Ben Lim

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Not unlike the nympho pee pee teens who have mortgaged it all to update their paypal account settings, NYU Film School grad Ben Lim has put himself neck deep in debt for his love of film. Such is the price one pays for a jump-cut as jarring as the one that took Lim from one coast to another - from a blighted, booming 'burb of Seattle to the hip, high-priced hovels of NYC.

A man in South Korea is said to have died playing the World of Warcraft fantasy game on his computer; though born of Korean parents, and not unfamiliar with the World of Warcraft (he's been WoW sober since Feb. 2006), the screen Lim is likely to die in front of is silver. His body will slump in Wong Kar Wai slow-motion, and will not be discovered until weeks later, as he will have been attending the showing of an obscure film in an out-of-the-way one-room movie house (Unfortunately, Tony Leung Chiu Wai will not be present to smoke a cigarette for in New York City such an act is banned within public facilities).

Until that moment, Lim is toiling away on four feature length screenplays while chronicling his life at mynameisben.com. To pay the bills, he's working on food, travel, and wine websites with information on amenities he dearly wishes he could afford. He's also doing freelance web work on sites such as Cineaste, the extra cash helps him to afford the many gadgets that he's so obsessed with. Because he doesn't already spend enough of his time in front of the warm glow of a computer monitor, he also writes here for Lucid Screening.

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