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and sang for Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty, both independent bands. During the 1980s, Keenan played bass guitar for TexA.N.S. He was transferred to a store in Los Angeles, before he was quickly fired and began working in set construction. From there he moved to Somerville, Massachusetts, where his love of animals led him to practice interior design for a Boston-area pet store. Upon completing his term of prep school, Keenan studied art at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was distinguished in basic and advanced training, but declined an appointment to West Point and instead chose to pursue a music career because of his disillusionment with his colleagues' values and because he knew West Point would not tolerate his dissidence. It was during his time in the military that he adopted the sobriquet "Maynard" on a whim, based on a fictional character he had created in high school. In addition to completing a rigorous math and English curriculum, Keenan wrestled, ran on the cross country team, and sang in the glee club. He initially served in the Army as a forward observer before studying at West Point Prep School from 1983 to 1984. By this point, he had lived in Kansas, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas. Bill fund his dream of attending art school. Inspired by Bill Murray's performance in the 1981 comedy film Stripes, Keenan joined the United States Army, with the intention of having the G.I. His father was one of the coaches for the team and left coaching at the same time Keenan graduated in 1982. In 1982, he graduated from Mason County Central High School in Scottville, where he was a member of the wrestling team. A few years later, she persuaded Keenan to live with his father in Scottville, which he considers "the best move ever made". His mother suffered a paralyzing subarachnoid hemorrhage due to a ruptured cerebral aneurysm in 1976 when Keenan was 11, and this incident would later serve as the inspiration for songs such as Tool's "Jimmy" and "Wings for Marie" and A Perfect Circle's "Judith". His mother remarried, bringing Keenan into an "intolerant and unworldly household" where his intelligence and creative expression would be stifled. When his parents divorced in 1968, his father moved to Scottville, Michigan, and Keenan would only see him about once a year for the next 12 years. James Herbert Keenan was born in Ravenna, Ohio, on April 17, 1964, the only child of Southern Baptists Judith Marie (née Dougherty November 22, 1943 – June 18, 2003) and Michael Loren Keenan. Keenan's photo in a West Point Prep School yearbook