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he United States has imposed new sanctions on Venezuela because that country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, has slowly dismantled its already weak democratic institutions. Maduro is Fidel Castro-lite, undermining the legislative and judicial branches as he rewrites the nation’s constitution with a hand-picked, specially elected assembly. The Trump administration has rightly criticized Maduro and his minions for steering Venezuela toward a strongman dictatorship. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin, in adding financial sanctions to the others already imposed, has said that they will be relaxed when Maduro restores some democratic institutions, such as free and fair elections. Nothing says democracy like the ability of a nation’s citizens to fairly select its leaders. Considering the obstacles to voting across the country and here in Indiana, how long until some other nation imposes sanctions on the United States until we hold free and fair elections? The barriers our elected officials have erected in many places make our elections feel less free and less fair than they were just a few years ago. We all thought the Voting Rights Act of 1965 put an end to laws aimed at keeping people, mostly African-Americans, from voting. But slowly, over the past decade, our elected officials have been building barriers which have had the effect of blocking access to the polls, making our elections less fair if not less free. Voter identification laws are taking on the non-existent problem of election fraud. The Washington Post reported that in the 2016 general election, there were just four cases of verified voter fraud. Just four out of the millions of votes cast. 32 states have some form of law requiring that voters provide identification when casting their ballots. Indiana’s is among the toughest, requiring a photo ID issued by a government agency that includes an expiration date.
Is it any surprise that Indiana has one of the lowest voter turnouts in the nation? Or what about early voting? Marion County once had three sites, including the City-County Building, where voters could cast their ballots early. This makes voting easier for people whose work schedules make it difficult to cast ballots during regular hours at their polling site on election day. Nearly one in five voters cast ballots at the satellite sites established by the Marion County Election Board. But in 2010, the board’s lone Republican refused to approve satellite sites in this Democrat-majority city, forcing voters who wanted to cast ballots early to head Downtown. Common Cause of Indiana joined the NAACP earlier this year to sue the county board and Secretary of State Connie Lawson, Indiana’s top election official, as a violation of the Voting Rights Act. The suit notes that the smaller Republican counties outside of Marion have multiple early voting sites. Then there’s gerrymandering, that ageold practice of drawing legislative district boundaries to favor one group or party at the expense of others. Yes, both political parties have done it, but that doesn’t make it right. Congressional and state legislative districts have been drawn in such lopsided ways in so many states that we should question whether the interests of democracy are being served. We know what happened in Indiana in the last legislative session. A proposal to create an objective, nonpartisan committee to draw district boundaries was killed by the Republican chair of the House Elections and Apportionment Committee. It was drafted by a nonpartisan summer study committee and had the support of hundreds who spoke in favor of it. One man blocked real reform, an affront to anyone who cares about democracy. As we stand in defense of democratic institutions abroad in places like Venezuela, we as Americans better be sure we stand for them back home in Indiana. N For more opinion pieces visit nuvo.net/voices
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TRUMP’S TRANS TROOP BAN Measuring the impact on Hoosier soldiers BY LAURA MCPHEE // NEWS@NUVO.NET
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arlier this summer, President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he was reinstating a ban prohibiting transgender men and women from serving in the U.S. military. The tweet was followed by a White House memo released in late August directing the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to rescind the Obama administration’s 2016 policy change allowing transgender service members to serve without punitive repercussions. Under President Barack Obama, the Pentagon changed its policy towards transgender troops and announced the military would no longer consider Gender Identity Disorder (GID) a “psychosexual disorder.” This meant being transgender could no longer be grounds for declaring a soldier “unfit for service” and therefore eligible for a dishonorable discharge. The policy change also meant changes to military health care coverage, including medically necessary measures in the treatment of GID, including gender confirmation surgery. While not immediately expelling any service member who may have come out as transgender in the past year, Trump’s new directive called for a return to the policy when being transgender was a basis for discharge. He also called for a halt to all use of DoD or DHS resources to fund
gender confirmation surgical procedures for military personnel, and a prohibition of transgender enlistees or new recruits. Initially, the Obama-era policy change called for all branches of the military to begin accepting transgender men and women who met all other criteria as new enlistees by July 2017. Earlier this year, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis extended that deadline by six months to January 2018 in order to “evaluate more carefully the impact.” In deciding to abolish the Obama policy and once again ban transgender service members, Trump cited the need for evidence that transgender troops would not hinder effectiveness and lethality, disrupt unit cohesion or tax military resources. “In my opinion,” wrote Trump in the Presidential Memorandum addressing the change, “further study is needed to ensure that continued implementation of last year’s policy change would not have those negative effects.” Trump’s concerns, however, have already been addressed and dismissed by several reputable and reliable studies, including one funded by the Department of Defense prior to the 2016 policy change. In it, researchers for the RAND Corp. concluded that the number of transgender servicemen and women is relatively small (less than one percent of the overall military
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population). As a result, the financial costs associated with medical coverage is minimal (an approximate increase to the military budget of 0.13 percent). The study also concluded that there was little to no impact on military performance. Based in part by studying 18 countries where transgender troops are allowed to serve including Great Britain, Australia, Canada and Israel, researchers found very little evidence of disruption or discord among the troops. In its final analysis, researchers reported, “in no case did the RAND team find evidence of an effect on operational effectiveness, troop readiness or unit cohesion.” The RAND study echoes findings by the Williams Institute at UCLA in 2014 and the New England Journal of Medicine in 2015. In each, the number of transgender service members was estimated to be small, cost of medical coverage was found to be minimal, and impact on troop performance negligible. The ACLU cited the RAND study in its lawsuit filed a few days after President Trump called for the reinstatement of the ban. According to court documents, the ACLU contends the government already conducted and paid for a reliable study that provides sufficient evidence that allowing transgender service members would have minimal impact. Trump’s actions, the suit contends, are not based
on lack of evidence but appeasement of political allies and agendas. FIGHTING TO SERVE For Indianapolis resident and former Marine Brian Ayers, 26, the back and forth of the transgender troop ban means continued uncertainty about his military future and his career. Ayers grew up near Noblesville and joined the Marines in 2008 while still in high school. Ayers was assigned female at birth (AFAB) and raised as a woman, but was already beginning to identify as male when boot camp began within weeks of graduation. A deployment to Djibouti in 2010-11 proved a tipping point for Ayers, who was able to pass as male more and more frequently. “On the base, everyone clearly knew me to be female,” he says. “But I was able to walk a line of androgyny and present as a man in many situations, particularly offbase in our work in the community.” “In some ways, I had it easier than others. But it was still hard. I was still struggling. I still had to go to work every day as a woman, be addressed as a she, be identified by my peers as she. Being androgynous made it a little easier, but it was never easy.” Returning to the U.S., Ayers began
