Post by Colt .45 on Jul 15, 2006 17:17:32 GMT -5
I had the pleasure of interviewing our very own Demon.
I would like to thank Demon for doing this and to jeremy for some of the questions.
Life Before clad.
1: I’m sure a lot of people wonder. What is your real name?
A: Alex
2: what is your occupation?
A: Jersey Central Power & Light Employee
3: Do you have any brothers or sisters?
A: 1 30yr old sister
CLAD
4: What gave you the idea to create CLAD?
A: I belonged to a Garbage Pail Kids MB and realized it was free to make my own MB and I basically decided to make one on the only topic I knew more or as much as anyone did. Well that and the fact that I hated the main f13 MB out there at the time. F13films has the biggest community out there, yet also the worst. My plans were to create an alternative that could compete and would fulfill what everyone is missing over there... to be treated like a person rather than a number is all anyone wants out of a MB community...
5: Did you think CLAD would be as successful as it is?
A: Not really... I figured it would be me and 6 of my friends talking to each other forever... I NEVER thought more than 100 would join... never even thought 100 would even see it.
Most of it's success I'm sure it based on CampCrystalLake.com link. If we weren't there Official MB then I don't know if we'd be relevant in the MB world as we are.
Out of my circle of friends of which who made there own horror MB's I always seemed to eek out on top for some reason. The only exception would be Horror Movies and More. They became the most active out of my circle of friends. There were times when CLAD didn't get 50 posts a week months into it... once we got 230 posts in 2 hours...
6: Where do you hope CLAD will be in 10 years?
A: I have no clue... who knows ProBoards may shut down or something. You can never have true faith that something you don't pay out of pocket for will always be there.... I wish we all had some meeting point in case you ever came to a dead link... maybe we'll get on that soon.
7: Why do you think CLAD is successful?
A: Some would say the features, some would say it looked better than most MB's over the last 2 years (which is far from true now) but I ALWAYS says a MB is only as great as it's members.
A perfect example is the atmosphere you get on Friday13thFilms MB. They have an excellent Google search... and in my opinion that is the ONLY thing they have going for them.
I have never been in a more rude obnoxious atmosphere in my life. I can count the good times I had on there on one hand. I couldn't count the amount of sarcasm and rude remarks I have received from those members if I used every hand to every member here on CLAD...
Over there you get bashed for asking simple questions... then you come here and ask thosesame questions and people answer you as if you asked a friend of yours who you've known for years.
There are about 20 nice people there from what I have seen but when there are over 6,000 members that don’t sit much...
It's funny too because some members from there who came here and left there are ll real nice people. Count6string is a perfect example. He found CLAD threw there and he told me he felt the same way about them and that he barely posted there ... it was all true.
So you see you can have an amazingly active MB or a nice tight group of regulars, at the end of the day the good times you had there is what you'll remember. That is what you'll think of when people ask you what MB you liked better. CLAD is what it is because of you the members, not because of any Radio Station, GIFs, or banners... the people make the difference.
8:Where did the name Crystal Lake After Dark come from?
A: This place was originally called "Jason Lives" as you can see I had a great imagination under pressure LOL
Then i realized so many other sites were called that, so it morphed into "Jason Lives MB". I was never happy with the name because it was so typical... so I decided to combine the name of the Garbage Pail Kids MB I was on with the name of this one. So it became "Crystal Lake Central" and I thought it would be that forever.
Then one day I realized "CLC" was dying because people were running out of things to talk about (at the time I guess) so I decided to make an adult section of "CLC" and have it password protected to protect minors.
Well it opened up and it was amazing, we accumulated 230 posts in less than 2 hours the day everyone found out about it's opening. It's amazing how honest everyone was and how much more there is to say when you can say ANYTHING.
So before I opened that section the name for it came to me in mere seconds. I used to watch an old show called 90210 and in that show all the cast hung out in a place called the "Peach Pit". It was like a diner type place to eat... so in the 5th Season of that show one character decided to build a night club on the other side of the Peach pit and have it as an extension and call it the "Peach Pit After Dark". It was a real great place and had a real nice club atmosphere.
So when I made the adult only section of "CLC" I called that area "Crystal Lake After Dark".
