Ive done about 800 original interviews for SuicideGirls and probably a couple thousand more for other venues, so I think it's fair to say that Ive gotten pretty good at working around peoples tertiary expressions like oh man and yeah. But when youve got a legend like Bootsy Collins saying...
Rob Nilsson is one of the most popular underground filmmakers of the 20th century. He has created works with such actors as Bruce Dern, Ron Perlman, Pam Grier and many more. A veteran filmmaker of over 15 works, he has been working since the late 1970s. Koch Lorber has just released three of his...
How often do I get to interview someone nicknamed Destroyer? I was hoping that with a nickname like that, Justin Moyer of the band Supersystem would talk like Starscream of the Decepticons. But alas, he did not. Besides being the bassist and vocalist for...
American Hardcore is one of the first documentaries to chronicle a very underappreciated form of music, hardcore punk music. As director Paul Rachman and I discuss, hardcore is a form that is unable to be co-opted by the corporations because once such big money is involved, by definition it is no...
It was truly an honor to get to talk with Chi Cheng of the Deftones. I have been a fan of theirs for many years. The Deftones may be hanging out with the kids on the Family Values Tour but that hasnt made them any less awesome....
Well, I finally completed the trilogy--no not Gabriel Garca Mrquezs memoir trilogy, that would be impossible. This past year Ive spoken to all three members of the Stella comedy troupe, Michael Showalter, David...
This October 18th a number of SuicideGirls will be appearing on an episode of CSI: NY. This kind of acceptance from such a mainstream narrative television series on a major network truly proves that SuicideGirls has become a significant part of pop culture. The episode truly focuses on the positive...
Hit the Lights is a hot new rock band thats made a big impression this past summer as part of the Warped Tour. Their album is called This Is a Stick Up... Don't Make It a Murder and I got a chance to talk to guitarist Omar Zehery...
There was so much to discuss with Roger Corman that I had to buckle down and focus on just a couple of subjects during our short interview time. I decided to pick marketing which (along with B-horror movies) Corman was the king of in his heyday of the 60s and 70s. There has been a lot of hubbub...
I have a hunch that many of you SuicideGirls members sit there in your squalor-filled rooms, listening to sad songs with a straight razor pressed against one of your major arteries. Well, Tom Reynolds wrote a book just for you! It is called I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs...
Erik Sprague aka The Lizardman is a freak. The 34-year-old Texas resident transformed himself from a doctoral candidate in philosophy to sideshow performer, with an estimated 650-700 hours of tattooing and other body modifications including several piercings,...
Many were sad when the Lunachicks broke up. But hold your head high because Theo Kogan has bounced mighty high with her band Theo and the Skyscrapers. The new band includes many of Theo Kogans past collaborators such as Dimitry Makhnosky, Sean Pierce...