NUVO.NET/NEWS exploring medical options in hopes of transitioning from female to male while still on active duty. Without notifying the Marine Corps, Ayers started hormone treatments in 2012 and creatively sought to hide the effects while in uniform for nearly four years. “I didn’t tell anyone in my unit. If questions came up, about my voice or changes in my appearance, I dodged them. I shaved privately, showered separately and just relied on the fact that I’d been mistaken for a guy before.” Ayers’ initial eight-year stint as a Marine ended in 2016 without incident. If any of his superiors noticed that he was no longer identifying as female, none of them mentioned it. Because his contract ended within weeks of the policy change under the Obama administration, when it came time to reenlist, Ayers did so as a male. Had Ayers made the disclosure about transitioning from female to male and changed all the necessary paperwork prior to the end of the initial eight-year contract, or reenlisted as a woman and then changed gender identity once on active duty again, there might not have been a problem. But because “her” contract as Marine was concluded before “he” applied for reenlistment, Ayers was not considered active duty and his transgender status put him in limbo and on the waiting list along with any other new transgender enlistees. “They appeased me,” says Ayers. “I filled out paperwork. Answered questions. It took hours. That was a year ago. I’m still waiting.” “I’m ready to serve anytime they call,” he says. “I loved being a Marine. I love who I fight for; I love who I fight with. I believe if you serve honorably and meritoriously, it shouldn’t matter if you are transgender.” FIGHTING TO SURVIVE In Bloomington, Elbe Lieb is also waiting to find out how Trump’s recent actions will affect her as a transgender member of the army reserves and as an insured veteran. Lieb transitioned from male to female at the age of 46, after retiring from active duty. While officially still a member of the Army Ready Reserves and officially still enlisted
as male, Lieb has notified her supervising sergeant about her transition and they’ve mutually agreed not to make any gender identity changes on official Army records. “He knows. He’s seen me as a woman, but it’s only an issue if I get called up, and neither of us think that is going to happen anytime soon.” Lieb’s years in the army coincided with the failure of two marriages and the realization that something fundamental had to change. While living as a man, Lieb had explored cross-dressing and said she tried to fetishize gender dysphoria (the distress reulting from her trans identidy) as sexual fantasy with female partners. By the age of 45, however, Lieb was at the end of a four-year stint in the army, going through a third divorce and suicidal. “I was definitely engaging in risky behavior, hurting myself in a lot of ways. All because I didn’t want to get caught,” Lieb says. “The fear of being discovered as trans in the military is huge. In the army, they can declare you unfit for duty for a lot of reasons and use that as the basis for a discharge. Sometimes, it leads to a general discharge and it’s no big deal. But for trans people, it’s often a dishonorable discharge and it can ruin someone’s life. It’s like a felony, it follows you around forever and can really have a detrimental effect.” After leaving the Army in 2014, Lieb began counseling and eventually began transitioning to female via the VA healthcare system. “For years I’d tried to fight what I called ‘compulsions,’ ” says Lieb. “I was embarrassed. I kept trying to make those ‘bad thoughts’ go away. It took a very long time before I could accept that someone wasn’t wrong with me that I needed to be ashamed of.” Now that Trump’s decision could have a very real affect on continued medical coverage, Lieb is worried but hopeful. “The Army and the VA have a duty to provide medically necessary treatment. They can’t pick and choose what they want to cover and what they don’t.” “These are people’s lives. They need to understand that.” N NUVO.NET // 09.06.17 - 09.13.17 // NEWS // 5
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A VERY SCARY PARTY HorrorHound Weekend celebrates a decade of celebrating horror films BY CAVAN McGINSIE // CMCGINSIE@NUVO.NET
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oo. Oh, sorry, did we scare you? Do you like how you feel now? Heart ticking Muscles tensed Those teeny hairs on the back of your neck standing straight up. If you do enjoy that rise in adrenaline, that innate sense of fear, then it’s high time to head to Indy’s most horrific annual convention, HorrorHound Weekend, which runs screaming into town Friday through Sunday at Marriott Indianapolis East. HorrorHound, a bi-monthly horror magazine and convention organizer, has brought the world of horror films to Indianapolis for a decade and during the tenth anniversary, they are making sure it’s scarier and more fun than ever before. “This year you’ll see stuff from Friday the 13th [Part II], Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Goonies,” says Andrew Risch, one
of the convention’s organizers. By “stuff” Risch means cast members — the biggest highlight of the convention. “We bring a lot of celebrities in that the guests love and we try to do some reunions,” says Risch, who has attended the event every year since the inception and this year is finally working behind the scenes. The reunions this year include Goonies actors Sean Astin, Corey Feldman and Jonathan Ke Huy Quan, all attending. Buffy fans will be able to meet with Xander, Spike and Drusilla. And eight Camp Crystal Lake campers and counselors will round out the over 30 celebrity appearances over the weekend. Other celebrity guests include Nestor Carbonell and Max Thieriot from Bates Motel; the Species creature herself Natasha Henstridge; five of The Lost Boys; and everyone’s favorite ‘90s witch, Fairuza Balk. Risch says the celebrity guests have
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always been the highlight of the convention for fans. “You see someone you’ve admired for a long time and just get that chance to talk to them for a little bit. You get a picture with them and share your love of the genre,” he says. He also says one of his favorite memories of the fest as a guest was meeting one of the most well-known horror figures of all time, “The big man, Freddy Krueger, Robert Englund himself. He was one of those who was just a really nice guy.” Risch says Englund gave fans an experience that you may get to have the chance to have with one or more of this year’s celebrity guests: “Despite the long lines he had at the convention all weekend long, he actually took his time to talk with every fan. We would’ve liked to get more fans through to meet him, but that was a cool thing to see him take his time just to speak with every-
one and to give them a good experience.” While the celebrities are definitely the benchmark of the convention, the fest also includes many vendors offering various horror film memorabilia and collectibles for fans. “This year also has the return of a very popular convention within a convention,” says Risch. “We do the Mask-Fest, where it’s a lot of companies and people that do a lot of Halloween and other types of collectors masks, as well as Halloween props. We’ve had several guests from Face Off and shows like that come to our conventions, too.” This year’s Mask-Fest promises to have some of the industry’s top mask makers, effects creators and make-up artists. Among the dozens of special effects artists showing off their work, a few standouts include Jordu Schell, who has done work on films like Avatar, Hellboy, Edward Scissorhands and Alien: Resurrection; the
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wickedly talented Mikey Rotella, who’s worked on nearly 40 films, most recently Kong: Skull Island, Independence Day: Resurgence, and the soon-to-release remake of Stephen King’s It; and “The Godfather of Gore,” Tom Savini, who is known for basically pushing the special makeup effects world to what it is today with his groundbreaking work in classic films like Friday the 13th, Dawn of the Dead, Creepshow and Day of the Dead. Risch also points out an exciting addition this year corresponds with Rotella’s upcoming film. “This year we’re going to be doing a big giveaway,” he says. “The same weekend as HorrorHound, the It remake comes out so we’re going to be embracing that and having a big party on Friday night for It. We will be giving away lots of passes and memorabilia, we’ve been working with the studio with that. We’re really going full-on with that. We will be having that after-party where fans are encouraged to dress up as clowns.” The party will also include something that, according to Risch, has been requested by attendees for years: SCAREoke, a.k.a. horror-themed karaoke. Attendees
can also join in the daily panels, including all of the reunion casts as well as a panel with The Ice Cream Man, Clint Howard, and modern film and television panels including stars from The Strangers and Sons of Anarchy. There is also the yearly kid’s costume contest on Saturday, followed by The Costume Ball. This year’s ball, as in years past, will feature a costume contest and live music. “The horror music scene is something we’re including, we’ll be having a concert on Saturday night with The Stellar Corpses, which is a horror punk band.” The concert also includes music from G Tom Mac and Tim Capello who starred in The Lost Boys and a special-presentation from Mask-Fest. “We love Indianapolis,” Risch says. “It’s where our first show started and this is our tenth year anniversary. We really would love to have this be a big show to celebrate our ten years and we look forward to continuing this tradition.”
