• On a particularly cold and rainy evening in October 1986 - the 8th, to be specific - just after a Knickerbocker Glory dessert in Manchester, England Aisling Vexley (nee Ward) complained to her husband John of what she knew after one previous birth to be labor pains. She was taken in and admitted. A full 52 hours later - after a grueling delivery, at 11:09:30 PM on 10 October 1986, she gave birth to another son. Through her pregnancy her prenatal care doctor had sworn she would give birth to a girl who she intended to name after her mother Jean. On the spot, under heavy sedation after being told that she, indeed, hadn't given birth to the girl she'd anticipated and decorated for, Aisling smiled a drug-induced smile and announced quite simply that her second son who was a full 5 years apart from her first, would be called John-Wayne; her husband's first and middle name, combined... also the name of her favorite on-screen actor. (Yes, she was a fan of Westerns.) Shortly after his birth, when his given name become too much of a tongue-twister to call after him, John-Wayne was affectionately dubbed Johnny as to not be confused with his father. In general, Johnny was a good child, he slept through full nights which was uncommon, didn't often fuss and was actually quiet more often than not. The only real concern his mother had with him was how long it took him to walk - however, she was informed that he was simply a lazy child. By a year and six months, Johnny finally took his first steps. His first word was arse - it was the word his mother commonly referred to his father as.
• By the age of three, he'd begun to come into his own, so to speak. Rather than play with his mother's friends' children, Johnny spent most of his time by himself; when they'd come over, it was almost as if he made a sound effort to avoid them. This didn't worry his mother until he begun to bring insects inside in his pockets. Certain that his older brother Deryck was playing pranks on him, the boy was sent to a psychiatrist. It took Aisling a full 6 months, when she saw her younger son pocket a duckling on a trip to the pond near their home that she began to realize it was on his own accord that Johnny brought inside these things. Ducklings progressed to snakes and lizards and snakes and lizards progressed to stray kittens and puppies. Despite the fact that Aisling wasn't very fond of animals at all, she allowed Johnny to keep what he brought home because she thought it would upset him far too much to take the animals from him. By the time Johnny had turned nine, the family had 3 ducks, a garden snake living in tupperware with holes poked in the cover, a golden retriever and four kittens - he cared for all of them on his own... mostly because his mother had forgotten about his pet turtle and it'd starved to death.
• Unexpectedly, on his twelfth birthday rather than get the llama he requested, Johnny received two hamsters, a bicycle, a new gameboy complete with a few games and the news that his mother was going to have another baby. Accustomed to being the baby of the family and being favored by his mother, he took his birthday cake and locked himself in his bedroom for a full 2 days before coming back out to use the bathroom. He refused to speak to his mother... though, finally, after a week of the silent treatment, Johnny forgave her for "replacing" him. Through her pregnancy, he took to doing the household chores and though, he noticed his father's longer hours at work, he said nothing about it to his mother as he couldn't bear the thought of upsetting her. On April 13th, 2003, Aisling Vexley gave birth to yet another son - choosing to name him after her recently deceased father James. When the newborn was barely a week old, Aisling called a family meeting with her two older sons and began to discuss relocating. Johnny didn't argue it, however, Deryck, who was 17 at the time, fought her on the matter. It was the first of many times that Johnny expressed his distaste for his older brother.
• Though his mother was able to stretch the move out for two more years, they were the worst years of Johnny's life. In the rare event that his father was home, there was nothing but screaming between he and Aisling - regardless of what hour of the day or night. When his father stopped coming home entirely, though he'd always been somewhat of a 'momma's boy', Johnny candidly missed his father and spent a lot of his late nights sitting in the man's recliner watching TV. One night, after a "Skinimax" movie that scared him half to death, Johnny found The Exorcist on one of the local channels. It was what began his love of horror films. Since he wasn't able to rent them himself, he spent a lot of time pouring over the TV guide, picking any movies he could find from the same genre and watching them. Though none ever quite came close to The Exorcist for him, Johnny had not only found his first love, he was hooked. Horror movies and late nights weren't the only things that he did that he wasn't supposed to, however; he'd also gotten in with the "wrong crowd" at school and by thirteen, had meddled in drugs and alcohol. When he came home drunk one night, it was the end of his times in Manchester. His mother announced the following morning that he and his brother would finish their years in school and after that, they were moving. Again, Johnny didn't argue, though, he was still bitter.
