayden said he likes to call the attacks something else, but… yeah, he admitted the U.S. intelligence agencies have been hacking China.
But he is so heroic… I mean he gave up that $200,000 a year job in paradise where he never got a tan and left his whacked out "pole dancing super hero" girlfriend with no thought for himself..
AND he knows all the 10 year-old catch-phrases to use in order to buy himself credibility in the alternative movements …
"I will never feel safe," he said. "Things are very difficult for me in all terms, but speaking truth to power is never without risk." Huffington Post
"Speaking truth to power" Yep, everything else seems as sleazy and manufactured as a Christmas Fleshlight in a trailer park, but when he said "speaking truth to power" that did it for me. He has to be legit.
Now I see why someone as legit as Glenn Beck can't quit him.
It's Only News When it Becomes Common Knowledge.
Edward Snowden sacrificed himself to expose ongoing excessive Federal Government criminality. The government is vacuuming up and storing private communication data on every American citizen. How is that not criminal activity when it violates the supreme law of the land?
Joe, I got as far as GB...
Didn't need to read Glenn Beck either.
"Give a man a gun, and he could rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he could rob the world."
It's telling that lawmakers and the MSM demonizes snowden
It's telling that lawmakers and the MSM demonizes snowden
the tell... is that snowden is not a plant or plan or whatever otherwise the narrative wouldn't be damage control.(at least in regards to snowden's character)
but still, the sheer fact the MSM is reporting on it means one of 2 things... they are losing the infowar and this is damage control(which i think is what's going on)
or 2. the snowden leak wasn't planned but is being used to push some other, more shady, issues
Tools of war are not always obvious. The worst weapon is an idea planted in the mind of man. Prejudices can kill, suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has an everlasting fallout all of its own.
All good questions
Question everything, even Edward Snowden... if Glenn Beck is reporting on it, be wary.
Is Snowden real or not, and either way, what is the MSM pushing... you know they have their earpieces in, taking orders, to hide things, and promote other things.
I could buy it except for one thing that is the big test for me-
CNN has been trying everything it can to divert attention away from it. They spent a whole day covering the riots in Turkey when the Snowden story was the biggest story out there. They are trying to downplay it by moving less talked about stories to the top lead.
Why isn't NSA letting Snowdon
Why isn't NSA letting Snowden go free since he hasn't leaked anything new. Also, just because it is old news doesn't mean it is right. Why wan't dropping out of high school a problem when he was hired, but a big issue when he leaked? Anyway, this isn't about Snowden leaking. It is about NSA spying illegally.
The government
Must have retarded monkeys running the show if they're deliberately bringing this to the public.
By your logic we should expect them to provide documents of select individuals they've been tracking just to show the extent of their surveillance. That'll really show us who's boss...
Yes, you're right that this is old news, but is it popular news? No.
Lets look at this logically.
1. The majority watch the MSM
2. The MSM rarely mentions this topic or whistleblowers
It's only old news for people who actually care to find it.
It is old news.
But most people haven't been paying attention. For whatever reason, this has gotten their attention. I see no down side. I see no way that this helps the PTB. If this is some kind of psy-op, I'd say it's backfired.
"Alas! I believe in the virtue of birds. And it only takes a feather for me to die laughing."
My 2 cents Joe,
If what he said/revealed was "old news" half the politicians and cable news media in America wouldn't be puckered, pissed, and calling for his head.
There must be something there.
I get you
But there seems to be a pattern developing...whereby every time there's a scandal, the media brushes it off the front page with another scandal.
Why wasn't this promoted? https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eaTv...
It just FEELS manufactured.
I think it's possible they're going to use this to stage a big false flag and blame "the internet". They work in stages, they set the stage with one "event", then build off that with another.
We've should all know this.
"If this mischievous financial policy [greenbacks], which has its origin in North America, should become endurated down to a fixture, then that government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without debts. It will hav
It's not a pattern....
Damage control has become an art form to these people. They turn the most damning evidence into good sound reasoning to continue. Its absurd but there it is... at every turn.