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A HORRIFIC ORIGIN STORY Nathan Hanneman recounts a life full of horror love
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his year marks 10 for the convention, but HorrorHound’s magazine has a few more years on the annual event. Before this weekend’s event, we chatted up founder Nathan Hanneman on the history of his horrifying mag and convention.
[We focused] on Indianapolis alone — but in 2007 conventions like these were deemed “geeky” and definitely attracted a more niche audience. I think with the success of horror in mainstream, and with advances in social media, horror has become something less taboo — and conventions have become big business, attracting names that otherwise would CAVAN McGINSIE: What initially sparked have frowned at such a position. Conventions the idea for HorrorHound Weekend? used to be considered where celebrities go NATHAN HANNEMAN: I had worked in when they retire. Now, it’s a gauge of success. publishing and online news since I was The biggest names from the hottest a teenager. I landed my first job in pubfilms and television shows (especially) lishing way back in 1997 and worked my are on the market. Stars of the Marvel way up to writer, and then editor for two film franchises (last year in Indianapolis, different publications. In one of our guests was Mi2003 I had co-written a book chael Rooker, who starred in “Honestly, I on horror movie collectibles the top-grossing Guardians with a friend named Aaron the Galaxy 2 this year). At love when I see of Crowell. Being long-time this year’s event we have Sean horror fans, we loved working those moments Astin — one of the stars of The on this book. In 2005 I was of the Rings franchise and when fans are Lord approached by my cousin, someone whose career is still overwhelmed Jeremy Sheldon, to start a thriving. We have the cast of new company — any compaBates Motel — all of whom are with their ny — and I loved the idea of extremely relevant and in high experience.” starting a horror magazine. demand in Hollywood. Even had a name immeSo I think the idea that — NATHAN HANNEMAN conventions are these dark diately picked out: HorrorHound. So in the fall of 2005 basement underground events HorrorHound Magazine was launched, has been the biggest change in the past with Jeremy and myself, alongside Aaron 10 years. Our last event we hosted Jeffrey and my then-girlfriend Jessica (Bruewer). Dean Morgan, the star of the No.1 rated Once we had a magazine, we knew we show on television (The Walking Dead). If needed a convention — all of the best horthat isn’t progress, I don’t know what is. ror magazines had their own conventions CAVAN: What is your favorite aspect of the — so it just took a couple years to figure event? out how to get to that point. By the spring NATHAN: Honestly, I love when I see of 2007 (thanks to tremendous assistance those moments when fans are overwhelmed and support from family and friends in with their experience. I am a fan myself, the industry), we launched HorrorHound and I get such a kick out of bringing in some Weekend at the Marriott Indianapolis East. of the names we are able to have. We have CAVAN: Over the past ten years what have brought in people who I never thought been the biggest changes? I would meet myself, such as Jamie Lee NATHAN: These conventions can be a dif- Curtis, or David Arquette, the late George A. ficult beast to tame, and there were definite Romero, Clive Barker, Corey Feldman (who growing pains those first few years. Our first is coming back!) … I have seen fans shaking show was considered a rousing success by as they get a hug from their favorite celebrithen-industry standards. I believe we pulled ty. I have seen them cry. in approximately 3,000 attendees over the We have worked with local hospitals to weekend, which helped us pull in more have sick children meet with people like Norman Reedus. Actually having an ambulance interest and bigger names down the road.
NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY bring them to the show — and to see the celebrity stop everything to make sure they are giving those people their full attention. It can be overwhelming. A lamer answer — I also love that I do this with my friends and family. Outside of people like my friend Aaron and now-wife Jessica — almost every friend I have today was made thanks to putting on these shows. These are people I invite over for dinner. I have been guests in their homes, we have gone on vacations together — gone to weddings with each other — and sadly, funerals. Horror conventions like this one are special, because you can go in by yourself, knowing nobody, and come home with friends. You can literally walk up to anyone at these shows and start a conversation — which could end up in beers at the bar.
CAVAN: What is it like to see this event you created grow into what it is today? NATHAN: I am very proud — of my friends and family, as well — for everything we have accomplished. In 10 years, we have went from an upstart with 3,000 attendees to a sold-out show that hosted 22,000 fans over a weekend (our largest event, which was in Cincinnati, Ohio). We have won various awards for best convention, fan event, and even were honored with a CVA by NUVO in 2016, which we are all immensely appreciative of. We have been featured in two documentaries, a handful of television shows, and New York Times even did a spotlight piece on us earlier this year. Last year saw the release of an official mass-market produced HorrorHound action figure — and Scarlet Lane Brewing produced an official HorrorHound Ale, which can be purchased in retail markets like Kroger. At this show coming up (Sept. 8-10), Scarlet Lane is introducing HorrorHound Ale Part 2 — which tastes great. I know married couples who met at our shows. People who proposed to their significant others at our shows (many who have since
had children — some who may have even had children conceived at our shows. Ha!). We have even had people get married at our shows (including myself to Jessica). I just take solace in knowing that something [that] was essentially created in the kitchen of my apartment has amounted to something people have found value in. I have found the value in it, in my own personal ways, and I know my life would be drastically different without the people in my life, of whom I met at these shows.
CAVAN: Anything else pertinent you’d like to add?
NATHAN: My mother passed away in 2001, so she never got to witness any of this. And she was the biggest influence in my life, in regards to my love of horror. She encouraged my interest in everything spooky, when I was a kid. Buying me Freddy and Jason toys, renting me movies like Psycho and Night of the Living Dead. She loved this stuff. So it’s sad that she never got to see what I do today. She would get such a kick out of it. I think about this, and this is one of the main reasons we try so hard to make our shows family-friendly. Something you won’t get at most other horror conventions. We host a Saturday kid’s costume contest — we have done giveaways and fun coloring book activities for children at past events. Families are encouraged to bring their little ones (we offer free admission to children 12 and under). It makes me laugh so much, watching these kids walk around — 6, 8, 10 years old — and they can tell you who Chucky and Jason and Michael Myers are. Sometimes they know more than their parents. It’s so fun. And in Indianapolis, especially, we host Mask-Fest, which is a show-within-ashow. All mask artists and FX gurus — and the ballroom is loaded with some of the most impressive displays you will ever see (think your local Halloween pop-up store — but 10 times cooler). It’s a rare opportunity to see so many impressive items on display and for sale — kids and families both can just walk around in awe of the art on display. NUVO.NET // 09.06.17 - 09.13.17 // THE BIG STORY // 9
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director/writer on our staff,” Servies says. “He reached out to HorrorHound because they have premiered his movies before. We then sat down together and designed a beer and launched in Indiana during the 2016 convention. That original recipe went to Cincinnati for the 2017 show. We will now take it to Columbus, Ohio for the November convention. “[Throughout the year] we continue to promote HorrorHound through the magazine availability in the tap room, we typically show macabre style movies/shows in the tap room, we have HorrorHound fliers and stock the HorrorHound Ale on draft and in bottles during all three conventions.”
