KillerBroccoli was my Myspace name. I have no idea what it means or how I thought of it. I always liked drawing really ridiculous things. Whenever the teacher asked us to do an art project mine was always bent out of shape. Whenever the teacher asked us to hand in an assignment mine was always covered in mutants and cretins and weirdos and strange animals.

There was a local wildlife artist Named Edgar T. Jones who lived in a shack in the woods by the ravine. I used to go to the mall with my mom and buy his paintings and sketches. He had a drawing of an owl which I copied and changed to my own style. It was quite naturalistic, not cartoonic or ridiculous. I went to his house and presented it to him and he was impressed. He is definitely one of my early influences in visual style.

Then I had the book Skywriting By Word of Mouth by John Lennon with these ludicrous illustrations. It was filled with meaningless people with distorted heads and a series of lunatics and dipsnots.

I think if you take those two sources and blend them together with my sense of stupidity and form that could be the foundation for the development of KillerBroccoli.

I have several hundred ridiculous forms that I could shape into designs. But what’s the point. What’s my style. What’s the lifestyle. Most people want to be cool they don’t want to be crazy. But there are crazy people out there who will want to buy my shirts. I want to appeal to people who like novelty. I don’t want to appeal to burnouts or weirdos. I guess I will appeal to whoever wants them. I don’t want people to think they are cute. I always run that risk.

I see the brand developing into something original and awesome. I see the designs evolving and the shapes improving. Maybe I will move away from the purposely amateur style eventually. I am inventing it and I will reinvent it until it is great.

Sales are hard to get. The psychology of sales is very hard to comprehend. It’s like before it’s socially ok to buy your stuff no one will, but once it’s acceptable then they will. I now have to cross that line. I will cross it. I thought I would open the store and the next day I would get an email from Macy’s humbly and hopefully requesting me to appear with Kanye and Kim at Herald Square for a grand opening of my new line. I would rather appeal to an urban crowd than a white bread crowd. But again I’ll appeal to whomever wants to be appealed to.

Killerbroccoli is my clothing line. I add it to my lifestyle of comedian, actor and recording artist.

Creative Aaron

10/05/2016