Archive for December, 2008

Lax-tastic

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

I got to spend some time with my good friend (and gifted burlesque performer) Anna Fur Laxis this week. It started with Monday Night Tease at 3 Clubs in Hollywood.

Here she and I pose with an attractive blond gal whose name escapes me.

Then I found one of my other favorite burlesque performers, Dizzy Von Damn.

Whom, of course, I had to lick.

This industrious and beautiful young gal, Sophia, was trying to buy our votes for Viva Las Vegas with Tootsie Pops, presented nicely in a lovely cleavage. I mean box.

My new friend Sarah (left) poses with my pal Vixen Violette (whom I got to hear sing for the first time that night… awesome!).

And finally, I had my photo taken with Fever Blister. This girl has zazz.

I’m planning on becoming a “Boy-lesque” performer now. I’d like to go on tour with Fever Blister. I’ll call myself, simply, Gonorrhea. But people will inevitably call me “The Gon”.

Thus concludes Monday Night Tease. Now on to day two!

Anna Fur Laxis is from the UK, which means she’s never even seen a gun, let alone handled or fired one. So I thought it was my duty as an American to rectify this situation.

I arranged to take her up to see my good pal Anthony De Longis at Rancho Indalo for a little gun totin’ good time. Upon arrival, she was, to use the proper Yorkshire vernacular, “gobsmacked”.

Anthony (who was recognized this year by Black Belt Magazine as Weapons Instructor of the Year) let her have it with both barrels (pun intended), and gave her the full safety and usage lesson.

p.s. A good manicure is necessary for shooting handguns safely.

Anthony DeLongis agrees, and contemplates doing his own nails…

And then the rifle instruction began.

Anna Fur Laxis and I mug for a quick pic.

Then she braves the frigid winds of Canyon Country for a dazzling pistol brandishing photo.

Finishing up with the firearms, it was time to head to the throwing range.

Hawkeye Fur Laxis, coming to a burlesque show near you.

Apparently, part of my instruction includes me wanting to box with my students.

Now Anna demonstrates the windup…

The delivery…

The follow through.

Then she holds a flower in her mouth for me to cut. The fun way. (Video to come)

Having made it through an arduous day of weapons training, it was time to give Anna Fur Laxis the ole Jack Dagger Seal of Approval.

Little did she know, I used henna ink. She’ll be stuck with that for a while. Could be permanent. Tee hee.

That’s all for now, and I hope everyone has a happy (and relatively safe) New Years Eve!

-JD:TKoF

p.s. For more info on knife and tomahawk throwing, go to ThrowZini.com to download your 101 Free Knife Throwing Tips!

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Shelby Bond’s Cowboy Max

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Shelby Bond is a brilliant comedic asset to the world. He also happens to be my Van Kleaver partner in crime. But that’s a story and a video for another post.

For now, check out Shelby’s latest Cowboy Max video.

Cowboy Max Gives Love Advice

Don’t forget to check out the first two installments of Cowboy Max:

Cowboy Max Leaves Home

and

Cowboy Max Goes to Hollywood

Disclaimer: There’s no knife throwing in these videos, and that makes me sad. Other than that, they’re great!

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The Gift Wrapper

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

A Christmas Tale by Daniella De Carlo

My wonderful and talented friend, Daniella De Carlo, wrote and directed this incredible short film. Now it’s on YouTube, just in time for the holidays! Watch it, fall in love, and check out her blog to comment on it!

http://thegiftwrapper.blogspot.com/

p.s. There’s no knife throwing in this short film, but I love it anyway.

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New Headshot

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Finally, I’ve taken a new headshot. I’d been using a b/w one from 2001. This was long overdue.

Photo by Shelby Bond. Whaddya think?

p.s. There is no knife throwing in this picture, and that makes me sad.

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Jack Dagger Theme Song

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

By Mike Gross.

Warning, he’s a funny mofo.

Your friendly neighborhood knife thrower,

-JD:TKoF

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JD & WB Episode 3

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

I finally got me a “round to-it”, and threw this episode together. View it, fear it, and feel free to leave your thoughts. Which I will promptly ignore.

For those who are interested, here’s the links to Episodes 1 & 2.

