Jamie Albert:  

Life I was born on January 1st of 1979 in a blizzard. I grew up with humble beginnings, in a lower middle class neighborhood and attended public schools all my life. My parents were laborers. Our family had little money, but my parents did their best. I always loved the arts and music from a young age, and this was encouraged by my family. I entered high school and developed a drinking problem. I did very well in school and picked up the guitar and started writing music. I excelled in high school and moved on to college with my best friend hillary for the first two years, and majored in industrial art, then philosophy. I moved on to columbia college in chicago, hillary to the sorbonne in Paris. I changed to documentary film, made movies, continued to write music, and developed a drug problem. I moved around a lot, traveled the united states and some of europe, and ended up squatting a store-front with a large group of street punks in the inner city, and my drug problem developed and became worse - my helalth deterioated, legal problems ensued, etc. I continued to do well in school however. Finally in late 2002, after many attempts, I succesfully cleaned up, an...Expand for more