Fearleader CHERRY BABY A's some of my Q's

About a month ago, I was able to get an interview with one of the Fearleaders, the one known only as Cherry Baby. A week later from sending my questions, she answered. Three weeks after ass-sitting (which is the best kind of sitting), I can now present to you our correspondence.

How'd you get started fearleading?

I went to see a game and was blown away. These girls were ruthless, fierce, and sexy! I actually signed up to be a skater and never got the call. Shortly after, I saw an ad for "fearleaders" on myspace (of course!) and I thought it would be the second best thing than actually being a skater. After I joined the fearleaders, I was finally contacted by the derby dolls. Damn! My fate would have been different.

How far along were the fearleading when you joined and has there been any changes since you've joined?

The fearleaders started in November 2006 and I joined in April 2007 so not long. There has been a lot of changes since I started.

The fearleaders have definitely evolved. The girls currently on the squad are diverse and come from all walks of life. The "OG" girls fit into the "fearleader" mold. But one thing is for sure, once you become a fearleader you take on the "bitchy" persona (or maybe that's the requirement!).

What made you want to be a fearleader and not a roller derby girl?

bruises, broken bones, and black eyes. (Sorry I got a day job!)

(the Fearleading troop)

Are you ever cheering for a game and think about throwing skates on and mashing it up?

Hell Yeah!! All the fuckin' time. The skaters have a grueling schedule though so don't know if I would be able to commit anytime soon.

The derby dolls have re-emerged full force and personally, I love watching pretty girls be so mean.What do YOU think makes sex and violence go so well together?

I got three reasons:

1. Sex and Violence are physical, raw, and primitive instincts.

2. Men love sex and violence. Mix the two and bingo you got it.

3. Because its Fuckin' hot.

Do you gals come up with your own routine?

Yes, we do come up with our own cheers. Some of us have either high school and/or college cheerleading experience so we take classics and make them raunchy. Our fans enjoy the raunchy cheers the most so we've started making our cheers dirtier and dirtier. Like our new cheer called "Pussies in the Front" you gotta hear this cheer. Don't think prude Drew Barrymore enjoys them though.

King Nerdo gets Top Secret-ish

Hobbies are fun. Obsessions on the other hand...they're pleasing, but in no way rewarding. Pleasureable, but by no means is the pursuit fun. In fact, it's a sad desperate mess that benefits you only if you like to be put down, constantly. But I love horror. I love cheap xerox mags. I love to put myself down.

Before I metamorphosed into a psychotronic nerd, I was a library nerd. My high school was a cramped reformed warehouse where we were shipped off on a weekly basis to the eight story Central Library (liberry) in Downtown Los Angeles. Now, I work at the campus liberry, giving out wrong information whenever possible.

As a nerd, I do nerd things. Today, is a perfect example. I typed PSYCHOTRONIC into the library search engine, and lo and behold, an entry popped up. PSYCHOTRONIC video mag--located in Special Collections and Archives!! As a nerd, of course I'd take my lunch break to go there and see it.

You can't just walk in. You have to knock and wave. The man behind the desk at Special Collections and Archives has to roll his eyes and motion awkwardly. You have to shrug. He has to get up, come around his desk, and open the door.

"What?"

"I want to see something in the special collections"

The mag isn't hard to find, ebay and the like will get you what you need, but on the budget I'm on, forget it. But I've never seen one anywhere and it's here, sorta kinda at my fingertips. As a sufferer of psychotronia nerdosis, it's my duty to do my share of research. Keep in mind this is my 5th year in college, THIS is my first time doing real library research. The process of accessing the archives is insane. Some paperwork is involved, proper identification, you're belongings must be put in a locker outside, no pens, no pads.

Here I am. Dwelling in the dark lairs of nerdosis. The underbelly of normal society. This is what I think of myself as I sit quiet at a table in a eerily sterilized room.

