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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

another appearance on FoF

This Zombie Astronaut fellow is one talented nutter...
http://frequencyoffear.com/2008/04/27/episode-0030-vengeance-beyond-the-grave.aspx

Episode 0.030: Vengeance Beyond The Grave
(39.6 MB; 1:26:30 MIN)


Bernie's Video Rental has a horror rarity I've been looking for, but when I get the wrong movie everybody assumes because I'm dead I've returned from the grave to seek vengeance. The nerve! While I try in vain to convince everybody I just want to get my movie and go home, you get to listen to tales of real vengeance beyond the grave. Checkout these tales from The Inner Sanctum, Lights Out and The Strange Dr. Weird. Also check out the first in a sporadic series of interviews with sci-fi and horror musicians as I interview Pete Kellers of No They Do. Taliesin talks about vampiric vengeance, courtesy of Taliesin Meets The Vampires.

"Vengeance Beyond The Grave" was written by KC Locke, Brent Hinks and W Ralph Walters

Therese Chevas - Marsha
KC Locke - Bernie, Steve Martin
Gwendolyn Jensen-Woodard - Customer #1
Brent Hinks - Customer #3
Elie Hirschman - Sgt. Staccato
W Ralph Walters - everything else

Friday, April 25, 2008

Pseudopod 87

Pseudopod 87: A Place of Snow Angels
By Matt Wallace

Read by Elie Hirschman

Joshua was seven when he saw the white city.

It was his first deep trek across the Mojave tundra with Dedimus, hours spent listening to the snowreaver’s hover jets pulverize powder and ice, his tiny nostrils filled with the tonic ozone smell of its ionized plasma engines and he could barely move in the half-dozen layers of insulation Mida added to his parka., and somewhere under all of that Dedimus preaching, always preaching, about Joshua’s bond to the ever-growing winter, his future, his responsibility. By the time they reached the Santa Monica coastline, Joshua’s ears were ringing and he was hungry, and despite the arctic chill he found he was sweating.

They stood on the shore and looked west. At first there was just the ocean, slow moving and rough-hewn gray, like unfinished sheets of steel. The frost shifted in heavy curtains above them. Then morning broke and the tide changed. Twenty miles off the coast, the white city blazed as pure and broad as the horizon itself. There were walls rising higher than any structure Joshua had ever seen. There were parapets. There were stalactite spires that stabbed the frosty fog billows.

Joshua never saw anything like it, not in pictures or among the small holographic images Mida used to teach him.

“Who lives there?” he’d asked Dedimus.

“No one,” the old man told Joshua. “That is the fata morgana, an illusion created by the cold. Like any worthy opponent, winter tricks your eyes, draws you into falsehoods.”

Monday, April 14, 2008

WOO HOO! Special appearance by ME on Zombie Astronaut's Frequency of Fear Podcast!

Episode 0.029: Him, Robot
http://frequencyoffear.com/2008/04/13/autosaved-60132-pm.aspx
(45.7 MB; 1:40:01 MIN)

Robots drive me crazy! All I wanted to do was order a pizza and what happens? A robot goes crazy and tries to kill me. To top that off, killer robots from the future travel to the past to save me or kill me, depending on which one you're talking about. While I attempt to avoid being invalidated, we listen to killer robot tales from Theater 5, Dimension X and 2000 Plus, as well as listening to robot songs from Bent Bolt & The Nuts and No They Do. Taliesin talks about vampirism and robots and what crappy movies they make, courtesy of Taliesin Meets The Vampires. Doctor Despicable isn't in this one. Nope. Wasn't invited.

"Him, Robot" was written by KC Locke and W Ralph Walters

Todd Young - Metagalactic Pizza Guy, Metagalactic Pizza Robot
Elie Hirschman - The Invalidator
KC Locke - also The Invalidator, Daleks
Doctor Despicable - Future Dictator Doctor Despicable
W Ralph Walters - everything else

Thursday, April 10, 2008

I've been doing a bunch of work for JTV Productions, a video firm with whom I have contacts in common. I've now done 2 school diner video voiceovers, 1 biography and 1 bar mitzvah intro. So far so good.
I haven't had to do any post work for this - if I did and needed music, I would probably visit this site:


Partners in Rhyme - Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects "Download the music and sound effects you need for your multimedia project today at Partners In Rhyme."

Having some good music behind your words can work wonders for a podcast, trailer or other production.