HELLooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo......

Bah bah bah bah bahbah bah bah......

How ya doin'?

J Scott here, or as I am unknown in some circles The Nihilist Gelo, and founding artist of the underground art company that bares my moniker. NihilistGELO started in 1998 under the auspice of L-Eurtheria Theatre in which we performed 3 stage plays: Fernando Arrabal's "They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers", an adaptation of Alfred Jarry's "Caesar Antichrist", and what would eventually become "GELO to Oblivion". I coined the term "Punk Guignol" and continued learning how to write in Chicago where I joined another company and eventually won the favor an attention of a local paper, The Chicago Reader, who gave me a compliment I cherish to this day by calling my work, "An Industrial Accident". Taking on the name NihilistGELO after a business venture ended in a bar fight, that I totally did not cause, we recieved multiple page- section one newspaper write ups on 4 out of my 5 original stage pieces as well as a fury of free drinks from my 13 or so loyal fans.

I don't really like to talk about me so I'm hoping that was enough. What I am trying to say is I am a risk taker and I create powerful if not "maddeningly obscure images". A pretentious artist who hates pretense...and art. One of the rules I live by is hit hard first...and then tell an interesting story.

That story is GELO to Oblivion.

The history behind this film is as interesting and weird as the piece itself. The very beginning started while I was in university with a 5 minute scene I wrote for a class entitled, "Powder and Cake" about a feminine hygene salesman and a rodeo clown doing cocaine in a closet. The rodeo clown was named Bullchips and was the first character born from GELO. More fun was the tampon salesman. A character named Matt Coil a violent, alcoholic, almost diabolical man. A character that would eventually get me put on scholastic probation and my hippy Acting teacher fired. Coil represented all of my young angst, authority problems and personal disillusionment in one bitter old man. Matt Coil would surface again as our humble narrator by the name of Sneer.

From that moment on I would joke around and become Sneer at various parties. He is also the basis of my punk moniker The Nihilist Gelo through which I have worked in the industrial rock scene, the s&m world as a switch Dominator, and been asked to carnival bark and ringmaster The Sinstress Sideshow out of Chicago. It was performing as Sneer that got me my first professional writing gig.......

This was 1998 and warehouse raves were where the parties were at. However these parties were getting busted more and more and fewer and fewer venues would book you. Hense the origin and initial run of "GELO to Oblivion".

Written over a bartender's weekend (Tuesday to Thursday) and bringing in the characters: Fifi the bubbly motivational speaker, Kiko the pervert Bozo, and a suicidal Birthday Cake; GELO originally ran about 27 minutes, had no throughline and mainly consisted of a card game and a burlesque dance. However, it was just long enough to calm any concerns the warehouse owner had about our activities, and after the show the music, raving, and all that goes with that began. BUT something very strange happened. People started coming to see this show. The cover for the party was becoming the party. Apparently, in the craze that it was produced the show developed a message to a group of lost kids that wanted to hear these blunt, silly, often disturbing things said.

From there the show was stretched to about an hour and remounted with "actors" in Chicago and the introduction to the final piece of the show, the throughline and the plot. A boy mime.

The show always creates new fans and always has groups returning to see it, some many times. It has recieved praise all over the midwest, NYC, and most recently on stage here in Hollywood. Its time to bring it to dvd's in college dorms everywhere.

We have our locations, we have most of a cast including the interest of a couple people whose names you'd recognise, but I can't say because without some support on this page nothing is finalized.....etc and so on.....I have some very talent crew willing to help and I'd like to pay them. All the players are ready. We just need you to help us play.

Also what better time than now. When all "edgy" entertaiment is watered down. Let us throw our 2 cents in to the world through an obscene clown show to breathe life back into dangerous art. And did I mention there are musical numbers too..........You will never think of chewing gum the same.

I'd like to quote 2 of my inspirations at this point.

Alfred Jarry who once started his work with the prolific, "Merde!"

and John Waters who said, "There is no smoking in this theater."

Things you're money will be used for:

Rent for the locations.

Make up fx and props. Some props are expensive...a police car for example.... Help in the editing process and the equipment in general. Animation for credits and dreamy sequences. All the wonderful and talented freaks that will be aiding in this by working crew and cast. and I won't lie....I'm probably gonna have a night of Thai food at somepoint

Thank you for reading this, sharing this, and/or helping in making my B Movie dream that much closer to B Movie beer can coaster....I'm kidding it'll be good.