Eak the Geek

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Eduardo Arrocha, also known as Eak the Geek was born in Mexico City on January 12, 1962. He is the son of an American Mother and a Mexican Father. Eak grew up in "La Alteña I, in the Lomas Verdes Neighborhood in the State of Mexico. As a child he was restless, having an innate curiosity, and a poetic mind; he would often wonder in the hills around his home for days on end wondering about the Universe.

At an early age he observed the sideshows the Gypsies would put together in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, though little did he know that the fascination would end up in a career.

Eddie as Eak the geek was know then was a chronic run-away, spending a summer in a farm in rural Mexico at sixteen living with the peasants, spending time with an uncle in Puyallup Washington ( where he very briefly worked in a chicken processing plant, hence the beginning of the Geek story.)

As a teenager he moved the USA with his mother, first living in Albuquerque where he was hooked on the sideshow world when he observed the great"Popeye" do his act on the midway.

After a heartbreak, Eak decided to live the "the bohemian life to the fullest" he wrote poetry, screamed in hard-core bands, street vended, and eventually found his way to New York City. He began his life in New York as a street vendor, but eventually found himself working in the Coney Island Circus Sideshow. He worked in Coney Island for 15 years alongside some of the greatest sideshow performers of the time.

Eak the geek developed and act in which he would get sandwiched between two nail boards and place the two largest people in the audience on his stomach, he could handle weights of up to three fourths of a ton.

Eduardo has been part of the East Village Art Scene for twenty years, owning his small place in the East Village; as he likes to say: "I barely beat gentrification, get used to me!"

He returned to College after many years, finished his BA in Political Science in Marymount Manhattan, then did a stint at Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. While at Cooley, Eak stated he was studying law to represent the freaks but ended up with two years of law school debt and a dream unfulfilled. Academics just weren't his thing.

At present he is working on new acts, poetry, traveling and planning his return to the East Village.

Eak has been featured in many shows and magazines including; the Ricky Lake Show, the Travel Channel, the Discovery Channel, Bizarre Magazine, Beyond Race Magazine, CNN, and the New York Times.

He loves to say, hey ma; " look I ran away from the circus to go to school." Unfortunately, the school sent him back to the circus.

Eaks mother lives in Berlin, his father is an attorney in Mexico City, a brother is a professor in Montery California, another is an actor and singer in Mexico City, and his youngest brother is working on his Masters in international law in London England.

Eak marches to his own drumbeat, is a deist, does not smoke, drink, rarely curses and keeps getting covered in tattoos.

He likes to say after every show : "There no freaks or geeks in the world, only human beings, be kind to each other, it makes for a better world".

This summer you might find him on the road somewhere, but wherever it may be, rest assured it will certainly not be in a law school.

Mum, Dad, I've Run Away From The Circus To Become... A Lawyer! - October 22, 2008.</ref>

External links

• Eak the Geek at Coney Island Circus Sideshow