The Drink Tank Issue Eighty-six very well-spent. I love Washington He agreed. M does enjoy the male Letter Graded Mail (lived there for a summer) and the porn, on occasion, comics mostly bunch of us are planning a first as I understand it. In fact, she once Sent to [email protected] birthday get-together for M’s kids in bragged that she got to meet The by my gentle readers a year’s time. Hun and Tom of Finland back in M did a good job on #69; it feels the day. When even I’ve heard of a Making his Drink Tank LoC debut is like an issue of DRINK TANK. homoerotic artist, I’m pretty sure Mr. Ted White on issue 69. The LoC I think it’s interesting, how they’re big deals. was written a long while back, but differently society treats female When I was a youthful fellow, aparently my emailer ate it and Ted homosexuality. Male homosexuality still callow and largely inexperienced, was kind enough to resend it. causes the Fred Phelpses of this the whole world of sexual experience Dear Chris, world to rise in angry protest -- at the still mostly in my future, I was driven Reading the last two DRINK funerals of soldiers who were in Iraq, to an extent by a combination of TANKs (#s 68 and 69), I’m struck all no less. Female homosexuality just loneliness and the thirst for experience. over again by how you’ve essentially leads men to ask, “Can I watch?” A But, strangely enough, all my early reinvented fandom in, well, not exactly sign, I guess, of how male-dominated sexual experiences were closely tied to your own image, but something our society remains, and how fearful deep relationships -- lots of emotion, approximating that. many men are of their own sexual commitment -- and it wasn’t until I’d Wow, that’s a terrifying thought. identities. been through two marriages (and was a Flattering as all Hell, but terrifying! So I see all these women in #69 single father raising my daughter) that By that, I mean that you’ve talking about their experiences with I got to the casual sex stage, multiple introduced the rest of us to an entire other women. But nothing by men lovers, bisexuality, three-ways, and all social milieu -- your friends -- and talking about their experiences with of that. allowed us to slowly untangle their other men. Why was that? M doesn’t I’ve never been to that casual sex backstory, bit by bit, issue by issue. know any gay men? (There are quite a stage, I always tie up a lot into sex, By now I feel like I almost know few in fandom.) Or men talking about which is a blessing and curse. them -- enough so that when I hear sex with men doesn’t turn her on? (I’ve Despite that, I think the the MoreLs were grouping in Baltimore known women who wanted to watch strangest sexual situation I was ever after a couple of them were in D.C., I men having sex.) Or is it just that none in -- it remains utterly unique in my have this “Well, hell, we shoulda gotten of her male friends wanted to write experience -- occurred during my together, then” reaction. Although they about that? second marriage. Now, one of the best wouldn’t know me from any bloviating There was an interesting article things about my marriage to Robin politician in this town. (I may not live that M wanted to use that was was the sex. We were very sexually in D.C., but I work in D.C., so I have a almost a How To guide to man- compatible. Even after our divorce, the certain proprietary gut attachment to on-man sex. It was a tad too sex was still good. So one night we had the city.) graphic for the zine, so I asked gone to bed and eventually to sleep, Their time in DC was apparently for a rewrite for a future issue. and I had this dream. I don’t remember how it started, Issue, or a Rock and Roll Issue? If listed there, not to mention that for but it was one of those dreams which you ever do, let me know. I’d like to some unfathomable reason they were I call “fiction” dreams -- in it I was contribute to both of them. sent to Europre for the last season. A not myself, but was some fictional All best, few of the Fantasy Island episodes were character in a story. And in the story Ted written well enough to transcend its I met this other fictional character, a I’ve already planned both! The Drug often goofy morality tale atmosphere, woman, and we began making out. Issue (which I’ve asked SaBean to but again the whole series really falls Soon we were having sex. And as, edit with me) will be happening into the realm of camp. By the way, in the dream, I was on the point of around issue 105. It should be very it might just be a nitpick on my part, orgasm (in what would otherwise have interesting. The Rock ’n’ Roll issue but technically speaking, The Prisoner been a “wet dream”), I woke up -- to will be sometime after, maybe as wasn’t explicitly stated as taking place find myself fucking Robin. Now that in my second Annish. I’m working on an island (there were mountain itself is a bit extraordinary -- it’s the on getting an old school rocker to ranges that helped isolate the seaside only time in my life I ever sleep-fucked write something for me, but it’s “resort” from the rest of civilization), -- but the kicker was that Robin had gonna take some time. but I think the effect was the same. been dreaming a Very Similar dream, Fantasy Island came close to in which she was a fictional character making the list. I loved it when and a fictional man was having sex And Now: Matthew “Some I was little. The follow-on series with her. In other words, she was Fantastic” Appleton! in the 1990s wasn’t good, but it sleep-fucking too. It had been a brought back some fun. I seem to perfectly synchronized meshing of two A year ago I was thinking that remember an episode where they dreams into one. And we both came it would be an interesting race to see talked about it being an island together. who reached which milestone first: (likely off the coast of Portugal, I That was so perfect that it never you making it to Drink Tank #100 or seem to remember them saying. happened again. And that’s my sex me making it to Some Fantastic #10. However, I do think that there story for you. Clearly, you’re going to beat me, with was an island show that you probably That is wonderful! I’ve heard a plenty of time to spare. neglected because it was a reality similar story from a friend of mine, Well, I still gotta get 100 Writers show. That’s right the one that but they actually had some tape to write 100 articles, so that might changed the face of reality television or somesuch that was supposed buy you some time! forever here in the US: Temptation to bring about sleep-fucking. I’m While reading Drink Tank #85 Island. :::firmly planting tongue in not how it worked, but they both I tried to think of a couple other TV cheek::: said that it was an incredible shows set on islands that I might I watched every episode of experience. argue belong in the Top 5. Removing Temptation Island. That one chick I suspect that the motto of any show set in Manhattan -- so many was HAWT! DRINK TANK must be, “Sex, Drugs & people forget that it’s an island too -- I Take care, Rock and Roll.” So #69 was the Sex actually couldn’t come up with one. Matthew Issue. Will you be having a Drugs McHale’s Navy was just too silly to be The Greatest Fantasy Authors in [spoken] the World: Tenacious D and Tribute Well me and Kyle, we looked at each Let me say that I fear this thing other, /and we each said... “Okay.” called Fantasy. I seldom read much of [sung] And we played the first thing that it, though I did rather enjoy The Stars came to our heads/Just so happened to Dispose, and of course Harry Potter. be/The Best Song in the World, it was The best Fantasy I’ve come across in The Best Song in the World. ages has to be Tenacious D. Black and Gass have conjured Never heard of Tenacious D? up a world comparable to the ones Wondering how a writer with such an Sabbath used to sing of, featuring awful name could get published (and demons. In many ways, this set honestly, it’s much better a name than, up brings to mind Charlie Daniels’ say, Minister Faust). Well, Tenacious D immortal classic The Devil Went Down are a band composed of Jack ‘Jables’ to Georgia, with the pair forced to Black and Kyle ‘KG’ Gass. You might play the greatest song or have their remember Black from King Kong or soul eaten. Daniels’ tune may be more Nacho Libre. You might remember Kyle literary (and certainly more influenced from his role in the extended version of by the traditional tales of Devil Reels Almost Famous playing a disk jockey. The best version is the Live one they and stories like that of Robert Jordan The two of them were also a team in do. I’ve heard the one from Chicago, selling his soul to play his guitar real the film The Cradle Will Rock. They’re Portland’s Roseland and from Las good), but The D, in a fit of lyrical a great team. Vegas. They include the entire CD economy have managed to put together a simple world. The music these fine fellows version plus the added section that make has been called Folk Metal, appears in the Tenacious D HBO series In the video version, the road is a which is pretty accurate, and