John Roecker

American film director

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

^ Whitmire, Margo (2005-10-08). "Film Lets 'Freak' Flag Fly". Billboard.
^ Reighley, Kurt B. (February 14, 2006), "Freaky deaky", The Advocate
^ Voss, Brandon (November 8, 2008). "The Hardest Job in Show Business". The Advocate. Archived from the original on January 16, 2010.
^ ^a ^b "John Roecker's 'Freaky' Puppet Show". The Washington Post. 2006-01-27.
^ "Who Says 'Nobody Ever Went Broke...?". The New York Times. 1999-03-21.
^ "One Foot on the Mattress, The Other on the Floor, by Roecker | Melody". Roecker | Melody. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
^ "The Soapbox Office Podcast: Episode 11: Freaky Nightmare Before Christmas". www.soapboxoffice.com. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
^ "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.