Well then we hit the ultimate downfall of "CLC" some bad things went down and one member drove me and some people around me crazy. He eventually made me get to the point where I quit running the Garbage Pail Kids MB (I was running it all by myself 75% of the time it existed up to that point because the admin didn't have any time shortly after he opened it). After I left it was pretty crazy, people took sides and I felt like everyone turned on me which some in fact did. Let's just say nothing was the same anymore... 90% of the regulars here were from the Garbage Pail Kids MB.
It all went bad and people were leaving left and right and I got into worse battles with this guy who started it all.... the battles spilled over into all my friends as well. It was a disaster to say the least...
I eventually closed the adult only section, and was going to close the entire board. But I still had some who stood by my side because they felt I was right. So I kept it open, yet eventually wanted so little to do with the GPK MB that I didn't want central in the name anymore at all. So I changed the name of the entire board to "Crystal Lake After Dark" and it never changes since. I believe it was changed to CLAD since Jan of 2005.
All of the people in the "fallout" mentioned above are all cool with me now except the main trouble maker... and things have been just fine since then... which proved me right if I ever wonder if it were his doings or mine that brought everything to a hault....
Friday the 13th series.
9: What are your honest thoughts on New Line Cinema?
A: Complete garbage... I think they took something so beautiful and made it so very ugly...
Jason goes to Hell sometimes give me physical pain inside when I think of it. Not because it was a bad movie itself but because of what they did to the character Jason Voorhees. I'm sorry but if you think I'm supposed to picture a worm being inside the guy with a sack on his head running around with a pitchfork you can forget it... it's not happening.
Jason X was a well produced waste of time...
Freddy vs Jason is a fun movie to watch opening night but after 3rd or 4th view I began to hate every minute of it... horrible job.
But this is all my own personal opinion.
10: What is it with Vera in part III that you like so much?
A: There's the obvious factors of course... her eyes, her lips, her skin tone, her smile or her body overall. I like her personality in the movie as a whole. I think she's as innocent as the kind of girl I always wanted. How many girls go on blind dates anymore? Most are too stuck up and unwilling to admit they can use help getting a date... but she wasn't like that at all. She was very open, well until Shelly acted weird with that mask crap and everything. Introducing himself with "Sorry...." probably didn't help much either lol She is very level headed and just had the personality I like in a woman. I think me and her would have made a great couple.
11: What got you into the Friday series?
A: I would have to reach as far back as I can remember and chalk it up to my cousin and member here "Dr. Loomis" (Steve)
When we were younger my memories were of collecting Garbage Pail Kids and his family having HUGE back yard bashes in the 80's with pool parties that lasted well into the night. It was truly an amazing time in my childhood life. It was a yearly thing, the routine would be the party and as the night when on sneaking off with him his brother and 3-5 other kids and watching Friday the 13th Part 6 or 7 (that's all they had) and we loved it. My mom even bought the older brother the F13 game and we played that so that music reminds me of those days as well.
Now when all the parties we over and I was home alone I'd go threw all my dads dubbed movies and I found Friday the 13th Part 2 and nothing else. I still remember watching it during those real late summer nights. I was truly scared and always thought it was amazing when Jason jumped threw the window. It was like "I can't believe it is coming the part where you get to see his face!" back then it was just different. I wasn't obsessed or anything to it was all still fresh to me every time I saw it.
So that was basically the only one I saw except for the summer parties and the one time my dad took me to see Part 8 in theater (we snuck in after seeing Batman)
I finally got into them as an adult in the year 2000 August. Since then I have known more then the average person.
The CD.
12: Is Eminem the only influence on you now?
A: He is the main influence, but there's LL Cool J and I may get an idea or two from here or there. I'm not particularly a fan of rap music... he is the only rap I listen to be honest. The rest is in drips and drabs. So if you pick up anything on my style (which many already have) it will be him lol Sometimes I do a ryme and wonder if it's something he would have said as well which is a bad thing I'm sure....
13: Will there be any references to CLAD or any CLAD members in any songs?
A: Yes I will mention the MB and I say some names as long as they fit songs. I wont go out of my way and compromise a song just to add a name in there. In once song I say "I made it home a bloody camper, took my clothes off and threw um in the hamper" so that's about as far as I go with dropping names. I don't want to add too many because then if 15 names are there it will look like I left out the other 4 regulars and that's no fun for anyone ya know..
14:When can we expect the CD to be released?
