by Daniel Robert Epstein
“I just rolled a joint”
– Zach Galifianakis
The landscape of standup comedy on television has taken a surprising turn in the past few years. People like Artie Lange, Patton Oswalt and Paul Mooney are doing these amazing standup shows and are videotaping them in a very cool verite way. In the wake of the success of The Comedians of Comedy, Zach Galifianakis and director/editor Michael Blieden have teamed up again to bring Zach Galifianakis – Live at the Purple Onion to DVD. Besides Galifianakis hysterical set at the world renowned venue, we also get to see his brother Seth get interviewed by NPRs Brian Unger and get some real personal moments with Zach.
Read our exclusive interview with Zach Galifianakis on SuicideGirls.com.
Creepy Suicide in Dirty Diana
- INTO: Pirates, photography, Juicy Couture, Chanel, Alexander McQueen, pumps, vintage things, Baroque and Victorian era fashion, the ‘40s, Elvis, Christian Louboutin heels, cars and motorcycles, rum, burlesque, pinup fashion, high fashion, boobs, tight-lacing, Tumblr, and smoking the ganj.
- NOT INTO: Anonymous haters – or haters of any kind, fakers, liars, cheaters, douche bags, gross pervs, chesters, and Jesus freaks…
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Pirate ships and pirate talk, big beautiful buds, hot sunny days, adventures, photo shoots, music, the ocean and all the creatures inside, kittens and puppies, bats, Juicy and Chanel, a closet full of Louboutins, Will Ferrell.
- MAKES ME SAD: Being lied to, being alone, cold, the past, how much hate is in the world, animal abuse =(
- HOBBIES: Getting naked, capturing every moment before it’s gone, high fashion photography and makeup.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Reds, iTouch, Ganja, D90, Dewoowoo.
- VICES: Disclosure.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Creating chaos and destruction, getting high and fucking shit up, wishing I was a pirate!
Get to know Creepy better over at SuicideGirls.com!
by Alex Deuben
“It’s probably slightly more meandering.”
– Neil Gaiman
When the novel American Gods was published ten years ago, Neil Gaiman went from being a writer primarily known for comics like The Sandman and Mr. Punch and novels like Neverwhere and Good Omens to one of the most successful and acclaimed writers of his generation. In addition to his novels, short stories, picture books, and movies, in the past decade Gaiman has also become one of the most beloved children’s writers of our time, his novels Coraline and The Graveyard Book having become modern classics.
He also penned an episode of Doctor Who, much to the delight of both Gaiman and the long running sci-fi show’s fans. More recently, it was announced that Gaiman will be working with HBO and the director and cinematographer Robert Richardson on a series based on American Gods. Now Harper Collins is releasing the tenth anniversary edition of of the book in a hardcover edition that contains what Gaiman referres to as “the preferred text.”
SG reached out to Gaiman by phone for a brief conversation at the beginning of his book tour.
Read our exclusive interview with Neil Gaiman on SuicideGirls.com.
Lunar Suicide in Level Up
- INTO: Pugs not drugs, art (Mark Ryden, Audrey Kawasaki, Lori Earley, etc), plastic, junk, Old Spice, Max MSP.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Exploring.
- HOBBIES: Pole dancing, burlesque, lomography.
- VICES: Hello Kitty.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Playing computer games.
Get to know Lunar better over at SuicideGirls.com!
by Daniel Robert Epstein
“[Spartans] throw their kids off cliffs”
– Zack Snyder
300 is such a blast. There will be no other movie ever that is able to combine killing children, stabbing half dead Persians and guys with swords for arms in such a cool way. Gerard Butler has teamed up with visionary director Zack Snyder to bring the ultimate historical graphic novel by Frank Miller to life.
Butler plays King Leonidas, who declares war on the invading Persians, after they insult his queen and his city. Without permission from Spartas high courts, Leonidas gathers 300 of his best soldiers to battle Xerxes army of 10,000 Persians. 300 takes what Robert Rodriguez did with Sin City to the nth degree creating a colorful and sometimes even horrifying story of courage.
I got a chance to talk with Snyder at the 300 press day in Los Angeles about what it takes to inspire an army, making fun movies for adults, and his upcoming film adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Watchmen.
Read our exclusive interview with Zack Snyder on SuicideGirls.com.
Ellys Suicide in Vintage Keys
- INTO: Hard rock, heavy metal, poetry, alcohol, chocolate, knowledge, strange kinds of women, body mods.
- NOT INTO: Corporate stuff, mathematics.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: A good storyteller, a kind smiling stranger, to be sure that friendship does exist no matter what my friend does to me.
- MAKES ME SAD: People with closed minds, sinking in their vices till they stupidly die, and animal suffering.
- HOBBIES: Playing the hardest death metal guitars, reading a lot, writing good bedtime stories for suicide people, listening to good music.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My guitar, amplifier (of course), my Voodoo doll, rock n’ roll (maybe not a ‘thing’ but I can’t live without it).
- VICES: Reading crazy things and ugly/cruel jokes.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Writing things that are trying without success to be as brilliant as Cortazar.
Get to know Ellys better over at SuicideGirls.com!
by Erin Broadley
“We wanted to show that drummers could become front men.”
– Adam Alt, Street Drum Corps
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 SDCs start in 2004, drummers Bobby Alt, Adam Alt and Frank Zummo have used found objects to create their elaborate beats and have toured the worldleaving 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.