there are version. The long one is the one I’ll be simple desert highway and the Demon long ties to groups like Black Sabath, talking about. is the guy who just moved in next door King Diamond and Led Zepplin. It This is the greatest and best who is constantly claiming to be a should surprise no one that there’s song in the world... Tribute. writer. a lot of comedy from these two since Long time ago me and my brother Oh, and it saved our butts, because Jack Black is one of the best comedic Kyle here/we was hitchhikin’ down the demon want to kill us/Oh-ohoh-oh- actors around. The song Tribute a long and lonesome road. /All of a oh/But he was forced to set us free, perfectly combines comedy and fantasy sudden, there shined a shiny demon... by the honor code that demons...Have and enjoyable fun into one little song. in the middle... of the road/And he said: to live by./Cause it’s Satan’s Surprise and it’s magic!/And it’s a mystical The first thing is that there is [sung] “Play the best song in the world, more than one version of the song. disguise.../It’s the devil’s song and it’s or I’ll eat your soul.” (soul) tragic! You are the mystical-eyed virgin/ and what’s to stop jabbles? My First Time: The Reading of Hol- you’re rocking! lywood Babylon (and the Night in Here, you can see that they’re General) singing about playing the greatest song I got paid, and with a little extra in the world. It’s tres Post-Modern. cash, it was Used Bookstore time! The The video features the pair of them first one I went to (Know Knew Books transformed into Wrestlers to do battle in Palo Alto) had a lot of great stuff, an with the great Beast. It’s a battle that early ComputerZine from the 1970s, a the Demon is winning at first, but then great Tiki Drink book, a fine issue of ends up losing after Jack drinks some Niekas dealing with King Arthur from Rocket Sauce (a running gag with the 1989, and a 1999 NASFiC programme D) and spits fire on the Demon. book (with a Frank Wu ad on page 4). That was enough to get me started, but Well needless to say, the beast was the other place I usually go was out stunned./Whip crack, went the of the way, but I was watching Evelyn swampy tail, and the beast was done./ over at her Grandparents’ place in Los He asked us, “Be you angels?”/And we Gatos. LG is sorta up-scale, a nice lit- said “Nay! We are but men, rock!”/This tle town set into a couple of hills with is not the greatest song in the world, no. a bunch of trees. It’s a nice place with This is just a tribute./Couldn’t its nose slightly angled upward. remember the greatest song in the Sadly, Gen locked us out of the world, no./No! This is a tribute, oh! house forgetting that I didn’t have a key. So, we left and went to the Recycle And here it all comes to a head. A Very Brief Note: The Following The boys not only aren’t singing us the Bookstore in San Jose. It’s the second came through my eMailbox this biggest used bookstore in the area and Greastest Song in the World, they’re morning. pointing it out! They’ve gypped us of the it’s a good place for SF. I hung around Chris M has Babies stop the back where they kept all the role GSitW and we’re supposed to celebrate 4 lb 5 oz and 4 lb 3 3/4 oz stop it. True, they do it in such a way that playing game. Names Christopher Teppo Cras- Now, this is the joint where I we’re still amused, but they’ve done dan and Guy Axelrod Crasdan stop what so many SF and Fantasy writers found my copy of the 1976 WorldCon Mom is fine stop programme and The Book on the Edge have done: baited us with the left hand SaBean and Judith are coming while the right plays the switch! of Forever. This time, I found an over- next week stop priced set of 27 Amras for a hundred Still, Tribute is a far better piece I’m going to try and sleep now buxks. Ouch! That’s the cut that hurts. of fantasy than most fo the stuff I’ve stop Of course, I couldn’t pass it up, so I read in the last five years. Maybe Jack Jay now own 27 issues of Amra. Black should start writing Fantasy, I And that’s what happens when As I was poking through the mean, if Greg Kihn can write horror, you’re having twins! Hollywood film book section, I found Randolph Hearst’s boat, The Oneida, to a copy of a book I’d been meaning to celebrate his birthday. Along the way, read for years. he somehow ended up dead. The offi- In the late 1950s, a former Child cial story: acute indigestion. The loudly Actor and then Avant-Garde film- whispered rumor: Hearst shot him. maker named Kenneth Anger wrote a I’m not the expert on the events book about the Golden