A: I'm sorry but the date keeps getting pushed back for various reasons. I mean sometimes I come so far and when I let someone hear it I don't get the reaction I expected and I panic badly. I start thinking oh god... what am I thinking! If I release this and everyone felt like he did people are going to think my stuffs boring! Or I don't realize that so much production was needed. Also it's became impossible to get in contact with me DJ friend who is supposed to take the music I make and make them sound like real songs, before I rap over them... I haven't spoken to him over the phone in 3 months... and that's not helping any... but he's not to blame because even if he were here I don't have more then 5 beats ready to go anyway... but it would help boost me along if things were getting completed I'm sure. I will have to say Jan 2007 is the latest I hope to have it done, hopefully sooner.
The Future.
15: Where do you want to be in 10 years career wise?
A: Well I am realistic, I know the CD thing wont truly bring me into the limelight in music LOL yea right... me and the 20 million other people who are making a demo CD right now LOL
I don't have half the skills most rappers do, I just want to leave behind a nice piece of work as proof I was alive and had a slight talent in music and lyrics which proved I had something to say. Then again it may prove I have nothing interesting to say lol
16: Can we expect any major renovations to CLAD?
A: Well yea I always wanted to do that whole new template thing everyone has going on but I don't have the talent or program to make the templates designs which would go with the codes put them. I am surprised CLAD looks as decent as it does to be honest.... when I opened it I could barely make an Avatar.... everything I learned you all have witnessed basically LOL
But technically no, no plans in the near future.
Any last words for the Members?
I can't say thank you enough.... since a MB is only as good as it's members and me and everyone seems to love it here you are the ones to thank! You who love it here and continue to make it great and you who all started it up and keep it going.
I'm dead serious, it's hard as hell to accomplish what we have.... to belong to a MB in which 99% of the posts have no sarcasm in them against other members, no attacks in anyway for having an opinion and just being there for each other is amazing!
I never seen a place that is so welcoming before! If CLAD wasn't something I made I would never believe it existed!
We basically weeded out all the A holes right off the bat... most of them quit after 1-2 weeks because they can see that they don't fit in here.
I mean can you imagine an A hole realizing that? Usually they just keep on with there crap and make people miserable... but not here. This is not and I promise you will NEVER be f13films message board!
So remember we already have all that going for us! Anything else you have to offer and add only makes it better!
Thanks for everything!
You guys are the coolest and I would be proud to go camping with all of you in Camp Blood!
Your friend
Demon
I would like to thank Demon for doing this and to jeremy for some of the questions.
Life Before clad.
1: I’m sure a lot of people wonder. What is your real name?
A: Alex
2: what is your occupation?
A: Jersey Central Power & Light Employee
3: Do you have any brothers or sisters?
A: 1 30yr old sister
CLAD
4: What gave you the idea to create CLAD?
A: I belonged to a Garbage Pail Kids MB and realized it was free to make my own MB and I basically decided to make one on the only topic I knew more or as much as anyone did. Well that and the fact that I hated the main f13 MB out there at the time. F13films has the biggest community out there, yet also the worst. My plans were to create an alternative that could compete and would fulfill what everyone is missing over there... to be treated like a person rather than a number is all anyone wants out of a MB community...
5: Did you think CLAD would be as successful as it is?
A: Not really... I figured it would be me and 6 of my friends talking to each other forever... I NEVER thought more than 100 would join... never even thought 100 would even see it.
Most of it's success I'm sure it based on CampCrystalLake.com link. If we weren't there Official MB then I don't know if we'd be relevant in the MB world as we are.
Out of my circle of friends of which who made there own horror MB's I always seemed to eek out on top for some reason. The only exception would be Horror Movies and More. They became the most active out of my circle of friends. There were times when CLAD didn't get 50 posts a week months into it... once we got 230 posts in 2 hours...
6: Where do you hope CLAD will be in 10 years?
A: I have no clue... who knows ProBoards may shut down or something. You can never have true faith that something you don't pay out of pocket for will always be there.... I wish we all had some meeting point in case you ever came to a dead link... maybe we'll get on that soon.
7: Why do you think CLAD is successful?
A: Some would say the features, some would say it looked better than most MB's over the last 2 years (which is far from true now) but I ALWAYS says a MB is only as great as it's members.
A perfect example is the atmosphere you get on Friday13thFilms MB. They have an excellent Google search... and in my opinion that is the ONLY thing they have going for them.
I have never been in a more rude obnoxious atmosphere in my life. I can count the good times I had on there on one hand. I couldn't count the amount of sarcasm and rude remarks I have received from those members if I used every hand to every member here on CLAD...
