Me, Neil Gaiman and David J

From backstage at Neil's show with Patton Oswalt, Saban Theater in Beverly Hills, 6/28/11

David J show flyer from 2002

This was a flyer I made for a group of shows David J (from Bauhaus and Love and Rockets) did back in 2002. I got to do experimental karaoke for his warm up act on 2 nights as Wrong Dimension Boy and sang the song "Holiday On The Moon" with him dressed like a space alien. I currently run David's website and he has a number of interesting things coming up. Have a look!

Goth and Disney

Goth and Disney go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Take the fact that Mickey is a wizard (see Fantasia) as well as the various connections between Gothiness and The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Haunted Mansion ride, and the many rides at the Disney amusement parks that feature fake human skulls (Indiana Jones, The Tiki Room, Pirates of The Caribbean, etc). You can see why Bats Day In The Fun Park, where a murder of goths descend on Disneyland once a year, is the second largest unofficial annual gathering at Disneyland, right behind gay pride day.

With that spirit in mind, I present to you some of my own contributions to the Disney Goth amalgamation. We begin with 2 digital collages I created in the last few years:

"Goth Princesses"

Goofy Death (parody of Christian Death's album "Only Theater of Pain")

Finally, I present to you one of the great masterpieces of my life. There are very few art projects of any sort that I really take pride in, but the 2004 mashup I made of Vincent Price's narration through the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland mixed with the immortal Bauhaus song "Bela Lugosi's Dead" has to be one of them. It caused David J from Bauhaus to pick me up and hug me when he first heard it, and has been a featured link on Boing Boing. With great pride I give you: "Haunted Bela":

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE HAUNTED BELA MP3