Jim Pickrell:  

Back then I was sort of the odd ball trench coat magician that was always in trouble... Now I am that Odd Ball Adult that Has managed to turn the weirdness into a good living. From Vegas to New York I have been entertaining people as a MC and Illusionist for various productions. Back in High School I managed to do some things that I wish I never had done. For those that don't know the details My freshman through Senior grads were hard on me psychology and emotionally. I was abandoned by my mother my freshman year when she went through a divorce and my step-father did not want me to live with him and my half brothers. I was forced to go and live with my natural father who had just been released from prison. That was perhaps the worse thing that could of happened. My father was a stranger to me at the time and he had just remarried a prostitute and drug addict that use to be one of his "girls". As it turned out he had gone back to his old ways. He was back to being a hardcore heroin and alcohol addict selling drugs, doing home burglaries, and robberies. He had me involved with a lot of it, by no choice of my own. I was forced to start selling drugs for him at school. At one point several of the students became ill from the drugs and I was turned in which I don't blame anyone for doing. I have always regretted and been remorseful of what had happened and to those of you that it happened to I want to express my deepest apologies. As a result of these things I was expelled and rightfully so. My life was a mess and in a shamble. I was suffering from a lot of physical and psychological abuse from my family. Soon after I left home and and was homeless for a long time. It came to me that I needed to get as far away as I could from my father so I decided to enlist in the Navy. it was the best thing that could of done for myself. After I was discharged from the Navy in San Francisco I decided that there was not much for me in Denver so I stayed in S.F. for the next 15 years. I mov...Expand for more