The Smoky Jazz Club

Tell us your story:

Myself and a friend created a show concept called Space Pirates, which has been perpetually developed over the course of five years. We've lived in a suburb of Indianapolis most of our lives, and so our pipe dreams always felt quite small. Until the day we trespassed into the heart of Adult Swim's Williams Street, and pitch our idea to them. From that day, we knew we had the capability to go wherever we wanted, and so we've been working hot and heavy to develop our concept into a masterpiece of an American cartoon. Aside from Space Pirates, we've developed concepts for two other shows called Suits, and the other, Ninjas.

We incorporated the help of a third friend, who is now a third creator, writer, and director. We work on very limited funds, and so the most we can pump out is concept art, scripts, plot, setting, etc. Nothing fully animated yet, because we can't afford the software necessary.

We have contacts within Adult Swim, and a few other networks. Other potential contacts include ESPN and the director of such CGI films as Ratatouille, Brad Bird.

Hometown:

Avon, IN

Personal Website:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&am...

Portfolio Site:

http://thedreadknot.tripod.com/

About Me:

I am a co-creator, co-writer, co-director, and the artist for the three man production company Petty Torture Productions.

My name is Dave Perry, and I do all the artwork for Petty Torture Productions. Currently working on several concepts, Space Pirates, Suits, Ninjas, Senioritis, Afrocalypse and the Voodoo Bear, and Scratch.

I am 21 years old. I grew up in a suburb of Indianapolis with my co-creators, co-writers, and co-directors Matt Gambill and Noah Heckaman.

We're open to all types of humor, including all things childish, distasteful, satirical, etc., with the exception of religion. Jokes made at a religion's expense will always be light-hearted satire, but never blatantly disrespectful.

Aside from that, give us the worst of the worst, and we'll laugh our asses off.

Favorite Cartoons:

I couldn't possibly put these in order, so here they are, in not respective order:

Mid-season Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, The Critic, Superjail!,The Tick, Venture Brothers, Harvey Birdman, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Invader Zim, Spongebob Squarepants, Ren and Stimpy, Fairly Oddparents, classic Looney Toons (my personal favorites), Beetlejuice, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Evangelion, Ghost In The Shell, Afro Samurai, Rocko's Modern Life, Ahh! Real Monsters, Home Movies, Metalocalypse, Dark Wing Duck, Tale Spin, Bonkers, Rescue Rangers, Freakazoid, Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, Boondocks, old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and God knows there are so many more...

Favorite Films:

Again, in no respective order:

Adaptation, Vanilla Sky, Bond movies that don't star Roger Moore, As Good As It Gets, Real Genius, Better Off Dead, High Fidelity, Fight Club, Slipstream, Blues Brothers, Animal House, Smokin' Aces, The Thief and the Cobbler, The Truman Show, The Majestic, The Machinist, The Illusionist, The Prestige, American Splendor, Sideways, King of California, Brick, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Layer Cake, Rock N Rolla, I'm Not There, Runaway Jury, Cowboy Bebop: Knocking On Heaven's Door, Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion, Ratatouille, Ice Age, the first two Ninja Turtle movies, Enter The Dragon, Find Me Guilty, Road to Perdition, Forrest Gump, Schindler's List, Reign Over Me, The Departed, Blood Diamond, The Aviator, the Director's Cut of I Am Legend, Iron Man, the first Indiana Jones trilogy, the first Star Wars Trilogy, Martian Child, the Rocky series, Shoot Em Up, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Twelve Monkeys, and again, many many more.

Favorite TV Shows:

Scrubs, House, Top Gear, Friends, Cheers, Married With Children, Without A Trace, X-Files, Quantum Leap, Star Trek the Next Generation...not too many, that's for damn sure. Haven't seen too many great live action TV shows, in my opinion.

Favorite Comics:

Batman. Anything Batman.

Favorite Artists or Illustrators:

Jhonen Vasquez, Matt Groening, Doc Hammer, Jackson Publik, Seth McFarland, Michaelangelo, DaVinci, Claude Monet, Thomas Kinkade, Richard Williams (The Thief and the Cobbler), and many more.

Favorite Music:

Dave Matthews Band, Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Sublime, Blues Brothers, Santana, Mars Volta, Billy Joel, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Allman Brothers, The Postal Service, Iron and Wine, Ani DiFranco, Cassandra Wilson, Zero 7, Alanis Morriset, Natalie Merchant, some Sheryl Crow, Tenacious D, some Elton John, The Doors, Blues Traveler, Tim Reynolds, Bela Flek and the Flektones, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, Don McLean, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Chuck Berry, The Royal Crown Revue, Pearl Jam, Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Queen, Dizzy Gilespi, Louis Armstrong, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Yoko Kanno, whoever composed Largo al Foctotum, some Beach Boys, Thelonius Monk, Blind Melon, Go Go Bordello, The Talking Heads, AC~DC, and many more, Im sure.

Favorite Robots:

Bender, Soulbot, Johnny 5, Wall-E, Helper, R2D2, C3PO, JanitOR (our own creation from Space Pirates), B-9 (Lost In Space), Hal (2001: A Space Odyssey), Dot Matrix, Mark13, The Iron Giant, Andrew (Bicentennial Man).