Over there you get bashed for asking simple questions... then you come here and ask thosesame questions and people answer you as if you asked a friend of yours who you've known for years.
There are about 20 nice people there from what I have seen but when there are over 6,000 members that don’t sit much...
It's funny too because some members from there who came here and left there are ll real nice people. Count6string is a perfect example. He found CLAD threw there and he told me he felt the same way about them and that he barely posted there ... it was all true.
So you see you can have an amazingly active MB or a nice tight group of regulars, at the end of the day the good times you had there is what you'll remember. That is what you'll think of when people ask you what MB you liked better. CLAD is what it is because of you the members, not because of any Radio Station, GIFs, or banners... the people make the difference.
8:Where did the name Crystal Lake After Dark come from?
A: This place was originally called "Jason Lives" as you can see I had a great imagination under pressure LOL
Then i realized so many other sites were called that, so it morphed into "Jason Lives MB". I was never happy with the name because it was so typical... so I decided to combine the name of the Garbage Pail Kids MB I was on with the name of this one. So it became "Crystal Lake Central" and I thought it would be that forever.
Then one day I realized "CLC" was dying because people were running out of things to talk about (at the time I guess) so I decided to make an adult section of "CLC" and have it password protected to protect minors.
Well it opened up and it was amazing, we accumulated 230 posts in less than 2 hours the day everyone found out about it's opening. It's amazing how honest everyone was and how much more there is to say when you can say ANYTHING.
So before I opened that section the name for it came to me in mere seconds. I used to watch an old show called 90210 and in that show all the cast hung out in a place called the "Peach Pit". It was like a diner type place to eat... so in the 5th Season of that show one character decided to build a night club on the other side of the Peach pit and have it as an extension and call it the "Peach Pit After Dark". It was a real great place and had a real nice club atmosphere.
So when I made the adult only section of "CLC" I called that area "Crystal Lake After Dark".
Well then we hit the ultimate downfall of "CLC" some bad things went down and one member drove me and some people around me crazy. He eventually made me get to the point where I quit running the Garbage Pail Kids MB (I was running it all by myself 75% of the time it existed up to that point because the admin didn't have any time shortly after he opened it). After I left it was pretty crazy, people took sides and I felt like everyone turned on me which some in fact did. Let's just say nothing was the same anymore... 90% of the regulars here were from the Garbage Pail Kids MB.
It all went bad and people were leaving left and right and I got into worse battles with this guy who started it all.... the battles spilled over into all my friends as well. It was a disaster to say the least...
I eventually closed the adult only section, and was going to close the entire board. But I still had some who stood by my side because they felt I was right. So I kept it open, yet eventually wanted so little to do with the GPK MB that I didn't want central in the name anymore at all. So I changed the name of the entire board to "Crystal Lake After Dark" and it never changes since. I believe it was changed to CLAD since Jan of 2005.
All of the people in the "fallout" mentioned above are all cool with me now except the main trouble maker... and things have been just fine since then... which proved me right if I ever wonder if it were his doings or mine that brought everything to a hault....
Friday the 13th series.
9: What are your honest thoughts on New Line Cinema?
A: Complete garbage... I think they took something so beautiful and made it so very ugly...
Jason goes to Hell sometimes give me physical pain inside when I think of it. Not because it was a bad movie itself but because of what they did to the character Jason Voorhees. I'm sorry but if you think I'm supposed to picture a worm being inside the guy with a sack on his head running around with a pitchfork you can forget it... it's not happening.
Jason X was a well produced waste of time...
Freddy vs Jason is a fun movie to watch opening night but after 3rd or 4th view I began to hate every minute of it... horrible job.
But this is all my own personal opinion.
10: What is it with Vera in part III that you like so much?
A: There's the obvious factors of course... her eyes, her lips, her skin tone, her smile or her body overall. I like her personality in the movie as a whole. I think she's as innocent as the kind of girl I always wanted. How many girls go on blind dates anymore? Most are too stuck up and unwilling to admit they can use help getting a date... but she wasn't like that at all. She was very open, well until Shelly acted weird with that mask crap and everything. Introducing himself with "Sorry...." probably didn't help much either lol She is very level headed and just had the personality I like in a woman. I think me and her would have made a great couple.
11: What got you into the Friday series?
