Toybox Theatre has existed since 1999 building and performing solo and group shows relating to puppetry arts. I have performed in many venues: puppetry festivals, schools, busker, house parties, galleries, theaters, and rock clubs. I have opened for many great acts such as mc chris, The Frogs, Bobby Conn and The Glass Gypsies, Shortbus, The Great Influence Machine, The Scarring Party, Herc, The Show Is The Rainbow, Skybox, A-Bomb Chop Shop, Captured! By Robots, Lord Of The Yum Yum to name a few. I am also the host and founder of The Caustic Catcall Cabaret, an adult variety show. Things I Like: puppetry, dolls, scarecrows, comics, Katamari Damacy, Shaye, animation, music, veggie cooking and eating, film, performance, kitties and bunnies, making out
dollface experiment Add to My Profile | More VideosApex Twin, Apocalyptica, Bauhaus, Beastie Boys,
Beck, Bjork, David Bowie, BUCKETHEAD, Captain Beefheart, Wendy Carlos, Johnny Cash, Bobby Conn, Danzig (anything Misfits, Samhain) Miles Davis, Dame Darcy, Dead Can Dance, Dresden Dolls, Danny Elfman, Fantomas (anything Mike Patton), Faun Fables, The Frogs, Nina Hagen, King Diamond, Kool Keith, KRAFTWERK, Bill Laswell (and his hundreds of projects, bands, etc), Mindless Self Indulgence, Mr. Bungle, Klaus Nomi, Micheal Nyman, Primus and all things Claypool,Portishead,Rasputina, THE RESIDENTS, Siouxsie and The Banshees,SOPOR AETERNUS,Sun Ra,The Tiger Lillies, Volta Do Mar, Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, John Zorn just look in my friends under 'bands' duh? lots of other stuff too
Movies
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Terry Gilliam, Jeunet and Caro, Peter Greenaway, Julie Taymor, Guy Maddin, Takashi Miike, Brothers Quay, Tim Burton, Jan Svankmajer, Jim Henson, Harmony Korine, Werner Herzog, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Charley Bowers, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, House of A 1000 Corpses, Stephen Chow, David Lynch, Errol Morris
Television
dollface experiment Add to My Profile | More Videosnot much...Adult Swim, The Storyteller, Ali G, WonderShowzen, Mr. Show, Jackass, The Prisoner, Monty Python,Young Ones, Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, Betty Boop, Lancelot Link, H.R. Puffnstuff, Lidsville, Lazy Town, Gimme Gimme Octopus, PEE WEE'S Playhouse. I like Orko from He-Man. Does Shaye and Kiki count? Cuz that's my favorite show.
Books
Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Herman Melvile, Jonathan Swift, Nathanial Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Poe, William Burroughs, Hunter Thompson, Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker (Thief of Always) Children's Lit, Roald Dahl, Norton Juster, Lemony Snicket, Comics: Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Peter Milligan (Shade The Changing Man), Garth Ennis, David Mack, Paul Pope, Mark Millar, anyone who has ever worked on 2000 A.D. pretty much, Roman Dirge, Tony Millionare, Eric Powell, Daniel Clowes, R. Crumb, Steve Ditko, Keith Giffen (1980's shit!)Jack Kirby, Warren Ellis
Heroes
I have had many opportunities to meet some of my heroes. In 2005, I met Joel Peter Witkin. I met both the Dresden Dolls at the Fuck The Back Row show in Chicago. And most recently I met Cripin Hellion Glover at the Music Box Theater. These are very special moments to me. Other Heroes: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Leigh Bowery, Bob Flanagan, Dave McKean, Brothers Quay, Joe Coleman, Ivan Albright, Joesph Cornell, Henry Darger, Roald Dahl, Mr.Mxyzptlk, All my friends and family in the Puppetry World.
Who I'd like to meet: GENRE BENDERS, GENDER BENDERS, MIND BENDERS, TIME TWISTERS, REALITY SHIFTS, ALIENS, ABSURDISTS, ACTUARIES, FRANKENSTIENS, MYSTICS, PUPPETS AND TOYS OF ANY AND ALL SORTS, DAMES, DOLLS, DEVIANCE, DECADENCE, DEBAUCHERY, LOOSE LIPS, CUTIE PIES, CUP CAKES, ISOLATES, INDEPENDENTS, IMPS, DJINNS, SWEETHEARTS, TRICKSTERS, MYTHS, LEGENDS, CENTUARS, ANANSI, COYOTE, PAN, PRINCE CHARMING (and anyone with whom he has had relations: Sleeping Beauty, Rose Red, Snow White, Cinderella, etc), ZOMBIES, ANIMATORS, RE-ANIMATORS, ANIMALS, KITTENS, BUNNIES, SUPERMAN'S PAL JAMES OLSON, TED KORD, ADDICTS, PANACEA, KARMIC CLOWNS, ANYONE WHO THINKS THE HOLY MOUNTAIN IS THE GREATEST FILM EVER MADE, VAUDEVILLIANS, EROTICISTS, STORYTELLERS, HORSE-FEATHERS, LITTLE RED HENS, CHOLAS, AUTEURS, AURAL INVESTIGATORS, MUTANT BOUNTY HUNTERS, COMIC COLLECTORS, FRIENDS, FOPS, FAERIE FOLK, FREEDOM FIGHTERS, FREE SPIRITS, FREE THINKERS, or anyone who is a really really good kisser
There must be a name for this launguage we use, to confuse and bambozzel. Labrynthean foley forged out of iron. Controlled chaos in a carpenters cup. Mis Caos T. Killgrow, the spawn of the first star that fell on a new born world. He looked apon it and said "Fuck it, let it burn. And he tried hard to set it ablaze, but he was just one. If only he were bigger. If only he had arms that could wrap de mundi. Wrap it and crush it and pull it apart. Wrap it and crush it and set it on fire. Wipe it from the fabric. So tragic the billion bugs. So useless. Hopeless? No never that, always a savior, always a leader. Always the dead. Always the life. Always the thoughts. Damn them, the monstrousity. Manipulated like clay. In tune like a play. Every actor hits his mark and exits. The eternal flame. The boundless ocean of desires, the wires. The arms made up of minds? "Your crazy!" "No I am not." "Yes you are.
The news is all a lie. But not just to mislead us. But to mislead people who can pick us up on the satelites. Interperting dissent in a politically ravaged country on the brink of civilwar. War on multifronts, multiple layers. A basketball cake with strawberries and chocolate, whipcream and candies. The ends justify the means. I can read their minds. They don't think they are doing bad. And maybe they aren't. What?
The mad laugh sneaks in and chokes on a cigarette.
Oh this secret language is truely the "Langauge of Birds," A green lion and a firebird embraced above the earth. The vaporizing is done. Perfect metal of the purest standard.
That CHICKEN??? Oh God I fell in love with that bird. She slept atop a painting in my bedroom. Had to shut the cat out. Then when I thought she was OK and was gonna set her free she flew again into the window that was shut. Soooo...back to my bed wrapped warm. Later I put her on the window flower box and she looked at me awhile then flew into a tree. Amazing chicken... hahah!
No wonder you are ecstatic... you always discover the most amazing things! And create the most spectacular!!! My opening is tonight and I finally have this foto back from a gallery in Berlin, 1 meter x 1 meter, and it is hanging in the show! XXXXXX´s galore+