12/03/1973 to Dave and Alida in Massillon Ohio. Picked up the crayon in 1976. First concert was Kiss 1979. Godzilla. Dinosaurs. Evel Knievel. Skateboarding. Punk Rock. Hip Hop. Graduated from Jackson High for the performing Arts in 1992. Started collecting tattoos. Did not accept scholarship to CCAD, Moved to San Francisco 1993. Started My Uncle Wayne. Moved to Chapel Hill, N.C. in 1995, then to Columbus in 1997. Joined Suckdog in 1999. Moved to Portland, Or. in 2000. Opened “Q is for choir”- a worker owned record store with three friends. Also worked set design in the film industry at this time. Moved back to Columbus in 2004. Had a child in 2006. Opened “Mr. Peeper’s Pizzas” and was booking Cafe Bourbon Street, also started “The Altered States of the United Snakes.”. Released Pagan Tiger Swing Band in 2011. Toured with Sex Tide 2012. Started The Hive Mind Holy Shroud 2016. Married Marisa Torres 2019 on an island after 10 years of courtship. Started working with Martin Blenkinsopp 2019 as the Symbiotic Alter Ego: Blenkm Highben. Came to Evolved in May 2022.
My mother who was crippled by MS at the age of 22 until her death at age 49, always called me “her little starving artist.” It’s been a most fulfilling prophecy ever since. i wouldn’t have it any other way. How Can I help You?
