Yearly Archives: 2007

Interview with Dennis Dragon of the Surf Punks

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Formed in 1976 and borrowing elements from punk and surf rock, the Surf Punks were a completely singular if not unique musical phenomenon. Irrevent, funny and totally original, the Surf Punks would release five albums, Surf Punks (1976), My Beach (1980), Locals Only (1982), Oh No! Not Them Again (1988) and Party Bomb (1989). In the following interview, Dennis Dragon, drummer and founder of the Surf Punks, talks about the band.

Dennis Dragon 1985

Dennis Dragon 1985 – Click on image for a bigger version.

For more information on Dennis Dragon’s current work, visit his website by clicking here.

Interview follows.

With all the information out there on the internet, surprisingly there isn’t a whole lot about the Surf Punks. Additionally, your albums are quite hard to come by. “Surf Punks” on Day-Glo is next to impossible to find, and compact discs of “My Beach” go for 90+ dollars on Amazon used vendors. Do you think any Surf Punks albums
will see rereleases?

Since Epic Records owns the rights to the “My Beach” album, the ball is in their court. I personally have a few unopened copies of our original Day-Glo record and would consider selling some if the price is right. I have recently re-acquired the rights to “Locals Only” and will probably re-release that one at some point.

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Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon – Nude Shot of Diana???

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In the 9th episode of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, “Quest of the Skeleton Warrior”, the kids have to retrieve the Circle of Power to save Dekion, an enslaved Celestial Knight. On the way the party has to face their greatest fears. Hank’s is that he’ll be a bad leader, Sheila’s that she’ll be alone, Presto’s that he’ll be without his glasses, Eric’s that he’ll be the laughing stock, Bobby’s that he’ll be treated like a baby and Diana’s – well, Diana’s is that when she grows old her tit will flop out.

Sure, the actual nipple isn’t colored in, but it is clearly there for all to see. And to think, with all the hubbub created by the National Coalition on Television Violence around the “The Dragon’s Graveyard” episode, Diana’s droopy dug went right out her animal-skin top and under parental radar.

So, big shout out to the horn-dog animators behind the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, because now along with “puffy pussies”, “presto pizzazz” and “really free mp3s”, “Dungeon and Dragons’ cartoon nude pictures” will be among the top search terms for our site.

Thank goodness most of our potential new readership won’t be surfing in and looking at any of the content we actually spend time on or want people to see.

Nude blooper pics of Diana follow. Click individual pictures for a bigger wilted boob.

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Galactic Noir: Dead On Arrival

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I wrote this story in 2001 as part of a “Galactic Noir” setting I was working on back then. In it’s tone Galactic Noir was largely inspired by short stories by George R.R. Martin, specifically those from his now out of print Sandkings short story collection (though not so much by the titular story). But it also drew heavy thematic inspiration from the Orion’s Arm group I was participating with at the time, as well as the old World of Darkness gameline by White Wolf.

Unfortunately, after fleshing out several ideas for this setting via e-mail with a few guys from one of the World of Darkness forums (Bryan Conlon, Gabe Carlson, and “Wolf”), the computer on which I stored all our correspondence had pretty much every one of it’s I/O devices break in some way. As a result the relevant information languished for years on the machine’s inaccessable hard drive.

However, this past Christmas season, while rummaging through Circuit City trying to figure out what to spend a gift certificate on, I stumbled across a kit to convert old hard disks for use as external drives. Now that I have access to this stuff again I’ll probably be sticking at least some of it on the web in the near future.

Dead On Arrival is the only actual story I can remember writing for the setting, and consequently also the only “stand alone” piece of writing that my brief perusal could dig up. So here it is.

Note: This one’s going out to the folks on the Dragonstar mailing list in the hopes that it’ll contribute to the currently ongoing discussion of vampires… in… space…

Keep on keepin’ the faith over there guys.

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Interview with Takaharu Saito, Filmmaker

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Takaharu Saito is a filmmaker residing in Sendai, Japan. His works include A Memory (2001), Portrait of a Day (2003) and ONE/S (2004). In the following interview, he talks about his latest film, Pre/sense (2006).


From Pre/sense

Mr. Saito has been kind enough to allow us to host his movie. Please take the opportunity to download and watch the movie by clicking here.

If you have trouble watching the film, please download Quicktime 7.

Interview follows.

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