POM: Bios: Ben

Nik names (Including but not limited to):

Gretchen, Ben (no, really?), Benny Boy, Benji, Bean, Beanie, Byen Jamyen, Ben Jahhmin mahhn, Benjamin Franklin, Schwartzcoff, Schwartz "E" and G-fresh!

Contributions to Pieces:

Guitar, backing vocals, writing songs.

Influences:

(Tom Morello and Timmy C), (James Shaffer, Brian Welch and Johnathan Davis), Nick Hexum, the $ellout$, (Mike Fermanni, Alex Wild and Dan Mim's-[Mystery meat! G's what's up?]), Wes Borland, the Deftones, (Brandon and Michael Einziger), (Eric Beetner and Tim Boyd and Tim Christopher and Craig Smith), (Wesstyle and Chizad), George Harrison, John Hait, Bruce Springsteen, Nick Juravich, Matt Pierce-("Let's play conversation already!" matt, me and tt will call your mom, no joke. It's really not down digitty, infact, it's wigitty wack.) and my uncle David Smith.

Favorite bands:

Rage Against The Machine, KoRn, hed(pe), 311, $ellout$, (old un-sold-out) Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Incubus, Go! Dog! Go!, The E-Street Band, The Who, homunkulie, (old un-sold-out) Blink-182, Goldfinger, Operation Ivy, (old un-sold-out) Bush, Sevendust, Sex Pistols, and XeNo or OxEn (how ever the necklace is, nate.) Mystery Meat, we have to get together in 10 years and make millions of dollars!

Thank You's and Shout Out's:

Leah! I know you are completely embarrassed of me, but i still love you. VERN is a sexy dwarf or whatever that little thing is. I can't wait to beat up any boy of yours, it's gonna be very, very fun...hehe...You're a down digitty girl in a less down digitty world, so i'd say ur doing allright, keep it up. ~love ya~ ben
BIRCH! You are the best! I love you soooooooo much!
LITS!
Drew! You are a great friend and I love ya mad mucho, (how about la seniorita?hehehe...) Atheist Air shake!...X...nahhhh...it's no good! Wow!, that's a great idea....4 me 2 poop on!
Nick! You amaze me dude. Sorry we cut out all ur solo's. But just to let everyone know, Nick plays mean guitar. Maria! Where have you gone my rosalia?
Guy! Dude, you are one child prodigy. So why am I not ur god anymore? Well you rawk my world dude.
Lucy! You have the best voice hun.WRINKLY!, scuse me! Keep eatin the bush at the path!
My parents! You guys are awsome. I love you guys! Thank you so much for all you have givin up for me and tolerated my guitar and screaming!
Nick's parents! Thank you so much for letting us come into your house, eat all your food and pollute all of Amherst's air from a little room at the top of your house!
All my other Friends who I'm to lazy to name, you know who you are, and I love ya. Thanks for taking all of my crap these years. And for understanding when I wrote a mean song about you.
All my out of town friends!.. I'm really sorry that you have to live in stupid, ugly, and over all very un-cool towns like...
- Woodbury (Kris and Emily)
- Hatfield (Nate, Toni, and Tori)
- Newton (Mike and Alex)
- Simsbury (Heather <sour, my b yo> Kathy, Rich, Syd, Nicole, Barbra, Karra, Matt, Chealsea)
- Belchertown (Sally)
because really I don't see many of you at all, or have never seen you, and it's really a shame you know? ok well you guys are cool too, but your towns all suck! seriously tho, it's pathetic! I think you should all move up here, ok?
The LIT's! You guy's gave me the best summer of my life, if I could live 28 days over and over again, it would be those that I spent with you. I love you guys way to much!
My Relatives! you are the craziest bunch of people I have ever met...... But I still love ya!
Amherst in general... this is a decent town. You need more places for my bands to play, ok?
Anyone I am/was/will be in a band with... you guys all do/did/are-going-to rock!
EVERYONE WHO BUYS THE DEMO WE ARE GOING TO MAKE! yeah, but proly the only people who buy it, I have already thanked! but that's ok... Sike your mind!

Apologies....

One BIG apology to all the names I spelled wrong. And another to Webster for all the words I spelt wrong...oops.

Send e-mail to skiben@aol.com. Or, find him on AOL under the screen name "skiben."