An important part of an entertainment website is the writers that contribute whether it is through interviews, feature articles, reviews, or simply just news.

Crosswired online wants our readers to know our writers.

Currently our writing crew consists of Janine Macdonald, David Griffiths, and Luke Marten, Casper Davies, and Kyle McGrath.

Janine Macdonald

Janine Macdonald is a Bachelor of Arts graduate,in which she majored in Journalism and Public Relations. She has been writing for Crosswired online since the beginning of its creation, and is responsible for the design of Crosswired online's website. As well as a degree in Bachelor of Arts, Janine also has a degree in Professional Writing and Editing and Media Communication. In the past Janine has worked for several different music websites including Faster Louder and has worked for several different magazines and fanzines including a Brazilian Kiss Army Fanzine.

When not aiding in the design of the website, and working as a freelance Journalist she also works as a Public Relations practitioner.
In here career as a Journalist she has had the chance to interview members of Kiss, Slaughter, Sebastian Bach, and Eric Singer to name a few.

Janine's Top Ten Bands
01. Jack Johnson
02. Bon Jovi
03. Jeff Buckley
04. U2
05. Nickelback
06. Kiss
07. Tim McGraw
08. Maroon five
09. Matchbox twenty
10. Keith Urban

Janine's Top ten Favourite songs
01. Hallelujah-Jeff Buckley
02. With or without you-U2
03. American Pie-Don McLean
04. Here comes the sun-The Beatles
05. Brown eyed girl-Van Morrison
06. Space Oddity-David Bowie
07. last kiss-Pearl Jam
08. Shandi-Kiss
09. Tijuana Jail-Gilby Clarke
10. Everywhere-Tim McGraw

Janine's Top Five movies
01. Interview with the Vampire
02. Dogma
03. The Third Man
04. Psycho
05. Dirty Dancing

Janine's Top Five Novels
01. The Stand by Stephen King
02. Kiss the girls-James Patterson
03. All the pretty horses-Cormac McCarthy
04. The Mummy-Anne Rice
05. The vampire chronicles by Anne Rice

David Griffiths

David Griffiths was once described in a writing anthology as one of Melbourne’s most promising and talented writers’. Surprising since his high school teachers thought he wouldn’t amount to much as he chose to ignore classes like science and math and instead follow his heroes like Kurt Cobain and Billy Corgan and focus all his attention on Drama and Music. He also chose to listen in Literature and English.

Since then David has studied Mass Media Communications, Literature, Film and Television as well as Professional Writing and Editing.Today he works for Southern Television as Pre-Production Manager and also does some work in radio as well as working on various screenplays and novels (some of which you can view on this website). You may have also have seen some of his reviews appearing in various publications.
In the past David has had a number of his screenplays appear on television and has had plays such as ‘When Irish Boys Are Dying’ and ‘The Puppy And The Goldfish’ performed professionally in Melbourne. He has also written a number of short stories and has shot many short films including ‘Park Girl’, ‘Undercover Guilt’ and ‘She’s Perfect’.David hasn’t lost his interest in music and in his spare time enjoys writing new music.
He also has a very large CD, DVD and video (yes he’s old enough to have the things that cam out before DVD’s) collection.

David's Top Ten Bands
01. Oasis
02. Paul Kelly
03. Nirvana
04. Nightwish
05. Smashing Pumpkins
06. Courtney Love
07. The Cranberries
08. Lil Kim
09. John Butler Trio
10. Garbage

David's Top ten songs

01. Golden years by David Bowie
02. When I first met your ma-Paul Kelly
03. Saltwater-Julian Lennon
04. Hazard-Richard Marx
05. Zombie-The Cranberries
06. heartshaped box-Nirvana
07. 1979-Smashing Pumpkins
08. Bat out of hell-Meatloaf
09. Death defy-Motorace
10. white monkey-Danielle Spencer

David's Five top movies

01. Chasing Amy
02. Trainspotting
03. Picnic at hanging rock
04. Bully
05. envy

David's Five top novels
01. The Infernal-Kym Wilkins
02. The Beach-Alex Garland
03. Green Light-Ray Mooney
04. Trainspotting-Irvan Welsh
05. The Vampire Chronicles-Anne Rice

Luke Marten

Luke graduated from Holmesglen College of Tafe in 2002, where he received a Diploma for Writing and Editing. He didn't want to be a Journalist, and his main interest in Writing was novel and screenplays.

Currently doing a degree in IT, in which he will eventually become a qualified microsoft computer expert, he is also in his sparetime writing a television show.

Luke brings to Crosswired online a very broad range of musical tastes, and has an passionate and keen interest in different genres. It is something that he enjoys sharing with other people.

Luke's Top Ten Favourite Bands
01. our lady peace
02. sevendust
03. Megadeth
04. Tool
05. Fear Factory
06. Spineshank
07. Life Imitating
08. Stabbing Westward
09. The Offspring
10. Alice in Chains

Luke's top Ten TV Shows
01. Buffy
02 .Roswell
03. Dawson's Creek
04 .One Tree Hill
05. Angel
06. Felicity
07. Smallville
08. Stargate SG-1
09 Brimstone
10. Party of Five

Luke's Top Five Movies
01. Fight club
02. I know what you did last summer
03. Chopper
04. Memento
05. Star Wars saga

Luke's Top Five novels
01. Messiah-Boris Starling
02. The Dark Field- Alan Glynn
03. Anita Blake books- Laurell K Hamilton
04. Icarus- Russell Andrews
05. A Green Light-Ray Mooney

Kyle McGrath

Kyle works for Southern Television, and has been there for just over a year, where he has become an expert audio and cameraman. He is one of the very few entertainment reporters to gain access to the Ghostrider's set in Melbourne.
Another of his career highlight's include being chased by the My Restaurant rules contestants.
He has also filmed a number of bands videoclips, such as clips for the Almaboobies and Tremedy.
He has a passionate love for anime and foreign films. He also loves cult films.

Kyle's Top Ten Favourite Bands
01. DVDA
02. D12
03. CKY
04. HIM
05. Tenacious D
06. Electric six
07. Chassis
08. Queen
09. Starsailor
10. Eminem

Kyle's top Ten Songs
01. Lose yourself-Eminem
02. Danger high voltage-Electric Six
03. Gaybar-Electric six
04. Radio Ga ga-Queen
05. Flesh into gear-CKY
06. 96 quiet bitter beings-HIM
07. Join me in death-Starsailor
08. Way to fall-Chassis
09. DMIRTY-Tenacious D
10. Tribute-Tenacious D

Kyle's Top Five Movies
01. Lord of the rings
02. The good the bad and the ugly
03. American Psycho
04. Fear and loathing
05. Fightclub

Kyle's Top Five novels
01. Lord of the Rings-JR Tolkien
02. American Psycho
03. Fightclub
04. Fear and loathing
05. The bourne identity

Profiles written by Janine Macdonald