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Iam a New Yorker: Born in Rockaway Beach, NYC in 1968. Lived there, in Copaigue, near Massapequa, Freeport, Rosedale, Howard Beach, Ozone Park, & Dongan Hills, Staten Island. Like many New Yorkers, I've lived other places too, like Hollywood & St. Peteresburg, Florida, & Myrtle Beach, SC, not to mention recent stints in Dirty Jersey, for the job, but home to me will always be 212/718. Big ups to Shaolin!

Iam an artist: One of those artists who paints & draws all night, or go insane. Who covers your neighborhood in flyers, knows taggers by their real names, & is as versed in the Renaissance art as he is in punk rock. I've always drawn, love art in every medium, & have worked in pen & ink, oil, acrylic, watercolor, guache, airbrush, enamels, charcoal, Photoshop, Freehand, Painter, Bryce, marker, & tattoo ink. I was a student of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Arts, Inc, lived for & bastardized the Art of Rock: From Presley to Punk, & still read Love & Rockets by the Hernandez Brothers. Recent high points have been t-shirts for Spin magazine & the late Moon Records, & cover art for High Times magazine.

Iam a professional: I have a resumé longer than your arm, that starts at 16 when I did scenery for over 40 musicals,... & includes 15 years of silk screen printing, 10 years of graphic design, 7 years of digital art, 5 years of prepress, production, & art direction, & 3 years of tattooing. My clientele has ranged from t-shirts for Disney & Anheiser/Busche to the sets for Saturday Night Live. I've taken a number of companies through multi-million dollar start ups, brought imagining & art departments in house to giant corporations for the first time, & started tattooing myself while running a prepress start up that was emulated in 200 centers internationally. Imagine me being the boss of you!

Iam a concert poster artist: With heroes like Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, Raymond Pettibon & Shawn Kerri, my poster career started when I was helping promote D.I.Y gigs in Florida as early as 1990. Printed in a converted slaughterhouse, by digital alchemist Jeff Wood of the acclaimed Drowning Creek Studios, I've done stuff for Social Distortion, Danzig, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Godsmack, Suicidal Tendencies, Murphy’s Law, Agnostic Front, The Circle Jerks, The Business, Less Than Jake, New Found Glory, The Wailers, The Bouncing Souls, Flogging Molly, Hatebreed, The Strokes, Nashville Pussy, The Reverend Horton Heat, Insane Clown Posse, Kenny Wayne Sheppard, Jonny Lang, Robert Cray, The Scofflaws, The Lunachicks, The Donnas, & countless indy groups. The posters are displayed in dozens of Hard Rock Cafes, & appeared alongside some of the most prestigious names in rock poster art, at gallery shows held by Flying Piston galleries of Hamburg & Berlin, AS220 gallery in Rhode Island, the Flatstock Poster Show at Cellspace in San Francisco, the Artifacts of the Improbable at the Trocadero in Philadelphia, & at Flatstock2 at the SXSW conference in March. My stuff is for sale via drowningcreek.com, & I love talking with my peers like Frank Kozik & Emek on gigposters.com. I was also just recently published in the Art of Modern Rock, so pick up a copy & rip out page 99!

Iam a writer: Published my own fanzine, Thieves & Prostitutes, from 91 to 95, & the online ezine Black Market Manifesto. The former is also where I get that stupid nickname, I started signing 'Thief' to all my work, for the sake of anonymity, so that I could wheatpaste the scene & not suffer any legal infractions. My columns have also appeared in various punk rock fanzines from coast to coast, zines like Something For Nothing, Twenty Pound Embryo, Eclectica Delectica, Liquid Ink, Cheese Shop News, & the all rat bike punk rock fanzine, Motorcycho. I have the orignal Ralph Steadman artwork from 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas', of Hunter S. Thompson as Raoul Duke, tattooed on my right leg, have read Hemmingway at his house in Key West, read Anias Nin aloud during sex, & at one point was married to a woman I met due to her resemblance to a Neil Gaiman character, & told Neil so. I have fantasies about motorcycle trips to New Orleans with Poppy Z Brite, where we would get drunk on absinthe in the French Quarter, & then go throw eggs Anne Rice's house.

