When asked how it feels to be a part of that, John says it feels wonderful, and then continues to explain that to be part of Disneys history in any way shape or form is amazing, but the fact that its about representation and its a positive thing, is even better. To hear that this movie is included in the conversations about representation, and with his character specifically, is like a cherry on an already perfectly baked cake.. MCCREA: Thats the way I really feel. Doctors Without Borders is just such an amazing organization, so much bravery. What has passed for gritty rebellion is really just like fucking foam on a cappuccino. It is a brilliant script, isn't it? For some reason, this song worked out rather easily. We love L.A. He has written reviews, lists, and features for the likes of CBR, Screen Rant, IGN, Looper, Ranker, Grunge, SYFY Wire, Wrestling Inc., and Fortress of Solitude, while also hosting a podcast and scripting YouTube videos for a variety of highly acclaimed channels. The singer is also funneling his energy into the bands first new music since 2011, beginning with the unambiguous protest anthem Sinking Ship, the profits of which will go to Doctors Without Borders. So, when something does become really popular and the people really like something, I think that there are people who sort of automatically turn off. They tell you when theyre not happy. I think for that reason it spurred me into action after a period of not feeling particularly compelled to put out recorded music. Yeah. Unfortunately, the Internet hasnt lived up to its promise. You know were not saving the entire world, but maybe like 100,000 kids will be better educated. And the Republicans are bringing back the Styrofoam cup and dont want recycled stuff. McCrea added that his father made him a deal: "My father had given me 12 months in which to prove myself in pictures. It is strange to me when were traveling in a country like Turkey that people are singing along to Stickshifts and Safetybelts. That was really bizarre. Thats particularly difficult if youre playing non-commercial music like bluegrass or all kinds of valuable genres of music. MCCREA: Yeah, some of them before. Well, we hadn't played Los Angeles for New Years. The thing that maybe embodies everything were talking about is the tree giveaway and the tree gallery. I think in a lot of her reference images, I'm sure Bowie popped up quite a bit. "It depends on who you're asking I suppose - but for me, yes, it's official: he's queer," McCrea explained. On the scale of how youre trying to help the environment and change the world, do you see yourself more like a Neil Young, a Willy Nelson, or a Bono? John McCrea (born 1966) is a comic book artist best known for his collaborations with writer Garth Ennis . I actually knew most of what you told me, but Im glad that I asked you because I like that Hunter S. Thompson quote. But a lot of people felt betrayed by us as well. It's between Jasper, Horace, and Estella, but Artie joins that family, too. Writer Paul Dini and artist John McCrea chat about the excitement and challenges of short-form storytelling in Skybound's Creepshow #1. You can live anywhere, start a band, and make a great album anywhere, which is really, something excellent. Interviews Everybody's Talking About Jamie Star John McCrea on Making a Splash in the West End, Broadway Dreams & More. Yeah. The quirky, sardonic, half-spoken/half-sung vibe of Cake's music extends far beyond their recorded material. Just to have anybody remember you that long is pretty amazing. STEREOGUM: I think youre right. CAKE recently performed this New Year's Eve at THE WILTERN in Los Angeles. To volunteer, visit our Volunteer Sign Up page. I think I was just amazed at how he interacts with the actors, which is wonderful. What a great way to introduce your character, especially with the sense of style that Artie has. I think that everybody involved in this project will tell you that they probably wouldn't be interested in the production if not for that original "101 Dalmatians" animated film and the live-action reimagining. My wife and I had kids. Im not disconnected from whats going on. At. "Shingo" is the standout story of the first issue as it chills the blood and turns the stomach, with the spooky premise of a peculiar birthday performer named Shingo who doesn't demand payment, only lunch. They try to work it out into their early adulthood to find a more secure emotional space for themselves, but ultimately I think thats a fucking luxury right now. In a previous interview with CBR, Langford revealed "Shingo" was originally pitched by him and Dini for the Creepshow television show, but it ended up finding a home in the comics. I guess maybe for a film; weve put our music in film and things like that. Red Carpet News brings you all the latest Film \u0026 Entertainment News. . Then three years later, we release another album, play the same festivals, and it would be a totally different group of faces. If you hand over all the decision making to other people, I think it becomes less of a lifes work and more of a 9 to 5 job. The story is a while ago when I was a struggling musician in Sacramento, California I bought a tree for about seven dollars at a sale a garage sale or something and planted it in the median between my apartment building and the street. But it's such a wonderful introduction to him because it sounds sort of funny and sassy, but it really is the way he lives his life. Im a pragmatist. It's under the wings of the '70s fashion icon that Estella learns of the Baroness' cold