Clint Catalyst
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{{Short description|Actor, writer and author}}
{{Infobox writer
|name = Clint Catalyst
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|birth_name = Clinton Green
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1971|4|8}}
|birth_place = Jonesboro, Arkansas, U.S.
|occupation = Writer, actor, performer, wardrobe styist
|genre = LGBT, gay, comedy, drama, gothic
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|website = {{URL|clintcatalyst.com}}
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Clint Catalyst (born April 8, 1971) is the nom de plume[http://www.vagabondagepress.com/90401/V1I11IN1.html Acrylic, Kim, Interview with Clint Catalyst, The Battered Suitcase, Volume One - Issue Eleven (April 2009).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819153804/http://www.vagabondagepress.com/90401/V1I11IN1.html |date=August 19, 2009 }} Retrieved December 13, 2011. of Clinton Green, an American author, actor, spoken word performer, and stylist.{{Cite news
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| isbn=978-0-399-53314-3
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}} He has covered music, fashion, LGBT issues, and popular culture for magazines including LA Weekly,{{cite web | url = http://www.laweekly.com/authors/clint-catalyst | title = Clint Catalyst articles | work = LA Weekly | date = May 9, 2007 | access-date = April 13, 2009 }} Frontiers,{{Cite news
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}} Out,{{cite magazine | url = http://www.out.com/detail.asp?page=3&id=23673 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100416160219/http://www.out.com/detail.asp?page=3&id=23673 | archive-date = April 16, 2010 | date = February 13, 2008 |author = Clint Catalyst|title = Love Transamerican Style | magazine = Out | access-date = October 20, 2009 }} Surface{{Cite news
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| title=[new resolutions] Low Res Digital Film Festival
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}} and Swindle.{{Cite news
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Early life
Born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Catalyst was raised an only child to Southern Baptist parents. Other than a year in Germany on scholarship, he remained there until he attended Hendrix College, where he started As If magazineFulton, Len, Ed. (1996). International directory of little magazines & small presses, Volume 32 Dustbooks, {{ISBN|978-0-916685-86-7}} and received a Bachelors in English with honors distinction.{{cite web|url=http://www.arkansasonline.com/events/2010/apr/06/18850/ |title=Multifaceted Actor and Author to Perform at Hendrix College |publisher=Arkansasonline.com |access-date=September 3, 2011}}{{cite web |author=Materville Studios - Host of Windy City Times |url=http://www.wcmediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=25291 |title=Windy City Times - The Cottonmouth Kisses of a Small Town Boy - 310 |publisher=Wcmediagroup.com |access-date=September 3, 2011 |archive-date=October 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009033821/http://www.wcmediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=25291 |url-status=dead }}
British journalist Mick Mercer describes As If as an "excellent magazine in terms of its international content, the artwork and contributions. Normally poetry-based things can cause your spleen to explode with fury at wasted space but Clint knows who means what."{{Cite book | last=Mercer | first=Mick | title=Hex Files: The Goth Bible | isbn=0-87951-783-2| year=1997 | publisher=Overlook Press }} Upon graduation, Catalyst went to San Francisco, where he earned a Master of Arts in writing from the University of San Francisco. He said he knew he was gay from a young age, but identifies with the term "queer" in regards to his orientation.{{cite web | title=Biography | url=http://www.clintcatalyst.com/blog/biography | work=clintcatalyst.com | access-date=April 14, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321065328/http://www.clintcatalyst.com/blog/biography | archive-date=March 21, 2009 | url-status=dead }}
Writing in the LA Weekly, Linda Immediato called Catalyst a "Midwestern ex–meth head who came to L.A. by way of San Francisco, where he was a goth art-club darling — the most photographed model of the underground." In Los Angeles in the 1990s "he became the most sought-after nightclub... guest-list gatekeeper, wooed by seemingly every hip promoter in the city."{{cite web|author=Linda Immediato|title=Clint Catalyst|url=http://www.laweekly.com/2007-05-10/la-life/clint-catalyst|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604141108/http://www.laweekly.com/2007-05-10/la-life/clint-catalyst/|archive-date=June 4, 2011|publisher=laweekly.com}}
Awards
In 1989, Catalyst was one of 25 graduating high school seniors in the U.S. to be awarded the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange scholarship through Nacel Open Door, which enabled him to live and study a year in Germany. Other awards include the Isaac Andrew Campbell Memorial Prize for Poetry, The Congress/Bundestag Scholarship, First Place in the San Francisco Levi-Strauss "Poetry Slam", First Place in the Mixed Media category, Second Place in the Short Story category, and Second Place in Poetry for the annual Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language competitions.
