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thanks and love

dickhouse productions — Sat, 03 May 2014 09:16:16 -0700

"My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L.L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket … booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) … but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that....

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda.... You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning....

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave....

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."

—Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

(Photo by Jaime Owens; Chris Pontius, Rick Kosick, Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze, and Jeff Tremaine discussing the game plan for the "Body in Trunk" prank; Los Angeles, California 2000)

amarcord...

dickhouse productions — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:00:49 -0700

A Fellini reference on this site is just about as obscure as, well, anything else found in the archives since this site first went live-ish in September 2010, but... I remember just the same. Fourteen years ago, maybe to the week but more likely within a month if we're tossing horseshoes and hand grenades around the backyard here, the pilot tape for a little show called jackass was tossed in a briefcase, handcuffed to the wrist of Loomis Fall, and delivered to the MTV development office of John Miller in Santa Monica, California. The show was the brainchild of Johnny Knoxville, Jeff Tremaine, and Spike Jonze, and it grew out of a fun dumb world we all knew and loved to live in. It was the little joke that could, did, and even went on to the big screen—again, and again, and again—and the unintentional four-year plan made for some of the best and most memorable years of my life, each project a freight train of family reunion craziness that you never wanted to end, any and all derailments included. For me, the next stop has and always will be the fantasy Twilight Zone 'hood that holds the promise of absurdly good times just around the bend, where the only thought ever is to have a good time all the time... "Next stop, Willoughby!" —Sean Cliver

(Photo by Sean Cliver; 2013)

how to get your jackass and dickhouse t-shirts

dickhouse productions — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:11:40 -0700

It's been a while since we've done a basic "how to" (not counting the one quickly seen in the opening sequence of Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa while Irving is seen perving and flipping through the magazine in the doctor's office lobby), so let's breakdown the incredibly difficult process that it is to find and order both jackass and dickhouse apparel items on the Interweb:

Step 1: Make up your goddamn mind and decide whether you want to rep the skull or take back the rainbow.

Step 2: If you like your icons clean and simple, go to www.merchmethod.com/jackass; or, if you aren't afraid to go full blown ROYGBIV, try www.merchmethod.com/dickhouse.

Step 3: Peruse the selection hard—so hard—and fill your shopping cart accordingly.

Step 4: Pay to play.

Step 5: Go outside, watch the skies, twiddle your thumbs, work the shaft, cradle the balls, fiddle the bean, or do whatever it is that you must do to span time until your shipment of product arrives.

Step 6: Rinse and repeat the process as many times as necessary until your credit score tilts.

bad grandpa vs. bad grandma

dickhouse productions — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:04:58 -0700

Who would have ever guessed that Irving Zisman was on the cutting edge of social media trends to come when he first debuted as a simple pratfall character of Johnny Knoxville's on the jackass TV show in 2001. For that matter, in back-to-rhetorical-back, who would have ever guessed that 12 years later he would let all 12-inches (and more!) hang out on the big screen, as Irving waltzed through a swatch of middle-ish America leaving a lopsided trail of empty bottles to broken hearts and a number one box office movie in his wake. Now if he'd only known then about Baddie Winkle and her whereabouts, who knows where the story would have gone or if the film would ever have seen completion. No doubt Billy, a/k/a Jackson Nicoll, would've spent a hell of a lot more time alone in the hotel room if Irving had found her on Instagram—then again, it looks like our fun-size co-star has been doing his own fair amount of Insta-sharing, too!

Bad to the degenerative bone marrow? Too fast for elderly love? Kickstart your pacemaker heart with Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa in full UNRATED Blu-ray/DVD glory.

bringing that jellyfish beat back

dickhouse productions — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:02:53 -0700

One of my very favorite tapes to return from the field during the oh so green grass roots days of the jackass television show in 2001 involved Steve-O bobbing for jellyfish with Manny Puig and the incidental yarmulka that spun out of it. Steve-O recently reprised this Cnidaria encounter while on surfari in Peru, where he took the concept of sombrero fallout to a whole new ridiculously awesome level with some industrial-sized jellies...

the poo song!

dickhouse productions — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:28:29 -0700

Okay, so you know things are bad when you have to remind people that the perfect place for poo—unless you are a professional or number one box office movie actor—is in the loo, especially when having to do so through animated song and verse. Such is the case in India though, where it's not at all uncommon to see someone drop trou to leave a road/curbside deuce. Oddly, none of our own company did any such thing on-camera during the Wildboyz (2004) and jackass number two (2006) excursions, but plenty blew out off-camera—and in any available restroom—as the various stomachs of the cast and crew duked it out with India's indigenous food-borne bacteria. No, not even Dave England himself stepped up to do what he poos best, but who knows, maybe this was due to stiff native competition like the Aghoris, who pretty much take the cake in all crappy aspects. No one enjoyed that little cultural meet-and-greet, so little so that they fled the set, but it sure was nice to see Dave get a table-turned taste of Darf-ish behavior while it lasted!