Maybe there is a silver lining.... in order to become good at something you have to do it a lot. As good as they are at damage control, its just that. Even when controlling damage, your just controlling it (your still taking some damage) and they are doing damage control more and more. The damage they cant control is credibility and credibility is being lost day by day. Most importantly, credibility is their trump card. We (people who question things and smell the problems even if we can see them) are looking less like the kooks every time they cover up. People who used to think, "man, they would never do that" now say "yea maybe they would". There is a tipping point, they are afraid of that tipping point and with this release we get a lot closer.
"A cynic is someone 'who knows the price of everything
but the value of nothing'" -- Oscar Wilde
Skepticism is one thing,
Skepticism is one thing, being fucking clueless is another.
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be. Albert Einstein
The Liberty movement, which I have enthusiastically been a part of for the last 7 years, is so desperate for a hero, they'll forget all past betrayals (Beck, Jones, etc) and lap up whatever is fed them.
I understand the reason for this, but it still makes me sad. Skeptism is healthy, especially when we're all aware of what the ruling class and their minions are capable of pulling off.
"If this mischievous financial policy [greenbacks], which has its origin in North America, should become endurated down to a fixture, then that government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without debts. It will hav
but remember that this is coming to light through Glenn Greenwald. He does very good work and, judging from afar, he's about the only one I see who has a shed of credibility in this. Also, it's not the only evidence of this going on.
has been good in the past, but how do we know he's not being played in this as well? Don't forget, he's making money, and he's never offered any "leaks" regarding 9/11.
All I'm saying that that we should approach this event as critical thinkers, and not blindly devoted sycophants.
"If this mischievous financial policy [greenbacks], which has its origin in North America, should become endurated down to a fixture, then that government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without debts. It will hav
Greenwald Quit A Constitutional Law Career
To become a columnist writing on civil liberties.
He has proven himself to care about things much more important than money.
"Bipartisan: both parties acting in concert to put both of their hands in your pocket."-Rothbard
he seems
a bit too smart to be a sucker, plus he said they have been getting ready for this for awhile and he's gone over lots of the documents, supposedly. I think it would be hard for him to be duped all the way along by snowden. He could be full of it though for other reasons. I remember reading in the Mitrokhin Archive that the Guardian once had KGB plants working there in the past before they were exposed. It could be some disinformation stuff, but I have a feeling it's not. Watch him speak. He's driven by the content. You watch politicians speak and you can tell they have something else going on in there heads. Greenwald is hitting this story only. If he's duped, it would have to be because someone is exploiting his passion for this. That's my opinion anyway.


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A Spokane man arrested on Ecstasy and firearm charges after telling a federal informant that he would "shoot it out with the cops" is headed to prison.
Patrick Hayes Wellman, 20, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to to 5 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to distribution of Ecstasy and use or carry of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. He'll be on probation for three years after his release.
The DEA began investigating Wellman in March after a confidential informant told them Wellman sold large quantities of Ecstasy and repeatedly said he could obtain as many pills as he wished.
The informant was to buy 100 pills from Wellman for $450. During a recorded conversation, Wellman boasted to the informant of stealing firearms; when the informant asked what he would do if stopped by police, Wellman responded "Well, I'm not going to go down easy. I'm going to shoot it out with the cops," according to court testimony.
Police arrested block Wellman's car during a traffic stop and found a loaded .44 revolver in the car after his arrest.
Wellman's friends, Jeramy Michael Allen, then 18, and Vonne A. Renkert-Schafer, then 20, were arrested for retaliating against the informant in Wellman's case. Allen has pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony and Renkert-Schafer has pleaded guilty to retaliating against an informant. Both are out of custody awaiting sentencing.
Wellman's lawyer, Bevan Maxey, said in court documents that Wellman has no previous criminal history and is not associated with gangs or organized crime. Wellman hopes to complete drug treatment program and has the skills to earn an honest living after prison, Maxey wrote.
