Timur Boskailo

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About Timur Boskailo

4th grade career day. Some classmate's architect parent:"This is a protractor" I'm going to be an architect. Wright is my hero.Freshmen year, high school, Scottsdale Arizona, the cultural hub of American punk-rock circa 2004Start a band with best friend - call ourselves D-SECT, Defiled Schism for Ergatocratic Complete Tenure, create other word salads that we could say it stands for. We bring on another friend, 15 years old, full beard, punk rock prodigy, writes sick songs about chugging beer. We self-record an album in his garage. We're going places. PUNK. IS. NOT. DEAD. We play a couple shows. I switch guitars mid-set because I can't tune to drop D by ear. Someone in the crowd yells out "Rock star!". People laugh. I'm embarrassed. Band slowly dissolves without another show. PUNK. IS. DEAD. But I'm still straight edge. Draw X's on my hands. Older friends do heroin.Senior year - hear "Such Great Heights" on the radio. I'm Indie now. Discover Rilo Kiley, Belle and Sebastian, musical frontiers expand before me, find Aesop Rock. I want to be a BIG BANG. Wear yellow band shirt to class. After three years of only black clothing, everyone is shocked. Get used to it people. I'm Indie now. Take film class. Fall in love with film. Make new friends. During a movie, we take our shirts off, tell a friend in row in front of us to join, it will be funny when the movie ends and the lights turn back on. We put on our shirts. Movie ends, lights come on, our friends the only one shirtless. Teacher says WTF. Friend looks back, realizes he's the only one. Cue the laughs. We start making short films. I'm going to be a Film Director. Last day of class - discover marijuana. Woah. Freshman Year - Arizona State Partyversity - Play a lot of guitar hero - film studies program. I'm the next Lynch you just don't know it yet. Class project gets round of applause. People dying of laughter. Make short film to get into film production program. Interview with professors. I am rejected. ME? REJECTED? YOUR LOSS! Your program's shallow anyway. I'll become a better filmmaker if I switch to Anthropology. My movies will only have substance if I gain wisdom. Want to live with Amazonian tribe.Co-form Billionlightyearland.Junior year. Switch to Architecture for a Semester. Put soul into project. Professor looks at it for 5 seconds and writes down a grade. You're joking. Switch back to Anthropology. Graduate. Don't want to be an anthropologist anymore. I've found music and painting. I am an artist now. No. I am an alchemist. Get degree in biochem. Run out of space to continue.