My name is Carl King. Several thousand people on Earth know me as the musicians named Sir Millard Mulch and Dr. Zoltan Øbelisk. I’ve done music career things with Marco Minnemann, Virgil Donati, Nick D’Virgilio, Morgan Agren, Paul Mazurkiewics, Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle, Steve Vai’s Favored Nations, Eman Laerton, Dave Meros, Nils Frykdahl, Lale Larson, Larry Boothroyd, Will Maier, and Devin Townsend. My albums have gotten great reviews in Modern Drummer, DRUM!, Kerrang, and Decibel Magazine.

I was born in Willoughby, Ohio and I grew up in a small retirement town in Florida. My senior year at Venice High School, I skipped class to work in a local print shop, stapling stuff in the back room. I liked the smell of the paper and ink. I convinced the owner to teach me typography and design. I borrowed my mom’s van and attended a community college for 3 semesters of music classes, couldn’t settle on a principal instrument, dropped out, and somehow most of my favorite musicians became fans of my music. Went back to corporate graphic design, worked at an advertising agency. Read every business / motivational book I could find. Sold about $40k worth of merch out of my bedroom through my MutantMall.com store / label. Instead of spending it on something important, I ate a lot of Taco Bell.

When I turned 31, I moved to Los Angeles — an Imaginary City full of delusional and happy people. A place where I can get paid for being impatient and paranoid. As Ayn Rand would say, I am a person “who takes ideas seriously.” Just not all of hers. But I am an individualist, a lemonade-stand capitalist, and I believe in things being done right. That doesn’t stop me from being fascinated by aliens, psionics, and an eternal soul — life would be boring without sci-fi. While I’m stuck on this planet, I live as a workaholic introvert.

I now split my creative time between writing philosophy and sci-fi / fantasy / superhero stuff. I have a book deal with MWP, publishers of Save The Cat! and Hardware Wars. My book, called So, You’re A Creative Genius… Now What? was published and is available everywhere as of June 2011. On the other side of the spectrum I created and wrote a sci-fi / fantasy animated TV show concept called The Mysterious Octopus. And a sci-fi short story on iPad, Kindle, and Nook called Cuyahoga!

My articles / essays have been published in 2600 (The Hacker Quarterly), mental_floss, and INK19. As an offbeat journalist I have interviewed Katy Perry & The Matrix Production Team, 1999 Playboy Playmate of the Year Heather Kozar, Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt, Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle & Faith No More, Billy Sheehan, Devin Townsend of Strapping Young Lad, Nils Frykdahl of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Negativland, Brooks Wackerman of Bad Religion, Rock Guitarist Steve Vai, Tim Soya, Craig Anton, Ani DiFranco’s Merch Girl, and Ween.

The most popular piece I’ve written was a blog titled 10 Myths About Introverts. It really did go viral, was posted on Wired.com and Owl City’s Website, and has been read by over one million people on my site by now.

I work in web design and video production in the Los Angeles area. I own a 1,000 sq. ft. studio with a small team of video editors. I’m married to a beautiful Argentinian death metal female human computer nerd. I am a vegan, I can’t tell the difference between $2 wine and $1,000 wine, and I’m learning to play Tuba.

Here I am on Wikipedia.

I have a Tumblr account, where I repost a lot of strange art by strange people.

Here are some interviews:
Self-Interview, 1997
Interview In Some German Magazine, 2005
Interview For Xtreme Music, 2005
Interview by Blake Griffith, 2009
Interview For New England Institute of Technology, 2011

Two more things you need to know:

1.) This site is very much under construction, but we don’t mind.
2.) I am pretty sure that is NOT a gnome sculpted out of poop.