I was just tagged by zbq23 to come up with twenty interesting things about myself, youll probably think Im mad or making it up if you can be bothered to read them but, to paraphrase Salvador Dali, the only thing different between mrATOMIC and a crazy person is that mrATOMIC is not crrrrrrazyyy.
1. I once went backstage at the zoo, helped feed lions, petted a cheetah, tickled a black panther, and played with a pair of boisterous baby snow leopards.
2. I was living in Kobe, Japan, when the massive Hanshindaishinsai earthquake hit in 1995. Thankfully my house wasnt very badly damaged but for the rest of the day I watched in awe as a huge mushroom cloud of smoke, generated by downtown Kobe burning, dominated the horizon.
3. I can draw without looking at the paper; this is especially handy while sketching in the dark at clubs and gigs.
4. I got together with my current girlfriend after she stalked me on the internet. Needless to say my wife wasnt much impressed but you cant fight true love and an artist needs a muse.
5. As a child I was once visited at my bedside by a freakish creature with a domed head, wrinkly blue leathery skin, four eyes, no nose or ears but a huge mouth that split its head like a machete cut in a melon when it smiled at me!, scared me half to death it did.
6. Mr Atomic is my real name.
7. I decided to concentrate full time on painting from life after being approached in curiously vivid dream by the ghosts of Dali, Picasso and Miro. Before that I was an aspiring comic book artist self publishing comix such as Wongo Batonaga, Wongoboy and Technotribe.
8. I sometimes use magick to influence the weather.
9. As part of the demonic electronic punkrock band Fist Fuck Deluxe I once performed live on a Tokyo porno TV show called Club H the paradise, we totally freaked out the show hosts and attendant drag queens.
10. I once caused a CD (Godzilla volume, Temple records, TOPY073CD) to receive a parental advisory because the comic strip I drew in the CD booklet (Godzilla vs. Wongoboy) was too erotic. The album was later withdrawn because Toho productions found out about it
11. I cant ever remember what to call my mobile telephone, Im always saying things like have you seen my radio, I mean my clock, no watch, no waitaminnit whilst Manko collapses next to me in hysterical fits of giggles.
12. I honestly believe that the psychedelic experience is what separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom and is a necessary part of our personal evolution towards becoming a fully rounded human organism. Before youve experienced it you are less than real and once youve attained that level of realism you have changed forever for the better.
13. I saw the legendary Divine perform twice, at Londons Hippodrome nightclub, before he died; once accompanied onstage by a baby elephant. It was fan-fucking-tastic! and a big affirming experience for an impressionable young transvestite.
14. I once defended Ray Mayhew (Sigue Sigue Sputnik drummer) in court after the notorious Horror of Sputnik maniac bottle throwing incident. He got off on the grounds of my testimony. I got 20 quid for my troubles.
15. I paint vertical stripes on my shirts to remind me thats what Id have been wearing had I lived in Nazi Germany, freedom is important and its when we start taking it for granted that they, by admittedly more subtle degrees these days, start taking it away from us.
16. Johnny Thunders once came around our flat to hang out after a gig; he asked for 14 sugars in his coffee and then demanded I taste it to make sure it wasnt tea. Like with that much sugar in the bloody thing you could taste what it was at all. Dunno what he was doing in the bog but our toilet water turned black that night.
17. Ive been married twice and my second wifes great uncle was a kamikaze pilot. Banzai!
18. I first learned about transsexualism when I was 3 years old as a result of my Grandma asking me exactly why it was that I didnt like my cuddly toy Peter Panda. I told her Id wanted a girl panda so it could have babies and she said well Ill give it a sex change and you can call her Polly. She made the toy a dress to wear and we were inseparable from that point on until I chewed and cuddled the unfortunate thing into a barely unrecognisable mess. I was still a bit unhappy that I had to be a boy but that started to wear off after I got properly laid.
19. My first experience of art criticism was when I moved into a new school at age 12 and decorated my history exercise books with detailed illustration of the grim reaper, leering skull with bloody vampire fangs and Nazi armband. I was pulled out of registration on morning by the schools assistant headmaster Mr Grainger; he called my doodle the worst kind of pornographic filth that one might find in the seediest backstreets of Soho. I didn't really get it but it was then that I realised there was a sort of power in playing with symbols... that helped me relate to punk. It made me want to go to Soho. I think that incident a when grown man was scared to look me in the eye because of a silly doodle with felt tip pens that set me on a path of a rebel.
20. Last week I did a painting collaboration with manga-ka Junko Mizuno. It will be on display in exhibition in London (Opening with free booze Thursday Dec 8th 18.00, On The Seventh Day" gallery & boutique, 37a Neal St, London WC2. Youre welcome to attend and suck up to Ms Manko, haha).