• As his mother had promised, after he was finished with his school year, everything was packed and ready to move. It wasn't until the day they were scheduled to leave that they were told they were moving to the town his mother was originally from -LAWNDALE CALIFORNIA. Needless to say, he spent the first year at his new school with major adjustment issues. If it wasn't his accent, it was the fact that he was just plain odd at times. A highly sardonic boy with a dark and generally quite peculiar sense of humor that many people didn't quite seem to understand wasn't the easiest to make friends with - however, he
did make friends. Among his first friends at his new school was
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perish whom he met and befriended on account of music taste.
• BAND SHIT HURR.
• True to being something of a late bloomer, Johnny didn't have his first real crush until he was 16. Johnny met
wednesday on a fateful day in detention where he landed himself after kicking a player on the opposite soccer team at a home game (he played centre forward). Upon merely sight, it was easy to say that she was attractive and while that was enough to keep him looking over hopefully in her direction, it wasn't until she began mocking the detention monitor that Johnny became officially "interested" in her. By the end of the detention session, it was in his mind that he needed to find out where she spent her time and that - well, he had to land himself more detentions to be near her (yes, he basically stalked her). The two officially became friends at the end of April that year, when they were skipping class on a warm day and ended up in the same place - beneath the bleachers. Johnny was smoking weed, Magy was smoking cigarettes - do the math. From there, it was something of a cat and mouse game between the two of them. He'd show up places she was, she'd show up at his soccer games. It went on until an accidental invitation to winter formal on January 17th of that year after they'd been hooking up for a few weeks. They began dating just before the dance; he lost his virginity just after the dance.
• Johnny is deeply into drawing. He keeps a sketchbook on person most of the time - it's filled with various forms of graphic and violent art including zombies and vampires that he plans to later include in a film. He also keeps the occasional portrait in the book, but he hardly ever shows anyone his artwork as he's extremely critical over it.
• Apart from horror, he enjoys sci-fi movies and the occasional comedy when it involves weed - which is about his... 6th love - he loves TV shows such as South Park, Ghost Hunters, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and really anything considered edgy or scary.
• He's filming a really, really, really shitty B horror movie on his time off of tour. He can occasionally be found attempting to pressure people into taking roles in it.
• His background vocals are done by
mosh, the token techie.
• Inside a skinny scrawny little body is the sassiest fat man alive. There is nothing in the entire world Johnny loves to do more than sit and eat. Seriously, he'll pass up sex and weed for a hot stack of pancakes - they're his favorite.
• Though he's successfully trained his singing voice not to display his accent, when speaking, he still sounds very British - slang and all. He's Americanized for the most part when it comes to spelling, but occasionally he'll lapse into "brit spelling."
• He's a momma's boy. His mom is his best friend, confidant and he will always favor her to any woman in his life.
• Apart from the above, he's really, really loyal to his friends - he's a sarcastic pain in the ass with stupid humor most of the time, but he's not a jerk or anything.
• There's a piece of dust under the couch in the lounge of the tour bus he refuses to allow be thrown in the trash. He calls it Anton Lavey and claims it's good luck.
• He
HATES to be serious. No. Really. It's boring.
• Vice president of the metal club and chairman of the hardest parties on tour. ----other people here.
• He calls bands such as Skinless, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Pantera and Slayer inspirations. To this day he holds a candlelight vigil on the day of Dimebag Darrell's death. Yes, he cries on that day. Metal dudes cry.
• He has two basset hounds - Linda Blair and Bill Cosby and a chinchilla called Mr. Winkles. They go where he goes.
• Really, really phobic of flying things - mostly birds and bats.
• His guilty pleasure is Rachel McAdams movies. He
loves her - especially in
The Notebook.
• For the record, Brute Force is the best band ever, now drink the cyanide Kool-Aid.
perish is the first person he met when he moved from Manchester to Lawndale. They were wearing a shirt from the same band and ended up getting into a music discussion that blossomed into an attached-at-the-hip friendship. They're pretty much heterosexual lifemates.
menorah is a bad ass chick, the bassist for Brute Force and his female best friend. They not only do a lot of stupid shit together, but also go out drinking a lot when they're on break. On more than one occasion, he's put her in his flowered bicycle basket completely wasted after three shots and brought her home; in exchange, she's trying to teach him how to drive and in turn, allowing her trash cans to be murdered.
poisons and i really need to work things out same goes for
thriller mosh crackmusic et. all.