(Photo by Sean Cliver; India 2006)

the wildboyz re-celebrate earth day!

dickhouse productions — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 13:07:39 -0700

Rebate! We get a rebate! The past several days we have been held hostage to Typepad issues beyond our control, so the Wildboyz were not able to celebrate Earth Day along with everyone else. And who better than the Wildboyz to do so, intrepid world travelers and absurd ambassadors that they are—or were, I guess, if we're going to get all technical about it, but fuck it. The spirit of the Wildboyz will live on forever and that is all that matters in this digital day and age; or, in other words, punk was cool, too bad you missed it, but you will always be able to enjoy the Wildboyz with Season 1, Season 2, and the collected Seasons 3 & 4 on DVD and VOD! The Earth will be merchandised.

check out wee man's dvs shoe commercial

dickhouse productions — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 08:00:00 -0700

Here's a little old school, all in good fun, throwback nod to the early days of jackass, as Wee Man stars in a DVS shoe commercial directed and filmed by Rick Kosick. Drive by appearances are made by Dave England and professional skateboarders Daewon Song and Torey Pudwill, while the one and only Preston Lacy holds down the anchor spot.

follow loiter squad on facebook

dickhouse productions — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 08:00:00 -0700

With the third season coming up hard and fast on Adult Swim, Loiter Squad splurged on an all-new official presence on Facebook. Find them here at facebook.com/loitersquadofficial and click the now iconic thumb to feed on all things Loiter Squad, including updates, tune-ins, videos, promotional events, and tigers. RAWR!

live facebook chat with wee man... tomorrow!

dickhouse productions — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:36:55 -0700

Our HMIC will be signing into the online house tomorrow, Thursday, April 17, when Wee Man hosts a live—LIVE!—Facebook chat from 3–4pm PST in support of his new DVS signature shoe release. Wee Man be Facebooking live from the DVS headquarters, where he'll be "answering questions about skateboarding and life with the jackass crew," just like it says above to drive the point home twice. We'll also be posting a new video featuring Wee Man and a few of his friends that was directed and shot by Rick Kosick, so look for that tomorrow afternoon as well! Tune in here for all the hot chat action at facebook.com/dvsshoes.

behold... the blood moon!

dickhouse productions — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:12:23 -0700

Since every sister, brother, and all those other sisters and brothers from different mothers are posting amateur hour shots of last night's stellar celestial event, a/k/a the #BloodMoon as it's more trendily known in social nitwit circles, I am more than slap happy to present our very own entry to the bloody moon fray. Actually, ours, or rather Dave England's, is more of a "mud blood moon," which gives us an even greater leg up in the social world because of its mixed-race Harry Potter connotation, and isn't that little blue Shmoo just the cutest thing ever? Much more so than Dave's hairy nutter, which though it ain't much (half than most!) just doesn't need to be seen to not be appreciated.

Firehose black-and-blues? Glory, glory hole to screw you? A life without jackass number two on the shelf is a life not lived, so reaffirm yours today on amazon.com.

(Photo by Sean Cliver; Lake Piru, California 2006)

tonight on tbs... bam's bad ass game show!

dickhouse productions — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:24:19 -0700

Just a friendly neighborhood reminder that Bam's Bad-Ass Game Show premieres tonight on the TBS. Be sure to tune in at 10:30/9:30 C to see his contestants go for broke in the pursuit of dollars, or, hell, get the full monty preview right here, right now, in real instant gratification mode:

the gas manatees pass vs. dave england's ass

dickhouse productions — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:04:02 -0700

Underwater explosions! These tiny bubbles take me back to a jackass time in 2006 when the boys were all gathered around Johnny Knoxville's bathtub trying to light forcibly expelled bursts of gas. Yes, I have to add that modifier there, because prior to the scheduled shoot no one had any natural gas on hand (or on dock in the ass), so a large degree of cabbage-cramming ensued between Bam Margera, Steve-O, Ryan Dunn, Chris Pontius, and Dave England. A half-hour and several heads later, the guys hit the tub with verve, But with great force comes great risk, especially when Dave is involved, and so it came to pass from his ass when some packing material flew out with his flatulence. Hmm. Who didn't see that one coming? On that note, here's a manatee farting:

(Photos by Sean Cliver; Hollywood, California 2006)

the dudesons on the youtubes

dickhouse productions — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:00:00 -0700

Remember the days when you'd have to scour the fanzines and bulletin boards for fifth generation copies of hard-to-find shit on VHS? No? Not surprised. I can barely remember them nowadays, too. Need a historical fact? Google. Trying to remember that obscure actor's name in that even more obscure movie? IMDB. Desire a quick giggle? YouTube. And that's where we are today in support of our good friends the Dudesons. They've been seeding their YouTube channel with videos new and old from all corners of their worldly travels. In fact, here's one of the more amazing bull flips to be seen, and it's taken from their blitzkrieg on American soil, circa 2009, while filming for Dudesons in America. Johnny Knoxville makes a special guest appearance in the most unlikely of spots at the Leffew ranch: spectating outside the ring!

Find a whole lot Finnish more here: www.youtube.com/user/DudesonsPage

coming soon: bam's bad ass game show

dickhouse productions — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:06:47 -0700

Bam's Bad Ass Game Show debuts on TBS this coming Monday, April 14th, at 10:30/9:30C. Each week the contestants will go full-blown running man in a series of wacky stunts for a chance to cop $10,000.00. Look for some familiar faces in Bam's on-camera crew, as Brandon Novak and artisan of the absurd Seth Meisterman (shown exiting stage frame right in the photo above) join in on the design, implementation, and demonstration of the various challenges that contestants must endure in their quest for cash. To learn more about Bam's new show, check out the teaser trailer below and then click this big-time link: www.tbs.com/shows/bams-bad-ass-game-show