Published work
In 2000, Manic D Press published Catalyst's book Cottonmouth Kisses, which developed a cult following{{cite web |url=http://www.nofimagazine.com/clintcatint.htm |title=The No-Fi "Magazine" interview with Clint Catalyst |date=January 1, 2008 |publisher=No-Fi |access-date=October 20, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090820023901/http://www.nofimagazine.com/clintcatint.htm |archive-date=August 20, 2009 |url-status=dead }} and topped Amazon's list of bestselling Gay & Lesbian books.{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-mar-28-wk-club28-story.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523085403/http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/28/news/wk-club28/2 | url-status=live | archive-date=May 23, 2011 | work=Los Angeles Times | title=Clubs | date=March 28, 2002}} The first section of the book, Caresses Soft as Sandpaper, was originally a chapbook published by November–March.{{Cite web
|publisher = November–March
|location = San Francisco, CA, USA
|title = Caresses soft as sandpaper. a collection of amorous ramblings and rotted erotica
|author = Clint Catalyst
|edition = Caresses soft as sandpaper.
|date = 1994
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}}{{cite web|url=http://noxnight.com/archives/book9.html |title=Book Reviews Issue #9 |publisher=noxnight.com |access-date=September 3, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030513105650/http://noxnight.com/archives/book9.html|archive-date=May 13, 2003}} Cottonmouth Kisses went into its second printing in 2007, when it was described as a "cult hit".{{cite magazine |url=http://instinctmagazine.com/celebrity-interviews/clint-catalyst-takes-our-pop-quiz |title=Clint Catalyst Takes Our Pop Quiz! |date=January 1, 2008 |first=Alexander |last=Cho |magazine=Instinct |access-date=October 20, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028161710/http://instinctmagazine.com/celebrity-interviews/clint-catalyst-takes-our-pop-quiz |archive-date=October 28, 2009 |url-status=dead }}
While touring together in the year 2000, Catalyst and artist Michelle Tea came up with the idea to solicit first-person narratives for their 2004 anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache, which was published by Alyson Books. Described by Publishers Weekly as a "celebrat[ion of] the avant-garde",{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA318539.html|title=Selected Gay & Lesbian Titles, June 2003—March 2004 |access-date=February 17, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724153633/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA318539.html |archive-date=July 24, 2008 }} the book reached No. 10 on the Los Angeles Times non-fiction paperback bestseller list in its first week of release.{{Cite news
| title=Paperbacks; BESTSELLERS; LOS ANGELES TIMES LIST FOR MARCH 14, 2004
| magazine=Los Angeles Times
| date=March 14, 2004
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}} Moreover, the book was a 2004 Lambda Literary Awards finalist in the Anthologies/Fiction category.{{cite web|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/previous_winners/paw_2004_2006.html |title=Lambda Literary Foundation 2004 winners |date=May 4, 2008 |access-date=December 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080504161813/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/previous_winners/paw_2004_2006.html |archive-date=May 4, 2008 }}
Film and television
In 2004, Catalyst and writing partner Darren Stein co-created a proposed drama The Flyover States in a development deal with Touchstone/ABC.{{cite magazine|url = https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117913657.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&query=clint+catalyst|title = Flyover has ABC aboard|access-date = February 7, 2008|author = Josef Adalian |date = November 16, 2007|magazine = Variety}}
As an associate show producer, he worked for three cycles (2005–2006) on the reality series America's Next Top Model.{{cite magazine|url = http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1220040,00.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060813114842/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1220040,00.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = August 13, 2006|title = Strikers on the Catwalk|access-date = October 20, 2009|author = Jeanne McDowell |date = July 27, 2006|magazine = Time}}{{cite web|url=http://www.laweekly.com/2006-04-06/music/freaky-stylee/|title=Freaky Stylee|work=LA Weekly|access-date = October 20, 2009|date = June 4, 2006|author=Lina Lecaro}}
