So, interested in me are you? Hmm... Well, there's nothing really interesting about me when it comes down to it. I guess you can say I'm your average teenager (young adult) with the mind of a 14 year old. Yeah, I'm kind of weird like that. All my life, I've always considered myself to be younger then my friends, even if they were younger then I was. It's just how I saw myself... always too immature to hang with certain people - which probably explains why I'm the oldest out of most of my friends! Sickening, yes, I know.

Well, as of right now, I'm stationed in Burbank, CA. I used to live in Van Nuys (where I was born on June 14th, 1984). I've moved way too many times in my entire life. From North Hollywood, to being homeless for a night, to Northridge, North Hollywood again, Canoga Park, Lancaster, Then we moved up a few town houses on the same street in Lancaster, then to Van Nuys, Then on Sepulveda in Van Nuys, then on Dempsey in Van Nuys, and now here in Burbank. There are other times when I moved, but they all happened at random times, and it's hard to remember them all. Unfortunately, I had to move yet again because honestly, we couldn't afford the rent payments at the house we lived in (Van Nuys). My Grandfather, "Baw Baw" (Pronounced "Bo Bo" not BoBo... but with an accent. Baw Baw... get it? It's Greek you IDIOTS!) - died of a heart attack, leaving his house open to us. So, we moved in (We as in my Mom, little brother Terry, and myself). What was kind of weird, was that there had been 3 deaths in this house that we moved into. My Great Grandfather, died in the kitchen of a heart attack. My Grandfather died down the hallway in his room of a heart attack. The 3rd death... yes, the worst of all... a little white dog named "Frosty" died of old age, in my room, in the bed I sleep in. Creepy, sad, but so very true.

One thing I love to do the most is make music. I guess I'm what they call "musically talented". I've been this way since I was about 5 or 6, or maybe even 7. I first started out with a keyboard I got for Christmas. It was then when I realized I could play music by ear. When you're little, you don't appreciate abilities like that. Well after all of that, a shit load of Christmas's later, I got my first electric guitar. It was a crappy Synsonic one from Toys R Us which now when I think about it, as cool as it seemed to me then, I now realize how shitty it was. It was crap, but decent for someone who just got into guitars. So yeah, I then made my first song that I called ... I think "Drag" It was about, well, I guess stuff that sucked.. like, school-like situations, and how I was around 12, and still never kissed a girl. I don't remember the song much, but I remember some parts of the chorus, which go along the lines of this -

*Something* bad, isn't it sad, isn't it sad, isn't it sad, it's a drag!"

Yeah, I was a little bastard, but anyway... It was around then when I dove into music. There was only one band I can remember that was my first favorite band. It was Blink 182. I remember I got into music real heavy in 1997 (Also when I was a hardcore WWF fan.. what a loser I was). My mom gave me one of those order forms where you can pick out a certain amount of CD's if you subscribe to magazines or something. So, I picked Blink 182's "Dude Ranch" CD because "Damnit" that was played on TV a lot (it was my best friend (Marvin) and I's favorite song). I also got Green Day's "Nimrod" and a few others - (Sugar Ray, Matchbox 20, etc..). So yeah, it was then I fell for Green Day.

I remember one time, I had to be up early to go fishing with a friend of mine named Mike. Before I went to bed, I saw that there was gunna be an HBO special. It was a Green Day concert! I was so excited, because I'd finally get to see what they were like on stage. The only problem was, is that it came on at 3:00AM. I knew it'd be over by 4:00AM, and I had to be up and ready by 5:00AM. Well, I did something I'd never forget - I made myself stay awake to watch this concert. And I did. It was a really good one too. But, the funny part is, is when I talked to Marvin about it, I remember asking him if Billie Joe was gay, because he was dancing around in nothing but a leopard thong or g-string around the stage while King For A Day was playing. Little did I know, the humorous and entertaining Billie Joe, would be one of my role models in the future.

