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About Me

CURRENT... workaholic mortgage agent, landlord, yogi, health food-aholic, work out-aholic, wine drinker, Howard Stern/Sirius listener, Las Vegas/Summerlin suburbanite, animal lover, music lover, fantasy football commissioner, constant traveller, occasional sports-better, occasional poker player, occasional snowboarder who loves a quiet night at home just as much as a late night out....FORMER... little league soccer player, suspended 8th grader, tae kwon doe green belt, punk rocker with a purple mohawk, wanna-be skateboarder (broken ankle), straight edge kid, hockey fanatic, 8-year underweight vegan, graffiti artist, Washington DC jazz ensemble guitarist, food server, grocery store cashier, art store cashier, night club promoter, "baseball cap accessory" company employee, technology research company account executive, aspiring professional poker player, freelance magazine interviewer/writer, and aspiring musician (I had the privelege of performing/touring/recording in some capacity with the following bands: Polluted Youth/Now I Flail, Youth With Hair, Separation, Gauge, Battery, Ashes, Bane/Gateway, Ten Yard Fight, In My Eyes, Slapshot, American Nightmare/Give Up The Ghost).

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My Interests

Pool parties, bachelor parties, vegetarian food, wine, baseball, snowboarding, fantasy football, yoga (lot's of ashtanga lately), working out, the beach, travelling, poker, my pets.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who wants to meet me. I have been in the mortgage industry in Las Vegas since 2001 and I am licensed in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Please touch base with me if I can help with any real estate/mortgage needs.

Music:

A = Agnostic Front. B = Bad Brains. C = Cro-Mags. D = Dr. Dre. E = Eminem. F = Fabolous. G = Guns N' Roses. H = Hatebreed. I = Into Another. J = Jigga. K = Killing Time. L = Led Zeppelin. M = Minor Threat. N = NWA. O = Outburst. P = Pantera. Q = Quicksand. R = Rites of Spring. S = Snoop Dogg. T = Tribe Called Quest. U = Underdog. V = Velvet Revolver. W = Warzone. X = Xzibit. Y = Youth of Today. Z = Zowie Bowie!

Movies:

Rounders, Big Lebeowski, Swingers, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Good Fellas, Casino, Army of Darkness, The Departed, Borat, Spinal Tap, Farenheit 9/11.

Television:

Weeds, Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ultimate Fighter, Lost, Chappelle's Show, Ali G, Sopranos.

Books:

Babylon By Bus, Fight Club, Davinci Code, How To Make Love Like A Porn Star, Bringing Down The House, Juiced.

My Blog

I went grocery shopping today...

I never go grocery shopping, but today I was at a Super Stop & Shop and noticed this in the soup section: Did someone really design this soup and then have their entire corporate team approve the...
Posted by Benny From The Block on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:44:00 PST

Lauryn Hill

..> Went to see Lauryn Hill a couple weeks ago. She wore a trenchcoat in really hot weather which she never took off. She also wiped out towards the end of her set and her Gucci baseball hat...
Posted by Benny From The Block on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:35:00 PST

San Diego

Went to San Diego last weekend to see the Sox/Padres play. I have never really spent a lot of time there, but this place has to be the best city in the world. Is there anything wrong with San Diego?
Posted by Benny From The Block on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:21:00 PST

Oakland Athletics and Las Vegas

I spent a lot of money on the MLB package, but every single Oakland A's game is blacked out. I noticed this a long time ago when I bet the Red Sox (Pedro was pitching) vs. the A's. I wanted to watch i...
Posted by Benny From The Block on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:06:00 PST

Sirius #29 "punk"

Can't stop listening to this station....Although I could definitely do without ever hearing the Anti-Nowhere League or Peter and the Test Tube Babies for the rest of my life, I dig most of the stuff o...
Posted by Benny From The Block on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:03:00 PST

School zones

Why do I seriously need to drive 15 mph in a school zone when classes are in session? I understand when kids are going to school or leaving school, that makes sense. But during the middle of the day, ...
Posted by Benny From The Block on Tue, 15 May 2007 04:44:00 PST

Revolution Lounge at the Mirage

John Lennon would be turning in his grave. No different than all the other cheeseball "lounges" on the strip. Overpriced drinks, Justin Timberlake mashups every other song, bottle service. I promise y...
Posted by Benny From The Block on Tue, 15 May 2007 04:31:00 PST

Yukon, Tahoe, Escalade

How did GM get away with making 3 SUVs that all look exactly the same (because they are exactly the same) and people really think they are actually different?
Posted by Benny From The Block on Tue, 15 May 2007 04:10:00 PST