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Ben

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About Me

Paul Rudd is my new man crush. Butch Walker is still a close second.
“The people you work with, are people you were just thrown together with. You don’t know them, it wasn’t your choice. And yet you spend more time with them then you do your friends or your family, but probably all you’ve got in common, is the fact that you walk around on the same bit of carpet for eight hours a day. And so, obviously, when someone comes in, who you, you have a connection with-yeah. And Dawn was a ray of sunshine in my life. It meant a lot. But if I’m really being honest, I never really thought it would have a happy ending.I don’t know what a happy ending is. Life isn’t about endings is it? It’s a series of moments, and erm...it’s like if you turn the camera off, it’s not an ending is it? I’m still here, my life’s not over. Come back here in ten years, see how I’m doing then. Because I could be married with kids, you don’t know. Life just goes on.” - Tim from The Office Special
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' -Network (1976)
I'm not going to waste my time trying to prove to everyone that I am cooler than them, becuase I'm not. I'm just like everyone else. I'm funny and fun to hang out with. I probably like a lot of the bands that you like and I probably also hate a lot of the bands that you like. I like girls, but I get nervous when an attractive girl pays attention to me. I'm like M&M's I melt in your mouth not in your hands. And I have a candy coated shell.
I do stand-up comedy in my free time. To make money I'm a Guitar Tech/Stage Manager. I've been working for the Matches for over two years and hopefully for many more.
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Steriogram
Kevin Martin and the Highwatts
The Juliana Theory
The Matches (Currently and Forever)
30 Seconds to Mars (Currently and until their tour conflicts with the Matches)
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I'm raised Jewish, but I'm not religious. You could say I'm "Jew-ish." I still identify with it though because it's how I grew up. I guess it is where my values come from, but I don't really celebrate it. I am cheap though if you like stereotypes.
TOUR DATESSherwood TourJan
31 SacramentoFeb
01 San Louis Obispo
02 Los Angeles
05 Anaheim
06 San Diego
07 Tucson
08 Tempe
09 Las Vegas
11 Amarillo
12 Oklahoma City
14 Austin
15 Dallas
16 houston
Soundwave Australia
Feb
23 Brisbane
24 Sydney
26 Sydney
27 Melbourne
29 Melbourne
March
01 Adelaide
03 Perth
UK Headlining
March
05 Southampton
06 Cardiff
07 Birmingham
09 Glasgow
10 Manchester
11 Nottingham
12 London
Alternative Press Tour
March
14 Houston
15 Austin
16 Dallas
18 Tucson
19 Phoenix
20 Las Vegas
21 San Diego
22 Bakersfield
24 Pomona
25 Los Angeles
26 San Francisco
27 Sacramento
28 Portland
29 Seattle
31 Salt Lake City
April
01 Boulder
02 Des Moines
03 Chicago
04 Detroit
05 Toronto
06 Grand Rapids
08 Worcester
09 Washington DC
10 Philadelphia
11 New York
12 Lancaster
13 Norfolk
15 Charlotte
16 Louisville
17 Atlanta
18 Orlando
19 Ft Lauderdale
20 Tampa/St. Pete
22 Little Rock
23 St Louis
24 Rockford
25 Milwaukee
26 Columbus
27 Buffalo
29 New Haven
30 Allentown
May
01 Pittsburgh
02 Cleveland
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My Interests

Reading, Writing, 'Rithmatic
Pints of Snakebites
Triangle
Comedy (Performing and listening)
Choking, Hair Pulling, & Biting
French Fry Dates
Mac Products (Computers, Eyeliner, and ipods)
Donna Karen - Cashmere Mist
Burberry London
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I'd like to meet:

We are parallel lines
We're running in circles
we're never meant to cross
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I guitar teched this performance
30 Seconds to Mars "From Yesterday" MTV Latin America Music Video Awards

Music:



Recent Heavy Rotation: The Format, Muse, The Arcade Fire, Alkaline Trio, Cory Branan
My all time faves are: SeLF, Failure, Toadies, Propagandhi, NoFX, Rancid, Rilo Kiley
The rest (in alphabetical order according to ipod): 2 skinee J's, A Perfect Circle, Alkaline Trio, The Arcade Fire, Atmosphere, Autolux, Ben Folds Five (and solo), Ben Kweller, Big D and The Kids Table, Billy Talent, Blink 182, Bloodhound Gang, Bloom, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Built To Spill, Burden Brothers, Call Florence Pow, Candlebox, Creeper Lagoon, The Decemberists, Desaparecidos, Dillinger Escape Plan, Eels, El Pus, Failure, The Features, Flaming Lips, Fluid Ounces, Foo Fighters, For Squirrels, Fountains of Wayne, Gary Jules, Get Up Kids, Goldfinger, Guns n Roses, Gym Class Heros, Head Automatica, Helmet, High & Mighty, The High Speed Scene, Hum, Jawbreaker, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, The Littlest Man Band, Local H, The Matches, Maxeen, mc Chris, Mike Doughty, Modest Mouse, Mosquitos, Motion City Soundtrack, Muse, Nerf Herder, NoFX, Phantom Planet, Pigeon John, Plain White T's, Portishead, Postal Service, Propagandhi, Radiohead, Radish, Rancid, Reel Big Fish, Refreshments, Refused, Reggie & the Full Effect, Rilo Kiley, Say Anything, Self, Shihad, Shins, Sigur Ros, Soul Coughing, Steriogram, System of a Down, Tegan & Sarah, Tenacious D, Toadies, Tool, Visqueen, Wax, Weekerthans,
This isn't everything, just the important things. Music is stupid.

