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Staff

Name: quietearth
Email: quietearth at quietearth.us
Role: Editor in Chief (Denver)
Likes: Braunschweiger, Pasta, Zombies, Guns, Hip Hop
Dislikes: Coconut, Excuses, Communism
Favorite movies: Dawn of the dead (original), ZPG, Phantasm, Harrison Bergeron, Naked Lunch, Brazil, THX-1138, The Holy Mountain, Forbidden Zone, Pi
Favorite authors: JG Ballard, Walter Tevis, Thomas M. Disch


Name: Agent Orange
Email: agentorange at quietearth.us
Role: Managing Editor (Edmonton)
Likes: All things Philip K. Dick, mindbending cyberpunk, and apocalyptic alien bloodbaths
Dislikes: Intolerant douche bags, irony, and all round bad taste
Favorite Movies: Brazil, Blade Runner, The Road Warrior, Dog Soldiers, Natural City, Escape From New York, THX-1138 the list goes on and on...
Favorite Authors: PKD, J.G. Ballard, Neal Stephenson, Robert E. Howard, John Wyndham etc...


Name: Marina Antunes
Email: marina at quietearth.us
Role: Assistant Managing Editor (Vancouver)
Likes: Music (from heavy metal to classical), books (technical books suck), social media (‘cause I’m a social kind of gal), people and the sometimes, even a movie!
Dislikes: People who try too hard, films that cater to the lowest common denominator (I’m looking at you Hollywood!), gelatinous candies (twizzlers are my enemy)
Favorite Movies: The Matrix, Interview with a Vampire, Gone With the Wind, Gattaca, The Fountain, The Thing Bram Stocker’s Dracula (see a theme?)
Favorite Authors: Juliet Marillier (fantasy with a touch of history), Anne Rice (vampires done right), Clive Barker (horror from the mind of a master), Diana Gabaldon (epic time travel with a touch of romance


Contributors

Name: anglebender
Email: anglebender at quietearth.us
Role: Game reviewer, resident filmmaker
Likes: Games that don't crash, movies that don't suck, and epicureanism
Favorite Games: Rome: Total War, Half-Life 2, Fallout
Dislikes: Blue screens, stray magnetic fields, and solipsists.
Despised games: Moon Base Commander, Daikatana, Battlecruiser 3000


Name: Ulises (from Ulises Silva website)
Email: silvaul at yahoo.com
Role: Movie reviewer, Asian horror aficionado, silly person
Likes: All things apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic, zombies, J-Horror, rainy days, zombies, writing, music, zombies, and, oh, zombies
Dislikes: Powdered laundry detergent, rude drivers, and people who refuse to prepare for the imminent zombie apocalypse
Favorite Movies: Romero’s Living Dead films, 28 Days Later, The Shining, Kairo, The Exorcist, Dragonhead, Lost in Translation
Favorite end-of-world scenarios: Zombie apocalypse, alien invasion, sitcom invasion, pastry proliferation


Name: Hal MacDermot
Email: cyberhalcity at gmail.com
Role: Northern England correspondant
Likes: Life, love, liberty and the pursuit of awesome flicks.
Dislikes: Rules, traffic, corporate control, beer.
Favorite Movies: Dark Star, Total Recall, Evil Dead 2 & 3, Idiocracy, The Third Man, Zombieland, 28 Days Later, Let the Right One Inj, Pierrot Le Fou.
Favorite Authors: Charles Stross, Ian McEwan, Tiziano Sclavi (Dylan Dog).


Name: projectcyclops
Email: projectcyclops at hotmail.com
Role: Scotland correspondant
Likes: Savage and unrelenting apocalyptic cinema, cats.
Dislikes: Uwe Boll and Michael Bay.
Favorite movies: Romero's Dead genesis, Threads, Repo-Man, Liquid Sky, Sixteen Tongues, Children of Men, 28 Days Later, Nowhere, Lekce Faust, Phantom of the Paradise, Sante Sangre, Koyaanisqatsi, Ringu.
Favorite Authors: Charles Bukowski, Dan Clowes, Bret Easton Ellis.