Iam a tattooist: Left the corporate world & a big ass salarly to tattoo full time. It was a lot of sacrifice; I lost my wife, I had to move out of NYC to Dirty Jersey, & leave my department of T1 conncetions & superfast Macs, but I feel it was well worth it. Starting illegally in Myrtle Beach, I caught the bug & got a job at the first shop I interviewed at, Starlight Tattoo, in Fair Lawn, NJ, working with Mario Barth. The shop had taken the prestigious Best Shop award at the National Tattoo Convention in 1999, & I was proud to make the transition. When Mario & his partner, Billy Monroe, decided to go their seperate ways, I stayed on with a non tattooing owner & helped re-create the shop in our own image, & baptised it Screamin' Ink Tattoo, & put that shop on the map. We all walked out on the anniversary, September 11, & now I'm going to work for myself for the first time in 20 years. Check us out at seppukutattoo.com. I get work done by my good brothers at the shop, namely Matthew Lukesh & Rich Bustamante, & also by masters Johann Florendo of Twin Moon, Joe Capobianco of Darkwork Tattoo, Bugs from France, & the amazing Chris O'Donnell at New York Adorned.

Iam a motorcycle enthusiast: I've been in the wind for 10 years, taught myself to ride in Florida, & owned only two wheeled vehicles for a five year stretch. Owned only rat bikes, my first being a chopped 75 Kawasaki KZ 900, with 4 over Harley forks, four Mikuni carburators, teardrop gas tank, foot long straight pipes with no mufflers, sissy bars, single rider drag seat, no fenders, no turn signals, no air cleaner covers, no battery covers, no nothing! Have been to two Daytonas, two Myrtle Beach bike weeks, & Laconia. In the wake of my divorce, my last bike was impounded by NYPD & sold at auction.

Iam a kustom kulture freak: I just sold a sweet 1957 Chevy Step Side pick up truck, done in primer black with red pinstriping, leopard skin door panels, a Dennis McPhail skull shift knob, wide whites, Moon Eye caps, a small block Chevy 350 with a racing cam, big carbs, Edelbrock intakes, 4 onna floor, Posi read end, & a dual exhaust system thats louder than a Harley. She's dropped 3" all around, has dummy spots, maletse cross peek mirrors, diamond plate flatbed, & a chrome fire extinguigher,... Between that, the poster art, the punk rock & psychobilly shows, & tattooing full time, I try to do my part to keep the scene alive.

Iam a lover of the female species: ...oh, get your mind out of the gutter. Alright, OK, so I love a sexy nympho as much as the next red blooded Italian male, but I've always had a special place in my heart for women who thrive in many of the male dominated scenes that I've imersed myself in,... whether its independent music, tattooing, tagging, biking, poster art, et al, I've always gone out of my way to support women when others have mocked & ridulculed. Even in the wake of putting my art career on hold to put my ex-wife through school,...

Iam who IAM: I and I say dis ting to y'all - I'm a mushroom cloud igniting muthafucker, I'm the guns of the Navarone, I'm the St Valentines Day massacre - I've been kissed by Death, I flirt with her like a schoolboy, & one day I'll make her mine - I bitchslap the Horsemen, I cry out in the wilderness, & I bathe in the blood of the martyrs - I carve my art in pulsing canvas, I pull out a piece of your soul & display it for the world to see, & give it a lifetime gallery showing - I was crucified on the place of the skull, & I was the first among the damned to be promised paradise - I am friend to the whore, bane to the junkie, & one flesh with the internally combusted - I am a walking abortion, grave dancer, sin eater. I may need to talk to a doctor soon,...