Now that his federal case is resolved, Wellman is due in Superior Court today on gun and theft charges for a burglary ring in Spokane County.
Two cousins arrested with 159 pounds of Ecstasy near the United States-Canadian border were caught after a remote sensing device alerted authorities to their location.
Christopher Sidney Stocken, 31, and Joshua John Bird, 23, had five backpacks filled with Ecstasy pills June 10 when a border patrol agent used a night vision device to spot them emerging from brush near Stecker Road and U.S. Highway 395
A grand jury indicted the men Tuesday for conspiracy to import Ecstasy, importation of Ecstasy and possession with intent to deliver Ecstasy. Each charge carries a maximum 20 years in prison and three years probation.
The men are being held without bail at the Spokane County Jail.
According toa newly unsealed affidavit, the suspects told border patrol agents they were at a party in Kelowna, B.C., when two unidentified individuals forced them to take the bags to the border "because they owed someone money for being at the party and if they did not do this they would be killed." Stocken and Bird said they were to drop the bags off at a predetermined location in the U.S. and return to Canada.
The men stuck with the blackmail story until Stocken told investigators the next day that they were neither coerced nor forced into smuggling the Ecstasy, rather they had agreed to transport the backpacks "to make quick easy money," according to the affidavit.
Stocken said he had asked Bird to help.
"Stocken indicated he wanted to help out his cousin as he felt responsible for them getting caught," according to the affidavit.
Two men from Canada arrested with 159 pounds of Ecstasy near the United States border will stay in the Spokane County Jail without bail, a judge ruled today.
Christopher S. Stocken, 31, and Joshua J. Bird, 23, who are cousins and members of the Little Black Bear tribe, don't have a stable release plan to ensure their presence in court, U.S. Magistrate Cynthia Imbrogno said.
Family members traveled from Regina, Saskatchewan, for the hearing in U.S. District Court in Spokane this morning.
Stocken is unemployed but works seasonal odd jobs, his lawyer said. He has a warrant in Canada related to a drunken driving conviction, and Bird also has a drunken driving conviction. But neither man has any criminal history that indicated they're a risk to the community, lawyers said.
Imbrogno noted the seriousness of the charges when granting the U.S. Attorney's Office's motions to detain Stocken and Bird.
The suspects, who have not yet been indicted, face charges of possession with intent to distribute Ecstasy and importation of Ecstasy.
Border patrol agents found the men with five backpacks after they crossed into the country illegally from Canada on Friday. Investigators estimate the Ecstasy tablets to be worth $4.5 million.
Two Canadian men were arrested near the United States border with 159 pounds of Ecstasy, authorities said today.
Christopher S. Stocken, 31, and Joshua J. Bird, 23, appeared in U.S. District Court in Spokane this afternoon to hear their charges.
The suspects were booked into the Spokane County Jail Saturday about 3 p.m. after being arrested in the Colville area, the U.S. Border Patrol confirmed.
They face charges of possession with intent to distribute Ecstasy and importation of Ecstasy. A hearing to determine if they can be released from jail on bail is scheduled for Thursday.
Border patrol agents found the men with five backpacks after they crossed into the country illegally from Canada. Agents arrested Stocken and Bird as they tried to hide in the brush near a trail just south of the border. Investigators estimate the Ecstasy tablets to be worth $4.5 million.
"This seizure is a direct result of the valuable work executed daily by our highly skilled Border Patrol agents," Spokane Border Patrol Sector Chief Gloria Chavez said in a prepared statement. "Our CBP "state of the art" technology is a critical asset on the Northern border and played a pivotal role in the discovery, interdiction and seizure of this illicit contraband and the suspected perpetrators".
Ecstasy and marijuana are often smuggled into the United States from Canada in exchange for cocaine. Last October, border agents found 310 pounds of Ecstasy worth more than $9.3 million near Curlew. No arrests have been made in that case.
A 19-year-old Spokane man is in custody after a federal drug informant recorded him discussing how he'd stolen firearms and would "shoot it out with the cops" if he was approached.
