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Cecil Castellucci, also known as Cecil Seaskull (born October 25, 1969 in New York City), is a young adult novelist, indie rocker, and director. Events 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The City of New York Young-adult fiction (often abbreviated as YA fiction, or simply YA) is Fiction written for published for or marketed to adolescents roughly between the Indie rock is genre of Alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent Underground music scene She currently lives in Los Angeles, California

She grew up in New York City where she attended the Laguardia High School of the Performing Arts. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Fiorello H LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, also officially known as "H She later studied theatre in Paris at the École Florent. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city She attended Concordia University in Montreal and received a B. Concordia University is a comprehensive Public university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec F. A. in Film Production. [1].

In Montreal, she embarked on her music career as part of Bite, which was, at the time, the only all-female indie band in Montreal. [2] When she was kicked out of Bite, she formed Nerdy Girl with Gordon Hashimoto. When Hashimoto left, she joined with Rod Woo, Gabe Levine, and Kim Temple to continue the band. After recording their only album Twist Her, Levine and Temple left the group, and Jessica Moss and Eric Craven took their places. She later moved to Los Angeles after Nerdy Girl broke up for good, and she recorded solo under her performing name, Cecil Seaskull. [3]

In 2001, she co-founded the experimental *Alpha 60 Film Collective with Neil Matsumoto and Nick McCarthy.

Her first novel, Boy Proof was published in 2005.

Contents

Novels

All of Cecil's novels are published by Candlewick Press. Candlewick Press, established in 1991 and located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the American division of the English publisher Walker

Boy Proof (2005)

Boy Proof is about a girl in Los Angeles named Victoria Jurgen, who insists on being called "Egg" after a character in her favorite movie, a (fictional) post-apocalyptic, science fiction film called Terminal Earth. Her mother is a washed-up actress and her father is special-effects designer. She is a card-carrying geek and considers herself "boy proof", and proud of it. The word geek is a Slang term noting individuals as "a peculiar or otherwise odd person especially one who is perceived to be overly obsessed with one or more things However, her outlook on life is challenged when a boy named Max Carter comes to her school and she finds herself reluctantly drawn to him.

It was named the Best Book for Young Adults by the ALA

The Queen of Cool (2006)

Libby Brin is one of the most popular girls in her school, and her life is all about parties and boys. Then one day she realizes that she is bored with her glamorous lifestyle and signs up for an internship at the local zoo. There she meets up with Tina, a dwarf with a huge personality, and a boy named Sheldon. Soon, she begins to question her definition of "cool". As she hangs out with the people that she thought were uncool, she realizes that they are actually good friends and that she has more fun with them instead of her regular friends.

Beige (2007)

Katy is a French-Canadian girl who is forced to spend a summer with her estranged father. Beau "The Rat" Ratner of L. A. 's most infamous punk band-that-never-made-it, Suck. Suck is about to come off its hiatus, and the Rat hopes he can use the band as an opportunity to bond with his daughter. There is one problem: Katy does not like music. Because of this, the daughter of her father's bandmate, Lake, nicknames her "Beige".

Future Novels

Cecil is currently working on a picture book called Grandma's Gloves, and a 3-book chapter book series for young readers called Odd Duck. She also has started her fourth YA novel, Rose Sees Red, set in the 1980s. [4]

Comics

The P. L. A. I. N. Janes (2007)

Cecil wrote the inaugural graphic novel for DC Comics's Minx imprint, which targets the YA audience. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company Minx was an Imprint of DC Comics that published Graphic novels aimed at Teenage Girls It ran from 2007 to 2008 A long time comic book fan (she invited Batman to her fourth birthday party), Cecil jumped at the opportunity when contacted by Group Editor Shelly Bond. Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a fictional Comic book Superhero co-created

The story follows a girl named Jane who moves to suburbia after a terrorist attack in her hometown of Metro City. Once there, she rejects the popular girls, and instead finds her "tribe" with three other girls named Jayne (aka Brain Jane), Jane (Theater Jane), and Polly Jane (Sporty Jane). They band together to form P. L. A. I. N. (People Loving Art In Neighborhoods) and commit "art attacks" to try and brighten up the atmosphere of fear that follows the terrorist attack.

