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News and Gibbering 7/25/09 - COOL NEWS!! 19 Nocturne Boulevard has made the final round of nominations for the Parsec Awards in two categories - "Best Anthology Series" and "Best New Podcaster"! This, following closely on the heels of our win for "Best Science Fiction Audio Drama Podcast of 2008", for The Outpost, clearly shows that we are a force to be reckoned with! Huzzah! 6/26/09 - Ok, that was weird. [Yes, I haven't been updating here the way I should, but I've been keeping up with the shows, and the blogs, and that takes first priority.] The weird thing was being literally run out of an old time radio convention. WTF is up with that??? I asked nicely if I could leave some fliers, and they said I could, and then one of the guys who ran it grabbed my arm and pushed me out of the room, saying "YOU CAN'T DO THAT HERE!!!" I'm like, "what????" The guy was sooo belligerent and hateful about it, while I was being super polite, I thought he was going to bust a blood vessel. ADDED - It's being resolved, but it was still bizarre, humiliating, and entirely unnecessary. 5/1/09 - Wow! I've been a lot busier than I sound by my lack of updates here... The Temple came out on time on the 20th, I've been putting out my audio blogs each week (even though the one this week was a little late) and I've been guesting around a bit on other shows. I need to do a major update on the site, here, though. Sorry about that. One-woman show, and all that. I've been having a heckuva time updating - so I'm trying to catch up real fast. Don't forget the 19 Nocturne Audio blogs, which have their own RSS feed, here. I'm hoping to post some new episode pages soon, since I've been recording so many new episodes!! Whoops - New blog came up Wednesday and new episode today - The Canterville Ghost. I'm off at a sci fi convention or I would have time to say more... 4/1 - Happy April Fools Day! Been really sick, but still chugging along. New Blog - "Villains". Also, I just got to do a guest shot (albeit heavily medicated and congested sounding) on Dead Lantern's Splattercast discussion of the films of Charles Band and his legendary company Full Moon Productions. 3/24 - BLOOOOOOOOOOGG!!!!!!!! Check it out - I ran kind of long and rambled (just over an hour!), but I hope it's still interesting, How to create a "team" of characters. Music by Sulatus, ads for Mail Order Zombie, Horror Etc., 1:18 Migration, Fear on Demand, and Cadaverlab! Watch for the next one next Tues or Weds! And you should be able to subscribe and everything.... I hope. Sorry about not starting the audio blog - was sick all weekend and couldn't even record. New episode tomorrow, though. OK, that's about all the energy I have............. OK, new episode, "Exit Strategy," is live (I just forgot to update the site...oops), and I am going to have to re-plan the Bingo recordings - My schedule at work is changing, so weekend recording sessions are going to be halved. Will probably slow down the recording process, but won't stop it. I'm adding a new episode to the list - scheduled for early June . The next Deadeye Kid episode, "A Hanging at Pickens Rock"!! I'm going to try and put up the new audio blogs every Wednesday on the Julie page. Have so much to think about and talk about there!! Want to get in touch, but don't like to email? Please feel free to visit the 19 Nocturne Boulevard forum at audiodramatalk.com! Also, make sure to check out the Horror Podcasting Network, where we're connected up with piles and piles of the hottest horror discussion shows, podionovels, and other dramas. Another blog - I'm thinking of making them an actual podcast, with a feed and all. Any interest? I've added a page for myself ("Julie Page"), where I'm also linking in all my blogs. I can keep all my links centralized that way.... STILL BEGGING!
19 Nocturne Boulevard
is registered on
Dramapod, a lovely site that collects ratings for various podcasts.
Go there, go into the horror section, and rate 19 Nocturne. PLEASE!!!!!
