Happy New Year folks, it’s time for another anticipated edition of our monthly Gore Girl! This month we feature a good friend of mine: T-Wrexxx. Probably one of the nicest ladies out there, T-Wrexx who is also a sweet babe! She always sports a smile and can brighten up even the darkest moments. She is a unique girl; almost like a cartoon super hero, it’s hard to explain. But anyone that knows her will tell you the same.
T-Wrexxx has skated with the Renegade Rollergirls since 2004 and has never missed a game. Talk about dedication! She states, “Rollerderby had kind of killed all my other hobbies; but I am working on bringing drawing back.” For years she has done fliers and designed stickers for a few defunct local bands. Most notably she drew the album cover (that featured a zombie and was titled "Back from the Dead Motherf**ker") for a compilation of local bands featuring Jimmy Eat World, that she’s happy to say is ultra rare and sought after by JEW fans. She is also huge fan of movies and comics, and a terrible pack rat. By pack rat she means she collect’s almost anything there is to collect! T-Wrexxx owns a substantial collection of cards (comic, movie, GPK, Wacky Packs, etc.), stickers, tv trays, Pac Man, Smurf, Care Bear and Simpsons Memorabilia, fast food toys, tins, lunchboxes, you name it. She also has a terrible weakness for Hello Kitty and Sanrio stuff.
“Most recently, I've developed a collection of various inert and toy grenades, thanks to the Renegade logo”, she continues. “I worked with Chaos! Comics as one of their Demon Girls for promotional events including auctions and Fiend Fest 2001, where I helped brew, bottle and label their Annihilation Amber and Armageddon Pale Ale.” She also worked for seven years at the art store chain Binders Art, at their locations in Mesa, Tempe and Scottsdale. After all three stores closed, she stayed involved in the art community; first modeling for classes at the Scottsdale Artists' School. She has now modeled for them for the past five years and have also done classes and worked for artist groups at the NSAA (New School for the Arts and Academics), Brio Fine Art, Shemer Art, and the Scottsdale Senior Center. “I've also sat for several local artists including Clint Hobart, Nancy Chaboun, Craig Birch and John Burton.”
To say she is rad is saying it lightly. T-Wrexxx is one of a kind and we are honored to have her as January’s Gore Girl. Photo credit for the shoot goes to: Kevin Burgess www.kodeb.com T-Wrexxx did her own hair and makeup. Special thanks to Joannthrax for use of her house and shower, and the monster Bret Stockton.
ICSYB - What film would you say is one of the scariest you have ever seen and how did it affect you?
T-Wrexxx - Poltergeist was the first scary movie I can remember seeing and from then on the closet door was always kept closed and tv static was really creepy.
ICSYB – What was one of your scariest bad dreams?
T-Wrexxx - Once, I dreamt I was in arguing with one of my friends in a hot air balloon and she pushed me out. In the dream, I ended up falling through the roof of a department store and no one seemed to notice I had just crashed through the ceiling. The falling part was scary, but the rest was just weird.
ICSYB - If you could pick any celebrity you would like to see get slaughtered beyond recognition in a movie who would you chose and why?
T-Wrexxx - How about we just strap a bomb under The View’s table. They all need to go, even Whoopi. No one needs to waste their time watching those hens squawk about what they deem to be 'important and relevant' topics.
ICSYB – I know you were a big comic book fan, what were some of your favorite characters?
T-Wrexxx - To name a few: Jhonen Vasquez's Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Jim Mahfood's Grrl Scouts crew, Chaos! Comics' Chastity and Image's DV8 characters, because they were the reject opposites to those goody two shoes Gen 13 kids. I also enjoyed the Resident Evil comic that came out after the game became so popular.
ICSYB - Say you became a creature of the night and could pick anyone you'd want to eat alive, who would you choose and why?
T-Wrexxx - Mmm, Johnny Depp I imagine would be pretty tasty. He's become quite a seasoned actor. Hah.
ICSYB – Is there a movie villain you ever found attractive?
T-Wrexxx - Christian Bale was looking pretty good in American Psycho. I applaud his tidiness and attention to detail.
ICSYB – He was pretty clean cut for an insane fella! Would you ever spend the night at Camp Crystal Lake?
T-Wrexxx - Heck yeah. Hopefully, I could go fishing and handicraft a wallet before I met with my untimely demise. In junior high, when we went to science camp, the teachers thought it would be a hoot to put chocolate covered crickets in the trail mix we ate on our nature hike. The best part was, half way through the hike the mysterious chocolate bits started to get all melty and kids started to realize they weren't chocolate covered nuts or whatever they thought they were. That really freaked some kids out. Crickets aren't going to kill you; and if they did, I'd much rather die from a machete in the back than from cricket poisoning.
ICSYB – I’d eat one, gotta try everything once! Considereing some of your collections, do you remember owning any cool monster toys as a kid?
T-Wrexxx - Not personally, the most offensive 'toys' I owned were a whole slew of Garbage Pail Kids cards, and some little plastic GPK figures that came in a mini garbage bag filled with candy. In my parents eyes, those were gross, but SAFE. Cards weren't going to stain the carpet or ruin the furniture as some of the coolest toys surely would. Now, a friend of mine had the Mad Scientist Monster Lab, and let me tell you, that was one of the niftiest toy sets EVER. You built little monster skeletons, covered them with monster skin putty and then dropped them into a see through tank filled with a solution that would melt off their skin! Watching it all bubble and fizz away was the big payoff, and I thought that was mighty cool. Toys aren't allowed to be that awesome anymore.
ICSYB – I had that and stained the carpet. If you woke up tomorrow to find that the dead had risen, where would you hold out and defend yourself from the zombie horde?
T-Wrexxx - Movies have shown me the mall would be a splendid choice. I would have food, entertainment, athletic equipment, etc. As long as there are no unruly biker gangs to disrupt my utopia, I think I could sustain a pretty happy existence living in the mall. Especially if there was an arcade, or oooh better yet: a skating rink!
ICSYB – Haha Do you believe in the possibility of there being a Loch Ness Monster or a Bigfoot really out there somewhere?
T-Wrexxx - Oh definitely. I'm sure there are quite a few creatures out there that no one knows about too! Who can possibly be one hundred percent sure of what is or isn't out there? If there is no Bigfoot, kudos to the guy that runs around in the suit for all the photo ops.
ICSYB – Is there a slight possibility that I can possibly eat your brains someday?
T-Wrexxx - Sure thing; maybe you could pull a 'Hannibal' and we could snack on them together.
ICSYB - I'm gonna hold you to that! Cheers to reading Girls and Corpses too!