In the 2007 short film In the Spotlight, Catalyst was cast opposite Guinevere Turner as a charlatan named Bell Wartock.{{cite web | url = http://losangeles.metromix.com/events/article/outfest-25-years/100903/content | title = Outfest: 25 Years | work = Metromix | date = June 29, 2007 | first = Kimberly | last = Wald}} Catalyst also appeared in Darren Stein's 2007 short Color Me Olsen in a small role as an Oompa-Loompa impersonator. He also plays the role of Járéd Silver—a parody of Catalyst's close friend, the designer Jared Gold—in Lisa Hammer's feature film, POX.Hammer, Lisa (2008). [http://www.lisahammer.com/main/POX.html POX.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819023432/http://www.lisahammer.com/main/POX.html |date=August 19, 2009 }} Blessed Elysium Motion Pictures
In February 2008, Catalyst won the first place for TV Host in CBS's Big Shot Live contest.{{cite web |url = https://www.imdb.com/video/cbs/vi2467168281/ |title = Clint Catalyst is first Big Shot Live TV Host winner |website = IMDb |access-date = February 8, 2008 |archive-date = April 18, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100418145857/http://www.imdb.com/video/cbs/vi2467168281 |url-status = dead }} His role for the follow-up winner's episode was red carpet commentator for the 50th Grammy Awards. In November 2008, Catalyst had a cameo as the stylist for Antoine de Caunes in Allez a L.A.!, a five-part series that ran on the French Cable Network Canal Plus.Stuart, Peter [http://www.canalplus.fr/index.php?pid=2863 Allez a L.A.!] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819164239/http://www.canalplus.fr/index.php?pid=2863 |date=August 19, 2009 }} Canal Plus In March 2009, Catalyst appeared as a special guest in an episode of the reality television series Germany's Next Topmodel, hosted by Heidi Klum.{{cite web |url=http://inthisweek.com/view.php?id=103551 |title=No more swinging from the Black Chandelier |first=Amy |last=Spencer |date=February 26, 2009 |work=IN Utah |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090820020721/http://inthisweek.com/view.php?id=103551 |archive-date=August 20, 2009 }}
As 'Himself', Catalyst appeared in a celluloid version of the off-musical comedy Forever Plaid, shown nationwide in theatres for one night in 2009 to celebrate the play's 20th anniversary.{{cite web |url=http://www.wfxg.com/Global/story.asp?S=10412555 |title=Forever Plaid - The Fun Starts Here on WFXG Fox54 Augusta! |publisher=Wfxg.com |date=July 9, 2009 |access-date=September 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091101002042/http://www.wfxg.com/Global/story.asp?S=10412555 |archive-date=November 1, 2009 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.foreverplaid.com/about-the-event.php |title=Forever Plaid |date=May 18, 2009 |access-date=December 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090518085424/http://www.foreverplaid.com/about-the-event.php |archive-date=May 18, 2009 }} However, his recent role as 'The Interviewee' in Matthew Mishory's short film "Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman"{{cite web|author=Nark Magazine |url=http://narkmagazine.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html |title=Nark Magazine: December 2009 |publisher=Narkmagazine.blogspot.com |access-date=September 3, 2011}} has been seen at film festivals around the world. It had its world premiere at the 2009 Reykjavik International Film Festival in Iceland, its UK premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London, and its California premiere at the 2010 Frameline International Film Festival in San Francisco.{{cite web|url=http://www.frameline.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=1927&FID=47 |access-date=February 9, 2012 |url-status=dead |title=Films: Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110107033916/http://www.frameline.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=1927&FID=47 |archive-date=January 7, 2011 }} It won the Eastman Kodak Grand Prize for Best Short Film at the 2010 United States Super 8 and DV Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.njfilmfest.com/super8.html |title=Super 8 |publisher=Njfilmfest.com |access-date=December 4, 2013 |archive-date=June 11, 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020611023056/http://www.njfilmfest.com/super8.html |url-status=dead }}
