shane

Get Your MySpace Layouts at Freemyspacelayouts.org ? i'm a cook aspiring to become a chef. i'm also a singer/songwriter and i'm currently writing short stories(for myself until i can get some published). i was born in lake charles,la on july 10,1975 and lived there until i was 18. i moved outta my parents house at that time to houston,tx with a band that i was playing in at the time. we were called cave hug and were basically your typical high school pop punk band. we didn't accomplish anything while there, unless you consider smoking shitloads of bud an accomplishment. none of us got jobs when we were there because we weren't bilingual, which i'm still not. english is my language. while living in houston i was turned onto a john waters' movie by our guitarist, it was called "desperate living"(which is the only john waters' movie that divine isn't in). that's where darrell came up with name of the band,jimmy dong & the human blockheads, that would be a part of our lives for approximately 6.5 years. the orginal lineup was darrell-guitar, rick-drums and me on bass/lead vocals. we kept this lineup for a while, until i got arrested. then rick got into some pretty hard drugs and wouldn't show up for our regularly scheduled practices, that's when he quit and introduced us to joe. joe took ricks place on the drums and shit began to roll. joe is the best drummer i have ever had the oppurtunity to work with. our songs reached a much tighter and harder sound. we began to sound like a cross between gorilla biscuits and christ on a crutch. we recorded our first ep "spanky" which consisted of six songs maybe seven, i can't remember. it was at a nofx show(heavy petting zoo tour) where i gave our tape to crazy tony. he was the founder of broken note records. joe was still in high school when that happened. we continued to play around our hometown and many outta town gigs. we opened for many bands that weren't big at the time, now they are. eventually, crazy tony got in contact with us about doing a compilation cd; which we did. that led to us doing a couple more comps and a live recording that never got released. we were in the studio recording, what was going to be our first full length, when we broke up. guess that's the life of a punk band in a brief synopsis. i've done some recording on my own, but have yet to release any of it. right now i'm concentrating on my writing and just trying to get my life in order. when you live in a dream for so long it's hard to come back to reality. this will be an ongoing about me, so check it out in the future for updates.