Posts in April, 2008

Questions raised by the DAPS photo shoot…

In case you have been living under a rock for the past week, Dog and Pony Show were the featured story in last week’s issue of A.W.E. here in New York(beating out Brad Garrett and Tina Fey for top-billing, I might add). Here now are some questions raised by some of the press photos that were sent back to me from the amazing photo shoot with the even more amazing Mike Shane.

Why is Damian peeing on my leg?

Really Damian, how rude!

Come on, Damian. Were there no better places to release your bladder then on my leg? And I looked damn good in this shot too; you ruined it.

Why are Dave and Damian spooning?

We love you Damian.

Right behind me(I’m the dude with the beard), Damian and Dave are spooning and whispering sweet nothings into each other’s ears. Don’t worry, your kind will be able to marry in America soon enough. I must also concur with my thoughts from the last photo; I look damn good in this shot.

Why does Carlo look like he was sent from the future to destroy Sarah Conner?

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I got nothing. It is important to note, however, that even though I am not in this shot, I can vouch for myself that I looked damn good.

Why am I giving Emilio the Vulcan death grip?

Go listen to the DEGOCAST!!!

We all love Emilio. I would never want to kill him with my secret Vulcan powers that, by de-facto, also make me look damn good in photographs–and slightly creepy in this particular one.

Why is Drew about to punch someone?

Fun Fact: Drew has been awake for the past 3 yrs.

Silly Drew. Punching stuff is reserved for drunk people and the Irish(one in the same?). He was probably about to punch me for looking too damn good in the shot(as always).

DEGOCAST 02: About Shooting The Deuce

Join Sparks and Futureboy with special guest Steve-O (from He Among Us.) Learn why and how Futureboy pretended to be gay in order to start a conversation with a lesbian, if the guys would sleep with a Paul McCartney for cold hard cash, Introduce the concept of “Who Wants to date Futureboy, and discuss the logistics of sleeping with Jessica Alba.

The Truth Has Come Out At Last!

@ Enchantment Under The Sea Dance

Our good friends at the Onion have uncovered the truth about the origins of one of Rock n Roll’s first hit song.

WENTZVILLE, MO—In a shocking revelation that turns a half century of rock-and-roll history on its head, legendary musician Chuck Berry recalled Monday how he got the idea for his iconic song “Johnny B. Goode”—believed for decades to have been written by Berry himself—after listening to a white teenager playing it over the telephone. “I’ll never forget that night back in 1955 when I got the call from [cousin] Marvin [Berry] saying, ‘Chuck, this is that sound you’ve been looking for!’” recounted Berry, explaining that his cousin was playing an “Enchantment Under The Sea”–themed high school dance when the mysterious teen, Calvin Klein, took to the stage and single-handedly invented rock and roll as we now know it. “Marvin held up the phone and I heard the song that would make me famous. Then I stole it.”

We here at DAPS have used all our Journalistic skills and actually found pictures from this event:

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Interview: Matt Senreich(Creator; Robot Chicken)…

Matt Senreich is the co-creator and writer for the Adult Swim sensation known as Robot Chicken. But few people also know that he used to work for Marvel Comics. Learn more random tidbits about Matt by reading the following interview he did with me:

1. What was your original career intention after high school, and how did that lead into you becoming an intern at Marvel Comics?

Ever since I was 16, I wanted to work in comic books. I was surprised to get an internship at Marvel in the summer of 1991 when I was that age, but once I worked there, I knew that comics would be part of my future. Robot Chicken was a natural extension of that.

2. What was it like getting to work around the creators of some of the most popular comic books of all time?

Amazing. It was fun to grow in my career at the same time as Joe Madureira, Mike Turner, Geoff Johns and the like. It was fun to have people like Jeph Loeb giving me career advice. Wizard provided me with the opportunity to really meet the entire comic book industry.

3. What was the worst job you’ve ever had outside of writing or interning?

To be honest, I’ve been fortunate to like all my jobs. Even filing at a private practice doctor’s office that my dad ran when i was like 14.

4. How did you meet Seth Green?

Through Wizard/ToyFare magazine. We approached him about doing an interview for the magazine and we geeked out on each other and became friends.

