Nest Of Vipers Podcast

Episode 12: The Old College Try

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Lurking in the closet of every artist is a failed project. Some sort of endeavor that should have been great, could have been great, that just flatlined when launched on the unsuspecting public. Performing as the Tin Man on Hollywood Boulevard, trying to launch a play about fruitcakes, trying to impress the wife’s friends with a spooky Halloween spectacle and paying tribute to Abe Lincoln are just some of the tales shared by this weeks guests.

Guests Include:

Rodney Ascher is a filmmaker and animator extraordinaire. His films include the Jack Chick inspired Titanic and Somebody Goofed. He also helmed a failed VH1 pilot for Gene Simmons.

Becky Haycox marches to her own homemade drum. A member of various creative communities, she uses more than her fair share of hyphens as crafter-blogger-actor-partygirl-teacher-designer-geek. However, she does not know the definition of turpitude. Her eclectic musings can be found at beckyhaycox.com/hamblog.

Lee Lynch is a filmmaker. His recent feature Transposition of the Great Vessels has been playing the festival circuit for the past year. He is currently finishing a feature length doc on the last wild Buffalo hunt in the United States.

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Nest of Vipers Summer Vacation

Over the next couple weeks Nest of Vipers will be on vacation. We’ll be back on September 1 with an all new episode about botched art projects. As a bonus, the next several episodes will have been recorded on the road in Southern California with a whole new cast of characters. In the meantime, catch up on some of the episodes you may have missed. Cheers. Danny P.

Episode 11: The Trouble With Travels

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Everybody loves to travel.  But for every fantasy of the perfect vacation lurks the very real possibility of a journey gone haywire. In this episode, our team of world-weary travelers recount bizarre tales including a 50 hour bus ride filled with racial tension, a poodle and a bottle of Perrier, a sixteen year old crusty, hippie-punk passed out in the Jamaican mud at the Reggae Sunsplash, a pathetic Xmas yarn featuring a Blues Brothers cover band and a bus stuck on a snowy mountain pass, and a mad dash from Sacramento to San Francisco in a car falling apart mile by mile. Hosted by filmmaker Danny Plotnick.

Guests include:

Anthony Bedard is a drummer and guitarist.  He drummed for San Francisco’s legendary Icky Boyfriends, a band known to clear the room at lightning speed.  He is currently playing guitar in the panic-skiffle rock combo known as Hank IV.  Bedard also books The Hemlock Tavern, a San Francisco watering hole and rock club.

Jack Boulware, raconteur extraordinaire and chronicler of the depraved is author of the books Sex, American Style and SF Bizarro. He is co-founder of San Francisco’s annual Litquake literary festival, and is currently buried in a new book project, a history of punk rock in the Bay Area.

Natalija Vekic is a filmmaker and installation artist.  She’s made the acclaimed short films Lost and Found and The Girl with The Pearl Suspended. She’s so fancy she was awarded the prestigious Princess Grace Award for filmmaking.

NEST OF VIPERS YOUTUBE CHANNEL
You can check out movie clips of the music, movies and other cultural references we make at the Nest of Vipers YouTube Channel.  Below is a clip referencing Episode #11.