User:Scientz
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Jeremy Ross Andrews, (born March 23, 1978), Canadian citizen, amateur historian and philosopher, hip-hop artist, student, athlete, left-of-center political junkie, egomaniac, psychedelic, avid reader and Wikipedian since September 2005.
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[edit] Genealogy
My parents are John Arthur Andrews (born May 5, 1942) and Dawn Marie Andrews (née Size) (born August 11, 1947). I am 100% Canadian by the way of English and Scottish Anglo-Saxon stock.
My father, John, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Arthur Edwin Andrews (born June 27, 1908) and Helen Cordelia Andrews (née Good) (May 5, 1912 - January 30, 2001). For those keeping track, yes, my father was born on his mother's 30th birthday. Grandma died of liver failure in 2001.
My mother, Dawn, was born in Mindemoya, Ontario, Canada to Walter Ross Size (June 7, 1905 - April 23, 1973) and Hazel Lauretta Size (née Luscombe) (June 22, 1911 - November 12, 1998). Grandpa died of cancer in 1973—I never knew him. Grandma died of old-age (or, complications involving diabetes and dementia) in 1998.
My father's father emigrated from Bridgwater, Somerset, England in May of 1912. The Andrews clan seems to hail from that same county. In a recent conversation with my grandfather, he noted that, "We were going to leave in April on the Titanic, but as I recall, that ship sunk." Good thing they waited.
My mother's family hails from a small town called Avoch outside of Inverness, Scotland. Family rumor has it that my mother's great-great-grandmother was Mary Mackenzie, first cousin of Toronto mayor, journalist and rebel William Lyon Mackenzie. If true, this would mean that my mother and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King were 5th or 6th cousins.
[edit] Youth
[edit] Childhood
My family lived in Leaside—an uptown Toronto neighborhood—until I was 5 years old. I attended Mooredale House Daycare in Toronto from 1980 to 1982. It is here that I had one of my earliest memories—having my tongue stuck to water fountain. It took a bucket of hot water dumped on my head and a few layers of tongue skin to remove me from said position. (Don't laugh—have you ever experienced a Canadian winter?) I also learned to read at around 3 years of age. This would be an event that would shape me for years to come.
I went to kindergarten at Maurice Cody Public School in Toronto in 1982 and 1983. Here it became evident (much to the surprise of teachers and school officials) that I could read. I was known for reading to my classmates and forming letters of the alphabet out of Lego.
In the spring of 1983, I became an older brother to Joshua Arthur William Andrews (born April 15, 1983). Josh weighed 9 lbs, 4 oz at birth, compared to my 7 lbs, 13 oz. This trend has continued to the present, as I am about 5'10" and 180 pounds, whereas Josh is 6'5" and about 240. (Incidentally, Josh is 22 going on 35 and is frequently mistaken for the older brother—the jury is still out as to whether or not that is a good thing.)
After Josh was born we moved to Malvern in northeast Scarborough. I attended the brand-new Alexander Stirling Public School—a school my mother was instrumental in naming. I was somewhat bored by school in those early years. I felt unchallenged by the cirriculum and ostracized among my peers for the extent of my knowledge and vocabulary. One frequently told anecdote involved a teacher asking a question, me raising my hand, and the teacher responding with, "Does anyone other than Jeremy know the answer?"
At 7 years old the Ontario Public Housing Authority transformed the forest behind my house into the Empringham projects. Before long, Empringham was densely populated with low-income families, and the children of these families became my schoolmates at Alexander Stirling. It was through the Empringham of my youth that I became exposed to hip-hop culture. As soon as I stopped listening to my parents' 50's and 60's music and developed a taste of my own, that taste was strictly hip-hop.
[edit] Adolescence
Reality struck at 11 years of age. Until then, I had been living an idyllic surburban existence—happy parents, gorgeous younger brother, good grades, pool in the backyard, etc. At 11, however, my father left home. He had been having an affair with another woman, apparently not his first. I found out that my mother wasn't even my father's first wife—he had previously been married three times. This did not sit well with me. My brother had always been my mother's child, so to speak, but I had always belonged to my father. He was the baseball coach, the Boy Scout leader—in short? Everything.