“The 12-ounce bottle label is designed to hold an autograph of your favorite horror celebrity to display in your collection.” — IAN McVAY
A BLOODY GOOD ALE Scarlet Lane releases HorrorHound Ale Part 2 BY RITA KOHN AND CAVAN McGINSIE // RKOHN@NUVO.NET
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ith all that tension built up from watching all those horror movies, and from the anticipation of meeting your favorite horror film celebrities, you’ll definitely need to wind down with a beer or two during HorrorHound Weekend. Enter Scarlet Lane’s HorrorHound Ale Part 2. “The Official Beer of Horror, HorrorHound Ale, is a yearly collaboration between Scarlet Lane Brewing and HorrorHound and HorrorHound Weekend,” says Nick Servies, the marketing and branding guy for Scarlet Lane
Brewing in McCordsville. Last year was the first year for the collaboration. That beer was simply named HorrorHound Ale, and it was a Northwest-style pale ale with the addition of sweet cherries, which led to a bloody delicious brew. “The recipe changes with the yearly Indianapolis convention schedule. Part 2 of HorrorHound Ale is a Honey Session Ale made with a blend of Northwest hops and citrus honey coming in at 4.2% ABV and 20 IBUs,” Servies says. “Each recipe change brings another hand drawn custom label from the Scarlet Lane Brewing
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artist Ian Mcvay. The 12-ounce bottle label is designed to hold an autograph of your favorite horror celebrity to display in your collection.” Scarlet Lane is tied to the horror genre for many reasons. Anyone who has tasted their beers over the years should be quick to recognize the not-to-subtle nods to OG horror writers, like Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde with beer names like Lenore Dry-hopped Ale and Dorian Stout. “Scarlet Lane Brewing got into HorrorHound because we are all horror movie fans and we have a horror movie film
HorrorHound Ale Part 2 launched September 5 at Mass Ave Pub, followed by The Sinking Ship on September 6 with special guest and WWE star Kevin Thorn. Kuma’s Corner Indianapolis will host a tapping party on September 7, which is the perfect chance to pair it with a heavy metal burger. And it will show up at its home, the Scarlet Lane Brewing Tap House on September 8. Ticket giveaways and showings of horror movies related to the HorrorHound Weekend reunion of Friday the 13th Part 2, Goonies, The Lost Boys and Buffy the Vampire Slayer will surface during some of the tapping events, says Servies. He also points out that a limited number of kegs will be available before and after the event, as well as select locations carrying the 12-ounce 4-packs.
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FRANKENALICE, QUEEN ALIENS AND ELECTRIC CHAIRS For Ed Edmunds, making monsters is all in a day’s work BY DAN GROSSMAN // DGROSSMAN@NUVO.NET
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onder where the spooky stuff available for perusal at HorrorHound gets made? Turn to companies like Distortions Unlimited, a horrific prop and mask company that has produced all manner of blood, goop and terror since 1978. Think stuff like severed arms, bloody hands, and vomiting pigs. And the company has plenty of fans in Indianapolis who think that their latex rubber creations are more than serviceable substitutes for decaying flesh. Distortions also does a brisk business in faux electric chairs. (Dick Van Dyke is the proud owner of one.) Their clients have also included haunted houses and rock stars. They designed FrankenAlice for Alice Cooper’s Brutal Planet Tour (FrankenAlice is a monster/stage prop modelled on Alice Cooper himself). They mass-produced the Alien Queen, after the monster that appeared in Aliens, the Alien sequel directed by James Cameron. Distortions Unlimited is also a regular at trade shows and, of course, at HorrorHound’s annual Mask-Fest. Distortions was founded by Ed Edmunds, who worked throughout college on his company’s products. After college, he met Marsha Taub; they became partners, in both business and life, when they married in 1992.
If you are unable to get to HorrorHound’s Mask-Fest this year, your second-best option to learn about Distortions Unlimited is to watch the show Making Monsters, available via Travel Channel (The show, which ran for three seasons, was discontinued in 2012.) In these episodes, you can see the Distortions crew working frenetically on what first appear to be impossible orders — and dealing with difficult situations like when their clay sculpture of FrankenAlice developed an inch-wide crack — but usually, they’re able to get the job done. And throughout it all, the crew maintains their sense of humor without cracking under the pressure. NUVO talked to founder Ed Edmunds by phone on Sept. 1.
DAN GROSSMAN: What’s new this year [at Mask-Fest] that your fans haven’t seen before? ED EDMUNDS: We’ve got a mask that’s kind of cool that we’re bringing to the show. An old mask. There was a book being done on Distortions by Blacksparrow Books [Remember the Future, the Distortions Unlimited Story], and that didn’t get finished on time for Mask-Fest and Horrorhound. Part of the deal was that I was going to do a mask that mirrored some of the stuff I used to do in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. [Monster artist] James Nichols way back in the day
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drew a number of styles for us. Three, I believe. So the publisher of the book Blacksparrow and Lee Lambert, the author of the book, thought it would be a cool idea to offer a mask drawn by Nichols, a new one, and then sculpt it in the old style, and help promote the book. And if you buy the book with the mask, you get a discount on the mask. He gave them several designs and I came up with the idea of making all three designs and making it into one kind of bizarre mask. So that’s one of the things that we’ll be doing is this kind of weird triple concept mask. And it just so happened that [special effects makeup creator] Tom Savini is going to be there and we actually had done a film in the ‘90s with Savini to promote the company. We had a best boy and a dolly and all the junk. [We] filmed it in 16-millimeter and made this film. I thought it would be fun one of these evenings to do a little thing with Savini and Marsha
and a lot of people saw that in the day… You almost have to be a mask nerd to appreciate this film and what it represents to the history of mask-making. So we’re just going to talk about where we were at in that moment in time in the making of that film and so forth.
DAN: You are also known for your show Making Monsters on Travel Channel. You had Dick Van Dyke as a guest? ED: We had already had him as a customer. He’s a guy who loves Halloween. He’s been doing Halloween displays and haunted house type stuff since the ‘60s. And so he had contacted us maybe six or seven years ago and wanted to buy a bunch of stuff. And I’m not talking about little props and stuff. I’m talking about an electric chair — those are like $7500 — and all sorts of big expensive props. So when the show came along, I suggested that we do an episode with Dick Van Dyke because a lot of people don’t know that he loves monsters. So they went out and did a show with Dick Van Dyke and we went out there and installed a 13-foot character at his house.
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DAN: In one of the Making Monsters episodes, there was a mothballed ship used as a haunted house that you and Marsha walked onto. And the thing that struck me, out of everything that was going on, it was the interaction between you two that was the most entertaining thing of all. How your creative process works and your teasing each other about taking credit and all that. I thought that was wonderful. ED: Well, you know the show has a lot of fans that were very offended that it [only] ran three seasons... Travel allowed a lot of liberty... they didn’t fake it. It’s funny. If television says reality, they mean fake. Because almost all that stuff is faked and set up. So they let us be ourselves. Now there were times that we’d have to reshoot or talk about things to clarify. But for the most part, they’d ask, “What are you doing today?” They’d decide what they were going to film; and they’d film massive amounts of footage hoping to catch those moments that were good just naturally without faking anything. To give you an idea, Lisa Tanzer was the showrunner [responsible for overall creative management of Making Monsters]. She said, “We shoot 10 hours for every minute.”
Think about that; if somebody followed you around and filmed you for ten hours, and edited down to ten minutes, you’d look like you had an amazing life. It was good because it caught real human interaction.