We were No. 1 for a brief shining moment (12/2)! But we want to make it back into the top ten! Help! What do I need to do, grovel? Please...please...please...please...please...please...please... Is that good enough? ;) Yup, I can't shut up - more blog. The movie Outlander falls under my scrutiny. Sigh. New episode "Lonely At The Top" Friday!!!! Very cool! Another audio blog about writing - I address a topic close to my heart - the opening scene. More good news!! It just keeps coming! We've been added to the Horror Podcasting Network! Joining a pile of cool folks, like Horror Etc., Drunken Zombie, and One-Eighteen Migration as well as a bunch of cool shows I haven't listened to.... yet. Another exciting thing! There is a single script that I have adapted from a non-out-of-copyright source (as practice), and that is an adaptation of the story "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges. It's a really great speculative fiction piece about the nature of reality. So years ago I wrote this, and now that the show is really moving, I wrote away for permission to use it, and just received an agreement from the current publisher to produce it!!! Yay! Now I have to find some time on my "shooting schedule"!! Some more blog babbling about writing and whatever else popped into my head... Oh, and anyone wondering what I think Tunis the Unstoppable sounds and looks like? (from my upcoming show Bingo the Birthday Clown) Watch Monk tomorrow night (Friday the 13th) - Steven Valentine, the guy playing the magician (he was also in Crossing Jordan, and hosted Estate of Panic). Yup. That's my dream Tunis... ;) Holy COW!! Cool news! I have been asked to be a presenter for the second annual SPLATCADEMY AWARDS! These are horror movie awards organized by the guys over at Dead Lantern's Splattercast. On February 23, I will be among the many podcasting folks who get to read off the nominees for an award category - mine is totally the most awesome! SCREAM QUEENS!!!! Yay! It's going to be hilarious! And it's not too late to go over there and vote. And listen to last year's awards, if you want a taste of just how much fun the show on 2/23 will be! Updated our actor of the month, even though I still don't have pictures... And another little rant, where I babble more about writing... Another audio blog. Kind of long. Watch out - I sing. Just posted some auditions!!! Let's see how this works. 8) I'm thinking of putting together some tips on writing for audio (as with my note below), and kind of want to know if that's anything anyone would want to read? I have so many things I would love to say to some of the other newer shows out there, but it's so very hard to say it directly - everyone out there pours so much of their heart into every show that to even hint that there is room for improvement is tantamount to telling them they suck - at least that's how many of us (myself included from time to time) take a critique... And really, it's not an accusation, it's a chance to improve, and if no one ever hears what they can fix, they will never fix it - ya know? (Vicious Cycle, eh?) So I want to post some articles, probably on a new page of its own. Interest? Pop me an email - let me know someone will read it? I was waxing eloquent in an email to a fellow writer and decided to include the text here. Enjoy! Audio drama is tricky to
write for. I am adamant about certain standards I push myself to work
within, and a big one is no "on the nose" descriptions - meaning (in the
mocking words of Edgar Allen Poe, of all things) New audio blog! I should probably make them a real podcast, where people can subscribe and everything... Bu that would be another thing I'd have to figure out how to do, and I'm in a bit of a crunch right now -- finishing two new episodes and putting the finishing touches on an entire audiobook (it's a classic pulp fiction novel called "Black Wings Has My Angel", which I actually got PAID to read!!!) I'll leave this up to my listeners. When I get 20 people who write to me and say they would subscribe if I put the audio blogs up for iTunes or whatever, then I'll do it. Tell your friends!!! Well, the contest closed. I'm amazed - someone actually got the film "Woman in the Dunes" - an awesome and bizarre Japanese film that finally just came out in a criterion collection, so I'm all THERE!!! More on that in my next audio blog. Added/updated the pics and cast lists for the next two episodes - Crumping the Devil and Lonely at the top. Also have made a little audio promo for Crumping the Devil. I'm adding a links section for music, since I've been finding all these awesome musicians and bands who will let me use their stuff in my shows!!! The latest ones are Josh Woodward (clever and catchy acoustic rock that ranges from hilarious to lovely and creepy); Professor Kliq (great electronic/trance/triphop/oddball) that I already have in mind for two episodes; C. Felipe Alves (a music teacher in Portugal with a nice variety of background music); and of course Sulatus, whose music added so much to The Outpost. And, of course - Darkest of the Hillside Thickets!!!! 8) CLOSED - More clues to the contest (I'm relisting them all together as I go along...saves you having to search): 1. The film is not in English / modern society makes you a nameless cog. I've been posting contests in my audio