Age of Holly- that a lot of Hollywood students are. wood called Hollywood Babylon. In it, I’ve seen the movie based on the he made public much of the scandal situation, went to a lecture by Peter and whispered beliefs of the first forty Bogdanovich where he talked about years of Hollywood’s existence. It was a it for almost twenty minutes, got a shocker at the time, mostly due to the chance to chat with Boggs about it a fact that he said things that had been year or so later, and have read most of floating around for decades and had the important published accounts. An- not been talked about in a major fo- ger’s version is far vaguer than the one rum. Boggs got out of Orson Welles, but it’s Anger wrote the book over the also the only one that has a believable course of several years and revised it guest list (though, if there were only 15 several times as well. I’ve never read people, it would have been WR’s small- the original (other than the opening est Yacht Party ever and that’s weird chapter which was used in a Text book considering it was the popular Ince’s for Intro to Mass Comm) and it had the birthday). The basic story is the same: cover with Jayne Manfield’s boobs all Marion Davies, who had been saying hangin’ out (the one I got was much certainly had time to research every ‘No’ to Charlie for months, finally had tamer). In it, he tells the stories of the bit of gossip he ever heard. While he her defenses broken down and went best known figures in Hollywood. He certainly gets more details right than for Chaz. WR saw them going at it (or gives a lot of coverage to Charlie Chap- anyone had previously, he does paint one of his stooges told him, which is lin and his foundness for the young some broad strokes far from true. the version I once heard from critic Rex ladies. There’s talk of Mabel Normand It doesn’t hurt that there are a Reed) and Hearst ran down with his and Mary Minter Minor. Lots of talk of lot of great stories that Anger tells with gun and shot the guy he thought was suicides and murders, including Ram- big bravado, including the big two: The Chaplin. Instead, it was Tom Ince. on Navarro and Marilyn Monroe. While Death of Tom Ince and The Fatty Ar- Now, the movie The Cat’s Meow he certainly does paint vivid pictures, buckle Situation. uses the fact that Ince had saddled especially of people who didn’t seem The death of Tom Ince is one of up alongside Davies to chat with her to like much, he gets details right that those Hollywood stories that traveled about her dealings with Chaplin and were incredibly scarce. No one is cer- a long way over the years. The basic was wearing Chaplin’s hat, hence why tain where he got all of his info, but he story is this: Tom Ince got on William Hearst shot him. Other’s say that Mar- ion was actually in the process room 770. Along the way, Vir- of schtupping Chaplin, Marion ginia Rappe came over and she made a racket, everyone ran got ill. That led to her dying and onto the deck and WR man- Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle going on aged to shoot Ince. Many, if trial. not most, say that Luella Par- There are a lot of ways to sons witnessed the entire thing tell the story and Anger’s way is and that’s why she got her life- brutal. He certainly tried to sell time contract (and others say it that Fatty was responsibile that it was because she had for Rappe’s death, even going so much better dirt on Hearst and far as to present the situations. co. than just that). Anger’s list I’ve read the transcripts (and includes Parsons, writer Elinor I’m sure that Anger has as well) Glyn, the legendary Chaplin, and the way he characterizes Marion, a trio of young ac- Fatty’s responses at the trials tors, and a couple of friends. It seems very unfair. I also hated didn’t mention any of the close One of the Last Known Photos of Tom Ince the way he brought up the time friends of Ince who would have when Fatty was seen throwing been close to Hearst as well, including way Welles told the story. I’ve heard a bottle out of the car window when Tom Mix. Mix would have been invited Boggs tell it, I’ve heard Reed retell it, he was pulled over for Drunk Driving. to any party that Ince was having, and I’ve talked with Robert Wise about Anger then says that it was the second especially since he was a favorite of the way he heard it (from the co-writer time that Fatty had tossed evidence out Hearst’s. My guess is that Anger’s list, of Citizen Kane, which is probably the window (or something like that). plus at least five more, is probably the where