Oh well.
Cry me a river.
I got over it—eventually. And only with major trust issues violated and a hefty abandonment complex to boot. So I rebelled. I did stupid things to my hair. (see left) I became introverted and rather violent. I sadistically and methodically murdered every last one of my G.I. Joe's. I stopped being a positive role model to Josh. (He probably suffered more as a result of my suffering than I did.) In calm moments, I became fascinated with all things related to geography and history—particularily military history. I memorized the world map, all of the countries and their capitals and flags, and also became quite adept at the causes and troop movements of World War II. Books were my solace. Books wouldn't let me down. Books were there whenever I needed them. There was always something new and fascinating to be discovered, to be sought out and ingested, to be understood. During this period of my life I must've read about two-thirds of the articles in our family's 1973 Collier's Encyclopedia. (God, if we had Wikipedia then, just think of how many papercuts I could've avoided!) By 13 years of age I had also written my first rhyme (rap song)—quite possibly under the influence of my cousin Robert Alexandre Marcheterre (born December 17, 1974). My immediate future was slowly taking shape.
[edit] Schooling
[edit] High school
I went to Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute in Scarborough from 1992 to 1993—grades 9 and 10. In those years, I remember being a fan of Das EFX. Through them I developed a taste for rhymes whith pop-culture references and dense wordplay. I excelled at drama, of all things. I think I actually wanted to be an actor. (Incidentally, that is now Josh's desired goal.) I also remember being good at French but hating it, and hating my math teacher. "I played high school football!" -Al Bundy. "So did I!—Go Colts!" -Jeremy Andrews. Ahhhh, to be 14 again... I also began to smoke cigarettes—you little asshole! I was now definitely anti-authority. A rebel. A rebel—without a cause! I began to take after my (favorite) cousin Karen Jane Stringer (born August 31, 1970). When I was 15, we moved from Scarborough to Pickering, a town of about 94,000 situated directly to the east. Well, I was dragged, kicking and screaming, but the relocation took place nonetheless. I kept going to Cedarbrae for the rest of grade 10, and then to Pine Ridge Secondary School in Pickering the following year.
Pickering was a bit of a culture shock at the time. It wasn't as, well, Scarborough then. Not like it has become in the years since. I couldn't relate to the average white-bread suburban teenager. I fell in with black kids, mostly because I saw in them some semblance to the outlook I'd grown with in Malvern. In 1994, most white kids were still grunging around in their Nirvana phase. I was playing Wu-Tang Clan's Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers on repeat in my bedroom. Around this time I adopted the rap moniker Dash—clearly the pseudonym of a 16 year old who thinks he's being deep. It was intended to reflect a gravestone that, had its owner died this year, would read (1978 - 2006). The 1978 would be everything before that person lived, and 2006 would be everything after. Therefore, your life is but a dash. Whooooaaa maaaaaan... Deeeeeeep... It was also around 16 that I started smoking cannabis with regularity. I'm sure my newfound "depth" was related.
I played football again at Pine Ridge—Go Pumas!—this time as a second string defensive back. In grade 12, I met Bohdan Elan "Bodi" Klamph (born April 7, 1978), and the two of us became fast friends over the creation and development of a computer trivia game called Thirty5. More on that later. From an academic standpoint, I had grown out of my drama phase and started to concentrate on ancient civilizations and fiction writing. The computer game Civilization II occupied a lot of my free time. In hip-hop, I had gone thru a few different personas: IQ, Skitzo and Riddler. None of them stuck. All were a bit too juvenile for the image I was attempting to convey. My rhymes were getting better and better, and I began sharing them with my peers. I was invited to several ciphers, and many in the small hip-hop community of Pine Ridge began to know me as "that white guy."
