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Ben

My thac0 is 20

About Me

I am a guitar player for Just Like Always.

My Interests

Just Finished: Dragons of the Highlord Skies
Currently Reading: A Thousand Splendid Suns, the first Harry Potter book (in German)
Looking Forward to: The Grey Wolves, the rest of the Icewindale Trilogy
Just Finished: Call of Duty 4, Half-Life 2 Episode 1 Currently Playing: Lord of the Rings Online, Lost Odyssey, Burnout: Paradise, Smash Brothers Brawl, No More Heroes
Looking Forward to: Zak and Wiki
Currently Watching: Doctor Who Season 3, Lost, The Office
Looking Forward to: Star Gate: Atlantis Season Two, Battlestar Galactica

I'd like to meet:

Fans for to cheer Just Like Always.

Music:

Just Like Always, Cream Center, My Morning Jacket, Maximillian Colby, The Pixies, The Kings of Leon
Currently Listening to: The Pixies, The Pixies, and The Pixies

Movies:

The Evil Dead, Most Hitchcock stuff, Kubrick's movies, Kurosawa movies, Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns (especially The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly)

Television:

Simpsons, South Park, History Channel, Family Guy, Futurama, Orioles

Books:

Five of my favorites: The Great Gatsby, Catch-22, Slaughterhouse Five, Lord of the Rings, The Sun Also Rises

Heroes:

Alan Moore, Cal Ripken, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Ira Hayes, Superman, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Admiral Ackbar

My Blog

Episode VI: Return of the Beni (pronounced Ben-eye)

With any luck (meaning if anyone does their job at least half as fast as they should), I will soon have paperwork in hand that will process my return to the land of pie, the birthplace of Rock n Roll,...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:39:00 PST

I Need a New Team

Ok, the day has finally come where I've decided that I can no longer continue to be an Orioles fan without risking my mental health.  For years I declared with conviction that I would never stop ...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:32:00 PST

Profiles

I just wanted to say that I think setting your profile to private is weaksauce.  Why be on a social networking site when you don't want to socially network?  How am I supposed to know you're...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 25 May 2007 08:47:00 PST

Pretty Bad Even For a Newb

I don't usually play shooters; I find them fairly redundant and unimaginative.  Run over here, shoot this guy, run over there, shoot that guy.  Watch out, this guy is tougher, so you might w...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:56:00 PST

Ben, Bowler Extraordinaire

Below is a pic of my newest Wii Bowling high score.  I went perfect through six and then fell apart seven through nine before bringing back the pain for the tenth.  For those of you that don...
Posted by Ben on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:51:00 PST

10 Things I Could Go The Rest of My Life Without Ever Seeing Again

Not the top ten, just ten random things& - Ball caps worn slightly off center, so the bill points to the wearers one or two o'clock. - 16 year olds in Misfits t-shirts. This would be ok if I believe...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:22:00 PST

Ten Rules to Follow When Making a Comic Book Movie

I haven't proofread or reviewed the following, so it may change. I'm sure there's plenty of changes I could make too, and more points to prove my arguments. I've put a lot of thought into these issue...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 01:02:00 PST

Wii

Ok, so those of you that know me know that I basically have a big hard on for all things Nintendo. Until I was in my early twenties I pretty much enjoyed all things video game related, and many of you...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 11:36:00 PST

A Word on Profiles

Ok so I'd like to talk a bit about profile composition.  It's very similar to home decorating.  Do you cram every bit of crap you have into the smallest room in your house?  No?  W...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 03:12:00 PST

To the Teenager I Left Behind

So I'm not much of a blogger. Well, I'm not a blogger at all. I'm not sure why I'm blogging right now. Actually, I really hate the term "blogging" and wish it would go away. For what's it's worth, I ...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 03:42:00 PST