This was certainly a great surprise! Comics For Sinners, a web site dedicated to comic book news and reviews, has a feature where once a month they spotlight an indie comic book from Indyplanet. As you may remember, our comic Purgatory Comics #1 is available FREE on Indyplanet (Seriously! It's free! You can literally go download it right now).
"If you enjoy comics but don’t take them too seriously this is an enjoyable read and free, digitally, on Indyplanet."
Give them some love and be sure to read the review, as well as their other reviews and updates. And if you haven't yet, be sure to download your FREE copy of Purgatory Comics #1!
And here's the first concert post in a little bit: this time I returned to Jones Beach to finally see Muse live for the very first time. I'm pleased to say the show was everything I hoped it would be.
Let's start was Thirty Seconds to Mars, a band I casually like but I'm not too familiar with beyond their singles. Whatever you think about Jared Leto (I happen to like him as he's in two of my favorite movies), there's no doubt he was charismatic and sincere during this show. The best part for me was when Leto performed an acoustic version of "The Kill" while standing in the audience. Here's their setlist:
Up in the Air
Conquistador
This Is War
Kings and Queens
Alibi
The Kill (Bury Me)
City of Angels
(Unknown)
Do or Die
The Ocean
Closer to the Edge
Then came the Muse portion of the show, and wow. Again, it was an extremely energetic performance that really engaged the audience. Here's the set list for their portion of the concert:
Dig Down
[Drill Sergeant] + Psycho
Interlude
Hysteria
Resistance
Plug In Baby
The 2nd Law: Isolated System
Stockholm Syndrome
Supermassive Black Hole
The Unfortunate Not That New Kind of Kick
Madness
Dead Inside
Munich Jam
Starlight
Time Is Running Out
Mercy
The Globalist + Drones
Uprising
Knights of Cydonia
The highlights for me: lead singer Matt Bellamy performing "Starlight" while standing with the audience, seeing "Knights of Cydonia" live, and their incredible performance of "Mercy" (complete with confetti and smoke machines - this part was one of my favorite concert experiences ever).
I'd like to share someone's YouTube video of "Mercy" to punctuate how much I enjoyed this part of the show; of course this video won't do the performance justice, but it sure makes me happy to look back and relive the experience.
A few years back I plugged this collection of awesome art from Rafael Rivera (a.k.a. DARAF). Well now, Rafael's back with Jab, Jab, Whammo!!! The Art of Rafael Rivera A.K.A. DARAF Round 2 - and this book is even better than the first! Half the reason is because this time around, I have a full page foreword. It's a great read, but I'm a little biased.
I have a hard copy of this book and I mean it when I say: it's gorgeous. It's extremely well put together and as alwaysm the art inside is extraordinary. Recall that Rafael has been my go-to artist since the days of Purgatory Comics. Most notably, he illustrated and colored the entire Purgatory Comics comic book (still available, still free to download).
I was really honored to write the foreword for this one, and it really made me reflect on how far back Rafael and I go now (nearly a decade!). His art is only getting better, as you'll see in this collection. Check it out!
A couple of years ago, I made a post highlighting some tweets from the Warm Milk Productions Twitter account. Now, almost two years later, I figured why not do it again.
Oh sure, you all want me to follow you on twitter and follow you on Snapchat - but when I follow you home from work it's creepy.
Here's a short, easily digestible episode for you all. One of my oldest and dearest friends Laura joins me in the studio along with her husband/my pal Chris - and also Steph returns as well! Here, we discuss our own mortality, and how we learned about the concept of death. Morbid! But fun!
Okay I changed my mind since the last post... this episode shall be the "season finale" before a hiatus. I thought this would be a really good one to go out on for now.
So generally how it works is, my cousin Steve pops over, we have a few drinks, share a few laughs, and then record some podcasts. This episode was the last one we recorded during a long session, so that might explain why we're a little extra loose and giggly. I said it MIGHT explain why.
Anyway this episode is about Steve's brother and my good friend/family member. Enjoy! This will be the last episode for a little while as we're going on another hiatus to get some more recordings in the can. Now's a great time to catch up on old episodes!
