Silent Night Of The Living Dead

Here's a promotional video for NMT's latest show "Silent Night Of The Living Dead." Click on the blog post title to learn more about the show.



Somewhat written by me, filmed by Alex Reynolds, and my wife is the voice of Virginia.

Oh, and I made two of the zombies.

The show itself opens this Friday (December 2nd) here in Chicago. It was written by Scott Janus Monster Hunter director Sean Harklerode and directed by SJMH producer Chad Wise. Several SJMH cast are in this cast or working behind the scenes.

That's all for now.

-paul

I'm just going to start posting things, comics or no comics. For starters: Black Friday.

So I should really just start writing things here even if I don't have an artistic endeavor in the works (and, uh, I do). I post about one or two times a month and this year I've drawn far, far, far less than that.

But, writing has taken over the spare creative time and why shouldn't it? And if it is, maybe I should get back to writing silly stuff here, beyond updates.

I had a LiveJournal for the whinin' and complainin' about everyday life and I intend to keep the whinin' and complainin' to an extreme minimum.

So, more updates. Here. From now on. Beyond twitter.

Since I last wrote ye, little has progressed on the artistic front. The Goons had a brunch the other day and that was nice. We have some band photos of the group, the last ones we'll be taking with drummer Kodos for a while. Got to see Serac The Preparer Goon and that was nice. (That's Kodos' baby, btw.)

People are asking when the next Goons show is. If you know a drummer or are a drummer and are into having fun and playing with a bunch of goofy guys who love cartoons, comics, and rocking out, then visit www.gabbagabbadoh.com and drop us a line.

Okay, the reason why I DON'T post is because I have little to say, and right now that is true as well. But:

-A PS3 was purchased for the KV-HQ and it is glorious. The Blu-Ray and Netflix alone make it worth it. And then there's MLBtv. But the icing on the cake is getting to play Transformers: War For Cybertron. At my own place.

-We did the doorbuster thing to get it and despite how shameful I think it is to take part in that on such a major holiday...

-I personally don't care for the damn holiday to begin with. When I worked at the University bookstore, it was two days off that meant I missed out on two days of work and had to use two days of vacation that I'd rather use when, you know, your pals are a little more available instead of trapped with their families (note: they might like their families), or when cool places are open at reasonable hours and not filled with a bunch of maniacs. Now that I work at the comic store that does shipping, I miss out on a key date of my own shipping schedule and have to haul ass to catch up. Waaaaah.

-Oh, the maniacs. Fortunately, we did not get in line until ONLY a half hour or less before the doors opened. It went around the long box store structure into the parking lot. It was not terribly cold, but as a proud midwesterner I've made it a point to not complain about the cold and other things I have no control over and instead prepare for the worst, bundling up with layers and an actual winter coat. So I don't feel bad for anyone shivering in line. Especially if they were camping out. And people were camping out.

-Hi, it's Thanksgiving and I'm bucking the cultural demand that I spend time with my family so that I can sit in line all day to buy a TV that I probably don't need nor can afford. And I could probably pay the difference of whatever I'm saving if I were earning that money working instead of sitting in line.

The line moved quickly and orderly once the doors opened. As we neared the entrance, an employee of the box store who I'm sure would have been elsewhere announced that the giant 48" TVs were sold out. We were just there for the PS3. We grabbed one right away and got some BluRays. Most notably Inception and Ghostbusters.

-The true danger of course was getting nailed in the face by the people who snagged the TVs (already placed in the shopping carts by these poor employees forced to work on Thanksgiving) who continued to shop/run around full speed aimlessly. Imagine every idiot completely unaware of the bulky large item protruding face-high from their cart milling about and looking at everything around them instead of straight ahead. Not that they could, because of the TV in their cart blocking their view.

-We hung around for a tad bit longer. Maybe we were just delirious and in no real hurry. We got what we wanted and left around 12:30. We could have easily left earlier on our own. Getting out of the parking lot was no trouble, and we were home and safe and got a deal on the PS3, which I'm sure will be much much cheaper in a year or less. (They were out of them that afternoon.)