Welles got it from). I’m fairly Did Fatty kill Virginia Rappe? It’s right point. certain Glyn would have been the one actually pretty doubtful. More likely it The bigger point here is that An- to record everything in her diary, which was a botched abortion that just got ger was writing the thing while at least I’ve never managed to find (though I’m worse as she partied. It might have half the involved people were still alive told she was a life-long diarist. been Fatty’s kid, though. (Marion Davies, Chaplin, Lolly Parsons The other story is more sordid There are other great parts to were all alive, and I think that Anger and Anger’s presentation is much more the book. He presents Mae West and did an OK job with the way he pre- slanted. Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle is a guy makes a sly reference to the fact that sented it, but it could have been much I’ve written about before, including the she may have been a man. There’s a clearer. famous party at the San Francisco St. great section on Erich Von Stroheim For the easiest version to under- Francis Hotel where Fatty was unwind- and his methods. The photos are stand, watch Bogdanovich’s The Cat’s ing after signing a boffo contract. That great, if gruesome, including post- Meow, or read his Orson Welles book was the high point for Fatty Arbuckle, death shots of Paul Berg and Jayne or audio recordings and hear it the and in SF, there were far fewer camer- Mansfield. There’s a shot that I’d never as and everyone could party like it was seen of Suite 1221, the St. Francis of Washington Insider types, including party suite where the Arbuckle kerfuf- Arlen Spector and Wolf Blitzer. I ran More Letter Graded Mail fle started, and various other shots of into a HOT chick while I was chatting Sent to [email protected] stars. There’s along section on Mary with my pal Louis Reel (OK, he’s Sa- by my gentle readers Astor’s diary which was considered the Bean and Judith’s pal since he helped filthiest ever presented in court. It’s a fund many of their Dad’s projects in Ladies and Gentlemen, chil- classic and the Judge of the case or- the 1970s and 80s) and he introduced dren of all ages, pleasae direct your dered it destroyed. me. attention to...John Purcell!!! “This is Ann Coulter” he said. We If you love Hollywood History, Wow. You are rapidly zooming chatted for a minute and that was that. this might be the book for you. It’s not in on 100 issues. Not many fanzines She mentioned that she’d been work- the easiest of reading, but it’s good in history have achieved that level of ing as a lawyer. We talked for maybe a dirty fun. madness...er, I mean, productivity. couple of minutes. Flash-forward - Emerson College, You were right the first time, John! 1999. I was invited to a thing as an And by planning on doing 100 alumni to hear people talk about mod- articles by one hundred different ern sexual harrassment issues. Coul- writers, I may be planning my own ter was on the panel. We talked a little undoing! afterwards, mentioning that I thought we’d met before. She looked better in An island themed issue. 1999 than she did in 1993. She made Interesting. I really don’t have much to a Hilary Clinton joke, and I returned say about the pieces in this issue, but with a far dirtier Hilary joke. She I still enjoyed them. Loved the artwork laughed and followed-up with “you’d you’ve selected. Good stuff, and I am think with a topic like the panel, you’d glad you included art credits; not only have learned that wasn’t appropriate.” does this give egoboo, but provides She then said “Anything is appropriate other faneds a chance to gather more America Finally Has Its David Icke when you get to laugh at that slag.” artistic contributors for their zines. Yes, she’s a racist. Yes, she’s a I laughed even harder. If you wanna get in touch with any crackpot. Yes, she give all us Conserv- I don’t like her politics, particu- of the artists I’ve listed, drop me atives a bad name (well, not ALL...there larly her views on Arabs. I think she’s a line and I’ll patch you through. are worse), but Ann Coulter and I go entertaining, but more than likely They’re good folks, typically. way back. How way back? About a dec- evil. My favourite of her quotes had ade and a half back. to be the one about wishing Timothy As far as islands go, I think In 1993, I went to Washington McVeigh had blown up the New York that fandom can be envisioned as a to work at the Smithsonian. I was Times instead of the building in Okla- gigantic archipelogo of fan groups on lucky enough to