Creating music as DJ 1999, a very amateur indie effort, with some good songs; also fiction, poems, scripts and very very small films 

MUSIC+FILM+CREATIVE WRITING+FAN

MUSIC

 

Icons above go to DJ 1999 music on major platforms. You can also try saying, "Hey Siri, play some DJ 1999." Or "Hey Alexa, play DJ 1999." Or "Hal, play the 1999." Not many people listen and hasn't performed live, but computers know.

Below are some recent albums and top tracks. Also a video of sorts for The Ends of Trilogies: Part 1, first half of an album with cover art from Haus of Decline. Streaming platform songs are best, but more on SoundCloud (see image), such as the DJ 1999 Night Dance Party Remixes playlist, and in other YouTube and beekman33-produced videos.


DJ 1999 notes some of his favorite music stuff (disclosure: could be friends) includes: Stan Killian, Young Bugs and left.hnd. (Why don't you check them out instead?) Jody also was in bands called "Günter Grass," "The Experience/Experience Channel," "Spiff" and "The Kryptic Bagels." Raps.


FILM

 

Jody's also been involved with very small budget films. Like Jackie's in Trouble (adventure comedy about a genius fleeing danger who needs help from his old friends from Queens) and Frugal Paradise: The Making of the Movie 'Slow' (mockumentary on filmakers with a lost Hitchcock script from a garage sale, about a bomb in a minivan.) Both by Relative Hat Productions, a dormant nonprofit production cooperative led by Colin McCabe, Thomas Kash, Brendan McGinn & Jody. (Not best actor.)


Here's this review by the Internet's best film guy, Tim Brayton at Alternate Ending. (Disclosure: Donation request.) There's a JiT-inspired song and video featuring John Crave and the Bother. "Well Wishes" is a 24-hour RHP contest short.

...inspired a music video

...with commentary


CREATIVE WRITING

Jody published this poem with Gelf Magazine, which was a good smart general interest online magazine. Jody also has written a lot of other poems over time. His early process was discussed in a book by a great high school teacher. He did some blogging about blogging and writing about film writing.

 

He's also done restaurant reviews, gift guides, movie reviews, band spotlights, campaign coverage, an award-winning feature on memorablia collecting and extensive local sports and hard news/general interest reporting, with examples starting back as part of an award-winning team at the Southampton Press: Western Edition.  

 

Other completed drafts of creative writing include SciFi short stories Spinning and Nothing to Worry About, a spec screenplay Punch-Up for Ike Barinholtz about a script doctor/rewrite man in the streaming era, and The Followers, the first book draft for a YA series on the shadowy manipulation of social media influencers abandoned in '16 on content consideration. He worked as an intern and script reader providing treatments on plays, books and screenplays in the East Coast literary department of Sony's Columbia Pictures in New York under Drew Reed in summer of Can't Hardly Wait and Godzilla (1998).

That's a novella he finished in college.

 

He's tried writing a Strawberry-Gooden biopic and has some of: screenplays about Roman poet Catullus and for a pyschological horror film, The Boy in Union, inspired by true events; a novel inspired by Freud's Moses and Monotheism and first book in a hard SciFi post-apocalyptic series with a samura-like robot, Tender Metal Shepard; pilots and first season outlines for prestige TV dramas revolving around the new "Tombs" prison in 1901 New York (with McGinn) or a rising Wall Street trader in the 2004-08 period; and Lost: and Almost in America, a confused second-person novella taking place aboard a transatlantic flight. 

 

Probably worth mentioning somewhere, Jody did copy-editing on, and is thanked in, Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought, by anthropologist Irving Goldman. (Disclosure: Goldman was dating his grandma, Sonya, while he worked on it. Goldman, a protégé of Franz Boas and Margaret Mead who stood up to the Red Scare, published this last book posthumously. A fictionalized version of Sonya as a little girl working a soda fountain in upstate New York is found in What Should We Do About Davey by Julius Fast; yes, Howard's brother.)

Jody really likes the part of Goldman's last book starting on page 255, as the ethnographer discusses the rediscovery of native mourning rites and other rituals from elders after a period of widespread missionary conversions. And here's something else funny/weird that happened. (They caught guy. Wasn't the photographer, who was Jody.)

 

And here's a draft radio play of a screenplay by guided Gen AI: "Genesis Paradox Redux," a story/parody on what if SkyNet tried to influence Cameron with The Terminator (1984)? Also a TikTokArt project.

 

 

FAN

 

Jody is also regularly seen online appreciating works by Haus of Decline (who also did below), The Bugbear Dispatch/Chrissy Stroop, Flaming Hydra, Steve Pikelny, Jason Novak and [others who feel like it would be appropiate to mention, anyone happening here should also check them out for better artistic or non-business content]. Art is teaching. He also likes games. He won't forget 9/11, if it matters, nor Red Light Robinhood. And, was proud to help restart the now-(in)famous Miller Place High School Variety Show in Miller Place, NY in '95 with student executive council of McCabe, Jessica Bing & Britton Kelley. See "A note on names."