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The_Drake

Walk among us.

About Me

After ten years as a writer at an ad agency in Saskatoon, I've packed up my bags and moved out east to find fame and fortune. Thus far, both have eluded me.

Stories, screenplays, band bios, reviews, articles, advertising, if you've got a project that needs words, send me an email and let's get to work.

My Interests

Reading words, writing weird stuff, watching crazy things happen, professional (not amateur) wrestling, beach volleyball, drinking beer and making noise.

I'd like to meet:

Why you of course.

Music:

Too many to mention, so here are ten tremendous bands in no particular order:
Metal: Mastodon, Lamb of God, Shadows Fall
Power pop: Doughboys, Hot Water Music, Leatherface
Punk rawk: Death Sentence, SNFU, Riverdales, Pelican

Movies:

Ten brilliant movies in no order whatsoever:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Raging Bull
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Battle Royal
Thursday
Riki-Oh
Night of the Living Dead
Sin City
The Unforgiven
Versus

Television:

Ten exceptional ways to rot your brain:
The Family Guy
Kenny vs Spenny
South Park
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Prisioner
Trailer Park Boys
COPS
WWE
Taxi
Full House

Books:

Listen to The Drake for once and read a couple of these ten terrifying tales:
"At the Mountains of Madness" H.P. Lovecraft
"The Bighead" Edward Lee
"Peaceable Kingdom" Jack Ketchum
"Out are the Lights" Richard Laymond
"By Bizarre Hands" Joe Lansdale
"Quest for Cthulhu" August Derleth
"The House on the Borderland" William Hope Hodgson
"The Great White Space" Basil Copper
"Nightmares and Geezenstacks" Fredric Brown
"I Am Legend" Richard Matheson

Heroes:

Anyone who appears in any of my lists.

My Blog

Cthulhu Wrestling Movie on MTV.ca

A short film I shot on my cell phone is in the finals for the MTV For The Reel contest. "The Mat of Madness" is a campy, wrestling, monster movie with homage to the works of H. P. Lovecraft. You can c...
Posted by The_Drake on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:50:00 PST

For The Reel Video Contest Top 10

MTV Canada ran a For The Reel video contest and I've made the top ten. Click here http://www.mtv.ca/forthereel/ and then go to "The Finalists Lounge" to see who the mighty ten are.I submitted a short ...
Posted by The_Drake on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:41:00 PST

Horror anthologies looking for your stories

Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the ClosetDark Scribe Press is seeking short story submissions for an anthology of queer horror tales. We are looking for edgy, provocative dark genre fiction ...
Posted by The_Drake on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:10:00 PST

Call for Submissions for Cthulhu 2012

Cthulhu 2012December 21, 2012 is the next planned expiration date for humanity per the Mayan calendar, though whether it heralds a new beginning or an abrupt end is open to speculation. The next Pope ...
Posted by The_Drake on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:21:00 PST

Try try again...

Dastardly Deeds GuidelinesThe vilest deeds are the ones that forever live in infamy. More than two thousand years later, we're still telling stories of Brutus stabbing Caesar. Why are these deeds reme...
Posted by The_Drake on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:12:00 PST

Rejected

It's been a rough couple of months my friends.Dear Jeff,Thanks very much for your submission to Machine of Death! We were absolutely blown away by the volume and quality of the response we received to...
Posted by The_Drake on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:02:00 PST

More fiction markets seeking your work.

No more excuses about not having any markets for your fiction. Get writing. Southern Fried Weirdness 2007: An Annual Anthology of Southern Speculative Fictionwww.southernfriedweirdness.com/Dead Letter...
Posted by The_Drake on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:21:00 PST

Pinch Me Jesus

The director of this short film, James Scott, is a good friend of mine. We've worked on a number of projects together and I came up with a couple of the song titles in this short. See if you can gues...
Posted by The_Drake on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:02:00 PST

Open call for submissions for the best anthology ever.

From my old friends at Chimericana Books.CHIMERAWORLD #5 (THERE IS NO GOD, YOU'RE ALL ON YOUR OWN, FUCKERS)http://www.horrorquarterly.com/chimericanabooks/cw5g uidelines.html
Posted by The_Drake on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:38:00 PST

Listing of Publishers Looking for Unsolicited Fiction

Once in a while I get an email asking me where I find anthologies to submit my fiction, so I've compiled a listing of publishers currently looking for unsolicited work.Press: Permuted PressAnthology: ...
Posted by The_Drake on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:37:00 PST