and calculating ways and worse yet, how she's involved in a dark secret involving her new boss. The gatekeepers of the label, we can go around them now. The idea is that as years pass people will send in more photographs as the trees get bigger and they get older, and we can watch them slowly die, and watch the trees get bigger. You've got to be hoping that Artie is going to come back with a sequel. International Women's Day Post-Show Event Announced For MEDEA at Sohoplace March 2, 2023 The Producers of Medea today announce a free one off post-show event @sohoplace on International Women's . I mean, Ill tell you - theres crazy stories about the world being connected in ways that are so complex, you know that obviously its implausible. The culture that usually surrounds me, Ive always found it very vain, narcissistic, and immature. What items have gotten the most reaction? He was flying Buccanneers at the start of his career. In some way, I think it is kind of wasteful because I dont think that cultural criteria should be used to judge musical criteria. As a young boy, he had overflowing energy, which often led him into mischief. For 11 months I failed miserably, averaging 3 days a month as an extra at $7.50 a day.". If you look at our website or Facebook page, whether you agree with them or not, theyre really engaging. Thats a rather hopeful song with a very unhopeful song on the other side. McCrea is excited to see a film based on the stage version that he originated because it will then be viewed by the masses. It just blew my mind, and it just dwarfed my sense of time. I think as things have become more of an emergency, Ive realized that that was a luxury that I dont feel like we can afford anymore. Its not a gritty sort of subversive thing its actually a sort of coddled pudgy thing. Thats just a fact. You definitely feel that. You'll also find it on the Web, where the band constantly engages its fans with advice, links to news stories, and sometimes heated discussion. The popular alt-rock group combines caustic lyrics with pulsing guitar music and is influenced by many different styles: rock, funk, synth-pop, mariachi and cuban. I think powers coalescing around some big companies have found through ways of distribution methods of monetizing other peoples work. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Theatre 4 Filmography 4.1 Film 4.2 Television 5 Awards and nominations 6 Personal life Fury of the Gods Special: Shazamily Matters, First 10 Villains To Become Heroes In DC Comics, 10 Marvel Relationships That Overstayed Their Welcome. It will be like that first single of creating a balance between the abyss and hopeful utopia. In Flanders fields the poppies blow. John McCrea is an American singer and musician. Skybound's Creepshow takes all the fright from Shudder's hit anthology series and brings it to comic book readers who want to get the Halloween festivities started a little earlier this year. Youve licensed Short Skirt Long Jacket to Apple for an iPod Nano commercial. STEREOGUM: Cool. But one that affects, like in the case of schools, a bunch of children. That is my advice. He has also sung a song in a 'Cruella' movie named 'I Wanna Be Your Dog'. She was working a sewing machine and then she was feeding treats to the dogs to make sure the dog was well-behaved. Without the villain, you have no story. So I take it Cake fans arent bashful? In a certain respect, would you consider yourselves an anomaly? In other words, there is a massive transference of value and wealth from people who make things over to people that distribute things over the Internet. The Early Years. Mother, Janet, and his brother Tom and sister Geills completed McCrae's family. Menu. I mean, if you want to do "The Lost Boys.". It must be a great opportunity to have that freedom. It's not one of the scariest things in the world, but I'd like to give that a go. Yeah, I find that there are audiences that are more or less encumbered, sometimes, by self-consciousness at a live music show. I dont know. It was seven years since the album before. I do remember once, we were filming a scene beside sewing machines, she was deliberating lines in her accent, which is flawless, and there was a dog next to her. I need to think of a tag line, don't I? And I was so lucky. Everythings beautiful, but its also challenging. Also starring Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Paul Walter Hauser, "Cruella"is now playing in theaters and streaming on Disney+ with Premier Access. --Joel McCrea in 1978 interview. The other thing people get angry about, that I dont think should be a partisan issue, is when well post something about an environmental issue. John A. Lomax: Toting salt? Cake's front man John McCrea, the voice and face of much of this activity, sat down with HeadCount to discuss how he tries to infuse a sense of populism in his communication with fans, and the various reactions that invokes. There were also then-contemporary horror comics like the Warren magazines Creepy, Eerie, and DC's House of Mystery and House of Secrets. I think the chaps name was John McRea. The Internet is supposed to provide the ability for more musicians to put their sound out there and give people the opportunity to listen to more music. Having to somehow interface with this huge industry was very stressful and sort of unnatural for us. Im just saying. Wow. How The Gift of Fear Inspired Barbarian, 5 Most Memorable Rick Grimes Moments (The Walking Dead), Ben 10 vs. the Universe: The Movie Coming To DVD. Theres all kinds of like weird rites