Background
He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, in a music oriented household.
He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, in a music oriented household.
Having been introduced to synthesizers in his teenage years, he developed an interest in editing. In the early 1990s, Ouimet co-founded the noise rock group Cop Shoot Cop, playing sampler and keyboards. He left after their first album to form Motherhead Bug, with whom he sang and played trombone.
He has also recorded and toured with Foetus and Swans.
Ouimet"s illustrations of creepy, bipedal, fez-capped insect creatures (usually wielding scimitars or smoking hookahs) appeared on Motherhead Bug"s singles and album, and he has continued his career as an illustrator with Robert Doctorate. San Souci"s Dare to be Scared series and Nancy Etchmendy"s Cat in Glass and other Tales of the Unnatural.
He was a band member of Cop Shoot Cop, Motherhead Bug, Firewater, and Sulfur but has since moved on to interests other than music