Don't let the title of this episode fool you; we're talking about butterflies, deer, mice...adorable animals. It just so happens that at certain points in time, these harmless critters scared the crap out of us. Here, we tell those stories...
Check me out on the new Pitch It Movie Podcast (episode 36)! This is a weekly show where my buddies Pete Bune, Sean King, and Will Puntarich - along with a guest - make up movie pitches on the fly with hilarious results.
In my episode, we pitch an interactive, choose-your-adventure style
cinematic experience called "Escape Room". You can listen right here and/or subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud, Google
Play, and Stitcher. This was a lot of fun; I hope you enjoy it!
Cousin Steve is here for one of my favorite episodes yet. Back in 2008 we held a New Years Eve party and it wasn't quite the success that our Halloween parties were. Still, some odd things took place that make for a hilarious podcast episode (in my opinionation).
Happy holidays! There are so many great Christmas specials out there, but I feel like a few very important ones are getting lost in the shuffle - and they're not securing the legacies they may deserve. So in this special holiday episode of 20 Minutes Gone, Steph and I review some of those endangered classics (and tell you how to find them).
Just in time for the holiday season: our friend Elisa Pupko returns to share her experiences growing up the child of two religions! You can see Elisa in our film The Burden of Choice which is available FREE online right here!
In the 20th(!) episode of our podcast, my brothers join me to tell stories about how our dad used to mess with us when we were little. Be warned; this is one of those "recorded at 2 AM" episodes...
Here is the exciting(?) conclusion of the lengthy conversation I had with my cousin Steve about comic book film adaptations. This time around we dive into Spider-Man, Watchmen, race-swapping controversies and more. Enjoy!
Here's a new episode of 20 Minutes Gone where cousin Steve and I discuss comic book movies... more specifically, the differences in how Marvel and DC films handle if/when their heroes kill.
Speaking of The Burden of Choice, which is now available free online, you can catch the star of that short Elisa Pupko on the latest episode of 20 Minutes Gone!
In this very special episode, Elisa and I play a game called "Wheel of Pupko" - where Elisa spins a wheel full of unique and interesting mini-games we then play in the studio.
I should also mention that this is the first episode to be recorded outside of my basement at the famous Ripley-Grier studio in New York City!
There's no catch, but there is a donation button. If you enjoy the film, please consider donating a little bit to Warm Milk Productions so we can recoup costs and keep providing you with thought-provoking shorts like this and Halina. Every little bit counts (and is appreciated)!
We're back with a new intro! As you can see, new episodes are fairly irregular with unannounced breaks, so make sure you subscribe to this podcast so you don't miss a beat.
Cousin Steve returns and we talk about the Halloween parties we used to help throw that got wilder and wilder each year. The parties were a popular Halloween staple from 2004-2009 and plenty of crazy stories have emerged from them... including the one about why I'm a passed out wreck in this picture...
This Sigur Ros show was much different than the previous performances I've seen, and for a couple of reasons: (1) it only featured three members of the band, with none of their string and bass players, and (2) it had no opening act and featured two sets with an intermission between. It was really nice to see a show so dramatically different than their usual tours.
The band did some crowd favorites but also mixed in a generous amount of new material (take my money already). There were times, admittedly, where I really missed the strings; they were noticeable absent from Starálfur (which thus cut the song's length almost in half). But at the same time, they did some new and great things with that song which really helped separate it from the previous two times I'd seen it performed.
Set 1
Á
Ekki Múkk
Samskeyti
E-Bow
Dauðalagið
Glósóli
Smáskifa
Set 2
Óveður
Starálfur
Sæglópur
Ný Batterí
Vaka
Festival
Kveikur
Popplagið
While I did get full recordings of Samskeyti and Sæglópur on my iPhone, here's someone else's way better quality video...
Extra short episode! My brothers join me once again and Paul shares a bizarre story about a racist babysitter he once had. Then, I tell the tale of how I was once trapped in a freestyle rap circle in the parking lot of a shady bar at two in the morning. Great stories in a super easy-to-digest 13-minute episode!
