We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Jake Trust. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Jake below.

Alright, Jake thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Do you feel you or your work has ever been misunderstood or mischaracterized? If so, tell us the story and how/why it happened and if there are any interesting learnings or insights you took from the experience?

Yes. A lot of my work falls under the genre of surrealist writing. I’ve always been a surrealist writer, and have always love it. It’s always been a very odd genre, and in college I had a playwriting professor who despised my work as a surrealist playwright. She’d often criticize my work for being “too difficult to understand” or “too weird,” and even told me I’d never get anything produced because of how avant-garde it is. She would say that it’s intentionally confusing, or torturous to the audience. While that’s partially true, I felt that my work was being wrongfully discredited simply because of its unique nature. She assumed because it was surrealist and confusing, it had no meaning whatsoever. What I learned from this was that I shouldn’t have to conform my work to anybody else’s expectations or criteria of what art should be. The best way to be creative is to make things that are true to my own artistic vision.

Jake, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

More of an idiot than an artist of any kind, Jake Trust is a provocative punk rocker hailing from Boston, MA. Jake Trust began his unfortunate journey into punk rock and surrealist writing, as well as acting and stand-up comedy as a kid, playing in punk rock and hardcore bands around the Boston area as early as 12 years old and acting and writing well before that. He now makes music on spotify, does stand up comedy, writes, acts, and pisses people off everywhere he goes.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

I went to a very small private high school where I was tormented by my peers. People didn’t like me because I was this weird kid who was unapologetically myself. I was the only kid into punk rock or surrealism, and I was bullied for it. I learned to delve deeper into my passions than conform to what they saw as normal.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

I want to continue to express myself, because I need to in order to live. I can only do that by accepting my weirdness and continuing to embrace it. Go fuck yourself.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ihatejaketrust
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@JakeTrust
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3r3vZ0HMbZD3V4sNVWWtor?si=WroXqwQvSMiBbaWSWx80dg

  https://music.apple.com/us/artist/jake-trust/1776773021