Movies:

Fargo, Officespace, Die Hard, Rushmore, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Television:

I used to hate the American version of the Office. I thought it was a carbon copy of the British version but with forced humor and lame unnatural writing, and I was right, until midway through season 2. Some where around episode 12 of the second season the show finds it's own voice and I can now admit that I like it...love it.
Classics: Freaks and Geeks, The Office (UK & US), The Wonder Years, Perfect Strangers
I've been on Blind Date and it was amazingly bad.

Books:

If you have recently read Infinite Jest, email me, I want to discuss it with you.
Currently Reading: Guns, Germs and Steal: Jared Diamond, also obsessed with all the books in the Ender Series by Orson Scott Card, currently on Children of the Mind
Recently Finished: Less Than Zero: Brett Easton Ellis, Speaker for the Dead: Orson Scott Card, Chuck Klosterman: IV, Shop Girl: Steve Martin, Bait and Switch: Barbara Ehrenreich, Infinite Jest: David Foster Wallace, Killing Yoursef To Live: Chuck Klosterman, The Five People You Meet In Heaven: Mitch Abloom.How We Are Hungry: Dave Eggers, Haunted: Chuck Palahniuk, Assasination Vaction: Sarah Vowel, Song Book: Nick Hornby, Haunted: Chuck Palahniuk, Ender's Shadow: Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game: Orson Scott Card, Blink: Malcom Gladwell, So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star: Jacob Slichter, The Tipping Point: Malcom Gladwell, Neverwhere: Neil Gaiman, Battle Royale: Koushun Takami, State of Fear, Michael Crichton, You Shall Know Our Velocity: Dave Eggers, Stranger Than Fiction: Chuck Palahniuk, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: David Sedaris, Gasping For Air Time: Jay Moore, Cracked, Dr Drew Pinski, Fabric of the Cosmos, Brian Green, Lies and the Lying Liars the Tell Them, Al Franken, Contortionist Handbook, Craig Clevenger, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Closterman, Bringing Down the House, Ben Mezrich, Alpple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 4, Fargo Rock City, Chuck Closterman,
All time Fav:Survivor: Chuck Palahniuk, The Elegant Universe: Brian Greene, Fast Food Nation: Eric Schlosser, The Long Walk: Stephen King (not really a King fan, just a damn good book) Anything Michael Moore, Sideways Stories From Wayside School: Louis Sachar

Heroes:

Bill Hicks & Bill Haverchuck

My Blog

Top Ten 07

Every time I make one of these lists I am disappointed by what has let me down over the year. There were quite a few records that I was sure would come out and floor me with how good they were, but th...
Posted by Ben on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:08:00 PST

Let’s F.B.

XX and XY need to get together and come up with a reciprocated agreeable term for Mutual Digital Masturbation. I think that we can all agree that the medical terminology just wont cut it. On the other...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:59:00 PST

A Waste of Your Time

It's been a long time since I have written any sort of real blog. I feel like I have kinda neglected all my fans and my own creative output, but I have not really been all that inspired to write anyth...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:48:00 PST

Unnecessary Noise

I don't condone drug use, but I think someone had spiked my soda pop with the pots. I was drunk and maybe a little high. I got back to the tour bus and felt inspired. I grabbed a yellow note pad and s...
Posted by Ben on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:46:00 PST

An Open Letter to Cats

Dear cats that live at or around apartment C,We're all animals. We all have a deep seeded desire to fuck, but I have a favor to ask. If you are in heat, can you please not sit outside of my window whi...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:38:00 PST

Dear Mr Postman

Dear Mail Man,Does it piss you off that 90 percent of what you deliver to me ends up in the trash? Does it make you mad that neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stop you from delive...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:06:00 PST

Dream State

I've been having a reoccurring nightmare the last few years. It probably comes up about once every two months or so. It takes place while I am in college. It's the last semester of my senior year. In ...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:17:00 PST

Top Ten Albums of 2006

I kind of enjoy and I kind of hate making these lists. When ever I look over the list I am usually a little disappointed that the list is not Earth shattering. None of my favorite albums changed the w...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:15:00 PST

Just Another Night Of Drinking

The details are still fuzzy, but I may or may not have exchanged some heated words with Lil Jon last night in the VIP section of Club Marquee in New York City at Travis Barker's birthday party. My lif...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:53:00 PST

In response to my last blog

Okay fair is fair. Here is Josh's explination of the night in reference as pictured on my last blog. I feel that his description does it justice. In Josh's words, I too love the vagina, but in complet...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:39:00 PST