So I've been tagged by Miss taurus to write 20 interesting things about myself. I don't know if I can come up with 20, nor how interesting they are, but I'm-a try:
1. I spent over 12 years working as a bike courier in Montreal, Vancouver and Halifax.
2. I was a shotgun baby, a long-standing tradition in my family going back to my Grandmother.
3. At one time I drove taxi for a living.
4. The band Sloan is named after me- Sloan used to be my nickname and my old band toured with a band called Kearney Lake Road back in 1990. 2 of the members of Kearney Lake Road went on to form Sloan, and they copped their name from my nickname. My face was even on the cover of their first EP.
4. I have 5 year old son.
5. When I was a kid my sister and I idolized Jim Henson and wanted to grow up to be just like him. We used to make our own puppets, put on puppet shows for our folks and had feature-length movies planned.
6. When I was in junior high school I lived in a tiny little town and I was the only person I knew of that was into punk rock. That's how I got into making t-shirts- there was nowhere to buy them so I made my own.
7. I'm only at 7? Jesus, I'll never make it.
8. I went through a Bible-thumper period when I was like 12 or so. Blame it on Billy Graham. I remember being the only one in my family that would go to church, and I even taught Sunday school for a while.
9. I've only slept with 5 women in my life.
10. I am freakishly tall- 6 foot 8.
11. I must always have ice cream in the freezer.
12. My uncle was a badass coke dealer who got murdered when I was 18. Since then, I've completely avoided any kind of hard drugs, though I've done my fair share of pot smoking and beer hoisting.
13. I spent a summer living in the back of a van on a campground with my girlfriend. It was fun.
14. I am in a band but I despise the music industry and secretly hope we never get popular.
15. When I was 18 I was in a band with my cousins & we got really popular around Halifax. We put out the second vinyl LP to ever come out of Halifax, then we moved to Montreal to try & "make it". 4 years later, we were still playing to empty rooms. I got fed up & quit.
16. I've seen a lot of great bands over the years. Here is a partial list according to my memory: Motorhead (twice), Ramones, Meat Puppets, Rush, Scream, Nirvana, Drive Like Jehu, Bad Brains, Fishbone, The Specials, Ice T, Slayer, Flipper, Burning Spear, DOA, DBC, Voivod, Soundgarden, Faith No More, Selecter......there are a lot more but the ol' noggin's a li'l fuzzy right now.
17. I hate lists.
18. I'm running out of things to say.
19. I'm feeling really inadequate about not being able to come up with 20 interesting things about myself right now.
20. Suicide Girls taught me that you can lust for a girl while respecting her at the same time. It forced me to examine my own attitudes towards women and has been a very healthy thing for me. Women in control of their own sexuality- what a great thing.
OK so I'm going to tag mrATOMIC, pippi, kikka, stasia and Lexie. Good luck kids.
1. I spent over 12 years working as a bike courier in Montreal, Vancouver and Halifax.
2. I was a shotgun baby, a long-standing tradition in my family going back to my Grandmother.
3. At one time I drove taxi for a living.
4. The band Sloan is named after me- Sloan used to be my nickname and my old band toured with a band called Kearney Lake Road back in 1990. 2 of the members of Kearney Lake Road went on to form Sloan, and they copped their name from my nickname. My face was even on the cover of their first EP.
4. I have 5 year old son.
5. When I was a kid my sister and I idolized Jim Henson and wanted to grow up to be just like him. We used to make our own puppets, put on puppet shows for our folks and had feature-length movies planned.
6. When I was in junior high school I lived in a tiny little town and I was the only person I knew of that was into punk rock. That's how I got into making t-shirts- there was nowhere to buy them so I made my own.
7. I'm only at 7? Jesus, I'll never make it.
8. I went through a Bible-thumper period when I was like 12 or so. Blame it on Billy Graham. I remember being the only one in my family that would go to church, and I even taught Sunday school for a while.
9. I've only slept with 5 women in my life.
10. I am freakishly tall- 6 foot 8.
11. I must always have ice cream in the freezer.
12. My uncle was a badass coke dealer who got murdered when I was 18. Since then, I've completely avoided any kind of hard drugs, though I've done my fair share of pot smoking and beer hoisting.
13. I spent a summer living in the back of a van on a campground with my girlfriend. It was fun.
14. I am in a band but I despise the music industry and secretly hope we never get popular.
15. When I was 18 I was in a band with my cousins & we got really popular around Halifax. We put out the second vinyl LP to ever come out of Halifax, then we moved to Montreal to try & "make it". 4 years later, we were still playing to empty rooms. I got fed up & quit.
16. I've seen a lot of great bands over the years. Here is a partial list according to my memory: Motorhead (twice), Ramones, Meat Puppets, Rush, Scream, Nirvana, Drive Like Jehu, Bad Brains, Fishbone, The Specials, Ice T, Slayer, Flipper, Burning Spear, DOA, DBC, Voivod, Soundgarden, Faith No More, Selecter......there are a lot more but the ol' noggin's a li'l fuzzy right now.
17. I hate lists.
18. I'm running out of things to say.
19. I'm feeling really inadequate about not being able to come up with 20 interesting things about myself right now.
20. Suicide Girls taught me that you can lust for a girl while respecting her at the same time. It forced me to examine my own attitudes towards women and has been a very healthy thing for me. Women in control of their own sexuality- what a great thing.
OK so I'm going to tag mrATOMIC, pippi, kikka, stasia and Lexie. Good luck kids.
HAHAHA, I like the enchilada bit, that made me laugh
thank you for using my pictures!