It begins again…
(Pictured above, Late Night Paper Cuts’ in house band Esoteric Autopsy performs the LNPC theme song. From left to right bass player Sockets, lead singer Malcolm Sex?, and Bunny Slopez on lead guitar. Behind the Paper Cuts signage is Hans Christian Odinson on drums.)
Late Night Paper Cuts was born the moment I cut my first character free from the page it was drawn on. A literal description that captures so much of what the show is all about. Breaking free from the shackles of societal conditioning. Questioning everything. How many convicts in a prison will tell you they’re really innocent? Don’t ever just take someone’s word on something. Trust but verify. Critical thinking. A lens to highlight the insanity of the so called sane.
Season one was the birth of a leviathan. Season two is where the monster learns to swim. Like most people I experienced a time where life was inside out and upside down. It made it more than a little difficult for me to focus on feeding the creative beasts inside. I just needed to survive.
Now that the mental wounds are scarring over I have been able to once again capture objects of value from the expeditions through my imagination. My dreams have returned to their vivid absurdities. I experience entire vacations in a sleep. The song “Veronica” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers scored a wild double-decker bus ride through a tunnel showing the most incredible fluorescent light show. And in my most recent dream I was on the run hiding in the backseat of a car as pillow shaped anthropomorphic experimented on animals acted in a hostile takeover of a city. Honestly, pretty par for the course when I’m in slumberland.
Let the flood gates open I say. Life is short and it’s no fun being ordinary. A new episode of Late Night Paper Cuts is finally done. Season two has been a long journey. I have a complicated relationship with various parts of the production, but I was finally able to work through it. There’s only two episodes left for this season. We shall see when they happen. In the meantime brace yourself. Next month a new episode drops in a long overdue debut. It’s the best work we have put forth thus far. We really truly hope you enjoy it.
Rock and roll!
Bryan