blogs. The first one was "name three real old-time radio shows which
are specifically parodied in my episode Jack. In the Box." And
has been won! [1/20] New episode went up today - the Outpost! (Go to the episodes page for the link!) I've just posted all the Bingo the Birthday Clown (season 1) scripts on their own page here. These have been refined a bit from the original rough drafts I posted over on Audio Drama Talk, and there are some interesting additions, particularly through the early episodes. Anyone is welcome to read them, but don't complain later (when I record and play them) that you already know what's going to happen. ;) Hey - I haven't mentioned this before, but there is a 19 Nocturne Boulevard forum over at Audio Drama Talk, where I've been posting announcements of upcoming episodes, and all the rough drafts of Bingo the Birthday Clown. But it's also for discussions, if it - um - wasn't just me posting all by my lonely self... Hint?? Hint?? More blog - People Under the Stairs, Nightmare 2, Kolchak Promo for the 1/20/09 episode, The Outpost! I was recording some extra lines for Crumping the Devil last night and got off on a tangent, so here's another audio blog. Yup, I'm a bit of a chatterbox. Oh, and the contest I mentioned in blog 1 - well, I actually have a winner!!! Patrick gets a 1gig mp3 player loaded with 19 Nocturne Boulevard episodes and anything else cool I can fit on there... So now you all know to listen to the darn blogs, eh!!! I also just finished "The Wrong Bob" a new script for later on down the line, and started my exploitation film homage, "Bimbo Island", which might even get made for this coming Halloween, depending on how it turns out... Plus, I just realized that Junkbucket (an indie slasher movie spoof I saw a couple months ago) isn't a full length movie - it felt like a full length slasher film, but at only 40 minutes, I guess it wasn't. Hilarious movie, but watch the preview (ADULTS ONLY!!!) and see if it is going to offend you before you go looking for it. Seriously. OK, enough for today. 1/12/09 - More goofiness with a third audio blog from Julie. Challenges, RPGs (real ones - on a table top with dice), what's coming up, and PERFUME: The Story of a Murderer. Why? It's late... ;) Change of schedule - just when I thought it was going to be done on time, the next episode, Lonely at the Top, has hit a few snags. I really wanted it to come out on 1/20 with the Miss America Pageant (you'll know why when it finally does come out), but oh, well.... Got to roll with the punches. So it's been rescheduled, and I've moved The Outpost up to the 1/20 slot. Sigh. I should know better... Second audio blog -
1/3 - More Bingo, shouts to
cool people, lots of babbling, Giallo script, upcoming shtuff, Deadeye kid. Julie's ALL over the place!!!! Sorry I forgot to mention - I've been hanging out with bunches of the "wrong" sort of people - I love these guys!
MERRY CHRISTMAS all, and EVERY OTHER HOLIDAY too! I've started an audio blog sort of thing - giving updates and tidbits and contests. Just download it here until I decide if I will be keeping it up and spin it its own page. First audio blog - 12/15 - Bingo the Birthday Clown, Two Front Teeth, Christmas Birthdays, Saki. ADVENTURE! Macabre Mansion, a new web radio station, is going to start re-broadcasting 19 Nocturne Boulevard episodes! PLUS!
Julie will be putting in some time as a horror host on Macabre Mansion
- Lena Yvanda - Gypsy Fortuneteller,
introducing shows and answering questions from the lovelorn (and other
hapless people). Anyone reading this? I could use some fun
questions! Send them to
lenayvanda@live.com with "Lena Question" in the re:line. Be
aware that the answer will be MUCH more amusing than it could possibly be
helpful.... ;) EXCITEMENT!
Afterlives, one of my fave shows (look down in the links for more info on
them) recently recorded an After-Afterlives show where they answered listener
questions, chatted about how the show came together, and mentioned 19 Nocturne
Boulevard! Very favorably! They're awesome and the show is great - make sure
to take time and check it out!
COOLNESS!
I can't contain the
excitement!
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, an awesome punk band inspired by the
works of H.P. Lovecraft (one of our big faves here - as you might have
noticed) has let me talk them into letting me include a couple of their songs
in an upcoming episode! Go to their website and check out the hilarious cover
to their latest album (which rocks, I must say), "The Shadow out
of Tim"!!!
We have some great GUEST STARS in some of our upcoming shows - In our November 10 episode, "The Deadeye Kid", Bill Hollweg of BrokenSea Audio joins us as a crazy old hillbilly, and in our upcoming Xmas show (12/20) - Michael T. Coleman (aka Little Dickie Broughton, and many others), the mind behind Tales of the Extraordinary, will be a bit typecast as a visitor to foreign climes! Look for more special guest stars in future episodes! |
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