DAN: Tell me about the Alien Queen. [Distortions Unlimited mass-produced a prop version of Aliens’ Xenomorph Queen, available for purchase after the movie was released.] ED: What we did was we mass produced her. Now the Queen Alien was the big one. We did the the small one. It was about seven and a half feet, the warrior. And we did the big queen which was about 16 feet standing. DAN: In 1979 you had the first Alien film that did pretty good business and then the sequel came along [Aliens, in 1986] and it really took off after the sequel, right? ED: Oh, mercy. Both those directors did a great job and [James] Cameron took it to the next level in a lot of ways [with Aliens]. Now, the first one was very artsy and very cool. It’s hard to compare the two. The first alien that we did was from Alien and Giger sculpted it. Here’s a side-trail that I think you might enjoy. When we first
NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY came out with that it was the early ‘80s and ready, because I never in my mind quite see we could not sell that mask …. We presentthose as a real thing. It’s always like a very ed it to the world and they just thumbed elaborate cartoon. But that said, it’s getting their nose at it. They’re like, “Meh.” Nothere. There will come a day when movies body’s ever going to spend $170. When you won’t even be made with actors.They will be mark it up 100 percent for retail, that’s what able to remake Frankenstein; they’ll be able it came in at. to take the imagery that we have and do a In fact, the few that did said, “Well, I’ll new Frankenstein with Boris Karloff and you never sell a mask that costs $170. But I’m won’t be able to tell the difference. But we’re just going to buy it to put it in the front not quite there yet. window because it’s a nice display. And so Now, where it’s overlapping with the those people, the next year when I came mask industry. There’s a guy, probably the back, I said, “Well, did you sell that mask?” first one that I know of — maybe someAnd they go, “Oh, yeah, it sold right away.” body’s done it before — Landon Meier, I couldn’t believe it and I said, “Why don’t here in Colorado. He’s been taking images you buy another one?” And they said, “Oh, of Donald Trump and he’s done all sorts we’d never sell another one. It was just of different celebrities. He did several resome nerd in town.” cently where he actually he was sculpting Well, the last one that them, and then he got a 3D sold on eBay, one of the printer. Then he’d use some “I’m still a sucker kind of computer tool, and guys in the band Metallica bought it and it sold for over them on computer and for latex rubber.” 3D $10,000 and there’s people then instead of printing — ED EDMUNDS a positive he’d print the who have been offered tens of thousands of dollars and mold. And those are strik[the mask owners] will not sell this mask. It ing. And they’re so good that it looks like just goes to show you, the thing was not of the person. its time. The mask world wasn’t ready for … It’s coming to our industry; I’m still a that mask, and now it is. sucker for latex rubber and sculpting with your hands. But there may be a day when DAN: I deal with visual arts a lot. And one that’s very rare. of the questions I have is how artists are DAN: Is giving a personality to the monsters reacting to, and incorporating, things like part of the fun? CGI and virtual reality. How does that fit in ED: Yes. It’s a little bit of a Frankenstein/ with what you do? ED: Well, we don’t deal with it much. It is God thing. You come up with something in starting to encroach into our industry. I am your head, with your hands, and then with not anti- CGI. I am anti-overuse CGI. To me, sculpting and molding and painting you what George Lucas did to Star Wars episodes bring it to life. 1, 2 and 3 was really terrible. DAN: Anything that you want to add about DAN: Ditto! I know! I remember as a kid beMask-Fest? ED: We’ve done a lot of trade shows and ing in the theatre for the first Star Wars. And people are just walking around like zombies I didn’t care if some of the effects weren’t — figuratively speaking. At Mask-Fest and cutting-edge or whatever. ED: It was a fantastic film. That’s where HorrorHound, people are really excited… I’ll put my foot down and say that was You get all these people together who are wrong… The thing is, CGI is a wonderful like family, maybe a little dysfunctional, but tool. Right now, I think it’s still an enhancethey’re family. It’s just a really a fun expement tool, in my opinion. Now I just saw rience. So, it takes what is, for us, basically [War for the] Planet of the Apes, some of the manufacturing products that people want; greatest CGI ever…. I still wish those were we get to be with those people for the weekmake-ups. I just don’t think that we’re quite end and it’s really a unique experience. N NUVO.NET // 09.06.17 - 09.13.17 // THE BIG STORY // 13
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SOBERING STORIES
Ray Boomhower’s new book details WWII action in the Pacific BY RITA KOHN // RKOHN@NUVO.NET
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ispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod recounts what American Marines, determined to avenge Iwo Jima and defeat the Japanese, endured. Sherrod’s stories were aimed at deepening understanding about mounting casualties in hand-tohand combat under grueling conditions for civilians at home. Biographer Ray Boomhower, Senior Editor at Indiana Historical Society Press, analyzes Sherrod’s dispatches from the fighting zone and comments on how civilian attitudes and actions in the U.S. were undermining the morale of the military forces as they struggled to gain a foothold on atolls along the way toward the final attacks on mainland Japan. Sherrod’s writing style recalls the straightforward on-the-spot reporting of Homer, whose stories in the Iliad and Odyssey still resonate with us today. While Hoosiers are more likely to connect with Ernie Pyle’s WWII columns of the ordinary GI on the battlefields and in the trenches, Sherrod diligently followed the Marines in their unwavering determination and bravery despite staggering losses. Rodgers and Hammerstein grasped the essence in their Broadway-hit-turned-Hollywood musical, South Pacific. Both the musical and Sherrod’s stories remind us that going to war might be a way to affirm one’s allegiance to one’s country, but the underlying effects have lasting implications on individuals, families, and communities beyond the moment of combat. All of the human toll witnessed by Sherrod needs to be revisited by Americans. The politics of divisiveness and of war is fresh upon us with belligerence toward people of color and North Korea. The problems that Sherrod continued to cover after WWII, such as the inequality
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faced by Black veterans returning from war, are still with us. A quote from the book, published in 2017 by IU Press, summarizes the actions of the Marines in the Pacific during the war: “They told us to hold and by God, we held.” But no such declaration has come out of succeeding conflagrations in the 1950s and 1960s on the domestic front. But then, this situation was telegraphed by the treatment of Blacks during what Studs Terkel and others called “The Good War.” Every person of color in the military during WWII had to double up personal efforts to gain respect from fellow white
EVENT // Ray Boomhower at Indy Author Fair WHEN // Saturday, Oct. 14, 11 a.m. WHERE // Central Library TICKETS // FREE, all-ages
service people. Sherrod repeatedly pointed out the united efforts to win a war for a country that denied justice and equality for all — including what drafted serviceman Jackie Robinson had to say. Sherrod was prescient in his observations of the December 19, 1946, Viet Minh attack on Hanoi. Boomhower quotes Sherrod in January 1967, looking back. “At that time I had
written an article speculating on the possibility that one day American blood might be spilled in Indochina,” wrote Sherrod. Boomhower then adds Sherrod’s dismay regarding Vietnam. “How could such a monstrous situation come to pass?” Perhaps watching the forthcoming Ken Burns documentary on PBS will provide a glimmer of an answer. Along with unfolding the story surrounding Sherrod’s dispatches to Time editors from his starting point in Australia to the final battle on Okinawa, Boomhower details the books Sherrod wrote regarding the war in the Pacific. As we move toward the 75th anniversary of VJ Day, it is wise to read Dispatches from the Pacific, and particularly look for reprints of Tarawa: The Story of a Battle and On to Westward, both still considered among the finest reporting of U.S. Marine Corps actions during WWII. Also worthy of a mention is Life’s Picture History of World War II with Sherrod’s sterling captions for each photograph. Born February 8, 1909, in Thomas County, Georgia, Sherrod died February 13, 1994, in Washington, D.C. Throughout his career as an investigative reporter, Sherrod sought to surround every firsthand observation with the observations of others who would have been standing in different sightlines. By the end, like Homer’s Odysseus, Sherrod sought to understand the meanings of loyalty and fate, restoration to order, and perhaps most importantly of all respect — not for the Greek pantheon of Gods — but for the humanity of each person in a very changed United States of America. Just as Odysseus thought he never would get home, Sherrod wrote, upon hearing the news of Japanese surrender, “We thought the Japanese never would surrender. Many refused to believe it. Sitting in stunned silence, we remembered our dead. So many dead. So many maimed.” N NUVO.NET // 09.06.17 - 09.13.17 // BOOKS // 15
