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Matt

I'm a California castaway

About Me

I'm 23, born in Seattle, live in Fremont, CA then joined the Marines and got sent to Jacksonville NC. After three deployments I'm done. I'm off active duty now, so I'm back in Fremont, and getting on with the rest of my life. I'm a christian and interested in apologetics. I like to think that every christian should be able to give a defense for their faith more extensive than "The Bible said so." I would love to take some classes about it. I used to work on helicopters, and now I work at Sears. I'm going to be pursuing a career in financial services. Hopefully become a personal financial advisor. It would be great to help people with their finances, and get paid for it. I play paintball, but it's not as big in my life as it used to be. I like a lot of music, Killswitch Engage to Jack Johnson. Very little rap. I don't drink at all, never have, probably never will. Don't have a moral objection to drinking, just getting drunk. And I won't babysit anyone while they're drunk either. I've done enough of that already. New Orleans with 8 drunk Marines isn't as fun as you think it is. Don't smoke either. I'm a big fan of plain old common courtesy. I'm very aware that I'm not the only person on the planet. I'm still working on common sense though. I will pick comedy over anything. I like the funny.

My Interests

Christian apologetics, music, mostly rock. Paintball, UFC and Pride FC stuff. Just hanging out with a few friends. Don't go to the movies too often, tired of people talking in theatres. Not a partier or clubber. I'm a bit of a wallflower. I shouldn't be allowed to play video games. At least fighting and racing games. I get mad too easy. A few Playstation controllers found that out the hard way. I'm still finding pieces.

I'd like to meet:

Say hi and we'll see what's up! I will ask you to at least send a message before a friend request. If not, I'll assume you're a spam profile and delete the request.body { background-color:FFFFFF; background-image:url('http://www.profilestyling.com/images/l ayouts/0003.jpg'); background-attachment: fixed; backgroun

Music:

Casting Crowns, Black Stone Cherry, Rise Against, KT Tunstall, Anna Nalick, 30 Seconds To Mars, Breaking Benjamin, Jack Johnson, Metallica (before load, everything after sucks, except for S&M), Ra, The Alkaline Trio, AFI, Atomship, Black Label Society, Disciple, Finger Eleven, Five Iron Frenzy, Live, Thornley, Fallout Boy, Killswitch Engage, Flaw, Frou Frou, In Flames, Johnny Cash, Submersed, From Autumn to Ashes, He Is Legend, Common Market (the best rap I've ever heard)

Movies:

The Departed, Garden State took the top spot. Leon The Professional, Forrest Gump, Rudy, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Kung Fu Hustle, Office Space, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Poolhall Junkies. Funny stuff is cool, and movies where they try something different. A Scanner Darkly was pretty cool. And Brick. Brick was good.

Television:

THE OFFICE. BEST. TV SHOW. EVER. And UFC and Pride. Scrubs.

Books:

anything on Christian Apologetics and I'm working my way through George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. Great stuff.

Heroes:

My parents.

My Blog

It's ok!

It's cool, the new squadron is pretty good. Much better atmosphere than the last one. Plus! We've got seven brand new guys in the shop, so I'm not doing a thing! This last deployment should be a snap....
Posted by Matthew on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:36:00 PST

moving on

Well, my squadron shut down today, and I've checked into HMM-365. Even though I didn't like a few people in my shop, and my squadron could get pretty stupid, I'm gonna miss it. I've spent the last 3 y...
Posted by Matthew on Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:01:00 PST