Mark Mothersbaugh

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Mark Mothersbaugh
Mothersbaugh, from the Weird America interview (see below)
Background information

Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (born May 18, 1950, in Akron, Ohio) is an American musician, composer, singer, and painter.

Contents 1 Career 2 Life 3 Soundtracks 4 External links 5 References

[edit] Career

While Mothersbaugh attended Kent State as an art student, he met Devo co-founders Jerry Casale and Bob Lewis. After the infamous Kent State shootings closed the school for the spring and summer of 1970, Mothersbaugh, Lewis and Casale formed the idea of the "devolution" of the human race and started to play music as Devo, a New Wave rock group.

Since Devo, Mothersbaugh developed a successful career writing musical scores for film and television. In film, Mothersbaugh has worked frequently with filmmaker Wes Anderson, and scored all of his feature films (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou).

His music has been a staple of the children's television shows Rugrats and Clifford the Big Red Dog. He also wrote the theme song for the new Felix the Cat show for Hanna Barbera, some music for Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and in 1990 and the theme song for The New Super Mario World for DiC Entertainment in 1991.

Mothersbaugh is also known for his music in video games including Sony's Crash Bandicoot series, the Jak and Daxter series, and Maxis Software's The Sims 2. This work is often performed with Mutato Muzika, the music production company he formed with several other former members of Devo including his brother, Bob Mothersbaugh.

Mothersbaugh composed the distinctive music heard in the award-winning "Get A Mac" commercials (seen on TV and online) for Apple Computers 2006/2007.

[edit] Life

Without glasses, Mothersbaugh is legally blind. At the age of seven, he was taken to the optometrist where he obtained his first pair of glasses and saw, for the first time, "smoke from chimneys and birds." After truly "experiencing" the world for the first time, Mothersbaugh started to draw, and his second grade teacher praised his work. That same night he had dreamed of being a famous artist. In addition to music, Mothersbaugh still paints - in a style influenced by surrealism and Andy Warhol.

Mothersbaugh is also a member of the Church of the SubGenius, a parody religion mocking consumerism, cults, and the commercialisation of religion, and has produced songs and visual arts for the Church.

[edit] Soundtracks

• Feed Me (2006)
• Eureka (2006) (TV) (Theme)
• How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
• Big Love (2006)(TV)
• The Ringer (2005)
• Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)
• Lords of Dogtown (2005)
• The Big White (2005)
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
• Jak 3 (2004) (VG)
• Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy (2004) (V)
• The Sims 2 (2004) (VG)
• Envy (2004)
• Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)
• The Complete Truth About De-Evolution (2004) (V)
• Jak II (2003) (VG)
• Good Boy! (2003)
• All Grown Up (2003) (TV)
• The Even Stevens Movie (2003) (TV)
• Thirteen (2003)
• A Guy Thing (2003)
• Second String (2002) (TV)
• Cheats (2002)
• MDs (2002) (TV)
• Hidden Hills (2002) (TV)
• Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
• Sorority Boys (2002)
• Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (2001) (VG)
• Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001) (TV)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
• Rugrats: Still Babies After All These Years (2001) (TV) (for Mutato Muzika)
• The Rugrats: All Growed Up (2001) (TV)
• Sugar & Spice (2001)
• Camouflage (2001/I)
• Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2001) (VG)
• Glass, Necktie (2001)
• Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II (2000)
• Tucker (2000) (TV)
• Grosse Pointe (2000) (TV)
• The Other Me (2000) (TV)
• Clifford the Big Red Dog (2000) (TV)
• The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)
• All the Rage (1999)
• Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
• Can of Worms (1999) (TV)
• 200 Cigarettes (1999)
• Interstate '82 (1999) (VG)
• Crash Team Racing (1999) (VG)
• Rocket Power (1999) (TV)(theme music)
• The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: The Visitors from Outer Space (1999) (V)
• The Rugrats Movie (1998)
• Halloweentown (1998) (TV)
• Rushmore (1998)
• Dead Man on Campus (1998)
• Principal Takes a Holiday (1998) (TV)
• Last Rites (1998) (TV)
• The Mr. Potato Head Show (1998) (TV)
• Stories from My Childhood (1998) (TV)
• Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (1998) (VG)
• Men (1997)
• Best Men (1997)
• Breaking Up (1997)
• Unwed Father (1997) (TV)
• Working (1997) (TV)(theme)
• Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (1997) (VG)
• Quicksilver Highway (1997) (TV)
• Fired Up (1997) (TV)
• Bongwater (1997)
• The Big Squeeze (1996)
• Class Reunion (1996) (TV)
• Bottle Rocket (1996)
• Happy Gilmore (1996)
• Crash Bandicoot (1996) (VG)
• Too Something (1995) (TV)
• If Not for You (1995)(TV)
• Strange Luck (1995) (TV)
• The Last Supper (1995)
• Sliders (1995) (TV)
• The Courtyard (1995) (TV)
• Dumb and Dumber (1995) (TV)
• Flesh Suitcase (1995)
• The New Age (1994)
• It's Pat (1994)
• Hotel Malibu (1994) TV Series
• Edith Ann: A Few Pieces of the Puzzle (1994) (TV)
• Beakman's World(1993) (TV) (theme)
• Bakersfield, P.D. (1993) (TV)
• South Beach (1993) (TV)
• Down on the Waterfront (1993)
• Frosty Returns (1992) (TV)
• Mann & Machine (1992) (TV)
• Rugrats (1991) (TV)
• Liquid Television (1991) (TV)
• Davis Rules (1991) (TV)
• Slaughterhouse Rock (1988)
• Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)
• Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986) TV Series (also theme)

[edit] External links

• Professional Website
• "Devo Live Guide" - Comprehensive guide to Devo's live performances
• Extensive interview from 1998

[edit] References

• Video Podcast Interview by Weird America Podcast