Name: Rick McGrath (formerly Dr. Nathan)
Email: drnathan at quietearth.us
Role: Toronto correspondent
Likes: Bootlegs, Bars, Books
Dislikes: Politics, Religion, Liver
Favourite Movies: Blow Up, The Wild Bunch, Don't Look Back, ****sucker Blues, Crash, The Trial, Dr Strangelove, Alphaville, Barbarella, Casablanca, any Film Noir, the Zapruder tape
Favourite Authors: JG Ballard, Will Self, Jack Womack, Kem Nunn, Anna Kavan, Franz Kafka, Iain Banks


Name: Bob Doto
Email: bobdoto at quietearth.us
Role: NYC Correspondent
Loves: Kali Ma, Kundalini Yoga, anarcho-mysticism, non-ordinary writing, non-ordinary filming, Allah
Does not love: lying
Favorite films: The Celebration, Exiles (Exils), Short Bus, Buffalo 66, Night of the Living Dead, The Idiots, Dead Man, Ghost Dog, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (orig.), Otto, and anything “transgressive” and from NYC circa ‘81
Favorite books: Sacred Drift, I Am That, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Anthology, Future Primitive, Ashtavakra Gita, Drop Edge of Yonder, Life of Pi, Al-Quran
Other endeavors: Managing Editor PARABOLA magazine, Many Hills Massive Sound System, Many Hills Mostly magazine, Kundalini Yoga teacher, post-anarchist propagandist


Name: Alan Maxwell
Email: alanmaxwell at quietearth.us
Role: Scotland-Ireland floating correspondent
Likes: Watching too many films (usually Scottish, Irish, or just plain obscure), drinking too much caffeine, anything about the end of the world.
Dislikes: Romantic comedies, stupid Hollywood blockbusters and Popeye.
Favorite films: Planet of the Apes (and sequels!), Soylent Green, The Omega Man, Logan's Run, The Time Machine, Black Christmas, The Wicker Man, Friday the 13th, Brief Encounter, hundreds more.
Favorite books: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson and absolutely anything by Ray Bradbury.


Name: Kevin Cooney
Email: kevincooney at quietearth.us
Role: Boston correspondent
Digs: A good book, a great movie, a good beer at a great pub, iced coffee and the Boston Red Sox.
Despises: Small minded people with big mouths, hack/derivative writers and sloppy film makers.
Favorite movies: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Heat, La Femme Nikita, The Keep, Seven Samurai, Le Circle Rouge, The Dirty Dozen, In Bruges, Le Grand Bleu, Day of the Jackal, The Man Who Would be King and Conan the Barbarian.
Favorite books: The Bone Woman, Imagining Atlantis, Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, The Hunt for Zero Point, The Air Loom Gang, The End of Days, Wings of Madness.


Name: The Crystal Ferret
Email: thecrimsonferret at gmail.com
Likes: Obscure Art House, Flashy Bollywood, Irish Scotch and Honduras cigars.
Dislikes: Proselytism, Vegetables and the Human kind in a whole.
Favorite Movies: The Holy Mountain, Conan the barbarian, Kin Dza Dza
Favorite Authors: Hunther S. Thompson. Alfred Korzybski. A&B Strugatsky


Name: rochefort
Email: rochefort at quietearth.us
Role: Austin correspondent
Likes: Lynda Carter in costume as Wonder Woman, a really good burger, caffeine, nicotine, just about anything with "punk" at the end of it...
Dislikes: Bullies, Loud Idiots, Smiling while acting the villain, "News" channels that don't feature any actual news, Douchebags, the Hollywood status quo...
Favorite movies: The Road Warrior, Escape from New York, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner, Brazil, THX-1138 (I even like the special edition), The Empire Strikes Back, The Matrix, A Clockwork Orange...
Favorite authors: The Cyberpunks (Gibson, Sterling, Stephenson, Shirley, etc.), Ray Bradbury, the Inklings (Lewis, Tolkien, Williams), Thomas Pynchon, Philip K. Dick...
Favorite Ladies: Christine Maddox, Candy Loving, Eva Green, Joyce Gibson, Justine Grenier
Favorite German Word: "ausgezeichnet" ("excellent")