Chicago Reader Article July 14
Dan Kelly’s Chicago Reader article is out. After a few months wait, having done the interview months ago, the Reader has done well by us. My hope is that the article will be a boost to my search for additional funding for the project. Additionally, I am hoping it will unearth some new information, bring […]
Full Speed Ahead…
It has been a busy month and things ain’t 100%. We got the new Jazz in Chicago Guide laid to rest and out to our first Millennium Park concert. General distribution starts today. My work buddy Dan Melnick and I got the first Jazz in Chicago Podcast done and are trying to catch up on […]
Viral marketing???
As I continue production I will be releasing trailers to generate pre-release awareness for The Search for Count Dante. I did a favor for a friend a few weeks back and inadvertently met up with a young man named Seth who wanted to cut a trailer for me. It is good to have collaborative participation […]
CopyCat Count Copied Big Time
That copycating West Coast sumo, Count Dante, metal band bass player and pretender to the leadership of the Black Dragon Fighting Society, has been throughly ripped off by Jack Black’s character in the film “Nacho Libre.” Count Dante plays bass, so does Jack. It gets more wierd. Back in the days of Incredible Strange Wrestling […]
Milwaukee: Another John Keehan Student
On Sunday I went to Milwaukee to meet Dr. Art Rapkin a former student of John Keehan. In 1964 Art was a 17 year old kid from Wisconsin who wanted to study with a master karateka, so he sought out John Keehan. Today Dr. Rapkin is a reknowned healer. Dr. Rapkin runs the Kindo Center […]
Distractions Distractions and Dante Steals a Peach
It’s been a few weeks since my last post. I have been about the business of bread and butter funtionality. Not a lot new to report. I keep finding people. Some real, some not. It is always questionable…I talk and listen for unprompted cues, cross references I already know. One think about John Keehan, he […]
Paramount Pictures and Jack Black Bites off the San Francisco Count Dante
Well there we have it. The guy who ripped off the Dante persona has been ripped off by Paramount for his persona, or so it seems. In Nacho Libre Jack Black portrays a lucha libre wrestler. He copies the cape, wild hair and mustache of the San Francisco Count, probably knowing the beard would be […]
Internet Research Assistants
I have had a lot of stuff come to me from people who read about the project on the internet. It is amazing what I have been getting. I finally got to look at some of the film footage of Count Dante with William Aguiar. Now I know what Bill Aguiar III has in his […]
Still on the path…slightly distracted..
While waiting on the release of a major article in a big time Chicago paper about Dante yet another mysterious character has reared his ghostly head as a result of my research. He is a ghost from my personal political past, Chairman Bob Avakian, my favorite Armenian-American revolutionary. But Bob is not dead, he is, […]
Dojo War: 36 years ago Jim Konsevic died…
On a warm Thursday evening, Count Dante, hairdresser, martial artist, used car salesman, classical singer and ladies’ man, led five other men to the GreenDragon Society’s Black Cobra Hall of Kung Fu on West Fullerton in Chicago. What took them there for this fateful event is still unclear. I have been told many things. It […]