Name: Andrew Robison- but the ladies call me, “Don’t talk to me you freak. Eeeeeeewwwww!”

Birthday: 10-12-83

Home Town: Long Beach, CA REPRESENT!

Instrument: my throat…they won’t let me play guitar or anything else

How long have you played: uhhh….

Gear: Voicemaster 5000 with triple-mega-nucleatic vocalizer with simultronic boosterizing sing-O-matic nitro-viratiating attachments

First Instrument Ever Played: same as everyone else-piano

Inspirational Influences: J.C.-he’s the man and the God (haha, that was funny), my mommy, C.S. Lewis, Drew and Ashley

What's in your CD player right now: Our brand new demo of course

Favorite Band: Slow Gherkin, The Impossibles, and Miles and the Rockers

Favorite Movie: Austin Powers

Favorite Food: Anything BUT El Torito

Favorite Sport: Snowboarding behind the car, Dance Dance Revolution, and the infamous Textile Combat

Favorite Actor: Leonardo De Caprio or Antonio Banderas-they’re both SOOOO hot

Favorite Actress: I dunno

Favorite TV Show: Simpsons, Sponge Bob Square Pants, Kids in the Hall, SNL

Favorite Color: Purple

Favorite Cereal: Fruity Pebbles-pure sugar

Favorite Toothpaste: Toothpaste?

Favorite Verse: “Anyone who chooses to become a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.” –James 4:4

Favorite st8ries song to play: I can’t decide, they are all so great

Church: Parkcrest in Long Beach & Long Beach Christian Fellowship on Saturday nights

Girlfriend: Hopefully soon…I got someone in mind

Pets: Skunker (dog), Turbo (cat), Spot (frog), and whatever else lives in my room that I don’t know about

Most embarrassing moment: hmmm…well I drank pee once (it was an awful awful trick played on me), but there’s gotta be something worse than that…or there was the time I lost both pants and boxers standing up in the back of my truck on Main Street Seal Beach

Testimony: Here goes…Ok, raised in a Christian Family. Parents got divorced when I was 8. On and off of God until 8th grade, but never really understood. Got really on fire for Him all throughout 8th grade year thanks to Jake our youth pastor. But once he left, I just kinda gave up on the whole thing, especially once church turned into a social gathering rather than church. All through H.S. up until the end of junior year I was just being a H.S. kid. I never really was bad but I never really was good. Then somebody changed my life so much for the better (don’t think I should use names) and I realized how superficial the world was (especially Los Alamitos H.S.) and I knew I wanted more than what the world had to offer, so I used the saying (coined by Brandon T. Minnis: Abolish the Cool. Basically, my meaning of it was that we should get rid of the “cool” in the world (which is trying to be like everyone else) just because “cool” people usually end up being jerks. But then I lost that certain someone and my life was basically torn apart. I had put all my eggs in one basket and the basket had been dropped. I had NO direction at all in my life and for a while there I wished I weren’t alive. Like our song “Washed Up” says: I never felt so empty before. I didn’t know where to go at all. It took this for me to realize that life really is NOTHING without God. So in the beginning of summer 2001 I gave my life back to Christ for good. The reason I can say it is for good is because I now understand. It sometimes just takes something like that to make you understand. Anyway, this is accredited partially (a big part) to Shane (our base player) who took me in and became basically my only friend after this happened. The reason that I turned to him is that I had nobody else to turn to. And it went from there…and now we have st8ries. There’s a lot more to my life than that, but that’s some important stuff leading up to my reunit ing with my Father and starting the only stable relationship I will always be able to rely on.

Quote: “Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.” -From the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston