With the Blood Into Wine DVD release imminent, it makes sense that they might want to release a new trailer.  This one seems to focus on Maynard and Tool fans.  Well here it is:

Man I wish I was in the third row of the New Orleans show…

A few more Blood Into Wine screenings are on the horizon:

• TX – Austin – August 5 – Alamo Village
• NE – Lincoln – August 6-12 – Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
• AZ – Prescott – August 7 – Prescott Film Festival
• AZ – Jerome – August 8 – Spook Hall. For tickets call (928) 639-9463
• AZ – Phoenix – August 21 – Arizona Biltmore (Hollywood and Wine)

According to some tweets from Maynard, the Jerome screening will feature several showings, and will feature Q&A sessions with Maynard (though I doubt he’ll be fielding Tool questions).

Also, there are a few DVD Release Parties planned that you may be interested in attending:

• MA – Boston – Sep 7 – Parris Nightclub
• NY – New York – Sep. 7 – Highline Ballrooom
• VA – Arlington – Sep 2 – Arlington Drafthouse

Enjoy!

The new Puscifer release Sound Into Blood Into Wine is now available for pre-orders on the Puscifer store.  It contains a range of new Puscifer remixes, including some that will be familiar to those that caught Puscifer in Country Mode on their last tour.

The track listing is:

1. Sour grapes Where’s The Line? Mix
2. Momma Sed Vis4V mix
3. Queen B Vis4V mix
4. The Undertaker Vis4V mix
5. Drunk with Power Vis4V mix
6. Rev 22:20 Dry Martini mix
7. Indigo Children Vis4V mix
8. The Mission M is for Milla mix
9. The Humbling River Nagual del Judith mix
10. World Up My Ass 7 inch mix
11. Sour Grapes Legend of the mix
12. The Humbling River Duet mix

There was also a gentle reminder that the Blood Into Wine DVD will be released on the 7th of September.

A couple of things came out from Maynard today, firstly he briefly discusses A Perfect Circle:

"I doubt if we’ll do any touring or, you know, do a full album," he said. "We might do some one-off shows here and there if the timing’s right and it seems like a good vibe and a smart thing to do. But most likely we’ll just kind of concentrate on, you know, one or two songs at a time, rather than investing all the time and money and effort into making those plastic discs that no one cares about anymore."

Apparently he appeared with Ashes Divide the other night, however from what I read nothing too exciting happened.

It was also confirmed that the Blood Into Wine DVD will feature:

• Interviews with Maynard and Eric Glomski
• Puscifer Live Footage
• Deleted scenes from the Tim and Eric Show

Should be out on September 7.

While not yet confirmed on Toolband, the 93.3 Website and AEG Live are showing that Tool are playing at Red Rocks, CO on to consecutive nights on the 28th and 29th of June (not that’s June not July).

I’m not 100% convinced by those dates yet, so wait for confirmation on Toolband, but seems extremely likely that this will go ahead at this awesome venue.  Two nights in a row is interesting as well, I’m sure there will be plenty of speculation in about them perhaps filming something that night…

In a recent Puscifer email, Maynard talks about some of the ups and downs in wine growing, as well as mentioning that Puscifer should have a Live DVD out in Spring next year.  There are also plans for a Wine Club called the Velvet Slippers Club which I imagine will distribute a range of Arizona wines including some of Maynards own.

