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Ben

get the bozack

About Me

the black travis bickle

My Interests

skateboarding, thinking about skateboarding, watching skateboarding, being at work pretending I'm skateboarding etc., reading, playing pool, kung fu movies and other frowned upon nerdlike activities, exploring the city, cooking, scrabble,

I'd like to meet:

skatespots that don't suck

Music:

old nas, Gorila biscuits, old Wu Tang, Jedi Mind Tricks, Andre Nickatina, The Exploited, Murder City Devils, The cure, Johny Cash, The Smiths, Minor Threat, Black Flag, The Dead Milkmen, The Cure, Slick Rick, Ice Cube, M.O.P, grave diggaz, ghetto boyz, das efx, , The Pouges, Jean Grae, FEAR, da lynch mob, reagan youth, youth of today

Movies:

Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Oarnge, Annie Hall, The Star Wars Trilogy, 5 deadly Venoms, legand of the swordsmen 3 the east is red, Fong Saiuk, Shogun Assasin, Master of the Flying Guilitine v.s One armed Boxer, Beavis and Butthead Do America, High Fidelity, Bar Fly, Raging Bull, Crumb, Suburbia, Sid and Nancy, Super Troopers, Where the Buffalo roam, Stripes, China Town, girls gone wild: hosted by snoop dog

Television:

cartoons, news, the simpsons, the history channel, anime

Books:

notes from the underground, crime and punishment, the brothers karamazov, McTeague, ham on rye, the fuck up, the invisible man, native son, flying home, anna karennina, the over coat, the diary of a madman, the autobiography of an ex-colored man, pimp, fear and loathing on the campaign trail, the great shark hunt, sonny bargers autobiography, fast food nation, ms lonley hearts, god's assasins, despair, memoirs from the house of the dead, the autobiography of malcom x, blues for mr. charlie, america's longest war, 28 days

Heroes:

Jon Comer, Og De Souza, Hunter S. Thompson, Fydor Dostoevsky , Mark Johnson, Danny Way, ghengis kahn, stu grahm, tim upson.......

My Blog

my routine

6:00am, alarm goes off, contemplate suicide but hit the snooze button instead 6:24am drag my delerious carcass out of bed and shower in total darkness because the thought of any sort of light is frigh...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:09:00 PST

random things I brought home from S.F

1. January 05 issue of skateboarder adressed to Pat Duffy 2. april 99 issue of slap adressed to aaron yeager 3. a photo of me circa 1997 doing a frontside air on a quaterpipe during the warp tour 4. a...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:57:00 PST

may day may day send in the star cruiser

I'm sooo psyched to live on a freaking mountain right now while 20 minuetes away it was a simple rain/sleet/snow mix up in lovely wingdale we've head a steady blizzard since 5pm yesterday afterno...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:56:00 PST

it's a bit late but merry christmas

On christmas day I was suffering from an intolerable case of boredom, so I went to the only place open besides the deli or the liqor store, blockbuster video...and 20 minuetes later walked out with th...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:11:00 PST

detox poems

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Posted by Ben on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:58:00 PST

male nudity and missing the 4th greatest rapper of all time preform live

Andre Nickatina a.k.a dre dog a.k.a the new jim jones is playing tonight in the city, possibly the only time I'll ever be able to witness the lyrycal genius of andre nicky tee in person and my lame a...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:41:00 PST

home sweet home

It's on! Wu tang, thermals and cammo hoodies let's go skate!!! Hit me up for a sesh you know who you are. The midwest bores me, except for the skate spots. I missed you guys
Posted by Ben on Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:19:00 PST

things I don't miss about new york

hipster douche nozzels who can't leave the house with out a costume on, no good rails or hubbas, having an excuse to get shit faced every night, ghosts, spending 60 bucks a day, seeing people get beat...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 05:15:00 PST

things I miss about NY

metal curbs, skatespots in the street, beers to go, my niggaz and my nigarettes, the bowl, staying up untill 5am because things are still open, cherry tavern on monday's and thursdays, chelsea park, b...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:22:00 PST

and I'm out

October 10th, I head cross country with only a bag of cloths and a skateboard, (and possibly my battle axe). I've spent 5 years in NY and I'm going to miss it, but I'm haunted by ghosts at every corne...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:21:00 PST