5. What was “Sweet J Presents”?

The precursor to “Robot Chicken.” It was a series of 12 animated shorts that we did for Sony’s Screenblast.com back in 2001. We used those shorts to shop around to sell the concept of “Robot Chicken.” You can see a few on the RC season 1 DVD.

6. How did you guys decide stop-motion with action figures and claymation over more conventional forms of animation?

Stop motion is the only way to make toys come to life.

7. What was your reaction when you found out that Robot Chicken was nominated for an Emmy this year?

It’s just surreal. Simply surreal.

8. Anything different we can expect in seasons to come?

A bit more storytelling. A bit more absurdity. Going back to the basics on some sketches while pushing the envelope of the absurd with others.

9. What is your favorite scene from Robot Chicken so far?

World’s Most One-Sided Fist Fights. It always makes me laugh. Or the Emperor Phone Call as that sketch exposed our show to a much wider audience and brought us more into the limelight.

10. What was it like doing the Star Wars episode?

Scary and fun. It’s not every day that Lucasfilm says go play with Star Wars. We knew it had to be funnier than just funny. I’m really happy with how it turned out.

11. Any upcoming projects you would like to plug?

We currently have a two-picture deal at Dimension. Working on developing an all-ages stop motion project and a teen comedy as well. More on those when they go into production…

12. When you die, what do you want God to say to you at the pearly gates?

Donde esta el bano?

13. Any parting words of random advice for the readers?

Never be afraid to take a chance and go for the jobs that you think are unreachable. The more you explore, the more you find.

MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN FOSTER PARENTS

Greeting Valtrex users,

I am here to talk a little bit about my love for movies and how they’ve given me and millions of other beaten or ignored children hours upon hours of entertainment through the years. Now as we all know movies are there to help us escape reality, wether it’s an exciting western starring John Wayne (wifebeater), or a sexy, dramatic thriller starring Alec Baldwin ( Childbeater), we all know that even after the most vicious beating for masturbating with your mother’s silk christmas scarf, that movies can numb that gaping wound in your head, or at least get your mind of it until your vision completely diminishes. I remember one beautiful christmas eve..I was sitting on the bad chair, writing in my hell book, and all of a sudden I heard something that got my mind right off the fact that my father was sharpening bamboo reeds right outside the door. I sat up and I see…

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Now even though I felt like vomiting because of the incoming of ninja like bamboo thrashes, I couldn’t help but be completely sucked into the world of Howard the Duck. From there my beatings were welcomed as long as my VHS apparatus was working properly. Watching classics such as “Flight of the Navigator”, “The Explorers”, “Labyrinth” I could barely tell that my parents were putting pine-sol in my oodles of noodles. Teachers would tell me I looked like the brusied penis of a prisoner in solitary confinement. I didn’t get it then, but I do now… well, no I still don’t but the fact of the matter is that we don’t need therapy…Hey kids, if you have a daddy that likes to drink alot of that mean water, then you just stick one of those black ouchy squares with the 2 white finger grinders into that big flashing headache box and you escape into a world where they can’t hurt you with their scolding hot water, or brillo pad toilet paper. let Indiana Jones save you from that television antenna, let Han solo rescue you from the evil Uncle Tim Molester monster…Ok enough of that. Movies rock and here are some movies and the ailments they can help you get your mind off of…

1. Gettin beaten with a hangar, wait no thats a pic of me…cant find any of The Neverending Story, but that’s the movie.

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see my dad called me the bitch-like pussy, shes the child like empress.

2. Forced to touch a red hot exhaust pipe with your genitals (well this calls for a movie you can watch over and over since youll be doing alot of sitting.)

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(Note that was the exact look on my face

3. A regular slap in the face, which I’m sure we all have suffered, unless you’re adopted, where your parents probably don’t want to touch you to begin with, I give you the movie of all movies to get your mind off of sick, depraved parent violence.

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Yes, that’s right…The Beastmaster. After seeing this movie I went out and bought 2 ferrets and I would hug them underneath my blanket while my dad would tickle my new mommy in the kitchen closet. He eventually set them on fire…so on second thought…might wana evaluate exactly how bad your situation is before putting innocent woodland creatures in the face of danger… Well this was another random, and hopefully helpful peak into the mind of a serial moviephile…and no that wasn’t a cheesy nickname for liking movies…I kidnap and molest movie reels from theatres…your next Iron Man.

