About
O rly? A blog?
Yeah. Well sort of. I tend to think of blogs as personal accounts of life, right down to the meaty fun bits like mowing the lawn, what you watched on television seven weeks ago at three in the morning, just why exactly you hate your job, and so on. I also tend to think such accounts are lifeless and serve no purpose other than whoring what would otherwise be your personal journal.
But that’s me.
So back in September 2004- my junior year of high school- I started this site, Stupid Chronicles (originally on Blogspot; I know- whee!). Its basic function was to point out things that I found, well, stupid, and in my own particularly warm and fuzzy way of writing. Nobody paid much attention for a few months, which was perfectly fine by me; I wasn’t looking for attention so much as a creative outlet and a place to vent. But sometime in December of that year, I posted this. A friend of mine spammed it to several “sensitive young people” and within a week I had a whole new identity. Mostly to the Jr. High kids I pissed off, but hey, it was something new.
Troy High School consisted of about 200 kids when I went there, so it wasn’t particularly hard to cause a stir. In May 2005 I made a massive post called “Heil Das Hat Nazi!”, essentially tearing apart our idiot new principal’s equally idiotic new rules. Over the next few weeks I received plenty of praise from other students (no, really), and I even had teachers telling me they enjoyed the post- one even found it anonymously in her mailbox one morning (which is impressive since it’s about five pages in length). Being pretty much the quiet kid in our class this was, again, something quite new to me.
And so things went- flaming jr. high kids on our forum, making fun of the bullshit that comes with a small town life, more mocking of our principal, and occasionally even dabbling in political-themed posts. Troy law-enforcement investigated the site for fight footage after a string of local Fight Cub-esque incidents, people saw the administrators logged on in their office, at one point I was called into our school counselor’s office due to a fear of my causing an “incident” at an awards assembly (see this post) and according to a fairly reliable source, there was even a staff meeting called at one point to discuss whether or not my site could be shut down (my favorite).
But like all good times, they came to an end. I graduated, which took most of the nonsense I posted about out of my life, then the regulars and I all went off to college soon thereafter. As a result, things more or less died down for two years.
In the fall of 2008, I started to think of what this place provided, but in a different light. So I decided to reboot, but with a slightly different focus.
And so things are.
About the author:
Real Life:
I grew up in the thriving metropolis of Troy, MT. My family has since moved on, but from first grade through my freshman year in college, it was most certainly “home” in every way to me. Typical small town life- know everyone there, went through elementary and high school mostly with the same kids, worked at the local store for way longer than any sane person probably should, and so on. Troy is inextricably linked to who I am, and though it certainly has its less-than-thrilling qualities, I’ve yet to find any place I like more.
As of now, I’m studying film at Montana State University in Bozeman. Back when I was fourteen I started making movies with the movie-mode on a lil’ Kodak picture camera then editing them into shorts, and it’s been all I’ve wanted to do since. The process and technology has grown more complicated over the years, but I still love what I do.
In my spare time I shoot various smaller projects for shits and giggles (which is stupidly uncommon amongst my peers), most of which can be found here. I also write (here and otherwise), make shitty music, and assuming the ground isn’t white, play in the mountains when I can.
The intertubes:
I’ve been usin’ them for quite some time now. In 2001 I started a fan site for the band Staind, which ran for around four years. Hosted some rare mp3s (and I still get goddamned emails asking for them), had lots of user-submitted fan art, even got an email from a relative of the band. All the fun stuff that came with running a fan site- you know, before Wikipedia killed them. It also netted me some sweet free promo stuff- In Absentia, for example (my introduction to Porcupine Tree)- for running various ads on it. Around that time I was also a moderator at Metal Forums (a fairly popular board during its height), which eventually imploded, and was part of the initial effort to reboot it. Then I lost interest in both that and Staind, so I started this place to fill the gap.
The name:
My original username on here was Soilworker, which comes from the melodic death-metal band Soilwork. I’ve used it in various places for quite awhile (with varied results- at one point on a forum I was accused of being a “damned Mexican”) and still do, but it’s slowly being retired.
“Beebins” is a strange story. Years ago I started toying with email scam artists, and at one point I told one my real name is Constable Beebins G. Wexler in an attempt to get him to call me Beebins. It didn’t quite work, but after telling the story to a few friends, they took to calling me Beebins (whether I liked it or not). Go figure.