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Eddie Curry dishes on Beef & Boards’ upcoming season BY DAN GROSSMAN // DGROSS@NUVO.NET
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rtistic Director Eddie Curry has been with Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre in some capacity or another for the past 28 years. Before talking a little about the Theatre’s history during our most recent conversation with Curry, he’s looking to the future, pointing out some of the 2018 season highlights. Mamma Mia!, the blockbuster musical that takes its cue from the ‘70s supergroup ABBA, is the first highlight to roll off his tongue. It will be in Indianapolis for a tenweek run, opening Feb. 1. “It’s going to be the first locally produced production of Mamma Mia! because the license to be able to produce it just got released,” he says. “So you’re going to start seeing regional productions all over the country so we’re going to be the first in Indianapolis.” Another highlight: Million Dollar Quartet, which highlights the night when Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis met for a music history altering jam session. “It’s been done in town before but we’re going to do our own production of it next summer,” says Curry. “So those two shows really stick out to me as being more recent Broadway fare.” There are also shows that Curry, 50, will be acting in and/or helping direct. “I always look forward to the shows that I will personally be involved in beyond casting and just producing,” he says. I’m going to be in Greater Tuna with my best friend Jeff Stockberger. He and I always do the comedies together. We’re kind of the Martin & Lewis of Beef & Boards.” Curry will also be part of the cast in Million Dollar Quartet as the manager and he’ll direct Singing in the Rain and Annie. And he’s looking forward to Singing in the Rain because, he says, “We’re going to be making some movies.” During and in-between rehearsals, Curry
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will oversee the making of movies in various styles that will be shown on stage during the performances. “The first movie is a silent movie,” he says. “And then the show opens with a premiere of that movie so the show actually opens with a movie that you shot with the actors in black and white to look like a silent movie.” Another movie they will shoot to make it look like a talkie, but one with bad sound problems. “It makes it just a little more interesting, ups the stress level to a little bit, to a fun level, keeping it fresh.” Keeping it fresh is one of Curry’s concerns in a broader sense, in terms of attracting Generation X and younger to Beef & Boards performances. “It’s something that we’re constantly talking about and we try to reflect that in our season lineup from year to year,” he says. “Most of the audience members, probably the average age is about 55 and they really like the more classic musical pieces: West
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Side Story, My Fair Lady. We also try to work in some titles like Les Miserables or Into the Woods... to bring in younger audiences.” Curry also says that the Indianapolis audience is a “tad more conservative than in other cities.” “That’s what Beef & Boards specializes in… entertainment theatre. It’s not that we aren’t going through the exact same mechanisms that everybody else is doing when they’re producing theatre,” he said. “But the content we’re choosing is more [geared] to light distraction rather than provoking thought.” Dinner theatre used to be huge group business. “You would pull up here on a show date and you’d see eight or nine tour coaches out there,” he says. “And that really made up the bread and butter of dinner theatres in the early ‘70s when they were all over the country like Howard Johnsons.” In the ‘70s and ‘80s there were more than 100 dinner theatres scattered throughout the U.S.
“But group business started getting dispersed out wider with the legalization of gambling boats,” says Curry. “So the group business started to deplete.” Currently, according to Curry, Beef & Boards is one of approximately three union theatres left in the country, making it both something of an anachronism and a somewhat unique feature on the Indy (if not indie) theatre scene. Curry describes how the typical performance goes: “The doors open at 6:00 p.m. They roll out two identical buffet lines on either side. With salad bar, vegetables, always some kind of a fish, always some kind of a chicken, and always roast beef, right? Because beef and boards; beef being the food and boards being the stage. Beef and boards. Food and stage. And once everybody has gone through the buffet, about an hour later, at 7:30 they take the buffet carts away backstage right. Then the stage crew will come out... and then the stage rolls out into position, all of the sudden now you’ve got a stage in front of you. So it literally goes from being a restaurant… you flip a switch and you’re now in a theatre or a supper club if you will.” Curry can be forgiven if he describes the Beef & Boards experience with some passion. It is, after all, a passion that bleeds over into his personal life: he proposed to his wife here in 1997. “We’d gotten up at the crack of dawn to be on WISH-TV with our production of Some Like It Hot, and I was doing a teaser [with local TV personality Dick Wolfsie] before one of the segments,” he says. “I was in a dress because I was playing the Jack Lemmon role. So I proposed to my wife. And so I called her mom, made her get up, and proposed to [my wife] during that teaser.” N
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CINEMATIC LESSONS FOR OUR POST-APOCALYPTIC WORLD When the end is coming, try to be near Kurt Russell BY JARED RASIC // SCREENS@NUVO.NET
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et me get this out of the way up front: I do not think we’re gonna die in a hail of nuclear fire from North Korea. It’s saber-rattling — and you know it, and I know it, and China knows it. (Wait, was that a mushroom cloud?) With that said I also have some pretty good ideas for my post-apocalyptic future... just in case. I’m not good at hunting, killing things or anything requiring balance, skill or dexterity, so I am going to become the best post-apocalyptic male prostitute the world has ever seen. I might be quite large and hirsute, but I have a feeling bears will do OK at the end of the world. Now you know my secret. Just in case you need your own plans for the world after the rain of fire and destruction, here are a few movies that might give you some ideas on how to deal. Mad Max: Fury Road: Now, we learned from the original Mad Max that it’s best not to become too attached to anyone, Road Warrior taught us the importance of storing fuel and Thunderdome stressed the importance of how annoying children are even when they are starving and feral.
Nobody got time for that. Fury Road has a much more important message to impart: Always be with someone that is supernaturally good at driving. You are probably going to be chased a lot, so make sure you become a legit incredible driver, but also make sure you travel with one also so you can get some sleep or in case someone eats your arms. The Road: While a very tough movie to watch, it has several teachable moments like: 1) Never trust a cannibal. No matter how close you become, you’re still just brunch to them. 2) Maybe join a roving band of marauders. You might have to do some things that are awful and will scar you for life, but it gets lonely out there. 3) Practice archery. While bringing a bow and arrow to a gunfight is not recommended, you can hunt for food without drawing attention and quote The Hunger Games to make your new marauder friends laugh. Planet of the Apes: I mean, we already know the importance of wearing a loin cloth (freedom of movement, sexual chemistry with monkeys and a cool breeze when you least expect it), but the real lesson here is that just because we were once at the top of the food chain, it doesn’t mean we’ll always be there.