Catalyst also appears as "Johnny the Bartender" in Matthew Mishory's 2012 feature Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean, which stars James Preston.{{cite web |url=http://www.homocinema.web.iq.pl/gay_movie_joshua_tree_1951_a_portrait_of_james_dean.html |title=Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean (2011) |publisher=Homocinema.web.iq.pl |access-date=September 3, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629183525/http://www.homocinema.web.iq.pl/gay_movie_joshua_tree_1951_a_portrait_of_james_dean.html |archive-date=June 29, 2011 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.cinemagay.it/schede.asp?IDFilm=4505 |title=Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean |publisher=Cinemagay.it |access-date=September 3, 2011}}{{cite web|author=Ivan Guerrero |url=http://www.malemodelmusicproject.com/2010/10/flash-of-vulnerabilityconversation-with.html |title=PREVIEW: Conversation with director Matthew Mishory on his upcoming film; JOSHUA TREE, 1951: A PORTRAIT OF JAMES DEAN |publisher=The Male Model Music Project |date=October 22, 2010 |access-date=September 3, 2011}}
Ramzi Abed's psychological thriller Noirland is still listed as "in production", though from press the film has already generated, Catalyst is credited in the role of 'The Baron.'{{cite web|url=https://www.horrornews.net/exclusive_news/_news_01.2010/01.27.10.html |title=Daily horror news |publisher=Horrornews.net |date=September 3, 2010 |access-date=December 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100903063555/http://www.horrornews.net/exclusive_news/_news_01.2010/01.27.10.html |archive-date=September 3, 2010 }} Conversely, in Hilary Goldberg's experimental cross-genre feature recLAmation (2010), he has the role of 'Gaylord Wilshire [a] Queer Superhero.'{{cite web |url=http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/QFest10/recLAm.html |title=recLAmation |publisher=Queerculturalcenter.org |access-date=September 3, 2011 |archive-date=July 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727150309/http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/QFest10/recLAm.html |url-status=dead }}
Catalyst is an interview subject in Christopher Hines film The Adonis Factor (2010), a documentary about body issues among men within the gay community. Among the film's reviews, Catalyst is described as "one of two interviewees who 'stand[s] out'"{{cite web |url=http://www.wboc.com/story/13332177/dvd-review-the-adonis-factor |title=DVD Review: The Adonis Factor - WBOC-TV 16, Delmarvas News Leader, FOX 21 |publisher=Wboc.com |date=October 15, 2010 |access-date=September 3, 2011 |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927131018/http://www.wboc.com/story/13332177/dvd-review-the-adonis-factor |url-status=dead }} for being a "gothic artist model who is so painfully awkward that he becomes beautiful."{{cite web|url=https://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/adonisfactor.php |title=DVD Verdict Review - The Adonis Factor |publisher=Dvdverdict.com |date=October 26, 2010 |access-date=September 3, 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028112025/http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/adonisfactor.php |archivedate=October 28, 2010 |first=Brett |last=Cullum}}
In 2011, he portrayed Salvador "The Ice Fiend Man" for episode #4.6 ("Better Them Than Us") of the SPIKE TV series 1000 Ways to Die.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1845898/ "1000 Ways to Die" Better Them Than Us (TV episode 2011) - IMDb]{{cite web|url=http://www.spike.com/video-clips/bl8ldb/1000-ways-to-die-ice-fiend-man |title=Ice Fiend Man | Free Video Clips |publisher=Spike.com |access-date=September 3, 2011}}
As of 2019, he is the story producer of TV series The Boulet Brothers' Dragula.{{cite web |url=https://www.gertrudepress.org/clint-catalyst.html |title=To Spencer, On this Day of Your Birth |website=Gertrude Press |access-date=April 21, 2021}}
Live performances, modeling, and events
