Cheshire Buddha

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Cheshire_Buddha (real name Tony Alcorn) is one of the moderators from the message board Angels-And-Airwaves. He has contributed to his own blog (Tony's Fucked Up Adventures), the Murder Mystery Games, and a review thread.

He doesn't think im badass is really badass.

Tony Alcorn is the bassist for the post-hardcore band A Letter to the Enemy and guitarist/lyricst/backing vocalist of the acoustic/pop-punk band Joe Clough & Elephant Meets Chicken.

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Biography

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Early Life

Tony Alcorn was born on February 29th, 1988 in Ann Arbor (or Ypsilanti, it doesn't matter), Michigan. His family moved to Tennessee in 1993. He spent his time playing Super Nintendo and not really talking to anyone outside of his family and friends. He was a quiet kid up until the 8th grade, where he began to act out to try and get the attention of his classmates.

He attended Culleoka Until School for thirteen years until he graduated in 2006.

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Early Music

During the winter of 2003 when blink-182's (Untitled) album came out, Tony was inspired enough to pick up a guitar. Along with his friends Andrew Lo and Joseph Clough, they formed the band Downfall and covered a variety of blink-182 songs as well as played Beastie Boys, Taking Back Sunday, and Green Day at Culleoka School's talent show. When the band fell apart due to Andrew playing in Neeley Hollow, Joseph moved on to play drums for the band Small Town Tragedy.

After a couple of months without playing a band, Joseph invited Tony to become bassist for the band. They recorded one demo before Tony left due to alligations that the vocalist was going to try to fuck his then girlfriend.

When Small Town Tragedy fell apart, he was asked by Andrew to join as a third guitarist in the band Neeley Hollow. He joined the band under a tense time and it soon fell apart.

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Late Music

With Neeley Hollow dead, Tony took Andrew, Charlie Dungy (who played guitar for Neeley Hollow), and Matt Clough (Joseph's brother) and formed the band tht would become Patience. Matt and Andrew were kicked out, the duo brought in the drummer from Neeley Hollow, Tyler Matyskiela, to play lead guitar. With Tony on rhythm, Charlie on bass, and Tyler on lead, the band was without a drummer or singer.

When the band did get a singer and drummer, things were troublesome. They didn't like the music Tyler and Tony were working on and opted for a more 'poppy' sound. When Tony realized he was about to get kicked out, he left the band, taking Tyler with him. Patience is still a band today, even using one of the songs that Tyler and Tony created on their first demo.

After Patience, Tyler and Tony teamed up with Dathon Conner and the mysterious Dale to create the post-hardcore/progressive/hardcore band called A Letter to the Enemy. During the recording of their first demo, Dale left the band due to his other project, and the group included Cameron Henvy on vocals. After months without a drummer, the band finally got one: Tony's old friend Joseph Clough.

Also during this time, he joined another band with Joseph Clough, the acoustic/pop-punk band Joe Clough & Elephant Meets Chicken. He plays guitar and does some backup vocals as well as some lyrics.

Currently, A Letter to the Enemy has gone on break, and Tony is experimenting with PowerTab and GuitarPro software to credit an virtual post-hardcore band.

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Equipment

Bass:

  • Fender American Jazz Bass
  • Epiphone Acoustic Bass
  • Hartke Amp/Head
  • Ernie Ball Strings

Guitar:

  • Fender Jimmie Ray Vaughn Signature Stratocaster
  • Epiphone Les Paul Studio
  • Epiphone Dot Studio
  • Peavey Amp
  • Ernie Ball Strings
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Discography

Small Town Tragedy

  • Another Small Town Tragedy EP (2005)
  • 1. Fading Fast
  • 2. Cranium Meltdown
  • 3. The Seventies Song
  • 4. Wishing I Could Fly
  • 5. Lost

Patience

  • The Practice Room Demos (2005)
  • 1. Red Roses and Blue Violence
  • 2. Slow Song
  • 3. Contemptlation is Not Enough
  • 4. A Four Letter Word for Progress

A Letter to the Enemy

  • Two Songs EP (2005)
  • 1. Fisher Price's My First Punk Song
  • 2. Jewish People Driving German Cars
  • Four Songs EP (200?)
  • 1. Emotional Numbness and Sunday Nights
  • 2. Et Tu, Brute? (Or How I Learned Everyone Will Eventually Stab Me in My Back)
  • 3. A Dream Has the Power to Poison Sleep
  • 4. The Dead Can Dance

Joe Clough & Elephant Meet the Chicken

  • The Barnyard Demos (200?)
  • 1. The Pop-Punk Song
  • 2. Loving You
  • 3. A Thousand Miles (Vanessa Carlton cover)
  • 4. Two Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding
  • 5. Classical Assignment for One

The Tony Experiment

  • I Can Play With Myself, Too! (2007)
  • 1. Et Tu, Brute (Pt. 1, Or How I Learned To Love Everyone Including Myself)
  • 2. Let's Get Seuxal, Bitch!
  • 3. Romeo and Juliet Must Fucking Die
  • 4. The Last Song About You (Ok, I Lied...I Must Prove to the World That You're a Whore)
  • 5. A.M. Vs. M.E.
  • 6. It's The Child Inside of Us That Keeps Us From Going Insane
  • 7. Two Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding
  • 8. Et Tu, Brute (Pt. 2, Or How I Learned Everyone Will Eventually Stab Me in My Back)
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Message Boards

Tony is known to roam on these message boards:

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Tony's Fucked Up Adventures

One of Tony's main contributions to the main message board he goes to is his own blog, Tony's Fucked Up Adventures. While it is no longer alive on the board itself (nor on the LiveJournal he created just to post them), the blog was a look into some many adventures that Tony has had over the course of his lifetime. The most known ones where:

  • The Suicide Adventure, where Tony reaccounts the time he tried to kill himself when his ex-girlfriend was trying to go for his friend.
  • The Walnut War, which was a battle he had with his friends when they were younger. The object was to throw walnuts at each other.
  • The Graduation Party, in which he attempts to get laid.
  • The Kidney Stones, in which he got high and thought he was passing kidney stones.
  • The Death, where he saw a mentally handicapped guy get beat by cops and later die.
  • The Ghost Girl, in which Tony tried to get the affection of a girl by acting like an asshole to her.
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Personal Problems

Tony is an excessive smoker and drinker, sometimes forcing himself to smoke so much that he cannot breathe properly. In 2005, he found drugs like weed as an opinion when his girlfriend left him. He has been smoking it ever since.

He is also deathly afraid of driving, and vehicles in general. He refuses to drive anywhere if he doesn't have too, and will never drive a vehicle that is largely off the ground.

He has also been known to try to kill himself multiple times, all of them failing due to some mysterious force. He has then stopped trying, but will resume 'if the time is right'.

Tony also has an obsession with Jennifer Love Hewitt, claiming "One day, I'll marry that girl!" He also says the same thing about Eliza Dushku, Emmy Rossum, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Sienna Miller, Anne Hathaway, Vanessa Marcil, Paz Vega, and Shannon Elizabeth. It'll never happen.

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Links

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User Testimony

Tony is the man. Partially because he can actually sit down and write a biography of himself. - Stattic6

What Stattic6 said. - duck90

Let's have sex. - Giz

Tony is wayyyy too hawt. - HeyItsMelissa

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