Man I love this job! After three long years of wooing I finally got a chance to talk with the legendary comedian Al Franken. After many successful years as a standup comedian and Saturday Night Live writer, Franken has released a number of hysterical and popular books...
Its a nickname that just kinda stuck. His real name is Clarence Greenwood, but everyone just calls him Cope...
Living legend Ray Manzarek is best known as a co-founder and the keyboardist of The Doors. If he did nothing after the death of Jim Morrison he would still be highly regarded. But Manzarek has directed feature films, done spoken word and written novels. Now he...
Irvine Welsh gained enormous notoriety (not to mention a huge cult following that overflowed into the mainstream) when the film adaptation of Trainspotting was released ten years ago. Since then hes written a number of other books chronicling the adventures of various fuckups, including a sequel...
Every month I am astonished by the wide variety of comic books released by Image Comics. When I first spotted Bomb Queen with her breasts nearly busting out on every page I figured it was a cheap knockoff of Garth Ennis and Amanda Connors The Pro. But when the trade paperback was released I figured...
Margaret Cho could be the Suicide Girls' Den Mother. She's sporting some gorgeous Ed Hardy body art that winds around her waist, she's bumpin and grindin in her hot new burlesque show, and she loves naked tattooed women...
Sherrybaby is a powerful film starring Maggie Gyllenhaal. Heroin addict Sherry has just been released from prison after a three-year stint for robbery, and the film follows her attempts to reconnect with her four-year old daughter. I recently had a chance to speak with Sherrybaby writer/director Laurie...
Tony Jaas first major film, Ong-Bak, took America completely by surprise last year. Now Jaa is back in The Protector, in which he takes his signature martial art--Muay Thai--to a whole new level. Jaa achieves seemingly impossible stunts like flipping off of the foreheads of elephants and kicking...
Kirby Dick has fired a massive cannonball in the war against censorship. It's called This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and it came into being when the Oscar nominated documentary filmmaker decided to call the Motion Picture Association of America out on their bullshit lies. He hired a private investigator...
I may have interviewed The Residents the other day, but one can never be sure. I spoke to Hardy Fox who is a founding member of The Cryptic Corporation, a company created in 1976 to help the band. He may or may not be a member of The Residents, but the people of...
No need for a long introduction. You already know the work of Mister Cartoon. You see it on MTV every time Eminem reveals the portrait of daughter on his right shoulder. When 50 Cent and Joy Bryant roll around naked in Get Rich or Die Tryin', they're both flashing...
I was really psyched when I got the chance to visit the set of The State and Stella co-founder David Wain's new movie The Ten. I loved 2001's Wet Hot American Summer and any project that Wain is involved in is guaranteed to garner a cult following, so I knew that being able to say that I was there...