Patrick Hayes Wellman was arrested on Friday just yards from Glover Middle School and within 1,000 feet of Shadle Park High School, where he attended, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Earl Hicks.
He appeared in U.S. District Court on Wednesday and is being held without bail at the Spokane County Jail.
Investigators found hundreds of Ecstasy tablets in a safe at Wellman's apartment at 221 S. Adams in Spokane Valley, as well as marijuana on a coffee table and several bongs that "all smelled pretty bad," Drug Enforcement Administration agent Sam Keiser testified on Wednesday.
The DEA began investigating Wellman after a confidential informant told them Friday that Wellman sold large quantities of Ecstasy and repeatably said he could obtain as many pills as he wished.
The informant was to buy 100 pills from Wellman for $450. During a recorded conversation, Wellman allegedly boasted to the informant of stealing firearms; when the informant asked what he would do if stopped by police, Wellman responded "Well, I'm not going to go down easy. I'm going to shoot it out with the cops," Keiser testified.
That comment led police to initiated a traffic stop after tailing Wellman as he drove in Spokane last Friday. Five police vehicles blocked Wellman's car, and he was arrested without incident, Keiser said. He had a loaded .44 revolver in the car, Keiser said.
Wellman called his girlfriend from jail and told her a possible name of the informant, then asked her to inform two of his friends. The informant told the DEA he received a message from an unknown number saying "We know you're a snitch. You're dead."
Asked by Wellman's public defender if the informant, who was previously arrested on drug charge, won't face criminal charges because of his cooperation, Keiser said, "if it's enough to warrant that, then yes."
Wellman faces federal charges of possession with intent to distribute Ecstasy and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime. He's also charged in Spokane County Superior Court with residential burglary, first-degree theft, second-degree car theft, and six counts of theft of a firearm.
A Canadian gangster who authorities say is responsible for major drug distributions in Eastern Washington faces eight years in prison under a plea agreement signed recently in Spokane.
Joseph P. Curry, an associate of imprisoned B.C. drug lord Clay Roueche, pleaded guilty Thursday to importation of Ecstasy, which carries a maximum 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors and Curry's lawyer, Chris Phelps, have agreed to recommend a 102-month sentence and three years probation at his sentencing May 5.
According to the plea agreement filed Thursday, Curry made an emergency landing in a small Cessna plane about 35 miles from the Canadian border in Okanogan County on Aug. 10, 2007.
Federal agents found three duffel bags containing 30 kilograms of Ecstasy nearby. Curry's lawyer called authorities on Aug. 13, 2007, and asked for the plane back, saying his client had experienced engine problems and bad weather. A grand jury indicted Curry the next month.
Curry was named as as a suspect in the Operation Blade Runner federal drug bust that included arrests in Eastern Washington and North Idaho and led to the suicide of young helicopter pilot Samuel Lindsay-Brown int he Spokane County Jail.
After Lindsay-Brown's suicide, another young Canadian man was arrested near Priest Lake with a helicopter filled with marijuana. The helicopter belonged to a friend of Curry's, and authorities believe Curry helped load the aircraft in Canada, according to court documents.
Curry is an associate of the United Nations gang in Vancouver, B.C.
Roueche, the gang leader, was sentenced to 30 years in prison last December. Prosecutors said he ran a drug ring that used a network of helicopters, planes, semi-trucks and other methods to move tons of marijuana and cocaine and millions of dollars through Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.
Curry and Roueche were photographed together (see left) at the funeral of a UN gang member who was killed in a drug-related shooting in Canada, according to federal court documents.
Federal agents believe a smaller drug ring was headed by four Canadian men, one of whom offered to cooperate if investigators let him continue his operation for a decade.
Two men arrested on assault charges last summer were arrested again early today after a traffic stop for vehicle equipment violations led to the discovery of cocaine, Ecstasy, marijuana and misdemeanor warrants.
