Hello. I don’t really like talking about myself so this’ll probably be short and boring. While I may not be as cool as Jeff with his picture taken by another person, I at least know how to use the timer on my camera. I also had to post a picture proving my beard is greater than Mat’s.

I’m the one that is the least in to horror movies on the podcast. Fun fact, I hate the name Splattercast and usually refer to it has the podcast or Dead Lantern’s podcast. Really the only reason I do the podcast is because I am an attention whore.

I love movies and I watch pretty much everything. Some of my favorite movies are Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, Lost in Translation, and Garden State. There are more but I’m too lazy to list them all. Just go to my Myspace.

I also love music. I have a band called Awesome Dirtbike. I’m not very good at playing bass but I have fun so that’s all that matters. My taste in music is all over the place. I like old country, Alt-country, indie-rock, dance rock, some punk, some rap, blah blah blah. Pretty much anything that isn’t top 40 garbage.

I also read a ton of books. Some of my favorite authors are: William Gibson, Kurt Vonnegut, Haruki Murakami, Robert A. Heinlein, Chuck Palahniuk. Once again see the Myspace page for more.

I also play a lot of video games as most of you probably already know since I have a tendency to do it while recording the podcast. I still have all my original game systems, from my Atari to my Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS.

Also I hate being called Brady, I prefer Braden. However, since I didn’t realize this fact until I got out of high school I’m sort of stuck with Brady.

That’s all I got.

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Now that you have a face to go with the voice, I’m Deejay the drunken splatter-cast member. When I’m not in jail or defacing public property I hunker down in my guest bedroom to record A bright and shiny new episode of the splatter cast. I don’t need to talk myself up like the rest of Cast, because if you listen then you know the powers I poses.

I live in Colorado most of the year and work on allot of the music and effects that go into dead lantern productions. When I’m not making “BIG BUCKS” working on the splatter-cast, I moon light as A fed employee for the Department of Energy in high voltage substations. This 4 day a week job gives me time to work on my other great hobbies like drinking and, um, using lots of comma’s or absolutely no comma’s at all. I just turned 26 and have made it to that point in my life were I’m not sure what comes next, you know over the hill, on my way to the grave, the walking dead.

I’m the guy that’s into funny horror films with over the top blood like Dead Alive, and I also have a very special place in my heart for anything with puppets. I think what made movies like Critters, and Gremlins great is the fact that there is a real person behind it, not just some shitty CGI PEACE OF CARP! I also love traditional effects, like blood pumps and handmade body parts.

As far as music goes, I love most good music, and seem to spastically jump between Punk/techno to acoustic/easy listening and alt-country or even the very undefined title of “Indie Rock.” I have a large collection of music equipment gathered from bands I’ve been in over the years and even used to play pop punk with Mat “hates everything” k. He used to be a happy person at one time.

I’m currently getting ready to head out for a fine Saturday thrift store session in Fort Collins with my wonderful girl friend Dani Slaughter (just had to drop the last name cause its so freaking sweet), and hope to score some more junk that I can leave laying all over my house in boxes and corners filling up rooms to the point that they become useless and utterly destroyed.

I will spare you all the likes and dislikes as my taste changes along with my mood. But trust me I’ll know it when I see it.

That’s all for now

-capital Dee to the capital Jay

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Let’s cut to the chase: I’m the cool one. The other guys are tools. Know how you can tell? Because their photos look like they took them of themselves. Taking pictures of yourself is something that tools do. Just look at MySpace, ’nuff said. This photo of me, on the other hand, is from a bitchin’ Halloween party at Spooky McPhee’s house. Some hot slut probably snapped the photo ‘cuz she was diggin’ my costume. Note that both of my hands are visible in the photo, proving that I did not operate the camera myself.

If you’ve listened to the show, you’ll know my co-hosts find me comically upbeat and even pollyannish about a lot of the movies we review. Hey, I’m just a positive person. I can find a little bit to like in most things. And for those flicks that are totally horrible and worthless, sure, I’ll say that they’re garbage but I won’t let it affect my mood. Life’s too short to be a sourpuss, right?

I love horror movies and, as we’ve established, I’m pretty forgiving of a lot of them. I guess the one thing going on in the genre right now that I think is lame are the “extreme horror” films, stuff that tries to shock the viewer with some gimmicky ultra-gore-faux-snuff-porn shtick. Don’t get me wrong, I love gore, nudity and all that… it’s just that most of those flicks fail miserably. I’ve been meaning to script up an episode of the Splattercast on the topic.