get to chat with a lot homa. That’s even dark for me! separate islands; some are separated or connected by little strips of water I loved Jackie Gleeson, especially The 48 Hour Film Project while others are gulfs or oceans apart. when he used to do the Roasts with or Fan groups have a tendency to mostly Dean Martin. Christopher J. Garcia and Pals Find be insular. Some club members New Ways to Pain Themselves have more of a need to be known as Sorry for such a short loc this regional, national, or international time around, but I really want to get Last year, we assembled a team fans, but that’s the choice of the that Big MAC write-up done for you; of twenty or more people and made individual. it’s been on hold this week while I a forty-eight hour film that really concentrate on getting ahead on the changed the World. I kinda think of it as a long series World Lit class I’m teaching. Hang in That’s a bold-faced lie. of Fjords. There are hundreds of there: it will be done! We made a movie that some peo- little isolated groups, but almost all ple enjoyed, others thought was crap Can’t wait to read it (but I will). Are of them have some slight connection and it nearly killed us physically and you using my theory about giving to the whole. Fandom is Finland! emotionally. It wasn’t a great time, but piano lessons: just make sure you we made a movie and all went about For the last decade or so I stay one lesson ahead of the kid? have felt kind of like Easter Island: our lives. people have heard of me, sometimes All the best, It’s 2006 and the time came again. This year, several of our friends contact me, there are artifacts (my John Purcell old fanzines) left behind of my prior were doing teams of their own, so we fannish existence, but my life has been had a serious drain. Most of the actors stuck out in the middle of nowhere. we knew were on other teams already, Now that I’ve been pubbing again, the as were many of our crew friends. The distances of time and space have been day before the project was set to start shrinking, and I feel much more alive we had a crew of three: Steve Sprin- and enjoy the contact again. kles, who directed The Last Woman on Earth and The Chick Magnet), Jason That’s a good point. You Schachat (writer of both of those and were remembered by fannish Director of Golf Course High Kick of archeologists and people debated Death) and me. By Friday, we’d added how you managed to put together Gen (my Ex and a Smart Girl herself), your 20 ton fanzines using nothing and my buddy Justin Torres. Sadly, more than ropes. that was all. I was waiting at the house for Chris, you are NOT FAT! I was folks when Jason called. merely quoting Jackie Gleason (loved “Chris, we’re on 152 and it’s his old variety show, and the original backed up. They’re saying it’s four Honeymooners series). hours from here to Casa de Fruta.” For those of you who don’t un- for us and it was very good. She was derstand that reference, let me put it peeved that we were there so late, but to you like this: you’re at the Washing- we did make it and ate well that night, ton Monument and you want to get to I tell you what. The boys pitched their the Lincoln Memorial. That would take idea and I was easily won over. you almost an hour under this sort Basically the story is this: Don of traffic. Since we had to be up in San and Joe are two Mob Cleaners who are Francisco to pick up our info, Justin trying to dispose of the body of one Fo- and I left. We hit traffic too, but we de- reign Ambassador Mark Plantagentet. cided since it was a Spare the Air day They are putting him in a dumpster and BART was free, we’d take it up to when they are seen by a passing guy the City. on a Razor Scooter. That guy takes a It was a bad choice. We were photo with his camera and they have later than I’d have liked. We made it to chase him. They manage to corner before the drawing, but still, it was him and he takes a hiding place on top close. of a high fence. That leads to a long For the 48 Hour Film Project, conversation about phones and an they give you several required ele- eventual falling down. ments so you have to write something See, told it was pretty simple. new and fresh instead of pre-writing a We wrote most of it by 2am and scrip. This year every team had to in- then we all went to sleep. I was tired, clude three things: a pillow (The Prop), Justin and I worked on an idea but I only got an hour or so at a time “When are you going to clean up this on the way back to the house. Our idea because Leo, Gen’s Dad’s adorable mess?” (The