1. I once went backstage at the zoo, helped feed lions, petted a cheetah, tickled a black panther, and played with a pair of boisterous baby snow leopards.
2. I was living in Kobe, Japan, when the massive Hanshindaishinsai earthquake hit in 1995. Thankfully my house wasnt very badly damaged but for the rest of the day I watched in awe as a huge mushroom cloud of smoke, generated by downtown Kobe burning, dominated the horizon.
3. I can draw without looking at the paper; this is especially handy while sketching in the dark at clubs and gigs.
4. I got together with my current girlfriend after she stalked me on the internet. Needless to say my wife wasnt much impressed but you cant fight true love and an artist needs a muse.
5. As a child I was once visited at my bedside by a freakish creature with a domed head, wrinkly blue leathery skin, four eyes, no nose or ears but a huge mouth that split its head like a machete cut in a melon when it smiled at me!, scared me half to death it did.
6. Mr Atomic is my real name.
7. I decided to concentrate full time on painting from life after being approached in curiously vivid dream by the ghosts of Dali, Picasso and Miro. Before that I was an aspiring comic book artist self publishing comix such as Wongo Batonaga, Wongoboy and Technotribe.
8. I sometimes use magick to influence the weather.
9. As part of the demonic electronic punkrock band Fist Fuck Deluxe I once performed live on a Tokyo porno TV show called Club H the paradise, we totally freaked out the show hosts and attendant drag queens.
10. I once caused a CD (Godzilla volume, Temple records, TOPY073CD) to receive a parental advisory because the comic strip I drew in the CD booklet (Godzilla vs. Wongoboy) was too erotic. The album was later withdrawn because Toho productions found out about it
11. I cant ever remember what to call my mobile telephone, Im always saying things like have you seen my radio, I mean my clock, no watch, no waitaminnit whilst Manko collapses next to me in hysterical fits of giggles.
12. I honestly believe that the psychedelic experience is what separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom and is a necessary part of our personal evolution towards becoming a fully rounded human organism. Before youve experienced it you are less than real and once youve attained that level of realism you have changed forever for the better.
13. I saw the legendary Divine perform twice, at Londons Hippodrome nightclub, before he died; once accompanied onstage by a baby elephant. It was fan-fucking-tastic! and a big affirming experience for an impressionable young transvestite.
14. I once defended Ray Mayhew (Sigue Sigue Sputnik drummer) in court after the notorious Horror of Sputnik maniac bottle throwing incident. He got off on the grounds of my testimony. I got 20 quid for my troubles.
15. I paint vertical stripes on my shirts to remind me thats what Id have been wearing had I lived in Nazi Germany, freedom is important and its when we start taking it for granted that they, by admittedly more subtle degrees these days, start taking it away from us.
16. Johnny Thunders once came around our flat to hang out after a gig; he asked for 14 sugars in his coffee and then demanded I taste it to make sure it wasnt tea. Like with that much sugar in the bloody thing you could taste what it was at all. Dunno what he was doing in the bog but our toilet water turned black that night.
17. Ive been married twice and my second wifes great uncle was a kamikaze pilot. Banzai!
18. I first learned about transsexualism when I was 3 years old as a result of my Grandma asking me exactly why it was that I didnt like my cuddly toy Peter Panda. I told her Id wanted a girl panda so it could have babies and she said well Ill give it a sex change and you can call her Polly. She made the toy a dress to wear and we were inseparable from that point on until I chewed and cuddled the unfortunate thing into a barely unrecognisable mess. I was still a bit unhappy that I had to be a boy but that started to wear off after I got properly laid.
19. My first experience of art criticism was when I moved into a new school at age 12 and decorated my history exercise books with detailed illustration of the grim reaper, leering skull with bloody vampire fangs and Nazi armband. I was pulled out of registration on morning by the schools assistant headmaster Mr Grainger; he called my doodle the worst kind of pornographic filth that one might find in the seediest backstreets of Soho. I didn't really get it but it was then that I realised there was a sort of power in playing with symbols... that helped me relate to punk. It made me want to go to Soho. I think that incident a when grown man was scared to look me in the eye because of a silly doodle with felt tip pens that set me on a path of a rebel.
20. Last week I did a painting collaboration with manga-ka Junko Mizuno. It will be on display in exhibition in London (Opening with free booze Thursday Dec 8th 18.00, On The Seventh Day" gallery & boutique, 37a Neal St, London WC2. Youre welcome to attend and suck up to Ms Manko, haha).
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