It’s been just a shade over a year since the last Paper Short, and a lot has happened in that time. Things certainly aren’t slowing down for me, but with the launch of my new YouTube channel and the promise to deliver the goods on my Stabbers Kickstarter campaign, I set aside a couple days and made this! A brand new paper short starring myself and…well, paper! It seems this is a medium I will always return to from time to time, as it’s just such a fun way to …

Friday means 5 more movies fall out of my collection and in front of your eyeballs. Let’s take a closer look, shall we?

Barbarella
Barfly
Basket Case
Batman 9Adam West version)
Batman (Tim Burton Version)

I’m a real sucker for cheesy sci-fi, and in that genre it doesn’t get much better than the hyper-pro-sexcapade, Barbarella! Micky Rourke delivers a seriously great performance, playing everyone’s favorite lovable drunk poet, Charles Bukowski…or Henry Chinanski as he refers to himself through text. Basket Case is one of those horror movies so bizarre you’re simply not allowed to NOT love …

The birth and death of The Receptionist
It was great timing that just a few days before I shut down The Receptionist YouTube channel,  I happened to be doing an interview across the street from the place it all began. For eleven years I sat behind the same desk, picking up the same phone and saying the same words: Messina Baker. It was behind this very desk that my boredom grew to such a level, that I started drawing and cutting out paper characters simply to amuse myself. Using the iSight camera on …

I promised you a new paper short, and damn it, I’m gonna deliver. It’s been a long time since I did some acting alongside paper. In honor of my new and final YouTube channel, TravisBetz, I’ll be launching this gem on Monday, May 20th. As you can see, storyboards have been crudely doodled and paper props have been glued and taped. Production is in full swing! If you haven’t yet subscribed to the new channel, please do. This paper short will NOT be uploaded to TheReceptionist channel.

There are few words I can say that will sum up what The Receptionist experience has meant to me. At this time in my professional career, it just makes better sense to start fresh with a new channel, and be known by my name, Travis Betz. All of the old videos from The Receptionist will be on this new channel, but all future videos posted will ONLY be uploaded to TravisBetz. If you are one who enjoys my work, please subscribe to the new channel, as TheReceptionist will soon become …

Stabbers
A novel by Travis Betz
Stabbers is my first novel. I am currently slamming my fingers down on the keyboard, and bringing it to life. It’s a horror-comedy that will be kidnapping all the over-used monsters and clichés of the genre, sticking them into a blender, adding a healthy amount of rat poison and a dash of salt to taste, then hitting BLEND. That means I’m writing the last vampire/werewolf/ghost/witch/demon/zombie novel you’ll ever need to read. A story so ludicrous, and bat-shit crazy, you’ll think I stole it from the cell …

Happy Friday cinephiles! Here we have five tasty movies pulled right off my collection shelf. Which ones have you seen?

The Bad Seed
Bad Taste
Bananas
Band of Outsiders
Baraka

Who knows the dance from Band of Outsiders? Prove it! I think The Bad Seed is still my favorite amongst the evil children genre. So simple, clean, black and white…creepy blonde girl. I love movies based on plays (the play was based on a book, but it’s still a story stripped down to its raw elements). Baraka still mesmerizes me. Bad Taste remains one of my favorite “first …