Line) and Foreign Ambas- was called Ambassador Squad, an old puffball of a Pomeranian, was sleep- sador Mark (or Margot) Plantagenet school Police Squad-like unit that got ing in my room and constantly needed (The Character). That’s a rough one, countries to sign treaties with one an- to be let out. Still, in the morning, we that last. We then all chose a genre. other. The head of Ambassador Squad were up and at them! We watched folks pull things like Spy was the evil Mark Plantagenet, the guy We were ready to start filming Film, Science Fiction, Fantasy and who wanted mothing more than to get around 10. We’d brought in Steve’s even Drama, but when I pulled from Chase out of the AS for sleeping with buddy Frank to play the role of the the hat, we had Musical -or- Western. his sister, Margot Plantagenet. We corpse of Mark Plantagenet. He was Death, that was. Pure death. We came up with a bunch of great gags, wearing a suit and it was the hottest didn’t have the crew (or talent) to do a but once we had gathered, it was obvi- weekend of the entire year. Oh yeah, musical, nor the props or locations for ous that the others were better. and he had to be put into trashbags a Western. Luckily, there was a chance Jason and Steve managed to and we only had an hour to shoot it. to take the Wild Card and we drew make it and we headed back to Gen’s. We managed, but after he was Buddy Picture. Much, much better. Gen had made a nice Tri-Tip dinner gone, we had stuff that we needed to shoot that the top of the fence dug into my belly didn’t require flesh. Ouch. I managed to make it us to show his more bearable by having a jacket on top face. I’m a man of the fence, but I’m still feeling it. of many talents So, once we were all finished, and one of them we sent it off to Steve who edited it all is making things together. There’s a section of fast in- that look like tercutting that was just rough on him, but he finished with time to spare. people. I build a guy out of paper towel We headed up to San Francisco and rolls. dropped it off, the second team to We bought two big packages and make it and turn it in. I built a torso and legs and the stubs Now, this year was fun. We had of arms (if I’d had enough money, I’d a few guys who were all friends and we have bought another thing of towels clashed only minorly. Last year we had and made full arms and legs). When one guy who caused a major ruckus you were looking at it in the back of a and took a lot of the enjoyment away truck of something, it looked good, like from a lot of the people on the crew. a guy who had been stuffed into a trash- We put together a fun little movie, bag. something entertaining and light, while We kept working. At Cinequest, last year we were very darque and I had worked to convince people that swore a lot. Still, it had its charms. Hubris led to the downfall of Jaws. We worked harder, but got more Well, that line is what opens this film. very high fence, maybe twenty feet. So sleep this year. We had worse condi- The guys, Justin and Jason, played the I found one that was ten feet high and I tions, but we made the most of them cleaners. I played the Razor Scooter climbed it, laying on top of it. and used every bead of sweat to make guy. We filmed in and around Los The only thing is, on the other the shots even better. We had to bend, Gatos and it was a lot of fun. I got to side of that ten foot fence was a fifty but at no point were we even close to ride the scooter up and down hills, foot drop. breaking. We did really good stuff... around trails, even got to do some Luckily, I’m good and I didn’t And sang along with a lot of closed-course racing. It was a lot of fun even waver, but the shot they got of me Johnny Cash. even if I was sweaty like a pig. I noted didn’t show the drop. They had a great on the form where they asked what we shot of me against the sky, but none The Drink Tank issue 86 was writ- need to remember for next time that a of my on top of the fence from above, ten by Christopher J. Garcia and cooler of bottled water is unforgettable. risking my life. When it came time to Ted White and John Purcell and My role required that I climb a record my dialogue and do close-ups, Matt Appleton. It was posted to fence. Now, that’s no problem, but it I was on a much lower fence, but for a eFanzines.com by Bill Burns! needed to look like I was at the top of a long period of time which meant that Hollister in 2008! Let It Be Said...Chris For TAFF More Details in the Next Issue

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