Episode 1

Episode 2

-JD:TKoF

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Rock City Music Awards – The Rockies

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

I ventured out to support my good friends Ted Shred and Count Smokula at the annual Rockies last night… only to find out that it’s no longer being held at B.B. King’s in the City Walk. In fact, B.B. King’s seems to be closed completely. WTF?!

So, feeling super-intellingent and in-the-loop, I called the beautiful and talented Carol Tatum (Ted’s better half) who, through sniffles and sneezes, talked me through a verbal trail of bread crumbs until I found the Rockies’ new home, FM Station.

However, in classic LA fashion, FM Station doesn’t actually have their name on the door, or even a website. In fact, they haven’t even taken down the signage from the building’s previous iteration. If it weren’t for the throngs of people outside, I’d have never realized that the Hacienda Ranchero Whatever was actually FM Station in disguise. Thanks to Carol for getting me there.

Once there, I got to see some great live bands: Godmother, Wood, some band who’s name I can’t remember (but who played a nine hour sing-a-long version of the Beatles’ “A Little Help From My Friends”), and that early nineties MTV classic, Green Jello (Obey the Cow).

I also got to get up and do a little cameo hosting with Ted and Smokie, and confess to all the rockers in attendance that yes, I was in a Britney Spears’ music video, but that I was duped into doing so. I was given collective forgiveness from those in attendance.

Here’s me and the squeeze box king himself, Count Smokula (who later autographed some twitterpated fan’s accordion – I never knew there were accordion groupies).

Here’s our table sign.

And here’s me and the Shredster himself, looking quite alluring I must say. Fear the succulent hotness.

See ya at next year’s Rockies…

-JD:TKoF

p.s. There was no knife throwing at this event, and I was sad.

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Jack Dagger… Sexy?

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Somebody at PEOPLE Magazine thinks so. Crazy. I guess they’ve never seen me nekkid. ;-)

Low and behold, in the 2008 PEOPLE Magazine Sexiest Man Alive issue, on page 136, you’ll find yours truly. In the Sexiest A-Z section, under “K for Knife Thrower”.

No, I’m not the smiling guy on the left. That’s some Oprah regular. And no, I’m not Todd Palin… he’s the “other” Todd). I’m the dude with the sinister red lighting and the “devil may care, rocket ship pilot” expression on my face. Here’s a better look.

I guess it’s official, I’m sexy. Hmmmm, what to do with all that power?

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New Blog

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
It’s vastly superior to this blog, in that I say it’s vastly superior.  Lots of empirical data to back up this claim.  Mmmmm, back that claim up…

Go check it out, subscribe, or bookmark, or do whatever the hell it is you do with blogs.  I dare ya.

http://www.jackdagger.com/blog

-Jack Dagger: The King of Fling

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Van Kleavers do Vista

Monday, December 8th, 2008

As in the Vista Pirate Faire in SoCal, not the Windows operating system. To be sure, the Van Kleaver Bros would never “do” an operating system. Seriously, that doesn’t even make any sense.  Besides, Shelby’s a Mac guy anyway.

This was a first time Faire by the Gold Coast folks, and it seemed like a pretty successful one to me. The vendors turned out in droves, and there seemed to be plenty of patrons wandering around. Because, hmmm, what the hell else is there to do in Vista, CA on a dreary weekend in December?

Caitlin “Split” Lee was there once again, to be our t-shirt girl extraordinaire, and pose for prom pics back stage.

And then, of course, she gets licked.

Then the inevitable awkwardness sets in…

This is Bob the Bird Guy. He’s been performing since the early eighteen-hundreds. His macaws are twice that old. And his cute puppy-dog, Curtis, loves pulling the bird cart around. Or so we’re told…

Split has a word with Curtis and escape plans are made.

After the successful jail-break, Curtis and I frolic and play…. and make our plans to move to Massachusetts where it’s still legal for him and me to get married.

Eventually we lured yet another redhead back stage.

Who subsequently, also gets licked.

All in all, the faire was great, the crowds were appreciative, and I didn’t have to stab anybody.

Oh! And we unveiled a new stunt. For those of you who have seen the Jack Knife – Cucumber Slice, well, now we’ve come up with the Jack Knife – Flaming Cucumber Slice, thus proving once again, that anything you do can be made cooler with fire. In this case, I slice a cucumber in half, off the skin of Shelby’s arm, with a knife that’s on fire.

Unsuccessful though my attempts were, I could not set Shelby on fire.

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