In my final year of high school, it was time (according to parents, teachers and guidance counsellors) to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. At the tender age of 18, I had decided that my life interests would include history, politics, writing, cannabis and hip-hop. Given that the latter two interests would not make suitable candidates for post-secondary study, I was faced with choosing between applying to a university to major in english or history, or going to Royal Military College and taking a detour in the army on my way to a political career. In the end, I opted for neither, and was accepted as a journalism student into the Bell Centre for Creative Communications at Centennial College.
[edit] College
Journalism school proved to be very boring, and I hated almost every minute of it. During the first two weeks, we were indoctrinated into the idea that most of us would not pass the course, and those that did would graduate into a community newspaper with a very small circulation. Almost none of us would go on to become the intrepid investigative reporters we'd envisioned ourselves becoming. I didn't like that idea one bit. Also, 1997 was the year Princess Diana died in Paris, and so we did spend our first umpteen assignments "covering" her death. This also led to my hatred of my program. I dropped out just before the end of the first semester.
After working as data entry clerk at an inventory company for a while, I reapplied to Centennial College's Progress Campus, this time in the field of Business Administration. Progress Campus was located on the edge of Malvern, and I figured I could gain some business knowledge while at the same time exploring the options becoming available to me in the field of music. I was now Scientz of Prophetz Ovda North—more on that later.
[edit] University
[edit] Thirty5
[edit] Hip-hop
[edit] Prophetz Ovda North
[edit] Dubb Club & Waxmyfz
[edit] unknown2scientz
Kaotic Conception (2002)
- 01. The Big Bang (intro)
- 02. Vexed And Enraged
- 03. Making It Hard (f. Candlestixx)
- 04. The Illuminated (interlude)
- 05. Kaotic Conception
- 06. A Couple Of Wordz (f. Eternia)
- 07. June
- 08. Stalking Miss Sauvé (interlude)
- 09. Jessica
- 10. Street Guerrillaz (f. Jun Dog & Bucs)
- 11. Persecution Complex
- 12. Disturbing The Peace
- 13. Who Da Fuck Iz You?
- 14. The Doctor And The Chemist (f. Brovaz Grimm)
Second Trymeztah (2004)
- 15. Torture (intro)
- 16. Raping And Pillaging
- 17. Show And Prove
- 18. Zig Zagz (f. Candlestixx)
- 19. Deprāvd Jenius
- 20. Drinking With The Devil (interlude)
- 21. Cl-Click Blao!
- 22. State Ovda World Address
- 23. Chinese Treeze
- 24. Da Saliva Document
- 25. Dunno Dis
- 26. Area 51 (interlude)
- 27. Necessary Illusionz
- 28. Can U Relate?
- 29. 9th Dimension (f. The Chemist)
- 30. Problemz
- 31. Rock Da Beat (f. Empire)
- 32. Scizzahz
- 33. D.U.I. (f. The Chemist, Candlestixx & Syknisis)
- 34. Az Good Az It Getz (outro)
[edit] Books
[edit] Identifying Criteria
[edit] Tattoos
[edit] The Scar
[edit] Articles To Which I've Contributed
Anton Anderledy, Beenie Man, Berisal, Black Pope, Buju Banton, Capleton, Count Mieczisław Ledochowski, Ebionites, Emilia-Romagna, Ferdinand of Parma, Franz Xavier Wernz, Franciszek Kareu, Gabriel Gruber, Gabriel Lenkiewisz, General Congregation, George W. Bush, Halifax Rules, James Creighton, Jan Roothaan, Jean-Baptiste Janssens, Jesus, Louis XV of France, Luigi Fortis, Luis Martín, Merowig, Norbert de Boynes, Pedro Arrupe, Philip of Parma, Pieter Beckx, Rideau Hall Rebels, Sizzla, Stanislaus Czerniewicz, Stephan Bonnar, Superior General of the Society Of Jesus, Sura 4:157, Tadeusz Brzozowski, Tertianship, Union Act of 1840, University of Ferrara, University of Parma, User:Scientz/Yehoshua ben Yosef, Valerie Plame Affair, Wlodimir Ledochowski, Yehoshua ben Yosef