And just in case you’ve forgotten, here’s a range of Blood Into Wine screening dates:

• AB – Edmonton – May 13 – The Billiard Club
• AL – Birmingham – June 17 – Workplay Theater
• AZ – Flagstaff – May 22 – Orpheum Theater
• CA – Modesto – May 14 & 15 – The State Theatre of Modesto
• CA – Los Angeles – June 4 to 10 – Rave Motion Pictures Beverly Center
• CA – Sacramento – Jun. 10 – The Crest Theatre
• CO – Fort Collins – May 14 – May 20 – Lyric Cinema
• FL – Jacksonville – June 20 – 5 Points Theatre
• IL – Peoria – Apr. 15 – May 15 – Peoria Theatre
• MA – Nantucket – May 17 – 20 & May 22 – 24 – Starlight Theater
• MI – Grand Rapids – June 17 – Wealthy Theater
• MO – St. Louis – May 20 – Tivoli Theatre
• NC – Winston-Salem – May 21 – May 22 – a/perture Cinema
• NV – Las Vegas – June 17 – Rave Motion Pictures Town Square Center
• NY – Brooklyn (Williamsburg) – May 29 – Uniondocs
• NY – New York City – May 27 – With Special Guests – City Winery
• NY – New York City – May 28 – City Winery
• OH – Cleveland – May 21 & 28 – The Cleveland Museum of Art
• TX – Austin – June 21 – Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek
• TX – Houston – June 19 – Alamo Drafthouse West Oaks
• TX – Dallas – May 20 – Wine Tasting and Q&A w/Eric Glomski – Magnolia West Village
• VT – Burlington – May 14-20 – Roxy Cinema
• WI- Madison – June 4-17 – Orpheum Theatre
• WI – Milwaukee – May 20 – Times Cinema

The producers of Blood Into Wine have announced that due to overwhelming demand for Blood Into Wine screenings the release of the DVD will be delayed until September:

The demand for theatrical screenings has far surpassed what was initially anticipated and in order to bring the film to more people and in order to include all the great DVD extra features, the DVD release date has been pushed back. The Blood Into Wine DVD and Blu-ray will now be released September 7, 2010.

Hopefully by bringing the film to more people they mean some kind of overseas release.  Australia would be nice!

A quick post this morning before I head off to Soundwave.  Maynard did an interview with Movieweb recently, and it’s results can be found here.  Worth the read, though it only really covers his winemaking.

Here’s a random quote:

You usually have control of your artistic endeavors, but Page and Pomerenke had final cut on this documentary. How difficult was it for you to hand over the reigns on something that is so important to you? Were there aspects of this film that you didn’t necessarily want shown?
Maynard James Keenan: The cut that you see now is not the cut they presented to us initially. There was definitely a reedit before the final cut was approved. This is quite a different film from that first cut. I will say that. It was more about me than it was about wine. That was not my intention. And that should not have been the intention of the film. The intention of the film is to help explain what is possible with effort and due diligence. And focus and commitment.

Maynard had a nice chat with Kat Corbett from KROQ recently, and the interview is available for streaming here.  I haven’t had a chance to listen yet, so let me know if it sucks.

There’s also another Blood Into Wine clip available as well on Youtube:

In a recent interview with Ryan Page (one of the Blood Into Wine directors) on Movieweb.com, Maynard will be playing the part of a villain on his upcoming movie Queens of Country:

Let me ask you about Queens of Country. Is that a reference to the real Nashville Queens of Country? Like Dolly and Loretta?
Ryan Page: It’s a comedy. It’s not a doc. We are shooting it on May 3rd. We are also shooting it in Arizona. Maynard is going to be in that film, too. It’s about a woman that lives in a small town, and she is obsessed with the queens of country. Dolly, Loretta, Patsy, Wanda Jackson. She even dresses like them. She is totally obsessed. She is in a bad relationship, and she finds an Ipod that has a Queens mix on it. The music really touches her, so she goes on a search to find them. It’s really funny. We are working with (names removed for contractual reasons). I don’t know if I’m aloud to say this. They did a rewrite with us. They helped us polish the script, really.

There are quite a few Blood Into Wine reviews coming onto the net, and I expect this to increase over the next week or so.  Rather than posting each review on Fourtheye, I’ve taken to linking them on the Fourtheye Twitter account.  I also use twitter for other bits and pieces I decide aren’t quite worthy of their own post, so if you are a twitter user, then make sure you follow that account.