Following a 25 year career as an international Disc Jockey, Mark is now on his second marriage and has a daughter who is just finishing a degree in politics and philosophy, two stepsons who are preparing to spend two years travelling the globe and a stepdaughter who runs her own fitness business in Australia.
He is now concentrating on his writing career and has published a science fiction novel, two children’s books and has just finished his most important work so far, a book about Renewable Energy which he is using to help explain and accelerate our society’s transition to a fully sustainable civilisation.
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Nice to meet you, Mark Boxall. What was your Disc Jockey name?
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Hi Mark, it's good to see you on the IYW! Thanks for sharing a little bit of you life to the community here at Stage32. How did you find out about Stage32?
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Hi Geoff Hall. It was recommended to me by MET film school when I was on their screenwriting course at Ealing Studios. Can't recommend the course highly enough by the way. The things I learned about structure, plotting, beats and character development enabled me to write the two five star reviewed books.
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Hi Maurice Vaughan. It is DJ Sparky B. I'm trying to get myself a nostalgia night with a local nightclub right now to get back into it (I still have the bug). Also I have been a big science fiction and horror fan all my life and dabbled in horror makeup (thanks Rob Bottin) and short videos on the early 80's. I also have a collection of Starlog, Starburst , Fangoria ,2000AD and Starlord magazines and comics.
DJ Sparky B! What kind of music did you play, Mark Boxall?
Cool. I'm a fan 80s and 90s Sci-Fi and Horror movies. What's your favorite Sci-Fi movie and Horror movie?
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I am a personality DJ who also mixes so for non dance venues I play a bit of everything. I've performed at rock, rave and dance venues, really like mixing house, disco, acid house, rave and garage tracks. As for favourite movies, Dawn of the Dead (both the original and remake), 2001 and The Day the Earth Stood Still (original - Keanu Reeves should be ashamed of being involved in the new version) are up there but I was lucky enough to be at the UK premiere of Star Wars and then went to see it 14 times at my local cinema, so at 14 years old that was my favourite by far. Then there's Terminator 2, Alien and Aliens, The Matrix, Planet of the Apes (and the new versions), Nightmare on Elm Street, Forbidden Planet, American Werewolf in London - the list goes on.
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"I've performed at rock, rave and dance venues, really like mixing house, disco, acid house, rave and garage tracks." You're giving me ideas for a script, Mark Boxall. :D
I have a lot of favorite Sci-Fi and Horror movies too. Some of the ones you named ("Terminator 2," "The Matrix," "Nightmare on Elm Street", and "Dawn of the Dead" the remake). I saw "Dawn of the Dead" in theaters. Not sure if I've seen the original.
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That's great Maurice. Let me know if there's anything I can help with, I enjoy collaborating. At the moment I'm a bit obsessed with the whole renewable energy/sustainability thing but have three fiction books partially plotted, one of which is adapted from a Judge Dredd novel that Virgin books were interested in just before they decided to stop producing any more. What music do you like?
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Let me know if there's anything I can help you with too, Mark Boxall. Renewable energy/sustainability might be a great subject for one of my next Horror scripts. I've seen the "Judge Dredd" movies, but I didn't know there was a novel. I like different music. Classical, movie scores, jazz, etc.