That was the doorbuster experience. No one died at this box store, unless you count tiny bits of our soul for taking part of it. I am still slightly embarrassed by doing so.

-Paul

Typing Typing Typing.

1. Click on the title of this threat to go to the HIRED GOONS site and listen to BIGGER THAN JEBUS, our new album.

2. I've been typing some stuff. The Voice 1st draft is 1/3rd done. Getting to the meat of it.

3. Got requests for EVERYONE LOVES GEARS. Writing the EVERYONE LOVES GEARS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL. It will be pure pain, I guarantee you. With a lot of voices.

4. Encouraged to do #3 and other filmed toys projects because a cohort at New Millennium Theatre helped me produce a stop-motion commercial for the next NMT play, Silent Night Of The Living Dead. Written by SJMHunter director Sean H., directed by regular King Vermin victim Chad W.

5. Thought I'd share. I want to post more on here so I figure I'd update you on the King Vermin's coming and goings.

Talk later. Buy my album.

-paul

Bigger Than Jebus on iTunes for $5. Scott Janus post show sum-up roundhouse kick.

So there, you can get Bigger Than Jebus online at iTunes for five bucks. It's also on Amazon MP3. Check it out.

I gotta say, I'm very, very, VERY proud of this album, even though I wrote the music to just ONE song. It was a LOT of work and I'm shamed that it took so long but it was totally worth it. These songs by Monty & Kodos are AMAZING and the mix ended up being fantastic. We seriously were considering throwing demos up on iTunes or giving them away for free as rough mixes and being done with it, but the end result was, again, worth the wait. So if you've been a fan of the Hired Goons, please check it out and buy a copy. Thanks.

SCOTT JANUS: MONSTER HUNTER just wrapped up. If you came by and saw it, thanks. It's a strange feeling to be over because...just because, I guess. It was a great show with a great cast but I don't have any elation over it. This isn't a blog where I talk about my feelings though so I'm just going to move on. I will say that we all had a lot of fun and that I learned a lot from the writing view. I'm also not the kind of person that's just going to hand something over to someone else and just sit back. This was both good and bad. The last thing I ever want to do is let anyone down and unfortunately I can be quite a jerk trying to defend something.

Another script project has been requested so I'll be working on that. An outline has been done and it looks good and so now I just have to write the darn thing. It's called THE VOICE and we'll see where and how it ends up.

I've typed too much. I will be back at the drawing table soon, so nyah.

BIGGER THAN JEBUS!

IT's FINALLY here!

Click on the title of this post to LISTEN TO THE WHOLE THING!

FINALLY!

(In other news: Script project has been greenlit. So I wrote out a character list and an outline/step by step plot. Should be fewer scenes than Scott Janus. Should be silly and fun and kinda dark in places. Will it get produced? Who knows.)

Chug-Chug Inaction strip - 10/18/2011

click on the link for the latest in Chug-Chug, courtesy of The Heckler.

I might miss Ozzie Guillen.

Click on the title for an actual article, not a comic strip, by me about my favorite White Sox skipper. This is baseball related, by the way. So if you don't care about that sort of thing, then DON'T click on the title.

Scott Janus: Monster Hunter rolls on. www.scottjanus.net.

-paul

Scott Janus trailer

Scott Janus: Monster Hunter! Sept. 23rd-Oct. 29th.

Click on the title for information about The Show I Wrote. Here's the latest promo video starring...um...

Scott Janus Testimonial #3

Scott Janus Testimonial #2

And some stills from a future episode:

Scott Janus: Monster Hunter!

Here's a video! A happy customer.

Some more "stills" from SJMH.

Here's a few more shots. Whee.

Some balls....are rollin'...

Okay, Scott Janus: Monster Hunter. Been working on that for a while. This image is a teaser from a video testimonial. Good? Bad? Who gives a poop?

I wish I had more but I'll have more in a few days, if you're keeping score and subscribed or whatever it is you do with blogs.

See you later,
-paul

I might be one of the bad influences...?

-paul