Brendan Mackey
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Oswego, IL, United States |
| Introduction | Brendan Mackey was born in New York and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. After graduating from the University of Iowa, he made independent films, performed sketch comedy, and worked in a lot of office cubicles. He lives in Oswego, Illinois, with his wife and two children. |
| Interests | Writing, filmmaking, the NY Yankees, NY Giants, NY Knicks, Iowa Hawkeyes, golf, and my family. |
| Favorite movies | Annie Hall, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, The Miracle at Morgan's Creek, Boogie Nights, Trust, Fargo, O Lucky Man, Dr. Strangelove, Five Easy Pieces, Nashville, Ashes and Diamonds, Reservoir Dogs, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Big Lebowski, Dazed and Confused, The Seven Samourai, Goodfellas, The Apartment, The Last Picture Show, Simple Men, North by Northwest, Playtime, Manhattan, Love and Death, Raging Bull, The Red and the White, Do the Right Thing, Chinatown, The Graduate, Hoosiers, Clerks, The Brothers McMullen, Oldboy, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Rushmore, The Pride of the Yankees |
| Favorite music | Radiohead, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, The Strokes, The National, The Stone Roses, Arcade Fire, Blur, Ryan Adams, Nas, Wilco, Wire, Tom Waits, The Smiths, The White Stripes, The Gaslight Anthem |
| Favorite books | Infinite Jest, The New York Trilogy, Catcher in the Rye, Slaughter-House Five, The Code of the Woosters, Donald Westlake/Richard Stark, Charlie Huston, Carl Hiassen, Elmore Leonard, Christopher Moore, Phillip Roth, John Updike, Don Winslow, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, David Handler, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Franzen, F. Scott Fitzgerald |