By day A not so mild mannered high school student with scissors. By night a half prep half Goth freakish half-breed. Well maybe not so much of either, but definitely not your average kid. Once, beginning my freshman year, I failed a lot of classes, this is like a quarter of them. Mostly because I didn’t care. A big part of my life was music and I would wear my [][shirts all of the time. I would go home listen to music, watch TV read books, whatever, anything but do homework. Life continued like this for several years. Then, everyone went away, a few to another school, some dropped out, and most went away to college, (hence my inexplicable hatred of college students, which I will be next year). Well this left me with nothing but time. This time is now spent studying and doing homework (hence the reason I will be able to get into college next year) and improving my grades. Well this only accounts for the day life of TECHNO-INDUSTRIAL BOY. Now, when those freaks I call friends are back from college we fight crime on the streets of Suburbia. (Every superhero needs a stupid name for a place to fight crime) Now I am really not so much of a superhero so much as a side kick. Now my mentor, who’s name used to be HACKER MAN. Is no longer, so I had to strike out on my own. Though I know a new superhero who when he has his flannel positioned just so, looks remarkably like him. This is my friend and Colleague Dark Cricket.

One may be wondering "Why is this stupid freak called Techno-Industrial boy?" The answer to this question is quick and simple. But that doesn’t mean I’ll give it to you. (Maybe later) Now everyone thinks that superheroes have to have all sorts of cool neat powers. Nah, we just have to have em. Well here are the ones that I have acquired thus far; I am told that if I study very hard and brush my teeth every day I may get more.

Here are my powers:

1.) Incredible ability to yell, "shut up damn it" at the top of my lungs and be listened to by birds and woodland creatures of all kinds, that are birds.

2.) The amazing ability to appear gay to females and have them comment about how cute I am and then disregard me because they believe me to be a lost cause.

I really have no clue how these miraculous powers came about in me. I just woke up one morning and they were. I must say though these powers have been a great blessing many a time. Most especially when I am approached by an ugly fat-ass. They know that most straight guys won’t look at them twice, or once if they can avoid it, so they just assume that since I look queer they will have no chance. Don’t you wish you had that ability?

The thing with the birds is really just knifty as opposed to having any actual use. Really I don’t believe this power to be very strong because the birds start chirping again in a matter of minuets, maybe it’s therapeutic or something. Theyx say you should get a good scream out every now and again. Actually, no, I’m sure it serves no practical purpose, I just scream a lot.

Now to the case for my name. Techno-Industrial Boy was derived from an ancient Sanskrit, meaning a boy derived of Techno, and Industrial music. Since these are my main influences in life, I decided to take the name. (And you all thought Sanskrit was dead) I spent the part of my life that I don’t spend doing homework listening to music, well I guess most of the study time is filled with it too. Sometimes I throw in an odd bit of independent Gothic music, and often a lot of metal, but my main influence always comes back to the great electronic music. Oh, but just like everyone else, I am a sell out, and I will only listen to bands that have sold out, Here is a small list.

Nine Inch Nails, Stabbing Westward, KMFDM, Pigface, Meat Beat Manifesto, God Lives Underwater, Moby, Orgy, Rammstein, Bauhaus, The Crystal Method, The Chemical Brothers, The dust brothers, Machines of loving grace, Marilyn Manson, Pig, Sow, Filter, Coal Chamber, Tool, They Might Be Giants, Gravity Kills, Roni Size, Atari Teenage Riot, Soul Coughing, Rage against the Machine, Prodigy, Rollins Band, Depeche Mode, Orbital, The Orb, Korn, Incubus, Limp Bizkit, The Violent Femmes, Catherine wheel, Nirvana, Deftones, Hole, The Cure, Helmet, My life with the thrill kill kult, David Bowie, Sister machine gun, Killing joke, Ministry, Tori Amos, Skinny Puppy, White Zombie, Juno Reactor, Fear Factory, Everclear, Front 242, Skold, Excessive Force, Sevendust, Chorus of Empire, Beastie Boys, Cradle of Thorns, 1,000 homo DJ’s, Plug, Spacetime Conduit, Aphex Twin, Daft Punk, Danzig, Chemlab, C-Tec, Cubanate, Die Warzau, En Esch, Revolting Cocks, Lords of Acid, Bj÷rk, Weezer, Psykosonik, Type o Negative, Bile, Napalm Death, . . .