Your mysterious showman with the whimsical heart bringing joy to everyone around himself. Or so he hopes. I will use tents and elephants, digital technologies and hard beat music. I will use sticks and stones in the dirt. I will entertain you. If I don’t I will imagine a world far beyond this one and seek its help, and then I will entertain you. I hope. Don’t go until I try.
I am your entertainer and ringmaster Joshua Thaddeaus.
The son of a Mexican-American and a California hippie, I have a rich and delightful history. To start, I was homeschooled until I attended Troy High in Southern California. I failed college four years later but fell into a wonderful job as a video game tester with Bandai America. From there I had the delight of spending two years with Blizzard Entertainment. Yes, that’s right, the creators of World of Warcraft themselves. It was a blast. Afterwords I failed. A lot. I failed at everything. I failed to get married, I failed to start up a video game company and I failed to start another video game company. I even moved to Texas to start my life over and failed to make a movie. Finally, however, I succeeded. I found something special.
All my failing had taught me endurance. And Texas? Texas taught me something I didn’t have. Something that I coulnd’t have learned on my own. It taught me to grow up. “What’s your plan?” a friend’s grandparent demanded of me. “You should get a job.” I had a job but it was working at a local movie theater. It was a fun job but also stupid for me to remain there for so long without a plan. What was I doing making seven dollars an hours when I should be going to college or finding a grown up occupation? I didn’t have a plan and I didn’t have grit. Texas has a certain motivation about itself. A, “get to work and make something of yourself” attitude. I took to it like air and water. I got my thoughts together and went to college at Austin Community College and then Texas State University in San Marcos after that. With a Minor in Art, an Associates in Radio-TV-Film and a Bachelor’s in Mass Communication I feel ready to go, maybe. Be patient with me, my friends, if you would.
Your circus showman,
Ringmaster Joshua Thaddeaus
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*I do still need to finish my two foreign language classes to 'fully’ get my associates. They will definitely be in Japanese.