John Paul Ledoux, 21, and Cousteau C. Wright, 22, were arrested after Spokane Valley police Officer Justin Elliot stopped a Chevrolet Malibu in which they were passengers about 1:30 a.m. on East Sprague Avenue.
The Malibu was missing its rear bumper and had an inoperative license plate light, police said. The driver and two other passengers weren't arrested, but Ledoux was taken into custody on a warrant for malicious mischief. Police found two small baggies of cocaine in his pockets, according to a news release.
Wright was arrested on a warrant for driving while license suspended. Police found a zippered pouch with a glass marijuana pipe, cocaine, and five Ecstasy tablets that the other occupants said belonged to Wight.
Both Ledoux and Wright were booked into jail on new drug charges.
Both men are scheduled for trial next month on first-degree assault charges for a June 21 incident in which a man was stabbed in the shoulder and a teen girl was hit in the neck with the handle of a hammer.
Federal drug agents are trying to find the owner of more than 310 pounds of Ecstasy seized near Curlew this month.
A resident tipped the U.S. Border Patrol to several backpacks filled with pills hidden under brush along a trail near the Canadian border Oct. 18.
Border Patrol dogs found two other backpacks of the drug in what federal agents described as a record Ecstasy seizure along Washington's northern border, according to a news release.
Authorities estimate the value of the drugs to be $9.3 million.
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Crowder's First Baptist Church in West remains blocked off as investigators work on the scene of Wednesday's blast that killed at least 14 people and injured 200. So about 100 people sat in white folding chairs Sunday morning, while others carried their own.
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Mr. Brooks (2007)
Critics Consensus: The setup is intriguing, but Mr. Brooks overstuffs itself with twists and subplots, becoming more preposterous as it goes along.
Critics Consensus: The setup is intriguing, but Mr. Brooks overstuffs itself with twists and subplots, becoming more preposterous as it goes along.
Movie Info
A hardened detective enters into a tenuous symbiotic relationship with the vicious serial killer she is tracking after earning the respect of the murderous madman in this vicious psychological thriller starring Demi Moore, Kevin Costner, and William Hurt. Earl Brooks (Costner) is a successful businessman, noted philanthropist, and loving father. He's the kind of man whom no one would ever suspect of being a notorious serial killer, but then again history's most dubious psychopaths are often the quiet neighbor whom no one would ever suspect was capable of committing such unspeakable atrocities. Until now, no one has had any reason to link Earl Brooks with the heinous crimes of the dreaded Thumbprint Killer. Even his beautiful wife (Marg Helgenbeger) and teenage daughter (Danielle Panabaker) could never conceive of such an awful truth. But when Mr. Brooks's dark side begins to outshine his sane exterior, an amateur photographer (Dane Cook) captures the killer succumbing to his murderous instinct on film. Now, as Mr. Brooks is pursued by tenacious detective Tracy Atwood (Moore) and forced to bend to the will of an opportunistic bystander, the killer who was once able to keep his murderous alter ego (Hurt) in check finds his control steadily slipping. … More
- Rating:
- R (for strong bloody violence, some graphic sexual content, nudity and language)
- Genre:
- Mystery & Suspense , Drama
- Directed By:
- Bruce A. Evans
- Written By:
- Raynold Gideon , Bruce A. Evans
- In Theaters:
- Jun 1, 2007 Wide
- On DVD:
- Oct 23, 2007
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Kevin Costner
as Earl Brooks
Demi Moore
as Det. Tracy Atwood
Dane Cook
as Mr. Smith
Marg Helgenberger
as Emma Brooks
William Hurt
as Marshall
Ruben Santiago-Hudso...
as Hawkins
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Critic Reviews for Mr. Brooks
All Critics (157) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (84) | Rotten (69) | DVD (24)
This wannabe highbrow horror-thriller is a graceless, unfocused piece of work with a central narrative as tonally schizophrenic and wayward as its lead.
Mr. Brooks spins a web that will wrap you up in nightmares.
The movie is so well made, and so compelling as a portrait of a man at war with himself, that, right up until the end, many people will probably be entertained by its intricately preposterous story.
