Hello my name is…
Jonathan Cathey aka JC aka Super Rad, aka Toy Man aka The 40-Year-Old Virgin. I was raised in Laguna, OC, CA.
The reason you’re reading about me is…
Paris Hilton isn’t interesting and the “My Super Sweet 16” show makes you angry. Also because Super Rad Toys make beautiful pieces from your favorite artists that you can love and cherish forever. I’m sorta like Willy Wonka, except I play with plastic and eat fried scorpions.
Right now I’m working on…
Mister Cartoon Presents The Lost Angel 2, Plastic God’s Axis of Evil and Yo! MTV Raps dolls. Jim Koch, COPE2 and Craola Gosho dolls for the Ningyo Project, an AXIS/WESC collaboration…and some secrets. Also, catching up on some sleep.
The first thing I do in the morning is…
Walk my dog, cup of coffee, look at the sky (important because it is So Cal and when it’s not smog-filled, it’s beautiful), hit a few emails and off I go!
The last thing I do at night is…
History Channel—“Digging for The Truth” is awesome. Mainly the last thing I do at night is talk to China and kiss my girlfriend.
My momma always said…
I would be rich. My mom says that I’m the best at everything, she’s not the best barometer because she’s my mom and thinks her children are the best looking, smartest, most talented, etc. She’s filled with hyperbole.
I love it when people…
Stand in front of a glass case and stare at our creations. I love it more when they buy them. I also love it when people paint, draw, challenge you, play music well, believe that “Vegas, Baby” is the lamest saying on earth, love life, agree that camera phones are not great excuses for a narcissistic solo MySpace photo shoot, don’t ask you what club you’re going to tonight (on a Monday!), and create community to support creativity and positive opposition to the mediocre crap that is force-fed to the masses.
I hate it when people…
Name drop. And when people try to get me to watch E! on television. That’s what my girlfriend is always trying to do. But really, mostly name drop. I hate that.
If you see me walking down the street…
Pat me on the butt like I caught a fly ball for the third out in little league…actually, don’t do that. Really, just a simple hello will do.
My most notable run-in with the law was…
When we trashed my best friend’s neighbor’s house on Halloween when I was 14 and the guy called the cops on us. I got handcuffed and in an effort to scare the sh*t out of me, the cops walked me to my parent’s front door at midnight…that kind of sucked. I wasn’t all that bad, remember my akas, Toy Man, etc.?
If I had to say sorry it would be because…
I was wrong or, if I was right, I just had to give up being right. My ego’s not that big. Sorry is a great word; it shows humility and responsibility. Being right doesn’t get you all that far when you’re constantly trying to sell your point. Just give it up and say sorry even if it’s through clenched teeth.
Yo, you see this scar? I got this when…
A) I got hit in the face with a baseball. B) I stole my sister’s boyfriend’s scooter and crashed it. D) I banged my knuckles on the rims while playing drums.
The last time I swore I’d never drink was after a night of…
Anything incorporating dark liquor—can’t do it anymore. The last time I swore I would never drink like that was probably the last time I drank like that. I have a birthday coming up so we’ll see if I can still make that claim.
Future projects and plans…
As for Super Rad Toys, we have loads in the queue and up the sleeves. I’m going to Brazil with Gary Baseman in November—more secrets. Super Rad Toys fans and converts will be pleasantly surprised. In my personal life—to go see this damn place called the Caribbean that I hear so much about and drink Mai Tais. Sometimes I drink like a dude, but most of the time like a sorority chick…except less lame.
And before I leave I’d like to give a shout out to…
My partners Rad and Simone and co-conspirator Jay, Rhea, Donna Cathey, Mister Cartoon and the SA Crew, Dalek, Frank Kozik, AXIS, Gary Baseman, Greger and the WESC crew, Plastic God, Donny Miller, Vinyl Pulse Jack, Jim and Greg and the StrangeCo crew, Ivan and tokidoki Simone, Rotofugi, Pat and the Munky King crew, Plasticgod, Cardboard Spaceship, TATES Comics, Kevin Winnick, 3D Retro, Chad and Nichole from Kid Robot, Jen, Yosi, James, Tiffany, and most of all Bad Brains, Slayer, G.B. Shaw and Chuck Jones—the best of the best!