So anyway, later on in life, I began to get into Metallica, and fast metal bands. That didn't last very long, because I ended up going back to "punk". So anyway, yada yada. In 10th grade (which was a turning point in my life) After I got out of my severe depression, it's when I started to fit in at school (which was one of my reasons for being depressed, was the loss of my past friends, which still hurts today). I started to hang around people in the Quad of my high school. The Quad, is kind of like, THE spot to hang around and stuff. You know how immature kids can get. So anyway, I met up with a guy named Justin, who was the biggest Green Day fan I knew. Me and him got close kind of fast. He's still a really good friend of mine, but he's usually busy with his life and all (Whenever we have the time, we jam out and play Green Day/Blink).

As time went on, 11th grade came up, and Justin graduated from high school. It was a sad time for me, because again I felt like I've lost another good friend of mine, also, I had lost a girl who loved me as well. Summer school came around, and it was then when I met Sabrina Lynn Romo. At first, I thought to myself, "She's cute and all, but she looks like she just got out of 9th grade..." funny thing is, she did. I was going into the 11th, she was going into 10th! Well, no, I guess there isn't anything wrong with that. So anyway, we started talking and all, and we flirted back and forth through the whole summer sort of (or atleast I did) I remember I started singing "Party Song" by Blink, and she was amazed I knew the lyrics to it. She never met anyone who did. I think it was later (or maybe before) she then told me I looked like Tom DeLonge (Guitarist from Blink 182). It was also then I thought she was mental. Still to this day, she says I do. The only relation I think Tom and I have, is that we sound alike, and we can act the same way. (Not on purpose, although I bet you don't believe me). So yeah, by the end of summer school, Sabrina and I were seeing each other, and then on the night of October 26, of 2000 - She was my official girlfriend. She was my first everything basically. What a lucky girl. (What the fuck is that suppose to mean?)

Later, I got a black Epiphone bass I so cleverly called "Blue". It was my first REAL instrument, and I learned how to play it so quick, it was amazing. I still was playing songs by ear. I then sort of taught myself how to read number tabs (with a little help from my friend Tim Herzer). I then started playing songs like nothing. A few months later, I got my first REAL guitar. It was a Squire Bullet, with a black standard body (which now, looks different. I customized with a chrome barrel volume knob, and "Skinny Top Heavy Bottom" Ernie Ball strings, and a Seymore Duncan Invader Pickup. Also threw some stickers, and a zipper on it to give it some charactor - yeah, not much). I started playing songs like crazy, because I took what I learned from bass, and applied it to guitar, and within the first week, I was playing Guitar pretty damn well.

Later, during the middle of my senior year, is when I got into a Finnish band called HIM. They have a .. wicked image. The music they play is a type of goth rock, yet, it's romantic at the same time. It's rad! For all of you who wanted to know "What's that heart thing you wear around your neck?" Now I'll tell you... IT'S THE HEARTAGRAM... HIM'S BAND LOGO! The reason it's a heart, and an upside down pentagram (which makes it a heartagram, you can see it on the bottom of this page, with my own personal logo. It's a glowing heart/triangle shape. The heart symbolizes the love, and good, while the upside down pentagram symbolizes the hate, and evil. It's like a Yin-Yang, cept much cooler (I used to love Yin-Yangs).

Around the end of my high school year, I was brought into a band, called "Acidtone" which I played bass for. We were sort of a Punk/metal band, but we sounded kind of like The Strokes or The Hives... makes no sense.
Ater they broke up, I played for another band for a day, didn't work out either. Then I played for Five Points Up, which was going good. We played 2 shows. Things didn't work out very well, the bassest quit, and after some regrouping, I'm now in Persuasion Outline, which has so many different sounding songs, it's hard to call us just one type of music.

As of right now, I work at ISA (again). Now that I already own a car (1984 Chevrolet Cavalier) I *still* plan on buying a CRX, that would be fun to own. I'd still rather have an Audi A4/S4 anyway. So yeah, after that I then planned on going to Westwood School of Technology, to do something with computer graphics, but have changed my mind, and now will be attending college to follow music. I also love to write, because I can be conversational, and can keep people reading most of the times (like right now!)... I'll probably be working a crappy job for the rest of my life anyway... (lets hope not).
That's kind of me and my interests in a nutshell. Things tend to happen in my life, so be sure to check my journal entries for more crazy topics and issues that are on my mind.