Thomas Albany

So let's talk a little about me. I was born April 12, 1973, in La Mirada, Ca. I was a premature baby, with a collapsed lung. Because of this I was an asthmatic for my younger years.

I moved about a hundred times when I was younger. I barely ever spent more than a year in one school. I spent my third grade at Maranatha Christian Academy. I remember getting busted for throwing rocks at cars once. Yeah, I belonged there. I also remember the girls chasing around this handsome kid to kiss him, and while he was running away, me and another couple kids sort of ran with him like we were objects of affection also. We weren't. Yeah, I'm glad I remembered that! Anyway, at this age I drew Voltron style comics and wrote short stories, and poetry. I used to love giving the characters special powers, and putting them on graphs and matching their strengths (Geek!) I also had a little cassette recorder that I used to mess with.

Anyway, it wasn't until about the end of 6th grade that my Mom finally put her feet down in Tustin, California. Thank goodness because I finally was able to develop my life long friendships during this time. Anyway, from about 6th grade, I guess when I was about 14 or 15 years old, I started skateboarding. I was also drawing, but mostly skating half pipes, pools, launch ramps, and street. This was pretty much the basis of my life until I was about 16 or 17, when I became able to drive and I had to work more.

At this time, when I was 17 years old, I moved out of my house. This is when I really started drawing heavy. My friend Matt and I also bought guitars and practice amps so we could play like Metallica. Boy, I loved Metallica, as I do now actually, except for the whole Napster thing. Anyway, we were so ridiculously naive. We thought that just because we bought guitars, all of a sudden we were going to be rock stars. I can really laugh at that because, from then until 12 years later I played music and was drawing and painting murals often. Very larg