MIX TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC, GOOD OL’ PUNK ROCK 'N' ROLL, SOME WORKING CLASS VALUES WITH A FIGHTING SPIRIT, AND AN EVER-SWELLING FAN BASE, AND YOU HAVE THE INFAMOUS DROPKICK MURPHYS. MY MAIN MAN HECTOR HOOKED ME UP, AND I HAD THE PLEASURE OF CHATTING WITH DROPKICK MURPHY AND HELL OF A NICE GUY, KEN CASEY. READ ON, MY WAYWARD SONS.
Vinnie: How you doing?
Ken: I’m doing alright.
V: You guys just finished up touring, right?
K: No. We just started a new one last night.
V: It started last night?

WHAT'S MORE CONTROVERSIAL THAN A BOOK ABOUT OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT'S QUESTIONABLE PAST? A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT SAID BOOK. AND WE HAVE FILMMAKERS SUKI HAWLEY AND MICHAEL GALINSKY TO THANK FOR IT. JUST AS WE HAVE BETHANY SHADY TO THANK FOR DOING THE INTERVIEW.
Bethany: How long have you two been working together?
Suki: It'll be ten years at the end of this year.
Michael: We started out with Half-Cocked nearly a decade ago.
B: What made you decide to do a documentary this time around, as opposed to your previous, more fictional work?

BRIAN GAGE WRITES CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR ADULTS. READ THAT AGAIN: CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR ADULTS. IF THAT DOESN'T INTRIGUE YOU ENOUGH TO READ THIS INTERVIEW THAT INSANE WAYNE CHINSANG DID WITH HIM, NOTHING WILL.
Wayne: Let’s begin by talking about how you started off going to school for business, but then you got into doing more creative things. Do you think you could have gotten where you are now and written what you have without going through those-- what I’m sure were-- horrible experiences?

JUST BECAUSE THIS PUNK ROCK PUBLISHER IS NOW TRYING HIS HAND AT CARPENTRY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT DOESN'T MEAN HE'S OUT OF THE POLITICAL REALM. QUITE THE OPPOSITE, IN FACT. AND THE WORD AROUND THE CAMPFIRE IS THAT HE IS READY TO MAKE A COMEBACK TO THE WORLD OF D.I.Y. PUBLISHING WITH HIS NEW VENTURE, DRENCH KISS. OUR VERY OWN D.I.Y. EDITOR/PUBLISHER, INSANE WAYNE CHINSANG, SAT DOWN WITH THE MAN KNOWN AS SANDER HICKS TO DISCUSS FORTUNATE SON AND JAMES HATFIELD, DUBYA AND GANDHI, AND A SIGN FROM THE HEAVENS.

I HAD JUST REVIEWED THE NEW FULL-LENGTH DEBUT ALBUM FROM STELLASTARR* WHEN INSANE WAYNE CHINSANG ASKED ME IF I WANTED TO INTERVIEW THEIR DRUMMER, ARTHUR KREMER. I’D NEVER DONE AN INTERVIEW BEFORE. I WAS NERVOUS. BUT ARTHUR WEARS AN ASTERISK MADE OF ELECTRICAL TAPE OVER HIS RIGHT NIPPLE AT EVERY SHOW. AND I REALLY LIKED THEIR ALBUM. THESE THINGS CALMED ME, SO I DECIDED TO GIVE THE INTERVIEW A SHOT. THE RESULTS WERE,.. UM,.. WELL, MY SKILLS AS AN INTERVIEWER MAY COME INTO QUESTION HERE, BUT I LIKED TALKING TO THE GUY...
D.J.: Alright, so--

With only eight short months until the beginning of the much-anticipated summer movie season, Hollywood studios have begun promoting what is sure to be one of the biggest box office years to date. And what would a mega-blockbuster summer be without the inevitable avalanche of sequels?
Here’s a short list of just a few of the mega-hot franchises receiving new installments in the summer of 2004:
John Carpenter’s Escape From Tampa
2 Quick 2 Dead
XXX 2: Four X’s
The Lion King: Reloaded
Freddy vs. Jason 2: A Film By ICPglenn23

EVERY NOW AND THEN, THE GRAPHIC DESIGNER IN ME NEEDS TO TALK SHOP WITH A FELLOW PROFESSIONAL. BUT WHEN THE GRAPHIC DESIGNER I CHOOSE ALSO HAPPENS TO BE A VIDEO ARTIST (VIDEO BEING MY ORIGINAL LOVE AND FIRST COLLEGIATE MAJOR), MY INTERVIEWING HEART GOES PITTER-PATTER. I HAPPENED UPON CANDYSTATIONS’ VERY OWN DEBORAH JOHNSON WHEN WATCHING WILCO PERFORM LIVE THIS SUMMER. THE VIDEO VISUALS BEHIND THEM WERE AMAZING, AND SHE WAS TO BLAME. SO, I SOUGHT HER OUT.