A: I would have to reach as far back as I can remember and chalk it up to my cousin and member here "Dr. Loomis" (Steve)
When we were younger my memories were of collecting Garbage Pail Kids and his family having HUGE back yard bashes in the 80's with pool parties that lasted well into the night. It was truly an amazing time in my childhood life. It was a yearly thing, the routine would be the party and as the night when on sneaking off with him his brother and 3-5 other kids and watching Friday the 13th Part 6 or 7 (that's all they had) and we loved it. My mom even bought the older brother the F13 game and we played that so that music reminds me of those days as well.
Now when all the parties we over and I was home alone I'd go threw all my dads dubbed movies and I found Friday the 13th Part 2 and nothing else. I still remember watching it during those real late summer nights. I was truly scared and always thought it was amazing when Jason jumped threw the window. It was like "I can't believe it is coming the part where you get to see his face!" back then it was just different. I wasn't obsessed or anything to it was all still fresh to me every time I saw it.
So that was basically the only one I saw except for the summer parties and the one time my dad took me to see Part 8 in theater (we snuck in after seeing Batman)
I finally got into them as an adult in the year 2000 August. Since then I have known more then the average person.
The CD.
12: Is Eminem the only influence on you now?
A: He is the main influence, but there's LL Cool J and I may get an idea or two from here or there. I'm not particularly a fan of rap music... he is the only rap I listen to be honest. The rest is in drips and drabs. So if you pick up anything on my style (which many already have) it will be him lol Sometimes I do a ryme and wonder if it's something he would have said as well which is a bad thing I'm sure....
13: Will there be any references to CLAD or any CLAD members in any songs?
A: Yes I will mention the MB and I say some names as long as they fit songs. I wont go out of my way and compromise a song just to add a name in there. In once song I say "I made it home a bloody camper, took my clothes off and threw um in the hamper" so that's about as far as I go with dropping names. I don't want to add too many because then if 15 names are there it will look like I left out the other 4 regulars and that's no fun for anyone ya know..
14:When can we expect the CD to be released?
A: I'm sorry but the date keeps getting pushed back for various reasons. I mean sometimes I come so far and when I let someone hear it I don't get the reaction I expected and I panic badly. I start thinking oh god... what am I thinking! If I release this and everyone felt like he did people are going to think my stuffs boring! Or I don't realize that so much production was needed. Also it's became impossible to get in contact with me DJ friend who is supposed to take the music I make and make them sound like real songs, before I rap over them... I haven't spoken to him over the phone in 3 months... and that's not helping any... but he's not to blame because even if he were here I don't have more then 5 beats ready to go anyway... but it would help boost me along if things were getting completed I'm sure. I will have to say Jan 2007 is the latest I hope to have it done, hopefully sooner.
The Future.
15: Where do you want to be in 10 years career wise?
A: Well I am realistic, I know the CD thing wont truly bring me into the limelight in music LOL yea right... me and the 20 million other people who are making a demo CD right now LOL
I don't have half the skills most rappers do, I just want to leave behind a nice piece of work as proof I was alive and had a slight talent in music and lyrics which proved I had something to say. Then again it may prove I have nothing interesting to say lol
16: Can we expect any major renovations to CLAD?
A: Well yea I always wanted to do that whole new template thing everyone has going on but I don't have the talent or program to make the templates designs which would go with the codes put them. I am surprised CLAD looks as decent as it does to be honest.... when I opened it I could barely make an Avatar.... everything I learned you all have witnessed basically LOL
But technically no, no plans in the near future.
Any last words for the Members?
I can't say thank you enough.... since a MB is only as good as it's members and me and everyone seems to love it here you are the ones to thank! You who love it here and continue to make it great and you who all started it up and keep it going.
I'm dead serious, it's hard as hell to accomplish what we have.... to belong to a MB in which 99% of the posts have no sarcasm in them against other members, no attacks in anyway for having an opinion and just being there for each other is amazing!
I never seen a place that is so welcoming before! If CLAD wasn't something I made I would never believe it existed!
We basically weeded out all the A holes right off the bat... most of them quit after 1-2 weeks because they can see that they don't fit in here.
I mean can you imagine an A hole realizing that? Usually they just keep on with there crap and make people miserable... but not here. This is not and I promise you will NEVER be f13films message board!
So remember we already have all that going for us! Anything else you have to offer and add only makes it better!
Thanks for everything!
You guys are the coolest and I would be proud to go camping with all of you in Camp Blood!
Your friend
Demon
