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About Me

My Interests

College sports:
Iowa Hawkeye football
Big Ten football
Hawkeye sports in general
Buffalo Bulls football

Hockey:
Detroit Red Wings
Atlanta Thrashers
Original Six hockey
Waterloo Blackhawks

NFL:
Eagles
Bears
Colts
Any team with some Iowa guys on it

Baseball:
Chicago Cubs
Detroit Tigers
Waterloo Bucks

Favorite booze:
Wexford's Irish Cream Ale
Guinness
Jameson Whiskey
Bailey's Irish Cream
Absolute Citron

Mopars

Kendo
Jeet Kune Do

Movies and other creative forms of expression interest me a great deal as well.

I'd like to meet:

Friends and family. Others with an interest in writing. People I haven't heard from in a long time. You know, the usual......... ..I edited my profile at Iggysfreeweblayouts.com , check out these Myspace Layouts!

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Music:

Favorite song: If I Ever Leave This World Alive

Celtic:
Wylde Nept
The Dubliners
Flogging Molly
Dropkick Murphys
The Young Dubliners
The Chieftains

The Blues:
Robert Johnson
B.B. King
John Lee Hooker
The Blues Brothers
Eric Clapton
George Throughgood
Stevie Ray Vaughn

Rock:
Aerosmith
The Doors
Janis Joplin
AC/DC

Soul/R&B:
Ray Charles
James Brown
Motown in general

Country/Bluegrass:
Johnny Cash
William E. Whitmore
Mason Profitt
Dixie Chicks
Ray Stevens
Old "tangy" country in general

Misc.:
Chopin
Kodo
Joan Osbourne
The Iowa Hawkeye Marching Band

Movies:

"B Movies" from any era
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
The Ice Harvest
Army of Darkness/Evil Dead
The Boondock Saints
Snakes on a Plane
Slither
Serenity
Vanishing Point
Pass the Ammo
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Plan 9 from Outer Space
The Exorcist
Dawn of the Dead (and remake)
John Carpenter's The Thing
Bruce Lee movies
Jackie Chan movies
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
Kill Bill
Waiting for Guffman
Best in Show
This is Spinal Tap
Drop Dead Gorgeous
A Mighty Wind
Miller's Crossing
Fargo
Oh Brother, Where art Thou?
The Hudsucker Proxy
Fight Club
Fail Safe
Tombstone
The Matrix
Star Wars (IV,V,VI)
Indiana Jones Triology
Office Space
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
The Blues Brothers
The Jerk
The Crow
Sin City
From Hell
Godzilla/monster movies

Television:

Firefly
Battlestar Galactica (new series)
Drive
The X-Files
The Tick (animated and live)
Mythbusters
Dexter
The Sopranos
Entourage
The Venture Bros.
Robot Chicken
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law
MXC
WKRP
Red Skelton

Books:

Edgar Allen Poe stories and poetry
Stephen King horror novels
"Watership Down" by Richard Adams
"The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness." by Simon Wiesenthal
"If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor" by Bruce Campbell
"Tao of Jeet Kune Do" by Bruce Lee
"Gorky Park" and "Polar Star" by Martin Cruz Smith
graphic novels (superhero and non-superhero)
horror/sci-fi novels in general

Heroes:

My biggest personal hero is my mother.
I know that makes me sound like a wuss, but it's true. She taught me how to be a good person and to always do the right thing. Everything that I've been able to do in my life stems from that.

My Blog

Tom Cruise is F-N nuts!!!

You've probably heard about it by now, but if you haven't seen the lastest example of why this guy has completely lost his marbles, here you go- Tom Cruise on youtube Highlights include him telling us...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:27:00 PST

Jonestown

During lunch, I was reading an issue of Sports Illustrated about a basketball player who survived the Jonestown murder-suicide plot, and that made me realize that I really didn't know what happened th...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:06:00 PST

Once again, my Hawks let me down...

Stupid 'clones. Another month of a crappy ISU background. Well, actually Iggy makes ISU look pretty cool, in all its Ronald McDonald glory. Too bad Terry and I didn't bet on the wrest...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:27:00 PST

ISU background... damn Hawkeyes...

Okay, well I made a bet with Terry before the college football season started that the loser would have the winner's background on for one month. So... here it is... in all it's ketchup and must...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:21:00 PST

Soldier Field and poop...

Carly and I bussed over to Soldier Field to see the Iowa Hawkeye's football opener against the Northern Illinois Huskies (a solid MAC team, to be sure). We had a blast, and eventually I'll get s...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:26:00 PST

What a weekend!

Good lord, I think we all need another weekend just to recover from this weekend. Of course this coming weekend heralds in the start of the college football season, so there'll be no rest for ma...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:10:00 PST

Yet another update

Starting with the youngest: Hayden is a peach. She's smiling and laughing on her own, and you can see the wheels turning in that head now. That's probably a good thing, but she gets...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:32:00 PST

Lack of updates = IMEEM.com

Sorry there haven't been any updates here in freakin' forever. I'm been playing around with a site called IMEEM.com, where you can generate music and video playlists. I've been trying to g...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:17:00 PST

Why "Red Wings Suck" is in my Top 24

I can take a joke. I don't think anyone who knows me would argue with that. And so when I first viewed the "Red Wings Suck" profile, I wasn't offended. In fact, I laughed my butt off...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 03 May 2007 06:15:00 PST

Why I hate FOX

Well, four episodes into "Drive", starring Nathan Fillion of "Firefly" fame, FOX has seen fit to put the series in storage. The final two episodes that are already made and have yet to air MIGHT...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:31:00 PST