Catalyst has appeared as a spoken word performer at events including the Bumbershoot festival,[http://www.bumbershoot.org/history.htm Bumbershoot Literary Arts Festival] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917091245/http://bumbershoot.org/history.htm |date=September 17, 2008 }} (September 2002) Outfest,Catalyst, Clint (2002). [http://www.outfest.org/fest2002/fest2002.platinumartist.html Eight/Ate: Homos, Homonyms, & Speaking Italics.] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20020716135606/http://www.outfest.org/fest2002/fest2002.platinumartist.html |date=July 16, 2002 }} Outfest the Dark Arts Festival,Staff report (2001). [http://www.darkartsfestival.com/2001/body/performers.html 2001 Headliners.] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130121084541/http://www.darkartsfestival.com/2001/body/performers.html |date=January 21, 2013 }} Dark Arts Festival Writers With Drinks,{{cite web|url=http://www.writerswithdrinks.com/past.html |title=Writers With Drinks past events |publisher=Writerswithdrinks.com |access-date=September 3, 2011}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20030407213948/http://scutter.hypermart.net/scutterfest.htm Scutterfest],
and Convergence 9.Stained Production (2003). [http://www.virulent.org/converg4/past.html Convergence history.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061214232823/http://www.virulent.org/converg4/past.html |date=December 14, 2006 }} He has also hosted literary events, including a monthly spoken word series entitled The Unhappy Hour at the Parlour Club (where he also created performance art night Touché).{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jan-01-wk-buzz1-story.html | work=Los Angeles Times | title=Buzz Clubs | date=January 1, 2004}}{{cite web|url=http://www.asitecalledfred.com/abouttown/38.html |title=Movie Poop Shoot - About Town |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402212506/http://www.asitecalledfred.com/abouttown/38.html |archive-date=April 2, 2012 }}
He has had a variety of modeling assignments, including appearances on the covers of books, including The Best of Alice JoanouJoanou, Alice (1998). The Best of Alice Joanou. Rhinoceros Publications, {{ISBN|978-1-56333-623-2}}{{cite web|url= http://www.exquisiterestraint.com/galleries/gallery_clintCatalyst.html |title=Exquisite Restraint}}{{cite web |url= http://stevedietgoedde.com/alicejoanou.htm |title= Book Cover by Steve Diet Goedde |access-date= March 4, 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090819060746/http://stevedietgoedde.com/alicejoanou.htm |archive-date= August 19, 2009 |url-status= dead }} and the anthology Sons of Darkness: Tales of Men, Blood and Immortality.{{cite web|url=http://www.out.com/detail.asp?page=3&id=23673 |title=Out.com Features | The Boys of Buzznet |access-date=December 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100416160219/http://www.out.com/detail.asp?page=3&id=23673 |archive-date=April 16, 2010 }}Michael Rowe, Thomas S. Roche (1996). Sons of Darkness: Tales of Men, Blood and Immortality. Cleis Pr, {{ISBN|978-1-57344-060-8}} In March 2008, Catalyst was chosen to appear in a national Peta2 "Fur Is Dead" campaign.{{cite web|url=http://blog.peta2.com/2008/03/clint_catalyst_fur_is_dead.html|author=Staff report|date=March 10, 2008|title=Clint Catalyst - Fur Is Dead!|publisher=Peta2|access-date=March 20, 2008|archive-date=March 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314131346/http://blog.peta2.com/2008/03/clint_catalyst_fur_is_dead.html|url-status=dead}} Moreover, from May 3 to August 31, 2008, a portrait of Catalyst, along with a filmed version of his spoken word/performance piece "To Push Away or Clutch"{{cite web|url=http://www.inthisweek.com/view.php?id=2363296 |title=Utah's Nightlife - Events, Bar Listings, Sexy in Salt Lake City, Photos and more | NowSaltLake.com |publisher=Inthisweek.com |access-date=September 3, 2011}} was on display in The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA). Deemed an 'Uberstar'—along with designer Rami Kashou, photographer Dirk Mai, journalist Rose Apodaca, model/designer Audrey Kitching, and internet celebrity Cory Kennedy—Catalyst was hand-picked by sculptor/visual artist Glenn Kaino to represent his 21st Century take on Andy Warhol's Superstars.