Dead Gentlemen Productions

Friday Feb 26 and Sat Feb 27 (No cover, +)21

Q: What do Elvis, The Ron

ettes, Stevie Wonder, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Queen,Pat Benatar, Elvis Costello, Violent Femmes, The Jackson Five, Amy Winehouse, and Gnarls Barkley have in common?

A: You will hear them all this weekend with IGNEOUS ROCKS!

That’s right. Your esteemed professors, Igneous Rocks, are getting ready to dig deep into the history of rock and roll, extracting only the finest specimens for your education and enjoyment.

You, in the back! It’s time to get schooled in the history of rock and roll.

About your Faculty: Igneous Rocks is a Tacoma-based, dance-music cover band. Self-proclaimed music, theatre, and other assorted geeks, they give you a high-energy, entertaining show, every time. Oh, and watch for flying rocks. Just sayin.

Bonus Trivia for Extra Credit: Steve Wolbrecht (from Gamers: Dorkness Rising, Demon Hunters, and Dead Camper Lake) will be rocking the keys and Emilie Rommel Shimkus (from the upcoming JourneyQuest) will be singing her lil’ heart out. Come on out and join us!

Live in Washington? Want to hang out with members of Dead Gentlemen and ZOE? Want to catch a great show and help us get JourneyQuest made?

Seattle Musical Theatre has generously agreed to help us out with shop and construction space for our JourneyQuest spaces. Now we want to return the favor, so we’re arranging a group night to go see Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical “Company”. And we want you to join us!

So if  you live within driving distance of Seattle, call their box office at (206) 363-2809 and mention JourneyQuest. They’ll give you a ten dollar discount, no questions asked. (Here’s a hint–the discount works all weekend. But we’ll only be at the Thursday show, if hanging out with us is important to you.)

See you this Thursday!

Need more convincing? Need to explain to your gaming buddies how musicals and gaming go hand-in-hand? Here are some bullet points to help you out:

• Attending the show helps us get JourneyQuest built. Really!
• We had to cut the big musical number from the first season of JourneyQuest, so here’s another place to get your musical fix.
• Stephen Sondheim (who wrote “Company”) has been a huge creative influence on our stories and writing. The man knows fairy tales!
• Small theater companies everywhere are struggling in this economy. The more we support our local performance scene, the better able we are to keep awesome actors in the area.
• It will be fun. And the set is way cool.

So please, spread the word, bug your friends, call for tickets before they sell out, and we’ll see you Thursday!

(And as a reward for reading this whole post, here’s the secret link to the list of JourneyQuest lead actors: LINK)

The guys over at Fear the Boot podcast interviews the Invancible Matt Vancil. These guys really dig into Matt about gaming and his influences in creating The Gamers and The Gamers: Dorkness Rising. Hear what is important to Matt when he games, and when he makes movies. Find out what inspired your favorite parts of these two films.

Fear the Boot: Matt Vancil Interviewed

Greetings from Canadia! Jen Page, Chris Duppenthaler and I trotted on up to Victoria, BC for GottaCon this past weekend. They invited us up as special guests of honor to show Dorkness Rising, and we had a great time. Big thanks go to Michael Lum, Evan Hatch and Carson Upton for having us up and treating us like freakin’ kings! Not only did we get the huge suite at the hotel, but they gave us a big gift basket of awesome,complete with a set of GottaCon dice for us all, Gamer Soap (which is a godsend at conventions) and other tasty stuff. Pretty killer. Our screening went great too, starting off with some Behind the Scenes stuff and then doing a Q&A after the feature.

Probably one of the most interesting and fun things we saw was gaming with Legos. A huge hit with kids, well, and Chris. They also had an old school Lode Runner to play, and Chris’ girlfriend, Jessica Heidemann, set the high score at the epic level of getting to level 27! It was really cool to see a great mix of video gaming, miniature wargaming, rpg, board games, CCG’s, and fun costumes. You folks in Canada are totally relaxed and groovy about being gamers and we really dug that. Thanks so much for having us out. It was a bummer Christian couldn’t make it, but a man’s gotta work. And we, GottaCon!

Okay, I guess you can hit me for that one.

There’s a new review of our Demon Hunters RPG by David Hill up over at Alltern8.com. Check it out!

You can also buy a copy of the RPG, which comes with a DVD produced by, well, us! Just click on the picture above.

It’s no secret that these economic times are tough. A few of the Dead Gents are unemployed, wages aren’t going up, jobs are hard to find. Everyone has their personal duty to be diligent and not spend unnecessarily. But I want to remind everyone this holiday season, that if you can spare it… go to your local game shop, your local comic book shop, and go spend some money. Why? The truth is, many shops are struggling. We’ve heard it across the country. They need you. And we all need them. If you don’t have a relationship with the owner of your local establishment, maybe it’s time. If you’re in the Tacoma area, go visit John Munn @ Comic Book Ink, or Chris Ewick @ The Game Matrix. In the Seattle area, go visit Rod @ Golden Age Collectables in Pike Place Market, or Scott Stafford @ Arcane Comics in Ballard. Up here in Bellingham, go visit Stacy @ Eagle Games. Down in Los Angeles area, go visit Jay @ Emerald Knights in Burbank.

Who’s near you? Post your local comic shop. Maybe someone will see a place they didn’t know about. And go do some end of year shopping. They need you right now.