Rusty Gordon and Chase Whale launched Gordon and the Whale Dot Com on October 10, 2007. The website design was done by Cameron Sanderson. Below is the staff and contributors self bios. Thanks for stopping by! E-mail us if you have any suggestions, questions, or free stuff. Thanks!
CEO/Editor-in-Chief
Chase Whale is a film geek that manages to keep up with the music scene while watching 4-5 new films a week. He edited a Dallas skateboard film in 2003 called the cinematic approach. There are probably three copies in circulation.
When he’s not writing news or reviews, he schools it up at the University of North Texas, and will soon have a degree in Radio, TV and Film. Of course, right?
His favorite films are City of God, Half Nelson, Young Guns, Yeah Right!, Braveheart, and anything P.T. Anderson. His musical influences are Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire, Van Morrison, The Microphones, and The Clash.
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PS Grammar errors are quite frequent on this website. Deal with it!
Send him love/hate mail to chase@gordonandthewhale.com
Film Critic/News Editor
Since the age of ten there have been two constant interests in Russell Lee Gordon II’s life: football and movies. Rusty’s interest in movies was excelled by the fact that he saw some of cinema’s best offereings long before he hit the recommended age, including Pulp Fiction at ten and Natural Born KIllers at age eleven. Much of these great films’ content went over young Rusty’s head, but the films struck a strong chord with him.
Since then, Rusty has been consuming movies at a rapid pace, sacrificing the possiblities of relationships and a balanced social life for the glimmer of a theater screen. Rusty’s love for film caused him to pursue a degree in film, and eventually achieved this goal by receiving a degree in Radio, Television, and Film from the University of North Texas. Rusty currently works a standard office job, but cinema still remains his passion.
Email him at rusty@gordonandthewhale.com
Video Editor
Bio. coming soon!!1
Email Nathan @ Nathan@gordonandthewhale.com
News Writer
I was born in Mendota, IL on July 22nd of 1972. I now live in Grand Prairie, TX. It’s very nice. I have a two car garage, two cars to put in it, and our house looks like a gingerbread house. I have a lovely wife that keeps me in line named Elizabeth and two children, Everett who is 9 and Ephraim who is almost 2.
Scotoma Promotions started back in 1996 when I needed a name for my management company. I mean, you need a name, right? I didn’t want to be so vain as to call it Eric Shirey Promotions. Give me a break. Before that, I was managing and booking my own industrial band, Primary Censor, quite well. We were in negotiations with REX Records (Living Sacrifice, Circle Of Dust, Sixpence None The Richer, Believer, etc.) when I decided to quit the band. After taking some time off from the music world, I began managing an electronic rock band by the name of Situation Taboo, who had just been signed to Flying Tart Records, which was basically a front for a corporate distribution company who wanted to sign indie bands. I actually booked and managed the band for a year. That’s also when I had the idea for the first time to start a record label of sorts. I put out a remix tape (yes, tape) of remixes from their album on Scotoma Records. It sold pretty well.
I opened my own record store in 1997 called Pluto Records in Austin, TX. At the same time, I booked national hardcore / metal / indie acts into many of the different clubs in the Austin area. After moving the store to Dallas in 1998 (very much influenced by the naggings of Embodyment and Travail-who I had become wonderful friends with) and joining forces with my long-time friend Brian Cobbell, we sold half the business, closed the store, and started Pluto Records the label. I also booked national and local acts for Club 412 in Fort Worth, Tx. Besides the direct management of Embodyment, Society’s Finest, GODS, The Kirby / widows&orphans, Hundred Year Storm, Everything You Hold Dear, MAHTEO, The Birth, and Situation Taboo I have managed the business affairs and done A&R for Travail, Luti-kriss, Thirty Called Arson, As I Lay Dying, Beauty To Ashes, Canterbury Effect, Evelynn, Dreaming Of The Fifth, Knockout Kings, My Son My Executioner, The Secret Handshake, The Birth, In The Face Of War, This Endearing, as well as others. I quit Pluto in 2002 to get away from the business again. But, as usual, I decided in 2003 that direct management and relations with established and up and coming bands is where my heart was. I have stepped away from the music business again, mainly because I can see the death of the industry from a thousand miles away.
I now coordinate charity events under the name Scotoma Events that are tributes to great films I am emotionally attached to with vendors and celebrity guests. I am the webmaster for the Amicus Productions website that covers the iconic studios classic and new filmwork, which anyone seriously into horror would be familiar with. I also do ad sales for a company called Multiview and write for this site.
E-mail Eric @ eric@gordonandthewhale.com
Film Critic
Bio. coming soon!!1
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