John Roecker

John Roecker
Born	(1966-01-30) January 30, 1966 (age 58) Ohio, United States
Occupation	Independent filmmaker
Spouse	Divorced
Children	None

John Roecker is an independent filmmaker who is associated with the punk subculture.^{[1][citation needed]} He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.^[2] Roecker is probably best known for Live Freaky! Die Freaky!, a stop motion animated comedy based on the true crime book Helter Skelter.^[3][4]

From 1996 to 1999, Roecker and Exene Cervenka co-owned Los Angeles store "You've Got Bad Taste." The store specialized in kitsch and various "off-color" novelties, such as paintings by serial killer and rapist John Wayne Gacy and a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wanted poster of bank robber Patty Hearst .^[5] He recently released an album with collaborator Dylan Melody titled Rocker|Melody^[6] on Frontier Records. A music video was created for every track on the album.

Next, Roecker and Melody are collaborating on a musical about Charles Manson.^[7]

Works

• "The Fear Morty's Theme" Bootleg: From the Lost Vault, Vol. 1, Esham. Music video. Director. (2000)
• Disease is Punishment, The Network. Concert video. Director. (2004)
• Live Freaky! Die Freaky!.^[4] Stop motion feature film. Animator, director, and screenwriter. (2006)
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Gay Porn Stars* (*But Were Too Afraid to Ask). Seven-part documentary TV series based on interviews with male pornography stars. Director. (2008)^[8]
• Svengali!, (webseries). Actor, director, and screenwriter. (2010)
• They're All Out Without You, short film using footage cut from Heart Like a Hand Grenade (see above in 2009). Director and screenwriter. (2011)
• Tim Timebomb's Rock'n'Roll Theatre, (webseries). Co-written with Tim Armstrong. (2012)
• Heart Like a Hand Grenade. Documentary of Green Day's production of the 2004 album American Idiot. Recorded from 2003 to 2005. Director. (2015)

References

1. Whitmire, Margo (2005-10-08). "Film Lets 'Freak' Flag Fly". Billboard.
2. Reighley, Kurt B. (February 14, 2006), "Freaky deaky", The Advocate
3. Voss, Brandon (November 8, 2008). "The Hardest Job in Show Business". The Advocate. Archived from the original on January 16, 2010.
4. "John Roecker's 'Freaky' Puppet Show". The Washington Post. 2006-01-27.
5. "Who Says 'Nobody Ever Went Broke...?". The New York Times. 1999-03-21.
6. "One Foot on the Mattress, The Other on the Floor, by Roecker | Melody". Roecker | Melody. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
7. "The Soapbox Office Podcast: Episode 11: Freaky Nightmare Before Christmas". www.soapboxoffice.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-12. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
8. "here! presents "Everything You Wanted to Know About Gay Porn Stars *but were to afraid to ask"". here! Networks. August 4, 2008. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2014.

External links

• John Roecker—Dirt
• John Roecker—Facebook
• John Roecker—Internet Movie Database
• John Roecker—Twitter
• Svengali episodes—Vimeo
• John Roecker—YouTube

Articles

For Live Freaky! Die Freaky!

• "Film Let's Freak' Flag Fly"—Billboard (pg. 54), 10/08/2005
• "An Epic Interview with John Roecker"—FilmJerk.com, 08/23/2003
• "John Roecker director of 'Live Freaky! Die Freaky!' "—GeekStinkBreath.net