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Andrew W.K.: Down The Rabbit Hole

While ANDREW W.K. insists the fight for control of his career he’s been caught in since 2005 is 100 percent real, some have suggested that there is an Andrew W.K./Steev Mike ARG, or alternate-reality game, taking place, with clues scattered across the internet. Thanks to excellent fan-run websites like awilkeskrier.homestead.com, dudeguy.com/awk and andrewwklinks.webs.com, you too, can explore the intricacies of the mystery of Steev Mike, but be careful; it’s incredibly easy to fall down the rabbit hole. Below are step-by-step instructions on how to get yourself wrapped up in all of this, just as we did one late night while researching this story. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here…

  1. Start at bertpadell.com/clients.htm (this is the website of the accounting firm which handles Andrew W.K.’s business affairs).
  2. Virtually every client listed has their name linked back to the same landing page, except Andrew W.K.’s–clicking his name will take you to a nondescript login page. Click “test.”
  3. Now, you’ll be on some sort of accounting page for teen-pop washout Aaron Carter. (Why, we don’t know.) At the bottom, there is an 888 number listed to call if you have questions. This number actually belongs to a New York City-based limousine service. (Note: If you call it at 3 a.m. and get their answering machine, like we did, you will most likely get a return phone call from a very irate-sounding New Yorker who was most likely asleep minutes prior.)
  4. Dead end? That’s what we thought, too, until we looked at the company that designed the website called Robbie 19 Publishing Co. Paying a visit to robbie19pc.com shows that every time the number 19 is written, it’s written in the color red–similar to how the number 55 (representing EE, representing Steev) is always written in green on Andrew W.K.-related websites. The number 19 would translate to AI-artificial intelligence? Andrew’s instructions? Who knows.
  5. Click on “portfolio.” You’ll be taken to a page that links to Robbie 19-designed websites, all of which are rudimentary at best (and share very similar basic layouts with the Andrew W.K. attack sites archived at dudeguy.com/awk).
  6. Click on the second down screenshot in the middle column to be taken to cjagolf.com, the homepage of Chris Arceneaux, a professional golfer on the Hooters Tour–the same tour that Andrew W.K.’s brother, Patrick Wilkes-Krier, plays on. Coincidence? Well, probably.


What does it all mean? We have no idea. But we’re sure we’re onto something. Maybe. —Scott Heisel

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