A Canadian citizen[5], Cecil has been nominated for a Joe Shuster Award in the category of "Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Writer" for Janes. [6]

A sequel is in the works, called Janes in Love, with a release date of September 2008.

Music

Nerdy Girl

Nerdy Girl 10" EP (1994)

Released by No Life Records

  1. Do You Like Me?
  2. Glad To Know
  3. Roof of Wilson
  4. Hate Me
  5. Nerdy Girl
  6. Song 7

New Jersey 7" single (1995)

Released by RightWide Records

3 songs, including a cover of The Beatles' She Said She Said, and "After Having Cried". No Life Records was an American Record label founded by Chuck Arnold in Boston MA in 1992. The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 " She Said She Said " is a song by The Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver, recorded in June of that year

Dime Store Hussy 7" single (1996)

Released by No Life Records. No Life Records was an American Record label founded by Chuck Arnold in Boston MA in 1992.

  1. Scream
  2. 18 Foot Yacht
  3. Perhaps

Twist Her (1997)

Released by No Life Records. No Life Records was an American Record label founded by Chuck Arnold in Boston MA in 1992. Available on iTunes.

  1. Casa Nova
  2. Hate Me
  3. Georgiana
  4. Iceman (Murder on the Rue Morgue)
  5. Anne Elliot
  6. Cast Off
  7. Single Bed
  8. Weed
  9. Do You Like Me
  10. Wicked
  11. 3 Wishes
  12. Judy
  13. Aranova

Cecil Seaskull

Whoever (1998)

Released by Teenage USA Recordings. Teenage USA Recordings is a Canadian Independent record label, founded by Phil Klygo and Mark DiPietro in the fall of 1997 on the back of Klygo's Available on iTunes.

  1. True Love
  2. 2E
  3. La Song (feat. Rufus Wainwright)
  4. Toutes ces filles
  5. Beautiful Everything
  6. Fairfax & Melrose
  7. Cheap
  8. The Bruise
  9. Dim
  10. Ridiculous
  11. What's Wrong?
  12. Sweet Girl

For Lovers and Rats (unreleased)

Contains tracks "Ode to a Boy with a Girlfriend," "Liquor and Cigarettes," and "Whisper This to Me", (the latter two are available streaming from her MySpace page)

Other Songs

Films

Starwoids (2001)(self)

Starwoids is a documentary about the Star Wars fans who camped out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater for six weeks in order to buy tickets for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The Muppets are a group of Puppet characters created by Jim Henson. The Muppet Movie is the first of a series of Live-action musical Feature films starring Jim Henson 's Muppets. Grauman's Chinese Theatre is a movie theatre located at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. Star Wars Episode I Phantom Menace is a 1999 military sci-fi film written and directed by George Lucas. Cecil was one of these fans. She also appears in the special features on the Special Edition DVD, released in 2005.

Happy Is Not Hard to Be (2005)(director/writer/actress)

According to the film's IMDb page, "Happy Is Not Hard to Be follows the lives of a diverse group of family and friends in Los Angeles, whose paths intersect at a time of personal turmoil and uncertainty. Reflecting the discontented melting pot of Los Angeles itself, this modern family struggles to find harmony when new and old faces enter their lives. "[7]

Through Alpha 60, Cecil made this ensemble film based on the actors' responses to a questionnaire. It premiered at the Alternative Screen series at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles.

Other Works

References

  1. ^ Cecil Seaskull - The jots of a nerdy girl
  2. ^ Article in the Montreal Mirror
  3. ^ MSN artist profile
  4. ^ Article from bookslut.com.
  5. ^ The Divine Miss Pixie Woods (aka Cecil Castellucci) - today this and that = star wars! trains! shuster! rabbits! squirrels! yuri gargarin!
  6. ^ Shuster Awards
  7. ^ Happy is Not Hard to Be on IMDB. com.

External links

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