If you find yourself in a position where apes, Pomeranians or even irradiated raccoons are in control, instead of focusing on how different everything is... roll with the new paradigm. Find the slave collar that fits your personality and pray for a quick, yet elegiac death. Escape From New York: The lesson here is obvious: Avoid cities — especially ones that have become penal colonies. Obviously cities are okay if you join a roving band of marauders, but you’re still going to be fighting other madmen for food and sleeping in some very uncomfortable positions. I would try and have a sleeping bag and pillow with you at all times and write your name on both (as long as language hasn’t been lost yet). This will let everyone know that, “While I am a friendly sort, this is my bedding and I will most certainly eat, at the very least, your leg if you attempt to make off with them.” By creating some rules it will give everyone a sense of structure that will make the days go quicker as you wait for the radiation sickness to take you. Everyone is a winner! I hope these lessons were helpful in planning your “hypothetical” future. Goodnight and good luck. N NUVO.NET // 09.06.17 - 09.13.17 // SCREENS // 17
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ARTIST // Stone Irr ALBUM // Sinner LABEL // Darling Recordings
ARTIST // Dose ALBUM // Birth LABEL // Self-released
Amy Oelsner is no stranger to Indiana music lovers. In addition to her extensive back catalog of solo work, she has also impressed consistently alongside fellow Bloomington badass Erin Tobey in the left-field rock duo Brenda’s Friend. With her latest album Elastic, though, the indie-pop singer-songwriter appears ready for the next chapter of her career, treating fans both new and old to her most stunning collection of songs to date. Released via budding Bloomington label Winspear, Elastic wastes little time grabbing the listener’s attention with album opener “Lavender Night” providing quick and unexpected twists and turns. Swift, cutting song structures are found throughout as tracks like “History Walking,” “Spacey Feeling” and “Cherry Blossom” scamper unexpectedly in a way that would make Sleater Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein smile. Intermingled in these rippers are softer selections, including standouts like “Soft Skin” and “Sunday Meal.” Elastic times out at less than 30 minutes. In this relatively short time, however, Amy O packs plenty of punch into each and every note, proving she’s a highly skilled songstress worthy of national notoriety.
Upon first glance, Stone Irr may seem like the punny stage name of some ganja-centric goober. But don’t be fooled: This Bloomington songwriter is no joke, and his latest album, Sinner, is all the proof you need. (And, yes, the name’s real.) Out now on Bloomington-based label Darling Recordings, Sinner is an album about relationships — with a romantic partner, with God, with a complicated, conservative childhood. Irr maintains a somber tone throughout the record, giving these heavy topics an appropriate weight. This being said, he makes the absolute most of this emotional content, delivering song after song in a beautifully raw, Justin Vernon-esque fashion. Like Vernon, Irr also makes the most of harmonies, expertly pulling them off in the album’s pair of opening standout tracks, “What I Do Best” and “In My Mind.” Although the peaks of harmonic beauty certainly astonish, they would be far less effective without Irr’s deeply felt delivery, like the “For My Friends,” line “I can’t even believe the shit I tell myself.” In the end, Sinner’s success seems to be equal parts heartfelt reflection and chilling orchestration.
Indianapolis’ Dose may not be on your radar yet, but he should be from now on. One of the many acts that impressed at the third annual Chreece festival, the versatile emcee first caught my ear with his contributions to Musical Family Tree’s 2015 hip-hop EP in a Weekend. In the time that’s passed since then, Dose has grown into one of Indy’s most exciting young rappers, as he proves with his latest Birth EP. From start to finish, Birth is loaded with bangers, beginning with the EP’s opening track “Stress.” “This life that we live/It’s just too much stress,” sings Dose, introducing listeners to the vibey song’s irresistible hook. In the following track, “FCK THE CITY UP,” Dose kicks it into trap mode, calling upon fellow Indianapolis emcee Mula Kkhan for a verse. More trap follows on “Play Money,” as Dose presents listeners with another golden hook. “Mama said this shit won’t happen overnight / I just wanna play with the money right,” he sings, before eventually bringing on Indianapolis rapper Swan for a verse. And on the EP’s title track, he returns to a grooving, old-school style, giving fans a song that belongs in a sexy action movie scene. N
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inger-songwriter Sarah Grain is back with Something Wild, her first release in seven years. Something Wild is a collaborative project featuring a talented crew of musicians dubbed the Billions of Stars, including Doug Sauter on guitar/mandolin, Mina Keohane on keys, Nate Gray on bass and Ryan Koch on drums. I caught up with Sarah to talk about the making of Something Wild, and the health problems she overcame during the creation of the disc. Grain planned a truly unique album release party for Something Wild, happening Saturday, September 9 at 8 p.m. in the Catacombs under City Market.
KYLE LONG: Something Wild is your first release since issuing Terrain in 2010. There’ve been a lot of changes in your life and work during this time, including the formation of a new band, the Billions of Stars, who collaborated with you on this release. And more seriously you’ve been grappling with some very difficult health issues. SARAH GRAIN: So the first gig that Billions of Stars ever did together was in January of 2014. I’d had some strange neurological symptoms since that previous fall, some numbness and tingling, and at one point I kind of lost the use of my right hand. I remember going to band practice with Mina Keohane and I was like, “If it seems like I’m having trouble strumming, it’s fine. I just can’t really feel my hand. But we’ll get through it.” She’s like, “You need to go get that checked out!” After that second time it happened I did decide to get it checked out. That was the week before our first gig at the Chatterbox. I had an MRI done and I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The development of this band, and my journey with this illness have been so intertwined. It was almost like the forma-
tion of this band happened because I was getting this illness diagnosis. Because it was something I needed so much in order to ground myself, and give me purpose. When you get a diagnosis like multiple sclerosis or some other chronic illness where you just feel helpless, it’s hard to spin a positive future for yourself. You just kind of imagine the worst thing happening and I definitely went through that. I definitely went through many months of imagining the worst thing happening and not knowing what to do. Because everybody told me “Oh there’s nothing you can do. You just need to figure out the right med and take that and hope for the best.” But the further I got into my illness, I just felt like that wasn’t the end of the story. I started going to see a functional medicine practitioner who really helped open my eyes to the impacts of toxins on our body, and to the inflammatory responses that bodies have to food and to environmental stimulus. I went through this really rigid protocol over the past year and a half where I completely overhauled my diet. I did major detoxes both through saunas and exfoliation and diet and I’ve been over a year symptom-free now.
