I, am Joel Van Zanten, and pics are on the bottom...of me and my friends....
Well, lets start with the basics.......I am a freak. There, now that I have that out of the way we can continue....

I have 3 older sisters, 2 brother-in-laws, a pair o parents, one nephew (who is the cutest lil boy in the world) and one neice (who is the cutest lil girl in the world). I have a pair o grandmas, a grandpa, 4 uncles, 4 aunts, and a bunch o cousins. I have no animals that my parents will allow me to raise, cuz my mom is allergic to em n'stuff. I live at home, with my mom and dad, my sister Nichole, and my nephew Jordan. Thats my family....(aren't ya glad ya don't know em? hehe, j/k (i think))

I am sixteen years old, and because of an Asshole called Govenor Engler, I can't drive. He's an asshole for a lot more reasons that that, like how he screwed over Michigans public schools. I do go to public schools, East Kentwood High School to be exact, and I also believe that public schools kick! (haha all my friends who go to private schools!!) Well, i'm a Junior there, and doing pretty good in my classes, not all 'As' like last year, but i'm keeping a high B+/A- in my Physiology class, which is unarguably the hardest college prep class Kentwood offers.....well, nuff of that crappy school stufff....(p.s. East Kentwood......DIE DIE DIE)

I LOVE music, especially the kinda tunes they call SKA SKA SKA.....I also like hardcore, and punk, as well as grunge, rapcore, modern rock, new age, jazz, blues, oldies, folk, classical, techno, industrial, cont. christian, some r&b, hippie, and some easy listening....I just don't like country *yech* or gangsta 'G' rap *puke* or 'dance' music *double yech and a puke* I don't like country (and I do listen to it, via my sisters) for many varried reasons, mostly because the beat doesn't hit me. I think that gang rap is glorifiying the evils that gangsta's do on the streets, and I dance music is SHIT....I (a VERY unmusically inclined young lad) can create better dance beats than that synthesized crap! Ska, my fav, is just happy happy happy, so you gotta like ska, in fact I have my very own SKA page you can go and view, if ya wanna.

Well, aren't ya glad I decided to stop ranting and raving about myself? hmm, well I gotta do this one, I'm giving out MAD PROPS, to the following people (hehe, I love the words, mad props, they are soooooooo frickin funny!!) GOD GOD GOD, JESUS JESUS JESUS, and also that neato cool Ghost (w/out any of which I wouldn't be here, literally) Sara, Jason, Jake, Ali, and Han you 5 are definatly my closest friends, between you all I can tell you any and everything..Kathy, Josh, Zak, Skunk, Crit, Karin, Holly, Brian, Smalls, Ian, Luke, Barnaby, Jim, Dan (DM), (otro Dan), Lee, James, Derek, Rick, Brian, Raegan (I hope thats howya spell it), Olga,Meg, Jessica, (both of them!!), Craig, Melissa, Dimitri, Stef, Jordan, Laura, Lauren, Leslie......(hope I got all these people) you guys are some of the greatest people I know...Nick, Tony, Todd, Kyle, Nadine, Toby, Velting, Bartnick, Jim, Justin, Gretzinger, Nicola, Annie, MazLindsay, Kristan (thats probably wrong), Jason, Nick, Fiendy, Jess, Joe, Carlo, Therb, Chuckster, Julie, Jen1and more (cuz I forgot some I'm sure....) you guys are all a riot to hang out with! also, if you've ever been a part of the John Knox Sr. High youth group, with me, then I DO remember you, my hands are just hurting now from all this typing, I love you ALL....nuff of this.

Anyof you who wants a page, and doesn't have on, i'll make it for ya when i get the time n'stuff, cuz I gotta get a bit better at this html stuff, so I'll keep writing scripts n'stuff...

This is me, at Montreat with a plaster mask on my face (to hide its complete disgustingness).


This is me, with my nephew, JORDAN, (the cutest kid in the world) and I have my eyes closed.


This is another picture of Jordan (told ya he was cute).


This is JAKE, one of my very bestest friends. He's cool!!


This is Jake, with Chris Velting. They are pretending to be buff.


This is Jason, my fellow ska/grunge/alternative/punk/rapcore/hardcore brother man! He's also one of my very bestest friends!


This is Karin, she's one of my better friends, she's now like, a masseuse or something, and she hasn't ever given me a massage...what kinda friend is like that? eh?(oh, the face in the lower right corner, thats Phil, theres a long Phil/Karin story, ask me about it sometime......)


This is ME, (left) Zak (middle) Jason (right), and Toby (bottm middle). K, i'm me, zak is one of my better friends, Jason is a friend, and Toby is another friend.


Now this is a group picture taken downtown GR, at Summerstock. Its a bunch of my friends, someday i'll list all their names......

There, those are pics, none of them are recent (most recent = last summer) and HAHAHAHA, there isn't a clear of my ugly face!!



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