Daren Myers:  

The question is: How do you hope others will remember you? I really don't care how others remember me at this stage in my life. What matters to me is how I feel about my self. If I took the time to worry about what others think of me, I would never get anything new done in my life. Yesterday is gone, only my memories and lessons learned will remain with me until I die. I try to concentrate on today and not put too much stock in tomorrow, because tomorrow may never come. I believe that I will leave this scene receiving as much from it as I contribute to it, so in the end it will all balance out. The love I take is equal to the love I make. All I really want to do is make today the best day of my life, and if I happen to wake up tomorrow, I'll just do it all over again. That's my plan. And I want to be sure to tell the people that I love how important they are to me everyday, never taking anyone for granted, otherwise I'll find soon that they are gone. When people tell me something, I just listen to what they have to say, it might be my only chance ever to respond. And if they need it, I just give them a hug and tell them I love them. I give my cat hugs too, because he loves me, and has feelings like everyone else does. My life is a momentary illusion based on a complex set of factors...please don't try to figure me out, just try to enjoy me while I'm still here, because like everything else, I have a beginning and an end, and my end could come at anytime, and so could yours. I always wanted to be a bum when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a crazy idea. As it turns out, they were wrong. I blow off steam by playing guitar. What is the wildest thing I ever did in high school? Well, I spent my senior year at Ygnacio Valley High School (I transfered there in my sophmore year to take music classes that College Park didn't offer). At the Homecoming Game at Miramonte High School, I pulled my pants down and "mooned" the entire cheerleading squad. Last time I saw the head of the cheerleading squad, she asked me "Daren, have you shaved your hairy butt yet?" If I'm going to work somewhere, I need to have lots of money, get to set my own hours, and not have to report to anyone other than the owner to be able to deal with the day-to-day. My hero is Les Paul. He was the greatest guitarist of all time in my opinion. If I am ever just half the guitarist he was, I will have reached heights that very few guitarists will ever know. Where have I lived? Well, I lived next to Strandwood Elementary School until I graduated from high school, then I moved to Los Angeles and attended Santa Monica College and got a break working for a company that created software for Steve Jobs during his NeXT Project. I got to hang out with Steve Jobs one time, just him and my self, and that was back when he still had hair (and wasn't working for Apple either). Very few people can say they have done that one. My obsession is alternate universes. I believe we live in a physical universe, but there is another world we actually originate from, and we come from different worlds usually, that's why we are not all the same. Life doesn't turn out the way we expect it usually, but that is okay, because the way we expect it to be is based on an uninformed immature mind.....once your mind has expanded, and your soul has matured, you realize whatever you have is EXACTLY what you were meant to have. Then it's up to YOU to deal with it. If I could improve my home, I'd remodel my garage and add on a world class music studio. My dream home would be Abbey Road Studios in London, England. Wow....I can't even begin to comment on my parents....I will save this paragraph for another day and time when I have like a year to tell you why they were the best people I have ever met (and probably WILL ever meet). The best teacher I ever had was a music teacher I had at Pleasant Hill Intermediate named Miss Venti. I actually talked to her on the phone a few weeks ago, she is like 60 years old now, and STILL teaching the kids at a local middle school. You know...we need more people like Miss Venti if we hope to save what is great about ou...Expand for more