Love, Peace, and VD grease,

Sham The McGyptian

More Fun With Killah-KY

We searched all over Staten Island for the illest spots. We hit up a trailer park, a shit infested “pond”, abandoned train tracks, and other ridonkulous places. I wanted the shoot to have somewhat of a ghetto and dirty feel to it and we achieved that. I give endless props to Mike Shane for understanding my original general idea, expanding on it and finding the places we shot in. Dude has got mad talent, on the real.

K-Y is my girl for providing her white girl ghetto fabulous sexiness. It was somewhat distracting dealing with such a hot chick, but we got through the damn thing with no problems.I also want to thank myself, The FLAM, for being as handsome and as gifted as I am.

I got mad brains n shit.

The Ultimate Reality Show Audition Tape

With a shoestring budget drew puts together an audition tape for all of his favorite reality shows…

Survivor, American Idol, America’s Next Top Model, Hell’s Kitchen, The Biggest Loser, The Bachelor, The Apprentice, and many many more.

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Our Filthy Alley: Bringing the Good Stuff

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So you like getting off, huh? Fiddling with yourself when you cannot get that special someone out of your mind? Good, I love it! What do you think of? Is it standard issue sweaty muffled, frustrated disrobing with some licking and love bites? Usual class A, stuffing and screaming, panting then napping? I have faith that your sex organs and your brain meet up for coffee and share some very seriously hot details of what you would do in an empty, drippy warehouse basement with that “lucky” individual straight-up hog tied, hanging from a support beam. Oops don’t mind me with the duct tape and the rope; just tell me all, seriously. What different, spicy words, position, or taste do your senses demand? I am not asking what gets you hot I am asking what gets you hotter. What primes your detonation?

The best part of any “good-bad thoughts” is not the ending but how it gets towards its end. Sometimes the build up can be better than the release. This is where I fucked up last year. Thankfully I was properly notified by the girl whose panties I ripped off like a secure band-aid.

In a dark, sweaty room I was told that I rushed through the removal of the panties to cut to the coitus, continually. The panties she had picked out for that particular night’s event was to be something special, like a present wrapped up for a surprise effect. Clothes were flying over my shoulder, I was hungry and ready to eat when she spoke. Her words sounded disappointment. I looked down into my unappreciative hands to see that vaguely shiny black fabric. The vibrant red net sides would wrap around her hips to remove any confusion or doubts about her blessed measurements. The holes between the net showed off her coffee-colored skin in such a brilliantly brutal, teasing manner. This seductive black material was astonishingly simple in pride, no frills, just sexy. To gently rub my stubble against them on her was enough for me for one day, to take them off of her was heaven. They were my favorite of all the underwear that she owned and they felt cold and dry at the tips of my fingers.

I had just learned a valuable lesson.
Rushing anything, we have all learned, will usually lead to mistakes and a half-assed job. Unless we are talking about quickies in which case we will discuss that at a less leisurely time. My frame of mind was set on getting in there and committing some serious mechanical banging. I wanted some tough lovin’ and I planned on taking my time but had somehow completely missed an entire chapter of glorified sexual goodness to be shared and enjoyed. I felt like I had just chugged a great cup of hot coco and thrown away the cup only to forget about that delicious sludge at the bottom.

It seems a wee bit tough for some of us to remember that sex is not solely orgasm driven. What one individual defines as sexually pleasing may not just be the ol’ in and out. Also there is something to be said about the mental aspects of an orgasm. Dress up (like villainous Nazi agents from a bond flick or in a hot dog costume), role playing (picking up your mate as a “stranger” at a bar), toys (they are powerful allies) or even groups (do it with the entire daps crew and get a free bumper sticker!!) can be the primer for some real heat.

