Mikal (pronounced michael)

Do You Ever Wake Up Feeling Like Marty McFly?

Sat, 04 May 2013 18:31:00 -0400

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to drive backward down the freeway while listening to “Jane, Jane” in reverse? Wonder no more.

Podcast Episode 11: Uncle Tom's Stabbin' Cabin

Fri, 03 May 2013 22:36:50 -0400

Listen to it NOW! Here:

w/ME, DC Comics’ Batman: The Dark Knight artist Ethan Van Sciver, Oakley, Nehring, guest host CHV, and a song from the original Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th). No joke!

Up The Sails! Podcast 10 is LIVE, & I'm The Guest Host.

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:13:52 -0400

Witness my hijacking of the VanSciverTown Podcast here:

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w/DC Comics’ Batman: The Dark Knight artist Ethan Van Sciver, Marvel & DC artist Billy Tucci, Oakley of the great white north, small town country lawyer Nehring, and Chicago news man CHV.

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Podcast #9 Just Posted!

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:53:00 -0400

The VanSciverTown Podcast #9 (with me!) has just been posted.

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Van Sciver Town: The People’s Temple Podcast Project
Episode 9: “The James O’Kelly Project” or “The Rule Of 3”

With: ME!, DC “Batman: The Dark Knight” artist Ethan Van Sciver, Nehring, Oakley, and CHV.

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Lyric Video for Jane, Jane

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:03:47 -0400

Hey, I made a lyric video! Post it on your refrigerator to show me how proud you are. After you watch it, I mean.

New Podcast Is Live!

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:09:00 -0400

I don’t even remember doing this one, so it’s probably really good.

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Feauring the usual gang of miscreants: ME!, DC “Batman: The Dark Knight” artist Ethan Van Sciver, Nehring, Oakley, and CHV.

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I’ve just learned that another comic artist friend, Pete...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:49:34 -0400

I’ve just learned that another comic artist friend, Pete Woods, drew a MIKAL poster into his comic. This is from Justice League of America’s “Vibe” #1, from February. Unfortunately, the person who adds word bubbles blocked the poster (along with the graffiti from my friend Kevin Oakley right next to it) with word bubbles. This is how it looked when Pete drew it.

Vibe #2 is available at your favorite local comic store now. Go buy it to show Pete what a bad ass he is for doing something like this!

The Mikal world and the Batman world are now one. Check out my...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:17:33 -0400

The Mikal world and the Batman world are now one. Check out my concert posters on page one of DC’s “Batman: The Dark Knight” issue 18, now on the shelves of your favorite comic store. Artwork by Ethan Van Sciver.

Brand New Podcast Just Went Live!

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:16:12 -0500

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Episode 6 of the VanSciverTown: People’s Temple Podcast Project is now ready for listening and downloading.

Featuring: Me (Mikal), DC Comics’ Batman: The Dark Knight artist Ethan Van Sciver, attorney Michael Nehring, Kevin Oakley, CHV, and producer Mike Dodd from ThisWeekInGeek.net.

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Podcast #5 Is Now Available!

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:36:21 -0500

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Episode 5 of the VanSciverTown: People’s Temple Podcast Project is now ready for listening and downloading.

Featuring: Me (Mikal), DC Comics’ Batman: The Dark Knight artist Ethan Van Sciver, legendary comic artist Billy Tucci, attorney Michael Nehring, Professional Wrestler and I.T. genius Kevin Oakley, news man CHV, and producer Mike Dodd from ThisWeekInGeek.net.

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Podcast Episode 4 is up!

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:09:00 -0500

Episode 4 of the “VanSciverTown: People’s Temple Podcast Project” is now posted.

Featuring: Me (Mikal), DC Comics artist Ethan Van Sciver, Michael Nehring, Kevin Oakley, Christopher Hugh Varney, and producer Mike Dodd from ThisWeekInGeek.net.

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Episode 3 of the podcast is up!

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:06:00 -0500

Episode 3 of the “VanSciverTown: People’s Temple Podcast Project” is now available. This episode’s title, “Form Letter Threats”. Including speakers from 3 different countries on two different continents, making us the most global podcast known to man. Or Wallaby.

Featuring: Me (Mikal), Ethan Van Sciver, Michael Nehring, Kevin Oakley, special Aussie guest Darryn Roberts, and producer Mike Dodd from ThisWeekInGeek.net.

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Episode 2 Of The Podcast Is Now Available

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:40:00 -0500

Last week, I started a brand new podcast with DC comic artist Ethan Van Sciver, called “Van Sciver Town: The People’s Temple Podcast Project”. We just wrapped on episode 2, and it’s now available for streaming and/or download at this link:

http://thisweekingeek.net/roundtables/vanscivertown-episode-2

Check it out and let me know what you think!

