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by Erin Broadley

There are drummers, and then there are street drummers—, the guys who truly aren’t afraid to get down and dirty with their craft. The musicians in Street Drum Corps are both, having played traditional drums in rock bands for years before lending their sticks to something decidedly more free-form and experimental.

Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman once dubbed Street Drum Corps the “punk-rock Stomp,” and the name stuck. The band is an apocalyptic, voodoo-rock revolution born from smog stained, litter strewn Los Angeles sidewalks and has grown into a full-force, stage production that now brings its battery of sound to the masses.

Since SDC’s start in 2004, drummers Bobby Alt, Adam Alt and Frank Zummo have used found objects to create their elaborate beats and have toured the world—leaving a trail of broken drumsticks, battered trash cans and busted tail pipes in their wake. They’’ve gone from drumming in downtown junkyards (which they still do), to recording an album with DJ Lethal for Warcon Records, to performing on Late Night with Conan O’’Brien to, last fall, having their gear inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of a Warped Tour display.

SuicideGirls met up with the guys before a recent gig at Hollywood’’s famed Goth club, Bar Sinister.

Read our exclusive interview with Street Drum Corps on SuicideGirls.com.

Damone Suicide in Wet My Whistle

• INTO: Instant gratification, storytelling, my friends, collections, roadtrips, reading, swingsets, hotboxes, dark meat, creative writing.
• NOT INTO: Shoes.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Making someone smile.
• MAKES ME SAD: I don’t like being sad.
• HOBBIES: Maximizing my hit.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Cigarettes, marijuana, coffee, U.S.S Jennay (my car), my beanie.
• VICES: I’m stubborn as fuck, hard headed, I’m almost never angry…but be afraid.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Smoking with friends, going to shows, working with animals, and getting tattood.

Get to know Damone better over at SuicideGirls.com!

by Darrah de jour

For Part Two of my Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Polyamory series (see Part I with Annie Sprinkle here), I spoke with Tristan Taormino, author of Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships. In addition to being the princess of polyamory, Double T is also one of the most coveted safe and kinky sex educators around. She travels all over the nation to spread her sex positive message, and is a huge catalyst in the pleasurable-anal-sex-for-women movement. Yes, there’s a movement. (Responsible for bringing the back door to your backyard.) This feminist and erotic guru is not only outspoken, but makes talking about sex almost as fun as doing it! So much so, that she is now directing sex ed vids for Vivid Enterainment!

Grab a beverage, your lover or vibrator and buckle up for this one. It’s going to be a mind-blowing ride.

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by SG’s Team Agony feat. Apple and Rydell

Let us answer life’s questions – because great advice is even better when it comes from SuicideGirls.

Q: I love my wife and we’ve almost been married a year now. I find myself less and less attracted to her physically and I’m not sure why. She is a gorgeous woman with beautiful features. The only thing I can think of is maybe the medicine I’m on is contributing to this, or the fact that she’s put on some weight. I basically have to force myself to have sex with her or we won’t have it at all. Maybe it’s because right after we got married I basically had to beg for sex and never got it so now I’m not willing to try? I’m worried. I’m finding myself more and more attracted to other women, and I’m hardly interested in her even if she throws herself at me. Please help me.

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by Alex Dueben

American McGee started his career in games working on projects like Doom, Quake, and their sequels. However, most of us first learned his name in 2000 when Electronic Arts released American McGee’s Alice. The video game took Lewis Carroll’s character away from the genteel, neutered Walt Disney version and took it in a darker, bloodier direction. Since then, McGee has moved to China and started a company Spicy Horse which has developed games like Grimm. Now he’s returned to the world of Alice with one of the year’s most anticipated new games, Alice: Madness Returns.

He spoke with SuicideGirls via e-mail about the new game, the accompanying art book (published by Dark Horse Comics), the future of gaming, and how living and working in China has affected his way of thinking.

Read our exclusive interview with American McGee on SuicideGirls.com.

Silencia Suicide in Does Seattle

• INTO: Loud music, wearing too much black, vegan cookies, religious iconography, sarcasm, impeccable wit, used bookstores, socialist feminism, spontaneity, innocence, love.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Gay men, handwritten letters, black coffee, New York, Portland, Kubrick, Borges, Sioux, a good sense of humor, grandparents, intelligence..
• MAKES ME SAD: Conservative politics, people who force their views on others, how necessary money is sometimes, “text” typing in e-mail/online messages – scratch that – “text” typing in general (yes, even in text messages), when people refer to tattoos as “ink” or “tatts.”
• HOBBIES: Lots of things that end with “ing.”
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Paper, black ink pen, background noise, my brain, my heart (all the other organs aren’t as important).

Get to know Silencia better over at SuicideGirls.com!