[Director] Evans keeps flirting with a potentially rich idea only to surround it with indigestible amounts of silliness.
Quite a few plot lines and character quandaries remain unresolved. And yet the movie makes sense as it stands. After all, one can never know what makes a psychopath tick.
Certainly more genuinely creepy than many recent thrillers, and the supporting cast is effective.
It's not that Costner is a bad actor. He's just a one-note actor... like a male Julia Roberts. And this just isn't his note.
A din�mica entre Hurt e Costner carrega Instinto Secreto: exibindo uma imensa qu�mica em suas cenas, os dois atores estabelecem um sentimento misto de tens�o e camaradagem entre seus personagens.
The audience is apt to forget its own vicarious indulgence in some fairly perverse, psychologically unhinged acted out fantasy, as Kevin Costner masterminds erotically tinged guilty pleasures.
Costner gives a nicely underplayed performance and the film is well enough made to be watchable, if only to find out what enormity will be perpetrated next, and by whom.
Costner's double-act with Hurt is a wicked pleasure, like The Odd Couple with a psychopathic twist.
Kevin Costner as a schizophrenic serial killer? Demi Moore as a hardboiled police detective? No, we don't think so.
It does keep you guessing until the end, but Mr Brooks turns out to be Mr Average after all.
There's enough ambition for a miniseries here, and satellite viewers already have the rather terrific Dexter. Stuffed into two hours, it's all a bit of a pile-up.
If you can stomach the psychological codswallop of a serial killer keeping the demons at bay via Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, it may well be possible to enjoy this taut-ish thriller.
With a terrific cast and a superb script, this is a hugely enjoyable suspense thriller of the sort that they really don't make anymore.
Despite numerous cutesy twists, it's the gradual unveiling of a warped morality that lures you into Brooks' world.
Everyone involved takes this tat seriously except William Hurt, who goes gung-ho as the alter-ego goading Brooks' kill frenzies. If only they'd cut out the middle-Kev and cast Hurt instead...
A meticulous killer with family issues; a cop with problems of her own; secondary murderers on the loose; a plot with unexplored depths - this could have been a decent TV series.
Although flawed, this remains a blackly funny noir treat thanks to Costner and Hurt's double-act.
Mr Brooks is a new spin on murder-by-numbers: one fascinating character, two outstanding performances, and subplots too numerous for the film's coherence or the viewer's sanity.
Hubiera sido una estupenda comedia negra si no fuera que el director Bruce A. Evans se tom� el asunto en serio. Firme candidata a la peor pel�cula del a�o.
There's more to every character than meets the eye and all the relationships have a twist
Twisty and seductive, this classy dramatic thriller has so much going on that we almost forget we're watching a trashy potboiler.
A nutzoid chiller devoted to proving the strange, unseemly notion that even bloodthirsty serial killers are more enjoyable company than bad MySpace comedians.
