Brodie Hubbard is a writer, co-creator of SHAKEYTOWN with Gene George, and the host of two shows on the MORBIDLY BEAUTIFUL network - VIDEO OF THE DAMNED, a YouTube series about horror, and THE CHAMBER, a horror interview podcast.
I grew up in the American Southwest, mostly Phoenix. I was a Gen X 90s kid who came of age in punk, hardcore, and indie rock before I started singing in bands, and then as a solo act. I got into booking shows at local venues, helping bands with websites, and hosting open mics. I also wrote about pro wrestling, including building a website for a local promotion and conducting interviews with their talent. As a singer/songwriter with darkly comic material, I ended up on bills with performance artists and comedians, which led to producing live comedy shows and interviewing comedians for a magazine. Writing really ended up being the common thread, so I completed a degree in English Literature at Arizona State, then moved to Los Angeles to pursue movies and television.
I continued to play music in L.A. at venues like Bigfoot Lodge, El Cid, and The Smell, occasionally acted in independent films, did investigative reporting as a freelance journalist, and worked in television post-production while pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction at Antioch University Los Angeles. As I started a chat show in the pioneer days of L.A. comedy podcasting, I also began emceeing literary events, performing at readings and storytelling shows, and guesting on podcasts and live talk shows (see list below). There was a brief run in small-circulation self-publishing where I helped organizers and creators with tabling events and distros, including through my own now-defunct press.
My participation with these other projects concluded as I left my career in television, moved back to Arizona, and completed my graduate program. After five years as an editor in the online literary community, I shifted my focus back to my own art and writing. My projects include two series on the Morbidly Beautiful network, a YouTube horror review and travelog called Video of the Damned, and a horror interview video/audio podcast called The Chamber. I also revived the podcast Shakeytown with its co-creator Gene George.
My site and blog as a whole remain an account of these various endeavors, but we are more than the sum of our parts. We are greater than the things we have done and the experiences we have had leading to this present moment. We are also the potential of what we do with all of that to evolve ourselves and to impact the world. I look forward to what is yet to be realized.
I continued to play music in L.A. at venues like Bigfoot Lodge, El Cid, and The Smell, occasionally acted in independent films, did investigative reporting as a freelance journalist, and worked in television post-production while pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction at Antioch University Los Angeles. As I started a chat show in the pioneer days of L.A. comedy podcasting, I also began emceeing literary events, performing at readings and storytelling shows, and guesting on podcasts and live talk shows (see list below). There was a brief run in small-circulation self-publishing where I helped organizers and creators with tabling events and distros, including through my own now-defunct press.
My participation with these other projects concluded as I left my career in television, moved back to Arizona, and completed my graduate program. After five years as an editor in the online literary community, I shifted my focus back to my own art and writing. My projects include two series on the Morbidly Beautiful network, a YouTube horror review and travelog called Video of the Damned, and a horror interview video/audio podcast called The Chamber. I also revived the podcast Shakeytown with its co-creator Gene George.
My site and blog as a whole remain an account of these various endeavors, but we are more than the sum of our parts. We are greater than the things we have done and the experiences we have had leading to this present moment. We are also the potential of what we do with all of that to evolve ourselves and to impact the world. I look forward to what is yet to be realized.
-Hub
