This revision dated 04_01_2008. New revision due soon! Enjoy!:
before anything drastic happens to your uterus or testicles, please take note... my album is for sale, yo! It's easy to find (like the SnoCap widget). If you don't want to use SnoCap to buy a copy, go to my website (www.arcaneaddiction.com) and buy a copy with some extras for the same price you'd pay via SnoCap, but use PayPal instead. It would mean a lot to me if you could find it within yourself to help support this art, as I feel as time goes on, it's meaning will be stronger than it may even be right now.
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Hello, traveler of MySpace! You have stumbled upon my little crack in the ass of this social network. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the whole "about me" section (which really is bad for a Leo to deal with).
I was born and raised in the local Portland area, and have lived here for many years. I have traveled in my lifetime to places like Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Banff, Edmonton, Calgary, Los Angeles. Basically I've almost been all over the North American map, minus half of it. I've grown to love Portland for what it is and what it's about; a weird city that is full of life and is very diverse in it's scenery, weather, and local outings. I wouldn't give up Portland for the rest of the world even if it meant my death. I'd only move if a natural disaster occured which prompted me to have to move because the area would be unlivable, kind of like how our government technically gave up on New Orleans and left many people to die or suffer. Conspiracy number 1.
To start out, life has always been fun and games to me. It's a part of my youth that has stuck with me since the introduction of video games. In grade school I excelled at a lot of things except science and english, and seemed to get very good grades. In junior high, I started to slack off, and got expelled in the middle of 8th grade for attempting to set the school on fire or assault my principal and other faculty members with insect repellent and shit, no joke. In high school, I basically just gave up and wasn't enjoying the lack of a challenge I was getting for my education. Everything seemed too simple and black and white. Plus, it wasn't exactly catering to what I wanted to do with my life. I don't believe in learning that George Washington finding this country and chopping a tree is going to net me a 6 figure job that I would love to do more than hate going to. I don't believe that having to have proper english skills such as grammar and punctuation is going to benefit me while working at a telemarketing job to support a habit. We all learn in different ways, and in mine, I was lucky to graduate high school in 2001. However, there was a life that could have been, and I'm glad it didn't happen that way!
In 1988 and 1989, I had this run with a bunch of tests at some local facilities to become diagnosed with attention deficit problems and Autism. That has been a roadblock of my own as an adult, but has served many purposes such as seeking enlightenment of my own, and a higher form of intelligence. 6 years into my adulthood, and it's working so far. I wouldn't say this is a curse, it's just who I am. day by day the acceptance and assimilation grows, but, people misperceive it like it's a disease sometimes, or think maybe i'm too retarded that they can't be seen with me. true story, one person wanted to hang out with me, some dude in his mid 20's. after telling him about being autistic and telling him a bit about what it's been like, he thought it was a communicable disease. i swear i could have laughed so fuckin hard i would have farted until i shit myself a baseball stadium.
I grew up an avid video game fan, and have enjoyed numerous titles released by numerous companies. In my teen years, I found myself wanting to learn and write music. I educated myself about playing music and have been for over a decade to date. I love 7-string guitars, 5-string basses, and lots of noises. It is my goal as a musician to create my own art that stands out from everyone else and caters to no one's specific taste, to allow them to adapt to every aspect I put into it. The end goal of being a musician is to use what I make to change the minds of many people and bring a larger form of awareness to the public and to the world; an awareness that has long been dead in a time of desperate need.
In my spare time, I enjoy watching cartoons like South Park, Family Guy, Drawn Together, and find new cartoons or shows that will get my interest. Recently, Metalocalypse has been a very big desire of cartoon watching. I'm waiting on Season 2 to pick back up though. And when the fuck are they gonna have Season 4 of Drawn Together, yo? Maybe I should just get into Shin Chan for the sheer fuckery of it.
I also like to discover new games to play so I can discover new things that programmers hide in their story lines or in the music or just overall the coding. I'm not smart when it comes to programming video games, but I like to dissect the possibilities and such. It's like programming a robot to think it's human and has emotions, you just dissect it and see what makes what tick or trigger.
I've grown up as a social-type person who likes to talk to people new and old and make new friends and so forth. But I'm also like any other person who needs their "me" time so they're not burnt out. I take a lot more "me" time these days though because everyone wants a piece of the action, apparently. However, this is as well a curse, as I'd like to live with people and not with myself. But yet, being on my own has proven so much to myself, and has shown others a few things I'd never have exhibited living with other people to begin with. Makes for awesome hypocrisy of oneself or maybe a paradox?
In 2004, I started a music project of my own, Arcane Addiction. It is the launching pad for my musical arts primarily and my graphic/visual arts secondary. I think the name best suits the way we all see things in reality; that every person no matter who or what has an addiction, and we cannot exactly understand why it is an addiction. However, there are numerous meanings flying through the reason of the name and what is in the music at all times, making it blurry but yet legible to read or hear. The first album I plan to put out is called "The Occult: Stories for 2012" which is a concept album (since concepts seem to be long gone and dead, and not many have been as great to get into since Marilyn Manson's trilogy in the mid to late 90's). It's a concept that I won't go into detail about here, but you can find out through blogs if they're available or on the official website, which you will click here to check it out or you can just go to my top friends list and click on the AA.
I'm an overall fairly good person. My head and my heart are in the right place, and am always doing my best to keep it there. I've got some really awesome friends, and will always be making new ones. I've also cut some old friends from my ropes for the right reasons. I've had numerous relationships that didn't work at the time or were not meant to be at that time for myself or for them. I'm gay and I've known since I was 12. It doesn't bother me at all, and I'm quite comfortable with it. I have no desire to procreate or reproduce legitimately, and don't have any desire to fuck someone of the opposite sex when I know what feels right to me. I don't mean offense with that, because that's how it truly is. I've found that there's a significant intolerance within and outside what is "the gay community" and recently i'm discovering that i kind of don't want to be a part of it, but be a part of what i feel is more right. it's just that, if you are a homosexual, you love men, not men who act like female strippers or models, and think they're so clever that they have to say "snap snap" just because they think they tore your ass down a few notches. I'd rather have a dude who can pound the booze and not focus on brand names and can focus on smaller not-so-petty shit. I'm being pretty honest about it.
I don't see any reason to conform to everyone else's standards, because I've got my own and they run parallel to others', but still are uniquely my own. I like writing and playing music of heavy sounding proportions, drinking beer and hard booze, and play video games and watch movies and cartoons and all that fun shit. It's just a way of life. The longer I have been without a 9 to 5, the more I learn and the more I educate myself, the more happier I feel in my own skin, the more comfortable I am dealing with modern society, the more disgusted I get with how we're being treated as people who make less than politicians and suits for dirtying our heritage and historic foundation, the more hopeful I feel that someone besides me will have the guts and balls to stand up and get the world to see how fucked it is and how much change we need, the more likely I will feel stronger to say it to my own government's face that they are fucked up, the more likely the truth will be unveiled that we are being selected one by one for mass murder for no reason.
I think of many things such as so, and I know there are many others out there on this rock who will admit it to me and others. This is our lifetime, and if we really want to change it to make it better, it starts with us, not politicians, our votes don't change a fucking thing either.
I hope you have a better understanding of me now. If you do, you're welcome to say what you wish or add request if you agree or connect with me somehow. I apologize for the long rant and all that, but, I figure it's a place to make a statement about myself and what I believe in, and you should too.
