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Jose

When all else fails, punch 'em in the face!

About Me

I'm a 24 year old college student who's basically being forced to have a my space account because all my friends are doing it. They want me to be "cool" lol. Hopefully I'll like it though but other than that you can pretty much get a good grasp of me from my interests.Yeah, this sounds about right :
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My Interests

Well my main interests are writing and baseball. I've always loved story and I've always had a good imagination, so writing was the next logical choice. I love to be able to write something down and say "yeah, I did this". In fact, that's the whole reason I'm in school now; to learn more about the different aspects of writing and see what I can use or mix around to tell a good story. I hope to be a novelist some day. Baseball kind of came out of (and excuse the bad pun) left field. My mother's a Yankees fan and my father's a Mets fan, so they watched a bit of baseball every now and then, but 2 years ago during that insane 2003 Yankees vs Red Sox ALCS, I just got sucked into the game. I wasn't too thrilled by the 2004 ALCS but this is the first time I've watched an ENTIRE season of baseball straight through. I went to my first Yankees game this year and my third Mets game. I still got a lot to learn, but I love baseball right now.

I'd like to meet:

I must've done written in this box so many times, as my tastes constantly change. Truth be told, I'm not really looking for anyone now. That's not to say I wouldn't be interested in someone should she present herself, but as for right now, I'm of the mind that "I'll cross that bridge when I find it"

Music:

For me, it's three bands: Duran Duran, Eiffel 65, and A-Ha. Sure I listen to a lot of other things; instrumental songs, LOTS of 80's songs, but those 3 are the ones I have most in my music files.

Movies:

Greatest movies ever: Die Hard, Superman the movie, The Neverending Story, Streets of Fire, Hudson Hawk (no, I'm not kidding), Sin City, Any Indiana Jones movie, Ocean's Eleven, Oceans' Twelve, Punisher (Both versions were pretty good), Catch Me If You Can, Godfather Trilogy, James Bond Flicks, The Saint, Big Fish.

Television:

Seinfeld, Simpsons, Prison Break,Robot Chicken, Family Guy, Futurama, Venture Bros, Torchwood, Doctor Who,Carnivale, Married with Children, Batman the Animated Series (Not The Batman, that sucks!), Justice League, Farscape, Smallville,The Kids in the Hall, SNL, Drawn Together and 24.

Books:

I like things with a hint of mystery and intrigue. Spy thrillers are good too. I'm very much a fan of Kim Newman's Diogenes Club stories, but I've read Angels and Demons, the Da Vinci Code ; old pulp favorites like Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan stories or his other claim to fame in John Carter of Mars tales. Anything with an intriguing story (usually involving the secret history of the fictional world) will get my money. Oh, and Neil Gaiman's novels are fun to sit down with, too.

Heroes:

You can pull admiration from a number of sources; be it family, friends, and so on. Gun to my head, though, I'd pick Bruce Willis. He made being a wise-ass fashionable again and if anyone can identify with that, it'd be me.

My Blog

My thoughts on Yankee Stadium

Everyone has been asking me what I think about the stadium and it's last week here in NYC. I told most people that I wanted to wait until after the last out was recorded and the final game had been pl...
Posted by Jose on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:39:00 PST

Starman: An inspiration

Last week I recieved in the mail something I had been looking forward to getting for a few months now: The Starman Omnibus. It's a hardcover collection of a comic series that is single-handledly the r...
Posted by Jose on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:58:00 PST

The Wanderer

In all of fiction one of my favorite archetype characters is the Wanderer. Some say Drifter, Stranger, or the Traveller. It's usually a character who goes from place to place helping people with probl...
Posted by Jose on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:15:00 PST

Couldn’t Even Let Me Have That, Could You?!

I lost something tonight. Not in a metaphorical way, but in a literal way. I kept a few things from my last relationship but the one thing I held dear was a letter Nikki wrote me when we were going ou...
Posted by Jose on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:50:00 PST

Dreams: Not a fan

Now, to make one this clear, this is not a blog about aspirations. Rather, this is a blog about actual dreams; the dream state you're in. It all stemmed from last night and a few months ago. Dreams f...
Posted by Jose on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:35:00 PST

New semester/ new schedule

So another semester is upon me. I think I'm about 2 or 3 away from getting my Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing. This semester is 3 classes but 12 credits, making me a full-time student once again...
Posted by Jose on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:44:00 PST

On the subject of politics and activism

This week it became abundantly clear that I don't get along well with activists and those into politics. Earlier in the week, I was sitting down when my parents called me to tell me that the next da...
Posted by Jose on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:24:00 PST

Another semester gone, but an eventful one

Well, another semester is over. It started out with 3 classes: Spanish, Milton, and African American History. It ended with 2. I took African American History because I thought it was part of my major...
Posted by Jose on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:39:00 PST

How kids can ruin sequels

After watching the Rocky IV segement of I Love the 80's 3-D, I started to think about Rocky V, and what really ruined Rocky V? The kid. Then I got to thinking, kids really do mess up movie sequels, an...
Posted by Jose on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:32:00 PST

5 Disturbing Trends in Comics

A few years ago, and many before that, I was a huge fan of comic books. I was mainly a DC guy, but I also liked Marvel and the many imprints the companies had. But as much as I loved them, college int...
Posted by Jose on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:15:00 PST