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Started a New Podcast Tonight

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 01:30:00 -0500

Tonight, my friend Ethan Van Sciver said “Let’s do a podcast called Van Sciver Town”. An hour or so later, we were recording the pilot episode. It features Ethan, me, Oakley, Nehring and CHV. Produced by Michael Dodd from ThisWeekInGeek.net. Check out our pilot/trial episode:

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Autour de La Fin Du Monde, 1930

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:10:00 -0500

“Autour de La Fin Du Monde” (Around The End Of The World) is a silent documentary (w/beautiful music) on the making of the 1931 Abel Gance directed talkie film, “La Fin Du Monde”. This documentary on Abel Gance’s film was directed by Eugene Deslaw, and has a date of 1930 listed on it. Although this documentary is a non-talkie, Gance’s “La Fin Du Monde” was the very first talkie film to come out of France. In fact, Gance invented a stereophonic sound system just to be able to properly present the audio. At the time, Abel Gance was known by many as the greatest film director of all time, and had already produced several of what are considered “masterpiece” films, including “Napoleon”. Unfortunately, Gance’s streak was ruined by the producers of this film. After 2 years in production and 500 million franks spent, they decided that he was taking too long and using too much of their money. They lost patience, took the unfinished film away from Gance, and edited it themselves. What was released was an unfinished Frankenstein of a film and a critical failure. Gance’s career was never the same after they did this to him.

Personally, I think this 18 minute docu-film is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen/heard. We’re not looking at scenes from a film. We’re watching these people going about their lives behind the scenes. It’s like we’re looking through a window in time, watching the lives of all of these people in 1930. I could watch this 18 minutes in a loop for hours at a time.

I apologize for the captions and the website logo in the corner. The only copy of this I’ve found was from the guy who runs that website, and he refused to allow me a copy sans his logo. I’ve always thought it strange that people think it’s ok to take someone else’s work and post their own logo on it, as if that gives them some sort of ownership of someone else’s work.

If anybody has a clean copy of this, or knows how to get one, please let me know. Also, if anyone knows how to get a copy of “La Fin Du Monde”, please let me know as well. I’d like any and all versions released. The French version was 105 minutes long. There was a further chopped American version which was under one hour… which I’ve heard is absolutely horrible. Nevertheless, I’d love to see both.

Make sure you hit the “full screen” icon in the lower right corner of the video for the full experience.

"Jane, Jane" Video Now Over 40k Views!

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:40:00 -0400

The video for my song “Jane, Jane” has just surpassed 40,000 views. Hurray! Let’s celebrate by passing it around to everyone and making them kick it up to 50,000. Video Link: http://youtu.be/JiIxjNeRBdE Thanks to Tracy Wayne Surgener for directing, shooting and editing, Matt Busch for playing drums, David Luesse for playing bass, Marco Chewball Zarate, Sterling Morrison and Kyle Kind for acting in the video, and especially all of the guys we had riding motorcycles around behind us. And I can’t forget Anthony J. Resta for producing the song, and Karyadi Sutedja for recording and mixing.

Help Get A HeadStone For This Little Rascal!

Tue, 01 May 2012 20:10:07 -0400

Everybody,

It’s not very often that I push causes, but this one is special. Are you a fan of The Little Rascals? Or perhaps you know the kids from their original name, Our Gang? Well, Norman Chaney (AKA Chubby) was one of the gang from 1929 to 1931. A few years later, at the age of 21, he lost his life to a glandular disorder. Ironically, the same problem that enabled him to play the “Big Kid” in the first place. Eighty five years later, I just discovered that he is buried in an unmarked grave in Baltimore Cemetery.

I decided to do something about it.

I just launched a fundraising campaign on IndieGoGo.com to buy Chubby a head stone. I’m also hoping to get one for his mother, who is also in an unmarked grave, right next to him.

If you’re a collector, my friend Bob Satterfield is offering up 20 autographed photos of Joe Cobb (Chubby’s predecessor, the very first “Big Kid” on the show), and we’re offering them up as rewards to anyone who donates $50 or more toward Chubby’s head stone.

Please check out the campaign page for more information, video, and more. If you can’t donate, you can still help Chubby by simply sharing the campaign page on facebook, twitter, your personal blog, telling your friends about it, etc.

Trailer to "Freaky Deaky" is out

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:58:00 -0400

Check it out. Here’s a trailer to another movie I’m in, “Freaky Deaky”, with Christian Slater, Crispin Glover, Michael Jai White, and a bunch of other people who aren’t me.

Mikal Nominated for the People's Choice Award!

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:51:02 -0400

Hey everyone! Looks like I’ve been nominated for the People’s Choice Award (in the Detroit Music Awards), sponsored by Vitamin Water. It’s extremely easy to vote, and you’re allowed to vote once per email address per day. ie: You can vote from a million different email addresses if you want, and you can do it every single day! Voting ends April 23rd.

This is totally easy:

1) Click http://DetroitMusicAwards.com

2) Scroll down until you see the big “Vitamin Water” player.

3) Select “Jane, Jane” by Mikal. It’s about the 11th song down.

4) Click the round “Download and Vote” button just above there.

Each download counts as a vote. You can download once/day from each email address. The more, the merrier! There will be a lot of voting going on, every download helps!

"Only Enemies..." artist Kamil Vojnar on Facebook

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:54:25 -0400

The artist behind my “Only Enemies Tell The Truth… Friends And Lovers Lie Endlessly” album artwork, Kamil Vojnar, now has a facebook page for you to check out. Friend him right here! Tell him I sent you.

You can also check out more of his artwork at KamilVojnar.com.

Mikal