Name: caeserpink
Company: The Imperial Orgy
Location: NY
As a experimental filmmaker, Rush Limbaugh accosted Pink's work as a symbol of anti-establishment propaganda. In 1987 Pink's words of peace were broadcast worldwide from the Soviet Union on the Moscow radio networks. Now as leader of The Imperial Orgy, Pink has united his many sides into a single kaleidoscopic force. Born to uneducated laborers in a small steel-mill town in Pennsylvania, Pink's journey through life is a dizzying barrage of strange events. Both Parents were depression-era children who dropped out of school during the eighth grade to help support their families. His father, known as Red, was said to "see omens." Often smelling or seeing roses floating before his eyes as a friend or relative died. In his youth Red turned on the kitchen faucet as it was struck by lightning, causing flames to shoot out instead of water. A few hours later, in the same room, his niece was scalded to death when his sister accidentally spilled boiling water on the infant. Pink's great, great grandmother was purchased from the Apache indian tribe for eighty-five cents. Stories were told of how her husband would awaken during the full moon to see her performing ritualistic dances in the moonlight. Of Pink's maternal grandfather it was whispered that he had "a brain disease." In his later years he would hold long conversations with Jesus Christ. It seems he saw the deity walk right into the living room and take a seat on the couch so they might converse. Pink was born a blue baby. Born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, a decaying town hidden in a secluded valley of the Appalachian mountains. Although given an award for "All American City" in the 1970's, it was a town torn between righteous religious extremism and rampant drug and alcohol addictions, high unemployment, and random violence. On the surface it was an idyllic rural paradise, but lurking below was a nihilism that infected many within the community, causing them to take part in self-destructive behavior. During his youth Pink was a social misfit who felt at odds with his environment and oppressed by the conservative values of the community. Pink became a musician when he was seven years old and by the age of thirteen was a weekend regular performing in country and western bars and firehouse pubs in the region. During high school he joined a punk rock band called Friction that became an outlet for his politically radical views. Click thumbnail for larger images By age eighteen Pink was living in a twilight world of sex and drugs, often mixing quaaludes and tequila before staggering onto the stage to perform. Just as it seemed he was following the path of self-destruction that was so common among the youth in his hometown, he was seized by a shattering religious vision that transformed his life and sent him into a Thoreau-esque hermitage deep in the Appalachian foothills. Surrounded only by trees, a mountain stream that ran through his front yard, and a few chickens for eggs, Pink spent the next two years in study and quiet contemplation. With jobs non-existent, during that time he lived in extreme poverty, often reduced to stealing food for survival, and living without phone, television, hot water, and with only a small wood-stove for heat. After two years the tide turned when Pink won ten-thousand dollars in a government lottery. Within a short time he used the money to invest and accumulate a business, a home, rental properties, and an extravagant collection of Eastern artwork. But when most men might settle into a more traditional lifestyle, Pink turned in another direction. Feeling that the materialistic and mundane existence had become meaningless to him, he threw away all of his material possessions and severed personal ties in order to gain artistic and emotional freedom. In the midst of this, he was the focus of a vengeful conspiracy among the sheriff's department and members of the local police force in retaliation for a harassment charge filed by a state senator on Pink's behalf. Soon afterward he was warned by the state Attorney General's office that his phone was illegally tapped by an unknown source. Only days later he was taken into kangaroo court, thrown into jail on invisible charges, and once inside, other inmates were urged to beat him at the sheriff's request. Luckily the inmates recognized Pink from his punk rock days and warned him of the sheriff's intentions. After being forced to flee his hometown to escape the wrath of the local authorities, his next two years were spent living on the edge. While studying film at the Penn State University his life became a hectic whirlwind of disastrous love affairs and dangerous forays into the dark nights with the lost souls of America's underculture. From being held at knife point in a New Orleans' projects, car-jacked by one of New York City's 14th Street transvestites, to finding solace among small time drug dealers, homeless vagrants, and cheap prostitutes, as he watched friends be destroyed by drugs and suicide, and lovers one by one collapse into mental breakdown while trying to survive amid his chaotic lifestyle. In 1994 as The Imperial Orgy began to experience their first rush of local success, Pink's life spiraled out of control. Homeless and living in the back of an old car, physically worn and mentally disintegrating, he collapsed into what he refers to as a 'spiritual death.' By the time Pink arrived in New York City he was at his lowest point. With no money for rent, he slept on the basement floor of a friend's Staten Island home. His belongings, now reduced to a few old crates with tattered books and CDs, were scattered around him. One morning as he lay on the floor a book suddenly fell from one of the crates. The book, "The Politics Of Experience," by R.D. Lang expressed an unconventional theory that some forms of mental breakdown were actually a spiritual passage from one stage of consciousness to another. A passage often spoken of in eastern religions. Caeser Pink currently resides in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, N.Y. His music is an emotionally raw and poignantly honest expression of his thoughts and experiences. The intensity of his stage presence lends an unpredictable edge to The Imperial Orgy's live performances. The energy and ideas behind his vision propel The Imperial Orgy. Over the last three years, with The Imperial Orgy Caeser has gotten his message to worldwide audiences through music, the internet, and The Imperial Orgy TV Show series In January of 2001 Pink was ordained a minister in The Universal Light church. The Imperial Orgy community has continued to grow.
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