Audience Reviews for Mr. Brooks
Super Reviewer
Successful business and family man Earl Brooks is secretly a serial killer whose meticulous planning is unravelled when a witness photographs him at the scene of his latest murder. My first reaction to the synopsis of this film was "Just what the world needs. Another serial killer movie..." but I have to say that the novel approach of this film had me hooked from the start. Costner plays Brooks not as a gleeful killer, but a victim of an unwanted addiction which is personified on screen by William Hurt; a kind of Tyler Durden for psychopaths. It sounds gimmicky but the great performances really make it work and Hurt and Costner have really good on screen chemistry, as the killer argues and jokes with "himself". Far less interesting, unsurprisingly, is Demi Moore and it is difficult to care about her domestic troubles although she is nowhere near as vile as usual. The biggest weakness of the film is its seeming lack of confidence in its own premise; it almost seems to feel the need to throw in a load of other plot threads that only serve to make the film less believable and more unlikely; Moore's shoot out in particular looked like it was crowbarred in from another, inferior film. I felt that if the subplots had been stripped away this could have been an excellent film, but as it is it felt like a breath of fresh air in an overcrowded genre and is well worth watching for the Costner and Hurt double act alone.More
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With its 80s resurrection cast (plus Dane Cook) and a plot and a visual style more suited to primetime TV, I think a lot of viewers and critics had their knives sharpened long before bothering to watch this film - I know my expectations were low. But what we have here is a movie that goes to some dark places, and a decent performance by Kevin Costner as a compulsive killer, and a consummate professional who hides it from his family and his colleagues incredibly. The Cook character is interesting, too: a hobbyist photographer who takes surreptitious photos of a couple having sex in an adjacent apartment building, he unwittingly captures Costner killing them, and in an attempt to blackmail him he ends up enticed by the crimes and grows interested in taking part. I could take or leave Demi Moore as the cop, and I didn't think her backstory (failed marriage, ex trying to get more than a fair share in the settlement) was very necessary as a subplot, and William Hurt was capable but little else as the personification of the voice in Costner's head, invisible to everyone else and urging him to keep killing. I'd have probably liked it less if my expectations were higher, but it's no better or worse than most mediocre Hollywood divertissement; give it a chance, skeptics, you just might enjoy it.More
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It's hypnotic, electrifying, fantastic, mesmerizing and pulse-pounding. A mind-blowing and breathtaking thriller. Tremendous twist and turns that you wont see coming. Wickedly brilliant, clever, unique, intelligent and endlessly bone-chilling. It has edge of your seat excitement that never lets up. A cool, captivating and enthralling film. Kevin Costner gives an sensational performance. This is Costner like you never seen him before, dark, bold and brutally charming. One of the best performances of his career. Dane Cook is terrific, giving a worthy and exceptional dramatic performance. William Hurt is brilliant, a sadistic and thrilling performance. Hurt and Costner are magnificent together, proving to have well-developed and rich in character chemistry. Demi Moore is exceptional. An astonishing, riveting, gripping and terrifically original film. Stylish, marvelous, frightening and truly exhilarating. Nothing short of a masterpiece. An instant classic. This film is absolutely perfect. It's a bit of Dexter and a lot of American Psycho.More
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Mr. Brooks Quotes
- Earl Brooks:
- The contents of your safety deposit box, Mr. Smith... have vanished!
- Hawkins:
- I wouldn't take the bullet but I would push you out of the way.
- Marshall:
- Why do you fight it so hard, Earl?
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It's amazing how inexhaustible abstract expressionism is as an aesthetic ideology, both in its attenuated original form -- going strong for sixty years now – and in its heir, neo-abstract expressionism. Edge Gallery (3658 Navajo Street, 303-477-7173) is currently hosting a pair of exhibits that highlight this long-lasting appeal.
In the front is Size Matters, featuring four large paintings by Jennifer Hope. These are classic examples of abstract expressionism, in which the picture plane is filled with heavy brushwork done in a limited palette. They're good-looking and hard not to like.
In the second space is I Don't Feel At All Like I Fall, a group of non-objective paintings by Mark Brasuell that put forward a different sort of response to the abstract-expressionist tradition. Some have said Brasuell's style is difficult to appreciate, but that criticism whizzes right by me, since I think it's very easy on the eyes. His work is visually rich, vibrantly colored and expertly composed, which makes it invariably beautiful.
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Brasuell takes an automatist approach to picture-making, meaning he lays out the composition of each piece instinctually, beginning simply with lines. These recent paintings illustrate a catharsis for him in the wake of an emotional split with his longtime companion earlier this year. "The paintings are complicated because a breakup is complicated," he notes, and you could say the paintings look like he feels.
Brasuell has been tapping his personal experiences for over a decade, but we'll have to take his word for it, because to my mind, if they're about anything other than paint, it's the landscape. This is especially true of "Field Freny" (pictured), which looks like it's based on a scene in a forest. But according to Brasuell, "The organic forms that show up are done unconsciously, and if there are recognizable images in them, it just happened. The meanings of the paintings only come to me after I've finished them."
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