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The Man Who Thinks He's It

About Me

I don't really know about me yet. I do know a few things: I like coffee...no LOVE coffee; I love school, reading, studying and learning...seriously;I think of myself as a citizen of the world and think that there is a lot of change needed and that I am capable of creating that change, even if it is only for one person. I am trying to become more aware of the world and its problems, stepping outside of my little space and reaching out. That's about it. I'm not a completely serious guy though I love to have fun and make people laugh whenever possible.

Check Me out on the Great Games Experiment (it is what I do for work)

My Interests

Reading, Cycling, Climbing, Re-Cycling, watching 24, learning, I'm pretty interested in travelling and would like to do some of that, people, God, the world, music, tennis, golf, croquet, the outdoors, the list goes on...

I'd like to meet:

Lot's of people, ordinary people, not so much famous people.

Music:

Summit Avenue, Muse, Copeland, Jump Little Children, Guster, Rage Against the Machine, Wilco, The Rapture, Bela Fleck, Kings of Leon, Rufus Wainwright, Mahler, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Chopin, Flatt and Scruggs, Pete Yorn, The Music

Movies:

Saving Silverman, The Pianist, Battle of Algiers, Run Lola Run, The Machinist, Lord of the Rings, The Motorcycle Diaries, Les Triplettes de Belleville, Vegas Vacation, Eternal Sunshine, The Great Escape, Captain Ron, All Pauly Shore Movies, The Seventh Seal

Television:

24, Seinfeld, 24, Family Guy, Seinfeld, The Cosby Show, 24, The Cosby Show, CSI, 24 Seinfeld Cosby.

Books:

The Master and Margarita, Crime and Punishment, All of Gogol, Notes From Underground, , John Donne's Poetry, WH Auden's Poetry, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Great Gatsby, Truth and Method, Irrational Man, Tristram Shandy, A Grain of Wheat, Dark Star Safari, Heart of Darkness, Brideshead Revisited, The Satires of Lucian, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Paradise Lost

Heroes:

George Hincapie, Lance Armstrong, John Krakauer, Paul Theroux, My Dad, John Donne, really any author that has changed my view of the world is a hero along with all of the SPU English Faculty

My Blog

It's been a while

    This is unashamedly for Summit AvenueI haven't quite figured this out yet. But for all of my blogging goodness on a more regular basis, plus many other smart/funny types visit logom...
Posted by mark on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:40:00 PST

words of wisdom from Dragonforce

It is my strong belief that all bands with Dragon in the title are awesome. Here is just more proof: On a cold winter morning, in the time before the light In flames of death's eternal reign we ride t...
Posted by mark on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:32:00 PST

Ben's Top 8

That's right, I made it.  I have cracked Ben Coleman's top 8 friends. And so this means, obviously, that after four years of living together that I have officially become one of his friends. Now,...
Posted by mark on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:26:00 PST

Home Stretch

Well, I finished my last college class ever today. Appropriately, it was a discussion of Graham Greene's novel The End of The Affair. I am in Stratford now, far from the craziness of Dublin and Edinbu...
Posted by mark on Wed, 24 May 2006 04:17:00 PST

Pip Pip Cheerio, and all that

Yes, I am in England. And Ireland and Scotland and Wales actually. The trip is now past half over and this is my first blog, but thats ok because the money I have saved from internet cafe has gone a l...
Posted by mark on Mon, 08 May 2006 12:43:00 PST

myspace sucks

I am pissed I just composed a superb blog and myspace made me log in 9 billion times, although I already was and conveniently deleted all I had written. Thanks myspace. Sorry fans, no delight tonight
Posted by mark on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:15:00 PST

take me to 1000

Well I really just want to get 100 views of my site. Its pretty lame I know, but I am sort of on an awkward number like 783, and its just so odd and un-thousandish. My original plan was to curse like...
Posted by mark on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:15:00 PST

Clarification

Slight Clarification: I in no way intended to say that Amy was sick because of sin or that Ben actually absorbed any real sin. I was merely using that shitty Heath Ledger movie as an example for somet...
Posted by mark on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:32:00 PST

Super Magic Healing Power

El Corozon (it means "the heart") This blog is about my wonderful girlfriend Amy. Amy has the flu. Yes, yes, one of many people who unfrotunately have gotten sick. Well, she was not feeling very well...
Posted by mark on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:14:00 PST

Back To School

That's right, back to school today. Personally I am thrilled. I did enjoy the freedom that not be in school affords me to read whatever the hell I want, but this quarter will be a very challenging one...
Posted by mark on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:21:00 PST