{{cite web|author=Ignacio Villarreal |url=http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=24010&int_modo=1 |title=The Andy Warhol Museum Presents Transformer: The Art of Glenn Kaino |publisher=Artdaily.com |access-date=September 3, 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Glenn_Kaino.html?q=andy+warhol |title=Art News | The Andy Warhol Museum Presents ~ The Art of Glenn Kaino |publisher=Art Knowledge News |date=March 18, 2011 |access-date=September 3, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707171145/http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Glenn_Kaino.html?q=andy+warhol |archive-date=July 7, 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.thestylephile.com/blog/330000033/post/130028013.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202134218/http://www.thestylephile.com/blog/330000033/post/130028013.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 2, 2008 |title=Entertainment news, film reviews, awards, film festivals, box office, entertainment industry conferences - Variety |publisher=Thestylephile.com |access-date=September 3, 2011 }}{{Cite book
| last=Chamberlain
| first=Daniel
| title=The Work of Glenn Kaino: Communicating Rooks
| publisher=Hatje Cantz
| date=September 30, 2009
| pages=111–112
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Catalyst was a celebrity judge for the Asian Pacific AIDS Alliance Quest Beauty Pageant and was hired by Paper Magazine as a judge for Audrey Kuenstler's 'High Fashion Wrestling' event.{{cite news|url= http://www.laweekly.com/2005-12-15/music/nightranger/ |first=Lina | last = Lecaro| date = December 15, 2005 |title=Paper Dolls|newspaper=LA Weekly}} He has also been hired as a guest host for magazine release parties{{cite news|author=Lina Lecaro |url=http://www.laweekly.com/2008-03-06/music/dancefloor-diplo-macy/ |title=Bonded by the Beats - Page 1 - Music - Los Angeles |newspaper=LA Weekly |date=March 5, 2008 |access-date=September 3, 2011}} and social events - he was Buzznet's official red carpet host for the 2007 Emmy Awards.
He has been described as the "muse" for avant-garde designer Jared Gold,{{cite news | url = http://losangeles.metromix.com/style/article/q-and-a-clint/110344/content | title = Q&A: Clint Catalyst | first = Caroline | last = Ryder | work = Metromix | date = March 5, 2008 }} and has worked as an event producer for some of Gold's fashion shows.{{cite web|url= http://www.laweekly.com/2007-03-22/columns/l-a-fashion-week-smackdown/ |first=Linda | last = Immediato| date = March 22, 2007 |title=L.A. Fashion Week Smackdown|work=LA Weekly}} In November 2009, the duo released their first collaborative design effort: a set of prize ribbons with awards such as "Epic" and "Hedonist."{{cite news|author=Lina Lecaro |url=http://www.laweekly.com/2010-01-07/music/nightranger-looks-back-at-09-fashion-and-music/2 |title=Nightranger Looks Back at '09 Fashion and Music - Page 2 - Music - Los Angeles |newspaper=LA Weekly |date=January 7, 2010 |access-date=September 3, 2011}}{{cite web|author=Outi |url=http://www.outsapop.com/2009/12/congratulations-you-are-winner.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091208121458/http://www.outsapop.com/2009/12/congratulations-you-are-winner.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=December 8, 2009 |title= OutsaPop Trashion recycled style DIY fashion eco sustainable refashion blog - Congratulations! You are winner! |publisher=Outsapop.com |date=February 26, 2004 |access-date=September 3, 2011}}
Works
- Caresses Soft as Sandpaper {{OL work|id=OL24649305M |cname=Caresses Soft as Sandpaper by Clint Catalyst}} (1994)
- Full Force {{OL work|id=OL24642069M |cname=Full Force by Clint Catalyst}} (1995)
- Cottonmouth Kisses (2000) {{ISBN|978-0-916397-65-4}}
- Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person (with Michelle Tea) (2004) {{ISBN|1-55583-753-0}}
- Best Gay Stories 2012 (edited by Peter Dubé; story Sugar Rush was chosen as one of 15 inclusions), Lethe Press 2012 {{ISBN|1-59021-387-4}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.clintcatalyst.com Official website]
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- [http://hiccuphiccup.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/hiccup-4-under-the-influence/ Hiccup, Volume 4 - Dramatic Reading by Clint Catalyst (Adobe Flashplayer)]
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