The guy (kind of a douche)brings it to me in a manilla folder. After the whole process of leaving the room to retrieve it, he tosses it loosely on the table, I imagine after peeling through some of the pages on his way back. His job, all day, is to retrieve the rarest of library artifacts: the stone tablets that have the 10 commandments chiseled on them, the missing 18 minutes from Nixon's recorded conversation, Hemingway's first draft of his novel that his wife lost on the train, and special-collections-douche has to bring back a xeroxed horror mag from the early 90's with such ad's as THE ED GEIN FAN CLUB.

Psychotronic Video Mag, #11. #3.50

Fall of '91 but it could've been Summer of '73

Ads for companies long gone.

The inside cover reads GUARANTEED WORST MOVIES IN TOWN!! and I know I'm home. Dated beige colored pages screaming printed with love. Smells like old comics sans the cat piss. The ad for the new Ventures CD just proves surf music and psychotronic film are siamese. Familiar faces of the magazine: Tor Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Jerry Lewis, Traci Lords, Ed Gein. It has an article on Drew Friedman Art in posters and an interview with John "Gomez Addams" Astin.

One of the last ads I see calls out, MONSTERS, MUTANTS, and MANIACS!

(shock-toon video from NJ) and I know I fit in there somewhere, and anybody who stops to read this blog.

Special collections has eight non-sequential issues. Expect to see me for #13, special collections douche-bag.

-King Nerdo

Give Your Regards to the Original Sufferer of Psychotronia Nerdosis

 The godfather of sci-fi/horror geeks, Forrest (Forry) J Ackerman is in his decline.  I think without his magazine Famous Monster of Filmland, they're would be no serious subculture dedicated to the weird, the macabre, and the great beyond. 

I learned of this man's existence only about a year ago from watching his introduction to Equinox and I thought the world of him. Since then I've been reading up all his interviews and taking in as much as I could about him as I could.  The man was a visionary, a Geek God. 

Ain't It Cool has a post out on him today which is way better than my own, check it out. At the bottom is an address for you to send in your regards and the like. I'm sending mine on monday.

It's a promise from this psychotronic nerd to carry the torch of devotion to the art of horror and fictional science. 

John Michael McCarthy and Guerilla Monster at it again!!

Last year I came upon a strange low-budget movie from the deep reaches of Memphis, TN. The film was SuperStarlet A.D.


The world has been decimated. Women roam the desolate plains in lingerie, packed to the teeth with sub-machine guns and their beehives pulled high. The blondes run with the blondes, the reds roam with the reds, but all hair colors destroy the remnants of man.
Sound dramatic enough? Shot on black n white 16mm, SUPERSTARTLET A.D is one of the better post-apocalyptic sci-fi retro low-budget psychotronic movies to ever be released and even more exciting is that the master behind this, John Michael McCarthy, is still in Memphis, still brining his visions to the screen by any means necessary.


Since I found Superstartlet A.D, I've been eagerly waiting any new Guerilla Monster Productions while still trying to scrape up Sore Losers or Teenage Tupelo (it's online now). Thanks JMM, now i have something to look forward to.

CIGARETTE GIRL

First Post

This isn't my computer so I can't go hogwild, but this is a look of what Psychotronia Nerdosis will tackle:

Guerilla Monster and John Michael McCarthy

Cinema Insomnia with Mr. Lobo

Untamed Highway comics

Bigfoot Lodge (Psychotonic Thursday's with Spencer!)

Fez's

Macabre-Con in Dec 

Beatnik stuff 

The Ghastly Ones

Turner Classic Movies Cult Classics Fridays

Kreepsville

Flapjack!

Roller Derby

the Fearleaders

Art of Ed Rick

Candy Art Show

Winki-tiki releases

Troma releases

Ratfink!

Guitar Wolf (LOCK AND LOLL!!)

All things Robots

Mad Fabricators

and 

Friday Night Creature Feature Choices

it'll get better, i swear

-King Grego