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showed them this picture of my brain and Wild reflects your struggle with MS. It’s a it just hit me. I was like, “What if this artist can do profile view of the human brain, with all a Something Wild version of my brain sorts of plant life and insects interwoven scan?” Because for me, I was in such with the biological features. Am I correct that this illustration is based on actual a positive place where I felt so much MRI scan of your brain? triumph, both in my illness and with SARAH: In February, I had an MRI. the culmination of this record. I thought Every other MRI I ever had with my illness that there could be no better image than has been bad news. So there was this part turning this brain scan into something of me where I was expecting bad news, wild, which was the album that we were because that’s what I’ve always gotten bringing forth. So I brought that idea to before. But I also had this glimmer of the artist. I said, “Do you think you could do a Something Wild version of this brain hope, like this glimmer that something’s scan?” And she said, “Yeah definitely.” different now. I’ve realized something else, and yes, the illness isn’t totally in my KYLE: Did your struggle with MS influence control, but I understand something more your songwriting on this album? about how it works, and why the body has SARAH: Well, music has immune responses to toxins, always been a therapeutic and food additives, and envi“I had an MRI thing for me. I always tried to ronmental stimuli. room for songwriting I got the MRI results back done and I was make before, but now I see it more and I was stable. I hadn’t had as a part of my protocol. It’s any changes since my last MRI diagnosed a time where I shut the door which showed me that the path with multiple and breathe. I put away my that I was on was something phone, and I get completely that I had to commit to fully for sclerosis.” the rest of my life. in the flow. In meditation this So after that MRI I went to — SARAH GRAIN is everything that they talk my neurologist and they kind about, getting in this flow of go through and show you all of the imwhere time changes, time slows down and ages. There was this one image of the side you’re tapping into this kind of parasympaprofile of the brain. I saw this image and thetic nervous system stuff. I feel that way I’m like, “Wow. that’s incredible! That’s my with songwriting, and I take it seriously now with my songwriting. brain.” I felt really lucky to be in this moment. I was like, “Stop right now. I need to take a picture of this.” I whipped out my KYLE: Is there a particular track on the cell phone and I took this picture. record that really reflects your journey Later that night when I went to band through this period of diagnosis and practice we were talking about the album recovery? SARAH: Yeah, the title track “Something art. I already knew who I wanted the Wild” because there’s this line that says artist to be. I just had this really amazing “I am something wild, living somewhere sense when I met this artist Stephanie near the truth. Somewhere between my Renner, but we didn’t know where we wanted to go yet visually. summer birth, and the follies of my youth. When I was talking with the band, Like a current swam upstream, an ox we knew the album was going to be driving a team, an acorn sprout yearning called Something Wild. But we couldn’t to push through. So I do.” I feel like that acorn sprout yearning come up with any good ideas for images to push through completely encapsufor the album cover. But later that night I lates my journey with MS, because I will was like. “I want to show you guys this.” push through. Yeah, nothing’s going to So, I whip out my phone and say, “Can stop me. N you believe this? This is my brain.” I
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re halfintoxicated by your puzzling adventures — and half-bewildered, as well. Sometimes you’re spinning out fancy moves, sweet tricks, and surprising gambits. On other occasions you’re stumbling and bumbling and mumbling. Are you really going to keep up this rhythm? I hope so, because your persistence in navigating through the challenging fun could generate big rewards. Like what, for example? Like the redemptive transformation of a mess into an asset. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Free your mind and your ass will follow,” sings funk pioneer George Clinton in his song “Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts.” And what’s the best way to free your mind? Clinton advises you to “Be careful of the thought-seeds you plant in the garden of your mind.” That’s because the ideas you obsess on will eventually grow into the experiences you attract into your life. “Good thoughts bring forth good fruit,” he croons, while “Bullshit thoughts rot your meat.” Any questions, Taurus? According to my astrological analysis, this is the best possible counsel for you to receive right now. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): James Loewen wrote a book called Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. He said, for instance, that during the Europeans’ invasion and conquest of the continent, it wasn’t true that Native Americans scalped white settlers. In fact, it was mostly the other way around: whites scalped Indians. Here’s another example: The famous blind and deaf person, Helen Keller, was not a sentimental spokesperson for sweetness and light, but rather a radical feminist and socialist who advocated revolution. I invite you to apply Loewen’s investigative approach to your personal past, Gemini. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to uncover hidden, incomplete, and distorted versions of your history, and correct them. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Roger Hodge writes books now, but when he worked for Harper’s magazine, he had an unusual specialty. He gathered heaps of quirky facts, and assembled several at a time into long sentences that had a nutty poetic grace. Here’s an example: “British cattle have regional accents, elephants mourn their dead, nicotine sobers drunk rats, scientists have concluded that teenagers are physically incapable of being considerate, and clinical trials of an ‘orgasmatron’ are underway in North Carolina.” I’m offering Hodge as a worthy role model for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Be curious, miscellaneous, and freeflowing. Let your mind wander luxuriantly as you make unexpected connections. Capitalize on the potential blessings that appear through zesty twists and tangy turns. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In Japan you can buy a brand of candy that’s called The Great Buddha’s Nose Snot. Each piece consists of a rice puff that resembles the Buddha’s nose filled with bits of brown sugar that symbolize the snot. The candy-making company assures customers that eating this treat brings them good luck. I invite you to be equally earthy and irreverent about your own spiritual values in the coming days. You’re in prime position to humanize your relationship with divine influences . . . to develop a more visceral passion for your holiest ideals . . . to translate your noblest aspirations into practical, enjoyable actions. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Will a routine trip to carry out an errand take you on a detour to the suburbs of the promised land? Will you worry you’re turning into a monster, only to find the freakishness is just a phase that you had to pass through on your way to unveiling some of your dormant beauty? Will a provocative figure from the past lead you on a productive wild-goose chase into the future? These are some of the possible storylines I’ll be monitoring as I follow your progress in the coming weeks.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Let’s meet in the woods after midnight and tell each other stories about our origins, revealing the secrets we almost forgot we had. Let’s sing the songs that electrified our emotions all those years ago when we first fell in love with our lives. Starlight will glow on our ancient faces. The fragrance of loam will seep into our voices like rainwater feeding the trees’ roots. We’ll feel the earth turning on its axis, and sense the rumble of future memories coming to greet us. We’ll join hands, gaze into the dreams in each other’s eyes, and dive as deep as we need to go to find hidden treasures. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I don’t usually recommend giving gifts with strings attached. On the contrary, I advise you to offer your blessings without having any expectations at all. Generosity often works best when the recipients are free to use it any way they see fit. In the coming weeks, however, I’m making an exception to my rule. According to my reading of the omens, now is a time to be specific and forceful about the way you’d like your gifts to be used. As an example of how not to proceed, consider the venture capitalist who donated $25,000 to the University of Colorado. All he got in return was a rest room in a campus building named after him. If you give away $25,000, Scorpio, make sure you at least get a whole building named after you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Now that you’re getting a taste of what life would be like if you ruled the world, I’ll recommend a manual. It’s called How To Start Your Own Country, by Erwin Strauss. (Get a free peek here: tinyurl.com/ YouSovereign.) You could study it for tips on how to obtain national sovereignty, how to recruit new citizens, and how to avoid paying taxes to yourself. (P.S.: You can make dramatic strides toward being the boss of yourself and your destiny even without forming your own nation.) CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There was a time when not even the most ambitious explorers climbed mountains. In the western world, the first time it happened was in 1492, when a Frenchman named Antoine de Ville ascended to the top of Mont Aiguille, using ladders, ropes, and other props. I see you as having a kinship with de Ville in the coming weeks, Capricorn. I’d love to see you embark on a big adventure that would involve you trying on the role of a pioneer. This feat wouldn’t necessarily require strenuous training and physical courage. It might be more about daring creativity and moral courage. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Science fiction proposes that there are alternate worlds alongside the visible one —hidden, yes, but perhaps accessible with the right knowledge or luck. In recent years, maverick physicists have given the idea more credibility, theorizing that parallel universes exist right next to ours. Even if these hypothetical places aren’t literally real, they serve as an excellent metaphor. Most of us are so thoroughly embedded in our own chosen niche that we are oblivious to the realities that other people inhabit. I bring these thoughts to your attention, Aquarius, because it’s a favorable time to tap into those alternate, parallel, secret, unknown, or unofficial realms. Wake up to the rich sources that have been so close to you, but so far away. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’m always in favor of you cultivating a robust relationship with your primal longings. But I’ll be rooting extra hard for you to do that during the next eleven months. I hope you will dig deep to identify your primal longings, and I hope you will revere them as the wellspring of your life energy, and I hope you will figure out all the tricks and strategies you will need to fulfill them. Here’s a hint about how to achieve the best results as you do this noble work: Define your primal longings with as much precision as you can, so that you will never pursue passing fancies that bear just a superficial resemblance to the real things.
HOMEWORK: Homework: Why is this a perfect moment? To hear my reasons why, tune in to my podcast: http://bit.ly/PerfectionNow.
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