On the personal side, I’m 28 and have been married for almost 7 years. My wife, Tina, and I have been together since high school. Our daughter, Genevieve, is almost two. Tina & Genny are my favorite people in the whole world. We’re originally from Nebraska but I lived in Jefferson City, Missouri from 2000-2007. It was an awesome town and we loved it there, but we wanted to get back to our friends & family after having Genny, so now we’re back in Lincoln to stay.

My day job is software development. In my free time I do the programming and design work for deadlantern.com (amateurish as it may often be). We used to have a totally homegrown blogging system that I wrote from scratch, but I canned that in favor of WordPress a while back. Why drive myself nuts coding something like that when it’s already been done, right? I don’t post as many reviews or blog entries as the other guys but I do try to participate with anyone who posts on our forum.

I love music from all different genres but find it too tedious to follow what’s hip from moment to moment. I’m not really interested in reading music magazines or whatever the kids do to stay up to date. I will say that I dig the hell out of Pandora. Some of my all-time favorite bands are: Harvey Danger, Bad Religion, Rancid, Teenage Fanclub, Monster Magnet, Faith No More, Reel Big Fish. Stuff I’ve been into more recently: Tiger Army, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Justice, Minibosses and lots of free video game remixes from OC Remix.

I went through a big comic book phase when I was in Jefferson City, buying a handful of books every week at the local shop. I quit comics cold turkey last summer and I haven’t missed them too badly. They take up so much space! I’m actually planning to sell off my collection in bits & pieces, so I’ll definitely spam you with that in the future.

I could go on with the tedious details but it’s getting late and I’ve got that big Outpost Doom script reading session tomorrow!

Thank you guys so much for visiting the site and listening to the Splattercast. Remember to hit the forum.

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There I am in all my pale-skinned, pink-shirted sexiness. Notice that I don’t have a beard. That’s because the sheer masculinity of the pink shirt tells everyone that I am a strong male leader of advanced age (even though I’m only 25). I don’t really care about politics. If it’s always going to be a choice between the lesser of two evils then I would rather just sit my ass at home on Election Day (though I never do). Here at DeadLantern HQ I’m second in reviews behind MaT. Of course since he has less of a life than I do, he ends up doing a lot more of them than me. I post one for maybe every five of his. What’s weird is, before I began writing reviews I was much less harsh on films. Five years ago, I would have loved movies like Day of the Dead or Dead Clowns. But now I have to cut them deep. Yes, like Spiderman, I realized that with great power comes great responsibility. I understand that people across the globe come to DeadLantern to see what I have to say about the latest films and they use my infallible judgment to determine their movie viewing choices for the night. I must not lead them astray. They depend on me. Yes, I have to be very critical of films now. So I guess in that regard, MaT is like my very own Uncle Ben. Blame my perceived movie elitism on him. When listening to the Splattercast, you’ll often notice that all of my opinions are better thought out and make more sense than those of the other guys. This is for YOUR benefit, not my own.

I’m in college for Information Technologies with Computer Visual Communications. Which is a very long contrived way of saying that I’m learning to draw and design things on a computer. But it’s fun and it will pay the bills someday. I got my big “acting” break in The Grand Horror. Before being in that epic masterpiece, I had no desire what so ever to act. But ever since then I have been addicted and MaT hasn’t been able to get rid of me since, try as he might.

Assorted Stuff About Steve!

Favorite Movies: The Exorcist, John Carpenter’s The Thing, Dawn of the Dead, The Great Mouse Detective, Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, Blazing Saddles, anything with zombies in it. Seriously. I love zombie movies. Even when it’s a bad zombie movie, it’s STILL a zombie movie, and that ain’t bad.

Favorite Director: MaT Kister and his unique style.

Favorite Genres: Horror and Comedy. With a side helping of Russian Deer Porn.

Likes: MaT’s mom. Brady’s mom’s cooking, kitties, video games- specifically RPGs. Seriously, I can’t play games anymore unless they have 50-60 hour long storylines and all of the good and bad guys take turns hitting each other after waiting for a colored bar to slowly fill up. Brandy Baldwin, X-Men comics, hockey, toys, astronomy, Deejay’s Eddie Murphy-ish laugh, etc., etc…

Dislikes: My “acting”, babies, fruit on pizza, working, Jean Grey resurrection stories, organized religion, vegetables, emo kids…I better stop. This list may take up the whole front page.

