Joseph E. Green
Writer, etc.
WORK
​I am presently working as a research and story consultant to the feature film DALLAS IN WONDERLAND and serving as a coproducer and cowriter of a documentary, KING KILL 63, that will accompany the film. These projects are currently in production and I am working on them as of this moment.
I have written five books previously. My work includes journalism, essays, interviews, stories, plays, and film criticism, and has appeared in such outlets as CTKA, Op Ed News, the San Antonio Current, the Examiner, History on the Web, The Free Press, and others. I have worked professionally as a claims trainer, a private investigator, and a film critic.
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My newest release is the play THE DULL ARE THE DAMNED, which comes with a bonus one-act, FAIR IS FOUL.
A collection of some of the interviews I've done over the years with political figures such as Bobby Seale and film icons like Peter Bogdanovich.
YouTube
Columns/Blogs
I've been interviewed a few times on radio programs, and some of these are excerpted on YouTube.
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​BLACK OP RADIO:
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On Manning Marable and Malcolm X
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​​Amazon Author Page
"[Green has] a rare ability to bring together numerous important disciplines (history, philosophy, religion, science, journalism, film) and use them all to offer succinct essays that get to the heart of major issues…There's an elegance to the prose that makes these essays models of their craft."
- JOSEPH MCBRIDE, author, Steven Spielberg: A Biography, Searching for John Ford, Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and J. D. Tippit
"Reading Green is a treat for independent thinkers who may have forgotten for a spell that it really is the rest of the world that's crazy."
-GREG HARMAN, ed., San Antonio Current
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"Joe Green does an amazing job in this book. It is obvious that the information was gathered through much research. As another author of books about the Nov. 1963 coup I applaud him."
-A.J. WEBERMAN, author of Coup D'etat in America
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​​The Dull are the Damned
​This play was published in September 2013.
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In THE DULL ARE THE DAMNED, a schizophrenic science fiction writer receives first contact from some (possibly nonexistent) aliens, who offer him the chance to become an emissary to a new future. However, he first needs to become unstuck from his own past. Comic, tragic, and mindbending, this new play offers a multi-layered adventure with a touching finale.
And yes, e e cummings was one of the inspirations.
Also includes a one-act, FAIR IS FOUL, in which a political operative learns that his glorious future is paved by virtue of at least one murder.
BOOKS
​​The Very Wrath of Love
​This collection of plays was published in March of 2013.
All of the plays in this collection are one acts, comic and philosophical in nature for the most part, and revolving around the theme of being in the "very wrath of love" - where our most grievous midjudgments and painful misunderstandings are made. The titles included within are:
And So for My Next Trick, I Saw a Lady in Half
Critical Hits
Winners
Wolsey's Bling
The Real Revolution, Which is the Evolution of the Mind
Reichenbach
Rightward March
Two Afflecks Come Out of a Bar
Winter Solstice
A Few Hours After This
2010 - present
2010 - present
​​Clowntime is Over and Other Plays
​This collection of plays was published in January of 2013.
NEW 2nd edition released February 2014!
This collection includes the long play Clowntime is Over, in which a clown named Max discovers there's more to life than talking animals and Saturnian sacrifices, but not much more.
Also included are the following one acts:
The Cocksucking Motherfuckers
The Office of Supervillain Recruiting
The Barrett Variations
Phase Space
Clowntime is Over was performed at the Overtime Theatre in San Antonio from January 10th to February 8th 2014. It was directed by Edward Wise.
The Office of Supervillain Recruiting was performed at the Woodlawn Theatre in San Antonio in September of 2012. It was directed by Kristopher "KT" Thomas.
​​A Slew of Unfortunates
This short fiction collection appeared in December of 2011.
Included in this collection are the bizarre, the comic, and the downtight puzzling. The stories included are as follows:
A Slew of Unfortunates
The Auto-Obituary of Leonard Kirkland
The Zilker Lights
Excerpts from the Pontificating Cinema
My Baby Just Cares for Me
Personal Effects
Excerpts from the Ant Assassination Manual
Not the God
The Uses of Pleasure
You Know It's Gonna Be
Translation
Pen & Ink
​This book appeared in December of 2010. It contains the essay "The JFK 10-Point Program," "The Open Assassination of Fred Hampton," and many others. It is a collection of published essays on topics ranging from the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, the influence of Fredrich Nietzsche on the film Blade Runner, to the inherent problems in quantum theory and the virtues of Neil Postman.
Dissen​ting Views
MUSIC
Music?
Yeah. So my buddy Randy and I got together to produce a kind of louche synthpop that I referred to as Newest Wave owing to the fact that it's influences mostly come from the period between 1977-1982 in Europe, especially Great Britain and Germany.
Calling ourselves FANFIC, we produced an album in 2012 which was pretty well-received in some quarters. We may do another one if either of us ever finds the time - there's tons of stuff in the can waiting final polish.
"Fanfic is electro-pop with the soul of the synth era."
- POP REVENGE
"I like what I hear. You should, too. Especially if you're a synthpop/darkwave fan that misses the days of David Bowie's prominence or the pre-Violator version of Depeche Mode."
- MENTAL PIRATE
"Firmly in touch with it's inner goth but finding rays of hope in pop music the band construct songs that Joy Division wish they wrote, OMD would have written in 1982, and VNV Nation would dance to now."
- POP! STEREO
"I love how they reference an influence as 'Ministry's first album'...brilliant! Fanfic will certainly appeal to true synthpop fans."
-DJ Talbot, LIKE SUGAR
"Fanfic have some interesting new input to add to the world of electro-pop. The listener is transported to a dance floor in the middle of Berlin, as the warming tones wrap around the room. The duo are skilled musicians who have been able to bridge the Atlantic with lyrics and music meeting ina sonic boom."
-Tim, THE INDIE BANDS BLOG
4.5 out 5 star review from the British ezine VentsMag
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