John Oak Dalton

"Not 'Hollywood Independent' - writer John Oak Dalton is the real Real Thing." --Cinema Minima."Very weird and unpopular b-movies and comics."--Blogalicious. "After watching the film I am left to wonder if he had some childhood trauma he is not telling us about."--IMDB user review. "Screenwriter John Oak Dalton wanted to be in Hollywood. Instead, he's in the rustic kitchen above the Germania General Store, stirring a pot of boiling hot dogs." --The Harrisburg Patriot-News.

Friday, November 24, 2023

Lower the Curtain Down on Memphis

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 This post first appeared, in a slightly different form, in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP. My new film SMART HOUSE has hit strea...
Sunday, June 18, 2023

Sixteen Going On Seventeen

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 June's been a wild ride, and it's only half over. Me and my SMART HOUSE producer Henrique Couto went to Chicago to screen the movie...
Saturday, April 08, 2023

Suds and Soda

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This post first appeared in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP.  Heading to Dayton Saturday to put the final touches on SMART HOUSE, ...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Like Dylan in the Movies

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  Slowly chugging through post on SMART HOUSE for a end-of-March deadline.  Got a picture lock in and sent to the composer, with the color t...
Saturday, January 14, 2023

Welcome to 2023

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This post first appeared in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP.  I hope all of my readers enjoyed their holidays.  My holiday filmmak...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

My Head is Stuck on Something Precious

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This post first appeared, in a slightly different form, in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP. Had a brisk 42-page three-day weekend ...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

A Hole in the Sock Of

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This post first appeared, in a slightly different form, in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP.  I was a little worried about jumping ...
Friday, December 02, 2022

Tora, Tora, Taxi

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This post appeared, in a slightly different form, first in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP.  Although principal photography on my ...
Saturday, November 19, 2022

In the Middle of the Street

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This blog post first appeared in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP.  We just fit in one more (snowy) camping weekend this season bef...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Monster Mash

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This blog post first appeared in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP.  It's Halloween season, but I've fallen behind on all th...
Saturday, September 03, 2022

I'll Never See Your Smilin' Face or Touch Your Hand

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This blog post first appeared in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP. This week was my birthday.  I took it off, which is a luxury whe...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

Just Like the One in Our Backyard

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This post first appeared in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP.  A long time ago I took a handwritten script from John Polonia called...
Saturday, June 04, 2022

The Bats Have Left the Bell Tower

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This post first appeared in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP. It's funny when my day job and my side hustle overlap. I get aske...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

I'm On A Wavelength Far From Home

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This post first appeared in my newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP. Easter has come and gone, always a busy season for me.  It's when I...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Top Ten Reads of 2021

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In another bad year, I had a good reading year, with a lot of great choices below.  Here are my Top Ten books, in a year where I passed by g...
Sunday, October 31, 2021

To Get A Jolt From My Electrodes

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Happy Halloween, all. If you haven't picked a movie for tonight, you can find several I have worked on, on various platforms, for free. ...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

Talking in Our Bed for a Week

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This post first appeared in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP. I was as surprised as anyone when my new film SCARECROW COUNTY hung o...
Saturday, July 10, 2021

Blackbird in the Barn

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This post first appeared in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP. My second film SCARECROW COUNTY hit DVD on Tuesday, and as I have alw...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Four Walls

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 This post first appeared in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP. Timehop showed me this image just the other day; that brief, shining...
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Somebody Holds the Key

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 Timehop and Facebook Memories are showing me production photos of both THE GIRL IN THE CRAWLSPACE and SCARECROW COUNTY, which I shot in the...
Thursday, February 04, 2021

Crossroads Seem to Come and Go

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This blog post originally appeared, in a slightly different form, in my e-newsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP.   It was a year ago today th...
Sunday, January 03, 2021

Best Reads of 2020

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  Passed my goal of reading 50 books in 2020 and topped out at 66 in a strange year.  Here are my favorites, if you are looking for a new re...
Friday, December 18, 2020

But Instead It Just Kept On Raining

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This post first appeared in my eNewsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP. I hope my e-newsletter finds you all well.  It's been a long while...
Friday, March 27, 2020

Well When This Train Ends I'll Try Again

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This post first appeared in my eNewsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP. It seems quaint now, but a week ago I was really debating about cancel...
Friday, March 13, 2020

Half My Life is in Books' Written Pages

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 This post first appeared in my secret eNewsletter I WAS BIGFOOT'S SHEMP. The last time I sent a newsletter was the morning my movie THE...
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