Favorite Porn: Weapons of Ass Destruction starring Belladonna. 9.5 out of 10, losing half a point for the three inch gap between Belladonna’s front teeth.

Favorite Type/Color of Starburst: Cherry

Best Care Bear: Skull-Fucker/Fister Bear

Random things to remember: Everyone should go watch the It’s Alive film series. A little know fact is that the movies are actually based on true stories. It is a scientific fact that all children have a 50% chance of being born as a blood thirsty monster. However, Christian Conservatives capture all of these monster babies and pay off the parents and media to keep quite about it all in an effort to further the stereotype that having children is a good thing.

Men with mustaches are not to be trusted.

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The first of what will hopefully be a series of profiles on the hosts of the Splattercast.

Hello. I’m MaT. I’m the effeminate sounding member of the Splattercast. I’m also a liberal. I’ve been told by Jeff that there seems to be a correlation there. See that manly beard in the photo? I grew that so I’d stop being carded every time I went to the movies. Seriously. I’m 27 and still get carded. Here at Deadlantern, I mainly do blog posts and reviews. If you haven’t figured out by now, I think most movies suck, and suck hard. Though I’m not as bat-shit crazy as Steve in my elitism. That dude’s just bonkers. Being a Film Studies major, I’ve sort of been “trained” to look at movies from a different perspective than most. I have a big interest in directing and understanding how film works on a theoretical level (you can take your dialectical montage and shove it, Eisenstein!). So when I watch a movie, I’m constantly picking it apart. That’s why I’m not easy to please, like Jeff Unfortunately, studying and learning how great director’s make movies is very different from being able to put those techniques into practice. Being an elitist snob, my obvious response to this criticism of my “directing” is: “I totally have a unique style that you just don’t get, you retard! I’ve got subtext!” Anyway, that’s a brief synopsis of what I do at Deadlantern. Blogging, reviewing, and moviemaking. Everybody loves “details”, so here’s some extra “details” about myself. We’ll start with everybody’s favorite:

Favorite Movie: Big Trouble In Little China-there is no waffling on this issue with me. BTiLC is a fundamental pillar on which my entire belief system and outlook on life is based. If it were not for this movie I’d just be wandering aimlessly around, looking for guidance.

Favorite Director: John Carpenter-hold on, I’ve got to wipe the saliva pouring out of my mouth

Favorite Genre: Horror- what, did you think it was Sirkian melodrama? Though I heartily recommend All That Heaven Allows. I’ve always loved the horror genre. As a kid my mom used to bring home Shakey’s pizza and a random Full Moon flick. Halloween was the film that made me the person I am today: a skinny shut-in with excessively poor vision who day dreams of stalking beautiful young co-ed..er….just kidding?.

Likes: Alyssa. Going to the movies. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Ancient Egyptian, Roman, and Greek culture and mythology. Horror Pre-1960. “It’s not a belief…it’s a burrito”. CHICKEN AND/OR CANADIAN BACON PIZZA. Barack Obama. Sarah Michelle Gellar. Seminoles (football), Tar Heels (basketball). A large glass of ice cold 2% milk and a plate of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. Nine Inch Nails, Failure, and Deftones. Sunkist soda.

Dislikes: Steve. Steve’s “acting”. Steve’s love of Carnosaur 2. Steve’s hatred of Halloween. Blue Devils, Hurricanes, Gators, and Huskers. Shittieroni pizza. George Bush and Hillary Clinton. Musicals. Dead Clowns. Alcohol. Smokers. Coleslaw and Potato Salad (these are not foods, they are despair for your stomach). 99% of all music. 96.3% of all movies. Every holiday other than Halloween. Netflix.

I was hanging out with Ernest Hemingway one night, just shootin the shit with him, when he came up with his Iceberg Theory…he just couldn’t get me. See, even though I give these short snippets about myself, I’m all that and a bag of chips. A bag 87.5% uneaten! You have not even begun to understand all that is MaT! And you never shall!!!!

With that, I leave it to my pals to continue the tradition. Veni Vidi Vici, motherf***ers!

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