of passage that they dont warn you about beforehand that can actually just really impact all kinds of things in your life. Have you found a difference in the audiences throughout the rest of the world compared to U.S. audiences? This unique sound first reached a small cadre of in-the-know fans in . Father: Not Known Mother: Not Known Marital Status: Single John McCrea Favorites I just think that the Earth cant support popular culture in the way that weve come to expect. Plus, reacting to that range, you have to make adjustments yourself as an actor. He is a founding member of the band Cake. We need to create institutions of organized labor. So when the police come and bust the party, we werent invited to the party. I love your introduction when Emma Stone's Cruella Estella, actually, at that point when she comes into your shop and you say to her, "My name is Artie or Art, as in work of." All I'd heard was how personable and lovely, down-to-earth and normal she is. PopMatters talked with John McCrea, the main song-writer and creative force behind Cake, discussing self-reliance in the music industry, satirical song-writing, and the "petulant, bulbous . I finish it when I feel like finishing it. Like I said, one of my favorite things to do is go to the makeup truck in the morning and see Artie bare bones every day before we put some fabulous clothes on. I guess its incendiary and its sort of partisan, but it was also factual so we felt like it was okay. Aside from that, I think its very cool to be able to have a musical idea and put it out there quickly. However, McCrea recalled how God opened a door that would eventually lead to a . Apart from picking up something from Craig, you not only have Emma Stone, but Emma Thompson and Mark Strong who you can glean something from, too. By John McCrae. Thats a tall order for people that are busy indulging in the emotional duplicity of music. There are many things to love about Disneys Cruella, and John McCrea playing Artie is near the top of that list. Cruella star John McCrea has confirmed that his character in the film is queer, saying he "lives by his own rules". Every three years, there is a new group of important bands mostly. I think that is wasteful and disconnected from the real sort of power, which I think, is musical. John McCrae, soldier, physician, poet (born 30 November 1872 in Guelph, ON; died 28 January 1918 in Wimereux, France). It was incredible. So when I go to auditions I'll really stand out. "The main problem with short stories for the artist is to hit the ground running visually," McCrea revealed. The way I write, I work on a song, and I dont really force myself to finish it. It was just looking around me and feeling like I [would] vomit a little bit. RELATED: I Hate This Place Turns Terrifying Real Life Events Into Campy Fun, It isn't always easy to create short-form comic stories due to space constraints. Probably every month or so there will be another single, then probably in a year well release the whole album. Luca is a beautiful film set on the Italian Riveria, and in this creators interview they discuss bringing it, and the sea monsters, to life. Estella begins working at the store at the bottom, and she appears to be going nowhere until a happy accident leads Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson) to offer her a job as a fashion designer. Register to vote, sign up for our issue eNewsletters, or take the Who are We? survey. John McCrae as Artie in Disneys live-action CRUELLA. Back in the very beginning, we played these radio festivals where we were opening and it seems that everybody there was a way bigger deal than we were. Sergio Pereira has been writing about pop culture for over 15 years, specializing in the areas of comic books, film, television series, pro wrestling, and video games. At one point, you're rocking out on stage at a Cruella fashion show. Now in theaters and streaming on Disney+ with Premier Access, "Cruella" first finds Estella as a young girl who dreams of a career in fashion, but her aspirations are sidelined when she becomes a street orphan. Ive got dozens of songs going at once. Yeah, I think so. In terms of the world we're in, obviously we never mentioned him, but I like to believe that maybe, on some level, if he didn't exist, Artie was on the same sort of spiritual journey. "Strong, Righteous, and Rustic": An Interview with Joel McCrea Gerald Peary April 30, 2009 "I told Hitchcock, 'I do miss my horse.'" Twenty-five years ago, Joel McCrea, the most retiring of Hollywood actors, was invited to appear at the 1982 Telluride Film Festival for a career tribute. MCCREA: To be really honest, I had kids. You know, as long as were talking politics, Id love to know at what point you decided to use CAKE as a platform to raise awareness? For nearly 20 years Cake have been making music that is distinctly their own. John McCrea stars as Artie in Disneys Cruella and in this interview we talk about the music, the sets, and the bonus scene he filmed. Not an NFL football victory, but a tiny bureaucratic victory or a negligible victory even. In the scenes with Estella in Artie's shop, how was it sharing space with Emma Stone? . Its frustrating for me, I guess. Yeah, yeah, totally. John McCrea grew up in Surrey. But yeah, you want to get information out, especially information that can possibly help us - especially information that maybe dislodges fake information. Not your music, but clearly your actions, seem almost punk rock in your desire to maintain your own control over how it sounds and the videos look.