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a.k.a. Thaddeus Mace Wike.
I live for love, life, art, music, and the vast unordinary.
Life is short. No time to waste!.. MUST HAVE SLACK!
Born to mutate the system. From here & there. WORK:  (is great IF you) Drill your own hole.
I worked for "the man" for over a decade printing (cheesy) t shirts, while learning everything I could about the business. Then I broke away.  Anticonformity is my custom screen printing shop. I've been serving mostly bands and artists for 6 years+ now. I have made many great friends through it AND I really love the art and craft of my trade and feel so very blessed to be my own boss in this troubled economy where my peers seem to be falling among the wayside of the growing unemployed population on a weekly basis. I have grand visions of a suce$$ful t shirt empire/ remote coastal farming commune where all my friends will dance and make art and music and t shirts and food and love ALL DAY LONG, complete with traveling rock & roll sideshow act (FOS?).  Yeah, just like fukin gypsies! Gypsies of radness. Are you in?  Drill your own hole!   

MUSIC:  I dig (almost) all kinds. I blast sound waves too.
I'm currently working on:
t he ALL NEW (RE)MODULATION of  NO RIDERS - Now my one-man-art-band performance mind-mold project. I've ALWAYS wanted to travel and tour music around the US. Sadly, not one of the many bands I've been in over the past 16 years has managed to get out of Phoenix for more than one show. That's not touring.  NO RIDERS is my last (or at least most logical) resort. Life is too short and I need to take that long ride before it's too late.   So, NO RIDERS - SUMMER 09 - WEST COAST TOUR - This you can bet on!!   ...some past bands, over the years, include: SPACE RIG , AfterBastard, Guano, A Feast Unknown and most recently, The Amputations . 

ART:  My art sucks, but making it SETS ME FREE!
Making "art" is meditation for me, so time must be MADE and religiously set aside. And then attending the burning man festivals has really sliced me wide open artistically. The event, as well as the BM community is like inspiration feeding upon inspiration for me.  ** see under religion**.   RIGHT NOW I am working on a multitude of different pieces and projects-  painting, sketching, sculpting, seeking... My one more noteworthy current project is called "Accumulo sapien" a.k.a. PHILIP TARKAP - a life-size man built completely of found/used objects from dead VCRs to broken guitars to hundreds of other various pieces (all personal to me for various reasons) all inspired from my last 23 years of packratting.  He will be eventually completely wired with lights and sound and weatherproofed to be listed and placed on the playa at this years burning man in September. I plan on posting many pictures of his progression (through EVOLUTION) on here, so go make yourself a sandwich or something healthy and stand by.....Art rules. Me at least.  Also coming soon:  "The Anticonformity Artist Alliance" - I will be trying my professional hand as a traveling art agent. To provoke and then promote the art of all my (more talented) artist friends. My mission is to spread "local" art to non-local cities and potential buyers working on a one-on-one basis.  And to work with galleries all over hustling product and organizing group shows etc., all to correlate with my upcoming travels / NR tours. 

RELIGION:  Is for suckers. Like me.
QUIT YOUR JOB FOR "BOB"!!!
Mine is Slack. Yes, I Praise "BOB"!!! And so can YOU!! Find out more at The Church of the Subgenius . I highly recommend it!! ** And then there's burning man.** If you get me started talking about the playa (especially to those who are virgins) I really start sounding like some kind of  born-again Christian Cult recruiter!!  

SMALL CREATURES:  Love those crazy little bastards!
I am the current chosen hairless master to my favorite little friends, Brucifer, Buddha, Fiona, Farrah, Annabelle, and Tashio.
R.I.P. Mr. Furley, Franky, BoBo, and all the rest...