The Man Behind The Warlocks.
Hello, my name is Matt and I’ve come a long way since my days as a gourmet dumpster chef in Los Angeles. I spent about two years homeless, hitchhiking around the country, eating out of dumpsters. I had gotten tired of spending 60 hour weeks building someone else’s dreams and only being poor and exhausted in return. Eating out of dumpsters and sleeping under bushes was tough but it helped me get my priorities in order.
I settled in Vegas where I spent years rebuilding my life from the ground up as a poker dealer. That left me time to build the things that mattered to me - my performing skills, my bank account, creativity and most of all, community. For the last decade, it has been my honor and privilege to work with some of Las Vegas’s best undiscovered talent.
My creative team has spawned over half a dozen live performance troupes, a radio station and launched the careers of several of our members onstage and backstage alike. We can set up a full stage in the middle of the desert and perform in less than 24 hours. We pride ourselves on taking new members from dreams of performing to reality in less than a year.
Most importantly, we build community. Whether in Vegas or at events, we provide an environment of support that gives people the tools that they need to build their dreams.
The Origins Of The King In Yellow And Carcosa.
The modern incarnation of The King In Yellow as Hastur or “The Unnameable One” derives from the works of H.P Lovecraft, his writing circle and successors. Sadly, this has reduced The King To Whom Even Emperors Must Bow into another cosmic tentacle monster. The true history of The King In Yellow unfolds in progressively deeper layers, almost like an eldritch entity of pulp fiction come to life.
In the book The King In Yellow by Robert Chambers, The King In Yellow is a play that is said to infect anyone who reads the entire thing with a creeping madness. Within the fictional play, The King In Yellow is a mysterious character who rules Lost Carcosa. However, it seems that he has a way of breaching the gulf between fiction and reality to effect the world of the characters.
Going back even farther, Hastur, Carcosa come from the works of Ambrose Bierce and clearly influenced Chambers’ later works.
Something about the madness of the king has captured the public imagination, mine included, in recent years. The revival can probably be traced to the first season of True Detective. While the modern incarnations still present blasphemous murder cults, I have always taken a different inspiration from The King.
What is all progress but a fiction fighting to become real? Whether that idea is computers talking to each other over phone lines or that all people should be treated equally, it is initially called blasphemy. Its dreamers are labeled mad by those with a vested interest in the status quo. The ideas, the best ones, anyway, spread. They creep off of the written page They worm their way into people’s minds in conversation, infecting them with a divine madness. The blasphemous cult grows and, through their efforts, the idea itself creeps into the world, changing from dream to reality. That’s not terrifying, it’s an inspiration. Hail to The King.