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Mr Blank

About Me


Oh God, there's something seriously wrong with me. I am Mr Blank, blank I am... and I do not like you're green eggs and ham!
Death Rattle
Mr Blank's story goes way back to his ancestors, many of whom are from the old country, farmers, musicians, gypsies and carnies. Mr Blank's own father and mother were carnies at a very young age, traveling the world with the carnivale. So you might say that the carnivale is in his blood. When he was young and growing up his parents began to followed a different carnivale, that of religion. After all isn't the church just another big ten-in-one show?! But Mr. Blank soon found his own way, his own "truth", and left everything behind to see the world, to travel from place to place experiencing all of life's rich wonders. Mr. Blank soon gathered a few friends together and began the "Carnivale of Black Hearts" a vaudvilian styled variety sideshow of "freaks" based out of Athens GA. With everything from Bands to Belly Dancers, Bearded Ladies to Trapeze Artists, Clowns to Human Pincushions, and everything in-between.
Mr Blank is also bassist and vocalist for the band Rat Babies, performs as the Bearded Lady and Human Blockhead in the Carnivale Of Black Hearts, plays viola and conducts the Orchestra Of Broken Toys with fellow carnie-freaks, all while still continuing to play solo around the world.
Mr Blank is.... a black heart, broken hearted, alone in this world and crying on the inside, a creator, an artist, a musician, a photographer, a writer, a sculptor, a singer, a stage performer, a bass and organ player, a gemini, agnostic, needy, a bleeder, an empath, tattoo'd and peirced, a genius, a dreamer, a collector of the strange and unusual, a lover not a fighter, a winter person, a star-watcher and nightswimmer, a day-sleeper, a kid at heart, lost, fading away, depressed most of the time, confused, a waste of space, and so much more... but you will never know who I really am unless you pay close attention!
Be sure not to miss a single Mr Blank performance, there will be many in the near future and each and every one of them will be something different. One night may be a song and dance number, the next may be a sonic wall of noise, and yet another may be something else completely... the point is you'll never know what to expect with Mr Blank so if you miss a night you may never have the chance to see it again.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/08/2004
Band Website: www.mrblankisdead.com
Band Members: Mux Blank & Friends
Influences: Strange noises, deep thoughts, voices in my head, blood, death, dreams, wishes, fears, baby doll heads, dead faeries, fubar, love lost, and uncontrolable psychotic episodes.
Sounds Like: Some comparisons we like:
Kraftwerk, Lydia Lunch, NIN, Tom Waits, and others I can't think of right now.
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This is what the press has said:
"dour, claustrophobic sounds ... working atmospheric electronic effects into a minimal, vaguely industrial ambience." [Flagpole Magazine - Athens, GA]
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This is what others have said:
"Your music is making me concerned for your mental health as well as my own... in the mood I am in, I love the organ, but it makes me want to hurt myself or cry and cry and cry..."
"I kept imagining three small, transparent, ghostly girls dressed in white flowing gowns playing on a marry-go-round... I could imagine one of the girls pushing another one off, landing on her rear end facing the merry-go-round. They would look intently at one another as if they were going to kill for revenge... then start laughing because they were already dead.
"You an I should start a band. That one song on myspace remeindes me of Arab Strap"
"The song 'Search for' actualy made me stop everything I was doing and turn it up as loud as my speakers would allow so that I could hear everything you had to say.... I actually started crying while I was listening to it. It mad me so sad."
"Shit that just sounds creepy"
"Sounds like a song off a David Lynch film sound track"
"It sure has a mood... like a scene in a murder movie when the killer's about to strike or maybe a sci-fi scene with some alien. I think this is a pretty original sound...like an exerpt from the outer limits."
"I feel like somebody turned me inside out. The homunculous inside me stepped out for a few minutes and started to take picures of what's going on in my head. Then he jumped in again, and the song was over."
"This is heavy ambient experimental stuff where static/noise induced from a simple volume control becomes percussion. There are little baby melodies that are recurring themes. The mood is not industrial, but it is futuristic."

For older material from the album titled "Empty Incidental Program Trash" (as of yet unreleased) visit our Garageband site:
www.garageband.com/artist/clustermuse
Record Label: Mux Productions

My Blog

New songs uploaded

I'm uploading some new songs, "Headaches Nausea Itching & Swelling" and "Rip It Out And Lets Go", well they aren't new to me but they are more then likely new to you... The songs are from the "Coma" a...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:19:00 GMT

Mr Blank teams up with performance art dancers "Corpsewax Dollies"

Mr Blank will be performing @ SpaceRockCon this year doing an improv-experimental set with dancers from the "Corpsewax Dollies" out of TN!!! It's all going...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:23:00 GMT

I cut my finger tip off!

Check out the pictures, I cut my finger tip off the other day while cooking dinner for my grandma:
Posted by on Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:13:00 GMT

Tour with Rat Babies... a look back!

So the tour is over and I'm back home now... A tour is something strange, it's work, but it's also sort of a vacation from life, a catching up with old friends as you pass thru town, a bonding betwe...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:36:00 GMT

Mr Blank Tour?!? well... sorta...

This May and June Rat Babies and Candy Maldonado will be going on tour for 5 wks, hitting FL, AL, TN, KY, IN, OH, PA, NY, RI, DE, DC, VA, NC and more... so since Mr Blank is also in the Rat Babies he ...
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 04:16:00 GMT

New Project: "Abstract Abandonment"

So I have begun a new project called "Abstract Abandonment", which is Mr Blank performing and recording abstract compositions in abandoned spaces... For example while in New Orleans I found an old gut...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:58:00 GMT

Next Carnivale Of Black Hearts show is November 1st in Athens

Get more info here: www.myspace.com/carnivaleofblackhearts
Posted by on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:47:00 GMT

"BLANK NIGHTS" Experimental Music Series... IS BACK!!!

The Blank Nights Experimental Music Series started by me last year at the Go Bar in Athens came to an end when the Go Bar decided they would rather have DJ's playing then give experimental music shows...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:17:00 GMT

Orchestra of Broken Toys has a new song posted

Hey guy, if I haven't mentioned it before I should have, but I am also playing in a project called "Orchestra Of Broken Toys" it is more like a carnivale band then most of my stuff, but I got together...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:15:00 GMT

Mr Blank backing Jonathan Vance tonight at LITTLE KINGS

So Jonathan Vance has been doing the series "30 Days of Vance" over the last 30 days in April... Tonight is the last show, the final blowout... and Mr Blank will be joining the band backing his endeav...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:11:00 GMT