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DETAILS AND FACTS

I was born in Kansas.
I grew up primarily in Oklahoma City.
I was baptized at Brookline Baptist church in 1981.
I quit my Oklahoma City Times paper route in 1981.
I quit participating in Webelos in 1981.
I quit participating in IOOF Jr Oddfellows in 1981.
I left the church in 1982.
I was forced to deal with the first signs of severe depression in 1984.
I printed my first zine As Is in 1985.
I started using the Allin name in 1985.
I printed my first chapbook in 1987.
I helped create the noise group Pedestrian Landfill in 1987.
I graduated from Putnam City North in 1989.
I decided it was no longer appropriate to use the name Pedestrian Landfill in 1990.
I got married in 1991.
I moved to Carbondale, IL in 1991.
I moved back to Oklahoma City in 1992.
I got divorced the same year.
I started working on the Kingdom Of Happy Gloom in 1992.
I started using the KHG last name in 1992.
I started using the empallin identifier in 1993.
I printed the initial and so far only works related to the Kingdom Of Happy Gloom In 1993 and 1994.
I was introduced to the internet in 1994.
I moved to the Boston metro area in 1995.
I worked on the MIT campus in 1995 until getting a job that same year in Harvard Square.
I started using the name Candyass Execution for the newer noise projects in 1997.
I started a complete mental breakdown in 1998.
I moved to Lodi, NJ in 1998.
I got married in 1998.
I entered a creative dead zone in 1998.
I moved to Marshallls Creek, PA in 1999.
I suffered a work related injury in 2002.
I attempted suicide 3 times in 2 months in 2003.
I moved back to Oklahoma City in 2003.
I started collecting poetry to form a book (Headaches Heartbreaks and Big Mistakes) in 2010.
I attempted suicide twice in two months in 2011.
I made 3 complete art books available for sale (For The Love Of Monkey, For The Love Of Babe, For The Love Of Baby) in 2011.
I made two books for sale prior to being completely ready (Headaches Heartbreaks and Big Mistakes and Fruit Seed Meat) in 2011.
I developed the idea for 4 other books (For The Love Of Everything, 3nh, Going Mobile - Oklahoma, and Paint Chips and Broken Bricks) in 2011.

Several of my short films were shown at Static.

I had my first gallery exhibit, For The Love Of Anything, at Individual Artists Of Oklahoma in May of 2012.

For The Love Of Anything was listed as one of the Seven Things To Do in the May 23, 2012 issue of the Oklahoma Gazette.

I began filming and sorting through archive footage in June of 2012

In 2013 I completed the body of work that is Anything That Is Anything that includes the smaller sets of Anything In Mind, Anything At Hand and Anything That Is Left.

I had 2 pieces selected for the juried group show Edge Art Now 2013 in March 2013.

I made several books available in wip state in the summer of 2013.

I published the final and completed version Death By The Digits in July of 2013.

In October 2013 I participated in the premiere show, 1313, for Nada Gallery with Spontaneous Bob and Amanda Christine Shelton.
​In November 2013 I began work on a collabrotive show with Cassandra Wozniak.

I was finally able to make the completed collection of Anything That Is Anything available in January 2014, as a three volume set.

I made the final and completed version of Flower Children available in January 2014.

In February 2014 I began working on Principia Ludus Stupri.

In March 2014 I made the final and completed versions of the book and cd Defects And Deficiencies avaialable in preperation for April 18th opening of the exhibit of a selection of these pieces.
 

The last name is pronounced as individual letters. K. H. G.

I can be contacted concerning possible shows, image usage, and anything else by email at

empallin(at)yahoo.com.

 

What does the KHG stand for?

Originally, in 1992, it stood for Kingdom Of Happy Gloom. Since then it has stood for many things. And likely will in the future. I tend to revert to it when trying to come up with titles for various project. I will try to make a complete list sometime, but this is the list of previous uses.

Kingom Of Happy Gloom

Kids Hate Guns

Kallisti Here Goes

Kissing Her Girlfriend

Kick His Gong

Kitchen & Household Giftware

 

Kissing His Ghost (unofficial)

 

So what was the Kingdom Of Happy Gloom?

It was, and still is, a non-territorial, multidimensional, multimedia assault on reality. It is a dark state of mind where contrdictory concepts exist without issue. It is an idea that has been around awhile. It is a lot of things and nothing at the same time. In time I will add a page that will act as a repository for all of the documents and documentation relating to it.

 

What zines were your doing?

List will be updated as time goes on...

As Is (25 issues in roughly 4 years)

Mike Gunderloy Is A Whimp (low effort envelope filler)

Too Much Time To Kill

Sponge Bucket Monkey Guts

Courtesan

Punx Not Dead (low effort envelope filler)

KHG (7 issues in 20 years)

 

Where has your stuff been seen?

Lime Green Bulldozers

But A Twist Of The Lip

Banal Probe

Illiterate Digest

Carbondale Nightlife

Maximumrocknroll

OklahomaPunkScene.com

Darkfaery Subculture Magazine

 

This is original content used by them. This does not include ads, reviews, and the like for whatever project I was working on at the time.

 

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