154 - Jason Pargin - John Dies At The End / If This Book Exists You're In The Wrong Universe

Jason Pargin is our very special guest for this week’s episode! Jason, once known to the world as the enigmatic writer DAVID WONG,and the author of the John Dies At The End Series of Novels as well as his Zoe Punches The Future in the Dick novels!

Jason is on the show to promote his fourth novel in the John Dies At The End of The Universe series, IF THIS BOOK EXISTS, YOU’RE IN THE WRONG UNIVERSE. If This Book exists is out October 28th from Macmillan books.

We chat about the work ethic needed to be a writer. We talk about how Jason developed his author’s voice and how that differs from his true self! We even get into the finer points about Douglas Adams and his classic novel, THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY. All of this and more in today’s episode!

Damian sits down and chats with Producer Aaron B Koontz, co-director of Scare Package 2: Rad Chad's Revenge for this Bite Sized episode of Mostly Harmless. In this quick chat we cover the DIY/Punk rock ideals that helped inspire the creation of these films, Rad Chad's Legacy, and how there's a little Rad Chad inside us all. All of this and more in today's episode!

Scare Package 2: Rad Chad's Revenge is out now on Shudder! http://www.shudder.com

155 - All Jacked Up and Full Of Worms Director Alexander Phillips

Alex Phillips joins us to talk his psychedelic drug trip of a debut film, ALL JACKED UP AND FULL OF WORMS. Topics covered in this week's episode include Mental Health, finding your community, and exploring the ideas of what went into this very wild ride of a film. 

All Jacked Up and Full of Worms is streaming exclusively on Screambox starting November 8th.

153 - Queen Kwong aka Carré Callaway joins us to talk about her new album, COUPLE'S ONLY!

We talk about her divorce to a famous musician, but mostly we talk about making art. We talk a lot art as therapy, finding your voice,  finding your people and oh so much in today's chat!

152 - Worthington's Law: Nick Faber & Scotty Sandwich join us to talk about making friends in your forties, continuing to make art as an adult, and the importance of making and finding community! 

All of this and even a drunken improv game that you won't want to miss at the very end of this episode!

151 - Scott Barber - Director of This is GWAR & The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story documentaries. Scott Barber joins us this week just in time for the SHUDDER premier of THIS IS GWAR, a documentary on the infamous heavy metal sci-fi monster band from Richmond, VA. Scott is also the director of the acclaimed Nickelodeon TV network documentary, The Orange Years, currently streaming on Hulu. We chat about Scott's early DIY punk years and how that prepped him to jump into the deep end of documentary filmmaking with very little experience and the lessons he has learned along the way.

MH150 - Graphic Designer Aaron Draplin joins us this week for our 150th episode! Aaron Draplin is a modern day Mark Twain. He's a famous graphic designer, author who has taken his show on the road in a series of entertaining lectures. This chat, Aaron opens up and gives Damian 90 minutes of life lessons. You will want to get up and make something when you're done listening to this chat.

MH149 - Damian sat down with Clay McLeod Chapman's novel, WHISPER DOWN THE LANE and fell in love with the work of CMC, who also works as a writer for Marvel Comics and the occasional screenplay project. Damian and Clay connect for a midafternoon coffee date over Zoom and connect over a wide range of topics including Highlander and how he crafted the Rube Goldberg's machine that became Whisper Down The Lane, out now in Paperback from Quirk books. Ghost Eaters out September 20th. 

MH148 - Nathan Gray  joins Damian to talk about his new album, Nathan Gray & The Iron Roses: REBEL SONGS. The two also have a really in depth conversation with using art to find your voice and heal your traumas.

Read the interview at Mostlyharmlesspodcast.com

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Damian sits down this week to chat with the husband and wife duo, John Adams & Tobey Poser aka The Adams Family, about their newest horror film HELLBENDER, now streaming on Shudder! We talk about the family's punk rock origins, doing it yourself approaches and how art is their lives. All this and more. Find out how you can win a 6 month free subscription to Shudder in the intro!

Mostly Harmless is back and this week join us for late night beers and conversation with our dear old friend and professional punk rock troubadour, Mikey "Erg" Yannich!

Mikey is most famously known as the Drummer/Front-man for New Jersey's own Power-Pop Punk Rock Group extraordinaire, THE ERGS! Not to mention Mikey plays in way too many bands to list, and we tried! Some of those groups include: WORRIERS, Jon Snodgrass, All Away Lou and oh so many more!

In this late night call, we sit back and sip IPA's and chat the night away. We cover a lot of ground. We talk about SPARKS, Growing as a songwriter, Working with Steve Albini, Descedents and oh so much more! But most importantly we talk about one of the BEST pop-punk bands of all-time, THE ERGS, and how they came to start (occasionally) playing/recording together again!