Who is Jake Slamme?
Creator of Utah Gothic
Mr. Slamme is a lifelong resident of Utah. Upon graduation from Davis High School, he spent eight years pursuing a history degree at Steven Henniger College. Seven and one-half years into his studies, Mr. Slamme discovered the L.D.S. business school had no history department to speak of. College administrators, while happy to collect his tuition, found it a tad unethical to retain a student who had failed to amass a single credit hour during his tenure.
Thrust into the real world, Mr. Slamme quickly established himself as the poet laureate of northern Davis County with the publication of two xeroxed chap books. He furthered his artistic reputation with the completion of a 13-minute movie, shot with his mom's camcorder, about a romantic triangle between a sleazy woman, a Mormon bishop and a living head on a coffee table.
Anxious to further his career as a movie maker, he moved to that filmmaking Mecca, Salt Lake City. Mr. Slamme believed that the pinnacle of cinematic mi se-en-scene could only be accomplished in the VHS format. He refused to compromise his artistic integrity by incorporating such fancy-pants tools as a camera which actually ran film through its sprockets. As a consequence, he had trouble finding financial backers to support his vision.
Unable to make his mark in the artistic powerhouse that is the Paris on the Wasatch, Mr. Slamme was forced to seek an entry level position in the telemarketing industry.
Mr. Slamme feels the time is ripe of his reemergence as an creative force. Armed with a Mac Powerbook 165 and a 1.1 megapixel digital camera he received free with a subscription to Sports Illustrated, Jake Slamme has launched the Utah Gothic web site. His friends are unwilling to tell him that it has been a good six years since anyone not hawking second-hand goods, porn, or penis enlargement powders has made a dime off the internet.
He can often be seen wandering at night through the streets of downtown Salt Lake railing loudly against the vast international conspiracy that actively works to keep him poor and unknown. Recently, he scored a victory when the court ruled, that through massive doses of behavior modification medication, Mr. Slamme is no longer a threat to himself or others.