Pertaining to the panties, it was the appreciation, loving and disrobing of them that my lady friend considered sexual fulfilling. These unspoken fantasies will not benefit anyone; your meek tongue will keep your passion mediocre, you left ultimately hungry for more. Get that fun stuff out on the table, stop dropping clues and speak your mind! Discussions over morning coffee, in the shower or over sharing a nicely rolled steak, are prime times to bring out possibilities of naughty flavor-induction. Worst case scenario is your partner could say no, do not fear judgment. Talking will give you some serious notes on how to please and surprise your partner and threw willing participation to try new things you will exceedingly broaden your sexual menu.

Normal conversation is a great way to build trust and it is normal to talk about what you like and do not like so relax and treat this the same way. Criticism may seem scary and hurtful but it’s a sure sign that they care so don’t be defensive. Handle this respectfully and do this early, it will only make things better for tomorrow. Do not ever be ashamed of who you are and what you are into (if you kick it to minors and/or animals you can be ashamed if you would like but I suggest just getting help), for example BDSM (bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism) requires a lot of communication and trust and usually some equipment. It holds a notorious stigma and is seen largely as taboo. However, if this is what gets your blood flowing you should bring it into your life, shamelessly. It is not only for those who are deeply seeded in this scene, give it a try with another consenting adult, you might like it. It is nice to trust someone who has both their hands gripped vigilantly around my throat a moment before I cum. It helps me sleep and makes the nightmares go away. To close this one up I would like to point out that it is obvious after a moments thought that orgasms do not have to be the one sole goal of sex. Just think and talk about it, go have some adventures, find out what you like if you don’t already know and happy detonations to you all.

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FEATURE ARTICLE IN AWE

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On 04/24/08 DAPS was once again sent to the presses by the fine people of the Staten Island Advance, this time with a full feature article. Original Photos were taken by the amazing Mike Shane.

Ben Johnson had this to say about his experience with the DAP Kings…

It’s a Sunday afternoon, and some of the main players from Dog And Pony Show are filming one of their comedy videos — a strange and gross piece about dudes using female hygienic products to absorb the moisture that collects in the nether regions of the behind.

In the lexicon of 20-something guys, this problem is called “swamp a–,” and along with the subject matter, the film shoot is pretty informal. Drew Sotiriou’s parents’ basement in Concord is strewn with notebooks. The family dog keeps wandering into the shot. Actors are making it up as they go along — adding lines, losing lines and trying to maintain continuity.

“What is the transition for this scene?”; asks Tavis Delahunt, simultaneously playing camera man, audio technician and motivator. The other guys shrug. Then everyone starts talking at once.”

To read the article in it’s entirety click here!

Along with the feature in AWE. DAPS was also featured on the front page of silive.com

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VERSUS!: Andy Griffith Show vs. Happy Days…

WHITE!!!!

Which show is more white: The Andy Griffith Show or Happy Days? Today I will be looking at several aspects of each to help you, the reader, decide for yourself.

Don Knots:

Jesus Christ, i'm white.

The most bumbling deputy sheriff around. Nothing is quite as white as the thought of Don Knots arresting a big, black thug on charges of rape while committing arson. Don Knots would get killed in a second.

The Ron Howard connection:

The many faces of Ron Howard.

Ron Howard played Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show and also played Ritchie Cunningham on Happy Days. As you can clearly tell by the above photos, Ron Howard may just be the whitest man to live on this planet since Pat Boone.

The Fonz:

I has dyslexia?

Although cool, The Fonz was extremely white. He used a switchblade knife as a comb, a diner bathroom for an office, he rode a motorcycle, and jumped a shark while wearing shorts and a leather jacket. Show me one black dude who would willingly jump a shark on water skis. I rest my case.

Black and White:

Gomer be stealin' mai color.

Nothing is, literally, whiter than when it is shown in black and white. There is just something so bland and milktoast about seeing a piece of footage without any vibrancy or color to it. It’s holding back the entire spectrum of the rainbow; much like the white man held back the blacks. That’s right, I said it.

Ritchie Cunningham with guitars:

Whiter.

It’s clear that Happy Days isn’t the blackest show in the world. But, while very cool, Weezer’s music video for “Buddy Holly” didn’t help Happy Days win the least-white argument. But, it did have a cameo from Al Molinaro(for whatever that’s worth).

So now it’s your turn, America. Leave your comments and voice your opinion on which show you think is whiter: The Andy Griffith Show or Happy Days.