STAY DEAD

It's tattooed across my knuckles. I end all my posts with it. I LIVE by it. -But I've never really sat down and told the story behind STAY DEAD. Until today ....

It all started in ye old 2005. I was working at a rather soul crushing day job to make ends meat. In fact, "soul crushing" might be putting it lightly ... long days in a small cube, under florescent lights, having people scream at me about their cell phones. The manager's where even worse. One of the plucky old birds, who really had it in for me, was in the habit of giving me daily speeches about how this was the BEST I could hope for. She also told me that my tattoos where disgusting and that one of my family members was going to hell because he killed himself.

2005 was a stupid year.

I decided to drink it all away on New Years Eve. At some point in the evening a sharpie was found and things got written on naked bodies. Needless to say I was one of said bodies ....

I walked to a guy and asked him the write something on my knuckles. He thought about it for a minute and then wrote STAY DEAD across my fingers. - It was like a light bulb went on.

I looked at him and all he said was "It's you."

The next morning it was still on there and I was still in love with it. It was me. I started writing it on everything ... my new creed. Then came the day I ditched work and got it permanently inked on me. And everything got better after that.

STAY DEAD means be true to yourself and dead to the world. No matter what.

It's on my knuckles because I'm a lifer.

Nothing to hide.

Nothing to go back on.

Just me, my art, and my mission. From here till I rot.

STAY DEAD!

Nos

Summer of 09' update

Greetings SCARS readers!

As promised, the summer of 2009 is crazy busy. RATLINE director Eric Stanze is knee deep in his paper edit and we are shooting one more scene at the end of this week!

We did wrap the shoot but I found some amazing new talent hiding in the depths of Decatur, IL. Her name is Kayla and she IS the next big thing. You just don't know it yet. Stay tuned for more updates on her ...

RATLINE the official website is up !!! Check it out at:

http://www.wickedpixel.com/ratline/

FIVE, the movie I wrote/produced/directed/shot, is going full speed ahead in the edit room now! It's not a horror movie but I feel the horror fans will still enjoy it. The movie stars Jim VanBebber(DEAD BEAT BY DAWN, MANSON FAMILY), Amanda "Apnea" Pemberton (PLAY BOY, SUICIDE GIRLS, INTERNATIONAL FETISH MODEL), and Ugly Shyla (ALT MODEL, DOLL ARTIST, SOUTHERN BELL)

Speaking of Ugly Shyla ... if don't know who she is by now, you need to.

She makes surreal fine art dolls that are to DIE for. She's also an extremely an accomplished model and performer. One of the last true American artists!

http://www.uglyart.net/

and

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5433260

So the rest of June will be taken up by RATLINE and FIVE.

In July I will resume travel and will be shooting with LITHIUM PICNIC and CHAD MICHAEL WARD ... among others.

I've also started a fan page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nos/107382796833

add me for exclusive photos/updates you won't see anywhere else.

STAY DEAD!

Nos

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE

Very near and dear to my black little heart is a film called THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.

First discovered it while I was in high school and just cutting my teeth on *good* horror movies. I remember the images of what I saw (or rather what I thought I had seen) haunted me for days. A couple years went by and I revisited the film and to my surprise it was not nearly as gory as I had remembered it. I brushed it off and the movie has had a permanent place in viewing rotation ever since.

I've noticed that in conversations about the "goriest movie you've ever seen" MASSACRE tends to be one the first 3 movies out of someones mouth. The first couple times I herd this I just let it go ..... but over the years I've herd it SO much I feel I need to address it publicly:

IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD.

I've counted. There are 4.5 blood spill scenes in the movie.

1.) Ed Neal cuts his palm in the van.

2.) Ed Neal cuts Paul Partain on the arm in the van.

3.) Marilyn Burns get the tip of her finger cut for grandpa.

4.) Gunnar slips and cuts his own leg with chainsaw.

.5) Paul Partain does squirt blood while getting hit with the chainsaw ... HOWEVER you do not see chainsaw contact.

The opener has a couple of slimy corpses and there are assorted body parts in the house. But when you really sit and watch it ... MASSACRE has less gore than JURASSIC PARK.

This is not a slam on the movie in anyway. In fact it's the greatest complement one can give to a horror film. It didn't need gore to scare the fuck out of you. Those horrible things you have in head after watching are all implied ... a masterful trick played on you, the viewer.

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE truly stands the test of time. To this day it's hard not to be uneasy while watching it, even if it's for the 40th time.

Truly amazing.

STAY DEAD!
Nos