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Cynthia Plaster Caster

World's Finest Plating Since 1968

About Me

Friends, Romans and Superheroes! I make plaster casts of rockstars’ and other talented peoples’—ahem—appendages. Been doing it since the Swinging 60's, when my best friend and I were shy young schoolgirls wanting to get laid by British band members. Popping the plaster question was the logical solution to our virginity problem. I figured that one thing would lead to another; sex would transpire—and we’d take home a hell of a souvenir. Believe me, I had no idea what my goofy idea would lead to.The collection grew and so did the legend of The Plaster Casters of Chicago, as we called ourselves. Jimi Hendrix posed for us. Frank Zappa came along and declared my Groupie schtick an art form. He flew me out to L.A. and financed my life so that I could collect more casts to exhibit at a proper art gallery. Unfortunately, this did not come to pass until several years after Frank’s untimely death. The grand debut of my collection, “The Life Casts of Cynthia Plaster Caster” happened in June 2000, at Threadwaxing Space in New York City. Two years later ArtRock Gallery in San Francisco hosted another show, which included the “Love Portraits” I had drawn in the 60’s when I was an art school major.Nowadays, I still cast my net over willing “superheroes” whose music or art I adore. A breast wing has recently been added to the collection. Luckily, these and other manifestations of my Plaster Madness were captured on film and can be seen in the amazing documentary “Plaster Caster,” available on DVD internationally. To find out more, go to www.plastercaster.com. Not too long ago, the Cynthia P Caster Foundation was established to help struggling artists and musicians. The plan is to give out grants via money raised from donations and sales of my art.Well, it’s been a long, hard…fun, funny, fun Road to Plaster. Now it’s time to write the Life and Times. And I’m totally on the case! Tentatively called “Done Dick,” my autobiography is scheduled for release in 2007. For more info, go to www.cynthiaplastercaster.com or www.cynthiapcaster.org.Stay hard, dolls!

My Interests

Music, art, film; partying semi-hard, followed by a rock-detox workout at the health club; handwriting analysis; Plaster Therapy.

Music:

Alan Gillett; the Aluminum Group; the Animals; the Associates; Astrud Gilberto; the Band; the Beatles; Belle and Sebastian; Big Star; Billy Joel; Billy Preston; Blowfly; Blur; Bob Dylan; Bobby Conn and the Glass Gypsies; Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band; Burt Bacharach; the Butthole Surfers; the Buzzocks; the Byrds; Captain Beefheart; the Carter Family; Cat Stevens; the Chesterfield Kings; Chocolate Watch Band; Chris and Scott Ligon; the Demolition Doll Rods; Devin Davis; DEVO; the Dirty Three; the Divine Comedy; Doll by Doll; Dusty Springfield; the Eddie Boy Band; Elastica; ELO; Ennio Morricone; Fats Waller; the Flaming Lips; Francoise Hardy; Frank Zappa; the Godfathers; the GTO's; Henry Mancini; Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass; the High Llamas; Howlin’ Wolf; James Brown; Jethro Tull; the Jimi Hendrix Experience; Joy Division; Killing Joke; the Kinks; L7; Lee Hazlewood; Leon Russell; Le Tigre; Magazine; the Makeup; Marianne Faithfull; the Mekons; Michel LeGrand; Momus; the Move; the Muffs; Neil Diamond; the New Constitution; the New York Dolls; the Nice; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; the 1900’s; Nirvana; Nouvelle Vague; Oasis; OutKast; Paul Revere and the Raiders; Pavement; Peaches; P.F. Sloan; the Pogues; the Pretty Things; Primal Scream; Procol Harum; Public Enemy; Pulp; the Ramones; the Redwalls; the Rolling Stones; Sam and Dave; Sandie Shaw; Scott Walker; Serge Gainsbourg; the Sex Pistols; Silverfish; the Small Faces; the Smithereens; the Smiths; Soft Cell; Soundtrack of our Lives; the Specials; Stereolab; the Stooges; the Stranglers; Suede; Supergrass; Syd Barrett; Tammy Faye Baker; the Zombies; Tindersticks; Traffic; Velvet Underground; Wilco; the Yardbirds; XTC.

Movies:

A Clockwork Orange; A Hard Day’s Night; Arsenic and Old Lace; Bowling For Columbine; Call Her Savage; City of God; Double Agent 73; Dr. Strangelove or How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb; Female Trouble; Footlight Parade; Glenn or Glenda; the Gods of Time Square; Grizzly Man; Happiness; Harold and Maude; Head; High School Confidential; the Honeymoon Killers; I Heart Huckabees; Kung Fu Hustle; Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains; Lady of the Ports; Les Bonnes Femmes; Lolita; Midnight Cowboy; Murder, My Sweet; Natural Born Killers; One Two Three; Plaster Caster; Reflections in a Gold Eye; Rock ‘n Roll High School; Ruthless People; School of Rock; The Decline of Western Civilization — the Metal Years; The Gang’s All Here; The Night of the Hunter; The Shining; The Ten Commandments; Thank You For Smoking; Touch of Evil; Youth of the Beast; Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? What’s New Pussycat?; White Zombie

Television:

News and Weather.

Books:

The autobiography I’m currently writing.

Heroes:

Barack Obama; Jon Langford; Peaches; Studs Terkel; John Waters; Doris Wishman; Frank Zappa; (almost all) my castees; the 2008 President-Elect who can say “Get outta my House, you dysfunctional Republicans”!